Chapter 447 - 383: Who Is the Mantis, and Who Is the Oriole?
Chapter 447: Chapter 383: Who Is the Mantis, and Who Is the Oriole?
Night enveloped the entire Old District.
The streets of Xinghai City were cold and deserted.
Pedestrians had long since vanished from the streets.
On the empty roads, only parked cars lined the curbs.
Silvery moonlight cast down a long, menacing shadow that looked terrifying, as if baring fangs and brandishing claws.
On the rooftop of a building,
a humanoid demonic beast was sprinting rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, it leaped to another rooftop.
After a few more jumps, it vanished from sight.
Inside a certain empty building,
a group of people filed in one after another, all clad in long robes.
With hoods pulled over their heads, they entered in complete silence.
All of them remained silent.
Inside the massive building, several hundred people gradually gathered.
But despite so many people gathered together, there wasn’t a single clamorous sound.
Only the sound of each other’s heavy breathing...
After a long while, several figures appeared, also wearing black robes, but theirs were distinguished by red embroidered edges, which set them apart from the others.
When they reached the center, one of them surveyed the surroundings.
He swept his gaze over the crowd before speaking, "I have gathered you all here today to announce something!"
"The Lord Blood Envoy has personally taken a great risk to stall those people from the Town Martial Department!"
"He has focused all their attention on himself!"
"This has created a more favorable situation for us!"
"So... before the Town Martial Department has a chance to react, we will transport everything out of Xinghai City tonight. The route and destination have all been marked out for you!"
"You’ll understand once you take a look for yourselves... Additionally, I need some people to help rescue the Lord Blood Envoy and create some chaos for the Town Martial Department and the local police!"
"We need to keep them too busy to attend to anything else. That’s the only way we can transport the goods smoothly. Understood?"
After the man finished speaking,
the surrounding hundreds of Blood Handprint members all nodded.
Seeing this, a look of satisfaction crossed the man’s face.
"Very good. In that case, let’s split up and get to work!"
"Remember, you only have one night. Succeed and you live. Fail... and you die!"
With that, he waved his hand, and the hundreds of robed figures quickly departed.
A few minutes later, once only those few individuals remained in the massive building,
the robed man who had been speaking took off his hood, revealing a familiar face.
It was Li Xuewen...
The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, forming a sinister, cold smirk.
Then, he whispered, "Bring them in!"
"Yes!"
One of the robed men nodded quickly. A moment later,
two men were dragged in, barely breathing.
They were tossed to the ground like two dead dogs.
And they were the Right Guards whom Wei Shang had assigned to secretly tail Li Xuewen...
Li Xuewen crouched in front of them, looking them over.
The cold smirk on his face widened as he shook his head.
"It seems Lin Yi still doesn’t trust me, actually sending these two to follow me!"
The next moment, a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
With a soft SQUELCH, he plunged his bare hand into the body of one of the Right Guards.
The Right Guard’s face contorted in agony, his eyes widening as he stared fixedly at Li Xuewen.
A large amount of blood flowed from his mouth. He opened and closed it several times but couldn’t utter a single word.
The moment Li Xuewen pulled his hand out of the man’s body,
the intense pain caused the Right Guard’s expression to twist grotesquely.
He had brutally torn something out.
And with that, the Right Guard stopped breathing in the midst of his suffering...
Seeing his colleague die so horribly, the other Right Guard showed no fear.
Instead, he looked up at Li Xuewen and said in a very soft voice, "The Lord General... None of you can withstand the Lord General’s wrath... The Blood Handprint deserves to die... and you... you deserve to die even more..."
CRACK—
Just as the man finished speaking,
Li Xuewen whipped around and grabbed his head.
With a soft ’CRACK’,
he snapped the man’s neck.
His head was twisted around to face his back...
Li Xuewen slowly stood up, his expression savage, and looked at the Right Guard’s corpse before him.
A flash of cold indifference crossed his eyes. "Hang their bodies on Central Avenue, where they’ll be most conspicuous!"
"I want everyone in Xinghai City to see them!"
Hearing this, the others quickly nodded.
After acknowledging the order, they lifted the Right Guards’ bodies and walked out.
Then, Li Xuewen raised his hand, which was covered in blood, and licked it lightly.
At that moment, all humanity seemed to have vanished from his eyes.
He was more like a bloodthirsty demonic beast—savage and terrifying.
After a long moment, once he had greedily licked his hand clean of blood,
he turned and walked out.
...
"Boss, I’ve got the results!"
"There’s definitely something wrong with Li Xuewen. His parents died a long time ago!"
"And while his sister did have blood dispersal syndrome, she mysteriously disappeared over half a year ago!"
"Li Xuewen is all alone now, and he stopped living at his old home a long time ago.
No one knows where he’s actually living now!"
After Wei Shang returned, he reported the results of his investigation one by one.
Lin Yi nodded. He had expected as much.
But this outcome was clearly not what he had wanted.
A former friend, a fellow student from the Martial Arts Hall.
Now, their identities were worlds apart...