"Don't move." He Ao glanced at his slightly trembling body. The hand gripping his neck tightened slightly, producing a creak of deforming metal. "I can snap your neck faster than you can move."
Hearing He Ao's words, Koro fell silent for a moment. His trembling body gradually stilled. He looked at He Ao and slowly said, "Have we met before? You said I tried to kill you? Didn't you suddenly break into the building and cause trouble for our gang?"
"Take another look." He Ao watched him calmly. "I wanted to ask you the same thing. We had never met. Why did you arrange for people to kill me?"
Koro lowered his gaze and stared at He Ao's face. After a brief pause, he opened his mouth hoarsely. "You're Loren?"
He looked down at the hand around his neck. That hand was unimaginably strong, like a massive hydraulic clamp crushing his throat.
His entire body had been lifted and pinned against the wall. He had a Full Body Prosthetic, with a total weight exceeding three hundred kilograms.
After recognizing He Ao, he recalled the boxing match "report" submitted last night. "Aren't you a high school student? You became a superhuman?"
Facing his question, He Ao sighed softly and did not answer. Instead, the hand around Koro's neck slowly tightened.
The nutrient tubes supplying his brain constricted. Koro's pupils instantly turned red, filling with countless warning windows.
"I'll talk, I'll talk!" he immediately shouted. "The boss ordered me to do it. I don't know you, and I have no grudge against you. I only passed on the boss's orders."
The boss's order had been to beat Loren to death in the arena at the abandoned Factory Building.
He really had only passed along an order, though he had added a few