Chapter 82 – I’m Really Not Trying to Scare You

“Su Lifeng, oh, Su Lifeng… If there’s something wrong with you, then Jiang Yushi and the others are probably the same, aren’t they? But why? Why can something like you get this power more easily than I can, when I have to keep fighting for it?” Zhu Hao slammed the accelerator to the floor. With a sharp screech, the car shot forward.

Su Lifeng had only shown a flicker of surprise when he saw Zhu Hao. The next instant, his gaze caught Fang Li in the passenger seat.

He understood at once…

Whoosh!

The instant the Bone Wings appeared behind Su Lifeng, Zhu Hao’s chest tightened. He felt like he was going insane with jealousy.

“What a beautiful power…” For a split second, Zhu Hao was even certain that a look of regret had crossed his face, but at the same time, he felt a vicious thrill. Such a wonderful power would soon be destroyed by his own hands… No matter how fast Su Lifeng was, he couldn’t keep up with a car, could he?

But in the next moment, Zhu Hao’s heart nearly leaped out of his chest.

Su Lifeng really couldn’t catch up, but he suddenly leaned back and hurled his military spike with all his strength.

When he had left the laboratory, he had armed himself to the teeth again. Back then, it had only been out of caution. He hadn’t expected it to actually come in handy…

Bang!

Zhu Hao saw a speck of gray light suddenly appear ahead of him. Almost on instinct, he ducked his head and spun the steering wheel like mad.

With the tires letting out an ear-piercing screech, the entire car slammed into the concrete guardrail at the roadside.

The car shuddered. Zhu Hao lifted his head and found the military spike embedded straight in the windshield.

Fang Li had fought with all her might and hadn’t even been able to break the car window. Yet with one distant throw, Su Lifeng had actually pierced a hole in the windshield.

Still, it hadn’t gone all the way through… That made Zhu Hao feel as if it had only been a false alarm, and a cold smile immediately tugged at the corner of his mouth.

But right after that, he saw a Shadowy Figure flash in front of him. Su Lifeng had already leaped onto the hood!

“Too fast!” Zhu Hao’s pupils contracted. Had that only been one or two seconds?

Su Lifeng had never expected to kill him outright with a single throw of the military spike. The moment he threw it, he felt the wound in his abdomen tear open.

Warm liquid spread through his clothes, but Su Lifeng didn’t even glance down.

The instant Zhu Hao lowered his head, Su Lifeng charged after him.

Full strength!

Full speed!

“I won’t let you leave here alive today.” Through the windshield, Su Lifeng gave the Bone Wings behind him a flap and stared coldly at Zhu Hao, who was looking back at him in a daze.

Although the Bone Wings still couldn’t fly, they reduced his air resistance, faintly pushing his speed to another breakthrough. The stinging pain across his skin and the aching in his legs from sprinting at full force should also be resolved once tonight’s gains were fully digested.

Zhu Hao’s throat bobbed. A savage glint suddenly flashed through his eyes. He stomped on the accelerator and shouted, “I’ll run you over!”

Bang! Su Lifeng had already raised his fist. As the Exoskeleton surfaced, he smashed his fist down hard.

The Exoskeleton instantly shattered, turning into countless specks of white bone powder. Blood seeped out through Su Lifeng’s knuckles, staining the glass red.

Crack…

When the first tiny fissure appeared in that smear of blood and rapidly spread outward along with it, Zhu Hao felt as if all that remained in his vision was a field of red.

“Ah!”

He could no longer control the fear inside him and slammed the accelerator down.

At that same moment, Su Lifeng yanked out the military spike and drove it viciously through the cracks he had smashed open.

Boom!

Amid the spray of shattered glass, Su Lifeng’s entire body lunged into the car. In Zhu Hao’s widening pupils, the military spike in his hand plunged into Zhu Hao’s shoulder.

The car only reversed a few meters before losing control again, crashing into the guardrail and coming to a stop.

Zhu Hao stared blankly at Su Lifeng before him. Su Lifeng was standing on the steering wheel, and those blood-colored Bone Wings were so close to him.

Shards of glass had cut through Su Lifeng’s clothes and sliced his cheeks, but the tiny wounds on his face stopped bleeding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His white coat was still billowing outward with the wind, and Zhu Hao suddenly felt a deep, biting sense of irony.

“In his eyes, I’m no different from a lab rat right now, am I…?”

Su Lifeng did not loosen his grip on the military spike. Looking at Zhu Hao, who had fallen into instant despair, he asked, “What is your relationship with Ren Xiaoying?”

Zhu Hao’s already unfocused eyes suddenly regained a trace of clarity. “You… know her…” He did not phrase it as a question. Who knew what he had associated that with, or what he was guessing at in that moment.

Su Lifeng had no time to care what he was thinking. He frowned and asked again, “Did she find you, or did you find her? With so many people working with her, what did she promise you? You should know she isn’t the same kind of creature as us, right?”

“What? Are you trying to say I… cough, cough… betrayed humanity?” Zhu Hao glanced at him, then suddenly laughed. “I didn’t betray humanity. Everything I did was in accordance with the rules of human behavior. To climb higher, you stop at nothing. Humans have always been… cough, cough… creatures that love killing each other…”

Su Lifeng listened in silence until he finished, then said two words: “How pathetic.”

“Hahaha… Why are you acting so serious? You talk like you’re human yourself… Haha, cough, cough…” Zhu Hao’s face grew even paler.

“I’ll ask you one last time. How did she get in touch with you people, and where? Do you have some dedicated way to contact her? You know what I do, so you should know I have a hundred ways to let you experience what true agony is before you die. And not for a few dozen minutes or a few hours. In your current condition, I can keep you alive for at least a week,” Su Lifeng said without the slightest emotion. If this had been before, he would not have been able to say such things even as a threat. But after the battles in the warehouse and the conference room, Su Lifeng really was capable of doing it now, especially when the target was scum like Zhu Hao…

Zhu Hao seemed to realize that Su Lifeng was not trying to scare him. He froze for a while, then smiled miserably and spoke. “I ran into her at a nightclub. She seemed to go there every day. She would go to other places too, but she usually got to know people at that nightclub. Qin Moyun was someone she met there, then followed to another nightclub. I didn’t expect her to take a liking to Qin Moyun at the time, but there were plenty of people she took a liking to… The way I contacted her was by providing her with food, then leaving a note at the pickup spot. The food was people. I drove a luxury car, picked up a girl outside those bars, knocked her out, stuffed her into a sack, and delivered her back. The place was…”

The more Su Lifeng listened, the deeper his frown became. Perhaps Zhu Hao had given up on himself, or perhaps he was venting in some twisted way, but he nearly confessed every filthy thing he had done.

“I’ve told you everything. Well? Do you feel especially righteous now? But don’t forget, you’re not human anymore either. If other people knew what the hell you were, they’d still like me a little more… Hahaha…” Zhu Hao struggled to raise his hand, wanting to flip Su Lifeng off.

But in the next instant, the sole of a foot came down directly on his face, crushing that finger along with it.

Crack!

Listening to the sound of bone shattering, watching Zhu Hao’s body convulse violently once before slowly going still, Su Lifeng withdrew his leg and said in a low voice, “Dumbass.”

Zhu Hao’s eyes were wide open, his nose covered in blood. As the military spike was pulled from his shoulder, fresh blood quickly stained his entire body red…

Su Lifeng turned his head and looked at Fang Li off to the side. “Was she killed?”