The man overseeing the cremation returned to the hovercar. Just as he was about to start it, Ning Yu burst out from the rear cargo hold, quickly taking down several people, leaving only the driver and the man in sunglasses.
"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you for now. Take me to your headquarters," Ning Yu said coldly.
The man in sunglasses appeared calm, but his hands trembled uncontrollably with fear. He furiously yelled at the driver, "What are you waiting for! Hurry back to headquarters!"
The driver was a rookie, likely a new recruit freshly pulled into the organization, unaccustomed to such major events. He had already wet himself, trembling all over, his eyes fixed straight ahead.
"Damn it, I told you to drive! Do you want to die!!" the man in sunglasses roared, pulling out a gun and holding it to the driver's head.
Only then did the driver nervously start the vehicle and fly towards the sky.
Not long after ascending, the hovercar suddenly exploded into a ball of fire! Debris scattered towards the ground!
Ning Yu, clad in exoskeleton armor, rocketed out of the inferno, cursing, "How dare you shoot at me, you damn scoundrel!"
With his last hope gone, Ning Yu had no choice but to return to his hideout to search for clues.
Summoning a Black Star transport mecha, Ning Yu finally returned to his hideout after flying for over an hour.
By then, the hideout had been cleaned up and reopened for business, as if nothing had happened the day before.
"Damn it, unless I uproot this cancer, I can't stop the spread of evil."
Ning Yu cursed inwardly and walked into the hideout.
With virtually no wasted words, after eliminating everyone inside the hideout,
Ning Yu calmly walked up to the hideout's new boss, conjured a dagger, and plunged it into the man's palm, pinning him to the counter.
Simultaneously, he materialized torture instruments, arranging them neatly in front of the boss. Ning Yu sneered, "There's a tool for everyone. Answer my questions honestly, and I can make you suffer less!"
The boss defiantly retorted, "Tsk! What are you so arrogant about? Do you think killing a few lackeys can shake the higher-ups?"
But in the next moment, Ning Yu stabbed the dagger through the boss's forearms, driving it firmly into the metal counter.
The boss gritted his teeth in pain but refused to yield.
"Ha, still a tough one!" Ning Yu's interest grew. He picked up tweezers, grasped the boss's index fingernail, and pulled it off with force!
The piercing pain made the boss convulse.
"Still not convinced?" Ning Yu sneered, picking up two short spikes. He aimed at the sides of the boss's nose and thrust them in fiercely! They pierced directly through the nasal bone and into the skull.
The trigeminal nerves near the nose made one want to die with the slightest movement,
let alone having two hard objects shoved into them!
"Hoho! Really tough!" Ning Yu said with a cold laugh, picking up a rasp and filing the finger from which the nail had been removed. As he filed, he said, "I have plenty of time, don't worry. I'll even help you stop the bleeding. Let me see, at this rate, I'll have your whole arm filed clean in three hours!"
The sound of "scrape scrape scrape" emanated from the rasp and the boss's finger bones,
blood and flesh mixed with shredded meat and bone fragments splattered all over the table.
Nothing was more unbearable than watching one's own body being destroyed.
Even if the body could endure pain, it couldn't withstand the psychological torment.
Before the finger was completely filed away, the boss couldn't help but cry out, "South... South City! Luanzhi District! The tallest building is our headquarters!!"
Ning Yu calmly, even relishing the moment, continued filing and asked with a smile, "What's your boss's name?"
"Feng Feng Feng... Feng You · Hei Ji!!"
"Mmm, it would have been better if you were this obedient earlier. I'll file slower now, let's both work hard~ try to tell me everything I want to know, maybe I can spare half of your arm."
Half an hour later, the boss lay slumped on the counter, his pupils dilated and vacant, his life extinguished.
Ning Yu cleaned up the blood from his hair and body, changed into new clothes, and walked out from the inner room.
He spat at the boss's corpse, stepped over the bodies littering the floor, kicked open the door, and walked out brazenly.
Stepping into the morning sun, Ning Yu had barely taken two steps when he felt a familiar yet helpless sensation, as if being trapped by a water prison.
Anemia, coupled with the fatigue after a manic episode.
Unable to do anything else, Ning Yu leaned against the wall, slowly making his way back towards the hideout.
His only recourse now was to find blood plasma that matched his blood type. The hideout contained at least thirty corpses, and he was bound to find a match among them.
"Quick! Hurry!" Ning Yu gritted his teeth, taking difficult steps one by one.
What should have been a one-minute flat walk felt like sinking into quicksand, each step arduous.
The boundless dizziness blurred and distorted his vision, even causing double images.
Small figures, each body composed of many glowing white lines, danced in his field of view. 138 Reading Network.
Ning Yu knew these were hallucinations brought on by the combined illnesses.
The appearance of hallucinations meant his condition had reached a critical point requiring immediate medical attention.
But stranded in Black Star, his master's wife was too far away, and his master's whereabouts were unknown, with no communication…
"Communication…"
Ning Yu's eyelids drooped. He gathered his last bit of strength, conjured a signal emitter, and pressed the switch.
Still over ten meters from the hideout, Ning Yu could no longer stand. He lacked the strength to hold the small device, collapsing forward, the signal emitter slipping ahead of him.
Just as his consciousness began to fade, Ning Yu dredged up a communication number from the depths of his memory, conjured a Black Star Empire communication bracelet, and dialed the number.
"Hm? Hello, may I ask who this is?" a gentle, older sister's voice came from the other end.
Ning Yu struggled to say, "Sister Shu Rou… I'm, I'm…"
"Hello? Who are you, how do you know this number? Hello? Are you still there…"
Ning Yu completely lost consciousness, no longer able to reply.
…
By the time Gu Ya found the signal emitter released by Ning Yu, it was already half an hour later, and he still hadn't found Ning Yu.
Gu Ya bent down, picked up the device, and clutched it in his palm. He glanced back at the strange house with its breached gate before turning and walking towards it.
Before he even entered, Gu Ya detected a faint scent of blood emanating from the house.
Maintaining a calm and vigilant mind, he pushed open the gate, and the horrific scene inside struck him deeply.
Everyone was dead, and their deaths were gruesome.
Some had their heads severed, others were cut diagonally at the waist.
All their expressions were unusually calm, as if they had been killed instantly, without any pain or fear.
With just a glance, Gu Ya guessed this was Ning Yu's doing.
The boss behind the counter had died in a particularly inhuman way, having been subjected to torture before death. It was no surprise that Ning Yu had tormented him to extract information.
Gu Ya quickly summoned a new alloy gate and installed it at the entrance, to avoid attracting attention.
He then headed towards the back of the hideout.
The scene here was equally dreadful. Corpses were piled in the darkness at the end of the corridor, stacked like a small mountain.
What alerted Gu Ya was that all the furniture in the back rooms had been replaced, and using a UV spotlight, large bloodstains were visible on the walls and floors of each room.
There were even more bloodstains in the corridor, with large patches of uncleaned, darkened blood spots in the shadows.
"At least one massacre occurred here. After it was cleaned up, Ning Yu returned and killed these people again."
"What could have caused Ning Yu to take such drastic action?"
At that moment, the alloy gate was knocked on heavily. Someone outside shouted, "Hey! Open the door! Why is it closed in broad daylight!"
Gu Ya quickly returned to the main entrance, conjured a lightsaber, and gently pushed the door open.