Jiang Si turned and raised her hand, absorbing all of Feierqi’s remnants into her palm, transforming them into a special point the size of a ping-pong ball.
“Only this much, huh? Although it does feel weaker than a chaebol.” Zheng Fan was somewhat displeased with such a small output.
However, he suddenly felt as if there was something else; flipping his palm, there was actually a crystal-clear drop of solidified blood.
“A blood drop? Not a Red Pill, but a blood drop? Is it a specialty of the Killing demon?”
Zheng Fan examined it but couldn’t make anything of it, so he put it away, shoved his hands into his pockets, and prepared to leave the scene.
Police sirens approached from a distance, accompanied by loud engine noises, and several motorcycles arrived first.
Zheng Fan saw a gray-haired uniformed person almost standing on a motorcycle as they were brought in; truly a daring feat for a skilled individual.
“You are… the Red Line Killer.” Baishi saw Jiang Si, looking slightly confused, then turned to survey the scene, “The Machete Killing demon and the Illusion on him, were they killed by you?”
“Processing Bureau?” Jiang Si did not answer.
The person in front of him, holding a white ruler, possessed multiple Fantasy Factors! However, most of them were dormant, not activated.
Aside from the Fantasy Factors, there was even a tangible Illusion.
And that white ruler was some kind of powerful Phantasms.
Such a combination undoubtedly indicated an elite member of the Processing Bureau. Looking at the others he brought with him, although their average level was still a notch higher than those from firms, each of them had Fantasy Factors, but even so, none were as exaggerated as this leader.
He was, in fact, the strongest person Zheng Fan had seen in Dadu so far.
Melee-level, he was certainly more than that. Swarm? Or could he be even higher, reaching Gang-level?
Zheng Fan’s hands were itching, wondering whether to give it a try.
Suddenly, several smoke bombs emitting thick, rolling red smoke were thrown from an unknown location, obscuring everyone’s vision.
“What’s going on?”
“Who is it?! Cough, cough!”
Jiang Si fanned away the approaching dense fog, catching a fleeting glimpse of a figure in the smoke.
Someone was helping him? Or perhaps, more accurately, helping Jiang Si?
It seemed today wasn’t suitable.
Controlling Jiang Si’s body, she turned and disappeared from the street in a few flashes. Jumping onto a building, she looked back, and Baishi rushed out of the smoke, coincidentally looking up and meeting her gaze from afar.
Smiling and waving, as a farewell greeting, Jiang Si left without further delay.
By the time the smoke dispersed, the Processing Bureau personnel were all bewildered.
The Shenlai Firm personnel arrived late, seeing the scene and looking confused: “What happened? Where’s the Machete Killing demon?”
“The Killing demon has been subdued… but not by us. The Red Line Killer appeared and killed the Machete Killing demon, including the Illusion on him. The Red Line Killer’s performance differs from previous records; the power leap is too great, suggesting she also has an Illusion attached to her… Let’s write the post-event report like this.” Baishi closed his eyes and sighed, then turned to the Shenlai Firm and his subordinates, saying.
“The Red Line Killer?” Xila of the Shenlai Firm blurted out, “Jiang Si, why has she appeared again?”
Teacher He, beside her, said: “After all, she is temporarily staying in Dadu. As long as she hasn’t run far, it’s normal for her to appear here. Xixikoke, although a large district, is ultimately just one area within Dadu.”
Xila was somewhat unwilling.
But then she thought, Jiang Si’s increase in strength, and even single-handedly eliminating the Machete Killing demon, who had just given all of them a headache, immediately filled her heart with mixed feelings.
“There’s no need to belittle yourself; after all, that’s a Killing demon. Your firm’s merits are also nearing the next stage, at which point your Fantasy Factor will deepen, and your strength still has room for improvement,” Teacher He comforted her.
Of course, there were things left unsaid. That is, the height one can reach relying solely on Fantasy Factors is limited.
Even pure humans in Dadu, relying on absorbing Bloody Factors, could only reach a maximum of Melee.
Adding Fantasy Factors, one could ascend to Swarm.
Beyond that, one either had to rely on Phantasms, or truly come into contact with those dark existences.
…
“It feels strange.” Standing on the rooftop, feeling the wind, even though the weather was getting warmer, the wind at night at such a height was still quite strong, making it a bit cold, causing Jiang Si, dressed in thin clothes, to shrink.
“Hmm? What’s so strange?” Zheng Fan sat on the edge of the building, his legs swinging up and down like a child’s.
“Why did you kill the person I wanted to kill?” Jiang Si half-opened her eyes, looking quite helpless.
“Of course, if I killed him using your body, then you killed him. Besides, with your shoddy skills, you might not have been able to take him down in a one-on-one fight. If he had another Illusion stacked, you definitely wouldn’t have been able to deal with it. So it’s perfectly reasonable for you to stack an Illusion here too. Numbered monsters can only be defeated by numbered monsters, that’s right.”
Zheng Fan spoke logically and with reason, although by the end he started making no sense again.
Jiang Si rubbed her head: “It still doesn’t feel right; I don’t feel any passion at all.”
“So sentimental?”
“How can you be a Killing demon if you’re not sentimental? Feierqi was still obsessed with texting his target even when he was face-to-face with them before killing them.”
“Leaving aside how he knew the target’s phone number or email at first sight, what if the target didn’t have a phone or other way to receive messages?”
Jiang Si pulled out a crumpled letter from somewhere: “Send a physical letter.”
“Deliver it in person?”
“Deliver it in person. That’s how I was back then. On Cameron Street, he suddenly walked up to me, smiling, and handed me a letter. I took it, completely bewildered, and he even told me to open it quickly and read it. When I opened it, it was a death Notice, and when I looked up, he already swung a knife at me.” Jiang Si said, tearing the letter in her hand to shreds and then tossing the pieces into the air, letting them float away with the wind.
Zheng Fan imagined that scene, and it truly was utterly bizarre.
The Killing demon’s strange thought process.
“I originally wanted to return this letter to him when I knocked him down. Alas, what a pity.” Jiang Si looked regretful, probably because some kind of Killing demon ritual in her mind wasn’t fulfilled.
“I kindly helped you, and you’re still sighing like this.” Zheng Fan rolled his eyes at her.
“Evil Mr., you’re clearly just resentful of the Illusion on Feierqi. Did it offend you and Magic Woman/Miss?”
“Exposed?”
“Evil Mr. doesn’t hide his thoughts at all; he’s like a child, too easy to read, even though he’s probably much older than me.”
“You talk as if you’re very mature. Aside from your figure and underwear, you’re not mature at all.”
“I’m still more mature than you!”
The two started bickering as they talked.
After a while of arguing, Jiang Si also came and sat next to Zheng Fan: “It’s all fog, I can’t see anything clearly. What’s there to look at?”
Zheng Fan gazed at the night view intently, and couldn’t help but chuckle at her words: “There’s nothing good to look at, but thinking that there are many fun things here makes me happy.”
“Evil Mr.’s happiness is probably not good for this world.”
“A Killing demon has the nerve to say that?”
“Hahaha~.”
“What about you? Wandering around, have you gained anything?” Zheng Fan suddenly asked.
Jiang Si paused: “I was just wandering around…”
“When you chose to accept me, you spoke with a pained expression about your friend’s situation.” Zheng Fan made several bullet holes appear on his chest, covered in blood, looking weak and helpless, imitating Jiang Si’s appearance back then.
“That’s not funny at all.” Jiang Si was speechless.
Then she sighed helplessly, looking up at the full moon in the sky: “My friend’s family got involved with a Business Alliance in Dadu, which led to what happened later. At that time, the situation in Dadu was a bit different from now, but that Business Alliance has since disbanded due to an incident years ago in Dadu.”
“Was the Mullen Group a member of that past Business Alliance?”
Jiang Si nodded lightly: “And it was the Mullen Group that was responsible for contacting her family back then, so it’s a breakthrough. But going up against these big players alone is too overestimating myself. Before, I was tricked by a rival group of the Mullen Group into dismantling the Mullen family’s factory, taking the blame for them, but I didn’t get any useful information.”
“Is this what they call high-end business warfare between big companies?”
“Probably.”
“Then who do you think the person who intentionally covered our escape just now might be?” After hearing all this, Zheng Fan asked again.
Jiang Si thought back: “There are quite a few possibilities, it’s hard to say. Don’t look at me like this, I have quite a wide network of contacts, hehe.” She even sounded proud as she said this.
“Alright, that’s about it for tonight. If Magic Woman/Miss has some free time in the future, I’ll help you ask around a bit.”
“Thank you then, Evil Mr.” Jiang Si said in a playful tone, but the heavy expression she had when talking about the Mullen Group was not feigned.
Zheng Fan casually agreed.
Jiang Si remembered something else, turned her body towards Zheng Fan, and unzipped her athletic jacket: “Want to see again~?”
“Get me new underwear.”
“Tsk, no appreciation.”
