Editor: Junyans
Two cars collided heavily and the customized silver-gray car careened off the road, crashing into the enormous bas-relief that read “Purgatory.”
Under the impact, the reinforced stones cracked open with spider web-like patterns. Dust scattered and stone chips carved with suffering souls flew everywhere.
Half of the custom-made car’s front was completely crushed. The driver reacted promptly, quickly switching the engine to anti-gravity mode in an attempt to pull the car out of the stone wall.
Bai Jingan forcefully turned the steering wheel and rammed into it again from the side.
With precision, it hit the anti-gravity engine.
Ge Pei’s car flew sideways, crashing into a large expanse of delicate pink flowers.
At the same time, Xia Tian grabbed the makeshift rocket launcher on hand and fired at the unprepared car.
Flames instantly burst open in the luxury car and the elegant flower bed filled with a vast expanse of light pink and white cyclamen. In the words of their former teammate, Doctor Xu, the blooming of flowers in this season was simply ridiculous. But in the Upper City, flowers bloomed regardless of the season; it was just a crazy and lavish display.
Bai Jingan’s car drew a graceful arc before coming to a stable stop. Without even looking at the following escort car, Xia Tian raised his hand and fired another shot at the burning vehicle.
At the same moment, Bai Jingan turned his head, aimed, and shot at the following escort car that was approaching with a revealed gun barrel.
Two shots. They pierced through the glass, killing the driver.
The car crashed into the shrubs, and someone rushed out from the car. Bai Jingan shot him down with one bullet.
He then fired three more shots towards the second escort car that was charging forward.
The wasteland with a rustic charm was instantly filled with smoke.
Xia Tian pulled the trigger again, but the rocket launcher showed no response. He looked down and saw the screen displaying a blank.
At that moment, he realized what this was.
This was the so-called Silencer. It was a large-caliber weapon interference device mentioned in the intel provided by Minkov Jr. It could make any firearm equipped with high firepower insurance fail to explode, effective within 500 meters. Even projectiles fired from beyond 500 meters won’t explode. It essentially prevented all heavy firepower attacks.
Xia Tian had managed to fire two shots, which was already a good result. The person who turned on this device was apparently not very clever; if he were faster, Xia Tian wouldn’t have managed a single shot.
He tossed aside the rocket launcher, opened the car door, and made his way toward Ge Pei’s car.
High-end weapons these days were becoming increasingly miraculous, as if they were not made by humans, but by gods.
But no, he thought with a stern face, it’s simply the outcome of technological progress.
As Xia Tian strode toward Ge Pei’s car, the Doomsday Beast took shape in his hand transformed into a pitch-black gun, which was currently the largest caliber that could be unlocked.
He continuously fired into the flames ahead.
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The moment he got closer, Xia Tian felt a chill, as if something terrible was staring at him from the darkness. Behind the empty car window, he felt extreme hunger—
He suddenly leaned to the side to dodge.
A white light shot out rapidly from the darkness of the driver’s seat, shaped like a crumpled lightning bolt, and charged towards him with a hair-raising electric crackling sound.
At that moment, it looked like it would graze his hair, fly past his left shoulder, and hit the flowers behind him.
However, that didn’t happen, and instead the white light suddenly expanded into an electric net.
A corner of the net slammed into Xia Tian’s left shoulder fiercely.
At that moment, he felt as if half of his body had been struck by lightning. Intense pain burst forth, as if an electrified giant hand had reached into his body and stirred violently.
Everything before him turned snow white in an instant. Xia Tian staggered and fell to the ground. He felt a burnt taste in his mouth, as if his insides had been roasted.
Behind him, the electrified particles collided with the flowers, emitting a sizzling pop sound. Then the plants caught fire.
During the moment he fell, Xia Tian pulled the trigger.
In the instant the net struck, he knew there was no escaping. The thing spread out to three meters; no one could avoid it at such a close range.
He calmly awaited and endured the intense pain about to be inflicted upon him. His mind was clear, and his hands steady. He couldn’t see the gunman, but he could judge the attacker’s position from the direction of the assault. He could also deduce that if this person intended to attack him, he could not possibly be within Ge Pei’s defensive field—of course, Ge Pei would have a defensive field.
Regardless of who the driver was, he was skilled, but in the hunting grounds, their confrontation would be a matter of moments.
After the bullet was fired, he heard the sound of a skull fracturing.
It was either you die, or I perish.
Xia Tian stared fiercely ahead. The charred luxury car stood quietly, and a kind of devouring pain, accompanied by numbness, spread from his left shoulder inward to his entire body.
Perhaps due to the electric current, his vision was filled with the color of blood. The sky hung like a huge black hole above, as if attempting to swallow the entire world.
He struggled to stand up.
The sky became increasingly overcast. The enormous advertising light of Heavenly Taste Restaurant to the west cast a red glow on the clouds, making the firmament appear murky and bloody.
At that moment, the car door swung open, and the hotshot stepped out.
The pink flower bed was now a mess, with small fires still burning at the edges. Clad in clothing that had a hint of hunting style, he walked on the charred ground with his brown leather boots. His clothes were adorned with intricate and extremely complex embroidery at the edges, representing countless club memberships, hunting achievements, event participations, and medal awards.
Even after what just happened, his hairstyle remained untouched, and his personal defense field enveloped him like a submissive servant. The burning fuel on the car’s surface couldn’t harm the person inside. Occasionally, a stray bullet passed by, but was swiftly repelled by the serpent-like gathering of electric light.
Without paying attention to the chaotic battlefield, he glanced in the direction of Bai Jingan and then turned to look at Xia Tian.
“I knew you could always stir up trouble,” he said to Xia Tian.
He didn’t mention the deceased driver; that matter wasn’t worth mentioning.
Ge Pei, a high-ranking member of the “Realism” Club, the owner of the “Safe World” Security Company, a major shareholder of the Floating Gold Group, and one of the members of the truly powerful families in the Upper City.
He gently stroked a dark red embroidery on his cuff and, with a creepy smile, said to Xia Tian, “We’re preparing to invite both of you to participate in the ‘internal programs’ of the club, to witness some… interesting things.”
He looked at Xia Tian, his eyes resembling bottomless voids.
“We’ve all thought it through,” he said, “Do you know what we’ll do with you?”
His smile grew larger, as if he had thought of something particularly amusing.
“You’ll find out immediately,” he said.
Meanwhile, the ground beneath their feet slightly trembled, as if an earthquake had occurred under his light words.
But the Upper City didn’t experience earthquakes; here, there was only capital and technology.
Above the wasteland, numerous flowers trembled and swayed, and at the same time, a massive elevator rose from the ground like a colossal beast.
Beneath this scenic wilderness was a solid and gigantic complex—the headquarters of the Purgatory Soup Club.
For centuries, the Purgatory Soup Club has operated smoothly, seamlessly incorporating all struggles and destruction into the corresponding passageways, rooms, and folders, earning a good reputation among the elites of the Upper City.
As one of the entrances to the headquarters, the main elevator in the Stratus Cloud District, along with their top-notch hunting team, were situated below the wasteland—of course, there had to be a hunting team to keep things clean. They tidied up the debris, cleaned up the scene, and didn’t let any prey escape.
The moment the ground shook, Xia Tian discovered it.
He was still unsteady on his feet, but he turned to look at the rising giant. Ge Pei looked at him with a smile.
Just at that moment, the prey that had entered the trap rushed to the trembling spot in a single stride, knelt on one knee, and the gun in his hand instantly transformed into a knife, which he deeply inserted into the crevice of the elevator.
At the moment of insertion, the slender knife instantly turned into a long sniper and completely embedded itself in the crevice. The elevator swayed a few times, and then jammed, unable to lift for a while.
This thing was undoubtedly high-end, but the Doomsday Beast was also a top-notch product, made of nanostructures, which could forcibly deform conventional alloys.
Ge Pei raised an eyebrow. How long can this hold? he thought, seems hopeless—
He suddenly turned his head and saw a black car accelerating, rushing towards him.
Ge Pei didn’t react, but the defense net did.
As the car approached within ten centimeters, the defense net suddenly went to its maximum strength.
It was Xia Tian’s car that crashed into him, with a powerful impact that completely smashed the entire front of the car. This thing was basically a tank. With such a collision, its force couldn’t be compared to a mere gun or even a rocket launcher.
But even so, it still stopped abruptly five centimeters away from Ge Pei.
The brilliant blue light in Ge Pei’s view was dazzling, and an array of electric flashes swirled in front of him like frenetic serpents, accompanied by piercing electric hiss.
At the same moment, countless numbers were flashing madly at the corners of his field of vision. Before he could see, the car suddenly exploded.
A tremendously powerful impact, accompanied by flames, burst open before his eyes, turning his field of vision into a blazing white. The fire aggressively expanded its body, as if wanting to devour everything.
This wasn’t some high-end branded bomb. It was handmade, but the craftsmanship was first-class, and it was a precisely directed explosion.
Ge Pei vaguely thought, Bai Jingan isn’t in the car. Where did he go?
The warning of the defense value decreasing flashed frantically in his field of vision. If he were an engineer, he might have realized the staggering impact equivalent. However, Ge Pei, at the center of it all, didn’t even feel a trace of the explosive heat.
Everything remained the same; it was just a rather interesting and exciting hunt, and there was no better season for hunting than this.
Ge Pei no longer paid attention to the flames and the impact, turning his head to look at Xia Tian.
His prey stood among the rainbow pink flowers, also looking at him.
He had always liked Xia Tian. There was always a fire burning inside him, carrying immense anger and despair that were hard to handle. But at this moment, he realized that he also had a pair of calm eyes, the eyes of a battle-hardened warrior.
Xia Tian was looking at him as if observing prey.
Ge Pei took a breath.
He wasn’t sure what he felt at this moment; he was offended. Should he feel excited or angry? He could only habitually sense a certain cruel desire.
Xia Tian reached for another gun, a musket with no offensive power, but his hand slipped. He was still trembling, and Ge Pei was sure that he wasn’t as resilient as he appeared and was trying his best to stay on his feet.
The only reason he could stand was that the “Beast Capturing Net” only grazed his shoulder. But within a few minutes, nanobots would invade his bloodstream and rapidly reproduce inside him until they could fully control his actions.
Xia Tian fired at him, but the defense force field blocked the bullet. Ge Pei casually reached for the terminal.
Smiling, he opened the “Beast Tamer” folder and found the program for the “Beast Capturing Net,” under which the icon for the punishment function was dripping with blood.
He didn’t look at the exploding flames or the icon; he just stared at Xia Tian intently.
“I just love how you keep on going,” he said.
Then he gently pressed the button.
Ge Pei took a deep breath as he watched the young God of War fall to the ground. He could no longer hold the gun properly, and immense pain had completely seized him. Ge Pei saw his muscles tensing up and his slender fingers clenching into the soil.
He couldn’t hear it under the explosion, but Ge Pei felt as if he heard moans and pleas, a low and hoarse voice helplessly whimpering under extreme pain.
It took him a while to exhale, as if he had just inhaled some powerful hallucinogenic scent from the air, making his soul feel satiated.
He slowly walked towards Xia Tian.
Despite the intense pain, the man still stared at him while groping for his gun.
He had a pair of eyes like a trapped beast, where blood and pain only sparked ferocity and anger. It was like the darkness outside the light of the Upper City’s civilization, bottomless and multiplying bloodily, eager to destroy everything.
Ge Pei liked it so much that his body trembled a little.
