novelraw Chapter 638: The Art of Killing, the Elegance of Lingchi
Chapter 638: The Art of Killing, the Elegance of Lingchi
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He aimed the phone camera at himself and the spirit tablet of his grandfather Kagu Yu.
His suppressed anger carried a trace of disdain on his face.
"I don't care who you are, or what your name is, since you're so resistant to receiving the punishment you deserve for my grandfather's death!!!"
"Then......"
Kagu Muto immediately knelt down, kowtowed heavily toward the camera, and shouted loudly: "I beg Grand Duke Lu, to carry out the execution!!!!!"
If Sasaki had remained as indifferent toward death as before, facing it calmly.
Then the bitter resentment in Kagu Muto's heart would never have been properly vented.
But!!!
Now that Sasaki was resisting so intensely, he would rather choose the shameful act of suicide against an enemy than die before his grandfather's spirit tablet.Then......
Kagu Muto felt much more comfortable.
Sasaki struggled under Lu Ding's foot: "I.... I don't want to..... for... that dead old man...... ah!!!!!"
Before he could finish speaking, screams erupted again.
It turned out Lu Ding had raised his hand, bringing a gentle breeze mixed with dense slash attacks that cut through Sasaki's flesh.
Pain hammered his nerves.
As blood spurted, translucent slices of flesh, thin as cicada wings, flew up amidst the blood.
Like withering flower petals, white tinged with red.
Foretelling Sasaki's impending death.
The scene of this bloody art brought a viscous visual impact.
Staring at it would cause psychological discomfort.
But as Lu Ding's voice sounded: "Then as you wish."
Like a breeze brushing through mountains, or a babbling flowing stream.
It brought a touch of refreshment to this bloody scene where Corpse-Shattering Taishui was displaying traditional craftsmanship.
Lu Ding kicked Sasaki up from the ground.
As he hovered in the air.
Lu Ding raised his hand and unleashed slash attacks using the Way of the Jinche.
Bringing a soft, gentle breeze.
Dazzling crimson splashed across the unused room on the fifteenth floor of the Tai Island Consulate.
In the vast space.
There weren't many miscellaneous items, nor messy furniture.
Only sufficient blank space.
Allowing Lu Ding to freely express his creativity regarding killing and blood.
Both hands intertwined, releasing the Way of the Jinche.
At this moment, he was an elegant conductor of music.
Controlling the screams of pain emanating from Sasaki.
"Ah!!!!!"
"I refuse to accept this!!!!"
"Kill me!!! Kill me!! Give me a quick death!!!"
"He doesn't deserve it!!! He doesn't deserve to have me pay for his death!!!"
"I want to die under the grudge between us!!!!!"
Lu Ding remained silent, only continuously releasing appropriately powerful Way of the Jinche attacks, slicing off piece after piece of 'petals' with just the right thickness in the air.
The white walls around were stained with blood, and since each splatter had different amounts, they formed different outlines.
Looking closely, using blood as ink, walls as paper, naturally formed outlines, occasionally forming peaks, splashed ink forming paintings, flying 'flowers' falling 'leaves'.
Lu Ding immersed himself in it, changing his steps as if dancing gracefully through an autumn maple forest.
Elegant, so elegant.
The art of killing was embodied at this moment.
Finally, Lu Ding released his hand and snapped his fingers.
The accumulated 'flowers and leaves' on the floor exploded and floated up.
Shoom!!!!!
A small mountain of 'flowers and leaves'.
A pale skeleton, bloodless and fleshless, landed sitting atop the peak.
Lu Ding placed one hand across his chest, raising the other.
A pale ghostly hand extended from the darkness behind him, offering a black, slender medium-sized cigarette with a silver cap, placing it in Lu Ding's palm.
He picked it up and placed it in his mouth.
The ghostly hand held up a flame to light it for him.
"Sss~"
"Huu........"
Smooth white smoke, black medium-sized cigarette, pale fleshless skeleton, glaring crimson filling the room.
Finally.
Slightly raising his chin, the arrogant Corpse-Shattering Taishui.
The art was complete.
Crushing the cigarette butt, Lu Ding's voice sounded, drawing a conclusion to this matter.
"I've avenged your grandfather for you. Work hard from now on, perhaps we might meet again in the Second Circle."
Kagu Muto bowed and kowtowed again, the sound heavy and dull.
Thump!!!
"Thank you, Grand Duke Lu. Kagu Muto will surely live up to Grand Duke's expectations!!"
The screen went black.
Lu Ding pocketed his phone.
Glanced outside the building.
"Since no one has arrived yet, I won't wait for you anymore. After all, my time is very precious."
He had been busy for so long.
If Path of Dry Bones' reinforcements hadn't arrived yet, then Lu Ding could only take his leave first.
He still needed to return to break through the fourth restriction, improve his cultivation, and install his fourth anomaly, Golden Ao Island.
He didn't have that much spare time to wait around here.
Before leaving, Lu Ding used his Moon Arc Kick's absolute speed, combined with charging through recklessly, searching the entire Tai Island Consulate like The Flash, 'ensuring' there were no survivors before he left.
Along the way, Lu Ding also discovered Saika Maki's hidden human experimentation laboratory.
Unfortunately.
Also no survivors.
Not long after he left.
Path of Dry Bones 749 Deputy Bureau Chief Nan Kaiye flew in and landed.
Looking at the brutal battle scene before him like a human hell, with ruins and debris everywhere.
Veins bulged on his forehead.
"Who exactly did this!!!!!!?"
"I, Nan Kaiye, will definitely kill you in this lifetime!!!"
A long roar shattered the ten-thousand-meter dark clouds overhead, sending rolling dust across the ground.
Originally, other Path of Dry Bones investigators would have come to support just now.
But, with the successive deaths of senior investigators like Li Shu, Zuo Qingzhi, and Mu Baiying, the information was passively transmitted back to Path of Dry Bones 749 through their bodycams.
Then forwarded from Path of Dry Bones 749 to Nan Kaiye.
He had issued an order that no one was allowed to provide support without authorization, waiting for him to come.
He understood.
Even the combination of Li Shu and the other two going over would result in certain death.
If other investigators went.....
Mostly it would be useless.
Only adding to the casualties.
The Deputy Bureau Chief might not be clever, but he wasn't stupid.
But such a decision meant that by the time he arrived, everyone had already fled.
Nan Kaiye angrily stomped the ground, cracks spreading out around him.
"Where are they!!"
As he shouted.
Investigators who had come with him and plunged into the ruins searching for clues immediately appeared.
"Report!! No survivors found in the south!!!"
"Report!! No survivors found in the west!!!"
"Report!! No survivors found in the east!!!"
The north remained silent.
Nan Kaiye flew toward the north while simultaneously giving orders to the accompanying investigators.
"Notify the bureau immediately, use the footage recorded by the bodycams for comparison, you must find the mastermind behind this for me!!!"
His words made the surrounding accompanying investigators somewhat awkward.
No one dared to respond.
But not responding wasn't an option either.
Finally, one investigator slowed his flight speed slightly, dropping position, before daring to speak quietly.
"Deputy Bureau Chief, he....... they didn't turn on their bodycams......"
Everyone knows that missions involving Tai Island people are good assignments?
No matter what, there's definitely no avoiding consequences afterwards.
If you turn on your bodycam, aren't you just screwing yourself over...
Although Path of Dry Bones local bureau wouldn't investigate, but this thing needs to be networked into the database, and there's no way to eliminate it locally.......
As for the bodycams transmitting back their death messages, this is the bodycam's passive skill - as long as it's worn, it can detect life information and such, and when you die it transmits back, no need to turn it on or off.
Nan Kaiye's head was hurting from anger.
"Not a single one turned them on!?"
"Um..... not a single one......"
Whoever turns them on is an idiot, and those who can become investigators, none are that stupid.
Nan Kaiye couldn't take it anymore, he was about to explode with anger. This was also the first time he felt the impact of investigators not following regulations and acting recklessly.
"Then what about surveillance!! Nearby surveillance, go check it, you people........"
"Deputy Bureau Chief, come quickly!!!!!"
Before he could finish speaking, a voice came from the west.
Nan Kaiye accelerated and flew into the building, stopping outside the vacant office on the fifteenth floor.
The investigator with a somewhat pale face waited respectfully outside the door, pointing inside.
"Deputy Bureau Chief..... inside..... inside...."
He really didn't know how to describe the scene within.
Bloody? Cruel? Elegant? Artistic?
Yes, but also not quite.
Nan Kaiye was annoyed by his stammering: "Can't even speak clearly, get out of the way!!!"