Blood Sacrifice Array?

Warriors had strong regenerative abilities, but not strong enough to recover from injuries this severe in just half an hour.

The wound going straight through him was a minor issue. More troublesome was the strange energy lingering in it...

"My injuries..."

Chu Yuan clearly misunderstood. "You still need time to recover."

While Jiang Fei was unconscious, he had fed him one of the pills he used for cultivation.

Jiang Fei was a Fourth-Realm Warrior, so he surely wasn't like Yang Yi, who couldn't absorb such a massive amount of energy... If anything, the pill's medicinal power had been a little lacking, which was why he had only recovered this much.

"...Thanks." Jiang Fei couldn't be bothered to say anything more. Taking down one monster might have been a life-or-death crisis for them, but it did nothing to help the overall situation in Chenyang City.

They were still going to die...

"With chaos on this scale, where are the people from the Martial Suppression Bureau?" Chu Yuan asked. He truly couldn't understand how anyone could make such a commotion right under the Bureau's nose.

Jiang Fei didn't know how to explain it to Chu Yuan. Should he say there was a traitor in their midst?

But no matter how he put it, it couldn't hide the fact that the Martial Suppression Bureau had failed in its duty...

Besides, communications had been down for a while. After receiving their assignment at the Bureau, he and Chen Yun had gone straight to Second High School, where they had been attacked by a monster... He really had no idea what was happening outside.

After all, he was only an Air-Traversing Realm Warrior. His job was simply to carry out the orders from above.

"I don't know either..."

Chu Yuan nodded. Judging by Jiang Fei's expression, he knew he wouldn't get any useful information out of him.

"Do you know anything about this array?"

"I do. This is a Blood-Sucking Array. Its main purpose is to make a sacrifice... But there are six Blood-Sucking Arrays in Chenyang City now, and they're all connected.

"At this point, you can't even call it a Blood-Sucking Array anymore. It should be called the Blood Sacrifice Array!" Mentioning the Blood-Sucking Array stirred Jiang Fei up all over again.

"A sacrifice? Sacrificed to whom?"

"Based on what we've found out so far, Yan Xuan and the others are part of a group called the Day of Vengeance. It's an organization similar to a religious sect.

"The ones they're sacrificing to... should be the higher-ups in the sect."

"The Day of Vengeance? Doesn't sound very impressive..." Chu Yuan offered his take. "Besides, why would some idiots go to all this trouble to orchestrate a major operation, only to suck up to their superiors?

"Aren't they afraid of dying?"

The actions of any intelligent being could be explained by logic, and in most cases, that logic came down to self-interest.

It wasn't as if this rebel sect called the Day of Vengeance simply loved sacrificing their own lives to benefit their superiors out of the goodness of their hearts, was it?

If they really were that noble, they wouldn't have become rebels in the first place...

Jiang Fei shook his head and smiled. "You see right through things... But it's complicated. Let me think about where to start."

"If it's complicated, we can talk about it later." Chu Yuan cut him off.

"Help me protect my mom and my sister."

Jiang Fei paused. "Where are you going?"

"Obviously, I'm going to find a way to deal with this. You don't expect me to stay here and wait to die, do you?" Chu Yuan said as if it were obvious. Nothing unusual had happened at the shelter yet,

but the six blood-red pillars of light in the sky were drawing closer and closer!

And... they seemed to be moving much faster than before!

"You? Find a way to deal with it?" Jiang Fei eyed Chu Yuan skeptically. He had to admit that Chu Yuan's way of dealing with monsters had been impressive,

but monsters were one thing, and Blood-Sucking Arrays were another!

Compared to the Blood-Sucking Array, the monsters had only been a sideshow. They were there to tie up the Martial Suppression Bureau's forces.

"Cut the crap." Chu Yuan moved closer and lowered his voice. "I saved you, so... protect them until I get back!"

Jiang Fei was an Air-Traversing Realm Warrior, after all. Protecting Han Cui and Chu Ying would be no problem for him.

Chu Yuan had only one concern: if another danger cropped up, Jiang Fei might go out and get himself killed again out of a desire to protect everyone in the shelter...

Chu Yuan wasn't the only one who knew about this shelter. Plenty of people nearby knew about it too.

Everyone gathered here now had made their way over in the past half hour.

Some had been hiding far away and watching what happened. When they saw the crisis at the shelter had passed, they hurried over.

Others had come without knowing what had happened, but the corpses and rubble scattered everywhere were enough to give them a rough idea.

"Don't worry. I'll make sure I die before they do."

"What good is it if you die? I need you to protect them!

"If anything goes wrong... forget everything else and get them out of here first." Chu Yuan spoke somewhat vaguely.

Jiang Fei paused, catching Chu Yuan's meaning. He laughed. "So that's what you were worried about... I promise."

He agreed so readily that Chu Yuan didn't know what to make of it. Had he misunderstood the role of the Martial Suppression Bureau?

Jiang Fei made no effort to explain. "Whatever you're planning, hurry up. We may not have much time."

Chu Yuan's brisk departure still caused a stir in the shelter.

Especially among those who had seen the battle from a distance. They knew Chu Yuan was strong.

Now that he was gone, didn't that mean the shelter had lost half its fighting force?

No, more than half... Some people looked at Jiang Fei, whose face was pale and who appeared badly injured, and grew uneasy.

Chu Yuan had left suddenly and quickly, leaving them no time to stop him.

But Jiang Fei was still there, so someone worked up the courage to ask, "Sir... What did that young man go to do?"

Jiang Fei turned to him and said flatly, "What's it to you?"

The man instinctively lowered his head and muttered, "I'm just thinking about everyone's safety..."

"Since you're so dedicated, if something shows up later, I'll toss you out as bait."

"..." The man said no more and quietly squeezed into the crowd.

Jiang Fei called after him, "Hiding won't help. I remember you."

"That's outrageous! You're a Warrior with the Martial Suppression Bureau, aren't you?

"It's your duty to protect the public. How can you threaten people like that?"

Jiang Fei turned to the new "champion of justice." She was a young woman with delicate features, dressed in business attire and looking rather sophisticated.

He thought about it and found her somewhat familiar. She seemed to be a reporter who had come to the Bureau earlier to interview one of his colleagues...

Jiang Fei grinned. "I quit."

"..."

Jiang Fei had no interest in dealing with these people any longer. He looked at Chen Yun, whose face Chu Ying was wiping, and a trace of sorrow entered his eyes.

"Xiao Yun... I'm sorry. I may not be able to take your ashes home..."

Chu Ying's hand paused. She asked cautiously, "Um... Big Brother Jiang, my brother said this sister isn't dead yet..."

"Huh!?"