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Chapter 113: Old Ginger is Spicier

The tempest-like impact spread throughout the entire top floor. A mere single-story building seemed incredibly cramped for two Ability Users whose average speed exceeded a hundred.

Window glass shattered, large holes tore through the walls. Less than three minutes into the battle, the entire top floor was already open to the wind from all sides. Personnel below the headquarters building began to evacuate continuously. Many people started noticing the grand battle unfolding in the heart of Tianqing, and quite a few Ability Users, fancying themselves somewhat capable, even ran to a relatively close distance to spectate.

Bai Mo, who disliked being watched, simply devoured almost all the light around him to avoid trouble. All Ability Users still relying on their naked eyes could only see a black mass fighting.

However, Liu Fu, having entered his rational mode, was clearly not among them. He could always precisely predict Bai Mo's attacks, then block them with the minimal range of movement, compensating for his lack of speed.

To his side, Hua Wenwu utilized his absurdly high-damage plasma blade in conjunction with his teleportation to continuously harass, aiming to reduce the pressure on Liu Fu, who was directly confronting Bai Mo.

As for Chen Ledun, whose abilities leaned heavily towards defense, Bai Mo intended to deal with him last. It was obvious from his build that speed was his weakness, and he couldn't get involved in the current high-speed battle.

Regarding the last person, Wang Lang, who had been wearing sunglasses, Bai Mo judged from the continuous mental attacks he was receiving that Wang Lang's abilities should be primarily mental, and thus wouldn't affect him much.

"Damn it! Why do my mental arrow attacks disappear like a mud ox entering the sea when I shoot them? Logically, he shouldn't know how to defend against such an obscure attack!" Wang Lang cursed exasperatedly from a corner, while Chen Ledun leveraged his defensive advantage to shield the relatively vulnerable Wang Lang from shockwaves coming from all directions.

"Can you fly?" Bai Mo landed a full-force heavy punch on Liu Fu. Although Liu Fu completely blocked the punch, the sheer force attached to it still propelled him out of the top floor building's range, sending him directly into mid-air.

Liu Fu, having suddenly lost his footing, was momentarily dazed. After all, he wasn't a battle-hardened soldier, but merely a privileged young man with immense power. Though aided by his rational mode, he only reacted after a full second, but a second was already long enough for Bai Mo.

"Boom boom boom boom!" Before Hua Wenwu could react and teleport to rescue him, Liu Fu's body had already been battered like a tattered sack, punctured with several large holes, blood gushing out and scattering everywhere.

Liu Fu, gravely wounded, lay in Hua Wenwu's arms. But as a close-combat Ability User, he also possessed powerful regenerative abilities. Wounds that would typically be fatal to an ordinary person would usually heal after four or five days of recuperation. Unfortunately, he didn't even have four or five minutes.

Bai Mo furiously pursued Hua Wenwu, who was fleeing with Liu Fu. Hua Wenwu, teleporting with a gravely injured person, felt his Spirit Energy wouldn't last if he continued. He decisively abandoned Liu Fu to escape alone. Chen Ledun and Wang Lang, realizing they had fallen into a trap, had already departed, leaving only Bai Mo and the gravely wounded Liu Fu on the scene.

After casually dispatching the gravely wounded Liu Fu, Bai Mo, still maintaining his state of absolute darkness, walked to the first floor of the Contribution Point center, where he happened to meet Hu Feng, who had arrived under orders.

"Mr. Bai," Hu Feng seemed a little apprehensive after recognizing the dark mass that had appeared a few days prior.

"How do the old men plan to compensate me for letting me do their dirty work?" Bai Mo didn't even bother to pretend, directly questioning Hu Feng.

"They've guaranteed the testing ground will be completed within a month."

"What's that supposed to be? That's already aligned with their interests."

"Well, it's just... we didn't know what you wanted, so..."

"Never mind. I'll talk to them later. Did you come for something in particular?"

"The leaders asked me to give you this. It's the hidden GPS locations on their four clothes."

"Old ginger is spicier." Bai Mo took the display device from Hu Feng's hand. "Go arrange for people to refrigerate all the corpses up there, including Liu Fu's. They'll be important research material once the testing ground is repaired."

"The leaders sent me and my men specifically to handle this matter. Does Mr. Bai have any other instructions?"

"I'll contact you after I've killed the other few. You can send people to clean up the bodies then."

"I wish you success."

"If I don't succeed, they should start worrying about their own safety." Bai Mo held the display device and, following the instructions, began his sneak attack.

The three men, like birds startled by the twang of a bowstring, had each fled to their secret hideouts. Alas, under the specialized military GPS tracking, all their evasions were futile.

"Young Master Hua, why are you suddenly back? Weren't you at the headquarters gathering?" A trusted subordinate in the hideout saw Hua Wenwu suddenly appear, then collapse onto the sofa, panting heavily.

"A'Bin, notify the core members. We must leave Huaxia immediately. The plot has been exposed, and the old men are now hunting us down with full force."

"Brother Hua, why not take a risk and launch early, instead of immediately retreating? Aren't the Ability Users loyal to them no match for you?"

"They don't know what price they paid to invite a monster. Liu Fu was killed by him too. We have no chance of winning now, we must retreat!"

"Understood, I'll handle it right away!"

Suddenly, A'Bin's eyes glazed over, and he walked towards Hua Wenwu with somewhat stiff steps. Hua Wenwu, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly had a premonition of danger. But he merely thought the search operation for him had begun, and his trusted subordinate A'Bin was just an ordinary person, completely incapable of harming him. So he remained on the sofa, relaxing his tightly wound nerves.

"You!" He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. Opening his eyes, he saw the knife in A'Bin's hand had already plunged into his body. "How is this possible!"

"Brother Hua, it's really, really not me!" A'Bin trembled as he immediately released the somewhat deformed knife in his hand after regaining control of his body.

"It's me." A black shadow emerged from a dark corner. While Hua Wenwu was still immersed in the sharp pain, it twisted his neck.

"Even with my psionic power reinforcing it, it was still too much to expect a common fruit knife to pierce the body of a high-level Spirit Animation Ability User." Bai Mo completely ignored the still dazed A'Bin, carrying Hua Wenwu's corpse in one hand, and left his secret hideout as a black shadow.

Dealing with the next two was even simpler. Without having to guard against Hua Wenwu's teleportation, which necessitated sneak attacks, Bai Mo simply killed his way in openly and directly. Although Chen Ledun possessed iron-like defenses and the ability to spray venom, his speed was far inferior to Bai Mo's. He was utterly helpless, relentlessly ground to death by a storm of fists.

As for Wang Lang's mental attacks, they were merely a tickle to Bai Mo, who also had expertise in mental power. After all, one had already completed the spiritualization of his brain at peak Spirit Animation, while the other had only just entered the seventh layer of Spirit Animation.

"I'll spend a few days thinking about what I need, then I'll talk to the old men in a week." After dealing with the several individuals, Bai Mo left a message for Hu Feng, naturally leaving the clean-up and aftermath to others.