Chapter 265: Captured
Pure white light, that looked like it was bestowed by the god through his angels upon the unfortunate souls of mankind.
Unfortunately, it wasn't. For normal people, and even some low-level cultivators, this light wasn't a blessing but death. A pure, white, painful death.
"Ahhh!!!" Stay connected through empire
Several people throughout the city yelled. Whoever could see that light, whoever the light fell on began to scream. That part of their body began to burn and burn until that part was no more.
Some were lucky enough to escape to places where that light couldn't reach but those who weren't were burned from inside out. Some even disintegrated, some slowly decayed, and some were lucky enough to have their minds burned before the tremendous pain of this light could truly hurt them.
As for Rin's own allies…
"Fu*k!"
"It's burning!"
"Rin! Stop!"
While Zhou Han depicted what type of pain he felt even past his Qi barrier and expanded his Qi to the fullest, Zhang Fei tried to bring Rin back out of her stunned state where her eyes, which were glowing white, were still fixed on the lifeless and heartless body of Sho Xiang.
As for the last person who was the cause of all of this…
'Weird.'
[Weird indeed]
[Her body is turning more and more angelic]
'Shouldn't that have a good effect on mankind?'
Often in books, it was usually stated that angels were the friends of mankind and messengers of gods. They were friends of humanity and weren't created to harm them.
[You have never seen a real angel, have you, host?]
[Angels are made of pure light]
[The kind that can be devastating for humans because they cannot bear such purity]
[Angels are usually disguised or their powers blocked when they are sent to lower realms in case they were to ever accidentally come in contact with people]
'I see.' Wei Jun replied to the useless information before he asked about the more important one, 'Why isn't it hurting me? It's even hurting them.'
[Because of me]
[I'm half angel]
'Of course, you are.'
Wei Jun was now almost sure that the system was everything that existed in the world of cultivation. Wei Jun had long since given up trying to figure out what it was.
[As long as I'm in the system, anything related to angels wouldn't hurt me]
[Of course, unless, and of course, it was targeted at your Death Qi so don't even make the mistake of pulling it out of your body]
'Duly noted,' Wei Jun replied. It made sense. The Death Qi inside his body wasn't harmed but when he pulled it out in the form of whips earlier, he was harmed by Rin's skills.
[Just wait it out]
[She doesn't look like she's in control of her power so she'll lose it soon]
'Ahan, and how long would that be?'
[Depends on her]
[How unstable her mind is]
[Power of angels requires, just like demonic power, sanity]
[If you're not in control, then the power itself is]
[The power, without an aim, would just destroy everything and would run out of battery without any efficiency]
Wei Jun had a strange déjà vu. He remembered how his Death Qi had gone berserk in the middle of the day because he had lost control of his emotions. Because he wasn't in control, his Death Qi destroyed everything in his path.
Although the primary focus was still Tao Min, the power was being wasted on other things as well, other people included.
Just like now, instead of Wei Jun, Rin's power was focused on everyone, losing its effect slowly. And soon enough, just as the system said, the power began to dim and the effect of burning began to lessen.
Wei Jun kept his eyes on her but remained in his spot, not moving an inch because he was focused on keeping the Death energy within. Ever since Rin began to let out that power, the Death Qi inside of him was going berserk as well. Wei Jun didn't know the reason and he didn't want to know the reason. All he knew was that he would be severely harmed if he tried to fight back. He still remembered the pain from Rin penetrating his whips with her light.
"Rin!" Rin's power ended and Zhang Fei hurriedly moved towards her, his body severely injured as well but he was more worried about Rin who fell on the ground, unconscious. Her hair color was now white instead of black like before, and her skin was paler as if all the blood inside of her had been drained and those were the changes Wei Jun could see at the moment.
[I think this would be the best time for you to leave, host]
'I can't,' Wei Jun replied before he turned his attention towards the air. He raised his hands and said, "I surrender."
Whoop!!!
A fist stopped just inches away from his face, the pressure from it destroying everything behind him, the shockwave spreading throughout the entire area.
The one who appeared out of nowhere was none other than the familiar Commander Han who had come to check on him in the Thunder Cloud Tempest sect. Of course, Commander Han couldn't know that because of how ugly the current biker was.
"You bastard," Commander Han calmly said before he calmly looked around. The city was a mess, the number of deaths was beyond cover-up, and if that wasn't enough, the one who did all that was not the biker but the CSF.
"Hahahaha." The biker laughed, his voice low which only made the Commander angrier and he punched the biker in his stomach, knocking the air out of him and messing up his intestines than they already were.
"Cough! Cough!!" The biker huddled on the ground, his hands on his stomach as he tried to cope with the pain.
Before he could do that though, the Commander was nice enough to help him by hitting him on the back of his head, rendering him unconscious.
"Haaa… I'm gonna be yelled at." The Commander said before he turned to one of his most promising prospects, passed out on the ground, with two heavily injured men trying to wake her up by shaking her.
"What a mess has this become," The Commander said before he looked at the biker. As much as he wanted to just step on the head of the biker, he couldn't. After all, the biker made sure to get all the leverage he needed before surrendering.
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"And?" Commander Han asked the M.E. who just inspected the biker. She was frozen stiff as if she had seen the stuff of nightmares and it was coming from an M.E., people who were used to shoving their hands down dead bodies.
"Ah!" The woman let out a little scream before she calmed down and replied, "I'm sorry, Commander. The stuff I saw was quite… unsettling."
"I can tell," Commander Han replied before he asked, "Is there any way of getting any form of identification?"
"First of all, we cannot take a blood sample. The blood comes out contaminated from the green goo his skin oozes." The M.E. began.
"What is that comes out of him?" Zhang Fei asked. Since Rin was absent, he was the one in charge of the team. Or at least what was left of it.
"Some kind of venom. What is it though, I have no idea. However, whatever it is, it is perfectly applied. It doesn't penetrate too deep into his skin and doesn't come out as well." The M.E. replied before she added a note of her own, "As if he submerged his body into the venom and turned his skin into it."
"Why isn't it penetrating his body further?" Commander Han asked.
"I… don't know. I can only say it is some sort of power of his that is keeping that from happening. Maybe it's healing him appropriately but not enough to get rid of the venom." The M.E. replied.
"Or he can control it and heal only what's needed and let the venom destroy what isn't." Commander Han gave his own view which was accepted by all the parties in the room.
"So fingerprints and blood samples are out of the question." Commander Han said after a few moments of silence. It was a terrible outcome and he needed some sort of good news but there was none so far.
"Even if we get those, Commander, it would be impossible to find out who he is since he took all the police data. We have nothing." Zhang Fei replied, a point that even Commander Han missed.
Commander Han solemnly nodded before he turned to Zhang Fei and asked, "Any suggestions?"
"If all of those are out of the question, then how about dental records? They all public data and we can find out who he is that way." Zhang Fei asked.
"I can't," The M.E. replied, her face once again turning stiff as she remembered what she found out about them.
"Why not?" The commander asked.
"Because there are no teeth." The M.E. replied.
"So he had them taken out? That's bad for us." Commander Han said.
"No, Commander," The M.E. said, "He didn't have them taken out. He ripped them out."
"What?" Zhang Fei asked.
The M.E. gulped and replied, "The way the lacerations on his gums were made, he ripped them out himself. With his bare hands, he ripped each and every one of them out."