Chapter 658 - 431: Do Your Best to Kill Me [1]

「Inside Cyan Ridge Manor.」

Hu Qi sat quietly on the sofa, oblivious to the chaos outside.

Vera and Zhou Zhipeng exchanged a glance, hesitating to speak.

"Don’t mind me."

Hu Qi’s voice was calm, and he didn’t even raise his head.

"If you want to go out, then go."

Side Mission Three: Shed Blood

Mission Description: Kill a human Slaughterer to receive a 30-point reward (stackable).

To put it bluntly, human Slaughterers were just people who killed indiscriminately on Slaughter Day.

And the rewards for killing them were stackable.

The world outside was almost entirely filled with people like that.

After all, any normal person who hadn’t left would be finding a place to hide, not appearing out in the open.

Under these circumstances,

the two of them were indeed growing restless. The profits from such a hunt were incredibly tempting.

"Boss, I’d rather stick with you!"

Zhou Zhipeng spoke first, his tone firm.

Vera opened her mouth, but the words caught in her throat, and she had no choice but to swallow them.

Although Zhou Zhipeng came from an ancient dynasty, he had recently come to understand the true terror of firearms.

At close range, he might be able to dodge or parry a bullet from an ordinary handgun with his skills.

But against multiple firearms, let alone the concentrated fire of a machine gun, even his formidable skills wouldn’t prevent him from being instantly riddled with holes.

And that wasn’t even mentioning the more terrifying heavy weaponry.

He would need to break through to the level of a Second-Class Postnatal Martial Artist and be able to project his Inner Energy externally.

Vera had her own concerns as well.

While her Spiritual Hypnosis Ability could control ordinary people, she was physically no different from a normal person.

During the chaos of Slaughter Day, the slightest mistake could be fatal.

What’s more, other Intern Readers were lurking in the city, and acting rashly was too great a risk.

For now, the safest choice was to stick close to Hu Qi.

Hu Qi knew exactly what they were thinking but didn’t say anything.

...

「Meanwhile, outside Cyan Ridge Manor.」

Dim yellow streetlights swayed in the night, stretching the shadows of several squads of armed thugs into grotesque, distorted shapes.

They carried assorted firearms, their tactical vests laden with magazines, converging on Cyan Ridge Manor like hyenas that had caught the scent of blood.

As Shenmu City’s most exclusive residential area, Cyan Ridge Manor naturally became a juicy target for thugs on Slaughter Day.

However, its security system was a world apart from anywhere else.

A faint red warning light flashed atop the high walls, and automated defense systems hidden within the greenery had silently activated.

At this moment,

Cyan Ridge Manor’s security team was on high alert.

They were all veterans, retired from the battlefield.

Each one held their post with the precision of a finely tuned instrument.

Their generous annual salaries, combined with a strict professional code of conduct, ensured they would continue to protect the homeowners’ safety, even in the chaos of Slaughter Day.

Inside the surveillance room, the security chief stared at the approaching red dots on the screen.

He keyed his communicator. "All units, be advised. Intruders detected on the perimeter of Zone A. Execute Defense Protocol B."

"Copy!"

The response was crisp and clear.

This was one of Cyan Ridge Manor’s greatest selling points.

Even as Shenmu City descended into madness, this place remained the last bastion of order.

It was precisely this priceless peace of mind that kept property values here consistently high.

Furthermore, due to the special rules of Slaughter Day, the authorities, while tacitly permitting the proliferation of firearms, strictly prohibited weapons of mass destruction, such as rocket launchers.

If any were found, the authorities would forcibly intervene and confiscate them.

After all, the city had to resume normal operations in four days.

More importantly,

if corpses were blown to smithereens, they couldn’t produce Yin Energy, let alone give rise to Yin Beasts.

The Yin Beasts lurking in the upper echelons of human society would never allow such a thing to happen.

However, the temptation to loot the wealthy districts was simply too great.

A single famous painting or antique could easily be worth tens of millions.

Getting their hands on just one piece could make an ordinary person rich overnight.

Driven by greed, there were always people willing to take the risk.

In an instant,

a fierce firefight erupted between Cyan Ridge Manor’s security and the besieging armed thugs.

Bullets rained down, reaping lives one by one.

As retired soldiers, the security guards of Cyan Ridge Manor were all battle-hardened.

Within the first moments of the engagement,

they easily cut down a group of the armed thugs.

However, while the armed thugs lacked the experience and combat training of the security team, they had a clear numerical advantage.

Faced with this huge disparity in numbers,

and the thugs’ reckless attacks, even the veteran security guards couldn’t avoid taking some casualties.

But that was the extent of it.

Thanks to the manor’s defensive installations,

the thugs simply couldn’t break through.

The two sides were quickly locked in a stalemate.

However, under normal circumstances,

if they couldn’t break in,

and with their numbers constantly dwindling,

the armed thugs would likely choose to retreat.

After all, they were in it for the money; they didn’t actually have a death wish.

...

The night poured down like thick ink, and heavy clouds churned across the sky like the spine of some ancient behemoth.

Suddenly, a ghastly white bolt of lightning split the curtain of clouds. In its fleeting flash,

it illuminated another part of Cyan Ridge Manor.

"Scar Brother, Cyan Ridge Manor is one of the top three luxury residential areas in Shenmu City. The people who live here are either rich or powerful, and its security system is supposed to be impregnable.

Maybe... maybe we should pick another target..."

In the woods,

a fully armed man in a skull mask stared at the imposing facade of Cyan Ridge Manor.