The scene was like a whole bucket of red paint being poured on a colorful, messy picture.
Jin Yuyan's head was entirely gone. Blood spurted out of his neck crazily and splashed to the top of the building before it sprayed on everybody around.
The headless body waved its arms and legs crazily. After cramping for a while, it fell on its back.
The hot and chaotic air seemed to have been frozen instantly. Everybody was stunned for three seconds, finding it hard to believe that Jin Yuyan, the director of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, a business dominator at the edge of the Imperium, had died … just like that?
Li Yao, in particular, smashed Jin Yuyan's body brutally like two hammers. "… Seriously? Are you kidding me?"
"Brother Yao —"
Li Jialing's voice came from afar, mixed with indescribable shock. "Jin Yuyan seems to have … well, his head has been blown up?"
"It's impossible. It's impossible. It's all an illusion. I can't be fooled!"
Li Yao was almost scratching his head and jumping high. "Jin Yuyan couldn't have died just like that. I have locked onto every inch of space around him. Neither the bullets, the shrapnel, the mystic rays, nor the highly compressed venom could've escaped my eyes! I can vouch for it with my integrity and reputation. No, I can even vouch for it with my own head that absolutely, absolutely, absolutely no external force attacked Jin Yuyan's head just now!
"However much magic power was concentrated on the sniper bullet, and however many techniques were applied to it, it couldn't have been blown away so far away by me and ripped apart Jin Yuyan's head with the waves. It's impossible!
"I can say in a very low-key and responsible manner that even if Blackstar the Great were here, it would've been impossible for him to kill Jin Yuyan in secret without my eyes!"
For a moment, Li Yao's head was humming. His every brain cell was like a crystal processor that was overloaded. The heat they emitted was even twisting the air around.
In the chaotic market, Li Yao was the first person to calm down.
Jin Yuyan's death was highly suspicious. The game was not over yet. Or rather, it had only just begun!
Swish! Swish!
Li Yao's telepathic thoughts were like invisible electric arcs. They moved in the direction where the bullet came from, towards the sniper position between the two buildings.
He could clearly sense that the sniper in the Divinity Transformation Stage accelerated to the highest speed without any hesitation and retreated to the periphery of the market the moment he fired a bullet. He did not even check the result of his battle.
An excellent sniper would always consider protecting themselves more important than eliminating the target. This assassin, who was suspected to be one of the Four Great Death Gods, "Red Lady", obviously wouldn't foolishly stay in the same place and wait to be captured.
Perhaps she was even more confident that she could kill Jin Yuyan with this attack.
When Li Yao's telepathic thoughts secretly entangled her, she had already dashed out more than a thousand meters like a viper that had grown wings. She was about to disappear from everyone's search range under the cover of the skyscrapers and the complicated pipelines.
Right then, from the depths of the other two streets at the periphery of the Commodity Market, two equally powerful forces suddenly burst out and chased after the assassin who was suspected to be "Red Lady".
Judging from the spiritual waves that they unleashed and the speed of their movement in the narrow space, it was very likely that they were battle-type Immortal Cultivators in the Divinity Transformation Stage too!
"The three Gods of Death have shown up!"
Li Yao thought quickly. "Assuming that the intelligence is correct and the safety of the Seven Seas Grand Market and Jin Yuyan is really the responsibility of the Four Great Death Gods in the past, and one of the Gods of Death, Red Lady, betrayed them and ambushed Jin Yuyan, the other two Gods of Death must've realized what happened and gone to capture Red Lady after discovering the betrayal of their companion.
"Then, here comes the most critical question. Where is the remaining God of Death exactly? What does he want?"
No matter how chaotic the situation was, as long as the most critical question was grasped, he would be able to figure out a clear pattern.
The key right now was that the three super assassins who were suspected to be the "three Gods of Death" had already left the place, and the last super assassin in the Divinity Transformation Stage had not been exposed yet. It was very possible that he was hiding next to "Jin Yuyan's" body. Then …
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao focused his eyes into thousands of invisible icicles and glanced around "Jin Yuyan's" body again.
He suddenly discovered two very weird things, or rather, two very weird people.
First of all, it was a tall, brawny, and barbaric female bodyguard.
The female bodyguard had been on the luxury bulletproof car with Jin Yuyan since the beginning. After Jin Yuyan got off, she followed her master closely. She must've been Jin Yuyan's most trusted personal bodyguard.
However, as a personal bodyguard, the woman who looked like a chimpanzee was too incompetent.
First of all, compared to the other bodyguards, she was a little too weak. Based on the ripples of her spirit energy and the vibrations of her vitality magnetic field, she had a lot of spirit energy, but she lacked long-term high-intensity combat training. The output of her spirit energy was long and continuous, but she lacked explosive power that could be increased to the maximum within a short period of time. She was not suited for fighting. Instead, she was more suited for activating her brain cells and doing management or creative work.
She might've practiced a certain secret technique that changed and concealed the real form of her spiritual energy. Even Li Yao was fooled by her at first, but now that the world was in chaos and everybody was on high alert, she subconsciously revealed the way of spiritual energy that she was used to. Naturally, Li Yao, an expert above the Divinity Transformation Stage, saw through it immediately.
Secondly, bodyguards were a very special profession that required them to value the life of their employer more than their own. As Jin Yuyan's personal bodyguard, her loyalty was unquestionable even though she was not strong enough.
After Jin Yuyan's head was blown up, the other bodyguards all swarmed forward. Even though they knew that it was hopeless, they still protected Jin Yuyan's body.
But the female bodyguard kept retreating and looking around, as if she were waiting for somebody else to save her.
Unless Jin Yuyan was blind, how could he have found such a weak and cowardly woman to be his personal bodyguard?
The second person, on the other hand, was a bald man in a white fur coat with colorful Cosmos Rings on his fingers standing not far away. He looked like a rich, arrogant nouveau riche.
Just now, when everything was peaceful, the man had talked to Jin Yuyan casually. He should be Jin Yuyan's old acquaintance and an influential merchant at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium.
However, at this moment, the other merchants were all fleeing in a hurry, fearing that they would be killed by the assassin who tried to assassinate Jin Yuyan.
The bald nouveau riche, on the other hand, seemed to be fleeing, but in fact, he took a curve and approached the female bodyguard who looked like a chimpanzee under the cover of the chaotic crowd.
The "three gods of death" were already out of Li Yao's perception range. He had chased them for more than ten kilometers.
The bodyguards and guards were either surrounding Jin Yuyan's headless body or hunting and killing the assassins of the four families who had been exposed. They had no time for the female bodyguard who looked like a chimpanzee at all.
The female bodyguard had discovered the bald nouveau riche's intentions, but instead of retreating, she approached the bald nouveau riche voluntarily as if she had caught a life-saving straw.
Li Yao, however, could sense that the leg muscles of the bald nouveau riche were slowly tightened, and the pores all over his body were constricting. It was a sign that an animal was about to launch an assault.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
Countless sparks were bursting out inside Li Yao's eyes at the same time. After connecting all the clues, he reached a shocking conclusion.
Before he realized what was going on, Neltharion, which was controlled by the mental devil, had completely broken free from the stealth status and attacked the back of the bald nouveau riche's head in a devastating streak of bloody brilliance.
Right when Neltharion turned into bloody brilliance, the bald nouveau riche was already ten meters away from the female bodyguard. He extended his hand to the female bodyguard and even put on a calm smile, as if he were telling the female bodyguard to "rest assured. Leave everything to me."
But the next second, the streaks of brilliance that were as thin as paper and as sharp as paper darted at the female bodyguard's neck and heart like dozens of invisible daggers that could cut everything in half!
If there were no accidents, the dozens of daggers would cut the female bodyguard's throat, carotid arteries, and cervical vertebrae easily. Her internal organs would also be minced into pieces.
It was also possible that they would stab into her eyes and mince her brain into a pot of tofu.
However, the mental devil's unexpected attack was far beyond the bald nouveau riche's expectations. He had to bend his back slightly to dodge the attack, and his speed was inevitably delayed by half a second.
Taking advantage of the half a second delay, Li Yao no longer cared about disguising himself. The cloak that enveloped his entire body was filled with spiritual energy as he threw it at the bald nouveau riche. At the same time, he threw himself at the panic-stricken female bodyguard.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Ding! Ding! A few translucent blades that were as thin as paper flashed out of Li Yao's fingertips and collided with the bald nouveau riche's daggers. Both parties were so fast that they could not be seen with the naked eye. The only thing that could be seen was that Li Yao's cloak was torn into thousands of pieces and even ignited by the spluttering sparks!
"Found you!"
Standing before the female bodyguard completely, Li Yao put on a cold smile. The one-second clash told him that the bald nouveau riche was also an expert above the Divinity Transformation Stage.
Li Yao did not believe that a magnate from the peripheral worlds of the Imperium boasted such combat ability. He had to be one of Black Flag King, Red Lady, Hanged Man, or Returnee from the Dead Sea.
Red Lady had already escaped, and Hanged Man was a spectral Cultivator. So, the guy was either Black Flag King or Returnee from the Dead Sea.
As one of the best assassins in the Divinity Transformation Stage at the periphery of the Imperium, why did he bother a female bodyguard when "Jin Yuyan" had been killed? Why did he bother to kill the unimportant female bodyguard in such a brutal way?
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