The underlings' startled cries exploded through the stairwell.
One Black Scorpion member after another immediately dropped what they were doing and filed out of their rooms. Among them were the stubbled man and the park's supervisor, Kong Wenyu.
"What's going on?"
"Someone came here to kill people?"
"They've got some nerve!"
The stubbled man shouted as a crowd of underlings gathered behind him. They were all elite fighters from the park, and quite a few were A-Rank Awakened.
"Brothers, come on! Let's go out and take a look!"
His call drew an immediate response.
However, Supervisor Kong Wenyu frowned, sensing that something was off. The slaughter outside seemed premeditated.
Although quite a few Black Scorpion members were twisted and killed for fun, none of them would indiscriminately attack their own companions... and if there were any, they would have been subdued or dealt with long ago.
"Everyone should be more careful. We don't know where those people came from."
"It's fine, Brother Kong. There are so many of us. Could they really turn the world upside down?"
The stubbled man was utterly unconcerned.
He assumed they were merely survivors who had escaped, or Awakened from a shelter who had snuck in to rescue people.
Similar incidents had happened before.
Then the group rushed downstairs in a menacing wave. Yet the moment they reached the outside, all their expressions changed, their faces filled with horror.
The courtyard was now covered in corpses. Bodies lay strewn everywhere; some had been severed at the waist, their upper halves still crawling.
The trail of blood was horrifying, and internal organs had been scattered across the ground.
"Help... help me!"
The half-man crawled to the stubbled man and reached out to him. Blood gushed wildly from his mouth, and his eyes were filled with