pjbooks Chapter 333 Murder to Fill the Gate! Your lives are worth more than theirs!
Chapter 333 Murder to Fill the Gate! Your lives are worth more than theirs!
A dozen or so captured longswords and daggers hovered silently in mid-air.
Without exception, the sword tips were all locked onto the suited executives in the command vehicle.
At the bottom of the mine, all was deathly silent.
Zhou Tao still held the whip in mid-air, with a skinny old man under his feet.
He paused for a moment, then turned and stared intently at the middle-aged man who emerged from the shadows.
The person was wearing a mask, so their face was not visible.
But the oppressive aura emanating from him made Zhou Tao's breath catch in his throat.
"Who goes there!"
Zhou Tao immediately withdrew his foot, took two steps back, and shouted with a fierce but weak voice, "How dare you meddle in the affairs of the Qilin Conglomerate in Jiangcheng! You're asking for death!"
There was absolutely no need for him to give orders.
The dozens of fully armed guards at the bottom of the pit turned their guns in unison the moment Chen Yifan appeared.
Da da da da!
The deafening sound of gunfire shattered the silence of the mine.
Specially crafted psionic armor-piercing rounds and high-explosive warheads, trailing blue flames, intertwined to form a deathly barrage, raining down on Chen Yifan.
Even a level 55 Protection Warrior wouldn't dare to take that level of concentrated fire head-on.
Chen Yifan stood still, without moving.
He didn't even take his hands out of his pockets.
The massive amount of spiritual power that had just reached level fifty and undergone a qualitative change in his Heart Palace was released outwards with a roar as he focused his thoughts.
An invisible and extremely domineering barrier opened up directly one meter in front of him.
What happened next left the executives in the command vehicle speechless.
Thousands of armor-piercing warheads were all mysteriously frozen in mid-air the moment they hit that invisible barrier.
The warhead, spinning at high speed, rubbed violently against the invisible wall, emitting a large amount of dazzling sparks that illuminated the area around Chen Yifan.
But it just can't move forward even a millimeter.
The entire scene defied all logic to an extreme.
Chen Yifan glanced at the dense barrage of comments in front of him.
"Here you go."
A thought suddenly occurred to him.
The bullet, which had been suspended in mid-air, instantly changed direction.
They were twice as fast as they had been on the way here!
puff!puff!puff!
Blood blossoms bloomed wildly at the bottom of the mine.
The screams instantly drowned out the roar of gunfire.
Those tycoon guards carrying guns, no matter how high-grade their bulletproof plates were, became sitting ducks at this moment.
The bullets pierced their kneecaps and the wrists holding the guns with pinpoint accuracy.
Dozens of elite level 50 soldiers, who were just moments before full of energy, couldn't even last a second before collapsing in pools of blood, writhing in agony.
The entire process takes no more than three seconds.
Inside the command vehicle, the executive in the suit trembled slightly.
The wine glass shattered on the deck.
Bright red wine splattered all over his trouser leg.
Zhou Tao was so frightened that she backed away repeatedly, pressing her back firmly against the cold railing.
Chen Yifan ignored the guards rolling on the ground and instead focused his gaze on the civilians who were paralyzed with fear in front of the door.
Thousands of people were tied together like a string of grasshoppers by several thick energy chains.
The adult held the child tightly in their arms, their eyes filled with despair.
Chen Yifan snapped his fingers.
The dozen or so weapons that were floating in the air instantly turned into streaks of light, flying past the civilians' scalps.
Click!
With a series of crisp, metallic cracking sounds, the energy chains binding everyone snapped.
The crowd fell into a brief daze.
"Run towards Jiangcheng," Chen Yifan said, his voice sounding somewhat hoarse due to the mask. "Don't look back."
A woman holding a child was the first to react.
She knelt down and kowtowed to Chen Yifan, then scrambled and dragged her family out of the mine.
This completely ignited the crowd.
Thousands of poorly clothed civilians disregarded everything else and desperately climbed up the abandoned slope at the edge of the mine, quickly disappearing into the night.
At the bottom of the pit, only Chen Yifan and the remnants of the Qilin Consortium remained.
He walked step by step through the blood and spent bullet casings on the ground to the command vehicle.
"You...who exactly are you?!" The executive in the suit tried to remain calm, pulling a necklace from around his neck and clutching it tightly. "We've registered our operations here with the Jiangcheng authorities! If you dare touch us, you're going against the government!"
Upon hearing the word "official," the anger that had been building up inside Chen Yifan due to being stuck at a certain level burned even brighter.
Reporting?
official?
While frantically searching the world for this "outsider," they turn a blind eye to these tycoons who disregard human life.
This is the official order.
How ridiculous.
"official?"
Chen Yifan stopped and looked up at Zhou Tao, who was hiding behind the railing.
Just now, he whipped that old man with great force.
Without wasting words, Chen Yifan made a grabbing motion in the air with his right hand.
Zhou Tao screamed as he was pulled off the carriage by a tremendous force and left suspended in mid-air.
His limbs flailed wildly in the air, but he couldn't get any strength at all.
"What...what are you going to do! I'm the security chief of the Qilin Conglomerate..." Zhou Tao was so frightened that his voice changed, and tears and snot streamed down his face.
"Didn't they say we were still short of energy?"
Chen Yifan swung his arm.
Zhou Tao was thrown out like a rag doll, tracing an arc in the air before crashing straight into the bronze door crack that was flashing with an eerie red light.
The blood-red patterns on the facade sensed the presence of a living person and suddenly lit up brightly.
"No!!!"
Zhou Tao only had time to let out a shrill scream before his body slammed into the crack in the door, at which point a visible red ripple enveloped him.
Two seconds.
A once-powerful third-level master was drained of all his life force, skin and bones, and turned into a pile of white ash scattered on the ground.
Having absorbed Zhou Tao's life, the bronze door emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound and retreated half a meter to both sides.
Chen Yifan raised an eyebrow.
"A level 50 professional's life is indeed better than that of hundreds of ordinary people."
Inside the command vehicle, the executive in the suit completely broke down.
This guy is insane! A madman with absolutely no scruples!
Neither the name of the Kirin Conglomerate nor its official background could suppress him!
He crushed the necklace pendant in his hand.
hum!
An extremely thick orange light shield instantly rose from beneath his feet, completely enveloping him from all angles.
S-Rank Life-Saving Item: Absolute Barrier!
It cost over 100 million to build and could ignore the full-force attacks of experts below the fourth rank for a full ten minutes.
With this protective shell around him, the suit-wearing executive slumped under the car, screaming uncontrollably, "You can't kill me! Jiangcheng's reinforcements will be here in five minutes! You're going to die!"
Chen Yifan boarded the command vehicle.
He stood outside the orange light shield, looking down at the executive inside who was covered in sweat.
He placed his palm on the surface of the light mask.
The external Path Heart Palace within the body begins to operate actively.
Pure, violent, and irrational spiritual power pressed down on the barrier without any concealment, flowing from his palm.
Brutal force crushed it.
Click.
The executive's screaming stopped abruptly.
To his horror, he saw a tiny crack appear on the light shield that was supposedly invincible below the fourth level.
Immediately afterwards, a series of clicking sounds followed.
Cracks, like a spider web, spread wildly across the entire light shield.
In less than three seconds, this S-class item, worth hundreds of millions, exploded into countless points of light with a piercing bang.
The violent aftershocks tore the executive's suit into strips, and he was so shaken that blood flowed from his seven orifices. He collapsed to the ground at Chen Yifan's feet with a thud.
Chen Yifan stepped on the back of his head, pressing his face firmly against the carriage floor.
"With all these broken doors open, how many more do you need?"
The executive's skull creaked as he was stepped on; the excruciating pain made him give up struggling completely. He cried out in a muffled voice, "I need... I need thirty more second-tier professionals... Please, have mercy... I beg you..."
Chen Yifan's gaze shifted to the bottom of the pit.
There were about seventy or eighty of those tycoon guards whose knees he had just shot and maimed.
They were all lying on the ground pretending to be dead, not daring to even breathe.
"That's enough." Chen Yifan nodded.
"What quantity..." The executive hadn't even reacted yet.
Chen Yifan suddenly raised his free right hand upwards.
A massive gravitational reversal field instantly enveloped the entire bottom of the mine.
The seventy or eighty elite chaebols who were lying on the ground all floated up uncontrollably.
No matter how they tried to channel their spiritual energy, it was all in vain under this dimensional-reducing mental suppression.
"Put me down!"
"Sir, help!"
The screams of agony echoed through the mine.
Chen Yifan waved his arm.
Dozens of people in mid-air, like a pile of swept-up garbage, were slammed into the bronze gate amidst a cacophony of howls and screams.
A burst of crimson light instantly illuminated the entire night sky.
This time, the devouring was extremely violent.
The ancient patterns on the facade were a deep, almost purple red, while the area in front of the door had become a sea of white and gray.
They drained these dozens of high-level professionals dry.
Rumble!
With a deafening thud, the massive bronze doors swung wide open to both sides.
An ancient, decaying, and extremely insane aura of heresy surged out from within the gate.
The stones at the bottom of the pit were scraped by this aura, causing them to emit black smoke and turn into powder.
Chen Yifan was protected by the invisible coating of the World Core Fragment, so this aura had no effect on him.
But the executives he trampled underfoot were in deep trouble.
Caught completely off guard by the intense aura of heretical forces, the executive rolled his eyes.
Dozens of fist-sized growths instantly swelled up on his skin, with sharp teeth even growing from them, frantically tearing at his own body.
The sound coming from the throat was no longer a human voice, but a teeth-grinding chewing sound.
Instant mutation.
Chen Yifan withdrew his foot in disgust, then kicked the mutated executive's head, smashing the twisted corpse off the command vehicle.
"That's disgusting."
After confirming that there were no survivors at the bottom of the pit, Chen Yifan took out the black dagger, strode over the ashes scattered on the ground, and walked into the bronze gate.
The gate was now fully open, and the bronze statues in the passageways on both sides, which would have triggered the annihilation mechanism, were now dull and lifeless, reduced to scrap metal.
Follow the sloping passageway all the way to the bottom.
What appeared before Chen Yifan was an underground space the size of a football field.
The surrounding walls were inlaid with glowing green stones.
Right in the very center of this space, a half-broken body hangs upside down in mid-air.
The corpse had no lower body, and its chest cavity had been cruelly ripped open.
The organs that should be the heart, liver, spleen, and lungs have been replaced by extremely precise mechanical gears and bearings.
It showed no signs of decay.
At the very center of that pile of mechanical gears, there was a mechanical heart that was still beating slightly and emitting a seven-colored halo!
Just as Chen Yifan got within ten meters.
The half of the body hanging in mid-air suddenly raised its head.
A mechanical, synthesized voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, echoed through the underground space.
"Intruder detected..."
"Inheritance Test... Begins."