Leave No One Alive

Leave No One Alive

Five minutes later, the doctor bowed respectfully to the middle-aged noblewoman. "Rest assured, Madam. This young lady is in fairly good condition. There are no signs of Remnant infection, nor has she been violated. She only has a few superficial injuries, none of them serious. With the medicines developed by our Academy of Sciences, taken internally and applied externally, she will recover quickly without leaving any scars."

The noblewoman wearing a deep-purple pearl-embroidered veil let out a long breath and clasped her hands in prayer. "Bodhisattva bless us! Praise the Sanctuary!"

Upon hearing that, the doctor bent even lower.

A middle-aged woman who looked like a housekeeper stepped forward from the noblewoman's side and said to the doctor with a smile, "Doctor Zhang, this way, please. As for the prescription medicine, prescribe a little extra."

"Yes, yes, right away!" The doctor became even more deferential, his legs practically trembling as he backed out of the room.

Outside, he wrote the prescription and dispensed three times the usual dosage before being escorted out of the detached villa and into a small private flying vehicle capable of autonomous flight.

It was the same small private flying vehicle that had brought him here.

The private flying vehicle silently rose straight up from where it stood, climbed into the night sky, made a smooth turn, then suddenly seemed to lose control and flew directly toward the Exotic Beast Forest north of Mulan City.

Before long, a blazing fire lit up the sky above the Exotic Beast Forest as the small private flying vehicle exploded and crashed from the air.

Doctor Zhang, its only passenger, died inside the vehicle, burned so thoroughly that not even his bones remained.

Inside the detached villa, a virtual screen floated before the veiled noblewoman, live-streaming the explosion and crash of that small private flying vehicle.

She nodded calmly and instructed the person behind her, "Leave no one alive among those who went to the small building today."

The female housekeeper curtsied and went out to handle it.

Not long afterward, she returned to the bedroom and leaned close to whisper in the noblewoman's ear, "...They've all been dealt with. Everyone, including the twenty-three young boys and girls who were abducted with her, as well as the subordinates and bodyguards who accompanied you to the small building today, are dead."

The veiled noblewoman exhaled softly. "...You grew up alongside me. If I entrust her to you, can you guarantee that something like this will never happen again?"

The female housekeeper shuddered, then revealed an ecstatic expression. She dropped to one knee before the noblewoman, took her hand, and kissed it. "Rest assured, Madam! Entrust the young lady to me! I will protect her with my life!"

The noblewoman nodded calmly. "I believe you."

Then she continued, "Have the family members who used to be around the young lady been dealt with?"

"...After the young lady disappeared and was abducted, my subordinates captured all of them."

"Mm. Now that the young lady has been found, there is no need to keep them alive. Including their relatives, execute everyone within three generations. Those who betray their masters deserve this fate."

"Yes, Madam."

The veiled noblewoman stood up and paced several more times through the quiet bedroom, her brows slightly furrowed. "...There is one more matter."

"Please give your orders, Madam."

"Before we arrived today, who entered the small building first and killed those human traffickers? These people must also be eliminated. In short, aside from the two of us, no one can know that the young lady was abducted."

The female housekeeper's heart skipped a beat. She hurriedly asked, "Madam, according to the intelligence we received, it should have been people from the Dark Night Hunter Association. Are we really going to move against them?"

"Hunters? They're merely lowly people who trade their lives for money." The noblewoman's worried expression suddenly relaxed. "I thought it was the Special Security Bureau. As long as it isn't the Special Security Bureau, it's fine. Go make the arrangements."

The female housekeeper bowed in acknowledgment.

But just as she was about to leave, the veiled noblewoman stopped her again. Her eyes flickered as she said softly, "Still, we shouldn't provoke those lunatics from the Dark Night Hunter Association. Do this instead—find a Mental Strength Expert with a high Gene Evolution Level. Have them deliver a single fatal blow, and leave no trace."

The female housekeeper nodded in understanding. "Understood, Madam. Rest assured, even I will not appear in person. We'll make sure this has absolutely nothing to do with us."

The noblewoman raised her chin slightly in satisfaction and waved her hand with arrogant ease, as if she had merely disposed of a group of insignificant livestock.

At that moment, Xia Chujian was waiting at the entrance hall of the Dark Night Hunter Association's Mulan City branch for Ye Shijie and the others to come out.

Unlike Xia Chujian, they had not exchanged their B-Grade Merit for cash. Instead, they had exchanged it for superpower weapons and Mental Strength Training Duration.

"Let's go. We'll take Chujian home first." Ye Shijie beckoned to them and jumped into their team's Small Combat Aircraft.

Of the five members of their team, only Xia Chujian lived in North City. The other four lived in West District.

Xia Chujian followed Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong into the aircraft.

Her home address had long been entered into the aircraft's address field. They only needed to select it and let the aircraft fly itself.

The aircraft's translucent canopy slowly closed. A burst of white smoke sprayed from its tail as it lifted into the air, quickly entering Stealth Mode.

There were quite a few private flying vehicles in Mulan City, but Combat Aircraft were uncommon. Therefore, they usually flew above the city in Stealth Mode.

This Time was as usual. Once they set the autopilot, everyone began doing their own thing.

Ye Shijie took out a shield he had just exchanged for. It supposedly could withstand an attack from a Rank B Peak Mental Strength Expert.

Li Fu had exchanged everything for Mental Strength Training Duration. He desperately needed to train his Mental Strength in hopes of advancing to D-Class.

Song Mingqian and Ping Qiong had each exchanged for a pair of long boots, said to be made from Gale Wind Beast fur. Worn on the feet, they could double a person's running speed.

Everyone took out the treasures they had exchanged their merits for and discussed them. When carrying out missions, they could lend them to one another.

Xia Chujian never took part in these exchanges. She was not a Gene Evolver and had no Mental Strength, so none of these things were useful to her.

Still, listening to their low murmurs felt comforting. It helped free her from the "visual pollution" of those disgusting tentacles she had seen earlier.

She folded her arms and leaned against the co-pilot's seat, looking at the night sky through the translucent canopy, a slight smile curving her lips.

The aircraft flew steadily and swiftly through the night sky.

Suddenly, Xia Chujian sat upright and leaned forward to look below the aircraft. Alert, she said, "Something's wrong. This isn't the direction to my home."

Her home was in North City, while the Dark Night Hunter Association's Mulan City branch was in Mulan City Central District, so they should have been flying north.

But they were heading south, and below them was South District, the most chaotic and darkest part of Mulan City! Everyone knew that any human with even a little financial means would not live in South District.

Xia Chujian turned, intending to remind Ye Shijie, who was seated in the pilot's seat.

But she suddenly realized that the cabin was utterly silent.

Just moments ago, Ping Qiong and Song Mingqian had still been noisily bickering, while Li Fu had been flattering Ye Shijie.

As if in an instant, all those sounds had vanished.

She looked at Ye Shijie in the pilot's seat.

His face was flushed red, both hands stretched forward as if trying to touch something, yet he was completely unable to move.

He stared at the aircraft's display screen, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.

Then she looked at the three people in the back seats.

Li Fu and Ping Qiong had shut their eyes and slumped sideways in their seats, apparently unconscious.

Song Mingqian had his eyes closed too, but beneath his eyelids, she could clearly see his eyeballs moving desperately. He was trying to open them, but could not.

Xia Chujian's heart sank. She reached out to push Ye Shijie beside her and shouted, "Captain! Captain! Can you hear me?"

Ye Shijie only nodded heavily once, as though it had taken all his Mental Strength. Then his head fell to one side, and he passed out as well.

Xia Chujian did not know what had happened to her four teammates, but she understood that now was not the time to get to the bottom of it.

When your teammates were unconscious and your aircraft was losing control, what you needed to do was not panic, scream in terror, curse fate, or lash out in anger. You needed to save yourself immediately.

With the situation critical, Xia Chujian kicked the emergency button beside Ye Shijie's pilot seat.

With a creak, the pilot seat rose upward, then quickly slid along the track in its base to above Xia Chujian's co-pilot seat.

At the same time, Xia Chujian pressed the emergency button on the co-pilot's side, sliding her own seat into the pilot's position.

This was one of the Small Combat Aircraft's emergency systems. If something happened to the pilot, the lifting track system inside the aircraft could immediately switch the pilot and co-pilot seats.

As Xia Chujian changed from co-pilot to pilot, she immediately took manual control of the console and disabled the autopilot.

Once the autopilot was cut off, the aircraft would automatically leave Stealth Mode until stealth control was manually activated again.

Xia Chujian had to take over. Otherwise, once the automated flight stopped, the aircraft could only plummet like a meteor.

And at the instant she cut off the autopilot, the aircraft did indeed drop straight downward for a second, falling more than fifty meters in an instant.

But Xia Chujian quickly got the hang of it. With a hard emergency pull, she hauled the aircraft back up.

Fortunately, it was only two in the morning. There were almost no other aircraft over the city, so she did not need to worry about crashing into anyone else.

After a brief bout of frantic scrambling, she stabilized the aircraft.

Where should she fly?

Xia Chujian's first thought was that the aircraft had malfunctioned, and her four teammates were also facing some kind of medical emergency. She needed to head back north to the Dark Night Hunter Association's Mulan City branch.

There were mechanics there who could repair aircraft, as well as Senior Physicians who specialized in treating Gene Evolvers.

Gripping the aircraft's control handles, she made a sharp turn in the air.

The turn was fast and abrupt. In no time, she had sped forward one kilometer.

"Ow! What's going on?! My head!" That was Song Mingqian's pained cry.

"Someone ambushed us... Chujian... run..." Ye Shijie also briefly regained consciousness and gave Xia Chujian a fragmented instruction.

Xia Chujian sucked in a breath. "Someone ambushed us?! Who?!"

"A Mental Strength Expert..." Ye Shijie passed out again after saying that.

Song Mingqian in the back seat also fell silent, clearly unconscious again.

It felt as though a fire had ignited in Xia Chujian's heart, filling her with urgency and rage.

She remembered the "tentacles" at the six-story small building earlier, supposedly possessing powerful Mental Strength. They had knocked all her teammates unconscious in an instant.

Could tentacles be causing trouble again? Had they come for revenge because she had killed their kind?

The thought flashed through Xia Chujian's mind, only to be dismissed immediately.

She remembered clearly that those "tentacles" could not interfere with an aircraft's autopilot! Otherwise, how could she have flown the aircraft to save her teammates?

If it was not those tentacles, then it could only be a human Mental Strength Expert.

But could even a normal human Mental Strength Expert use Mental Strength to interfere with an aircraft's autopilot?! She had never heard of such a thing!

Their entire team was in the aircraft, and she had to pilot it manually. Their current situation was even worse than dealing with those disgusting tentacles outside the six-story small building.

Xia Chujian was frantic with worry.

She focused her attention, trying to contact the station while concentrating on flying. All she wanted was to get back to the Dark Night Hunter Association's Mulan City station as quickly as possible.

How could she possibly handle Gene Evolvers with powerful Mental Strength alone in midair?!

She did not have a shred of Mental Strength...

But the communications seemed to have been cut off as well. She could not contact the station's ground control system at all.

It seemed someone had come prepared!

In her desperation, Xia Chujian could only put on her Helmet and activate the soundproofing equipment again.

She knew perfectly well that it would be useless against a Mental Strength Attack, but she had no other choice.

Fortunately, she had not yet been rendered unconscious like her teammates.

Just as she accelerated, a spindle-shaped flying vehicle gradually revealed itself in the air about ten kilometers behind her.

The person inside the spindle-shaped flying vehicle gave a soft sound of surprise, seemingly astonished that someone crushed by his Mental Strength could still continue piloting an aircraft.

Yet in only a dozen seconds or so, that aircraft had already widened the distance between them.

It seemed he would have to use two methods at once.

The man narrowed his eyes and snorted, mercilessly pressing the missile launch button on his aircraft.

He was not worried that the people aboard that aircraft would contact the ground, because his spindle-shaped flying vehicle had extremely advanced Electromagnetic Shielding equipment. It had already blocked electromagnetic waves within a Fifty-Li Radius.

The other side could not send out any distress signal at all. Only he could bypass the shielding and contact the ground.

But he had no need to contact the ground anyway. He was a Gene Evolver, as well as a C-Class peak Mental Strength Expert. All he needed to do was sync the video to the Cloud System on Star Net as evidence to collect the rest of his payment.

According to the intelligence he had received, the team in the aircraft ahead had four Gene Evolvers, but only two D-Class and two E-Rank members. As for the one ordinary person, she was not even worth mentioning.

In any case, a C-Class peak like him could kill D-Class and E-Rank opponents as easily as slaughtering pigs and dogs. There was no need to make things so complicated.

"Goodbye." He sneered at the Small Combat Aircraft ahead and even gave it a wave.

At that moment, Xia Chujian's aircraft began issuing frenzied lock-on warnings.

A bright red missile icon was circled over the lock-on indicator on her aircraft's dashboard.

Urgent electronic simulated alerts echoed through the cramped space of Xia Chujian's small aircraft.

"Aircraft locked by missile!"

"Aircraft locked by missile!"

"Ten seconds until the missile strikes the locked target!"

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