Chapter 289
Setini Palace.
Looking at the magnified screen in front of them, the people who had been forced to travel from afar immediately realized that they were being live-streamed.
Based on past experience, they would immediately adjust to their best state when facing the live broadcast camera. Now, however, they were powerless to do so and were embarrassed to keep an eye on Qin Su's expression. Since Qin Su did not speak, they dared not make any rash moves.
Qin Su pulled out the silver metal plate from under the table where the weapon was kept, and under everyone's anxious gaze, he replaced it with a small, exquisite weapon with gold as the main color, and threw it towards Kanasen beside him without even looking.
Kanasen instinctively reached out and caught it steadily, holding it in front of his eyes. His eyes cautiously glanced in Qin Su's direction, while Kanasen was too powerless to even give a glance to the people below who were secretly winking at him, wanting to practice with him and take down Qin Su. Several places on his body, though healed, still ached faintly, constantly reminding him that he didn't want to endure the repeated pain of being pierced and torn in certain parts of his body again. He'd better not move.
"..."
Are they in the same boat?
'You guessed right, Kanasen really is Qin Su's dog.'
'What's Kanasen doing? He's already got the weapons, why isn't he willing to take a gamble?'
Kanasen was as obedient as a puppet in front of Qin Su, prompting various speculations in everyone's minds.
As usual, Qin Su chose a black weapon, whose lethality and killing method were significantly different from the one in Kanasen's hand.
He wanted to pin the blame on Kanasen, making the world believe that Kanasen was behind it all, but also to make it clear through these distinctions that he was involved, even though there was no clear evidence to prove it.
Then, Qin Su looked up at the group of people in front of him, the dark muzzle of a gun pointed at one of them.
The man shuddered, then saw two words written on another page opened on Kanasen 'Optical Brain. His eyes lingered on Qin Su's cold gaze and the words for a second before he instantly understood, his voice urgent. "Yes!"
What is it?
[Their voice sounded very excited]
[It's more accurate to say they're very energetic]
[Our assessment was too harsh for them, but... they deserved it.]
The beginning was perfect, Qin Su was encouraged. He turned his gun to the next line and continued to switch lines.
"As you can see," the second person, having learned from the first's experience, spoke without hesitation.
"We've been kidnapped."
"It was Kanasen who kidnapped us."
"..."
Kanasen's heart, which had been pounding with anxiety, was now truly dead.
[What a self-destructive move! Who can tolerate this? @All Planets]
[If it were someone else who was kidnapped, I wouldn't want everyone to tolerate it. But it's them... maybe we should all just bear with it. It's really unnecessary. Why rescue them? Haven't they suffered enough already? I don't know about others, but of the seven kidnapped from our Saoma Planet, six were members of the Ten Gods Island. The Ten Gods Island initiation ceremony involves cooking for the Ten Gods Island's higher-ups—it's unbearable for both humans and animals (vomiting)]
[How could anyone believe this? We don't believe it either, let alone a group of important people who have seen far more of the world than we do. It's too fake.]
[Check their ages and compare them to their youthful faces now. While technology can maintain their youthful appearance, it can't stop physical decline. Those in high positions of power enjoy every day; who would willingly disappear from this world? Their desire for life and youth far surpasses that of us poor folks. The more vibrant the life, the more it attracts their attention. Some people exploit their mentality, promoting nonsense about how eating certain foods can replenish certain things, making them believe that it's strange for others' lives to extend into their own. Normal people like us would feel fear and disgust, but what haven't they seen and experienced? In some ways, their threshold is more terrifying than ours. Their madness is beyond our comprehension; we shouldn't try to understand the devil's mind.]
[Kidnapping someone and being so arrogant is unheard of. Is Kanasen terminally ill and trying to drag the entire empire down with him? Is that why he pulled this stunt?]
[This is a reasonable guess; everyone knows Kanasen went mad in his pursuit of immortality.]
You guys are so naive.
With the relatively easy targets' perfect opening remarks concluded, Qin Su turned his gun on one of the notoriously tough guys in the group and continued switching the teleprompter content.
'Save us'
Gailuosen stared at the four words and Qin Su's gun pointed at him, his jaw clenching tightly. Privately, he could tolerate the small-scale dissemination, but to be asked for help in front of so many people—to beg for help from others? To have a group of lowly people, who would never have even seen him before, witness him in such a pathetic state, and for it to be saved and circulated online—how could he possibly accept this...?
This was a deliberately targeted and carefully chosen group. Qin Su only silently thought about it for a second before a ray of light pierced through the crowd.
Everyone else is a hostage; even he has to read his lines, so why shouldn't Gailuosen?
Whoosh--
Short, subtle sounds are amplified many times over in an excessively quiet environment.
Bang!
Gailuosen's gaze at Qin Su was still filled with resentment and bitterness. The area above his neck exploded in a spray-like manner the moment the light entered.
Thump!
The next instant, Gailuosen lost control of his body from the neck down and collapsed to the ground.
"!"
Kanasen's hands, which were holding the weapon, trembled.
The others didn't look too good either, especially those who had been splattered with Gailuosen's brains. It wasn't that they were frightened by the bloody scene, but Qin Su been perfectly fine until now, and no one expected him to suddenly make a move. His expression before the attack was exactly the same as before, and this unpredictable mental state made their hearts pound.
Outside the scene, in the various meeting rooms, others noticed that among the people who came out of Class 6), some saw a high-definition image of Gailuosen's head suddenly exploding, with obvious bits of flesh and blood splattered on the faces and bodies of the people around him. They showed the same look of surprise as the others around Gailuosen at the scene, and instantly realized that even though Qin Su had told Class 6) some information in advance, that information did not include the fact that the person would be dealt with on the spot, and that the person who dealt with him was a member of the Federation.
[Holy crap, that scared me to death! I can't look anymore!]
[Is the system really that big? I'm starting to miss the automatic Moderation Bot on StarNet.]
[High-energy content ahead, and possibly more ahead as well. Please watch with caution!]
[The scary thing is that none of them have been blocked... This really touches on a blind spot in my experience... Wait a minute, I think a similar situation has happened before (referring specifically to the inability of StarNet to control this). Have I been clear enough, everyone?]
[That man, right? At first I was just guessing, but now I can't help but think about it more.]
[Speaking of which, Kanasen himself hasn't even appeared on screen yet, so how can we be sure the Optical Brain belongs to Kanasen, and that the person who fired the shot was definitely Kanasen?]
No wonder there were so many familiar-looking malignant tumors around; the case is solved now.
[Can I assume that even if there are unfamiliar faces in this group, or even those who receive widespread praise online, they are essentially all the worst of the worst?]
[I laughed. They're really giving that guy a hard time. What if he sneaks in a bunch of innocent people with his own agenda and kills them all?]
Seeing the natives of the Comic World in the live stream comments connect it to themselves, those people who are all like hornets in a hornet's nest could only think of more. Qin Su didn't give anyone time to react and pointed his gun at the person next to Greyliff.
"Help us!"
The words that Gailuosen hesitated to utter before dying were shouted out loud by someone.
The sudden sound made Greyliff's eardrums ache, and he frowned, suspecting that Qin Su had done it on purpose. But soon, his brows relaxed.
If I could just die from this misplaced anger, that would be...
Before the thought had even finished forming in his mind, Greyliff saw Qin Su quickly move the gun away and aim it at someone far away from him.
"..."
The constant fear of the guillotine hanging over his head for years, never knowing when it would fall, kept him on edge. He even attempted suicide during a mental breakdown, only to discover that he didn't even have the freedom to control his own death. Now that Gaba had simply died at Qin Su's hands, it was a relief for him. He didn't believe Qin Su didn't know what he was craving; his actions were clearly a deliberate attempt to fool him!
As Greyliff mentally cursed Qin Su's ancestors for 108 generations, he heard a voice from a distance behind him, still trembling with fear of Qin Su.
"During this time, Kanasen subjected us to inhumane treatment..."
With Gailuosen's experience as a precedent, most people cooperated actively, but there were still a few stubborn individuals like Greyliff. Qin Su deliberately avoided choosing them and instead targeted the group of people who "bully the weak and fear the strong" for his 'speech'.
A minute into the 'speech,' just when everyone thought things would pass peacefully thanks to their cooperation, Qin Su suddenly pointed his weapon at Kanasen before Preske could finish reading.
Kanasen's eyelids twitched, and he reacted quickly, immediately gripping the golden gun in his hands and aiming it at Preske's head to fire.
Bang!
Preske fell to the ground with his mouth slightly open.
The wounds caused by the micro- Particle Bullets were not as powerful as the pulse bullets fired by Qin Su's weapon. They were insufficient to cause the attacked part to explode instantly after penetrating the target's body. Moreover, Kanasen was under great tension and missed. The Particle Bullet only grazed the area next to Preske's left eyeball, taking away a quarter of the area around his head.
Those who had thought they could survive as long as they cooperated with Qin Su suddenly felt a chill run down their spines and a sense of fear arose when they saw the yellow, white and red mixture splashing out from the gaping hole in Preske. They were also terrified by Qin Su's unpredictable movements.
That's it, there's a very high chance they won't make it out of here alive.
Kanasen didn't care about the condition of the person under his gun. After finishing the shot, he looked at Qin Su with trepidation. Seeing Qin Su casually throw the weapon that was pointed at him on the table, he swallowed hard, his throat dry, and let out a long sigh of relief.
Very well, he has survived Qin Su's clutches once again.
Thanks to the suffering he endured in the past, no one knows better than him how to read Qin Su's mood. As long as it's not him who dies, it doesn't matter who it is.