“Since we all share the same painful past and could be considered ‘cellmates,’ why keep hiding in the shadows and contacting me this way?”
Yue Shi gave a light laugh, his tone sounding exceptionally “sincere” and “relaxed,” as if he had completely placed his trust in the other party.
“Wouldn’t it be better to meet and chat in person?”
Hearing Yue Shi’s words, the anonymous caller hesitated before explaining, “I’m just curious about your identity. I want to know which one of the people who escaped together back then you actually are.”
The reason sounded plausible, yet it was somewhat thin.
Yue Shi didn’t answer who he was. Instead, he shifted the topic, his tone remaining friendly but hiding a sharp edge:
“You and I are fellow sufferers who crawled out of that hell together, yet you use the secret of my identity as blackmail to make me do your bidding. That doesn’t exactly look like you want to get along.”
“Not at all~” the other party’s voice immediately became earnest.
“We are people who have suffered the same hardships. Why would I want to be your enemy? My previous methods were wrong, and I apologize. It’s just that… after going through all that, it’s really hard to trust others. I wanted to know who you were so badly, but I was afraid direct contact would be too risky for both of us.”
He paused, seemingly wanting to end the call. “Anyway, I have some urgent business to attend to here, so I’ll hang up first. I’ll contact you later. I’ve recently learned some new information that you’ll definitely be very interested in.”
He was trying to use new information to divert attention.
“Hey, don’t hang up yet. Listen to me first,” Yue Shi stopped him.
The anonymous caller asked, “What is it?”
Yue Shi looked at the corpse of the serpentine girl inside the vehicle and spoke slowly, “The corpse in containment vehicle X-04 is clearly a trap. The Glory Association must have already set up a heavy ambush on the perimeter, just waiting to catch someone. Since that’s the case…”
He changed his tone, his voice becoming seductive. “Why don’t we play along and go for something even bigger? What do you think?”
The person on the other end of the line seemed startled by the suggestion and asked warily, “Something bigger? How do you want to play it? You haven’t been surrounded already and are trying to trick me into coming to save you, have you?”
His suspicion was reasonable.
Yue Shi let out a low laugh. “Of course not. What I mean is, I’ll ‘step’ into the trap here and make enough of a commotion to inevitably draw most of the Glory Association’s attention and high-end combat power over to surround me. At that time, their rear—for example, the core area of Cloud Rest Villa or the side of certain important figures—will definitely be poorly defended.”
He paused, throwing out his true objective: “You can take the opportunity… to assassinate!”
“What? Me, go assassinate?!” The anonymous caller’s voice spiked. Even through the processing, the shock and disbelief were clear.
“I’m not very good at fighting.”
Yue Shi continued to coax him, “You don’t need to be good at fighting. You just need to seize the moment.”
“Think about it. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. That old bastard Su Yuanhe might be at Cloud Rest Villa right now. He definitely thinks the prey has fallen into the net, so his attention is focused here. This is the closest you and I will ever get to revenge. Don’t you want it?”
The other end of the line fell into a deathly silence.
“Consider it carefully for yourself. Whether you take action or not, I’m not going to give up on making a scene here. Whether you want to continue to scrape by or seize the chance to kill your enemy with your own hands, the choice is yours.”
With that, Yue Shi didn’t wait for any response and decisively hung up.
He had already sensed many people rapidly approaching containment vehicle X-04, forming a tight perimeter.
There was no expression on Yue Shi’s face as he leaped lightly out of the vehicle. The moment he landed, his hands were already raised—
Without the slightest hesitation, he cast 【Banish】 multiple times indiscriminately at his surroundings.
Hum! Hum! Hum!
Inside the underground parking garage, the air let out an overburdened groan.
Several hideous spatial rifts appeared out of thin air, like giant mouths ready to devour anything, frantically tearing at everything around them!
These unstable spatial rifts influenced and collided with each other, whipping up gusts of violent wind.
The vehicles parked in the garage were easily swept up and sucked into the rifts. Containment vehicle X-04 was no exception, vanishing in an instant.
“What’s happening?”
“Careful, it’s a spatial ability!”
“Retreat, quickly!”
Several cries of shock and anger came from outside as the originally tight perimeter was thrown into chaos. They clearly hadn’t expected to be met with such a violent, indiscriminate area-of-effect attack right from the start.
In theory, targets hit by 【Banish】 would be randomly teleported to an unknown location.
In reality, however, Yue Shi saw with his own eyes that the people and vehicles sucked into the spatial rifts were ground to pieces by the terrifying force the moment they touched the spatial turbulence.
A few seconds later, the spatial rifts slowly closed and vanished.
The underground parking garage, which had been full of cars, was now forcefully cleared of a large section. The floor and walls were covered in deep gouges.
Only three slightly disheveled figures remained in the area. They were all wearing the white uniforms of the Glory Association. Being able to dodge that wave of banishment meant they were likely the main force of this capture operation.
They had originally planned to work in coordination with the serpentine girl inside the vehicle to capture the target alive.
The serpentine girl possessed powerful combat strength, keen perception, the ability to summon snake swarms, release deadly toxins, and had strong survivability.
They never expected that the serpentine girl would be the first to lose contact, and even less did they expect to be greeted by such crude spatial tearing.
Originally, they were certain the target was inside containment vehicle X-04; if all else failed, they could have just packed up the entire vehicle and taken it away.
As a result of the spatial tearing just now, they had lost the target’s location.
While in a hidden state, Yue Shi carefully observed these three people from the Glory Association.
The three consisted of a sharp-eyed middle-aged man and a young pair of siblings who looked quite similar.
A faint golden vertical mark appeared between his brows. In his Insight vision, information about the three flooded into Yue Shi’s mind.
Unsurprisingly, all three were transcendents.
The middle-aged man’s ability was 【Mountainous Burden】: Lock onto a target, making them feel the terrifying pressure of carrying a giant mountain, creating a dual physical and mental imprisonment that renders the target unable to move.
The young man’s ability was 【Celadon Curse】: Manipulate azure flames with a strange cursing power. Any body part burned by the flames will undergo porcelainization, losing all sensation and mobility.
The woman’s ability was 【Vase】: Upon activation, she enters a special “Vase” state. She cannot move or act, and her physical defense is significantly reduced, but her mental defense is greatly increased. She emits an intoxicating, exquisite beauty that one cannot bear to destroy, forcibly attracting the attention of all nearby conscious entities and making them stop to “admire” her.
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