Inside the high-rise residential building.
Xie Litang spotted the Eagle-Man ability user right away. Furthermore, beyond the activity below the stairwell, two people outside were taking an unconventional route, scaling the exterior walls with speed.
"Linling, can you snipe that birdman?"
"Sis, I can, but it might alert the people inside the building, so I don't recommend startling the snakes."
"Then let's wait a bit."
"Got it, Sis, keep heading up."
"Alright."
21st floor, 22nd floor... Xie Litang suddenly stopped. This height was already enough to ensure they would have nowhere to run.
Xie Litang drew her sword and slashed down at the staircase beneath her feet. Howling with the wind, the Wind-Style Sword Qi destroyed the stairs below, creating a gap spanning two to three floors that was impossible to climb up.
Yet this changed nothing.
From below came Xu Ling's sneer.
"Childish."
"Did you think this could stop us? You've only cut off all your own escape routes instead. Now you have nowhere left to run."
"I'm going to make you die."
Just as Xu Ling said.
They were a genius elite special forces team.
A mere two or three destroyed floors of stairs changed nothing. Using the crumbling remnants of the walls and stairs, it only slowed their pace by a dozen seconds or so.
Hearing this, Xie Litang couldn't help but chuckle. "No, the ones who are going to die are all of you."
They were currently over twenty floors high. Unless they all grew wings, they could all go die.
As Xie Litang issued her command, Chen Linling directly detonated the explosives buried deep in the underground parking garage.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of thunderous explosions rang out first, immediately followed by a sudden tremor through the entire building.
The entire building listed heavily to one side, and then its walls began to rapidly disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The group below, currently navigating the crumbling staircase, erupted into sudden screams.
【What's happening?】
【Is it a massive earthquake?】
【It's the building! This building is collapsing!】
【I get it now, this is a trap! She lured us over twenty floors up! How ruthless!】
Major Jiang Youde, possessing Ten-Star strength, glared until the corners of his eyes nearly tore, bellowing, "Run!"
Run? Did he even hear what he was saying? This was over twenty floors up—how could they run?
Moreover, the overall strength of the special forces team was mostly around Five-Star or Six-Star, which was far from enough to see them safely through such a catastrophe.
Until the skyscraper completely collapsed.
Plumes of smoke and dust billowed into the air.
All dozen-plus people were buried beneath the rubble.
Boom!
Drenched in blood and with four or five broken ribs, Jiang Youde had somehow endured and survived such a catastrophe.
Yet the moment he broke through the rubble and stepped out, he felt a dark shadow engulfing him from above.
That was... one building, two buildings, three buildings... Centered on the first building, after calculated angles and demolition design, the other surrounding high-rises had been detonated, and they were all toppling inward toward the center!
"No!!"
A Ten-Star Major who had spent a lifetime fighting with impunity.
Yet at this exact moment, he ceased all thought.
Long before the building fell, Xie Litang had already locked onto that birdman.
Executing a Sweeping Blade, she flashed behind the birdman and slashed him into minced meat in a single strike.
At the same time,
a turbofan hoverboard flew over with a howl.
Xie Litang stepped onto the hoverboard in mid-air, and Chen Linling's voice came through her earpiece: "Turbofan hoverboard has safely arrived at the position. Calculated precision error is less than one second."
Xie Litang touched her earpiece and asked, "Are all those people dead?"
Chen Linling pondered her wording and said, "Hard to say. Everyone's abilities are strange and varied; no one can guarantee whether any survivors made it."
Xie Litang nodded. "I understand."
"Sis, are you leaving?"
"Not leaving, but watching."
Xie Litang departed on the turbofan hoverboard, but in truth, after flying a block away, she jumped down and quickly walked back toward the collapsed ruins.
Half an hour later.
Deep inside a section of the rubble,
Xu Ling crawled out with great difficulty.
Drenched in blood as well, she looked at the collapsed ruins and the comrades buried beneath them, bursting into loud wails in an instant.
"Waaah..."
"Dead... they're all dead..."
"How could this happen? Isn't she just trash? How could she possibly wipe us all out?"
"I want to avenge the Major and everyone else! I'm definitely going to kill that trash!"
"I swear it!"
Suddenly,
Splat!
It was the sound of flesh and bone shattering.
Xu Ling watched as one of her legs flew into the air—Chen Linling, operating a remote automated sniper cannon, had taken off her leg with a single shot while her guard was completely down.
"Ah!"
"My leg! It hurts!"
Only then did Xie Litang step out with measured strides.
Upon seeing her figure, Xu Ling's pupils contracted instantly, turning from extreme hatred to utter terror.
In intense pain, Xu Ling said with a trembling voice, "You... you can't kill me! If you kill me, the Department of Military Affairs and the family behind me will never let you off!"
Xie Litang sneered and replied, "If I'm not mistaken, many of you so-called geniuses are scions of various families, aren't you?"
"So what?"
"If I spare you, will they spare me?"
"One more of you dead doesn't make a difference, nor does one less."
Xu Ling pleaded, "I'm part of the Department of Military Affairs! We've killed demon beasts; we've rendered service to humanity!"
Xie Litang snorted coldly, "You act like I haven't killed demon beasts. Why should your achievements count for more than mine?"
Xie Litang chambered a round.
Xu Ling screamed in sheer terror, "You'll regret this!"
Bang!
The bullet passed straight through the center of Xu Ling's forehead, blowing her skull off.
Xie Litang holstered her handgun and said calmly, "I never regret."
The Ye Family, the Peacekeeper Investigation Bureau, the Department of Military Affairs, as well as the families and universities behind these geniuses—she was virtually an enemy to the entire world.
But so what?
If they still dared to come,
Xie Litang would dare to keep killing. Enemy to the entire world? Then she would kill until she was invincible under heaven!
"Sis, is it all over?"
"No, I still need to clean up loose ends."
Xie Litang headed back to Old Town.
She killed the three wounded operatives, one strike of her sword per person.
Coincidentally, they had actually gathered all the corpses of those killed in battle together, saving Xie Litang the trouble. She looted all the spoils clean.
Just as they had said,
these people were all geniuses from major universities.
Almost every single one had a spatial storage artifact on them, containing not only their earnings from battle merits, but also massive amounts of resources provided by their respective families.
Chen Linling said in pleasant surprise,
"Sis, we hit the jackpot!"
"Yeah, we got rich in one fell swoop."
"Sis, can we head back to Fumu City now? Will they send more people after us?"
"We can head back. Having so many geniuses die all at once, even if the person behind this is a general-grade military officer, they'll likely face tremendous pressure. We should be safe for a short while."
Their so-called "sacrifice" operation didn't send Xie Litang to her grave; instead, over twenty geniuses were sent to theirs.
Furthermore, importantly, the nature of this matter was not official business, but a private affair.
Even more so, a personal vendetta.
Which was why it resulted in such losses.
Rate on N.U.
