Fifty meters away from the unnamed hospital, in a shabby alley transformed from a forsaken mine, a miner who seemed to be lying on the ground and too drunk to stand on his feet was in fact "Shadowless" Duan Rui, one of the best killers at the edge of the Imperium.
His invisible blades were even more unpredictable than the shadows in the mist. Together with the weird saber that Li Yao carefully crafted for him, they could even pierce through the tiniest gap on the joints of the Crystal Suit easily.
Less than twenty meters away from "Shadowless" Duan Rui was a curvaceous woman in heavy makeup, but both her face and her body looked old and slack. At first glance, she seemed to have drained all her strength in the most ancient trade of human beings. Other than opening her legs, she could barely move at all.
However, under the disguise of slackness and weakness, she was the most vigorous and perfect slaughter machine created by the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils with the secret techniques that had been passed on for a thousand years. She was Zhu Linglong, Yue Wushuang's most capable assistant, the leader of the seven witches, and the Yuanying State.
In order to break the limits of the body and even the soul, the super warriors of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils would even intentionally guide countless devils to invade their bodies. Then, they would grit their teeth and resist the devils, driving them out of their bodies by brute force or even completely swallowing the devils as the nutrition for their mental world.
The Seven Great Witches, who had been tempered through this cruel secret method, were all experts in mental attacks, the most brilliant "Meditation Healers".
For example, Zhu Linglong, as long as she looked at the target casually, she would be able to plant mysterious mutations deep inside the target's brain, making the target lose control of their spiritual energy and die of spontaneous combustion!
Before her, on the other hand, the muscular man whose upper body was deformed and whose arms were thicker than the waists of normal people and whose face was full of lust was in fact "Iron Head" Ran Xiong, the most fearless captain of the assault squad in the Thunder Fleet. He was a lunatic who was bold enough to launch a suicidal charge at the Holy League's camp on his own.
The reason why his brothers in the army called him "Iron Head" was not because he had practiced some secret technique that could make his skull extremely hard, but because everyone felt that there was only a cold lump of iron left in his brain, and there was no fear in his heart at all!
There were a lot of experts from the civilians, the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils, and the army, such as "Shadowless" Duan Rui, "Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong, and "Iron Head" Ran Xiong.
After thorough investigation in advance, they all pretended to be miners, prostitutes, peddlers, thugs, gamblers, patients, thieves, and so on. They snuck into the vicinity of the unnamed hospital, entered the preset positions, and locked onto their respective targets.
The reconnaissance of the twenty-seventh district had been carried out countless times. A virtual battlefield had been established a long time ago, too. Also, everybody had practiced in the virtual battlefield a hundred times. They could touch the gate of the unnamed hospital with their eyes closed.
Even so, the battle-tested, ruthless, and tough-minded experts of slaughter could not help but feel slightly nervous the moment before the operation began.
It was because the targets that they locked onto seemed to be experts whose life was slaughter, too. Some were even more professional, brutal, and brutal than them!
Dongfang Renxin was the blood brother of Dongfang Wang, the prime minister of the Imperium and the leader of the Dongfang family. His marvelous evil techniques were the source of Dongfang Wang's power, too.
It was not hard to imagine how thorough the guards were when he performed the techniques.
For the sake of confidentiality, Dongfang Renxin did not trust the warriors of the family or the special agents of the Association of Demon Hunters. Instead, he established a tactical squad named "Thirty-Three Limits" on his own, which was loyal only to him.
Thirty-Three Limits was an extremely weird name, but it represented thirty-three abnormal and powerful experts.
They were the most notorious experts in the entire Imperium in the first place. They were only sent to Dongfang Renxin for treatment when they were on the verge of death after the dangerous confrontations.
Dongfang Renxin did not replace their artificial limbs and artificial organs made of metals and crystals with the regular treatment methods. Instead, he transplanted tremendous organs, bones, and limbs from the apocalyptic beasts into them for the lunatics and thugs who did not care about their own lives and craved greater strength so that they could seek revenge.
The universe was vast and full of mysteries. The civilization of mankind had ruled the three thousand Sectors for almost a hundred thousand years. Although they had never encountered an advanced civilization of the same scale, there were plenty of powerful apocalyptic beasts lurking in the remote space zones.
Many extraterrestrial beasts had absorbed the powerful radiation and high-energy particles. In the harsh environment, their cells had been mutated and evolved into thousands of techniques. It was also the so-called 'absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon' in the ancient Cultivators' era. They were a hundred times stronger than the animals and demon beasts domesticated by human beings!
In the Great Dark Age, when the demon race reigned over the universe for thirty thousand years, the demon race was more focused on the path of "biochemical technology". They slaughtered and studied the apocalyptic beasts on a large scale and almost slaughtered all the apocalyptic beasts in the three thousand Sectors.
However, soon after human beings regained the dominion of the universe, the Star Ocean Imperium collapsed abruptly. The entire universe was actually mired in chaos and darkness in the ten thousand years that followed. The fire of civilization in many Sectors perished, and the apocalyptic beasts took the opportunity to invade and breed again.
From the Star Ocean Republic to the Imperium of True Human Beings, one of the most important ways of training for the experts of human beings was to slay the apocalyptic beasts.
However, the experts in the past only swallowed the flesh of the apocalyptic beasts and refined their "cores" at best. Few of them directly transplanted the organs and limbs of the apocalyptic beasts to human beings like Dongfang Renxin did.
With Dongfang Renxin's wealth as an elder of the Imperium and an elder of the Dongfang family, it was naturally possible for him to collect the strongest, freshest organs and limbs of the apocalyptic beasts.
For the heavily wounded experts who were transplanted with the organs of the apocalyptic beasts, as long as they could survive the painful conflict, not only would their combat ability be fully recovered and improved, they would also be infected with the brutality of the apocalyptic beasts and become the most terrible nightmare of any opponent.
Judging from the files that Li Linghai collected in secret, when the "beast experts" returned for revenge, there were indeed bloody scenes where one of them tore hundreds of people in the enemy's family into halves on their own. However, Dongfang Renxin suppressed it time and time again with his power and even considered such revenge operations to be a real-life test for the "beast experts".
Even if there were only one of such terrifying existences that were half human and half space beasts, they would be enough to deal with a combat squad, not to mention that there were thirty-three of them!
The periphery was guarded by the elites of the Dongfang family. More than a thousand well-trained Exos were on alert all the time. Inside, it was guarded by the unparalleled bandits such as the "Thirty-Three Limits". There were also crystal bombs that looked like volcanoes buried below the ground. No wonder Dongfang Renxin was bold enough to perform the evil techniques below the ground when the Dongfang family and the reformists were fighting each other fiercely on the surface of the planet!
At 1: 55 in the afternoon …
In the dark world that saw no sunlight all year round, the word "afternoon" seemed to have lost its significance.
However, according to the latest intelligence, Dongfang Renxin and the rest of them had already entered the depths of the anonymous hospital through the secret channel for more than two hours. If they were really performing some kind of evil techniques, it must've reached the most critical and intolerable moment right now!
The members of the arrest team who had arrived at the predetermined positions could not be delayed any longer. It was not like the prostitutes flirted with the customers in the alley for such a long time without finding a place to have sex, right?
A few tough guys who were wearing crimson leather armor that was embedded with iron nails, suggesting that they were the local gangsters, were already suspicious of them. They walked toward "Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong and "Iron Head" Ran Xiong while cursing, as if they were complaining that the bitch was too unfamiliar to them for not paying them a visit when she was doing business there.
At first glance, they looked like the local gangsters who occupied the twenty-seventh district and were a common sight in the dark world.
However, according to the intelligence, they were the experts of the Dongfang family and Dongfang Renxin's most trusted nephews. They were here to protect Dongfang Renxin in secret under the disguise of the local gangsters.
They could not wait any longer.
The communication chips on the eardrums of all the members of the arrest team received three long beeps and two short ones.
It was a signal to act according to the situation and take action at any moment.
"Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong suddenly exclaimed, as if "Iron Head" Ran Xiong, who was pretending to be a prostitute, had pinched her breasts hard and taken advantage of her.
"Iron Head" Ran Xiong burst into laughter.
It was a signal.
At this moment, the few warriors of the Dongfang family who were pretending to be local gangsters were striding past "Shadowless" Duan Rui, who was lying on the ground. Their attention was all attracted by Zhu Linglong's exclamation and Ran Xiong's laughter, and they did not notice that the "dying" drunk man on the ground was slowly opening his eyes. His eyes were both clear and cold.
Right after the last warrior of the Dongfang family walked past, "Shadowless" Duan Rui stood up without a sound. His blade, which barely had any thickness, stabbed into the heart of a warrior of the Dongfang family from his back softly like a shadow.
The warrior of the Dongfang family did not even have the time to exclaim or summon his Crystal Suit before his eyes bulged out.
The other warriors of the Dongfang family, including the main troops at the periphery and the "Thirty-Three Limits" in the anonymous hospital, couldn't have been more vigilant.
Although "Shadowless" Duan Rui's assassination was a textbook classic, it was still discovered by them in the first place.
However, the moment Duan Rui sent the shadow blade out softly, all the lights in the hundreds of square meters around the anonymous hospital suddenly died out, turning into a dark swamp where one could not see their own fingers.
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