Repaying Kindness with Enmity

Seeing that it was about time, the killer boss stopped trying to draw Jiang Yiming's attention, left his position, and ran into the stairwell.

There were only three flights between the second and fifth floors. The boss ran fast and reached the fifth-floor exit in less than half a minute.

"What's the situation? Have you confirmed the target's location?"

The boss spoke quietly into the headset clipped to his collar.

But not one of his five subordinates answered.

"Have you confirmed the target's location? Respond if you read me!" he asked quietly again.

This time he got an answer, but the voice that came through his earpiece was unfamiliar.

"The target's location has been confirmed. He's right behind you." It was Jiang Yiming's voice.

"Bullshit!"

No sooner had he finished shouting under his breath than he sensed something was wrong.

That voice didn't belong to any of his subordinates!

Realizing that the situation had changed, his first thought was to retreat.

None of my five men answered me. They've very likely all been killed!

He actually dealt with five well-trained killers in an instant. With strength like that, he's beyond me.

Only those guys in Group Two can handle this kid!

After a moment's thought, he decisively turned and ran.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw a pair of enormous, glowing green eyes staring fixedly at him from the pitch-black stairwell!

As their eyes met, the boss quickly drew his gun and tried to pull the trigger. But the eyes moved far too quickly. In the blink of an eye, they vanished from where they had been and appeared right in front of him.

Only then did he see clearly that behind those eyes was a snake's head several times bigger than his own, with a single horn half a meter long growing from it!

The boss had never seen a snake's head so large. He panicked, and his trembling finger couldn't pull the trigger!

The giant snake gave him no chance. It lunged straight at him and coiled tightly around him.

Jiang Yiming reached the stairwell entrance just then and said with a smile, "I told you I was behind you, but you just wouldn't believe me."

"You... you can control snakes!" The boss was panic-stricken, with not a trace of his composure left.

Jiang Yiming ignored him, walked over, and knocked the gun from his hand. Smiling, he said, "I took care of all five of your men while you were coming upstairs. Do you know why I didn't kill you?"

Coiled in the Single-Horned Wandering Snake's grip, the boss could barely catch his breath as he spoke. "You just... want to know who's... pulling the strings. Chrysanthemum Hall's rules... never reveal an employer's information. Don't waste your time. If you... let me go, I'll go back and intercede for you. Maybe... you can stay alive. If you dare kill me, Chrysanthemum Hall... will never let you off. They'll hunt you to the ends of the earth!"

He could hardly breathe, but in order to stay alive, the boss kept babbling.

"With strength like yours, you think you can hunt me down? This Chrysanthemum Hall you speak of doesn't seem like much of an organization."

"Chrysanthemum Hall ranks second... among all killer organizations! How dare you... look down on our Chrysanthemum Hall! I'll tell you the truth: we're... just small fry. Chrysanthemum Hall's... real experts are all in Groups One and Two. Any... one of them could crush you!"

The second-ranked killer organization? Groups One and Two are that strong?

Jiang Yiming had spared him precisely because he wanted to learn about Chrysanthemum Hall.

Now that he knew something about Chrysanthemum Hall, the boss in front of him was no longer of any use.

With a thought from Jiang Yiming, the Single-Horned Wandering Snake slowly tightened its coils.

Crack!

The sound of breaking ribs was especially piercing in the quiet stairwell.

The boss wanted to scream from the pain, but with his chest compressed, he couldn't make a sound.

Jiang Yiming wasn't stupid. He had already killed several people, and Chrysanthemum Hall certainly wouldn't let him off. Sparing this man wouldn't stop Chrysanthemum Hall from hunting him down. In that case, he might as well kill him and be done with it.

The giant snake's strength was terrifying. In just two more seconds, every bone in the boss's body would be crushed.

But just then, an ice arrow shot out of the darkness, aimed straight at the Single-Horned Wandering Snake's eye.

The moment Jiang Yiming saw the ice arrow, he knew she had come.

"Return!"

He didn't have the giant snake dodge. Instead, he immediately put it away in the Yellow Gu Lotus Platform.

The snake's enormous body vanished in an instant. The ice arrow missed, struck the wall behind it, and turned into a cluster of ice crystals.

"Ordinary people have their own laws. As a Gu Master, you must not casually harbor murderous thoughts." Yulan came up from below and stepped in front of the killer boss.

"Kill and be killed. That's the awareness a killer should have," Jiang Yiming argued.

"The rules of the Gu World forbid Gu Masters from killing ordinary people." At this, Yulan lowered her eyes and didn't look at him. "Besides, I don't want you to become more hostile because of killing."

"If I let a killer whose hands are covered in blood go, my hostility will only grow stronger."

Jiang Yiming refused to back down.

He didn't think killing a cold-blooded killer would increase his hostility.

Yulan was about to keep persuading him when the killer boss, collapsed on the ground, suddenly picked up the gun and fired several shots at her back! He then swung the muzzle around and fired several shots at Jiang Yiming.

Jiang Yiming was fine. He had been on guard and dodged them easily.

Yulan wasn't so lucky. She had her back to the killer boss and was completely unprepared. She didn't even have time to raise a Gu Essence shield.

Seeing the disturbances in the air draw closer and closer to her back, she only had time to protect her internal organs with Gu Essence and brace herself to take the shots.

Clink! Clink! Clink!

The incoming bullets made the sound of impacts, as though something had blocked them.

Yulan turned around and saw Jiang Yiming's giant snake coiled behind her, blocking every bullet.

Immediately afterward, the giant snake whipped its huge tail and smashed the killer boss into a pulp in a single blow.

Jiang Yiming had summoned his Gu insect directly from the Yellow Gu Lotus Platform.

No matter how fast the bullets were, they weren't faster than he could summon his Gu insect.

"You see? You wanted to let him go, but that didn't mean he'd let you go. Never try to plead for a cold-blooded killer." Jiang Yiming put the Single-Horned Wandering Snake away again.

"..." Yulan looked at the corpse on the ground and didn't argue.

Influenced by the thinking of the Gu World since childhood, she saw ordinary people as weaker than ants and had thought that the hearts of the weak would be as docile as sheep.

She hadn't expected that some of the weak were more venomous than snakes and scorpions!