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The iron hook whipped up a gust of wind and grazed past the back of Li Haotian's head.

The sound of the iron hook hitting the shipping container was so loud it hurt your ears.

Li Haotian rolled on the ground, and just as he regained his footing, the body with Liu Hu's face crashed into him.

"Boss! The magnetic field is intensifying; these containers are going to collapse!"

Su Wan's voice screamed through the earpiece.

Li Haotian didn't have time to reply; his gaze was fixed on the cyborg's right hand.

The plasma saw drew a blue arc in the cold air, aiming straight for his waist and abdomen.

Li Haotian dodged to the side, casually wiping away the freezing liquid that had seeped into his collar.

The icy liquid sent a chill down his spine, and the golden flame in his heart suddenly shot outwards.

"Get out of here!"

He let out a low growl, holding the bronze dagger horizontally in front of his chest.

Golden flames spread along the patterns on the dagger, instantly burning the white smoke in the air into nothingness.

The cyborg's four metal tentacles lashed out like whips.

Li Haotian didn't retreat; he charged straight at the tentacles.

The dagger left four afterimages.

Golden sparks flew wildly through the gaps between the shipping containers.

"Snap!"

The sound of metal breaking was drowned out by the buzzing of the plasma saw.

The four severed arms, complete with barbs, lay in the mud and water, still twisting wildly.

Li Haotian didn't stop moving; he kicked the cyborg's kneecap.

The other person swayed, and the rough stitches on their chest suddenly burst open.

Seizing the opportunity, Li Haotian crashed into the other person's arms.

The dagger, glowing with intense golden light, plunged into the cyborg's mechanical chest cavity with a soft thud.

There was no expected gear jamming sound, nor oil splattering.

A stream of black blood with a strong, fishy smell sprayed onto Li Haotian's yellow vest.

The blood was very hot, and when it hit the ground, it still left trails of white smoke on the floor.

Li Haotian was stunned for a moment, and he looked inside through the gap created by the dagger.

It wasn't a precision part at all, but a pile of writhing, purple, rotten flesh.

Wrapped in rotten flesh was a shrunken, fist-sized heart of flesh and blood.

The heart beat extremely slowly, each beat bringing with it a wisp of thick black mist.

"What is this thing...?"

Li Haotian's hand holding the dagger was trembling slightly.

"Target...damaged...initiating...self-destruct sequence..."

The cyborg's voice became extremely shrill, like two pieces of iron rubbing together wildly.

Its face, which belonged to Liu Hu, began to contort, and the muscle bundles beneath the skin snapped one by one.

The purple pathway in the grayish-white eyeball suddenly stopped.

"Kill...me..."

A very faint sound was squeezed out of the cyborg's throat.

That wasn't a synthesized voice; it was a human voice with vibrato and familiar frequencies.

That was Liu Hu calling for help.

Li Haotian felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his pupils contracted violently.

"Tiger Brother?"

He reached out his left hand, trying to cup the shattering face in his hands.

The other person's lips twitched, revealing a smile that was more like a grimace.

"Hurry...go...it's fake..."

The shrunken heart suddenly swelled, and purple lines rapidly spread along the cyborg's skin.

"Boss! Run! Its core energy is flowing in reverse, and its magnetic field has exploded!"

Su Wan screamed desperately in the channel.

The surrounding shipping containers emitted a sickening, distorted sound.

A tremendous suction force came from all directions, attempting to tear Li Haotian to pieces.

Li Haotian looked at that face, a hint of red appearing in the corner of his eye.

He took a deep breath and suddenly exerted force with his right hand.

The dagger spun horizontally inside the chest cavity, completely shattering the still faintly beating heart.

"Tiger, I'll take you home."

He cried out, grabbed the other person's neck with his left hand, and suddenly pulled them back.

"Snap!"

A crisp sound of a cervical vertebra breaking rang out.

The body went limp instantly, and the gray-white eyeballs completely lost their luster.

"boom!"

The shipping containers overhead finally gave way.

The steel cabinet, weighing tens of tons, crashed down with a whooshing sound.

Li Haotian released his grip, using the explosive force of the golden flames to fly backward.

His boots slid across the wet, slippery steel plate, almost sending sparks flying.

"Thump!"

The container crashed to the ground, splashing mud and water all over Li Haotian's face.

He didn't dare turn around, crouching low as he frantically weaved through the gaps between the shipping containers.

The sounds of metal clanging behind me were continuous, and the entire container area was collapsing.

The magnetic field pulled at every inch of his skin, and the blood in his veins seemed about to seep through his skin.

"Su Wan, the interference is too strong, give me the coordinates!"

He roared as he ran, and a shipping container beside him was molded into an iron ball by the magnetic field.

"Turn left! Go past that red crane frame! The exit is there!"

Su Wan's voice was broken and filled with terror.

Li Haotian leaped over a pile of scrap metal.

He saw dim lights shining from the control room not far ahead.

That was the only exit from the dock, and also where Old Dog and his mercenaries stayed.

Just as he was less than fifty meters from the gate, a blinding white light shone from the center of the control room.

The light wasn't golden, but a cold purple that exuded death.

"not good!"

Li Haotian had just collapsed behind the cement block.

"Bang!"

A huge blast wave swept across the entire dock.

The control room, along with the old dog and a dozen mercenaries inside, instantly turned into a sky full of fireballs.

Dirt and broken glass splattered on Li Haotian's back, burning his skin and causing a sharp pain.

He rolled around on the ground a few times, his ears filled with the buzzing sound of the explosion.

He got up and looked in the direction of the control room.

All that remained was a charred, deep pit; all the clues had been wiped clean.

"asshole!"

He punched the ruins hard.

The rain started to pour, washing away the blood and mud from his face.

He groped around on the ground, trying to find the remains of the cyborg.

But the container collapsed so completely that thousands of tons of scrap metal were crushed on top of it, leaving nothing behind.

He crawled through the mud and water, his palms cut by broken glass.

Just as he was about to give up, something shiny flashed past the corner of his eye.

It was a metal plaque that had been blown out of the blast and was stuck in a crack in the concrete.

Li Haotian reached out and pried it out.

The nameplate was covered in sticky black blood, and the back was deformed.

He wiped it vigorously with his sleeve.

A line of small, recessed characters appeared in the dim light.

"Pioneer Biopharmaceuticals - Specimen Sequence: BH-09".

Li Haotian stared at those words, his fingers turning pale from the excessive force.

"Su Wan, can you hear me?"

His voice was so deep it sounded like he had ice chips in his throat.

"...Yes, boss, I'm here."

Su Wan's voice was choked with sobs, mixed with the static of keyboard typing.

"Check out 'Pioneer Biopharmaceuticals' for me."

Li Haotian stood up, leaning against a concrete pillar, and looked at the dark sea in the distance.

"Did you find it?"

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the headset.

"Boss...that's the biggest pharmaceutical giant in the city, with assets exceeding 100 billion."

"Their headquarters is located in the Twin Towers in the center of Donghai City."

Su Wan paused, her tone becoming even more serious.

"Also, I found Tiger's last driving record before he disappeared."

"The place where his target disappeared was... the pioneers' underground research facility."

Li Haotian closed his eyes, and the image of the shattered heart flashed repeatedly in his mind.

"I saw him, Su Wan."

"Tiger Brother..."

He didn't say anything more, as if a ball of fire was stuck in his throat.

"Boss, is that Liu Hu... alive?"

Su Wan asked cautiously.

Li Haotian opened his eyes, and the golden flame in them had been extinguished, leaving only a cold, deathly silence.

"no."

"It's a trumpet that's been sewn up."

He looked down at the nameplate in his hand.

"They used Tiger as a test subject, stuffing him into that pile of rotten flesh."

He gripped the nameplate tightly in his hand, the sharp edge digging into his flesh, blood trickling down between his fingers.

In the distance, a black SUV was parked outside the dock, its headlights flashing in the rain.

Several blurry figures got out of the car, holding detectors in their hands.

Those were the reinforcements who came to clean up the battlefield.

"Let's go, we shouldn't stay here any longer."

Li Haotian lowered his voice and turned to disappear into the shadows of the dark shipping container.

The dock behind him fell into complete silence.

Only the remains, buried under scrap metal, were still quietly oozing black blood.

"No matter who you are, no matter how big your company is."

Li Haotian squatted in the roadside bushes, watching the busy figures of the cleanup workers.

"I'll settle this score with your life."

He put away the dagger and fastened the sweat-smelling helmet back on.

He twisted the throttle of his old electric scooter and disappeared into the depths of the rain before the group of people could spot him.

The neon lights of Donghai City flickered in the distance, looking like greedy mouths.

Li Haotian knew that the deepest quagmire had only just begun to emerge.

He touched the purple bead in his pocket that was almost burning through his clothes.

The light within the bead spun rapidly, pointing towards the city center.

There lies the truth, but also countless monsters that devour people without spitting out their bones.

"Su Wan, please contact General Manager Xu for me."

Li Haotian rode on his bicycle, his raincoat fluttering in the wind.

"Tell him I'm getting my hands on the keys to the club."

"But now I want to add a price."

Su Wan paused for a moment, then asked in a low voice.

"What's the price?"

Li Haotian looked up in the direction of the Twin Towers, a sinister glint in his eyes.

"I want the chairman of the Pioneers company dead."

He accelerated suddenly, and the electric scooter drew an arc on the empty road.

In the darkness, he threw the blood-stained nameplate into the nearby drain.

The sound of metal hitting the ground was so faint it was almost inaudible.

But in this downpour, the sound was like the knocking of death, booming above the city.

All illusions have shattered.

All that remains is a relentless pursuit of revenge.

His silhouette was stretched long under the streetlights, like a long spear piercing the sky.

In some corner of the night, another pair of eyes were staring intently at the rider in the yellow vest through the monitor screen.

A line of purple text lit up on the screen.

"Capture failed, activate contingency plan two."

Li Haotian was completely unaware that he was rushing towards that foggy tomorrow.

He still clutched the dagger, stained with his brother's blood, tightly in his hand.

The blade trembled, yearning for a more crimson offering.

The night in this city is just beginning.