The hotel doors swung open while the Executioner and his group were still some distance away.
Yue Shi walked out with a beaming smile and a relaxed posture, as if he were welcoming guests to a banquet.
Beside him stood a charmingly cute plush brown bear.
The doll held a hammer in its paws, looking completely out of place in the murderous atmosphere.
“Oh, so many people~” Yue Shi said, his gaze sweeping over the dense crowd, his tone light and airy.
The smile remained on his face, and his posture made it clear that he didn't take any of these people seriously.
With a captain from headquarters present, Li Hua was filled with confidence, his sense of justice burning brightly.
He stepped forward and spoke in a forceful tone, “You bastard! How dare you act so arrogant when your doom is at hand?”
“Look closely! This is one of the nine captains of our Bureau headquarters, the 【Executioner】!”
“You destroyed Chijing City, murdered our colleagues in the Bureau, and brutally killed dozens of people in Fluorite Valley. Your crimes are heinous and beyond counting! Today, we will bring you to justice to set things right.”
“If you know what's good for you, you'll give up your resistance and surrender peacefully.”
Li Hua shouted with righteous indignation, believing that the iron fist of justice would surely triumph over evil!
However, Yue Shi’s gaze merely drifted over his face without pausing for a single second, nor did he offer any response. He ignored the man completely.
This blatant disregard caused Li Hua’s grand speech to get stuck in his throat, his face turning a deep shade of red.
It was incredibly embarrassing; he wanted nothing more than to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
No one moved to ease his embarrassment. With so many people from headquarters present, since when was it his turn to speak?
The golden vertical pupil at the center of Yue Shi’s brow emerged as his Insight vision activated. His gaze fixed on the man at the front of the group.
Going shirtless in the middle of winter with scars crisscrossing his body... he was really trying hard to show off.
In an instant, a flood of information poured into Yue Shi’s field of vision, translated into text he could understand.
【Soul-Execution Inscription】: The physical body gains the 'Inscribed Torture' trait. After surviving a complete and authentic torture session, the user permanently gains a supernatural ability corresponding to the concept of that torture.
【Waist Chop: Separation】
【Death by a Thousand Cuts: Thousand Soul Pain】
【Castration: Deprivation of Authority】
【Five Punishments: Sensory Stripping】
【Amputation: Isolation】
【Beheading: Execution】
【Heavenly Punishment】
【Flogging...】
【Burning Pillar...】
【Boiling Alive...】
...
【Heavenly Punishment】
...
A long list of supernatural abilities named after various forms of torture densely filled Yue Shi’s vision.
Even he couldn't help but feel a flicker of surprise.
Yue Shi had thought that the number of abilities he possessed thanks to the Full Moon Stone Tablet was already vast.
As it turned out, there was always someone better.
He truly lived up to his title as a captain of headquarters. To reach such a position, he certainly had some real skill.
However, this Executioner’s numerous abilities were likely all derived from that single root ability, 【Soul-Execution Inscription】.
It required the user to personally endure a complete session of torture.
With such a bizarre prerequisite, was this captain some kind of masochist?!
Yue Shi’s gaze turned inquisitive.
The Executioner was keen enough to notice that Yue Shi’s expression had become quite strange.
He looked at Yue Shi’s forehead. “You have three eyes? What is that eye for?”
“You want to know? Why don't you come and try it for yourself?” Yue Shi gave a provocative smile.
He made no attempt to hide the existence of his third eye.
Facing an opponent like the Executioner, he couldn't afford to be careless. He had to maintain his Anticipation state at all times, perceiving countless possibilities within the next second.
“I'll gouge that eye out and study it carefully.”
The Executioner struck before he even finished speaking!
Voom!
The air let out a strained hum.
An invisible, intangible, and terrifying force—like a guillotine blade—crossed the distance between them, striking directly at Yue Shi’s waist.
【Waist Chop: Separation】: Subjects the target to the torture of being chopped in half. If the target cannot be physically severed, it forcibly separates the physical functions of the upper and lower body, leaving them paralyzed.
Unfortunately, when this swift attack reached Yue Shi, it slammed into an invisible wall, its force completely neutralized.
The Demon Feather rippled slightly, one layer breaking.
At the same time, Yue Shi pulled out the begonia hairpin he was holding and lightly flicked one of its petals.
The 【Sexual Characteristics Detachment Hairpin】 activated!
This thing didn't have much killing power, but its ability to disgust people was top-tier.
A strange, subtle curse field expanded silently with Yue Shi as the center, enveloping the large area in front of him.
Curse target: Male.
In the next second, many male members of the headquarters team felt an indescribable sensation in their bodies.
A sense of emptiness—something they were born with was being detached from their bodies!
Li Hua, standing in the front row, was completely defenseless. His reaction was the most intense and direct.
To his horror, he felt a sudden movement in his private area. It then seemed to come alive, detaching itself from him and scurrying down his pant leg!
He instinctively looked down, only to see a strange dark-brown rat squeezing out from the cuff of his pants.
The rat let out a “squeak” and began to run around wildly.
“AAAHHH!!!”
Li Hua let out the most devastated scream of his life. His mind went blank, filled only with boundless panic and shame.
Immediately after, cries of alarm, roars of anger, and sounds of mental collapse erupted throughout the team!
Many male members suffered the same fate, though the small animals that emerged from them varied.
For a moment, small animals scurried everywhere on the ground while their owners fell into massive chaos.
They stood frozen like wooden chickens before instinctively trying to chase and catch the creatures, turning the scene into a chaotic mess.
The chaos was tinged with a sense of the absurd.
In their wildest dreams, they never expected an S-rank wanted criminal to be this terrifying!
Truly terrifying!
Upon their very first meeting, in the first round—which couldn't even be considered a formal exchange of blows—they had been hit with such a low-down yet devastating strike.
This method of attack was psychologically devastating to men.
The morale of this once-orderly team collapsed instantly, their formation falling into total disarray.
The Executioner had clearly not expected Yue Shi to use such a tactic. He stared intently at the small animals running around on the ground and snorted coldly. “Vulgar.”
Yue Shi wagged his finger indifferently, the smile on his face unchanging. “As long as it works.”
Su Qingqian’s face turned ashen as she witnessed this unimaginable scene of chaos.
Suppressing her discomfort, she shouted at the top of her lungs, trying to stabilize the troops:
“Don't panic! Everyone, stay calm! With Captain Executioner here, no matter what happens, it's not a problem. All trouble can be resolved!”
However, her words had little effect.
Some people even glared at her. Such a terrible thing could only be understood by those experiencing it; only then would they know just how soul-crushing it was.
The Executioner had not been affected by the hairpin’s curse.
A few males in the team had been spared as well, either possessing defensive supernatural powers or wearing protective supernatural objects.
Almost every other male investigator had been wiped out, suffering a double blow to both their physical and psychological well-being.
Before the battle had truly begun, Yue Shi had used his wicked humor to give this suppression team a vicious warning shot.
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