Meng Tian flashed and appeared before Li Yang.
"Captain, don't stop me," Li Yang said in a low voice. A faint glow shone from both his hands, and two flying daggers suddenly appeared in his grasp. Streams of spiritual energy from heaven and earth continuously poured into the daggers, making streaks of light bloom across their surfaces.
Meng Tian stared straight at Li Yang and said firmly, "Li Yang, come back with me."
"Move aside, Captain. Get out of my way!" The vicious energy in Li Yang's heart began to rage. Ever since learning of Jiang Xue's death, vicious energy had taken root in his heart, and now it had grown even denser.
Suddenly, wisps of red airflow within Li Yang's mind began flowing through his entire body. At the same time, those red currents continuously circled within his mind. Li Yang's eyes instantly turned blood-red with a thirst for slaughter.
"Don't force me, Captain. Don't force me. Jiang Xue was everything to me. She's dead, so I have to kill Lin Tianyu. I have to!" Li Yang's expression became somewhat twisted.
Seeing Li Yang's blood-red, murderous eyes and savage expression, Meng Tian knew that Li Yang had changed. His nature had changed. The Li Yang who had once possessed an open and upright heart, who had lived only for the country, had changed. His heart was now filled with hatred.
"Either he dies, or I perish!" Li Yang forced out those final words through clenched teeth. He could no longer suppress the rampaging true energy within his body.
The power of love was immense, unimaginably immense. Especially for someone who did not easily give his heart—once he did, its influence surpassed all imagination. Li Yang was like that now. The power of love had begun to change his nature. Entering the path through emotion could lead one into the immortal path, but it could likewise lead one into the demonic path. With the secret aid of that Hegemon from the Demon Realm within Li Yang's mind, Li Yang had already begun to step onto the demonic path. Demonic nature had also taken root in his heart.
Meng Tian shook his head and said with unwavering eyes, "Li Yang, Lin Tianyu committed a crime. The country will certainly give you an explanation, and it will also give Jiang Xue's Household an explanation. But you cannot take the law into your own hands. You cannot pronounce judgment in place of the court. You've already killed three people today. Do you know how their families feel? They were only bodyguards, yet now they are dead—all because you wanted revenge."
Li Yang's body trembled. "Bodyguards?"
Suddenly, Li Yang's expression became even colder and more merciless. "Hmph. Those who work as bodyguards should have long been prepared to die. They protected scum like Lin Tianyu. Hmph, hmph. Today, no matter who it is, whoever stands in my way of killing Lin Tianyu, I'll kill him." The true energy within Li Yang's body began circulating madly, growing increasingly violent. Spiritual energy from heaven and earth was continuously drawn into his body. Having comprehended the Melancholy Realm, Li Yang's affinity with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had reached an exceedingly high level. As that spiritual energy surged wildly, El, Meng Tian, Fili, Yang Yu, and even Lin Tianyu all sensed it.
"The country's interests stand above all else, Li Yang. Have you forgotten the oath you took when you entered Security Bureau Group 9? What did all those brothers from Dragon Fang Special Forces who died do so for? Do you know what consequences there will be if you kill Lin Tianyu?" Meng Tian delivered his final words of persuasion.
Li Yang's heart shuddered. "Dragon Fang?" Suddenly, Li Yang threw back his head and laughed wildly. "Hahaha, hahaha! Dragon Fang, Dragon Fang... Captain, well said. You said it well..." Li Yang's laughter rang in everyone's ears.
At this moment, Hei Yan, Tian Lin, and the others arrived one after another.
A trace of cruel amusement appeared on Li Yang's face. "Dragon Fang, the number one special forces unit. But do you know how my fallen brothers were treated? No one cared for the parents of the brothers who died. That tiny living allowance barely kept them alive. They didn't even have enough money to visit their sons in the Martyrs' Cemetery. Our former commander had been dead for ten years, yet his mother had no money to visit him. She saved for ten years before that old mother of his, already past sixty, finally had enough travel money to reach the Martyrs' Cemetery and see him. But... but... in the end, that old mother didn't even have enough money to return home. She had no money to go back!"
Meng Tian and the others fell silent. It was the truth, an unchangeable truth. It was also what broke their hearts.
Tears flowed from Li Yang's eyes. "Yes, every one of us Dragon Fang brothers died without regret. We knew it was for the country."
Suddenly, Li Yang became almost hysterical. "But now I don't understand. What did our countless brothers die for? Was it all for scum with a little money like this? Hahaha, what were we fighting for? Hahaha... Ridiculous. How ridiculous. The greater good? When even our loved ones are dead, what greater good is there for me to uphold? The greater good? To hell with the greater good! When I can't even protect my own wife, what greater good is there? Today, Lin Tianyu must die. No one can stop me."
Meng Tian remained standing there, and Yang Yu stepped to his side. There was still a wound left by a flying dagger on Yang Yu's shoulder. Though the dagger had broken through his Protective Aura, it had lost most of its attacking force afterward.
Meng Tian and Yang Yu stood before Li Yang, with Hei Yan and the others behind Meng Tian.
"You want to stop me?" Li Yang looked as though he had heard the greatest joke in the world. "But can you stop me?" Li Yang flashed forward, his speed reaching its limit, while the two flying daggers in his hands shot out at the same instant.
"Lin Tianyu, die!"
Meng Tian and Yang Yu immediately flashed forward, Protective Aura forming around both of them.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
Two meteor-like streaks of light shot directly into Meng Tian and Yang Yu's bodies. It was useless for Li Yang to alter their trajectory, because Meng Tian and Yang Yu had used their bodies to block them. Li Yang could only shift the daggers slightly.
Another shallow wound appeared on Yang Yu's body, while Meng Tian did not even suffer a scratch. By the time Li Yang's flying dagger broke through his Protective Aura, it had already exhausted its force.
"Meng Tian, you bastard, you're still stronger than me. You must have surpassed fifty thousand crystals of energy," Yang Yu said with a relaxed smile when he saw that Meng Tian's Protective Aura was clearly stronger than his own.
Meng Tian did not answer. He only looked at Li Yang. "Come back with me!"
"Kid, give up. Your cultivation is far too weak—only a few hundred crystals of energy. Even if you have comprehended the Three Great Realms, at most you can deal with relatively weak fifth-level experts. Against experts at your captain's level, you cannot harm them at all, much less that Lin-something-Yu who is already a sixth-level expert. You can't even break through his defenses, and you still want to kill him? Besides, do you think killing him alone would be enough to vent your hatred?"
Li Yang's body trembled, and a voice began echoing in his heart. Would merely killing him be enough? Would merely killing him truly vent my hatred? Suddenly, Li Yang frowned, alarm rising within him. Only then did he realize that the voice just now had sounded within his mind.
"Who are you?"
The voice in his mind seemed somewhat puzzled. "Me? Hmm, I once had a name in the Mortal Realm—Xiang Yu!"
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