"Ah!"
A piercing scream rang through the woods. Kawashima Minako felt an agonizing pain shoot through her lower body.
Everything below the tops of her thighs had been crushed into the ground, her bones and flesh mixed with the soil. The intense pain made her scream once before she passed out completely.
Unconsciousness was a protective mechanism of the human body, sending its various parts into shock to reduce stimulation of the nerves.
Before making an incision during surgery, doctors generally used anesthesia to deliberately render patients unconscious and lessen their pain.
But Chen Jue's method of crushing the lower half of Kawashima Minako's body proved rather more effective than any anesthetic.
Of course, Chen Jue had been so ruthless because that was his nature: he treated his own people with the gentleness of a spring breeze, but once he identified someone as an enemy, he employed brutally decisive measures.
Even though the woman before him was stunningly beautiful, with looks and a figure outstanding enough to easily become an online influencer with millions of followers, Chen Jue had already sentenced her to death in his mind the moment she attacked him.
He had only left her barely alive because he wanted to extract more information from her. After all, the footwork and force-release moves she had used were martial arts with significant origins.
"You're bleeding out!"
"Oh well, I'll keep you alive for now." Chen Jue watched the blood spurting from Kawashima Minako's lower body gradually stain the ground red, then grabbed her and held her up in front of him like a ragged sack.
Then his right hand turned red, his entire palm resembling a red-hot branding iron as he lightly passed it over her bleeding wounds.
A sizzling sound rang through the woods, and a peculiar aroma