Chapter 58: Ultra Escape (1/2)
[Volume 2 - Bloom of the Other Shore Flower]
“No. The scene is extremely clean, and no clues were left behind. The culprit must be a pro.”
Wu Zhengnan paced around the room as his killing intent leaked and caused the temperature inside the office to drop rapidly.
He suddenly stood still in front of the window and looked at the soldiers who were still training at the drilling grounds and said coldly, “Just because your men couldn’t find anything doesn’t mean that there are no clues to be found. You can ignore this matter. I will ask Dark Blade to take over!”
Qi Sicheng’s facial muscles twitched. Dark Blade was anything but a happy term.
Wu Zhengnan thought for a moment and added, “Go check if Qi Yue had recently done some things and offended someone. The trade may have been found out by accident because someone set their sights on him.”
“Yes sir!” Qi Sicheng was secretly impressed. Wu Zhengnan might be tough and forthright on the outside, but he was in fact a competitive and ruthless person. The reason he was able to maintain his position for so many years was because his work was watertight.
When Qi Sicheng left, Wu Zhengnan pressed a button beneath the corner of the office table. Moments later, a monstrous-looking person walked into the room.
This man was almost two meters tall, but he was unusually and had extraordinarily long limbs. His skin was pale white, and his eyebrows and hair were a faded yellow so faint that it was nearly indiscernible. Moreover, this person had a bizarre pair of vertical, amber-colored pupils. It looked like the eyes of some sort of reptile.
The man asked immediately after he passed through the door, “Who are we killing this time, general?”
“Qi Yue is dead. Find his killer and bring them back to me alive if possible. If it’s inconvenient then a dead body is fine too. My only request is that they must die a painful death! Do whatever you want besides that one requirement. You don’t have to worry about their status either!” Wu Zhengnan said fiercely.
Surprisingly, he was able to be forthright with his emotions in front of this person.
The strange man was startled for a moment before he said, “So the young master is dead! Alright, how many men can you afford me?”
Wu Zhengnan waved a hand and said, “You may mobilize the Dark Blades however you like!”
The strange man stretched out his long, scarlet tongue and actually licked his own nose with it. Then he smiled sinisterly and said, “Don’t worry. There’s no way this person is escaping Yu Renyan’s grasp no matter who he is.”
“Go! I await your good news.”
Yu Renyan retreated from Wu Zhengnan’s office. When he passed by the female aide, he suddenly twisted his upper body at a bizarre angle and nearly pressed himself to the woman’s face. Then, he licked the woman’s neck strongly with his long tongue!
Caught off guard, the female aide instantly lost all color on her face. However, she immediately recovered and stood as straight as she possibly could. However, she dared not cry out or even show signs that she wanted to avoid him.
Yu Renyan let out a tapering laugh, casting her a sideway glance before striding away from the place.
Half a day later, Yu Renyan brought a dozen or so people to where Qi Yue was murdered for a careful investigation. Qi Sicheng’s subordinates had already searched through this place multiple times already, and their investigation yielded no additional results.
Then, they headed towards the vampires’ remains.
Yu Renyan suddenly crouched and picked up a body part from the ground. He played around with the body part and inspected it closely before he picked up a broken strand of hair from the body part.
Suddenly, he stretched out his tongue and swallowed the strand just like that. After tasting it carefully for a very long time, he said, “This is the murderer’s hair. I have memorized his scent.”
Yu Renyan revealed a cruel smile. There was nothing more he loved to hunt than living prey.
The traces that murderer had left behind were surprisingly few. It was obvious that he was a pro. However, it was exactly because he was a pro that it was fun to kill him. He tossed the body part high up into the air as his mouth suddenly became unusually huge. He actually swallowed it in a single gulp. Then, he picked up another body part while looking like he wanted more. He actually looked like he enjoyed the “taste” of these body parts a lot.
However, Yu Renyan didn’t simply consume the new body part. Instead, he carefully tasted it, even as his facial expression grew odder and odder. Suddenly, he opened his mouth and vomited everything he just swallowed.
The vomiting became uncontrollable the moment he started. In the end, Yu Renyan even lay on the ground and vomited until he almost fainted!
The Dark Blades garbed completely in black robes might have gotten used to Yu Renyan’s strange actions a long time ago, but they had never seen him like this before.
They looked at each other in dismay. Yu Renyan looked like he had eaten something bad, but the fact was no one had ever seen Yu Renyan suffering from a stomach ache before. He literally thrived on rotten meat like a real vulture. However, no one dared to ask Yu Renyan a thing before he spoke up first.
Yu Renyan continued to vomit until even his gastric juices and bile were completely gone before he finally collapsed on the ground and panted heavily.
While panting, he suddenly began to laugh neurotically and muttered to himself, “Interesting! How interesting! This poison specifically targets the black blood, but I don’t even have a clue what it is! Not bad. This is what makes for an interesting hunt! Follow me, you all!”
He suddenly bounced up to the air and flipped before he landed on all fours. Then, he moved swiftly like a large insect with his face almost pressing on the ground. He sniffed the ground non-stop with his nose and ran all the way to the north.
The Dark Blade warriors knew that Yu Renyan had already found a scent to follow. They silently followed behind him.
These people were elites who were seldomly seen even among the expeditionary forces, and Yu Renyan was their leader. Yu Renyan had the chance to enter a top ten special corps in the past, but he ultimately chose the expeditionary forces because the Evernight Continent was the only place he could completely let loose and do whatever he pleased.