Chapter 959 - 289: Normal

Tattoos of black stripes covered his entire face, appearing unusually sinister, reminiscent of entities distinct from humans. The man stared at the beautiful woman leaning against the wall, speaking calmly:

"Too bad, the item isn’t on you. Tell me where it is now, and I’ll let you go, how about it, Black Rose~"

The woman named Black Rose gritted her teeth, letting out a cold snort: "Dream on, I’d rather die than tell you... You disgusting people!"

"You’ve been targeting us before?"

The fact that the opponent appeared here coincidentally meant it was not just chance but that they had been following them earlier, otherwise they wouldn’t show up precisely at this moment.

"Haha." The man laughed loudly, licking his parched lips with his tongue, "No, I’ve had my eye on you since I first saw you."

"Isn’t it quite a surprise!"

Black Rose felt the man’s gaze, furrowing her brows involuntarily, sensing danger. She understood that in her current state, she wouldn’t possibly be an opponent for this person, who was famously notorious - Black Snake Hand, incredibly powerful. Even if she wasn’t injured, she might still not be his match.

She abruptly drew a short knife from her waist, attempting to stab her neck without any hesitation, thinking of suicide the moment she saw Black Snake’s first instant. She foresaw that once captured by him, the pain would surely worsen.

"Too slow!"

The man walked towards her step by step, his lips curled upward.

Before the blade could touch her neck, it halted. Black stripes appeared on her hand holding the knife, controlling the muscles of her arm, rendering her immobile.

"Too bad, you’re still afraid."

He walked over, grabbing her left hand holding the knife with one hand and grasping her neck with the other, speaking softly. The tattoos on his face seemed to come alive, continuously moving, appearing exceptionally terrifying and hideous.

"Fear breeds fear, despair naturally comes from despair. Once fear arises, your heart will be dominated, which isn’t suitable for an Enforcement Officer."

He leaned closer to her face, taking a deep breath, showing comfort on his face as he continued to exert force on her neck.

Fear gripped the woman’s face, turning pale from asphyxiation.

Until the crisp sound of bones breaking was heard.

Continuous heartrending screams emanated from the building, attracting the nearby streets’ zombies, slowly calming down afterward.

Black Rose lay silently on the ground, covered in blood, seemingly dead, then suddenly opened her eyes, pupils filled with dead silence, a color only seen in corpses.

She slowly rose from the ground, black stripes appearing on her exposed skin.

"Hmm, seems like I’ve delayed too long, hope I won’t get scolded."

Black Snake Hand stood up from the ground, tidying his clothes. His expression completely changed from before, sighing with regret, realizing he might have messed up.

...

The hallucination before his eyes grew severe, with colors and shapes constantly changing.

Huangmao clutched the beating heart, finding it increasingly difficult to run fast, until his body staggered.

Unsure whether it was from holding the heart too long or if he was too weak, the pollution deepened, and he lost distinction between reality and illusion, even running straight into a wall, which cracked in the middle, injuring him badly.

"Run!"

The captain’s voice sounded from behind.

He sluggishly glanced back, seeing a stranger lunging at him, wielding a sharp ax, filled with murderous intent.

Even amidst temporary consciousness blur, he realized others were attacking them, his body turned into a blue phantom, rolling sideways, narrowly dodging the strike.

Boom~

The sound of firearms echoed, the sunglasses-wearing captain arrived, killing the attacker with one shot.

He saw a horse’s corpse explode before him, blood splattering over his face, icy cold. Upon closer inspection, it was a person, the hallucination severely affecting him, hindering normal movement.

The captain’s voice urged again, "Take the item and go, I’ll hold them off, hurry!"

Huangmao’s twitching face expressed anguish, yet he grabbed the baby on the ground, exerting all his effort running, a huge mouth gradually engulfing him with a stench of saliva.

"Chase, don’t let him escape." Two individuals tried intercepting Huangmao from the side, but golden sand grains from the side penetrated their bodies, forcing them to halt.

The sunglasses-wearing Law Enforcement Team Captain, displaying extraordinary combat prowess, single-handedly hindered seven or eight people, giving Huangmao space to flee.

Two factions engaged in this area, vying solely for the pulsating, alluring red heart.

Su Changxing, monitoring through zombie control, witnessed this, extremely surprised, never expected these people to be this crazed over such an item, behaving like maniacs.

Yes, these people have already gone mad.

It seems like the heart being fought over, yet isn’t it that heart controlling everything?

He then noticed Huangmao slipping into the ruins, when unnoticed by all, like an addict, shakily retrieving a palm-sized glass bottle from a backpack, containing a hexagonal black crystal.