Chapter 20: Chapter 19: Tit for Tat
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“Go, check it out outside.”
With a ferocious look in his eye, Brother Hu shoved one of his lackeys, ignoring his resistance, and sent him outside to investigate.
However, no sooner had the lackey vanished under the glow of their flashlights than a scream erupted.
The group watched in horror as the man appeared to be dragged away by so creature in the darkness.
The cellphone he had been clutching tumbled to the ground, followed by a few more shrieks that ended abruptly, and then silence fell once again.
When Brother Hu quickly shone his flashlight toward the spot, he saw a contorted figure lying on the ground.
The man looked like a broken toy, with his head folded onto his backside, his limbs twisted into a pretzel shape, his eyes wide open, filled with intense fear.
Gulp!
A group of tattooed brutes turned pale with fear, so of them unable to hold onto their tal rods and knives, which clattered to the ground.
They had cut people, been to jail; to ordinary folks, they were extrely violent thugs.
But killing people was one thing–aside from Brother Hu, none of them had actual experience with it, let alone had seen such a spectacle!
Even Brother Hu felt his hair standing on end; he had never seen anything this bizarre before.
Now he began to believe that they had encountered a ghost.
Otherwise, how could a living person be twisted into such a strange shape in just a few seconds?
“There really are ghosts, there really are ghosts, wuu, we’re done for.”
“Call the police, quickly, call the damn police! Let them co save us.”
The group of tattooed toughs was on the verge of a ntal collapse, and even Brother Hu stopped insisting. Getting caught for a minor offense like stealing so wood would have landed him in jail for a few years at most, but staying here could an death!
“Be careful, I’ll call the police.”
Brother Hu turned cowardly and tried to dial 911 himself.
But before the call could go through, sothing in the darkness was rapidly closing in.
Whoosh!
A nasty gust of wind blew in, and the thousand-hand centipede’s grotesque body erged from the darkness, biting down hard on Brother Hu.
“Monster… Monster!”
The thugs exploded into panic, scattering in terror.
But what they didn’t know was that escaping from this abandoned building was already an impossibility.
Several pale human hands detached from the belly of the thousand-hand centipede and stealthily disappeared into the dark, and soon after, a few desperate screams echoed in the silent building, carrying far before everything turned quiet once more.
The thousand-hand centipede made a sizzling noise twice, clutching Brother Hu, who was still struggling in terror.
Behind it, the pale hands dragged the bodies, heading toward the ground floor.
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On the ground floor of the abandoned building, Su Jie stood in front of several heavy trucks, pulling back the tarpaulins to reveal loads of intact, precious small-leaved rosewood logs.
“Stealing from anyone but , why do they all have to follow Peng Shiwen’s example?”
With a sigh, Su Jie lanted that he genuinely wanted to be a law-abiding citizen, so why did they insist on forcing his hand?
At that mont, the thousand-hand centipede ca down from the building, bringing back fourteen bodies, neatly arranged in front of Su Jie. Lastly, it dropped Brother Hu, whom it had been carrying in its mouth, at Su Jie’s feet like a prized offering.
“Good boy.”
Su Jie scratched the thousand-hand centipede’s chin.
The bulky tail of the thousand-hand centipede wagged back and forth like that of a happy puppy.
“Are you human or ghost, human or ghost…”
Brother Hu trembled uncontrollably, glancing at the corpses of his subordinates all around him, his insides quaking with fear.
He had never before encountered such a ruthless individual, and the thods of this person were beyond anything he had heard of.
“Who I am… didn’t you investigate that thoroughly enough?”
A hint of a smile played on Su Jie’s lips as he stepped out from the shadows into the moonlight, bending down to face him.
“It’s you, you are the owner of those materials…”
Upon recognizing Su Jie’s face, Brother Hu felt his legs go numb, realizing why Su Jie had co after them, and it was indeed no injustice.
“Now that you know, it will be easier to deal with you. I’m interested in so information about your boss. If you give it up…”
“I won’t betray the boss. In the movies, that’s how it always goes, say it and you’ll kill to silence .”
Brother Hu wore a determined expression, and it almost made Su Jie laugh.
“I didn’t see you as the tough guy type. Good, I do have so expertise in making people talk. I hope you don’t disappoint .”
Trying to play the hero in front of Su Jie, Brother Hu clearly didn’t know the punitive asures of a Demon Cultivator.
Ten minutes later…
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“I’ve said everything I could, please, just give a quick death.”
The previously unyielding Brother Hu lay on the ground, consud by despair and fear, wishing for nothing but death.
“Really, not even ten minutes endured. In the next life, rember to be a good person like .”
Su Jie snapped his fingers.
You call yourself a good person, demons aren’t as bad as you…
This thought flashed through Brother Hu’s mind. Then his consciousness was engulfed as swarms of Yin Fire Blood Bees covered his entire body, burrowing into him from his mouth and nose.
Su Jie then opened the ancient mirror he had brought with him, tossing the corpse and the small-leaved red sandalwood into it, effectively erasing all traces of the scene.
Having put everything in order, Su Jie vanished into the night.
He was off to find the real mastermind; the ones he’d killed were rely pawns.
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“What did you say, Ah Hu isn’t answering his phone, what about Lei Zi and the others?”
In a luxurious villa in Linping City, Cui Yunchun, dressed in pajamas and listening to Ma Lanfei’s report, stood up abruptly.
“Chairman Cui, you told to call Ah Hu every three hours. I did as you instructed, but half an hour ago, no one answered his phone, and nobody responded to Lei Zi and the others either.”
Ma Lanfei spoke anxiously, as it wasn’t yet midnight and her calls had gone unanswered, prompting her to co and report imdiately.
“Could it be that Ah Hu and the rest got greedy and decided to keep the rchandise for themselves…”
Ma Lanfei hesitated before venturing a guess.
“Impossible, I raised Ah Hu from an orphan, he’s loyal to . Sothing’s definitely happened to them. Make inquiries imdiately, and focus on this Su Jie fellow.”
Cui Yunchun was livid, his eyes fierce as if to devour soone.
Startled, Ma Lanfei was about to make a call when suddenly a voice echoed in the room.
“Boss Cui, so eager to find , huh!”
The voice ca from outside the door, startling both occupants of the bedroom.
“Who are you, wait, Mr. Su, you are Mr. Su, aren’t you?”
Cui Yunchun was initially taken aback but then quickly ca to a realization.
“I admit I was wrong in this matter, and I am willing to apologize. I’ll pay one hundred million yuan for your losses, how about that? I can add more if it’s not enough.”
True to his experience in surviving many upheavals, Cui Yunchun was quick to concede.
If Su Jie could enter his ho silently, it ant his life was under threat.
“One hundred million yuan is a big sum, but it’s too late to talk about this now.”
With a cold chuckle, footsteps approached from outside the bedroom. As the door opened, a figure stood in the moonlight, sending chills down the spine.
Cui Yunchun and Ma Lanfei peered closely, and simultaneously shouted, “Ah Hu!”
The man at the door was their associate, Ah Hu.
“How are you here, did you actually betray ? You’ve got so nerve.”
Cui Yunchun seed to realize sothing, his mix of shock and anger fixed on Ah Hu.
“Brother Hu, how could you do this? Chairman Cui had been so good to you, yet you conspire with outsiders to betray us.”
Ma Lanfei was equally furious, her heart also secretly relieved.
After so many years of companionship, at least Brother Hu wouldn’t kill her, she hoped.
However, facing Cui Yunchun’s rage, Ah Hu responded strangely, lifting his arms stiffly, his eyes filled with despair:
“Save , Mr. Cui, save …”
Before he could finish his plea, Ah Hu’s face contorted, his skin twitched as if sothing was wriggling underneath, and he spoke in a hoarse, stiff voice: “Tch, still far from perfect, a re human can’t maintain control. Well then, Boss Cui, you seem to like setting fires, so I’ll offer you a fire in return. An eye for an eye, fair, isn’t it?”
It was only then that the two realized sothing was very wrong with Ah Hu, as if he was under soone’s control.
Unaware of Gu Masters, Cui Yunchun and Ma Lanfei didn’t understand that this was a technique resulting from the application of spiritual power by a Gu Master, a skill that Su Jie had recently mastered while practicing the Insect Control Technique.
Due to Su Jie’s insufficient strength, coupled with inherent flaws in the technique, such as ti and distance limits, similar to signal fluctuations, sotis the victims would break free from control, just as had happened monts ago.
“Mr. Su, we can still talk, na your price.”
Feeling utterly uneasy, Cui Yunchun shouted out in panic, but this ti Ah Hu did not respond. His flesh split and Yin Fire Blood Bees erged, swarming towards the two.
The gory and terrifying scene nearly sent both into shock; pleas for rcy ca too late.
Inside the bedroom, tiny fires started to burn, igniting a massive blaze courtesy of the Yin Fire Blood Bees from Tianyuan World.
Standing hundreds of ters away atop a tree, Su Jie surveyed the fiery blaze engulfing the building.
“Not bad at all, the flas are spectacular; no wonder villains love arson after murder, it really is quite satisfying.”
A smile lingered on Su Jie’s face as he cast one last look at the sky-high flas and then turned away from the place.
“Out for two hours, it’s ti to rest, tonight I can finally get so good sleep.”
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