"Very good."
Cao Zhengchun nodded in satisfaction.
His gaze swept over the crowd and their varied expressions, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
Yue Xiaofei.
Didn't you want to draw your sword?
Didn't you want to cause a scene?
Today, I've built you the most magnificent stage in the world, right here.
Let's see if you dare to come!
If you show yourself, I guarantee you'll die without even a place to be buried!
As he entertained those thoughts-
Suddenly!
Bzzzt-
The giant electronic screens on every building along Changping Street, every roadside billboard, every bus stop display...
All went black at that instant, without the slightest warning!
Then!
Every screen abruptly lit up again at the same time!
The glossy advertisements were gone.
In their place was a blood-red darkness!
An icy, utterly emotionless synthesized voice rang out across Changping Street through every loudspeaker!
"Honored guests, dear viewers."
"Welcome to this special program, brought to you exclusively by the [Reverse Scale] squad."
"'Human Weapon Cao Longxiang-A Life of Evil.'"
As the voice fell silent-
The images on every screen abruptly changed!
Bloody, brutal, utterly horrifying videos began playing on a loop!
The footage had been filmed in a small, war-torn country overseas.
Its star was none other than the "star" of today's funeral, Cao Longxiang!
Onscreen, he grinned savagely as he mowed down unarmed civilians with a machine gun!
He used captured prisoners of war as living targets, torturing and killing them at will!
Scene after scene, atrocity after atrocity-crimes too numerous to count-were laid bare before everyone!
All of Changping Street fell deathly silent!
Everyone stared slack-jawed at the hellish scenes onscreen, their minds completely blank!
The Cao Family's second young master, whom they had described as refined, gentle, and exceptionally gifted...
Was actually a deranged demon