Chapter 111: (103) The Urge to Kill, Eliminate the Roots! (Seeking monthly tickets, recommendations, and subscriptions)_1
Chapter 111: (103) The Urge to Kill, Eliminate the Roots! (Seeking monthly tickets, recommendations, and subscriptions)_1
Translator: 549690339
After parting with Sister Bing, Pei Jinye had already gained a relatively clear understanding of the power structure in Da Peng City.
The Investigation Team possessed powers distinct from regular departments such as the Night Patrol Department, operating independently from the headquarters.
In other words, the current Investigation Team in Central State only took orders from Mr. Han.
No wonder, when the tribunal had sent out an invitation, Mr. Han himself stepped in to halt the process… After all, the tribunal was technically under Mr. Han’s jurisdiction, but the true master of the tribunal was someone else.
Pei Jinye knew the situation was complicated, so he didn’t want to stir up trouble and attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.
As he contemplated,
Pei Jinye’s gaze suddenly became focused.
Across the street, Xu Tian caught his eye as if he hadn’t seen him at all, speeding away in a car from the Night Patrol Department.
Pei Jinye glanced at the departing car.
“Was this morning’s incident arranged by him?”
While crossing the street, on his way home, he faintly heard scolding from a nearby alley.
Passing by the alley, a teenager with half his face covered in blood, clutching his shoulder, escaped from a few pursuers, all in their early twenties.
The pursued teenager suddenly turned, scattered a handful of lime powder from his bosom, and two of the pursuers screamed, covering their eyes.
The teenager didn’t look back as he quickly fled, panic written all over his eyes as he passed Pei Jinye.
Pei Jinye shook his head slightly.
Such a good opportunity wasted, the young man lacked ruthlessness in the fight.
“Get out of the way!” A burly punk stretched out his hand to push Pei Jinye aside.
With a “snap”,
the outstretched wrist was broken on the spot.
The sound of the fracture caused everyone’s face to change drastically.
Even the teenager ahead who had been fleeing turned back in astonishment, as if everyone was dumbfounded by the scene.
“You want to kill me?” Pei Jinye held the punk’s wrist, looking over with a puzzled gaze.
The burly punk panicked and howled loudly, “No, I didn’t.”
“You push me and glare at me, that means you want to kill me. If you try to kill me, I can only act in self-defense… Too bad, why didn’t you use a knife earlier?”
Pei Jinye’s words terrorized the burly punk, who felt a chill on his scalp. In that moment, he even thought the other regretted not killing him. As his wrist was suddenly released, he stumbled backward, turned around and fled, with his fellow ruffians following suit, leaving behind the teenager and fleeing the scene quickly.
Pei Jinye’s gaze remained calm as he slipped his hands into his pockets and prepared to leave along the brick road beside the alley, ignoring the teenager shouting from behind, “Um… Thank you.”
The teenager bowed deeply.
Pei Jinye, without turning back as if he never heard, walked to the corner and turned the corner to leave.
The teenager stared blankly at Pei Jinye’s disappearing figure.
There were simply no words to describe his emotions at the moment.
“Is he a Transcendent?”
The teenager’s heart was stirred, quickly gave chase, but the figure of Pei Jinye was already gone around the corner, and in the vast crowd, he couldn’t find the whereabouts of his benefactor.
He felt an emptiness in his heart at once.
Back at the residential complex.
The afterglow in the sky had already faded away, and the streetlights by the road were starting to light up. The glow above the complex looked like a bunch of enlarged dandelions, while there were still some dim areas near the lawn by the road.
Ever since Pei Jinye had mastered the Transcendent ability related to shadows, he seemed to always prefer walking in dark places.
He emerged indistinctly from the darkness at the corner near the lawn.
He habitually looked up at the nearby security camera.
Suddenly, his gaze fixated on a black sedan not far away.
The license plate was unfamiliar.
He had already checked nearly every vehicle owner in this complex.
An unfamiliar license plate appearing out of the blue wasn’t anything alarming, but it piqued Pei Jinye’s curiosity.
For him now, checking was a matter of a few thoughts.
Pei Jinye slowly withdrew his gaze as the evening breeze gently stirred up a few withered leaves on the road.
The sound-activated lights came on sharply.
Pei Jinye vanished into the stairwell.
As he approached the stairs,
he had already used his Heavenly Calculation ability to quickly check the black sedan parked not far from the entrance.
But the moment he stepped on the second stair,
Pei Jinye stopped.
“A cloned car?”
He slowly raised his head.
The sound-activated light had just gone out.
The stairwell was plunged into complete darkness.
In absolute silence, the lights here never came back on.
“Did you get it?” Inside the sedan, two sneaky individuals were hunching over and whispering in hushed tones.
“Got it, but I heard that the guy from East Street is pretty close with Pei Jinye’s parents. Doing this… won’t it…”
“We’re only responsible for the background investigation, whatever else happens is beyond our control… It’s that kid’s fault for somehow offending the young master of the Wei Family, and that guy’s a madman.”
As they spoke, they were completely unaware of a pair of eyes in the shadow behind the car, intently watching them.
“Wei Xia…”
The figure in the shadows lowered its head in thought.
As the wind blew, the shadow swayed and then vanished.
The two men in the car suddenly felt a cold draft and shivered, hugging their coats closer.
A smartphone screen lit up in the dark car interior.
The person in the passenger seat promptly answered, “Young Master Wei… Yes, yes, yes, we’re keeping watch. The target has just arrived home… Alright, we’ll come to see you in the morning.”
After hanging up, the person muttered, “Damn it, what’s the rush, it’s like he’s rushing us to our death.”
In a fancy restaurant in the city.
After putting down the phone, Wei Xia’s expression flickered.
Just then, he received another call from his mother, furrowed his eyebrows, and said with a somewhat repressed anger, “I understand.”
He gestured someone over.
The bodyguard and driver from across the street briskly walked over, bending down, “Young Master, your orders.”
“Drive, take me back to the old residence.”
“Yes!” The driver quickly departed to start the car.
Wei Xia sat still, not having touched a single dish of the delicious food in front of him.
He got up in silence.
Under the cover of night, he entered the car, escorted by the restaurant manager.
The hovercar started and soon left the restaurant.
The restaurant manager stood still for a while, then retracted his gaze and turned back inside.
“Take the shortcut.” Wei Xia felt some impatience in his heart.
The driver turned left into a small road, where almost no lights were to be seen. The driver turned on the headlights, and under a thick mist of floating vapor, the hovercar sped away swiftly.
Suddenly.
The electronic screen flickered for a moment before going completely dark.
This million-dollar hovercar suddenly dropped from mid-air like a tossed frisbee, crashing through the woods ahead with the inertia of a savage fierce beast bursting out of the fog, breaking three or five large trees before barely coming to a stop.
The hovercar lost its dynamic energy, sparks splattering all over the light shield with a crackling noise.
“Bang!”
Wei Xia fiercely kicked open the car door and tumbled out in a panic. His left leg was broken, and his internal organs were injured from the impact.
“Dammit!”
He looked at the flames that kept growing from the hovercar and didn’t care about his broken leg, crawling to escape.
“Young Master” The driver was trapped in the driver’s seat, desperately calling out for help.
Wei Xia looked back hesitantly, only to see a blast of flames erupt, and he decisively turned away, not looking back, crawling away in fear of getting caught in the blast.
“Boom!”
The hovercar exploded.
A huge shockwave pushed Wei Xia violently forward, his hair at the back of his head catching fire and frightening him into frantic patting to extinguish it.
Wei Xia, with an expression of someone who narrowly escaped disaster, stared blankly at the hovercar being devoured by the flames, “Why did this happen?”
“Right, where’s my phone?”
He fumbled in his pockets trying to find his phone to call for help.
The pain from the broken leg bone felt like ten thousand ants devouring his bones, incomprehensibly agonizing.
Suddenly, he got a shock, feeling that something wasn’t right, and quickly turned his head to look.
A shadow unexpectedly leapt out from the darkness behind him and Wei Xia instantly shouted in anger.
But he had only just opened his mouth and before the sound could fully come out, the shadow had already reached him, bringing a club down on his head.
Wei Xia’s heart leaped into his throat and in total disregard of his injury, his vitality surged as he raised his hand to grab, seemingly wanting to clamp down on the attacker’s arm.
However, at the moment of their contact,
A terrifyingly muffled boom suddenly exploded from the attacker’s body, and the once frail shadow instantly transformed into a barbaric, cruel demon god.
Wei Xia’s eyes bulged, his arms breaking like boneless sticks, segment by segment, and the piercing screech in his ears felt like a dozen gongs striking right beside him.
With one palm strike from the attacker, his vitality was thrown into complete disorder!
Wei Xia knew this was bad. A thunderous booming emanated from his waist, and before his fingers could clench into a fist to strike back, the attacker swung the club, pummeling him like a doll and sending him flying.
Amidst the crackling sound of breaking bones, Wei Xia’s body was flung high, rolling across the ground as if ploughing the earth, splinters flying as he carved out a deep trench over ten meters long before finally coming to a stop.
Wei Xia coughed up blood in great heaves.
He couldn’t believe it himself.
In this brief encounter, he hadn’t even gotten a clear look at the opponent’s face.
“Who… exactly… are you?”
Wei Xia spat out blood profusely, lying on the ground, struggling to lift his head to get a clear view of the person.
However, the attacker had vanished without a trace like a specter.
The fire behind him crackled, but Wei Xia felt no warmth. All he perceived was the chilling moonlight and the bone-piercing cold of the wind…
A hand suddenly rested on his shoulder.
Two familiar words rang out unexpectedly—
“Dream Entry.”
Wei Xia’s memory burst open.
At the age of five, his father held young Wei Xia’s hand, standing in front of the ancestral shrine’s stone tablet, “The Wei Family was built with your grandfather’s bare hands. One day, you must also carve out your own piece of the sky!”
Young Wei Xia looked up, puzzled.
At the age of ten.
Wei Xia felt for the first time the immense pride that came with his family’s achievements.
At fifteen.
He became a local ruffian.
People behind his back cursed him as a cancer, but he turned a blind eye, and those who were caught by him were tortured beyond recognition. No matter how many times the Night Patrol Department arrested him, he was always quickly bailed out.
“But I don’t understand, wasn’t I supposed to be the future head of the Wei Family? Why… Why did suddenly a Wei Xianren come out of nowhere?”
“I’m not useless, but just because Wei Xianren’s talent is better than mine, all my possessions should be stripped away? Why? I am not content! Why should the Wei Family discard me!”
“I curse you all!”
“Lan Family, I want them bankrupted! Bankrupt! They must go bankrupt!”
“Pei Jinye, what is he after all! Talent is something only the living deserve! Find out his every move!”
In the silent night.
A pair of eyes suddenly snapped open.
He looked towards the approaching police cars on the nearby highway, leaped down from the treetops, and quietly slipped away.
And thus, one less name remained on the kill list.