Over five hundred tons of force slammed into Kitahara Tsuyoshi's shield.
"Crack!"
The terrifying force shattered Kitahara Tsuyoshi's shield-bearing left arm. His whole arm, along with his body, spun around like a windmill several times before he crashed into a dilapidated apartment building hundreds of meters away.
"Rumble!"
The entire apartment building collapsed, sending dust billowing into the sky.
Huff, huff, huff.
Kitahara Tsuyoshi truly lived up to his reputation as a Mid-Level War God. Half his body was nearly smashed to pieces, yet he could still gasp for breath.
However, blood spurted from his mouth with every breath.
Jiang Li naturally gave him no chance to recover. Amid swirling dust, a streak of crimson light shot through the air and pierced Kitahara Tsuyoshi's open mouth. The terrifying impact blew his entire head apart.
He had thought he was being careful enough, committing to memory everyone he couldn't afford to fight.
But he never expected to fall at the hands of an unknown Psychic.
"Although I'm not afraid of Vulture Li Yao, killing him now won't be easy!"
Jiang Li recalled the Blood Shadow War Sword and glanced at the corpses of Li Wei and the other two, mulling things over. "If this gets out, Li Yao can't do anything to me, but he'll most likely go after the Fire Hammer Squad..."
"I can only let him investigate slowly."
After fighting Kitahara Tsuyoshi, Jiang Li had a clear understanding of his current strength.
Although his psychic power was different from that of an ordinary Psychic, it was only stronger, not weaker.
Even against a High-level War God, he was confident he could escape unscathed.
However, he knew Li Yao had a Black God Suit. With only the strength of a Junior War God, killing a High-level War God wearing a Black God Suit was practically impossible!
"Hmm? Luo Feng left me a message?"
After leaving the scene, Jiang Li checked his communicator and learned that Luo Feng and the others had retreated to the rooftop they'd first visited in City 003.
Meanwhile.
Jiangnan Base City, main urban district.
One of Hanxia Kingdom's most luxurious residential communities, Jiangnan Landscape Community. The Huayao Peak Hilltop Villa.
"Beep!"
A piercing alert jolted the middle-aged man, who had been meditating cross-legged, into opening his eyes.
Even the renowned powerhouse known as Vulture, the High-level War God Li Yao, now wore a look of horror on his hideous face. "A Wei!"
"Connect to A Wei's two bodyguards!"
Li Yao immediately issued a voice command. A moment later, a sharp gleam appeared in his eyes. "They're dead too?!"
"Whoosh!"
Li Yao instantly turned into a blur and crashed straight into the villa's audiovisual room. His indistinct silhouette solidified and appeared before him.
"Activate Warrior Search Mode!"
"Confirm the coordinates of my son, Li Wei!"
"Search for all War Gods within a hundred-kilometer radius."
Li Yao's face was filled with murderous intent as he issued one command after another.
"Within a hundred kilometers of Li Wei, there is one War God: Kitahara Tsuyoshi."
The Black Suit Elder appeared as a solidified projection and spoke.
"Kitahara Tsuyoshi?"
"Connect to Kitahara Tsuyoshi's communicator!"
Li Yao frowned. Kitahara Tsuyoshi had gone to rescue Li Wei at his request. There was no way he could have done it.
"No response."
"How could this be?"
Li Yao's expression changed drastically. Unlike low-level warriors in the Wilderness Zone, War Gods didn't have to creep around, afraid that the sound of their communicators would attract monsters.
There were only two possible reasons for no response!
Either something had happened to Kitahara Tsuyoshi!
Or he was the killer!
"Search for all Advanced General Level warriors within a hundred kilometers!"
Li Yao set aside the question of Kitahara Tsuyoshi for now. He couldn't let even the slightest suspicion go unchecked.
"Searching for War Gods can be done through the War God Palace's shared system. Searching for War Generals requires S-level authorization from the Alliance."
The Black Suit Elder spoke.
The search system was a backdoor left behind by the HR Alliance when it monopolized communicators. It could use warriors' communication signals to determine their locations.
But this sort of thing couldn't be done openly. Only the upper echelons of the HR Alliance were authorized to conduct searches.
Clearly,
Li Yao, despite being a High-level War God, didn't have that authorization.
Just then,
A white woman with golden hair rushed in, her eyes red and tears falling. "Yao, A Wei is dead!!!"
"Search now!"
Li Yao issued another command.
The Black Suit Elder glanced at the white woman.
She was the younger sister of the current head of the Polaris Family, one of the HR Alliance's nine core families, and currently the HR Alliance's executive president in Hanxia Kingdom.
A High-level War God with S-level authorization from the HR Alliance: Vinnie Polaris.
"Search!" Vinnie repeated.
"Yes!"
A virtual map appeared before the Black Suit Elder. A red dot at its center marked the location of Li Wei's body.
Five points of light appeared within a hundred-kilometer radius of Li Wei.
"There are five Advanced General Level warriors within a hundred kilometers!"
"Display their information and their distances from Li Wei's location!"
At Li Yao's command, lines of data appeared before them.
"Of the five Advanced General Level warriors, we can rule out A Wei's two bodyguards. Jiang Li, at the far edge of the map, can be ruled out too. Even if he's a Psychic, he couldn't have escaped thirty kilometers in one minute!"
"The other two are more than twenty kilometers away as well!"
Li Yao's expression was grim. Of the five suspects, two were already dead.
One was thirty kilometers away. Even a War God moving at full speed beyond the speed of sound would have a hard time covering thirty kilometers in a minute.
"Damn it!"
Li Yao gritted his teeth. All the evidence pointed to Kitahara Tsuyoshi as the most likely culprit!
"Search for Intermediate War Generals and Junior War Generals! Send me all their information!"
Li Yao looked at the countless flashing points scattered across the display.
"Let's go!"
When the search was over, Li Yao immediately took several specialists with him aboard a fighter jet.
"Beep!"
Two deep-blue, disc-shaped fighter jets were identified by the city's signal system, then shot straight toward City 003 like streaks of light.
Inside the cabin.
"Yao, could a Lord-level Monster have killed him?"
Vinnie thought of another possibility. Li Wei had sent out a distress signal once before, when he was being chased by an Elementary Lord-level Monster.
"Even a Lord-level Monster couldn't have stopped him from sending a distress signal!"
The muscles in Li Yao's face twitched. A savage glint filled his eyes. Li Wei was his only son; losing him felt like losing everything.
After all,
the stronger one's genes, the less likely one was to conceive.
"I've already sent Wang Tong, who was nearby, to check the scene. We should know what happened once he gets there!"
The person Li Yao suspected most was Kitahara Tsuyoshi!
But how could he have guessed that the reason Li Wei hadn't sent a distress signal was precisely because Kitahara Tsuyoshi was there, giving Li Wei a false sense of security!
And that was ultimately what got him killed.
Soon,
Li Yao's communicator rang.
The voice of War God Wang Tong came through from the other end. "Vulture, I can say for certain that Kitahara Tsuyoshi didn't do it!"
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