Chapter 146: Furious Murder of the Elite! Who Can Punish Me (Thanks to Sunshine’s Dove for the Reward and Support)_1
Chapter 146: Furious Murder of the Elite! Who Can Punish Me (Thanks to Sunshine’s Dove for the Reward and Support)_1
“Cough cough…”
Jiang Suhu fell into the bushes, his clothes already torn into many strips, the blood trace from the corner of his mouth flowing along his jaw. But he didn’t care at all, instead staring at a certain spot and laughing viciously, “Did you hear that? None of you can kill me! Want to capture me? Hahahaha, what makes you think you can? I’m Jiang Suhu, even if I kill, my Jiang family has an amnesty order, none of you damn well can punish me!”
Across from the deep pit, the Mech Body on Pei Jinye was already turned into scrap metal. He tore it off and threw it casually on the ground, walking out from the pit with a cold gaze.
The Transcendent abilities of the elderly man dressed in Tang attire had already been devoured by his desperate gamble.
With both his Vitality and Physical strength sliding down, he hadn’t expected that this Jiang Suhu would be hiding his skills so deeply.
His hand-to-hand combat skills were not weak at all.
He took a quiet breath internally.
Pei Jinye didn’t say a word, instead charging forward once more, his figure thunderously disappearing from the spot.
Jiang Suhu’s face turned ugly, angrily saying, “You dare disobey the Federation’s orders? If you kill me, Judgement Place will deal with you first! And my grandfather will never let you go! Do you have any respect for the Federation’s laws in your eyes?”
“You dare talk about the law?”
Pei Jinye’s voice, crossing ten meters, attacked along with his offensive movements.
“Bang!”
Jiang Suhu cursed under his breath. The moment Pei Jinye made a move, Jiang had realized that Pei’s Physical Body Strength was terrifyingly powerful and couldn’t be confronted head-on. He immediately dodged to the side.
His greater wish was to escape from here.
As long as he got away from this place, appearing before those outside, the person in front of him would definitely not dare to kill him.
However!
Jiang Suhu hadn’t anticipated that as Pei Jinye closed in with a flying charge, his speed suddenly increased, and he fiercely grabbed downward.
As if he had seen through his intentions to run away.
He grabbed Jiang’s shoulder in one move, lifting him up, and together they charged into the forest ahead.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Under the great force of Pei Jinye, Jiang Suhu was tossed around like a fragile doll, crashing through and breaking the trees in his path.
Jiang Suhu’s face was a blur of blood and flesh, roaring and tearing at Pei Jinye’s arm, trying to kill him.
The crackling sounds of bones breaking were the sounds of Pei Jinye crushing Jiang Suhu’s shoulder.
Jiang Suhu roared, and with a kick, he finally pulled away from under Pei Jinye’s grasp. This time he was covered in blood, a terrifying sight, and screamed in terror and fury, “You dare kill me…”
As he spoke, blood kept gushing from his mouth, clearly he was severely injured inside.
Pei Jinye was also covered with numerous scrapes, but at this moment he seemed to have lost all sense of pain, grabbing Jiang Suhu’s head, “Because of you, Brother Bi became a vegetable, and Old Hu was also killed by your people… Tonight, so many lives were lost because of your lawlessness, and you’re still blissfully unaware. If a person like you does not deserve to die, then who does!”
He held Jiang Suhu’s head down, brutally slamming it.
Continuously eroding the opponent’s Blood energy and spiritual power.
Jiang Suhu fought back furiously, his leg fiercely aiming straight below Pei Jinye’s body.
Too bad.
If he was facing just a rookie in Martial Arts at this moment.
Facing his hysterical counterattack, he would surely suffer greatly.
But unfortunately, he had underestimated Pei Jinye’s experience.
“Pff!”
A Triangular Military Dagger directly pierced through Jiang Suhu’s thigh, flesh tearing and bone shattering. The movement of Jiang Suhu’s kicking leg suddenly snagged.
Pei Jinye’s left hand was on Jiang Suhu’s astonished and shocked face, slamming it hard into the ground.
“Bang!”
The ground was forcefully indented into a bloody pit by Jiang Suhu’s head.
“You dare!”
Jiang Suhu spat blood as he struggled, but before he could finish speaking.
“Bang!”
The bloody pit expanded once more.
“My grandfather will never forgive—”
“Bang!”
“I can’t accept this—ah!!!”
With his face completely destroyed, Jiang Suhu screamed sharply. In the next second, his entire consciousness plunged into endless darkness.
Three minutes later.
The whole Broken Cloud Mountain fell into silence.
The drone swarm quickly locked onto Pei Jinye’s location.
It was less than five minutes before.
A group of people came rushing.
What caught their eyes was the blood-soaked Pei Jinye lying weakly on the ground with Jiang Suhu’s corpse beside him, soaked in blood.
The faces of everyone who saw this scene changed drastically.
Xie Zuxin’s heart sank to the bottom of the ocean as he hurriedly walked forward.
“Su Hu!” A young woman from the Jiang family’s team roared in the crowd, “I’ll kill you!”
She stepped forward, sword in hand, aiming to charge at the nearby Pei Jinye.
However, at that moment, Brother Kui’s Seventh Unit surrounded the blood-soaked Pei Jinye. With a dangerous look in his eyes and an assault rifle in his hands, he cocked and shot into the air as a warning.
The young woman was held back by others behind her.
Xie Zuxin ignored the standoff between the two sides and walked over first.
The Seventh Unit didn’t make it difficult for him.
Xie Zuxin didn’t even glance at Pei Jinye, instead he hurriedly knelt beside Jiang Suhu with gloved hands and began to examine him.
After confirming the death, any glimmer of hope on his face vanished completely.
He turned his head sharply to look.
Pei Jinye was weakly breathing, struggling to open his eyes, “Teammate Hu Beng… died in battle, I couldn’t save him, I’m sorry.”
With that, he passed out.
The nearby staff officer said with an ugly expression, “The entire Fan Dahai unit is dead, out of the 76 people in the operation team, more than half are casualties.”
At that moment.
Even Brother Kui from Team Seven couldn’t help but look toward Pei Jinye, deeply moved.
This battle… the price paid by Team Two was simply too great.
“Clean up the scene,” Xie Zuxin said, his expression ugly as he turned to Pei Jinye, “Take him back to base, and interrogate him once he awakens.”
“Chief Xie!”
No sooner had Xie Zuxin finished speaking than Brother Kui frowned and said, “Pei Jinye is already in this state, and you still want to interrogate him, isn’t that too heartbreaking for the brothers? The mission was issued by you, yet they are the ones who died. Do you only care about the merits in your eyes?”
Xie Zuxin said coldly, “Let’s not talk about his violation of the operational guidelines for now. He himself has to submit a report on this matter. I understand your point, and that’s why I plan to take him back to base. Otherwise, do you want him to be treated outside and be assassinated again?”
Upon hearing this, Brother Kui stopped talking and began to escort Pei Jinye away.
Meanwhile, a young woman from the Jiang family stared at Pei Jinye’s face with red eyes, as if trying to thoroughly memorize his features.
Seventy-six combat team members, more than half wounded or killed.
Dawn.
There was a cemetery at the back of the base.
“Remove your hats!”
Nearly a hundred members of the Investigation Team bowed their heads in silent mourning.
Before long.
The crowd dispersed.
Xie Zuxin was just about to leave when a long-haired woman in a trench coat blocked his way.
Xie Zuxin was already annoyed, and just as he was about to lash out when he saw who it was, he forcibly suppressed the anger on his face, “Chief Huangfu, what can I do for you?”
The woman spoke without expression, “Your actions last night were over the line.”
The smile on Xie Zuxin’s face disappeared as he replied indifferently, “Is Chief Huangfu here to make sarcastic remarks?”
“I can’t stand it…” the woman paused, then looked up, “Trash.”
At these words, Xie Zuxin’s face turned green.
However, the woman left with a disdainful turn of her body.
“Huff—”
Xie Zuxin exhaled, keeping his displeasure in check. After returning to his office, he called for his staff officer, “Has Pei Jinye awakened yet?”
“He should have… probably awakened,” replied the staff officer.
“Probably?” Xie Zuxin raised his eyebrows, clearly dissatisfied, “What do you mean by probably?”
The staff officer, with a pained expression, said, “Pei Jinye alone has eighteen superficial wounds on his body and three broken bones. The doctor advised delaying the interrogation.”
Xie Zuxin snorted coldly.
He was either annoyed by the staff officer’s words or by the trouble Pei Jinye had caused him.
He had to report on the incident at the city hall this morning.
This afternoon, he would be subjected to an examination by the Central Continent Investigation Team.
The Jiang family was also applying pressure.
“Damn it!”
The more Xie Zuxin thought about it, the angrier he became.
The phone on his office desk rang; after he answered, the person on the other end urged him about the meeting at the city hall, causing Xie Zuxin’s expression to grow even uglier.
He turned his head toward the staff officer.
“The moment Pei Jinye awakens, interrogate him immediately! I want to know if he heard the order and chose not to execute it!”
“Understood!” Watching Xie Zuxin leave, the staff officer heaved a deep sigh.
“Has Hu Beng’s body been brought back?” Pei Jinye asked from the hospital bed, his body covered in casts.
He genuinely wasn’t trying to overplay his injuries.
He had killed four Transcendents in one go, two of whom had strong blood energy; the consumption from devouring it was not insignificant.
Brother Kui glanced at the IV drip, “Everything has been taken care of. Hu Beng came from a single-parent family; we were worried his mother wouldn’t be able to accept the truth, so we had to hold off and tell her he was on a mission out of town.”
Pei Jinye sighed lightly, “What about Brother Fan and the others?”
“They sacrificed themselves.”
Pei Jinye was startled, “Sacrificed themselves?”
“All members of Team Two, except you and Zuo Quan, have sacrificed themselves,” Brother Kui said with a sigh, “Including the Night Patrol Department’s officers, out of seventy-six combatants, seventeen were killed in action, eight are critically injured, and more than twenty are wounded… This battle is a disgrace to our Investigation Team, and even more shameful is the fact that someone wants to shift the blame, making you survivors take the fall.”
“Take the fall?” Pei Jinye frowned in confusion; he truly didn’t understand, “We captured the target, and so many of our own were injured or killed, why would there be charges?”
Brother Kui sighed softly and lowered his voice, “To be honest, I didn’t expect the Jiang family to be able to use the Federation’s special pardon decree, otherwise last night’s matter wouldn’t have been so complicated.”
“The Federation’s special pardon decree?” Pei Jinye paused, acting as if he didn’t understand, and feigned ignorance, “Wasn’t it said that the Federation’s special pardon decree was abolished in the Star Calendar year 400?”
“It was abolished, but that only means it will not be issued anymore. Those who have received it before can still use it…” Brother Kui spoke in a low voice, “Jiang Suhu clearly deserved to die if the higher-ups truly wanted to deal with him, that special pardon decree wouldn’t help.”
Seemingly thinking of something.
Brother Kui whispered, “Originally, according to last night’s procedure, our Investigation Team was supposed to step back from the case and then hand it over to the Judgement Place and the courts for joint responsibility. If Da Peng City didn’t have a representative from the Judgement Place, we could have taken over by default, and if he was killed, so be it… But it just so happens we have someone from the Judgement Place on our end, and the procedural error lies with us. When they question you, you insist that you did not hear any order to stop.”
“I truly didn’t hear it,” Pei Jinye said, lowering his gaze.
There was an icy chill in the depths of his eyes.
So what if I killed an elite?
Who could punish me!
Right at that moment.
A group of people suddenly entered through the door, and the surrounding nurses and doctors looked on in bewilderment, only to be barred from entering.
The leading man strode in, leaving the bodyguards behind and bringing only an assistant with him into the ward.
Pei Jinye was familiar with the visitor, especially the prosthetic limb that was quite memorable.
“Who are you?” Brother Kui was startled and looked astonished.
“Judgement Place Xu Tian,” the visitor said indifferently, “Now, according to the law, I am here to interrogate Investigation Team Two’s member Pei Jinye. Unrelated personnel, please leave.”
Brother Kui frowned slightly, displeased with the person’s attitude.
However, among the people who came with the visitor were members of the Investigation Team, and he didn’t want to say too much; instead, he turned to Pei Jinye, “If anyone dares to conduct a forced interrogation, you file a complaint. I don’t believe there’s anyone bigger than the Federation’s law!”
After Brother Kui left.
The entire rest room was emptied; fully armed soldiers stood at the door.
Only a scribe remained at Xu Tian’s side.
“We meet again, Pei Jinye. It seems you always manage to stir up trouble just as I’m about to forget about you,” Xu Tian said with a mocking curve to his lips, “Will you confess on your own, or do you need me to help jog your memory?”