I, Lord of Prayer

The following night, thin clouds obscured the stars and the moon.

After leaving the bustling city center, it felt as if the whole world had quieted down.

Old town area, outside Xingfu Residential Area.

Zhou Chen stopped on the street and looked at one of the residential buildings.

He changed into a more casual outfit, and wore sunglasses, a mask, and a hat, making simple disguises.

After determining the location of the surveillance cameras near the residential area, he took advantage of the darkness to climb over the wall and silently approach the building, recalling relevant information in his mind.

The moment Eternal Flame sent the mission objective information, Jiang Che thoroughly investigated all the information about the target from birth to the present.

—Li Guangjun, male, 35 years old, a native of Jinzhu City, attended Jinzhu Third Experimental School and later entered Jinzhu Fourth Middle School.

Introverted, not good at speaking, and socially awkward, I was always the quietest person in my class, the kind you'd forget as soon as I graduated. My academic performance was always mediocre, neither outstanding nor mediocre, and I ended up getting into a third-rate university in a neighboring city.

After graduation, he changed jobs many times: hotel receptionist, hotel greeter, community security guard, courier, food deliveryman, warehouse manager, truck driver... It seems that in order to train himself, he also tried to do sales, but he was fired after only two days due to social anxiety and unclear speech.

Later, he found a relaxed clerical job in the internet industry. His daily tasks consisted of creating spreadsheets. It had standard benefits like five social insurances and one housing fund, a 9-to-6 workday, and weekends off, but the salary was only 2,800 yuan. He worked there for five years, and his salary only increased by 500 yuan. 🍭♟ ➅9ˢ𝐇ยЖ.𝓬𝐎ⓜ 💙ൠ

He has an ordinary personality, an ordinary family background, an ordinary appearance, ordinary grades, and an ordinary job. Just like the vast majority of people in the world, he is an ordinary person through and through.

At the same time, like most ordinary people, he was unwilling to be ordinary and fantasized about getting rich overnight or having a windfall. He would buy a two-yuan scratch-off lottery ticket every day and buy a lottery ticket every week for six years.

In addition, he also published novels on the website "Zhidian Novel", writing a lot of chuunibyou fantasies that only chuunibyou teenagers would have. The key is that they are all self-indulgent and extremely embarrassing, making people feel so awkward that they could dig out a luxury villa with their toes.

I don't know how Jiang Che managed to read it all and then analyze the other person's personality from it.

I bet she has a terrible stomachache right now.

In short, this ordinary person unexpectedly became successful a year ago, transforming from an unknown old employee into a member of the company's management team. Within a month, he was promoted several times, eventually becoming the boss's secretary, and in doing so, he met his current girlfriend.

It looks like a story of a loser achieving success and reaching the pinnacle of life.

There are examples of middle-aged people turning their lives around and achieving success, but the key is that this guy doesn't look like someone who could turn his life around no matter how you look at him.

When all of this is connected to the Eternal Flame, the details become clear.

As for why Eternal Flame claimed that the other party had committed numerous evils and deserved to be punished, that remains unknown. Perhaps Li Guangjun had done something shady in secret.

At this moment, Zhou Chen had already arrived at the bottom of the residential building. He went upstairs quietly without making a sound.

When he arrived at the door of room 402, he took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and put them on. Then he took out a lock pick and easily pried open the door with a few twists.

The moment the door opened a crack, Zhou Chen paused, his eyes narrowing slightly.

It smells bloody.

The room was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, but that wasn't a problem for an Ascended Being. Zhou Chen's pupils shifted, and he quickly adjusted to the darkness. He gently closed the door, and a sharp kitchen knife slid out of his sleeve and was firmly gripped in his hand.

The smell of blood in the room wasn't strong, but it seemed to have been there for a long time. Considering the intelligence that Li Guangjun and his girlfriend hadn't left the house for many days, Zhou Chen couldn't help but have a guess.

He walked silently through the living room, observing his surroundings. Large splattered patches of black blood remained on the walls, furniture, and floor, and a long trail of blood stretched from the living room to the bedroom. In addition to the smell of blood, a foul stench permeated the air.

  

Like... a rat in the sewer.

"Jiang Che, did you see that?" he asked in his mind.

"I saw it."

Jiang Che glanced at the screen beside him: "Since Eternal Flame specifically requested you to kill Li Guangjun, the deceased is very likely his girlfriend. Also, you are currently under the surveillance of Eternal Flame. The detector has detected more than a dozen miniature cameras nearby. Be careful not to expose yourself."

Also, there are sources of pollution around you.

"I sensed it."

In Zhou Chen's invisible perception, there was a familiar non-human creature in that bedroom.

It constantly exudes distortion and pollution, along with that nauseating stench...

Corruptors!

Zhou Chen gripped the kitchen knife and walked inside, arriving at the bedroom door.

The door was ajar, half-open, and through the crack, Zhou Chen saw a visually shocking and gruesome scene.

In the dark bedroom, a hunched-over human-faced rat sat slumped on the bed, cradling a rotting head in its arms. Beside the bed lay a headless female corpse, her body covered in wounds as if torn apart by something, with dried, dark red bloodstains everywhere.

On the rotting corpse, maggots wriggled, flies swarmed, cockroaches swarmed, and rats crawled, making the entire bedroom look like a chaotic dance of demons, sending chills down one's spine.

Zhou Chen's vision went black, and he even heard people in the command post gasping for breath. If he could, he would like to take a few breaths to calm his nerves.

Good heavens, what kind of hellish drawing is this?

After quickly calming down, Zhou Chen examined the human-faced rat. It had long, thin whiskers and a tail, its skin was covered with grayish-black fur, its claws were sharp and pointed, and its eyes were blood red. At first glance, it looked like a giant mutated rat demon, but a human shape could be vaguely discerned in its features.

The most crucial element is that face, which is undoubtedly Li Guangjun himself.

"He turned into a rat-man after being corrupted...is it because he lived his entire life like a rat-man?"

"Perhaps so. The appearance and abilities of corrupted individuals are related to their personalities."

Jiang Che warned, "You need to be careful. Those rats are all mutated creatures; it might be able to control them."

"Damn... Has the Eternal Flame discovered my double agent identity?" Zhou Chen subconsciously thought he had been exposed. What a joke, how could an ordinary person possibly kill the Corruptor who controls the rat swarm?

Even with a gun, it's not allowed.

Just then, the human-faced rat in the bedroom suddenly turned its head, its two huge scarlet eyes shining like lanterns.

Zhou Chen's muscles tensed as he gripped the knife, ready to strike with lightning speed, when he saw the human-faced rat tremble and sob.

It is crying.

Tears streamed down his face as Li Guangjun, his voice hoarse, pleaded in a trembling, humble tone:

"Please...kill me..."

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