In the next half month, Huang Hao and others led those killers to hunt down the survivors in Changling City, infect them all, and then take the death crystals in their brains to enhance their own strength. However, Changling City was not far from Shennong Mountain, and many people had already fled due to the pressure of survival. Therefore, until they searched Changling City, they only found more than 3,000 people. After devouring the death crystals of more than 3,000 killers, they advanced to become second-level super-powered people.
After that, they followed Yan's instructions and came to Shennong Mountain, preparing to mass-produce the Killer in Shennong Mountain to obtain its dead crystals. However, their level was not very high, and they did not dare to easily spread the Killer at the foot of Shennong Mountain. After all, the population here was too dense, and if the Killer was really spread, it was not certain who would be the nutrient for whom!
Moreover, Yan's plan was to use the granary in Shennong Mountain as bait to attract a steady stream of people. This way, they could obtain a steady stream of dead crystals. If they created a large-scale killer, who would dare to come? Yan's instructions to them were to control the granary. Before long, the killers would naturally erupt. By then, even if they blatantly took the dead crystals, no one would dare to say anything. Instead, they would be supported by everyone.
Therefore, according to Yan's instructions, they found the base of Tiandun Security, and happened to encounter the scene where Huo Jianan and his group failed to incite the masses, so they took advantage of the situation, subdued these people, and directly attacked the granary.
In their view, with their strength, it would be easy to attack the granary. In this way, they would have a legitimate reason to do so. After capturing the granary, they would be able to gain the trust of the people living at the foot of the mountain, and the implementation of their plans would be much smoother in the future.
It is worth mentioning that when Huang Hao and others saw the Jindan-stage cultivator Zheng Yu, they just felt an inexplicable disgust towards him, and did not go crazy like those super-powered people that Li Mu had seen before.
It was precisely because Huang Hao and others felt disgusted when they saw Zheng Yu that they left him behind to cover their retreat, and thus he was killed by Li Mu. Poor Zheng Yu, with his physique as a Jindan cultivator, had never taken the people from the other two forces seriously, but he unexpectedly was the first one to fall.
Li Mu also knew what happened later.
After listening to Huang Hao's story, Li Mu frowned. He had seen death crystals at the Spark Base before. Even the death crystals taken out from the heads of newly born killers contained a lot of energy. It was not necessary for more than 3,000 death crystals to promote Huang Hao and his twenty men to second-level super-powered people. Li Mu estimated that only 5 death crystals like that were needed to promote a first-level super-powered person to the second level.
A bad idea came to Li Mu's mind. That is, most of the energy of the dead crystals absorbed by Huang Hao and others was transferred to Yan's body in some form. Otherwise, there would be no point in Yan doing all this. There are 100,000 people in Shennong Mountain, and more people will come in the future. Will Yan hand over such a big cake to his men?
Thinking of this, Li Mu asked Huang Hao: "Do you have any super awakening potion?"
"No, Lord Yan only gave each of us one tube." Huang Haoshuang said with a wry smile.
After a little thought, Li Mu prepared to extract a trace of Huang Hao's soul for careful study. However, he was unable to use his cultivation now, so he had to rely on external tools to extract it. This kind of thing was in Li Mu's Qiankun Ring, called the Soul-Extracting Needle. Just as Li Mu inserted the needle into Huang Hao's sea of consciousness, Huang Hao's face changed drastically, with fear on his face. Immediately, his head exploded instantly, and his soul was destroyed. If Li Mu had not dodged in time, he would have been covered in stains.
Li Mu didn't believe it, so he went to a super-powered person he had killed, ready to take his soul, because these people had just died and their souls had not yet dissipated. However, the situation was the same as Huang Hao's. This person's head exploded again, and he ended up with his soul and spirit destroyed.
"It seems that Yan has done something to their souls!" Li Mu murmured with his eyes slightly narrowed. It is very common among cultivators to tamper with the soul, but now Li Mu cannot use his cultivation level, so he cannot crack it.
Not only that, Li Mu discovered that after the death of these super-powered people, the super-powered factors in their bodies did not return to nature like those super-powered people in the Spark Base, but disappeared directly, as if they had never appeared in these people's bodies.
Li Mu’s brows furrowed deeper and deeper. This Yan was not easy to deal with!
Huo Jianan was already dizzy after seeing all this, but his strong desire to survive told him not to faint, otherwise he would be killed without even a chance to beg for mercy.
Seeing Li Mu looking at him, Huo Jianan begged, "Senior, please forgive me. I will never dare to do it again. I will serve the people wholeheartedly in the future."
"Are you still thinking about serving the people?" Li Mu sneered. What he was considering now was whether to starve Huo Jianan to death or kill him with the Sword of Killing. Although starving to death would be torture, at least there would be hope of rebirth. If he was killed with a sword, he would be completely wiped out.
"How much grain did you resell before Yan forced you?" Li Mu asked calmly.
"Senior, you are innocent. Even if I were given a hundred guts, I would not dare to resell grain. The most I did was to squeeze a little bit of the salary of my employees." Huo Jianan said with tears and snot.
He knew what he could say and what he could not say. If he had been caught reselling strategic reserve grain before the snowstorm, it would have been a piece of cake. He would have been sentenced to two years in prison at most. After all, how could he not have any connections at all to stay in this lucrative position for so many years?
If the verdict is based on actual facts, reselling strategic reserve grain is a capital crime, and now they are dealing with a ruthless killer like Li Mu, so he must be torn into pieces, right?
But if he didn't admit any guilt, no one would believe him, so he simply told them about the withholding of the salaries of his contract workers. After all, this was just a trivial matter and he could just apologize.
Li Mu just watched Huo Jianan's performance with a playful look on his face. His ability to capture micro-expressions was many times better than the sophisticated equipment used by the police to interrogate prisoners. How could Huo Jianan possibly deceive him?
At this moment, Chen Guangyun ran over excitedly, carrying a disheveled woman on his shoulder: "Chief, look who I caught?"
"Ahem~pay attention to your image!" Yang Su said with a light cough.
Chen Guangyun's face turned red and he quickly threw the woman to the ground. The woman was Zhuang Hui, Deputy Director Zhuang, who had followed Huo Jianan for many years.
"Chief, I confess and I want to report." Zhuang Hui crawled to Li Mu's side.
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