The name spoken by the Night Watch officer seemed to be a taboo no one could touch for the Mountain Lord. He seized the officer's head, his five fingers clamping onto the man's skin like iron pincers.
Strange black markings writhed across the Mountain Lord's neck, and malice instantly filled the eyes behind his bronze mask.
"An Luan, the Night Watch has investigated this thoroughly. You were the one who killed your wife and daughter that day! There was no attack by thugs. It was all just your excuse to join Wansheng. You'd do anything to climb higher. You're a rabid dog who'd even eat the corpses of his own family just to survive!"
Bang!
Blood and flesh splattered across the house's wall, and a headless corpse slowly collapsed.
A few seconds later, the Mountain Lord stepped over the blood and the Night Watch uniform and walked outside. A subordinate who had followed him for years stood respectfully on guard.
"Are any of the others nearby?" The Mountain Lord wiped the blood from his hands.
"No. Before the interrogation, I sent them to stand guard farther away."
"Well done." The Mountain Lord drew his pistol and blew the man's head apart the next instant.
With the man's dying eyes still filled with incomprehension, the Mountain Lord strode away. "That Night Watch officer was deliberately trying to confuse me. I am the Mountain Lord. I am Wansheng's Mountain Lord."
The cold wind howled as though it would blow them all off the platform. They barely managed to keep their footing as they listened to the rumbling from the tunnel. A foul stench drew closer, and even the wind carried the smell of blood.
"It's coming!" Ci Nian did not say the train was coming. He huddled into himself and said that