An unpleasant scent filled the air. Its odor resembled rotten eggs and it spread throughout the house like a plague.
"Mother… father… I'm sorry," a hoarse voice echoed through a plainly decorated bedroom.
Inside the room was a large queen-sized bed, a closet and a walk-in bathroom.
There was a layer of dust on all of the furniture inside the room which showed that no one had lived here for months.
A mature looking woman in a business suit knelt down on the ground and pressed her forehead against the floor.
She was an attractive woman in her late twenties with a lean muscular physique and a sharp angular face.
But what would stand out about her appearance were the heavy bags under her eyes. Dark circles that displayed the tiredness and exhaustion on her face.
In front of her was a simple wooden shrine with several pictures placed carefully around its wooden fra.
This shrine was built in the corner of the bedroom and seed out of place.
Inside the pictures were the scenes of a happy family. An elderly mother smiling and waving at the cara, a stern father with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes and two children.
The older sibling inside the fra was a tall girl with long flowing black hair that was tied into two cute braids.
The younger of the two was a shy little boy who hid behind his sister's skirt in the picture.
His innocent appearance and soft features would win the hearts of all the aunties in the neighborhood.
A brief smile flashed across the woman's face as she rembered her little brother coming ho from school with a bunch of candy in his arms.
It was a picture that was taken a lifeti ago.
The woman on the floor choked up as she felt a wave of nostalgia and sadness.
The woman remained motionless in the sa position. Despite the nasty scent in the room, she showed no discomfort or disgust on her face.
Ti seed to have no aning as she continued to whisper over and over again the sa phrase.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry."
A harsh bleeping noise interrupted the strange atmosphere inside the room. The woman slowly got up from the ground and nearly fell as her knees almost gave out.
She opened her phone and saw a text ssage arrive in her inbox. The sender of the text was a na that she was all too familiar with.
Song Feng: [Hey! I'm on my way now… Why didn't you tell that you were coming back to Shanghai?]
The woman read the ssage but did not bother to reply. She placed the phone back in her pocket and bowed once more in the direction of the shrine.
"You would hate for what I am about to do," the woman laughed sadly as she spoke to the pictures.
"I can still hear your voice now mom… you would beg to go to the police… tell not to do this myself."
"And you dad… you would tell that life is too precious to just throw away."
The woman stopped talking and waited as if she would get a reply from the silent pictures that remained frozen in ti.
Perhaps she really had gone mad.
What she had experienced over the last few months would be enough to drive any regular person insane.
But this plan had to succeed. The woman knew that if she missed this opportunity then there would be no second chances.
She had bet everything on this one final move.
It was the only way that a human could defeat an enemy that defied common sense.
"If I have one regret mom…then I regret not changing my na to match yours. Song Li was more fitting than Sui Li," the woman whispered quietly.
Sui Li turned around and left the room with slow purposeful steps. Maybe it was just her imagination, but she felt as though soone was watching her as she walked away.
She closed the door quietly and entered the living room where the rotten egg sll only got stronger.
She currently in a dium sized apartnt building on the outskirts of Shanghai city so there weren't many rooms built inside.
Sui Li felt the urge to pay her bedroom a visit, but she knew that there wasn't much ti left until her target arrived.
She walked towards the couch in the middle of the living room and sat down. There was clock hung right above the television, but its battery had long stopped working.
Sui Li closed her eyes and waited. She could hear nothing but the steady beating of her heart as the minutes passed by.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Finally, there was a loud knocking sound coming from the front of the apartnt and then the jingling of keys could be heard.
Sui Li opened her eyes, and a flash of hatred could be seen inside her gaze. She quickly pushed down that emotion and resud her calm appearance.
She could not afford to give the ga away.
That monster was unusually adept at reading facial expressions.
"Elder sis! I'm ho!" a deep masculine voice echoed through the apartnt. Sui Li clenched her fingers tightly into a fist as she saw a young man walk into the living room.
He wore a plain ordinary white shirt and a pair of track pants that could be bought at any thrift store.
His body was heavily muscular with strong arms, legs and a physique that would not look out of place on a Greek god.
He stood at an impressive height of over six feet and had a natural aura of sexiness and appeal that was hard to ignore.
But as Sui Li focused on his appearance… she could not help but feel a shiver of fear as she looked at his face.
The young man smiling cheerfully at her no longer bore any resemblance to his biological parents.
His face was extrely attractive and well sculptured to the extent that it could even be considered unnatural.
Fierce brows, piercing black eyes, perfect cheekbones and a nose that was perfectly positioned in the middle of his face.
His handso looks far surpassed even the top movie emperors in the film industry.
Song Feng wrinkled his nose as he slled the foul odor of rotten eggs, "Hey… what's that awful sll?"
"I think there might be a sewage leak in the bathroom upstairs. I will call a plumber tomorrow to deal with it," Sui Li replied calmly.
"Don't worry about it. This old apartnt is worthless anyways," Song Feng waved his hands and sighed dismissively.
A white-hot rage bubbled inside Sui Li's chest as she heard his scornful tone. This apartnt was where their parents had once lived…
How could he say such a thing?
No… she should have expected that perhaps in his eyes… this apartnt held no sentintal value.
Song Feng walked over to his sister and reached into his pocket to pull out a black credit card.
Sui Li recognised it as an exclusive platinum black mbership card. To own one required a deposit of at least twenty million USD or over one hundred million yuan.
"This card has no limits on it. Feel free to spend as much money as you want," Song Feng declared arrogantly.
Song Feng placed the card in his sister's right palm and for the briefest of monts his hand lingered on her soft fingers.
He hid it well, but Sui Li could see the possessiveness and desire hidden in his gaze as his eyes swept up and down her body.
The look in his eyes made Sui Li's skin crawl and she fought desperately to keep herself from throwing up.
She felt sick.
Still, it was far too late to turn back now. As she stared into her brother's eyes… Sui Li felt her feelings of hesitation slowly fade away.
"Where did you get all that money? I thought that you were studying in university," Sui Li questioned with a warm smile on her face.
"Sister! I wanted to leave it as a surprise, but I am now the owner of a company! I have also made quite a bit of money by saving a few wealthy people," Song Feng explained.
"Saving them? How?" Sui Li questioned with an expression of surprise.
Song Feng leaned in closer and whispered in an almost conspiratorial tone, "Rember when you left to go abroad? I managed to learn so traditional Chinese dicine from an expert."
"He taught how to use acupuncture to unblock sealed ridians and how to make concoctions to cure hidden diseases."
Liar.
Liar.
LIAR!
Sui Li struggled to maintain her peaceful appearance as her brother placed a warm hand on her shoulder.
Suddenly she got up from the couch and made her way to the kitchen without sparing a glance at her brother.
Song Feng followed closely behind with a puzzled look on his handso face. The scent of rotten eggs got stronger and stronger as they approached the kitchen.
Sui Li's eyes began to tear up and even Song Feng was beginning to get a little bit uncomfortable because of the foul odor.
She waited until her brother had entered the kitchen before turning around and facing him with a serious expression.
"Did you know that I was afraid when I found out that mom was pregnant with you?" Sui Li quietly spoke.
"What?" Song Feng asked in confusion.
Sui Li stared off into the distance and there was a hint of nostalgia in her gaze as she spoke, "I said that I was afraid."
"I was only their adopted daughter and I had heard stories from the other kids in the orphanage about what would happen once your new parents got biological children of their own."
"You may laugh but my deepest fear was being abandoned. Fortunately, the love that mom and dad showed for never changed."
"And you… you were the little brother that I adored."
"That's why I did not hesitate after our parents died in that car accident to drop out of colleague and save enough money to send you to university."
"On her deathbed… I promised mom that I would protect you."
A haunting smile blood across Sui Li's face as she stared at the face of her brother that she could now only barely recognise.
Song Feng frowned as he felt an unpleasant feeling as he observed Sui Li's smiling appearance.
The instincts of a cultivator were incredibly sharp, and he could sense that there was danger coming from sowhere.
But where?
Song Feng began to look around the room with an unusually serious expression. Sui Li knew that there wasn't much ti left.
"I know you aren't him," Sui Li's voice broke the tense atmosphere inside the kitchen.
Song Feng froze in shock as he stared incredulously at the woman who just revealed his deepest secret.
"What are you talking about big sis?! How can I not be your brother? Are you feeling alright?" Song Feng laughed nervously.
"Do you rember what I told you when you were only five years old? It was during the last night of our annual fishing trip," Sui Li spoke calmly.
Song Feng let out a small sigh of relief and quickly accessed this body's mories to find the answer to her question.
"You said that we would always be together with mom and dad. We would stay one big happy family until we all turned old," Song Feng replied confidently.
"I also rember that you confessed that you had a strong fear of heights!"
Sui Li approached her brother and wrapped her arms around his chest. She could feel the pounding of his heart and the heat of his muscular physique.
Song Feng did not hesitate to return her affections and the pair spent a peaceful mont in complete silence.
"Do you know what your mistake was? The flaw wasn't that you rembered what I said… the flaw was that you did," Sui Li hoarsely whispered.
"My brother always had a terrible mory."
The surprised expression on his handso face was enough to send a dark thrill of satisfaction down Sui Li's spine.
The inhuman creature that possessed her brother's body used his mories to perfectly assimilate into modern day tis.
But because he relied on the original Song Feng's mories… Sui Li knew that there was one way to kill him.
She simply needed to use knowledge that her little brother did not possess.
Natural gas is odorless, so utility companies add a chemical called rcaptan to the gas in order for leaks to be detected.
As for the scent of this chemical…
It slled like rotten eggs.
Sui Li reached for the lighter in her pocket and brought it up to Song Feng's face. Her brother in his panicked state did not notice her quiet actions.
Click! Click!
BOOM!
She could hear the painful scream of the fake Song Feng as his flesh imdiately burned under the intense heat.
The last thing that Sui Li saw was a flash of brightness before her vision sank into an endless abyss.
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(Outside The Creation World Tree- Unknown Location)
"As you can see Candidate No.214 was originally a minor heroine in an urban cultivation novel and yet… she was able to kill the son of heaven on her plane."
"She has excellent qualities of both ruthlessness and cunning that I believe are necessary for an agent in our new departnt."
There was a brief mont of silence in the broken spatial zone as the faceless and bodiless beings of light reviewed the footage.
The new departnt of the Space Ti Authority had to be created to deal with troubleso individuals capable of destroying the stability of their planes.
It was for this reason that candidates from across the multiverse had to be carefully selected for this extrely difficult job.
One of the beings extended a golden tendril outward and pressed the [Accept] option next to Candidate No.214's profile.
The fourth agent of this new departnt had now been chosen.
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