The crystal shattering meant that the owner of the contract had died for good.
She Haqiang's legs gave out, and he dropped straight to his knees. He stared blankly at the handful of grayish-white powder in his palm, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.
"How... how is this possible..."
The commander of the Qin Character Legion's Ace Division, a former cold-blooded killer, went deathly pale. "I... I personally gave the order to kill the commander?!!"
Countless rare materials disintegrated, spreading the terrible news far more starkly and violently than word of mouth ever could.
The Crystal Coins issued by the United Government had been minted with crushed Crimson Crystals physically mixed into them, and every last one was destroyed.
And nearly all the Crimson Crystals, titan reed, and Vine Hearts that Qin Siyang had initially traded away had been bound to him by contracts. These things had long since become high-grade hard currency circulating on the market.
At the moment of his death,
in the military supply depots of the major War Readiness Zones, in black market traders' pockets, and in the Storage Boxes of many powerful individuals, those materials all disintegrated at the same instant, turning into heaps of ash.
Only the rare materials held by a few people close to Qin Siyang survived, because theirs were unbound raw materials from the second batch he had acquired.
This upheaval, affecting the entire Safe Zone's leadership and powerful individuals, told everyone a brutal truth-
Qin Siyang was dead.
Ring, ring, ring-
Immediately afterward, Qian Wendao's phone rang.
Looking at the name "Li Tianming" on the screen, he let out an exhausted, anguished sigh.
Then he answered. "Professor Li."
"Secretary-General Qian, what happened to Xiao Qin?!" On the other end, the usually refined and gentle Li Tianming's voice had cracked completely.
Bang!