An Eye for an Eye

"Go, go outside and take a look."

Brother Hu's eyes hardened. He shoved one of his lackeys, pushing him outside to check the situation despite his protests.

However, less than a second after the lackey disappeared from their lamplight, screams could be heard.

The group watched with their own eyes as the man seemed to be dragged away by something in the darkness.

The phone he was gripping tightly fell, accompanied by a few more screams that abruptly ended, vanishing instantly.

When Brother Hu hastily shone his flashlight over, he saw a contorted figure lying on the ground.

He looked like a broken toy, his head folded backward from his back onto his rear, his limbs twisted into knots. His eyes, wide open in death, still held a deep terror.

Gulp!

The tattooed thugs turned pale with fright. Some dropped their steel pipes and knives, clattering to the ground.

They had killed people and served time in prison; they were considered brutal thugs by ordinary people.

But when it came to murder, aside from Brother Hu himself, the others had no experience and had never witnessed such a scene!

Even Brother Hu was unnerved. He had never seen such a bizarre event.

He was starting to believe they had encountered a ghost.

Otherwise, how could a living person be twisted into such a grotesque shape in mere seconds?

"There really is a ghost, there really is a ghost! Sob sob, we're dead."

"Call the police, call the damn police! Get the cops to save us."

The tattooed thugs were on the verge of collapse. Brother Hu no longer insisted. If he got caught for stealing wood and setting a fire, he'd get a few years at most. But staying here meant death!

"You guys be careful, I'm calling the police."

Brother Hu also chickened out and wanted to make the emergency call himself.

But before the call could go through, something in the darkness was rapidly approaching.

Whoosh!

A foul wind swept in. The Thousand-Hand Centipede's terrifying body emerged from the darkness and bit down on Brother Hu in one gulp.

"A… a monster!"

The thugs erupted, fleeing in terror.

But they didn't know that escaping this unfinished building was already impossible.

The dozen pale human hands beneath the Thousand-Hand Centipede's abdomen automatically detached and burrowed into the darkness. Soon, desperate screams echoed from the floors, drifting far into the silent, unfinished building, and then all went quiet.

The Thousand-Hand Centipede hissed twice, its jaws clamped around Brother Hu, who was still struggling in terror.

Behind it, pale human hands dragged corpses, heading downstairs.

At the bottom of the unfinished building, Su Jie stood before several heavy trucks. He lifted the tarpaulin covering, revealing rows of intact, precious Sandalwood logs.

"Who did they have to steal from? Stealing from me. Why are they all acting like Peng Shiwen?"

Su Jie sighed. He just wanted to be a law-abiding citizen, but why did they have to force his hand?

At that moment, the Thousand-Hand Centipede descended the stairs, bringing with it fourteen corpses. They were arranged neatly before Su Jie. Finally, as if presenting a treasure, it dropped Brother Hu from its mouth at Su Jie's feet.

"Good boy."

Su Jie scratched the Thousand-Hand Centipede's chin.

The centipede's thick tail wagged back and forth like a puppy's.

"Are you human or ghost? Human or ghost?"

Brother Hu shivered uncontrollably. Looking at the corpses of his subordinates around him, his heart pounded.

He had never seen such a ruthless person, and his methods were beyond anything he had ever heard of.

"Who am I? Didn't you investigate quite thoroughly?"

Su Jie's lips curved into a smile. He walked out of the darkness into the moonlight, bending down to look at him.

"It's you! You're the owner of that raw material."

Brother Hu saw Su Jie's face clearly and immediately felt his blood run cold. He finally understood why Su Jie had come after them, and it wasn't unjust.

"Since you know, this will be easier. I want some information about your boss. If you tell me…"

"I won't betray my boss. That's how it is in the movies. If I tell you, you'll kill me to silence me."

Brother Hu's expression was resolute, which made Su Jie chuckle.

"I didn't realize you were such a tough guy. Coincidentally, I have some experience in making people talk. I hope you don't disappoint me."

Trying to be a hero with Su Jie, he clearly didn't know the torture methods of a Devilish Cultivator.

Ten minutes later…

"I've told you everything I know. Please, I beg you, give me a quick death."

The once unyielding Brother Hu lay on the ground, filled with despair and terror, only wishing for death.

"Really, you couldn't even last ten minutes. Remember to be a good person in your next life, just like me."

Su Jie snapped his fingers.

You call yourself a good person? Even devils aren't as wicked as you.

This thought flashed through Brother Hu's mind before his consciousness was swallowed. Yin Fire Blood Bees swarmed all over his body, burrowing into him from his mouth and nose.

Su Jie then opened the ancient mirror he had brought and threw the corpse and the sandalwood logs into it. This was a completely clean way to dispose of the evidence.

After tidying everything up, Su Jie vanished into the night.

He was going to find the real mastermind. The people he was killing now were merely pawns.

"What did you say? Ah Hu isn't answering his phone, what about Lei Zi and the others?"

In a lavishly decorated high-end villa complex in Linping City, Cui Yunchun, dressed in pajamas, stood up abruptly as Ma Lanfei reported the news.

"Director Cui, you told me to call Ah Hu every three hours. I followed your instructions, but half an hour ago, his phone went unanswered. I tried calling Lei Zi and the others too, and they all went unanswered."

Ma Lanfei said nervously. It wasn't even midnight yet, and her calls had been going straight to voicemail. She immediately came to report.

"Could it be that Ah Hu and the others got greedy and decided to pocket the shipment themselves?"

Ma Lanfei hesitated for a moment before daring to speculate.

"Impossible. Ah Hu is an orphan I raised. He's loyal to me. Something has definitely happened to them. Go and have someone investigate immediately, focusing on that person named Su Jie."

Cui Yunchun roared with rage, his eyes looking as if they could devour someone.

Ma Lanfei was startled and was about to make a call when a voice suddenly rang out from inside the house.

"Boss Cui, looking for me in such a hurry!"

The voice came from outside the door, startling both of them in the bedroom.

"Who are you? Wait, Mr. Su, you're Mr. Su, aren't you?"

Cui Yunchun was stunned at first, then his expression changed.

"I was wrong this time. I'm willing to apologize and compensate you with 100 million yuan for your losses. If it's not enough, I can add more."

As expected of someone who had weathered many storms, Cui Yunchun quickly conceded.

Since Su Jie could enter his house so silently, it meant he could threaten his life.

"One hundred million, that's quite a sum. But! It's too late to say that now."

With a cold laugh, footsteps could be heard from outside the bedroom. As the door was pushed open, a figure stood in the moonlight, looking extremely eerie.

Cui Yunchun and Ma Lanfei stared and simultaneously screamed, "Ah Hu!"

The person standing at the doorway was none other than their own man, Ah Hu.

"Why are you here? Did you really betray me? How dare you."

Cui Yunchun seemed to understand something, looking at Ah Hu with a mixture of shock and anger.

"Brother Hu, how could you do this? Director Cui has been incredibly kind to you, and you're colluding with outsiders to betray him."

Ma Lanfei was equally indignant, while secretly breathing a sigh of relief.

Given their years of acquaintance, Brother Hu wouldn't at least kill them, right?

However, in the face of Cui Yunchun's fury, Ah Hu's reaction was very strange. He stiffly raised his hands, his eyes filled with despair:

"Save me, President Cui, save me..."

Before he could finish, Ah Hu's facial skin twitched, as if something was wriggling beneath the surface. He spoke in a hoarse, stiff voice: "Tsk, still too little control. I can't even control a mere ordinary person with this. In that case, Boss Cui, you seem to like setting fires. I'll send you a big fire in return. We'll call it even, fair and square, right?"

Only then did the two realize something was wrong. Ah Hu seemed to be controlled by something.

Cui Yunchun and Ma Lanfei didn't know about Gu Masters. Otherwise, they would have understood that this was a technique for a Gu Master to wield Spiritual Energy, a skill Su Jie had recently mastered during his practice of controlling insects through unorthodox methods.

However, Su Jie's strength was still far too weak, and coupled with the inherent flaws of the technique itself, which had time and distance limitations, it was like signal interference. The victim would occasionally break free from control, just like just now.

"Mr. Su, Mr. Su, we can still talk. Name your price."

Cui Yunchun, feeling extremely uneasy and weirded out, shouted nervously. However, Ah Hu no longer reacted. His skin split open, and Yin Fire Blood Bees swarmed out from within, covering them.

The bloody and terrifying scene almost scared the two of them senseless. By the time they wanted to beg for mercy, it was already too late.

Inside the bedroom, scattered fires began to burn. The Yin Fire Blood Bees from the Tianyuan World delivered a magnificent and roaring conflagration to the villa.

Hundreds of meters away from the villa, Su Jie stood on a treetop, admiring the burning building.

"Not bad, not bad. The flames are spectacular. No wonder villains always like to set fires after killing people. It's truly a mood enhancer."

Su Jie smiled as he took one last look at the towering flames before turning and leaving.

"I've been out for two hours. It's time to go back and rest. I can finally get a good night's sleep tonight."