Chapter 480: Chapter 320: A Spark of Fire
Late at night, Sikinkov finished dealing with today’s work documents and finally got off work.
The weather in the latter half of the night was not good. Dark clouds hung over New Moon City, lightning cracked across the night sky, and the torrential rain poured down.
Sikinkov’s hovercar flew through the curtain of rain, raindrops constantly striking the car body, making a crisp sound.
Looking out the car window, the wind and rain enveloped the car in a water curtain, drastically reducing visibility, the city’s lights becoming blurry, and occasional flashes of lightning illuminating the surroundings in pale light, which were quickly swallowed by darkness.
Sikinkov’s car was a top model equipped for the authorities and political leaders, designed with comprehensive extreme weather resistance, still able to proceed unhindered even in the storm.
The commuting route was long recorded in the system, and the driver didn’t need to do anything special, relying on the system’s automatically planned route to steadily land on an island at Lake Heart Island.
The driver parked the hovercar in the indoor garage and turned back to say, "Director, we’ve arrived. You should rest early."
Sikinkov nodded, got out of the car, and left.
After the hovercar flew away, he looked up at the rainy night sky and couldn’t help but sigh, "It’s been raining a lot lately. It must be turning to spring soon... wonder how long this rain will last."
Dragging his exhausted body home, he prepared to go to the kitchen to get some wine from the fridge for a few drinks, hoping to find some relief in the alcohol.
However, as soon as he stepped into the living room and was about to turn on the light, he suddenly felt something was off.
"Hiss... hiss..." He took a sniff.
Though he hadn’t been on the front line for a long, long time since joining the City Council, his service experience from his younger days hadn’t completely faded away.
He could smell it, the scent of blood...
Why was there a blood scent in the house...
"Boom——" Just then, lightning flashed outside, the lightning light filled the interior, making everything as bright as day.
In that moment, Sikinkov finally saw the anomaly in the living room, his heart felt as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, a chill ran down his spine, turning his limbs ice-cold.
On the central wall of the living room, the girl he had recently met online, Xiaotiancheng, had long been dead.
She had been nailed to the wall with iron nails through her hands and feet, positioned in a religious gesture of repentance. Dried black blood streamed down the wall, congealing, as if painting a picture of black claws.
The suffocating silence drowned the surroundings, as Sikinkov witnessed this brutal scene, he couldn’t make a sound, as if an invisible thread had strangled all his words in his throat.
"Roar..." Suddenly, a strange low growl sounded from behind, followed by an indescribable sense of oppression.
Sikinkov struggled to suppress the oppressiveness and fear in his heart, clenching his teeth and turning around, using the constantly flashing lightning outside to see the mechanical ferocious beast in the darkness.
It had a humanoid shape, its skin was grey-black, its limbs disproportionately strong, crawling on the vertical wall like a gecko, and its split jaw full of long sharp teeth, eyeless eyes reflecting a blood-like scarlet ferocity.
Sikinkov’s very breath trembled, he bit hard into his tongue to gather his consciousness through the pain, instinctively reached for his waist holster, but forgot that he was off duty and wasn’t carrying his gun.
"Director, if I were you, I wouldn’t provoke that ’Jiao-level Mad Tier’ mechanical ferocious beast, that thing is troublesome even for a ’Mid-tier Limitless’ Blood Code Carrier like me to deal with."
Suddenly, a young man’s casual voice came from beside him.
"Click." With a crisp sound, the lights in the living room turned on.
The sudden brightness hurt Sikinkov’s eyes, and after adjusting to the vision, he twisted his stiff neck to look, only to find the living room unusually "lively".
Apart from the mechanical ferocious beast clinging to the wall, there were seven or eight people around, their eyes cold, their presence overwhelmingly oppressive.
From their uniforms and badges, it was clear they weren’t from the same faction.
The Hegemony Company, Iron Blood Alliance, and Black Domain Group had all sent their people.
Leading them was a young man with yellow hair, wearing the badge of the Hegemony Company’s "Wildfire Internal Guard Team".
In a smug manner, he put his hands in his pockets and clicked his tongue at Sikinkov, "Director, you know me, right? Jiang Zihao, President Zhao introduced me to you once before. You can just call me Ahao."
Sikinkov looked at Xiaotiancheng, nailed to the wall, his eyes full of anger and pain, and he harshly questioned Jiang Zihao and the others, "Why did you do this..."
Jiang Zihao sighed languidly, "Director, not to be rude, but do you just like playing the hero?"
"We gave you a prestigious medal, made you a hero of the Inner City People, and it’s not enough, you want to be a hero for the border people too? You’re too greedy."
Sikinkov gritted his teeth, "I’m just fulfilling my duty."
"Fulfilling your duty, hahaha!" Jiang Zihao laughed loudly and taunted the people with him, "Did you hear that? He said he’s just fulfilling his duty."
"Oh, your duty, you mean that... Xiaotiancheng Act? Give me a break, are you playing games?"
After mocking him, Jiang Zihao’s tone turned deep, "There’s no one else here, so no need for pretense. Do you really think the higher-ups made you the Director just for that?"
