Chapter 95 – You Really Went to Such Great Lengths

“Zzzzt!”

Sitting inside the car, Lv Zifeng listened as the sound from the wiretap cut out. A grave look settled over his face.

“Did they go to rescue Director Wang’s family?” Lv Zifeng asked, his voice a little hoarse.

One of the officers beside him made a call to check on the situation. A moment later, his expression darkened. “The comrades assigned to surveillance were notified in time, but by the time they arrived, Madam and the deputy director’s daughter had already… The comrades responsible for the Wang Family’s security have also sacrificed their lives. We’re currently investigating the killer.”

“There’s no need to look… It already managed to approach the Wang Family and strike right under our noses. What meaning is there in finding it now? Besides, the killer isn’t one particular Xenospecies. It’s their entire race.” Lv Zifeng buried his face in his hands and fell silent for a while. When he raised his head again, his expression had returned to calm. “Deputy Director Wang obtained important intelligence for us. Before him, these Xenospecies must have already used the same method to control quite a few people. They simply hadn’t made a move this big before.”

Deputy Director Wang was the person among Ningnan’s upper ranks who was closest to the Operations Group. That was clearly what the Xenospecies had been after. Before they infiltrated the Operations Group, no matter how many people the Xenospecies controlled, they still could not dictate the overall situation in Ningnan. At most, they could only influence it, because the true military and political authority was currently in the hands of the Operations Group. And just as the Xenospecies tried to break in, they hit a wall with their chosen target, Deputy Director Wang.

Lv Zifeng felt somewhat relieved by that, but at the same time, a lingering fear gripped him… The learning ability of these Xenospecies was simply too powerful. If it had been anyone else today, or if Deputy Director Wang’s heart had softened even a little, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Something like this could not be allowed to happen again.

“Investigate them. Everyone. Even those who showed no problems after the blood tests are to be investigated immediately…” Lv Zifeng said. Then he lifted his head and looked toward the building in the distance. “Leave one team behind. The rest of us are going to collect some interest from those things.”

But as soon as he finished speaking, his pupils suddenly contracted. In the place within his line of sight, a cloud of dust suddenly burst out from that pitch-black window.

For no reason at all, a strange feeling abruptly surfaced in Lv Zifeng’s mind.

“Hurry. We’re going over there immediately!”

…

“Bang!”

The moment Wang Zhao landed, he sensed that the other party had already caught up behind him again.

The transformed special forces soldiers immediately lunged forward, but after a whoosh, several severed limbs dropped beside Wang Zhao’s feet.

The blood that splashed out sprayed across the wall. The Black Thread appearing along the wall had only just surged madly forward when it was shredded to pieces as if sliced apart by fan blades.

Wang Zhao had just stood up when he was slammed into the wall again.

So fast… They hadn’t even held him back for a single second.

And besides that, what terrifying penetrating force…

The instant he was hit, Wang Zhao had already raised his arm to block the attack. Dense scales surfaced across his arm in an instant, layered like one sheet of armor over another. But the moment they collided with that streak of incoming red light, the scales still cracked apart with a sharp snap. The red light sank straight in, and a burst of blood exploded out at once.

Still, it won’t pierce all the way through…

The thought had only just flashed through Wang Zhao’s mind when the other party raised his other arm. A streak of black followed close against the red light and stabbed into the very same wound.

“Pfft!”

Wang Zhao felt his body being punctured as well. That black blade drove along his arm and plunged straight into his body, giving him no time to mutate scales over his torso too.

“Another sneak attack.” Wang Zhao raised his head and looked at the figure before him.

He was certain he had never seen this man before, but the moment he got a clear look at him, he guessed who he was.

“Su Lifeng.”

Su Lifeng recognized him as well. “Star-shaped tattoo.”

Before ambushing Wang Zhao, Su Lifeng had already confirmed his identity.

There was a tiny star-shaped tattoo on his neck.

“Ugly,” Su Lifeng judged.

At that instant, he yanked out his military knife. Both pairs of Bone Wings beat at the same time, carrying him several meters backward at high speed.

Almost the exact moment he retreated, an enormous mouth reeking of blood and rot appeared soundlessly where Su Lifeng’s head had just been. Then, with a sharp clack, it snapped shut on empty air.

“Heh…”

Wang Zhao’s neck, stretched out like rubber, retracted again, but his mouth remained gaping wide, having completely exceeded the limits of the human body. His gums were packed with jagged fangs, and a tongue kept twisting back and forth inside his mouth. A thread of saliva ran down from the corner of his lips. When it dripped onto the floor, a wisp of green smoke rose from the spot.

Highly corrosive…

“Your reflexes are fast,” Wang Zhao said, even with his mouth open like that. His throat and abdominal cavity kept bulging and contracting as he spoke, making his voice sound muffled and heavy.

“I have you to thank for going to such lengths to deliver Qin Moyun to me. Must have been hard work,” Su Lifeng said after landing steadily. His tone was casual, but the hand gripping his military knife had already broken out in a cold sweat.

For one of the Soldier Types, this Wang Zhao was far too cunning…

There had been no warning whatsoever in the second before he suddenly transformed and attacked. Su Lifeng only sensed the threat of death at the instant that mouth closed in on him.

If he had been even a fraction slower, he would be a headless corpse by now, and even his head would have melted inside the other party’s mouth.

Even if Wang Zhao failed to bite it clean off, a few drops of his saliva landing on Su Lifeng’s face would essentially rob him of the ability to fight back. If it splashed into his eyes, he would probably die on the spot.

Su Lifeng had relied on an ambush to win in one strike too, but he had not expected Wang Zhao, despite possessing this level of strength, to patiently wait for the same kind of opening.

And the aura radiating from him… This was an E-class Xenospecies!

From the look of it, Wang Zhao had probably been forcibly elevated just like Qin Moyun. Qin Moyun had not reached E-class, but he had.

With his corrosive properties and the terrifying attack power of that huge mouth, even if his skin was still rotting away, Su Lifeng could no longer clash head-on with him and risk his life the way he had when dealing with Qin Moyun.

“Qin Moyun? Oh… the name of its skin.” Wang Zhao spoke without the slightest emotional fluctuation. “That is a little beyond my expectations. It seems I still haven’t studied human nature enough. Tonight, I’ve failed twice in a row. It looks like Ren Xiaoying was right. If we don’t control humans from the start, while they’re completely unaware, then what follows will be their endless struggle. But I didn’t expect an individual like you to be able to struggle as well. In my understanding, only the state apparatus is truly powerful among humans.”

“No, your understanding isn’t actually wrong,” Su Lifeng interrupted him, then asked, “Where is Ren Xiaoying?”

“Right, you’ve met her… She had something to do at the time. It seems a second Wisdom Species has come to this city as well,” Wang Zhao answered casually. Even if he told a human this kind of information, it would hold no meaning for that human.

After hearing that, a trace of shock and suspicion appeared on Su Lifeng’s face. There was another Wisdom Species? Who was it?