40. Evil for Evil

"Keep stabbing, until you kill me." Li Shu's calm voice spoke words that chilled the soul.

Yellow Hair had always considered himself a villain of the worst sort, but compared to the true demon before him, he felt like a saint.

Under Li Shu's icy gaze, Yellow Hair swung his dagger repeatedly until the webbing between his thumb and forefinger split open.

The remaining seven accomplices were terrified. They wanted to flee, but the pressure radiating from the man before them was so immense that their legs felt like lead; they couldn't move an inch, standing there in a daze, watching.

"Wukong, if Big Brother kills them, what would you think of me?" Li Shu suddenly asked.

Wukong asked curiously, "Why would Big Brother want to kill them?"

"Because they are evil. If we let them go today, they will continue to harm more innocent, good people," Li Shu explained earnestly.

Wukong said with a troubled expression, "But they haven't harmed us, have they?"

Li Shu sighed and explained patiently, "If we were ordinary people, wouldn't your Big Brother have been stabbed to death by him already?"

"I suppose that's true. Then they are indeed detestable. I think giving them a good lesson so they won't dare to do evil again would be enough," Wukong said naively.

"Is that what you think?" Li Shu said with a touch of helplessness. "Do you know how difficult it is to persuade a villain to stop doing evil?"

"The most effective method is to simply slaughter them; that way, they will never be able to do evil again."

Wukong pondered for a moment, then looked at Li Shu with wide, innocent eyes and said, "Big Brother, if you do that, wouldn't you become the new villain?"

"I... forget it." Li Shu couldn't be bothered to explain further to Wukong. He looked at Yellow Hair and asked, "Will you continue to commit evil everywhere in the future?"

Yellow Hair nodded frantically, weeping and repenting, "Big Brother, I truly know I was wrong! Please, I really can't kill you! I promise I won't do evil ever again!"

The other seven accomplices also scrambled to offer desperate guarantees, even swearing poisonous oaths that they would never dare to do evil again.

"Big Brother, they know they were wrong. Let's go," Wukong said with an innocent smile.

Li Shu ignored Wukong. He looked at the group of thugs and sneered inwardly. They were all lying; once he left, they would surely bully the weak to vent their inner fear.

The reason was simple: the system had not prompted him that the mission was complete, despite their admissions.

This meant these villains hadn't turned over a new leaf, but were merely biding their time after weighing the pros and cons.

Li Shu regretted bringing Wukong along; otherwise, he could have finished them all off and completed the mission easily.

"Write down your home addresses, the names of your family members, close friends, secret crushes—anyone you care about, write them all down for me." Since he couldn't kill them outright, he decided to fight evil with evil to complete this mission.

As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of Yellow Hair and the others turned pale with terror.

"Don't want to write?" Li Shu's gaze turned cold. With a flick of his finger, a beam of energy shot out, piercing straight through Yellow Hair's right leg. "Then I'll take one leg from each of you first, and then you can continue writing."

Yellow Hair clutched his knee, letting out a painful shriek. Abandoning any hope of luck, he wailed, "I'll write, I'll write! But we don't have pens or paper!"

The other seven watched the scene in horror, the timid ones already wetting their pants.

Wukong frowned; this was the first time he felt his Big Brother was so like a stranger.

"Can you learn your lesson by writing with pen and paper?" Li Shu sneered. "Yellow Hair's knee is still bleeding; don't waste it. Dip your fingers in that and write on the ground."

"Still not writing? Do you think there isn't enough blood?" Seeing their hesitation, Li Shu raised his finger and aimed at one of the Green Hair's accomplices. A beam of energy shot out, piercing his thigh, and blood began to gush out instantly.

Such a terrifying sight dispelled all their hesitation. They rushed toward Green Hair and Yellow Hair, dipping their fingers into the blood flowing from their wounds and frantically scribbling on the ground.

They were terrified that they would be the next to be injured.

"Big Brother, isn't this too cruel?" Wukong frowned deeply, clearly unhappy.

Li Shu sighed and said, "Wukong, look around you first."

Wukong looked around in confusion and discovered that the doors of the houses, previously tightly shut, were now cracked open.

Several figures stood in the gaps, cautiously watching the scene unfolding before them.

Most of their expressions were filled with a sense of vindication.

"If you truly cannot accept Big Brother's actions, why don't you go around and ask what these villains have done to them?" Li Shu said, restraining his patience.

Wukong nodded and hurried off to ask.

Seeing Wukong approach, the residents were so frightened that they quickly shut their doors and windows again.

"I want to ask, what evil deeds have they done?" Wukong stopped outside a house and asked loudly.

Li Shu merely glanced at Wukong's direction before withdrawing his gaze to re-examine the group of thugs.

"If I find out that any of you dare to do evil again, I will kill your entire family. Remember, your entire family." Li Shu's voice, cold as a demon's, made Yellow Hair and the others tremble uncontrollably.

They regretted deeply why they had ever provoked this devil.

"It seems there isn't enough blood?" Li Shu muttered. Just as he was about to act, a Green Hair quickly pulled out a dagger and shouted, "Big Brother! We'll take care of it ourselves!"

The Green Hair stabbed Yellow Hair's thigh directly. He hated Yellow Hair to the core now and wished he were dead!

He showed no mercy in drawing the blood, specifically targeting the arteries.

Yellow Hair let out a pig-like scream as blood gushed out like a fountain.

Even Li Shu couldn't bear to watch. He took out a Senzu Bean and fed it to Yellow Hair, then told the others, "Feel free to stab; as long as there is a breath left, I can save you."

Sure enough, the wounds on Yellow Hair's body healed instantly. This medical miracle did not bring these people any peace of mind.

Instead, it brought only deep, profound terror and unease.

Five minutes later, the ground was covered in a dense thicket of names written in fresh blood, and Li Shu took out his camera to snap a photo.

"These are all real, right?" Li Shu asked.

Everyone nodded repeatedly, watching him with trembling fear.

"Very good. Now, let me ask you all again: will you commit evil deeds in the future?" Li Shu asked with a cold, stern expression.

"We won't," the eight of them replied, their voices shaking.

However, the system prompt still did not sound.