237: Space, coordinates

“Ptooey~” Lin Sen, stark naked, spat out a tooth, his eyes fixed on Yang Dian:

“I underestimated you.”

“But you also underestimated me!”

As his voice fell, Lin Sen, who was clutched in the Qi and blood hand, suddenly vanished, leaving behind only a three-centimeter-long, one-centimeter-thick withered branch, still clinging to flesh and blood, tightly gripped by the Qi and blood hand.

“Hiss~” Yang Dian couldn't help but gasp as Lin Sen's aura disappeared from his perception.

“He stuffed the withered branch into his body as a medium to activate his ability.”

“This old man is really ruthless to himself~”

“If he's so ruthless to himself, can he still care about his wife and children?”

“Could it be a weakness he's intentionally displaying for others to see...?”

After muttering a couple of sentences, Yang Dian leaped from his spot, and with a few blinks, he arrived beside Su Ling, whose abilities had been Sealed:

“I heard Lin Sen say earlier that he always thinks of his wife and children at home. Is that true or false?”

Su Ling glanced at Yang Dian, then closed her eyes, remaining silent.

“Oh, playing the hero?”

As his words fell, Yang Dian flicked his finger.

Qi and blood formed a palm that landed on Su Ling, severing her tendons and disrupting her meridians.

“Aow~~~” An inhuman shriek came from Su Ling’s mouth, making Lin Xiyue, who was nearby, tremble.

Yang Dian simply shifted his gaze to Lin Xiyue:

“What about you?”

“Do you know?”

Lin Xiyue shook her head frantically:

“I don’t know anything.”

“I only Awakened a month ago, and I only met Uncle Lin Sen a month ago.”

“During this month, I've been training my Awakening abilities. Uncle Lin Sen called me out this time.”

“I really don't know anything.”

Watching Lin Xiyue shake her head so hard it created afterimages, Yang Dian pursed his lips in exasperation.

Was he really that terrifying?

With a casual flick, he restored Su Ling's meridians to their original state, then Yang Dian asked again:

“Can you speak now?”

Sweating profusely, with fresh blood oozing from the wound on her chest, Su Ling's face was pale. She nodded, her lips trembling:

“Lin Sen and his wife were middle school classmates. He had a big fight with his Family to marry her back then, and only after he Awakened his abilities and gained status in the Family did he manage to bring her home.”

“He loves his wife very much and dotes on his son and daughter.”

“During all those years he was abroad, I never saw or heard any news of him getting involved with other women.”

Yang Dian frowned and nodded, then asked again:

“Were there only five of you ambushing me? Besides you, were there any others?”

Su Ling smiled bitterly and shook her head:

“Just the five of us.”

“All of us are City-Level combatants. The five of us acting together against just one of you was already considering all sorts of contingencies.”

“Who knew your strength was far greater than what you showed.”

Saying that, she gave a self-deprecating smile:

“If those old men knew you were this strong, they probably wouldn't dare to target you, would they?”

“Hehe, this time they've lost both their wife and their army.”

Yang Dian frowned in thought, then spoke again:

“Why did you fake your deaths and escape abroad?”

“Are there many people like you?”

“And what level of strength has your Family reached?”

“For example, your Su Family, how many City-Level individuals does it have?”

Su Ling chuckled, “Faking death to escape, isn't that just a normal thing to do?”

“The Earth has 165 million square kilometers of land area. How much of that does the entire Huaxia occupy?”

“In this small place, nearly one-third of the world's high-end extraordinary combat power is clustered, and there's also a Dr. Bai who has advanced technology to who knows what extent.”

“Above, there's the Sky Net satellite monitoring the territory 24/7, and below, there are ground-level cameras monitoring streets and alleys in real-time.”

“Awakened and Martial Artists, if they commit a small offense domestically, they end up in jail. Even resource allocation has to adhere to some concept of fairness. How is that like the freedom abroad?”

“If it's hard to get by domestically, can't we go abroad?”

“Abroad is so good. If I see something good, this old lady...”

After glancing at Yang Dian, Su Ling reorganized her words before saying:

“Abroad, if I see something good that I want, I just take it. Killing to silence witnesses is just a normal thing.”

“If it's hard to snatch resources domestically, we go abroad to snatch them.”

“We faked our deaths to escape because the Family wanted us to hide our identities as a secret trump card, so that in future crises, we could launch a fatal blow against enemies.”

“I didn't expect to fall into your hands today.”

Yang Dian nodded thoughtfully:

“So, those cults and such, you're all secretly supporting them?”

“Why only cults?” Su Ling's face showed the unique arrogance of a Family scion:

“Large and small financial groups and forces abroad, we have our hands in more or less all of them.”

Looking at Su Ling, Yang Dian couldn't help but slowly exhale.

He could only say that it was indeed a great Family that had passed down for who knew how many generations; their vision was truly broad.

Unlike in novels, where they only knew how to stir up trouble in the small corner of Huaxia.

They even knew that the Huaxia, this Hell instance, was hard to get by in, so they went to other novice instances to fight small monsters.

Unfortunately, this time they targeted him and ended up losing both their wife and their army.

Thinking of this, Yang Dian glanced at the rhomboid mirror gate again:

“What's the deal with that rhomboid mirror gate?”

Yang Dian, who had merely glanced and then withdrawn his gaze, suddenly felt something was off and immediately turned back to look at the mirror gate.

“Hmm?”

Upon closer inspection, Yang Dian realized that the rhomboid mirror gate seemed to have become two parts more ethereal.

Leading Su Ling and the other two to the front of the rhomboid mirror gate, Yang Dian discovered that, at some point, a girl with fluorescent blue inscriptions tattooed all over her body had appeared on the other side of the mirror gate.

At this moment, the girl was half-kneeling before the mirror gate, holding a fluorescent blue conical dagger, trying hard to insert the dagger into a blue runic array.

Each time the dagger approached the array by a fraction, a bright blue energy ripple would burst forth from the array, and the mirror gate in front of Yang Dian would become one part more ethereal.

“Is she trying to run?”

In his murmur, the girl, who was holding the dagger poised to strike down, raised her head, and across the mirror gate, her eyes met Yang Dian's.

Yang Dian clearly saw panic in her eyes.

“So, she really is trying to run?”

After a moment of contemplation, Yang Dian took out the unknown creature's egg from his pocket and placed it on the mirror gate.

“Tap~”

The mirror gate was ethereal.

But when the egg attached to it, a real, undeniable suction sound was heard.

Then Yang Dian saw the panic in the girl's eyes turn into confusion, then into astonishment, and finally into terror.

Across the mirror gate, just by seeing her eyes, Yang Dian could feel the despair emanating from her.

“So, what is this little guy?”

He reached out and touched the new silver vertical line on the back of the egg, and a piece of information emerged in Yang Dian's mind.

“Space, coordinates?”