189: Chapter 189 The Fifth World

After being unbound,

Yamanouchi Masato signed his name on the agreement while enduring the pain, and the other three did the same. They understood that if they didn't sign, they certainly wouldn't leave this place.

"Can you take me to a hospital? I need to stop the bleeding and get bandaged," Yamanouchi Masato said hoarsely, with a hint of a survivor's plea. Blood had already soaked the fabric on both his shoulders.

"That won't be necessary," Zhou Hui said, his eyes flickering after putting the agreement away. "It'll be faster to send you to see Amaterasu."

"You...!"

Yamanouchi Masato's eyes nearly split from rage. He struggled to pounce forward, but his body, weakened by excessive blood loss, made him stumble.

Zhou Hui's movements were so fast they were a mere blur. The small knife in his hand accurately pierced Yamanouchi Masato's heart. With a slight twist of his wrist, he completely crushed the man's life force. Yamanouchi Masato fell with his eyes wide open, his final consciousness filled only with boundless darkness...

Next, Zhou Hui's knife was incredibly fast. One person had their throat pierced, and another was skewered through the jaw straight into the brain... The entire process took less than ten seconds, and all three had fallen to the ground.

Blood flowed all over the floor.

The smell of blood was overwhelming.

This horrifying scene made the stomachs of Luke and Sophia, who had never encountered such a bloody situation, churn violently.

Sophia made retching sounds, tears welling up uncontrollably. Luke's legs went weak, and he had to reach out to support himself against the wall to barely remain standing, his face as pale as paper.

It was only then that they truly realized the Security Director, who usually appeared somewhat honest and simple, was actually a ruthless man who killed without blinking.

After a good while,

Luke finally recovered from the discomfort. Watching Zhou Hui and the others cleaning up the scene, he said, "Director Zhou, these agreements haven't been notarized yet, and now they're dead..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear. With the people dead, wouldn't these agreements, which required the shareholders' personal presence or authorized notarization, become waste paper?

But Luke didn't dare not remind them. He was afraid Zhou Hui would mince him into fine pieces.

"Who said they're dead?"

Zhou Hui shook his head indifferently and took out a small black box from the room, styled like a briefcase.

Once opened, four human skin masks as thin as cicada wings were neatly arranged inside, giving off an eerie skin-like luster under the light.

There were also two devices next to them.

Four men from the Comprehensive Department stepped forward and began operating skillfully. One used a device to scan the corpses' irises, another extracted fingerprints to make thin films, while the other two began adjusting the fit of the masks.

In just ten minutes, after putting on contact lenses with replicated irises, the four "resurrected" Yamanouchi brothers stood before them. Aside from slight differences in physique, Luke actually couldn't see any other differences; even the color of their pupils was identical.

My god! This method shocked Luke, but what shocked him even more was that this operation was premeditated. Whether Yamanouchi and the others agreed or not, there was only one path: death...

What was behind the company?

A deep chill arose in Luke's heart. At the same time, he decided that he must never stand on the opposite side of the company, or else he wouldn't even know how he died.

"Alright, find a time to go to the stock exchange," Zhou Hui said nonchalantly after wiping the knife clean. Just as Luke thought, the mission he received was to wipe these people out completely.

Of all people to offend, they had to offend his boss, who was known for being petty and vengeful; he held grudges very well.

Thinking of some past events, Zhou Hui felt his whole body ache.

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Two days later,

Third-Party Technology successfully took over the shares of Nintendo, becoming the company's largest shareholder. Immediately, they arranged a board reorganization, cleared out all irrelevant personnel from management on grounds of suspected embezzlement and leaking trade secrets, and installed their own people.

From then on, Nintendo became a place where Third-Party Technology Company had the final say.

Lin Fang also received this news. After replying with a "well done," Lin Fang looked at a movie in front of him, lost in thought.

Inside, that yellow lightning rat was wearing a detective hat and drinking coffee. Its adorable appearance had once captured the hearts of countless young girls; it was indeed Pikachu.

This movie was titled "Detective Pikachu."

Lin Fang had watched it no less than ten times by now. Having Zhou Hui and the others acquire Nintendo, besides giving those death-seeking fools a lesson, the remaining purpose was to take over this franchise.

Because the fifth plane was very likely the pokémon world shown in this movie.

At first, Lin Fang didn't believe it either. Based on the other worlds visited through the Black Star, how could such strange creatures appear? Their abilities were not simple: breathing fire, controlling lightning, healing light...

This violated too many known common senses of physics and biology, and these were supernatural abilities that many people envied.

Lin Fang recalled the scene when he first entered the new world. At that time, he appeared in an unfamiliar jungle and saw the murderer about to kill him—a wild monster. This upright four-armed strange creature had caused Lin Fang to suffer a setback. If he hadn't run fast and used a sneak-attack rocket, he would have already died at its hands.

But in the blink of an eye, the unlucky guy he possessed encountered a ghostly shadow.

The result was self-evident. Since the Venom World, Lin Fang hadn't experienced the taste of a failed extraction for a long time, but he ended up suffering a loss at the hands of these strange creatures.

But existence is reasonable.

Lin Fang planned to catch a few and bring them back for the base scientists to study; they would surely be very interested.

Lin Fang looked back at the plot. The story background of this movie was set in Lime City, a metropolis where humans and pokémon coexisted.

The plot revolved around a young man named Tim Goodman. To investigate the mysterious car accident death of his father, Harry Goodman, a detective, he came to Lime City. In his father's office, Tim unexpectedly met his father's former pokémon partner, a Pikachu who claimed to be a great detective.

The later plot was the cliché of defeating the villain and saving the world...

So, what was valuable in this world? Lin Fang didn't care about anything else, only whether his plunder points would be abundant enough.

Not many technologies appeared in the movie. What interested Lin Fang, besides the R-virus that made pokémon go crazy, was the Poké Ball. This small device could actually convert complex living organisms into a pure energy state for storage and transmission.

If this technology could be cracked and reverse-engineered, the base would gain an unprecedented capability for biological transport, imprisonment, and even instant deployment.

From this perspective, this world was truly interesting.

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