Chapter 106 – I’m Better at Dissection

By the time Su Lifeng and Gouzi arrived, Li Yao was already dead.

His eyes were wide open, still fixed on that entrance.

Su Lifeng glanced at him, then followed the angle of his gaze. He understood at once.

When he had seen the Precognitive Vision, he had been standing in Li Yao’s perspective…

Su Lifeng still had not figured out how his precognition worked, but now, seeing the bloody tears that had streamed from Li Yao’s eyes and thinking back to that curtain of blood in the vision, he could not help feeling a little moved.

“Infighting?” Su Lifeng thought.

Those who came later could rarely know exactly how those before them had died… but judging from the regret and reluctance frozen on Li Yao’s face, he must have felt quite a lot in his final moments.

After a moment of thought, Su Lifeng took the gun from Li Yao’s hand, then searched him and found a magazine and a knife.

“Do you know how to use this?” Su Lifeng turned to Gouzi and asked.

“Uh… I handled a hunting rifle a little when I was a kid,” Gouzi said, scratching his head.

“Then it’s yours. Take the knife too.”

“Su-Ge, don’t you need it?” Gouzi asked in return. In his mind, Su Lifeng was practically capable of anything. It never even occurred to him that Su Lifeng simply did not know how to use a gun.

Su Lifeng fell silent for a moment, then flicked the scalpel in his hand and said, “Compared to blowing someone’s head off, I’m better at dissecting people…”

“…I concede.” Gouzi genuinely could not tell whether that was modesty or a threat. All he could do was silently take the pistol, then study it with great care.

“That mayor is inside. There are Xenospecies with him too. We need to move fast. Once he writes out that list, it’ll be too late,” Su Lifeng said.

The building had long since been emptied. The moment Su Lifeng led Gouzi inside, they saw two corpses in the stairwell. Other than that, the entire building was deathly silent.

“In the Precognitive Vision, the bureau chief saw the mayor writing down the list. But from the environment outside just now, there obviously wasn’t anywhere for him to write… Right, he took out a pen, but where did the paper come from?” Su Lifeng pinched the bridge of his nose as he tried to recall. The Precognitive Vision was not always continuous. Sometimes it was made up of a few scattered fragments. Figuring out the most useful information from those fragments had become one of Su Lifeng’s most important skills over the years.

“Right! The desk. He grabbed it from the desk…” Su Lifeng raised his head and said to Gouzi, “Hurry and find the floor directory. See which floor the offices are on.”

After this area had been sealed off, the power had also been cut. That meant if Zhang Huazhu and the others wanted to go upstairs, they could only use the stairwell.

But Su Lifeng had no intention of taking the stairs directly. After telling Gouzi to stay below, listen carefully for movement, and keep watch, he went back outside the building and spread his Bone Wings.

Clang!

The two sharp Bone Wings pierced into the wall. Then, with a flap of the slightly larger pair above them, Su Lifeng felt a faint lift.

Relying on the brief suspension provided by the larger Bone Wings, the two sharp Bone Wings immediately pulled free and stabbed into a higher point.

The process sounded rather troublesome, but from Gouzi’s perspective, Su Lifeng looked like a mass of red light scrambling rapidly up the wall.

“Holy crap…” Gouzi looked up with an expression of disbelief.

When Su Lifeng said he could move as if on level ground while carrying a load of two hundred jin, he really had not been joking…

A dozen seconds later, Su Lifeng had reached the window of an office.

He carefully peered inside and spotted the mayor at once.

“What do we do? Can you people get me out or not?” the mayor asked, facing a female Xenospecies.

Aside from the female Xenospecies, there were four other Xenospecies in the room. Through the door that had been left ajar, several vague figures could also be seen.

“The Xenospecies really are going all out for this list.” The fire in Su Lifeng’s chest surged up again.

Killing all these Xenospecies in a short amount of time would probably be impossible, especially that female Xenospecies. She had to be at least F-class.

Although Su Lifeng had advanced to E-class, that only meant he was capable of killing them. It did not guarantee he could do it efficiently.

Once he got tied down here, Zhang Huazhu would definitely be long gone.

He was a Mutant too. If he really started running in a “battlefield” like this, Su Lifeng might not be able to throw everything aside and chase him down.

“I have to kill him first!” Su Lifeng had never loathed a person this much. In his eyes, Zhang Huazhu was even more despicable than the scum who took pleasure in torturing people to death. Perhaps, at their core, they were the same kind of person, but Zhang Huazhu, with his power and position, was unquestionably far more dangerous.

A man like him could use every resource in his hands without the slightest hesitation, trading it all for whatever benefited him. Leaving someone like that alive would be a disaster.

“The government has clearly put a lot into this, but they may not actually be able to catch this mayor. He’s taken full advantage of the Xenospecies as his lifeline.” Su Lifeng thought to himself, then gritted his teeth. “But I’ll make you understand that any rope can snap. It just depends on whether someone comes along to cut it…”

“Fine, fine. Since you’ve put it that way, I’ll write it for you…” Inside the room, Zhang Huazhu had already taken a pen from his pocket and was reaching for a sheet of paper.

Just then, the female Xenospecies’s pupils suddenly contracted. She turned toward the window. “Careful!”

Bang!

The instant the glass shattered, Su Lifeng had already charged inside.

In his eyes, there was only Zhang Huazhu!

The moment Zhang Huazhu heard the noise, his scalp prickled violently.

After transforming into a Mutant, he had become far more sensitive to this sudden, fatal danger. Along with the spray of glass, it abruptly came crashing down over his head.

Almost without hesitation, Zhang Huazhu spun around and fled for the door.

The female Xenospecies and the other Xenospecies in the room all lunged at Su Lifeng, trying to stop him.

The tendrils on the female Xenospecies’s face swept toward him, and she opened her mouth, spraying a large cloud of gray powder at him.

Su Lifeng’s eyes immediately stung, but he kept them wide open, still locked onto Zhang Huazhu.

At the same time, the female Xenospecies’s main body threw itself in front of him. Su Lifeng’s Bone Wings flicked, slicing away a large number of her tendrils in one stroke.

But some of the tendrils still stabbed into his body, and Su Lifeng instantly felt his body go numb.

Even so, he did not stop. He did not even spare a hand to counterattack.

“Get lost!” Su Lifeng reached out, grabbing for the back of Zhang Huazhu’s collar.

Three meters, two meters… Zhang Huazhu sprinted like mad. He heard the crackling and snapping behind him and felt shards of glass still pelting his body.

He could not tell how much time had passed since that shadow descended, but he knew one thing: as long as he could get through that door, he would live.

But just as he reached out for the doorknob, and the Xenospecies outside began rushing this way, a burst of agony suddenly tore through his back.

Zhang Huazhu was slammed hard into the door. He was not dead yet. He swung his arm back, trying to use the pen to win himself the slightest chance of survival.

But in the next instant, he felt the hand holding the pen get severed amid a flare of pain…

“Don’t. I’m Zhang Huazhu. Whatever you want, I can help you…” Zhang Huazhu trembled in despair as he spoke.

But a voice that chilled him to the bone rang out immediately after. “Don’t talk to me, scum.”

Slash, slash, slash!

Su Lifeng followed through on his words. He dissected Zhang Huazhu alive.

With scalpels in both hands, plus two pairs of Bone Wings, Su Lifeng turned Zhang Huazhu’s entire back into a skeleton in just one short second.

Thanks to a Mutant’s self-healing ability, Zhang Huazhu did not even die immediately. Not until Su Lifeng kicked him from behind and snapped his spine.

He even heard a crisp crack as he flew out together with the door.

As he watched those Xenospecies reach out toward him, one final burst of rage flashed through Zhang Huazhu’s mind. I never should have trusted these monsters…