When Fang Zheng opened the door and walked out of the room, his face was gloomy.
After determining the specific target, Fang Zheng directly investigated the so-called D∴G cult through "The Whispering Banner", but the information he obtained made him quite angry.
It turns out that the series of attacks and kidnappings on the continent of Semlia were all caused by this cult. They deny the existence of the goddess of the sky and worship the devil. To put it bluntly, it is a cult organization. Not only that, the cult is also secretly experimenting with a drug to try to create artificial gods that transcend mortals. In order to achieve this goal, they chose to kidnap those children as test subjects.
"Paradise" is one of the cult's bases, but the "mission" of this base is different from other places. It is mainly used to win over high-ranking officials and nobles from various countries. The means are also very simple. Naturally, they lure them into the trap through their shameful hobbies, and then after they have vented their desires on those young girls, they are caught by the cult and have to obey the cult's orders and collude with them.
Initially, Fang Zheng had thought about joining forces with the Guerrilla Association, but after seeing the entire D∴G cult's inside story, he gave up the idea. Indeed, as a cult organization, the cult itself did not have any particularly strong background, but the problem was that it involved many high-level officials from various countries, including the Speaker of Crossbell, members of the Republic, and the Imperial nobles.
Fang Zheng knew very well that although the Guerrilla Association was powerful, it was just a civilian mercenary organization without law enforcement power. No matter where you were, you would never see mercenaries arresting high-ranking government officials. And even if this matter was exposed to the media, those people would at most pay compensation or find some excuse to shirk responsibility.
But Fang Zheng would not allow them to live so easily.
He just wanted them dead.
This means that Fang Zheng not only has to destroy the entire cult, but also has to kill many high-ranking officials and nobles of the country... Well, Fang Zheng thought about it and finally made the decision.
Just do it yourself.
Fang Zheng was not worried about being targeted. There were monsters in this world, and Fang Zheng could send his own Zerg to attack those people. As long as they were treated as killed by monsters, there would be no problem. After all, according to the information Fang Zheng had investigated so far, there was no one in this world who could manipulate monsters at will.
Moreover, since the monsters have all kinds of strange appearances, Fang Zheng can easily let the swarm blend in with them without being discovered.
But now...
Let’s focus on the present first.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng snapped his fingers, and soon, bright red flames appeared, and then he returned to his hunter form. At the same time, as if hearing a call, several dark aliens slowly crawled over from the corner of the wall and surrounded Fang Zheng.
"Clear all obstacles and kill them all! No one will be left alive!"
"hiss--!!!"
Hearing Fang Zheng's order, the dark aliens hissed and screamed, and then they instantly disappeared into the shadows.
At the same time, Fang Zheng held the sword in his hand and kicked open the closed door in front of him.
Hearing the collision, a man quickly turned around and looked towards the door in surprise.
"You, who are you? What do you want to do?!"
But Fang Zheng didn't even have the mood to answer. He just swung his sword, and blood splattered. The man screamed and fell to the ground. Then two aliens rushed in, bit him, and then dragged him out.
Soon, the man's screams stopped.
Fang Zheng didn't even look at the man, and walked to the wall. There, a girl who looked about the same age as Ling was tied to a torture device, with purple scars all over her body. Seeing Fang Zheng, the girl barely raised her head and looked at him in confusion.
"Excuse me...are you...a guest?"
"No."
Fang Zheng shook his head, then untied the torture instruments on the girl's hands and feet and let her down.
"So, what do you want me to do?"
Looking at Fang Zheng's actions, the girl smiled again and asked.
"I am very obedient. No matter what you want me to do, I will be happy to serve you."
“You don’t have to do anything.”
Fang Zheng grabbed the bed sheet next to him, draped it over the girl, and gently stroked her hair.
"I'm here to get you out of here."
“…”
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the girl tilted her head slightly in confusion.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean, sir. Do you want us to go out and serve you?"
"No, I'm here to take you home."
Fang Zheng gently stroked the girl's cheek and looked at her smiling face. Even though she had been subjected to inhumane abuse, the girl was still smiling. It seemed that she had no other expression except smiling.
"go home?"
"That's right, no one will stop you, you can do whatever you want."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng stood up and extended his hand to the girl.
"Come with me."
Wrapped in the bed sheet, the girl stared blankly at Fang Zheng's outstretched hand, then she raised her head again.
"Yes, I'd love to!"
This time, lines of tears dripped down the girl's cheeks from her smiling face.
Suppressing the "Paradise" was no pressure for Fang Zheng. The guards of the cult and the guards of the "guests" were just small insects that Fang Zheng could easily crush to death. It didn't take long for the originally luxurious and gorgeous mansion to become a cemetery of blood, death and corpses.
And for Fang Zheng, the real cemetery is here.
There was no life in the cold basement, only a few skinny corpses abandoned here like garbage.
Fang Zheng stood at the door, watching the scene in front of him without saying a word, and beside him followed three girls, the only three survivors that Fang Zheng had rescued in the "paradise". Their purpose here was to satisfy the desires of these "guests", all kinds of unspeakable desires, and it didn't matter even if they died, because to the cult, they were just props that could be replaced at any time and anywhere.
Even if someone dies, new people will be captured to replace them soon.
If Fang Zheng had not witnessed many equally cruel or even more brutal tragedies in the dark world, even he would probably not be able to bear the scene before him.
"They should be returned to their families."
Fang Zheng sighed and closed the door again.
"Anyway, let's get out of here."
After that, Fang Zheng had been traveling around, clearing out the cult's secret bases with lightning speed. To Fang Zheng, who had the Whispering Banner in his hand, the cult had no secrets at all. Soon, under the attack of Fang Zheng and the Zerg, all the cult's bases were uprooted.
However, for Fang Zheng, this process was not so pleasant.
At the beginning, he thought the situation in "Paradise" was bad enough, but afterwards, Fang Zheng discovered that compared with other strongholds of the cult, the situation in "Paradise" was actually good.
Perhaps it was because the "Paradise" was mainly used to serve guests, as most children survived longer. In other places, for the cult, these children were simply guinea pigs and experimental subjects. Sometimes Fang Zheng massacred an entire stronghold, but in the end he could only rescue one survivor.
But no matter what, under Fang Zheng's relentless and fierce attack, in just a few days, all the strongholds of the cult were swept away by Fang Zheng, and all the high-ranking officials were killed. Although some of them realized that things were not going well and tried to hide under a different name, how could these tricks be hidden from Fang Zheng who had the Whispering Banner?
After completely destroying the cult, Fang Zheng began the next wave of operations. He sent the bodies of the children back to their homes, and the living survivors were sent to the hospital for treatment under Fang Zheng's concealed identity.
This wave of operations naturally shocked all countries. Especially the kidnapped children suddenly appeared in the Crossbell hospital, which was a very unusual thing in itself. So all countries immediately sent people to visit and inquire about the situation.
Among them was Cassius Bright, one of the only four S-class guerrillas on the continent.
"You mean... the person who saved you was a man dressed in black and holding a big sword?"
Looking at the blue-haired girl lying on the sickbed in front of him with lifeless eyes, Cassius asked in a low voice, and the girl nodded slightly without saying anything.
"Is he alone?"
“…”
"I understand. Thank you, little girl. Have a good rest."
Looking at the little girl in front of him, Cassius smiled, then he stood up and quietly walked out of the ward.
"How's it going, Cassius?"
Outside the ward, another burly man was waiting there. He was Cassius' partner, also a guerrilla fighter, codenamed "Immovable" Kim Vasek.
"Like the others, a man wearing a black trench coat, masked, and carrying a black sword."
"You can be sure it's him."
"Yes, Black."
Cassius nodded. As an S-class guerrilla fighter, he certainly knew about the big news of the Fighting God being killed. You know, this happened not long ago. But what Cassius didn't expect was that the other protagonist of this story was so unwilling to be lonely that he made another big news in just a few days.
"But I don't understand why 'Black' would attack the cult?"
Jin asked doubtfully. In fact, the Guerrilla Association has been tracking and investigating the cult. After all, the guerrillas' philosophy is to protect civilians, and most of the victims in kidnapping incidents are civilians. Therefore, the Guerrilla Association would not let this cult go. However, what they did not expect was that before they had time to find out the full picture of the cult, someone got there first.
"Perhaps 'Black' is also a victim of the cult."
At this point, Cassius also remembered the scenes he had seen, and couldn't help but clench his fists. After the victims were rescued, the Guerrilla Association and the army naturally learned the location of the cult's base, so they naturally went to investigate, and everything they saw at that time made Cassius tremble. Although the bodies of the children were collected by Fang Zheng at that time, just reading those cold reports and materials was enough to make people feel cold fear and anger.
"But if that's the case, why doesn't Hei cooperate with us?"
"Maybe... he doesn't approve of the guerrillas' approach."
Cassius shook his head. He certainly understood what Jin meant, but he could also guess why Hei did not ask the Guerrilla Association for help, because in the stronghold, Cassius also saw the bodies of the cult members.
Fang Zheng showed no mercy to these cult members. Not only did he use them as food for the insect swarm, he even made them feel incomparable pain. When these guys died in the end, Fang Zheng didn't even bother to hang them all by the street lamps.
Until now, Cassius still remembered that when he first walked into the Sun Fortress, he saw the leader of the cult and a group of high-ranking officials hanging on the high wall with frozen expressions of fear, swaying in the wind.
That is something that guerrillas are absolutely not allowed to do.
But as a killer, Hei obviously doesn't need to worry about these things.
"Now the intelligence agencies of the Empire and the Republic are investigating Hei, what should we do?"
“…”
This time, Cassius did not answer immediately. The reason why the intelligence agencies of the two countries launched another investigation into the mysterious killer was not because he killed the God of War or annihilated the cult single-handedly, but because of the recent series of mysterious deaths of high-level officials in various countries. Although judging from the condition of the corpses, these parliamentarians or nobles were killed by monsters, no one would regard this as an accident.
Because all these high-level officials who were killed were on the paradise list.
Cassius had been to Paradise, seen the list, and knew what they had done. He himself had a daughter, and to be fair, Cassius was not sure if he could remain calm if his daughter was also brought here to do something like this. He agreed that the nobles and high-ranking officials who had colluded with the cult would have to pay a price, but as a former war hero and a renowned S-class guerrilla fighter on the continent, Cassius also knew that if the matter was resolved by the guerrilla fighters, it would probably end up in nothing.
After all, politics and combat are different.
"I need to go back and make a report."
Cassius did not directly answer his partner's question.
"As of now, this matter has come to an end."
"yes……"
After hearing Cassius' answer, Jin didn't say anything else, but sighed.
"It looks like it's over."