Chapter 161 Cleaning in progress

A chilling smile played on her lips.

"suppress?"

The left hand remained pressed lightly, maintaining resistance to the stripper. The right hand was raised, and the five fingers closed one by one.

"Condensed water".

In the air, on the enemy's body, and even inside the giant fiery serpent... countless water molecules were forcibly stripped away and gathered! The six superhumans were horrified to discover that their blood flow had suddenly accelerated, and fine beads of blood were seeping from their skin!

"Draw blood."

Pfft—!

The three enhanced ability users who were at the forefront suddenly stopped, and blood spurted from their eyes, ears, mouths and noses at the same time!

The blood did not fall to the ground after leaving the body; instead, it twisted and converged in the air, transforming into three terrifying blood spheres that kept spinning and compressing!

Their strong bodies deflated rapidly like punctured balloons, their faces filled with disbelief and terror, turning into three frost-covered, desiccated corpses that collapsed to the ground.

"Melting the ice".

Ruan Ning flicked her index finger lightly.

The three blood orbs instantly froze and deformed, stretching into three eerie and magnificent crimson ice blades, with uncongealed blood patterns flowing along their blades.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Blood Ice Blade pierced the air, severing the head of the giant fire python and causing the flames to dissipate; a giant fist shattered rocks, causing the earth and stone to crumble; and the last one shot straight at the fifth-tier mental interference user!

The disruptor roared, his staff gleaming brightly, creating layers of mental barriers in front of him.

The Blood Ice Blade pierced the barrier, its speed decreasing sharply, but the resentment and fear lingering in the mind of the attacker, which originated from the victim's last moments, pierced the barrier's gaps and stabbed into the attacker's mind!

"Ah—!" The disruptor screamed in agony, clutching his head and bleeding from all seven orifices. Under the backlash of his mind, his interference with Ruan Ning instantly collapsed.

As soon as the suppression was released, a burst of silver light appeared in Ruan Ning's eyes!

She held nothing back, and her sixth-order spiritual power surged forth like a burst dam, crashing violently into the "Primordial Separator"!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The crystals on the machine's surface shattered one after another, black smoke billowed from the coils, the dark red light screen flickered violently, and it emitted a mournful cry of being overwhelmed.

At the same time, she suddenly clenched her left hand into a fist!

The two fourth-tier elementalists, whose abilities had just been broken and who were still in shock, froze simultaneously. It was as if an invisible hand was gripping and violently draining the blood from their bodies!

"Blood Explosion".

Their bodies swelled up like balloons, and then—

Boom! Boom!

It exploded into two clouds of blood-red ice mist, scattering fine red ice crystals throughout the conference room, which landed on the survivors' faces, chilling them to the bone.

Ruan Ning stopped looking at the disruptor and turned to walk towards the nearly unusable stripper. At the center of the machine, the dark red crystal core, formed from the flesh and blood of the Shen family, was still pulsating slightly.

She reached out, piercing through the chaotic energy field, and grabbed the crystal core.

The crystal core felt cold to the touch, and there seemed to be liquid flowing inside, emanating an ominous energy fluctuation.

"Chen Yao's 'medicine'?" Ruan Ning sneered, exerting force with her five fingers.

哢.

The crystal core turned into powder in her palm, and dark red energy overflowed, which was instantly purified and dispelled by the cool fluctuations flowing from her necklace.

At this moment, the sounds of fierce fighting and beast roars could be heard outside the conference room, indicating that Shen Yan and his team's mopping-up operation was nearing its end.

Ruan Ning surveyed the chaotic conference room, which resembled a blood-soaked hell. All the enemies had been executed, and the data had been either frozen or destroyed.

She walked to the table, picked up the "Origin-07 Carrier Analysis Report," and her gaze fell on the appendix photos at the end—a few researchers, an ancient device, and a teardrop-shaped jade pendant.

She put away the report, along with all the related files and data chips on the desktop.

"Clean it up." She said to Shen Yan, Zhou Min and the others who had just rushed in, her voice devoid of emotion. "Then, we'll go 'visit' the 'Business Alliance' warehouse and that Section Chief Li from the Quartermaster Department."

The fire roared, and golden flames swept over several corpses, turning them to ashes.

The night was deep, and the cleaning had only just begun.

Ruan Ning's team met up with Qin Li at the designated abandoned gas station.

The fire was licking the scorch mark on its front paws, Shen Yan was inspecting the seized silver briefcase, and Zhou Min was disinfecting and bandaging the scratches on Lin Yan's arm.

Qin Li handed over a new list: "Li Kai has escaped. When my men arrived at the quartermaster's dormitory, he had already left. But we found this in his encrypted terminal."

The list contained seven names, followed by their positions and code names.

"The Chamber of Commerce has three warehouse managers in the Northwest, two black market middlemen, one inner-city supplies dispatcher, and one..." Qin Li paused, "...a major in General Luo's staff, responsible for communications security."

Shen Yan looked up: "No wonder they're so well-informed."

"I'll take the list, Major." Qin Li put away the list. "The rest, you guys handle them?"

Ruan Ning looked at Shen Yan: "Where is the Shanglian warehouse?"

Shen Yan pulled up an electronic map and marked three red dots: "We already know about Warehouse No. 7 in the West District. Warehouse No. 11 in the South District is ostensibly a grain storage warehouse. Warehouse No. 3 in the East District is near the city wall and used to be a fuel station. These three are their main transit points for supplies and weapons in the Northwest."

"Let's split up." Ruan Ning drew a map. "Qin Li, you take your men to capture that major and take control of the communications center. Shen Yan and Zhou Min, you go to No. 11 in the South District. The grain depot is flammable, so be careful of fire attacks. Lin Yan and Da Huo, come with me to Fuel Station No. 3 in the East District. We'll move in at four in the morning."

"Cleanup standards?" Shen Yan asked.

"The ringleader is killed, the accomplices have their abilities disabled, and the supplies are confiscated." Ruan Ning stood up. "Those who resist will be killed without exception."

3:50 a.m., Fuel Station No. 3 in the East District.

The terrain here is high, close to the city wall, and several rusty, giant oil storage tanks gleam coldly in the moonlight. There are electric fences on the walls and guard posts at the entrance, with lights shining inside.

Ruan Ningyin, hidden in the shadows of the building opposite, scanned the area with his mental energy.

"There are twelve people inside the walls: two guard posts, four patrols, and six in the warehouse. Four are ability users: two are third-tier fire users, one is a second-tier metal user, and one is a first-tier earth user. The rest are ordinary people."

Lin Yan gripped the knife tightly: "Should we just charge in?"

"You and Da Huo take care of the ones on the wall and the patrols. I'll handle the ones in the warehouse." After Ruan Ning finished speaking, her figure disappeared from the spot.

The next second, she appeared inside the wall, her hands lightly touching the ground.

"Ice Vine".

White frost spread rapidly along the ground, covering the entire courtyard in the blink of an eye! The four patrolmen slipped and before they could react, their throats were pierced by ice spikes that suddenly appeared.

Just as the two men in the guard booth picked up their walkie-talkies, two ice needles pierced through the glass and embedded themselves between their eyebrows.

The fire leaped down from the wall, spewing golden flames that incinerated the fallen corpse.

The six people inside the warehouse rushed out upon hearing the commotion.

The leader was a bald, burly man whose hands were ablaze with crimson flames: "Who?!"

What greeted him was a spiraling water whip that appeared out of thin air, its body covered with barbed ice shards, which lashed fiercely at his chest!

Crack!

The sound of ribs breaking was clearly audible, and the flames went out instantly.

The bald, burly man coughed up blood and flew backward, crashing into the warehouse's iron gate.

"It's Ruan Ning!" a thin man exclaimed. With a wave of his hands, the scattered metal parts outside the warehouse flew into the air and transformed into dozens of sharp blades that shot towards Ruan Ning—a metal-type ability user.

Ruan Ning did not dodge.