Otherworldly Affairs Office

Gazing through the sixteen people dragged into the Jiezhi Space, Shangxing fixed his eyes on Han Lihu, who stood silently with a sullen face in the crowd. According to police intelligence, this was the mastermind of the border massacre, the main target of this arrest operation, and the enemy he would face next.

Meanwhile, Wang Wenze, setting up the camera he took out from his ring, teased Pei Yan with a smile, "Is this the best taunt you could come up with after all this time? 'Your good days are over'? Am I watching a movie from the 80s?"

"Then what should I say? 'Confess for leniency, resist for severity'? Or 'you have the right to remain silent'?" Pei Yan, now mechanized, also felt embarrassed by his previous taunt, awkwardly rubbed his neck, and was the first to step out of the team, thinking he must come up with an extremely cool taunt after this incident.

After counting the enemy's numbers, Xia Yu said with some headache, "Enough chatter. Three people were fast enough to escape being drawn into the Jiezhi Space. We need to finish this battle quickly!"

Qi Hua, confident in his teammates' strength, said unconcernedly, "Only three people! With Jiang Feiyang outside, they won't escape!"

"You didn't understand Xia Yu's point. She's not worried about Jiang Feiyang; she's worried about this forest. With Jiang Feiyang outside, they won't escape, but this forest might suffer. If a forest fire breaks out, we're doomed," Ye Jiumu casually remarked after setting up his camera.

Qi Hua hesitated after hearing this, "With Xue Buli here, it shouldn't be a problem. This could be considered her home turf!"

"Alright, Jiang Feiyang won't lose his judgment. Pei Yan, make your move! Han Lihu is mine; everyone else, stay alert and be ready for support!" Shangxing stepped forward to stand shoulder to shoulder with Pei Yan, commanding.

"Captain, leave it to me! If I can't handle it, then you can support me!"

"Can you?"

"No problem!" Faced with Shangxing's worried gaze, Pei Yan responded confidently. He stepped forward and shouted, "We are from the Otherworldly Investigation Hall. You are suspected of illegal drug trafficking, murder..."

"All that rubbish! I dare to kill armed police! Why would I fear a brat like you?" A subordinate beside Han Lihu, pushed to the brink by days of being on the run, interrupted hysterically before Pei Yan could finish shouting.

"Oh!" Pei Yan exhaled deeply and laughed, "You should have said so earlier. It saves you trouble, saves me trouble, so it means you're ready to fight to the bitter end!" Pei Yan's mouth grinned widely under his faceplate as he spoke. Since the camera was rolling, he had to follow protocol; otherwise, he wouldn't bother wasting words on this scum.

"Fight to the b...!" The criminal was about to curse again, but no one heard the rest of his words. In the roar, a silver light flashed, and a fierce wind blew Ye Jiumu and Zhao Yuanhu's long hair high. When they recovered from the ringing in their ears, they saw Han Lihu's team scattered as if pierced by a long spear.

In the back of the team, the shouting criminal was carried away with his chest pierced through by Pei Yan's right hand!

The broken hairband let fall long hair that covered Ye Jiumu's face. He brushed it aside and watched Pei Yan disappear from sight in an instant, murmuring, "So fast! Did you see his movements? This is...!"

Equally incredulous, Wang Wenze supported the camera, looked at the screen, then looked at Pei Yan in the distance, exclaiming excitedly, "This is Song Mingyuan's ability after his initial awakening, Pei Yan has perfectly integrated his abilities!"

"No! He's even faster than Song Mingyuan! Has he already mastered using two abilities so well?" Xia Yu stepped forward, crouched down, and touched the slightly warm footprint on the ground, recalling and comparing with the scene during the encounter with Song Mingyuan that day.

If Pei Yan heard his teammates' evaluation, he would probably blush with both embarrassment and joy. Actually, after integrating Song Mingyuan's abilities, he had no time to train; this was his first try at using the two abilities together.

"System, have I reached my maximum speed?" Pei Yan questioned in his mind, although feeling the internal response, the speed he achieved exceeded his expectations, leaving him somewhat unprepared.

"No, you can reach even higher speeds, but with your current body and abilities, it's not possible. Forcing more speed might make your body collapse."

"Did I exceed the speed of sound?"

"No, you were still subsonic, reaching 320 meters per second, but you didn't break the sound barrier to achieve sonic speed! Do you need to break the sound barrier? With your current body, it would still be difficult!"

"Not for now, keep my speed within a reasonable range. Unless absolutely necessary, I don't need to go full throttle!" Satisfied with the system's reply, Pei Yan nodded. In typical battles, he didn't need to maintain top speed all the time; what he needed more was sustained high-speed combat.

From Song Mingyuan's performance that day, engaging in such high-speed movement with a human body bore significant physical burdens, whereas his mechanical body had no such concerns, allowing him to exploit this speed advantage to the fullest!

"Cough, cough! What kind of monster are you!" Zhu Xiu Jie stared dumbfounded at his pierced chest, spitting a mouthful of blood onto Pei Yan!

Though unwilling, Zhu Xiu Jie, a second-level awakened, found his chest pierced before he could even release his internal energy. He recalled the police officer he trampled underfoot that night—was he also to become a stepping stone? No, I won't become a stepping stone! I don't want to die!

If I must die, I'll take someone down with me!

With that thought, he shouted, gripping tightly the arm piercing his body, ready to channel all his internal energy for a final deadly strike. But suddenly, a powerful electric current flowed into his body from Pei Yan's arm.

Looking at Zhu Xiu Jie, who twitched and knelt dead at his feet with wide eyes, Pei Yan, expressionless, tried to withdraw his left arm but found it clamped tightly by Zhu's hands. Frustrated, he extended two circular saws from his arm, horizontally severing Zhu's wrists.

Finally free, Pei Yan turned, shook off the severed hands from his arm, threw them aside, and coldly said, "Next, it's your turn!"

"I surrender! I surrender and accept my fate! Don't kill me!" Liu Ling, seeing Pei Yan incarnate as a God of Slaughter, had already wet his pants. If Zhu, a second-level esper, could be killed in an instant, what chance did he, a first-level esper, have?

"Liu Ling, you F*%@ dare to defect! I'll kill you first!" a drug trafficker shouted angrily as Liu Ling ran madly with arms raised towards the group from the investigation hall.

"Oh? Who are you going to kill?"

The voice, like something from Hell, sounded behind him as a gust of wind blew past!