To be honest.
When the fleeing girl first saw Xi Shenlian turn and walk into the alley, her heart had already sunk.
She knew that if Xi Shenlian could stall her for even a moment, the gangsters behind her would catch her immediately.
But soon, she realized Xi Shenlian had no intention of bothering with her at all.
He was just watching the pursuers behind her with an intrigued look, letting her run right past him.
So.
At that moment, even while escaping, she couldn't help but steal a glance at Xi Shenlian's face, memorizing it.
And watching Xi Shenlian, who clearly planned to block their path.
The gangsters slowed down, cursing loudly.
Their insults were vile.
So vile that Xi Shenlian, who had originally planned to slice them all into mincemeat with threads, instantly understood that they wanted something more distinctive—either in death or in life.
So generous Xi Shenlian decided to grant their reasonable request.
He stopped the threads that had already extended toward them, threads they hadn't even noticed.
With a calm expression, he withdrew them.
Then.
He took a pair of white gloves from the System Space.
Something he'd gotten from a hotel waiter earlier.
Next.
Right in front of the gangsters, he slowly and deliberately put on the gloves.
Clearly a man of refinement.
Seeing this.
The bald leader instinctively felt something was off.
His steps slowed down a few beats.
But some of his underlings were far less alert.
A short, stocky man, about 1.7 meters tall but exceptionally muscular, strode up to Xi Shenlian and swung a steel rod straight down at his head:
"You little bastard!!"
"Big Brother told you to stop that girl!!!"
"Didn't you hear!!!"
Clearly, he was eager.
Eager to show his loyalty.
From the whoosh of the steel rod cutting through the air.
It was obvious he'd put some force into it.
An ordinary person taking that to the head would be lucky to leave in an ambulance.
But unfortunately.
He was facing Xi Shenlian.
So.
The rod.
Or rather, the hand holding the rod, was stopped by Xi Shenlian.
And no one saw when Xi Shenlian had even reached out.
This left the man utterly shocked and even more furious:
"You..."
But.
Before he could say another word.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
Amid a strange noise.
Sudden, excruciating pain turned his threats into a bloodcurdling scream.
The man's hand, gripping the steel rod, was crushed by Xi Shenlian.
Literally crushed.
Bones, shredded flesh, and blood directly overflowed from between Xi Shenlian's fingers, as if squeezed by a hydraulic press.
Even the steel rod deformed on the spot, with clear fingerprints pressed into it.
As for the other guys behind the burly man, because the alley was a bit dark, they couldn't see what had happened at all.
They just thought their buddy had been hit.
Instinctively, they started cursing and prepared to swarm him.
But the next scene instantly shattered all their courage.
They saw Xi Shenlian's other hand.
At some point, it was already pressed against the top of the short, burly man's terror-filled head.
His five fingers applied a little force.
His arm lifted.
Relying on his height advantage, Xi Shenlian easily hoisted the whole person up.
And the hand Xi Shenlian had extended earlier also grabbed the short, burly man's shoulder.
Then.
Under the gaze of all the gang members, Xi Shenlian's left and right hands pulled slightly apart...
The short, burly man's screams stopped instantly.
Along with that.
He automatically learned the Body Double Technique.
Left and right halves.
Not the neat kind.
For a moment.
Only the sound of things falling echoed repeatedly in the alley.
It was the sound of a large amount of organs and blood hitting the ground.
Just like when a package's wrapping is torn open and the contents automatically fall out.
At this moment.
Only then did Xi Shenlian, standing in the middle of the pool of blood, his whole body eerily unstained by a single drop, even his white gloves clean as new, mutter to himself with a very calm expression:
"...Originally, I was in a pretty good mood today..."
"Why did you have to make me unhappy..."
"Oh well, at least it's my first kill, should count as something memorable..."
"Oh, right... since there's fresh material coming to me on its own, I might as well test out the String Master's interrogation methods..."
With that.
He casually tossed the trash in his left and right hands into the nearby bin.
At the same time.
The Pulse Interference Earrings on Xi Shenlian's ears, looking like normal earrings, were also shimmering with a strange radiance, constantly releasing silent pulses to forcibly interfere with various cameras and tech devices around.
Then.
There was a brief moment of begging and screaming.
But within a second, it all died down.
After all, this was a bustling area—too much screaming wouldn't be good, it could greatly affect the youth's mental and physical development.
So.
To keep them from disturbing the peace.
Xi Shenlian made over a dozen gang members lose their tongues within a single second.
Finally came the criticism and education session.
The scene was full of human touch and the atmosphere was quite lively—no need for too much introduction, you get the idea.
After more than ten minutes.
Xi Shenlian left the alley.
Not far away.
A figure in jeans and a leather jacket lightly leaped down from a four-story building.
It was a short-haired young girl with a lollipop in her mouth.
Around fifteen or sixteen years old.
She stood at the alley entrance, glanced inside, and then...
Although she was quite worldly-wise, That youthful, beautiful face still twitched involuntarily, and she instinctively gagged.
Even the lollipop was spat out to the side.
She couldn't help muttering under her breath:
"Damn..."
"I thought it was a hero saving a beauty, but it's a psycho killer..."
"And here I was thinking he was handsome..."
Then.
As she bent over retching, she caught something else in her peripheral vision.
A pair of gray, high-end leather shoes.
The same pair she'd seen on that handsome guy earlier.
But those shoes should have walked far away with their owner by now...
Next.
In a spine-chilling sensation, She felt a gloved hand rest on her back, still curved from the gagging.
Along with it, A voice tinged with a hint of regret:
"I'm flattered you called me handsome."
"But calling me a psycho killer—that stings a bit."
The soft words
Made her skin crawl instantly.
Her survival instinct kicked in, and she couldn't help shouting:
"Don't kill me!!"
"I'm just an innocent passerby, I don't know anything!!"
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