Chapter 454 - 385: Xiaoyu Is So Well-Behaved, How Could He Kill Someone?
Chapter 454: Chapter 385: Xiaoyu Is So Well-Behaved, How Could He Kill Someone?
With that, they carried Lin Yu’s body away.
Lin Yu was a member of the Blood Handprint—a high-ranking one in the Old District, at that.
His death was an undeniable blow to the Blood Handprint.
It would even deal them a severe blow.
That was why Lin Yu’s body absolutely could not be allowed to fall into enemy hands.
The military had to handle it personally.
"What are you doing? What are you doing?! Why are you taking my son?! Why are you—"
Liu Hongmei, like a madwoman, lunged at the soldiers.
But she was quickly intercepted by a few of them.
When she could only watch helplessly as Lin Yu’s body was carried away,
she completely broke down.
Seeing this, Lin Dazhi hurried over and tried to comfort her in a low voice.
The next moment, Liu Hongmei was like an enraged lioness.
She shoved Lin Dazhi away with a single, violent push.
"You useless piece of trash! You couldn’t even protect your own son! You couldn’t even control him!"
"What’s the point of you being alive?! Why don’t you just die? Why don’t you go join Lin Yu in death?! Why—"
SLAP—
Before Liu Hongmei could finish her tirade, Lin Dazhi’s hand struck her across the face.
In that instant, it was as if Lin Dazhi had finally woken up.
He glared at Liu Hongmei. "What right do you have to say that to me?"
"How much have I sacrificed for you and your son over the years?"
"To help you raise Lin Yu, I neglected my own son! I worked day and night so he could get into a Martial Arts University!"
"I almost ruined Lin Yi’s future for him!"
"And look at the ’good son’ you raised! He turned into a man-eating monster!"
"He helped those evil organizations capture innocent people to feed to demonic beasts!"
"And just now, he killed all those soldiers! Didn’t you see that?!"
"Forget Lin Yi. If I had known what Lin Yu would become, I would have strangled him with my own two hands..."
Lin Dazhi said through gritted teeth.
At this, Liu Hongmei was completely stunned.
She stared at Lin Dazhi in disbelief as tears streamed down her face like a broken dam.
Finally, she just shook her head over and over. "Impossible... Lin Yu was such a good boy, so obedient... How could he kill anyone? Impossible... Lin Yu was so good, so obedient, how could he kill..."
Liu Hongmei repeated the words endlessly.
She stumbled away, walking out of the military base.
Just as a few soldiers moved to intercept her, Captain Luo shook his head.
He called them off.
All the soldiers and police officers could only watch as Liu Hongmei walked further and further away,
until she left the base and vanished into the unknown darkness of the night.
After a long moment, Lin Dazhi regained some of his composure.
He turned to Tang Zhan and said, "Please... tell Lin Yi..."
"Tell him we won’t bother him any longer. We’re heading back now."
Having said that, Lin Dazhi seemed to want to say more.
But his lips moved, and yet no words came out.
With a soft sigh, he ran out of the military base.
That night, the turmoil in Xinghai City was far from over.
Wei Shang, Feng Lei, and Shan Kui led the Right Guard,
relentlessly hunting down the remaining members of the Blood Handprint.
They had completely cut off all escape routes.
「Until dawn broke.」
A soft ray of morning light broke through the heavy clouds, spilling onto the streets of Xinghai City.
In an old, run-down residential complex.
Li Xuewen was gasping for breath, his body and face covered in dried blood.
It was impossible to tell how much of it was his and how much belonged to others.
Incredibly weak, he slumped against a wall.
His ashen face was completely drained of color.
Just then, a street cleaner in a work uniform
was sweeping the ground with a broom.
Suddenly, she looked down and saw a trail of blood drops leading off into the distance.
The residents of the Old District were, in fact, long accustomed to such things.
Nearly every night, someone met a grisly end.
They either died in the jaws of demonic beasts, becoming a late-night snack,
or they were murdered by other people.
No matter the cause of death, the police would always attribute it to a demonic beast attack.
Solving the case? That was impossible.
At most, they would come to inspect the scene and then remove the body.
If a family member came to claim it, they were allowed to take it.
If no one claimed the body, it was cremated immediately.
The cleaner followed the blood trail for a short distance.
Then she slowly lifted her gaze, following the trail of blood with her eyes.
It led to a patch of weeds.
Amidst the waist-high weeds, a shadow seemed to be stirring.
The blood trail led right to it.
At the sight, the cleaner’s pupils dilated.
Finally, fear overcame reason, and she ran off into the distance, screaming.
「Half an hour later.」
Two police cars arrived at the residential complex.
With practiced movements, they quickly cordoned off a ten-meter perimeter around the scene.
When a few police officers arrived,
they found the cleaner, still visibly shaken, recounting what she had found.
"I—I just saw the bloodstains... they led into that patch of weeds over there. I saw something move inside with my own eyes! It was still alive! I—I was so scared, I thought it was a demonic beast, so I just ran..."
After she finished speaking, several of the officers walked toward the patch of weeds.