Chapter 292: Three People

Yan Shang's face was deathly pale. He had been in business for so many years, and it wasn't like he hadn't been threatened before, but no threat had ever made him feel such heartfelt terror as this young man!

The [Heart 6] before him had destroyed everything he had... But for some reason, he couldn't muster any hatred at this moment, because fear had completely occupied his mind.

Yan Shang gritted his teeth, trying his best to maintain his sanity, and then turned and ran without hesitation.

Chen Ling stood where he was, watching this scene with a smile, and slowly raised his fingertip.

"Knead."

Yan Shang's heart trembled. He didn't have time to think, grabbed the president of the Cold Spring Chamber, who was scared out of his wits, and used him as a shield!

At this moment, the Cold Spring president was still in a daze. Pulled by Yan Shang, he stumbled forward, just in time to block Yan Shang's figure. The next moment, his whole body was torn by an invisible vortex, his neck snapped with a "crack" into a strange angle, and he stopped breathing instantly.

As the Cold Spring president's corpse fell to the ground, the Silver Moon president nearby was also dumbfounded. Everything happened too fast. Even though they were wealthy, their lives were now as fragile as the residents who had frozen to death...

Meanwhile, Chen Ling passed by him calmly, waving his fingertips casually.

"You're in the way."

Bang—

As the words fell, a twisting force from the void slammed into the Silver Moon president. He was smashed into the wall like a fly, crimson blood staining the wall, and all the bones in his body were crushed to powder.

Killing two presidents in an instant, Chen Ling's expression didn't change at all. His gaze remained fixed on the figure fleeing in panic... His blood-stained soles stepped over corpse after corpse, like a Grim Reaper walking the world.

Yan Shang saw the scene behind him from the corner of his eye, his heart beating wildly. Seeing Chen Ling raise his hand again, he gritted his teeth and began fumbling around his body.

"I'm not those two pieces of trash... Want to kill me? It won't be that easy!"

Yan Shang grabbed a pocket watch and threw it toward the direction behind him. As Chen Ling's "Knead" sounded again, the pocket watch exploded in mid-air!

Wisps of strange gray energy spread in the void. The hour hand, minute hand, and second hand on the watch face seemed to come alive, turning into three whistling silver lightning bolts, heading straight for Chen Ling's face!

Chen Ling frowned and dodged rapidly to the side. The second hand grazed his cheek and smashed into the luxury hotel behind him!

A silver light flashed, and the entire dozen-story hotel collapsed instantly!

"Sacrificial Artifact?"

Chen Ling felt the terrifying aura radiating from the three hands and his expression changed slightly. He knew he couldn't take them head-on. A blue light flashed in his eyes, and the trajectories of the remaining hour and minute hands were instantly exposed to his vision.

Boom boom—!!

Two explosions came from beside Chen Ling, and the flying dust obscured the sky.

By the time Chen Ling avoided the three hands and emerged from the dust, he found that Yan Shang had taken the opportunity to escape hundreds of meters away, and seemed to be preparing to pull something else out.

Meanwhile, two figures rushed over from the distance!

"President?" The squinting man held his long scythe, seeing the messy battlefield and Yan Shang fleeing in a sorry state, and was shocked.

Seeing that the two had finally returned, the panic on Yan Shang's face finally eased a little. He pulled his hand out from his pocket, pointed at Chen Ling behind him, and said viciously:

"Stop him for me!!"

Upon receiving the order, the squinting man and Yuzi immediately changed direction, standing side-by-side to block Chen Ling's path as he chased Yan Shang, both of their Tier 4 domains opening simultaneously!

A chill flashed in Chen Ling's eyes. The two figures stood like a copper wall and iron barrier, separating him from Yan Shang and preventing him from getting closer... Just then, a domain with an even more terrifying aura instantly enveloped all three of them!

Complex patterns spread across the surface of the earth. A figure wearing a black trench coat walked slowly and stopped beside Chen Ling.

He turned and looked at Chen Ling:

"I said we would meet again."

"What a coincidence." Chen Ling looked at the two Arbiters who had been killed by Han Meng. "You actually killed them... Aren't you afraid of going to court again?"

"They're just animals, killing them is fine. I don't care if I have to go to court again..." Han Meng paused for a moment, then spoke again,

"Next time you bail me out, keep it low-key."

“……？”

Chen Ling looked at him with a strange expression. "How did you find out?"

"First, I never told anyone that I offended the All-Stars Chamber of Commerce and was pushed out to District 3—not even the survivors from the West City knew, yet the reporter Lin Yan wrote about it. Second, the time Lin Yan first published his article coincides exactly with your arrival in Aurora City. Third, the All-Stars Chamber of Commerce that reporter Lin Yan investigated just happened to be involved in organ trafficking in District 2... and Chen Yan's name was in there too.

So many clues are pointing at you; if I still couldn't guess it, I wouldn't be fit to be an Arbiter."

Just as the two were speaking, a roar of overlapping voices erupted from not far away, followed immediately by a thunderous tremor of the earth!

Boom—!!

A giant shadow whistled past them like a cannonball, the gale it whipped up causing their coat hems to flutter wildly.

Along the trajectory of that giant shadow, the Squinting Man and Yuzi’s expressions shifted, and they dodged to either side simultaneously. With a deafening roar, the giant shadow smashed into a building, the terrifying impact collapsing the entire structure on the spot!

"Lifu??" The Squinting Man’s expression changed drastically as he saw the giant shadow knocked into the ruins.

"He was actually knocked flying??"

They whipped their heads around, looking toward the direction from which Lifu had been sent flying.

Amidst the swirling dust, a monster covered in incantations coughed and walked, step by step, to the other side of Chen Ling.

"Cough, cough, cough... Chen Ling! I knew you were still alive!" A voice filled with pleasant surprise came from the monster's throat. Though it was difficult to distinguish, Chen Ling could still hear a trace of Zhao Yi’s voice within it.

"Zhao Yi? How do you feel?"

"I can't really say... I feel very strong, but also very tired... It’s like my body doesn't belong to me." Zhao Yi shook his head, unwilling to waste time on this topic.

"Chen Ling... Ling'er and the others... they're all dead."

"What?" Chen Ling froze.

"They're all dead... everyone in District 3 is dead." Zhao Yi spoke bitterly, a heart-wrenching hatred emerging in his eyes, which were flickering with incantations. "Uncle Xu couldn't buy coal, and they all froze to death... If only I had returned a little sooner, maybe..."

Han Meng stood there, dazed. In his mind, the figures holding banners in the courtroom appeared once more, the rage in his eyes reigniting, his chest heaving violently!

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Writer's block... I'm stuck half to death. Only two chapters today, let me sort this out... Sorry, brothers (hands pressed together).