The base vehicle suffered more damage than initially thought. Its entire chassis was deformed, covered in thick dust, and all its windows had shattered, leaving shimmering fragments scattered everywhere.
Jiang Ye tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. The door frame was warped, like a crushed soda can.
With no other options, he had to climb in through the window.
The moment he landed, Jiang Ye broke out in a cold sweat.
Behind the door, two blood grenades were tied on either side, their pull rings connected by long wires.
If he had pushed the door open just now, the wires would have snapped, triggering the grenades and blowing him to smithereens!
Jiang Ye turned his head and looked down from the window. Zhou Yuntian's bloody corpse lay there.
"You son of a bitch, you're still pretty cunning," he cursed.
The level of this base wasn't high; it had only recently become a base vehicle.
Everything was a mess. A pot with its lid off sat on the ground, stewing a suspicious brown liquid. A pile of gnawed bones lay in a corner, emitting a foul odor.
There were also over ten bottles filled with orange-yellow liquid, neatly arranged by the bedside, with white flocculent material floating in them, almost frozen solid.
Jiang Ye guessed what these bottles were for: they were undoubtedly urine. He had to go out to relieve himself at night, but it was too cold, so he used bottles.
He opened one to smell it; it reeked.
But what he couldn't understand was why so many bottles of urine were collected. Were they saving them to drink?
Jiang Ye spent an hour, leisurely, turning the entire base vehicle upside down.
Ignoring the filth and clutter, he actually found some good things!
Four bottles of oily green liquid.
He placed them into the trading bay and scanned them.
[Item: Mil Snake Oil]
[Item Description: Strengthens the body, prolongs life, enhances virility and stamina, nourishes yin and tonifies the kidneys, boosts immunity, contains various vitamins.]
[Estimated Value: 20,000 Yuan]
Twenty thousand per bottle, eighty thousand for four!
Jiang Ye immediately opened the chat channel and found his blacklist.
There were over ten people on the list, the most recent being Jiang Ye himself.
He long-pressed to remove them from the blacklist.
Then, he directly transferred all four bottles of Mil Snake Oil to his own base.
Jiang Ye checked Zhou Yuntian's personal account; there was still fifty thousand Yuan.
He didn't hesitate and transferred it all to Jiang Ye.
Jiang Ye also found a small box under the bed.
Inside the box were several pencils and a thick diary.
When they first arrived on the colony planet, everyone was allowed to bring a few personal items. Jiang Ye was a frozen person, so he had no personal belongings and didn't bring anything. This diary was likely Zhou Yuntian's personal item.
Jiang Ye didn't hesitate either; he directly opened the book and flipped through the deceased's diary.
The diary began on the first day of their arrival.
[Colony Day 1, Sunny]
[Feeling great! The judge couldn't sentence me to death, so they exiled me to the colony! Within ten years, I'm confident I'll make a comeback! Zhou Yuntian, no one can defeat you!]
Jiang Ye shrugged. It seemed the intelligence he had obtained was indeed correct.
It was clear that Zhou Yuntian was ecstatic upon arrival, feeling the joy of a new life and harboring ambitions of a comeback.
But unfortunately, he didn't even last half a year before being executed by vigilante justice. Blown to pieces, a truly tragic end.
Flipping further, for a full half-month, the entries were filled with trivial matters of production and construction, nothing interesting.
Suddenly, a bombshell diary entry appeared.
[Colony Day 17, Rainy]
[Met a little girl today, named Bertiemegan. Blonde hair, blue eyes, petite. She was so naive, I controlled her without any defense. It's been a while since I played like this. I toyed with her for an entire afternoon, and she cried loudly. I told her, 'Take me to your base and give me your money, and I'll let you go.' She naively believed me.]
[Her base is two kilometers away. It has some food, enough for me to eat for a week, and two small boxes of jewelry! Including a diamond ring, gold earrings, and rubies. I brought the jewelry boxes back. I sold one box and buried the other beneath the base. Before leaving, I stabbed her in the stomach. She fell to the ground, crying and wetting herself.]
[I had a sudden impulse and used an empty water bottle to collect a bottle of her urine to take with me.]
Jiang Ye blinked, stood up, and grabbed a shovel from the corner.
He went outside and began digging beneath the base vehicle.
Soon, he unearthed a small box next to the rear right wheel.
Opening it, he found a box full of jewelry!
He brought it back to the trading bay and sold it.
It sold for 120,000 Yuan!
Then, he transferred all 120,000 Yuan to Jiang Ye.
He sat down and continued reading the diary.
After a few days of trivial entries, another significant diary entry appeared.
[Colony Day 21, Rainy]
[The base has been upgraded to a base vehicle. I plan to drive forward and kill anyone I encounter. I've seen through it; on this godforsaken planet, killing is the fastest way to make money. Farming myself is too slow. I hope there are enough people nearby.]
Jiang Ye scratched his head.
This guy was truly evil to the core!
A professional killer!
Following this were several more records of killings.
Zhou Yuntian made money by killing colony officials he encountered and robbing them. His killing methods were childish: he would drive his vehicle to someone else's base, approach the door, and knock. He'd hide a small knife in his sleeve. The moment the door was opened, he'd deliver a fatal stab, not giving the victim a chance to react.
Yet, with such childish tactics, he had killed six people!
And he had a bizarre habit: every time he killed someone, he would collect their urine in a bottle. Sometimes one bottle, sometimes several.
Jiang Ye glanced deeply at the urine bottles by the bedside, his face turning pale. So that's where they came from.
After finishing all the diary entries, he picked up the shovel from the wall and went outside.
He headed to the location of the VTOL, dug with all his might, pushed away the accumulated snow, and cleared a runway.
The wind was biting cold, and his body was exhausted.
But he had to persevere; he couldn't stay here any longer.
He worked until dawn.
A simple runway, fifty meters long and ten meters wide, was dug out.
Jiang Ye took only two things: Zhou Yuntian's corpse, and his diary and pencils.
The diary and pencils were placed in the storage compartment, and the corpse was placed beside the seat.
He sat in the driver's seat, pressed the accelerator, and took off rapidly!
Heading back in the direction he came from.
The sun began to rise, casting golden rays across the land.
Jiang Ye yawned, feeling drowsy. Whenever he felt like he couldn't stay awake, he would look down at Zhou Yuntian's bashed-in head, and he would immediately snap back to alertness.
A little over two hours later, the familiar double-layered base finally appeared.
He lined up with the runway and landed.
Jiang Ye returned home and opened the chat channel.
There was already a contact named Li Yangcheng in his list. He clicked on it and typed a message:
The person you asked me to handle is done. Come and collect the body.
The other party replied instantly.
Li Yangcheng: Don't collect the body. Cut open the back of his neck. There should be a chip there. Transmit it to me. With this, the client will be satisfied.
Jiang Ye: Wait a moment.
He picked up a knife, exited the base, climbed into the VTOL, dragged the corpse out, and threw it onto the snow.
He cut open the back of the neck and extracted a chip.
It was a small piece, about a quarter the size of a mobile phone, copper-colored on the front and green on the back.
Back in the base, he transmitted the chip to Li Yangcheng.
After a short wait, exciting news arrived.
Li Yangcheng: The final payment of four million has been transferred. Please check. You did a beautiful job. You're cut out to be a mercenary or an assassin.