Chapter 989 What is human life to you?
The darkness of night can always conceal dangers when people are unaware of them, just like now.
The torrential rain outside the screen window soaked the large lawn in the yard and blurred the tightly closed glass windows, making it even harder for the people inside to sense the approaching danger.
The rustling of sparse branches and leaves was drowned out by the patter of rain, and the camera, soaked by the heavy rain, was no longer functional.
With a sharp crack, the lens shattered, and the indicator light, signaling that the instrument was in use, went out.
Beneath the winding corner of the wall, indistinct black shadows glided and darted forward, and in no time, they gathered from all directions under the windowsill, baring their teeth and claws as if trying to rush into the room.
Finally, one of the dark shadows extended the tip of its thin tail into the small crack of the window, carefully pried open the keyhole, and opened the window.
The moment the window shattered, countless dark figures surged into the room, rushing towards the bed at top speed, grabbing the two figures on the bed, tightly binding and tearing them apart!
The expected bloody scene did not occur. Instead, as they moved, the two figures that were entangled and rolled up suddenly swelled up as if they had been inflated.
With a soft pop, the fake shell exploded, turning into tiny pieces of paper that landed on the uninvited guests and then spontaneously combusted.
The light from the fire instantly illuminated the entire room, revealing the true faces of these uninvited guests.
It turns out that the terrifying alien that launched the midnight attack was actually a series of mottled, withered, and shriveled black and red vines.
These vines probably never imagined that they would go from hunter to hunted; they were still unaware when the paper caught fire.
By the time they remembered to retreat, it was too late. The crimson flames instantly engulfed them and spread rapidly upwards with lightning speed.
The vines writhed and struggled in the fire, but to no avail. In no time, most of them were burned and turned into a handful of ashes on the ground.
Ye Wanxi and her companion appeared at this moment. The lights inside the house had been turned on at some point, making the mess on the floor even more visible.
The two men glanced at the dust on the ground, their eyes narrowing slightly, and sneered, "Since you're already here, aren't you going to come in and say hello before you leave?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the raging sea breeze outside the window paused for a moment, and then a damp, slightly sticky coolness rushed in through the window.
A familiar black figure appeared at the window, in front of the two.
Ye Wanxi squinted at the person in front of her, her tone somewhat cold: "So you really came."
The man who appeared before them under the cover of darkness, and who even secretly manipulated the vines in the yard with the intention of killing them in their sleep, was the man in black they had been searching for, the young man who looked very much like Wu Yequan.
The man's expression remained unchanged upon hearing Ye Wanxi's words; in fact, Ye Wanxi had rarely seen him change his expression during their several meetings.
Although this person has a face similar to Wu Yequan's, he is as cold as a lifeless doll, but no one knows how much destructive power this doll is hiding.
After an unknown amount of time, the man finally spoke, his voice hoarse like that of an old man: "You... want to capture me?"
Before Ye Wanxi could speak, Feng Tianyu stared intently at the man's face and asked in a cold voice, "What is your relationship with Wu Yequan?"
"You don't need to know, and you're not qualified to know."
Feng Tianyu laughed in anger: "What a fine saying, 'No need to know, no right to know'."
No sooner had he finished speaking than more than thirty longswords appeared behind him.
The moment the sword energy appeared, dozens of vines that swayed up and down suddenly emerged from behind the man.
Puff… Puff…
A blinding light, carrying a sharp blade, flew towards the man. The vines behind him also moved in response, quickly forming a giant wall in front of him.
One vine after another broke and burned into ashes under the sword energy, but new ones were quickly added to replace them.
Ye Wanxi was surprised, but it also strengthened her resolve to catch this person today.
Unlike their previous meetings, this time the person standing before them was no longer a phantom puppet, but a real, tangible entity.
That's precisely why they're even more difficult to deal with.
As the fallen vines piled up on the ground and the ashes from the fire grew thicker, the man seemed completely unfazed, coldly watching as the vines relentlessly shielded him from harm until they were reduced to ashes.
Finally, a thin layer of fly ash was spread on the ground.
A rather unpleasant odor suddenly wafted out from below. Feng Tianyu seemed to sense it and immediately pulled Ye Wanxi to the side to hide.
Ye Wanxi covered her nose and said with disgust, "Poisonous?"
After saying that, he denied it himself, saying, "No, it's not poison."
The smell was coming from the ashes, and the instant the smell appeared, a black magic circle suddenly appeared beneath the ashes.
Once the magic array was complete, the ashes within it seemed to be half blown away by the wind, flying in all directions.
The once spacious and bright master bedroom was suddenly covered by layers of flowing gray walls, like a huge gray box that enveloped all three people present.
"This is... a barrier?" And an extremely profound one at that.
Ye Wanxi's eyes widened: "Who exactly are you? What is your purpose? What are you hiding in Country D? What kind of conspiracy are you plotting?"
Ye Wanxi had many questions about the person in front of her, but she also knew that he wouldn't necessarily answer them just because she asked them.
Just when Ye Wanxi thought that he would either avoid answering or simply leave as he had done before, the man spoke again.
My name is Wu.
Upon hearing this name, Ye Wanxi and the other woman trembled involuntarily, and the killing intent in Feng Tianyu's eyes deepened even further.
"The surname is Wu?"
"It's completely false."
It was actually this black bird? Ye Wanxi turned and exchanged a glance with Feng Tianyu.
"Then you and Wu Yequan..."
Ye Wanxi remembered what the man had said earlier halfway through her sentence. She figured that getting entangled in this topic wouldn't yield any results, so her expression turned slightly cold, and she changed the subject to ask, "Was it you who caused that giant ocean monster?"
"yes."
Ye Wanxi was surprised by the person's decisiveness, which also fueled her anger.
"Was that fish the one you secretly hid in the water plant?"
"yes."
Why do this?
"We have different paths."
Ye Wanxi was stunned. Remembering the cultivation path of the person in front of her, her hands hanging at her sides tightened slightly. Finally, she asked a question: "The magic array in Linjia Village, and the accident before the New Year, were you behind it all?"
"yes."
Ye Wanxi finally couldn't hold back any longer: "What do human lives mean to you?"
(End of this chapter)
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