Chapter 114: Skill Out of Control

The thick fog rolled silently. In the deathly silent street, several figures in black and red uniforms ran over in a hurry.

"Officer Xi!" They saw Xi Renjie standing alone in the center of the street and spoke immediately.

Xi Renjie turned to look. Most of these people were covered in dust and blood, looking very disheveled. There were also a few who were particularly clean; they hid behind the others, lowering their heads, not daring to meet Xi Renjie's eyes.

With just one glance, Xi Renjie could distinguish which Enforcers had put in the effort and which were just muddling through, or to put it more bluntly, just trying to survive.

But at this moment, Xi Renjie had no time to settle scores with them and asked directly:

"What's the situation on your end?"

"Officer Xi, the Calamities on the surrounding streets have all run away!"

"A red shadow flew past, and then those Calamities acted like they had gone mad and chased after it..."

"Same for us."

“……”

The Enforcers covered in blood and grime standing in front recounted everything that had just happened. Xi Renjie looked in the direction the red shadow had left in the thick fog, the confusion in his eyes growing deeper.

Just then, as if he had discovered something, he bent down and crouched.

On the path where the group of Calamities had crawled, bloodstains left faint, long marks on the ground, as if they were traces left by shadow centipedes after gnawing on people. These traces intertwined and extended toward a certain direction deep in the thick fog.

The others also saw these bloodstains. The leading Enforcers hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively:

"Officer Xi... should we pursue?"

These bloodstains were left by the shadow centipedes, and the shadow centipedes were chasing that red shadow. Following these traces might lead them to them... But who could guess what would happen once they found them?

Not to mention the dozens of Calamities, it was impossible to tell if that mysterious red shadow was a friend or foe. Therefore, in the hearts of the vast majority of Enforcers at the moment, they were praying not to pursue, as no one wanted to put themselves in danger.

Unfortunately, Xi Renjie nodded with almost no hesitation.

"Pursue!"

Xi Renjie scanned the crowd and casually pointed to a few Enforcers who were the most blood-stained and looked the bravest. "You guys come with me. The others stay behind to clean up the battlefield."

Hearing the second half of the sentence, the Enforcers hiding behind the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mom... Mom!!"

At the same time, Xiao Qi's crying came from a house nearby. Xi Renjie came back to his senses, his eyes filled with complexity...

Before the massacre happened, he had locked Xiao Qi in the house so she wouldn't see the bloody scene. At this moment, the child still didn't know that her mother had been gnawed into pieces by a shadow centipede right in front of her.

"Officer Xi, this is..." Confusion appeared in the eyes of several Enforcers.

Xi Renjie took a deep look at the room where the massacre had occurred and turned to walk straight into the thick fog. "Burn the corpses in the room... At least, don't let the child see what her mother looks like."

The remaining Enforcers looked at each other, not daring to be the least bit negligent, and followed Xi Renjie's instructions. A few minutes later, flames ignited from the room filled with corpses.

Xi Renjie walked through the thick fog, followed by seven or eight Enforcers. They tracked the traces left by the shadow centipedes and approached the edge of the district.

"Officer Xi, are your injuries alright?"

"...I'm fine."

Xi Renjie shook his head. At this moment, his attention was entirely on that mysterious red shadow.

He replayed the scene in his mind repeatedly. Although the person had only appeared for a few seconds, the impression left on him was too deep—whether it was the bright red robe, the way he lured away the Calamities, or his disdain for Enforcers... But what puzzled Xi Renjie the most was the green onions, ginger, and garlic the person had been carrying.

What was his intention in taking those things?

Xi Renjie didn't believe he was just an unsung hero who happened to be buying groceries on his way home from work and helped out when he encountered a Gray Realm intersection. He was past that naive age; the person's actions must have had their own purpose, perhaps related to this Gray Realm intersection?

"If he's a powerhouse from another domain... Is it the Jiangtian Sect? Or the Twilight Society? At least from the current look of it, he doesn't seem like a Fire-Tamper."

As Xi Renjie pondered, he tracked them to a wilderness. He sniffed the air and stopped with a strange expression.

The Enforcers behind him also stopped.

"Do you guys smell something foul?" Xi Renjie suddenly asked.

"Foul smell?" The Enforcers looked at each other and nodded. "It seems so."

"It's like that smell of plastic being burned... It was only a little bit just now, but the further we go, the stronger the smell seems to get."

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, so foul."

"Is it my imagination? Why do I feel like there's a hint of vegetable aroma mixed in with this foul smell?"

Everyone was extremely confused, but that didn't stop them from moving forward. They followed the bloodstains on the ground and walked slowly ahead. In the hazy mist, a warehouse billowing with black smoke appeared in their field of vision.

And that rich, foul smell came from this warehouse.

"The traces of the Calamities disappear here." Xi Renjie stared at the warehouse, his expression serious. "They are most likely inside."

"I know this place. It's a wine cellar. I've tasted their wine; it tastes good," an Enforcer said immediately.

"Open the door."

At Xi Renjie's command, several Enforcers stepped forward immediately, but as soon as their hands touched the handle of the warehouse door, they pulled back abruptly, shaking their hands in the air. "This door is so hot!"

Xi Renjie's brow furrowed. He took his steel sword from his back and said calmly:

"Everyone stand back."

Seeing this, everyone hid behind Xi Renjie without hesitation. The latter took a deep breath, black aura climbed onto the blade again, and he slashed toward the massive warehouse door in front of him!

Boom—!!

Black threads swept across the portal with the tip of the sword, and the door split into several pieces and collapsed with a crash.

Before anyone could see the scene inside, outside air rushed into the warehouse, and the fire remnants dancing silently in the corners reignited. Fierce firelight surged out frantically, like a pair of flaming hands crawling out of the charred warehouse door!

Fortunately, Xi Renjie and the others were standing far away and weren't engulfed by the flames. Even so, they were forced to retreat by the heat wave. They looked at the warehouse engulfed in flames in terror, having no idea what had happened inside.

Rustle,

Rustle—

Light footsteps came from the depths of the warehouse.

Amidst the dancing flames, a figure in a bright red opera robe walked out. The charred face gradually repaired itself, turning into that cold and unfamiliar face... Those hollow eyes were eerie and chilling, exactly the same as when Chen Ling first mastered [Faceless].

As he stepped onto the second rank, the skill of this twisted divine path went out of control again!