wuxianovels18 Chapter 90 : Chapter 90
Chapter 90 : Chapter 90
Chapter 90: Displaying Corpses in the Military District Plaza
Thunk!
A terrifying muffled impact rang out.
The robed man’s head instantly deformed.
After all, he was still a peak Fifth Grade Martial Artist, and his basic defense was still there.
Even so, his head had clearly caved inward in the middle.
It had even taken on a somewhat heart-like shape.
Li Mu did not have time to check his condition at all.
A red-and-blue baseball bat came howling in from behind his head, carrying a vicious wind.
Li Mu instantly activated Bronze Head and Iron Arms!
His body immediately turned as hard as metal and stone, and his defense rose a hundredfold.
The clown girl had just landed her attack and had not even finished smiling when the bat struck Li Mu like it had hit a lump of iron.
Clang!
With a thunderous metallic crash, the web between her thumb and forefinger split open on the spot from the shock, and the weapon in her hand was violently knocked away.
The clown girl did not freeze, though. In the instant of her shock, she pulled back and dodged!
But Li Mu’s counterattack had already arrived. He swung the long cudgel backward in a fierce slash!
The blow struck the clown girl, who had not retreated fast enough.
Yet the moment it landed, she suddenly exploded into a puddle of red-and-blue liquid dye, splashing all over the ground.
Li Mu’s eyes lit up.
A space-type ability? Or some other method?
There were countless kinds of talents, and once one reached the Fifth or Sixth Grade, one’s methods only became more varied.
All sorts of bizarre martial techniques emerged one after another. It was not necessarily a space-type talent that would produce a trick like this.
But Li Mu was not the least bit flustered.
He had had such a hard time fighting the robed man earlier precisely because there had still been another enemy beside him.
Li Mu had not dared use his other divine abilities carelessly.
He had been saving them all for this clown girl.
The instant she vanished, Li Mu activated Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze.
A faint gleam flickered through his eyes in the darkness as he swiftly caught the obvious flow of True Qi in the air.
The clown girl’s shape appeared not far behind him like a heat image.
That meant she had not dispersed her body into energy and reformed it. She was simply using True Qi to turn herself invisible.
Crude.
Li Mu let out a cold laugh.
Pretending not to have noticed her, he deliberately turned his gaze toward the opposite direction, putting his back to her.
And just as expected, an eerie laugh sounded behind him. The clown girl reappeared and brought the baseball bat crashing down once more.
“Hahaha... can you block it a second time?”
This strike was not only much faster, its power was also far more terrifying than before.
The clown girl was clearly using her full strength this time. Wherever the bat passed, space itself gave off mournful cries.
If that blow really landed, even Li Mu would not be able to withstand it all that easily.
Fortunately, Li Mu respected her enough to be prepared.
“Freeze!”
The word left his mouth.
The clown girl instantly stopped in midair.
She remained locked in that attacking posture, grotesquely suspended in place.
Li Mu, meanwhile, spun around and struck back, smashing her with one blow.
The clown girl was sent hurtling into the ground, directly blasting a huge crater into it, and then tumbled more than ten times before finally stopping.
Li Mu could not help admiring it inwardly. Fifth Grade Martial Artists really could take a beating.
With that strike, even a Fourth Grade monster would have folded on the spot.
As a close-combat Martial Artist, the clown girl’s defense was genuinely solid.
That one blow had not twisted her body out of shape.
But the moment she hit the ground and regained the ability to move, she stared at Li Mu with eyes full of terror.
She could not understand how she had ended up frozen in midair.
By then, Li Mu had already risen into the air.
His body spun twice in a fierce rotation!
The Ghostface Cudgel in his hand let out a shrill ghostly wail, tracing arcs of golden afterimages through the air!
Then he brought it smashing down at her in a full circular swing!
Bang!!
Using Flowing Cloud Fleeting Shadow and Iron-Cleaving Form together, Li Mu brought the more-than-two-thousand-jin cudgel crashing down across the clown girl’s thighs!
The ground exploded into an enormous pit.
Her two thighs were driven straight into the crater.
Her toes actually folded back and kicked her in the face, which showed just how viciously the bones had broken...
“Ahhh!!~~~”
The clown girl let out an earth-shaking scream.
Her body convulsed violently as incomparable agony completely engulfed her.
Li Mu then walked over and slowly crouched down in front of her.
Looking at the clown girl, who had lost her voice from screaming and was trembling uncontrollably, he reached out and brushed back her brightly dyed hair.
“Of all things to imitate, you picked beauty salon fashion...”
There was endless contempt in his smile.
By then, the clown girl no longer even had the strength to scream.
Looking at the robed man’s corpse not far away, she was terrified to the extreme.
Her tears washed away her exaggerated black eye shadow, leaving two black streaks down her face that made her look even more like a clown.
Unfortunately, in Li Mu’s eyes, she really was a bit of a clown.
“Zhang Kang sent you, didn’t he?”
The reason Li Mu had left her alive was precisely to get a clear answer.
The clown girl trembled as she said, “If I tell you, will you... will you let me go?”
Li Mu honestly shook his head.
The terror in the clown girl’s eyes instantly turned sinister.
“If I die, the person who sent me absolutely won’t let you off!”
“You only need to know this much: it’s someone you absolutely cannot afford to provoke!”
“If you dare kill me, you’ll be buried with me!!”
The moment she realized she had no hope of living, she chose to treat a dead horse as though it were still alive and threatened Li Mu, gambling on a slim chance.
Because she was going to die either way, and begging for mercy was useless. She might as well go all out.
And sure enough, Li Mu smiled.
“You’ve surprised me a little.”
“Usually people like you, the ones who laugh and shriek before a fight,”
“wet themselves when death is at hand. I really didn’t expect you to have a bit of backbone.”
“In that case, you may have to suffer a little.”
...
Zhang residence, Abyss Villa.
This was the place where the military district’s powerful figures stayed temporarily within the Abyss military district.
Ever since the Mother Crystal had gone under supervision, all Martial Artists above the Profound Rank in the military district had to report their whereabouts.
Every day, at least one-third of those above the Profound Rank had to remain on duty in the military district.
Zhang Qing happened to be one of those staying in the Abyss on duty tonight.
Late that night, Zhang Qing sat in the living room holding a cup of hot tea, apparently deep in thought.
The lights in the living room were off, and he sat there in the darkness like a beast crouching in wait.
Suddenly, the front door moved, and Zhang Kang carefully pushed it open and entered.
He switched on the light in the entryway and was just about to sneak upstairs
when he saw his father sitting in the living room. It startled him badly.
Zhang Qing glanced at his son and asked in a low voice, “Where have you been?”
Zhang Kang put on a grinning face and immediately began thinking up an excuse.
Zhang Qing waved a hand irritably. There was no need to guess. He could already tell the boy had gone off indulging himself.
Too annoyed to question him further, Zhang Qing unusually pointed to the sofa opposite him.
“Come sit for a while.”
Knowing he was about to get lectured again, Zhang Kang sat down across from him with a drooping face.
Zhang Qing did not ask where he had gone anymore. Instead, he warned him,
“The situation has not been peaceful lately.”
“You must have as little contact with the Ye Group as possible.”
“The more times like this, the more you have to steady yourself!”
“As for the Mother Crystal development matter, although we can’t get our hands too deeply into it,”
“you still have some merit from it, and I will fight for it properly on your behalf.”
“Your promotion to Junior Wolf Guard is more than secure.”
“Once we get through this period steadily, we can think about other things.”
Zhang Qing spoke very slowly, as if deliberately trying to impress the words deeply into Zhang Kang’s mind for fear he would not listen.
But Zhang Kang only frowned and muttered, “So we’re really just going to let Wang Longcheng bully us like this?”
“He’s only a Deputy Commanding Officer, yet he dared challenge you, a Deputy Commander-in-Chief, and we’re not doing anything at all?”
“Isn’t that a little too humiliating?”
Zhang Qing naturally understood his son.
Even he, an old fox, had a hard time swallowing this insult.
His son was young and hot-blooded, and he was the son of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief. He had never suffered such a loss before.
It was only natural that he would be angry.
On the contrary, if his son had not uttered a word, like some absurd ninja turtle just enduring everything, that would have been the abnormal thing.
But Zhang Qing still slammed his teacup heavily onto the table.
“There are things you still cannot understand right now!”
“You only need to listen to me!”
“Especially that one called Li Mu! Under no circumstances are you to provoke him!”
“Did you hear me?”
Zhang Kang’s expression turned a little unnatural, and he muttered off to the side,
“I... I just can’t swallow this.”
Zhang Qing frowned and was about to scold him again, but when he saw his son’s expression, and heard those words, his heart suddenly sank. In a cold voice, he demanded, “What do you mean by that? What did you do??”
The killing intent of a Profound Rank Martial Artist began spreading through the room, and Zhang Kang instantly felt it become hard to breathe. His legs went weak.
He knew that once Li Mu died, this would come out sooner or later, so there was no point hiding it now.
“I... I hired two people to kill him.”
The moment Zhang Kang finished speaking,
whoosh!
Zhang Qing shot to his feet.
The teacup in front of him shattered with a crack beneath the pressure of his aura.
Zhang Kang curled up on the spot in terror, thinking Zhang Qing was about to beat him again.
“What did you say!?”
Zhang Qing’s eyes flashed with a chilling light.
“It’s fine. I didn’t hire outside assassins. It was that cosplay assassin squad I raised myself.”
“Once they kill him, it’ll be completely secret. No one will ever trace it back to us!”
Zhang Kang was still trying to defend himself.
But Zhang Qing coldly asked, “Idiot! Is this how I taught you?”
“Before considering victory, consider defeat first! Tell me, what if they fail!?”
Zhang Kang’s expression relaxed a little.
“If you mean that, then there’s no way they fail. Both of them are peak Fifth Grade!”
“It’s not like this is the first time they’ve done something like this. Killing a peak Third Grade Martial Artist is more than easy enough!”
“I asked you whether you considered what happens if they fail!!”
Zhang Qing roared in a low, furious voice, barely suppressing himself!
Zhang Kang was completely frightened out of his wits. He swallowed hard and stammered,
“I... I did think about it. If they fail, then at the very least he’ll have learned his lesson!”
“And even if he has the nerve to report it, once the matter reaches the Investigations Department, you can just make a call.”
“Have our people inside the Investigations Department take over, and after some time it’ll all just fade away.”
Zhang Qing immediately ordered, “Contact them right now! Cancel the operation at once! Now!”
Zhang Kang said, “We don’t leave phone records when we communicate. We meet at the secret base.”
“After giving them the order, I told them to look for a chance.”
“They’ll probably need a long time just to find him alone, so I can just meet them tomorrow and tell them then.”
Zhang Qing glared at him coldly.
Zhang Kang knew there was no point continuing to argue.
“All right, all right! I’ll go now, okay?”
Wearing an extremely annoyed expression, he stood up, avoided his father’s gaze, and hurried out the door in a panic.
Once outside, Zhang Kang still looked thoroughly unwilling.
“A dignified Deputy Commander-in-Chief, and you’re this cowardly!”
“If you had even a little more aggression, I’d already be the son of the Commander-in-Chief!”
After muttering that through clenched teeth, he headed straight for the Abyss Elevator.
Letting him stay here overnight had been Zhang Qing’s order. But now that he had gotten away from him, he could go topside and find a place to enjoy himself all night.
In any case, once Li Mu died tomorrow, the matter would already be done.
His father would only need to use a few methods to clean it up.
He did not believe Wang Longcheng would really go to war with the Zhang family over a dead man.
...
Early the next morning.
Pearl Military District.
At the Training Arena outside the Base One hall, countless soldiers had gathered to watch the spectacle.
The crowd only grew larger and larger, and someone had already gone off to notify the military district leadership.
In the middle of the open space among the crowd, Li Mu lay half-reclined in a wicker chair, dozing.
And behind him, mounted high on a weapon rack, two long spears held up two people, dead or alive.
A man and a woman.
And beneath them hung a banner:
“These murderers attempted to assassinate a meritorious officer. A heavy reward will be given for information!”