Chapter 574: "……Me?"

While Wang Jincheng and Zhong Qi were confronting each other, Li Ruohong had already scrambled away, covering a hundred meters. He rushed into an unfinished building, then laboriously climbed out a window, turning corners repeatedly in the narrow alleyways, trying to put as much distance as possible between himself and the battle behind to avoid capture.

“I’m going to die, I’m going to die…”

“Why is that director specifically targeting me?!”

“He wanted me to persuade them to surrender, and I did. Now he’s suddenly calling me 'Red Heart 6'?!”

“What in the world is 'Red Heart 6' anyway?!”

Li Ruohong was completely bewildered. The situation had spiraled far beyond his comprehension, and in the face of this life-or-death crisis, his already not-so-bright mind completely crashed. All he could think about was ‘escape’.

Just as he was running out of breath and about to stop for a rest, a figure shot out from behind him!

Li Ruohong turned around in confusion, only to see a hand holding something thin and transparent, whistling as it slapped him across the face, sending him flying as if from a massive slap!

CRACK—!!

With a crisp sound, Li Ruohong was sent flying several meters by the slap, his head ringing.

“Wait, who was that?!”

Li Ruohong was left dizzy and disoriented by the slap. As he stumbled to his feet, the figure had already vanished, leaving Li Ruohong standing stunned, hand clapped to his cheek, bewildered in the cold wind.

Before Li Ruohong could even react, a colossal shadow gradually enveloped his form.

Below the heavy clouds, hundreds of massive rocks were converging from all directions. Under the control of a figure, they slowly formed a colossal stone peak, then gradually compressed and reformed! The peak, originally just a pile of rocks, visibly shrunk, its color deepening to an abyssal black, its edges smooth and perfectly contoured. From a distance, it had transformed into a colossal black pyramid that blotted out the sky!

Atop this pyramid, Wang Jincheng stared intently at Li Ruohong, who appeared like an ant in the street below, his killing intent surging relentlessly!

“Red Heart 6, if you can withstand this attack, then I, Wang, will concede defeat!”

Wang Jincheng was truly enraged. Red Heart 6 had repeatedly toyed with them, making a fool of both him and the entire Floating Life Scroll organization. If Red Heart 6 were to escape now, both he and Red Dust Main City would lose face completely. It was time for this farce to end…

Wang Jincheng immediately unleashed his most powerful kill move, intending to give Chen Ling no chance of survival. Under this attack, almost no one below Tier 7 could survive. Moreover, Red Heart 6’s own rank wasn’t high; he was simply too adept at transformation and deception. To deal with such a tricky character, a massive, indiscriminate attack was necessary to ensure he had no escape and was killed instantly!

Li Ruohong: ???

Li Ruohong, who had just been slapped, was utterly dumbfounded. He stared at the black pyramid in the sky, a structure capable of crushing everything, and his mind stopped processing…

He stiffly raised a hand, his fingertip hesitantly pointing at himself:

“…Me?”

Wang Jincheng, standing atop the black pyramid, appeared like a deity commanding earth and structures. He gazed down at ‘Chen Ling’, who seemed like an ant, and slowly raised his hands…

As his spiritual energy was rapidly depleted, the black pyramid beneath him began to emit invisible ripples, as if the power contained within it was vibrating and compressing the air. Even though the pyramid remained motionless, a hurricane surged outwards from its surface in all directions! The terrifying pressure made Li Ruohong’s heart tremble. He shakily moved his feet, instinctively wanting to escape the area encompassed by the pyramid, but the gale, mixed with sand, made it impossible for him to move even an inch. He managed to stumble a few steps while hugging the wall, his legs too weak to carry him.

But even without these effects, even if he ran with all his might, he wouldn’t be able to escape the pyramid’s range… because this pyramid was simply too massive. Wang Jincheng had unleashed this ultimate weapon precisely to ensure there was no escape.

“Damn it… damn it!!”

Li Ruohong’s eyes were red with panic. He couldn’t understand why everything had spiraled this way. The gale ruffled the puddle in the corner, and his peripheral vision caught his reflection in the disturbed water, revealing a strange face.

Li Ruohong froze.

It was a refined and handsome face, young yet profound. This face was on his head, perfectly integrated with him, showing no discord whatsoever, as if he had been born with it.

This was Chen Ling’s face, Red Heart 6!

“This…”

Li Ruohong’s pupils constricted slightly, but in the next instant, a thunderous roar came from the sky above!

Wang Jincheng poured all his spiritual energy into the black pyramid. His robes flapped wildly in the surging wind as he raised a fingertip and pointed distantly at the ant-like figure, his voice deep as if from the netherworld:

“Mighty Mountain Roar!”

With a piercing shriek, the colossal black pyramid was suddenly imbued with immense kinetic energy and plummeted towards the earth at a speed faster than a falling meteor. The air around it was violently compressed, and the sound resembled the wail of a mountain god!

A long black streak slammed into the earth.

In silence, all buildings in the district were pulverized by invisible ripples. The ground rippled violently like an ocean surface, expanding smoothly in all directions.

BOOM—!!!

An earth-shattering explosion resounded the next moment. A scorching white light, like the sun, erupted from the pyramid’s impact point, and the surrounding dozen blocks trembled. An earthquake swept through the main city at that instant! At that very instant, an ink-like mark swiftly formed in the sky, resembling a circle that enveloped the district. The residual power of the Mighty Mountain Roar was entirely contained within this ‘circle’, preventing devastating damage to the surrounding blocks.

Below the clouds, Wang Jincheng looked up into the distance. A figure in white, carrying an eight-foot brush, stood far away. After a casual glance at him, the figure turned and vanished among the clouds.

Wang Jincheng naturally knew who that was and how high their status was. He bowed respectfully in that direction, then headed straight down into the center of the shattered impact crater…

Dust swirled through the ruins. The district, once filled with buildings, had been flattened into a plain. Wang Jincheng’s gaze fell on the center of the impact point, where a blurry mass of bloody paste lay as thin as a pancake, utterly shapeless.

Wang Jincheng did not lower his guard. He had heard that Red Heart 6 was incredibly difficult to kill. He drew a sharp stone blade from the rock and used it to cut the bloody paste into more than a dozen pieces, piling each piece into a separate mound, ensuring it could not possibly regain a human form.

Having done all this, Wang Jincheng finally let out a long breath. The Mighty Mountain Roar had completely drained him of all his spiritual energy; it was a desperate, peak Tier 6 attack. As it turned out, this strike had not disappointed him…

He pulled out the new walkie-talkie he had just taken from a police officer and spoke calmly:

“Red Heart 6, confirmed kill.”