Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

He sat on the sofa with his head down, looking extremely remorseful.

"Well, anyway, calm down a bit first. Maybe your girlfriend isn't..."

Before Isaac could finish speaking, the old lady walked over, and before anyone knew what she was going to do, she grabbed her cane and struck Marco.

He shouted angrily as he hit her, "Do you want to take that child away this time?! Do you want to take my granddaughter away too?!"

Marco felt the pain of the cane hitting him, but he did not fight back; instead, he silently endured it.

"Isn't it enough that you've already taken my son and daughter-in-law's lives?! Are you happy to take away everyone around me? You bunch of 'expulsion squads'!"

Luca quickly intervened, saying, "Ms. Lavo, please stop. He hasn't been in the Exterminator Squad for over a decade..."

The old woman showed no sign of stopping, continuing to strike him heavily with her cane.

"Do you know how much determination Constance had to make to be with you?! Didn't you say the other day that you wouldn't let that happen again?!" she roared, raising her cane above her head.

"What kind of awful state are you in now?!"

Just as he was about to strike with his cane again, Isaac grabbed it from the side.

“Ms. Lavo, it won’t hurt him much if you hit him, but you’re an old woman now, so try not to do any strenuous exercise.”

She glanced at Isaac, her eyes filled with pain, then turned and walked out the door, taking back her cane.

"Ms. Lavo..."

“I’ll go after them and take a look. You guys stay here,” Isaac said.

It was already raining heavily outside, and the old lady walked outside in the rain.

Suddenly a black umbrella was opened beside her, and Isaac held it up while draping his coat over her shoulders.

"Strenuous exercise and getting caught in the rain, are you just trying to make yourself live too long?"

Mrs. Lai remained silent for a long time before finally speaking, "My son and daughter-in-law didn't even leave me their bodies back then. I didn't have many expectations, but..."

At this point, tears welled up in her eyes, and she said in a choked voice, "It doesn't matter if the part below my head is gone, I can keep an ear and an eye, but at least..."

"At least I want her... to see Ma again..."

At this moment, the old lady was already in tears.

Isaac patted her on the shoulder: "Please relax, Ms. Lavo, your granddaughter will survive. It's not as serious as you say."

"Go back inside first, it's chilly outside. I'll take care of the rest for you."

He helped the old lady walk back in the direction she wanted to go.

Her emotions gradually stabilized after Isaac's persuasion.

"Child, can I ask you something?"

"Go ahead and ask."

"Why do you say you're a bad person? Even though I'm old, I can still tell you're different from these gangsters and thugs here."

She still remembered what Isaac had said when he came to buy cigarettes.

'If someone like me lived a long life, it would be a tragedy for the world.'

She didn't quite understand why this sixteen-year-old would always identify himself as a bad person.

“I’m undoubtedly a bad person, although I do some good things occasionally, but…” Isaac couldn’t help but laugh as he said this.

“But no matter how many good deeds I do, I can’t cover up my crimes, and I will commit more crimes and kill more people in the future,” Isaac said. “No matter what others think of me, I must have a clear understanding of myself.”

"I'm not good at lying to others, so I can't lie to myself either."

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The old lady was sent back to the Cristiano family's territory by Isaac, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw her return.

Marco was still blaming himself when Isaac saw him and naturally sat down next to him.

"Hey, look how angry you are with Ms. Lavaux. Do you know how fierce her granddaughter will fight you if she gets old and falls apart?"

“I’m so sorry, but… I’m not confident I can rescue Constance.” Marco’s voice was heavy. “Back then, protecting the leader and dealing with them was already incredibly difficult, let alone bringing her back…”

"Looks like those few mild lashes of the cane didn't wake you up at all," Isaac sneered. "I think you just need a good beating."

"Yeah, maybe someone really needs to wake me up..."

Bang! !

With a muffled thud, Isaac's fist slammed into his face, sending him flying.

"!!"

Everyone was shocked to find that Marco had been thrown several meters and crashed into the wall of the room.

“This is the first time I’ve heard such a strange request.” Isaac picked up a tissue from the table and wiped his fist. “Are you sober now?”

"Mr. Isaac! Mr. Marco has fainted!"

"Tch, these days young people become cadres and then they don't know how to exercise," Isaac scoffed.

'This shameless guy is blaming others?'

Loretta had just returned from another room when she saw the crack in the wall and Marco lying on the floor. She turned her gaze toward Isaac.

"What kind of trouble are you causing now?"

"It's nothing. We just publicly criticized the cadres in your family who didn't know how to exercise."

"You still love stirring things up just like you did four years ago."

Just then, Erica and Kim Cheol returned from outside.

"Hey, Erica, are you alright?"

“Of course,” Erica said, clenching her fist. “Absolutely no problem.”

"Alright then, let's get ready and go find the extermination team."

……

Isaac deployed fifty soldiers and fifty drones to monitor the entire city, and to report any situation to Isaac immediately.

Marco had also woken up by this time, and now he was determined to rescue Constance, even if it meant dying there.

Isaac was wearing a pair of white gloves at that moment.

Loretta asked curiously, "Why are you wearing these gloves? Is there any special meaning behind them?"

"Oh, you mean it? It doesn't have any special meaning," Isaac said with a smile, looking at his gloves. "It's just that I haven't played with them seriously in a long time, so I'm a little excited now."

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Isaac opened the door and said with a smile, "Let's go."

It was still raining outside.

"..."

Isaac glanced at the gloomy sky and silently took off his gloves and put them back in his pocket.

Chapter 571: Instant Rescue Success

"Boss, target spotted. Area B-72, target found in an abandoned factory at the corner of Fourth Street." The voice of the soldier Isaac had previously dispatched came through his communicator. "We have a rescue target, Constance, and four suspicious individuals. Please give instructions."

"Stay on standby, remember to maintain distance, and remember to protect the safety of the hostages."

"learn."

Isaac hung up the communication device and glanced at the sky where it was still drizzling.

"Isaac!"

Hearing someone call his name, Isaac turned around and saw Loretta running out in the rain.

"What's wrong, Miss?"

"Don't call me that!" Loretta shouted, then walked up to Isaac.

"what happened?"

She gritted her teeth and punched Isaac in the chest.

"Don't die."

“She won’t die,” Isaac said with a smile, patting Loretta’s head.

He looked around at Jin Zhe, Erica, and Marco. Including himself, there were four of them forming the rescue team.

Although I could manage on my own, I let them come if they insisted.

"Let's go, time waits for no one."

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Inside the factory, three other people were waiting.

Their companion, Beretta, said that it took them so long to go to buy cigarettes.

But before he could even complain, she was already back, carrying a woman on her shoulder.

“What have you been doing all this time?” Stryker asked, frowning.

"Ah, sorry to have kept you waiting~" Beretta said with a smile, "I brought you something nice."

"What?"

Beretta put the woman on her shoulder down to the ground, and there she was—Constance, who was already bound hand and foot.

Constance glared angrily at the four people surrounding her, her mouth covered so she could only make muffled noises.

“Oh ho, Beretta, you’re the best woman ever,” Stryker laughed as soon as he saw Constance.

He already knew that having this woman would lure out whoever he wanted to be.

The man he had been longing to see day and night.

"So, you've been gone all this time just to find this one woman?" Sig grumbled from the side. "Aren't we going to go find Isaac?"

“There’s no rush. He definitely won’t leave Yelkastum anyway,” Beretta smiled. “We can ask him first…”

"No need to ask anymore, you're looking for me, aren't you?"

"!"