Xiaowen felt her head spinning as if she were suffering from a severe hangover.
She looked around in a daze, and memories quickly flooded back into her mind.
Yesterday, before finishing her shift, she had gone to find Director Li, intending to take a shortcut in her career. Director Li hadn't refused, and then...
“You’re awake?”
“Come and help.”
A soft male voice spoke. Xiaowen was instantly jolted awake as the memories of last night rushed back with a vengeance.
Trembling, she looked toward the source of the voice. There, she saw a man in a raincoat, focused intently on cutting into Director Li!
Director Li’s head was tilted to the side, his eyes wide and bulging, staring straight at her.
“Aah!!!”
Xiaowen’s scream echoed through the room, but the man’s hands didn't falter in the slightest. They remained terrifyingly steady.
“Stop screaming. I’m giving you two choices.”
“One: come over and help. That way, we’re accomplices, and I can act as if nothing happened.”
“Two: keep screaming, and I’ll kill you first.”
“Urk!”
Xiaowen looked like a chicken being strangled, the sound catching in her throat.
She walked forward unsteadily. When she saw the scene before her, she couldn't stop herself from vomiting violently.
Director Li’s internal organs had been completely hollowed out. His flesh was peeled back, and his bones were exposed!
Yin Yang continued his work.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t vomit.”
“After all, the more you vomit now, the more clues you’ll leave for the Security Bureau.”
Hearing this, Xiaowen tried to catch her vomit with her hands even as she continued to retch. It was a disgusting sight.
“Alright, that’s enough. Come and help.”
Xiaowen forced herself to suppress her terror and stepped closer. Seeing the situation again, she almost lost her composure and vomited once more.
Yin Yang asked as he cut.
“Aren’t you from the surgical department?”
“Yes... but I’ve never assisted in a surgery.”
“I see.”
Yin Yang nodded understandingly, though his hands never stopped moving.
“What... what are you planning to do?”
“A sacrifice. Haven’t you seen one before?”
“Huh?”
Xiaowen was stunned. Of course she hadn't!
But those words made her entire body shake. These days, anything involving blood and flesh sacrifices was almost always linked to evil cults.
“Come, help me place his organs onto the array.”
“The... the array? Where is it?”
“Isn’t it right under your feet?”
Xiaowen looked down and saw strange lines drawn across the floor in blood.
“Eek!!!”
She shrieked as if the floor were red-hot, scrambling back in a panic.
But when she noticed Yin Yang’s cold gaze, she trembled and walked back, placing the internal organs onto their corresponding positions.
It wasn't that she understood the array, but rather that the diagram clearly depicted the five internal organs.
Regardless, she was a medical student; she could at least distinguish those.
She held the organs in her hands. The thought that she had been intimate with their owner not long ago made her dry heave again.
She had nothing left to throw up, so she could only go through the motions of retching.
Once she had placed the organs, Yin Yang finished the final preparations.
Director Li continued to stare blankly ahead, unable even to close his eyes, exactly like Yin Yang had been all those years ago.
Yin Yang gently pressed a hand to the man’s forehead.
“Don’t worry. Even though you’ve committed many evils, you won’t go to hell. You will become my property.”
Hearing this, Xiaowen shook like a leaf.
Yin Yang exhaled slowly.
“In my name—Sacrifice!”
With those words, a dark shadow slowly separated from Yin Yang’s body. Xiaowen trembled even more violently at the sight.
Fortunately, she wasn't a transcendent; otherwise, she would have been even more terrified. What was being stripped from Yin Yang’s body was clearly divinity!
Buzz~
The sacrifice array on the floor began to glow. Xiaowen, who had been shivering, bolted away instantly.
Yin Yang didn't stop her, his hand still resting on Director Li’s forehead.
Crack, crack.
Director Li’s bones began to twist. The red light within the array grew brighter and brighter, eventually becoming so intense it was difficult to look at.
Under this crimson glow, Director Li began to shrink bit by bit.
Boom!
The internal organs within the array began to burn, acting like an accelerant that made the red light flare up even more violently.
Xiaowen wanted to take the opportunity to run, but her legs felt as heavy as if they had been encased in concrete.
By the time she could move, the ritual was over.
The blood, the corpse, and even the array on the floor had vanished. Only her vomit remained.
Yin Yang walked over and patted her shoulder.
“A lot of cameras probably caught you on your way here, right? You should think about how you’re going to explain that.”
As he spoke, Yin Yang opened the door and walked out.
The wind from the hallway blew in, finally snapping Xiaowen out of her trance. She ran out as fast as her legs could carry her.
She cried as she ran, tripping twice along the way, but she didn't care. She didn't care about anything, as long as she was still alive.
...
The flower shop.
Yin Yang lay on the sofa, watching Canned Food play with a doll with its paws.
The doll was only about the size of a thumb, with blurred features that vaguely resembled a human form.
This was something only the core members of major families could possess.
A Substitute Life Doll!
This kind of doll could take one fatal long-range hit for the wearer.
Gunshots, curses, backlashes—they all counted.
The method for creating them had long been lost, making each one incredibly precious. It wouldn't be difficult to sell one on the black market for millions.
And this was what Yin Yang had just refined using Director Li.
“Did you conquer your territory?”
Hearing Yin Yang’s question, Canned Food puffed out its chest, its tail standing tall.
“Meow~”
“Three trash cans? Impressive!”
Hearing Yin Yang’s praise, Canned Food grew even more proud.
“Meow~”
“You gave the trash cans to your stray cat underlings? Why?”
“Meow~”
“Because you have canned cat food to eat? Very good. You’ve got the makings of a boss.”
Yin Yang gave Canned Food a thumbs-up. The cat became even more smug, batting the doll back and forth with its paws.
Yin Yang rolled over and looked at the light on the ceiling.
“I didn't expect there to be a ready-made witness. It saved me a lot of trouble.”
“I hope she doesn't disappoint me.”
...
Meng City.
Security Bureau.
Screech.
Xiaowen pushed open the glass doors of the Security Bureau, looking dazed and distracted.
“I... I want to report a crime.”
A female security officer saw her and hurried forward to support her.
“Miss, how can we help you?”
Only then did Xiaowen finally feel a sense of safety, and she burst into tears.
“Director Li... Director Li is dead.”
The female officer immediately grew tense upon hearing it was a homicide.
“Miss, please try to calm down. Who is Director Li, and how did he die?”
“He... he’s a doctor here in Meng City. He was sacrificed by a cultist.”
The officer’s expression turned grave instantly.
“A cult? Miss, please tell us everything clearly!”
Xiaowen sobbed uncontrollably.
“Tonight... tonight...”
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