Lixue idly sat on the leather chair behind Lei Weming's desk. On the screen of Lei Weming's holocomputer, there were several downloading interfaces progressing with decent speed.
Lixue spun around on the chair and looked out through the French window. The Federation's night life was on full drive with neon lights and holographic ads filling the street and sky. Both the land-road and sky-road was not less crowded than in the morning, but everything was neatly in order.
In the past, he has visited many planets for his mercenary missions with his mentor. Once, he came to an under-developed planet where hovercar hasn't been produced in mass there yet. Only nobles and rich businessmen would have one imported from another planet.
The cars there were loud and produced smoke which polluted the environment. Although it wasn't that obvious, he could feel it more significantly because he was used to the silent and eco-friendly hovercar. He remembered asking his mentor how could the people of that planet live comfortably with polluted air all around them. They were basically inhaling not only oxygen but also those pollutions.
"Just like how Snow Bears can live in a sub-zero land and Fire Birds can live in hellish lava mountain, the people here can also live with this chemical-filled air. They were born and raised in this planet without knowing there is a world out there with fresh air which we consider as the normal healthy air. For them, this environment is what they consider as normal," His mentor explained.
"Their body also adjusted accordingly, and they have higher gas bio-chemical immunity than us. For example, a normal sleeping gas would be enough to knock us out. But for Arfian people, it will require a true knock out gas to have equal effect as us with sleeping gas,"
"Little Bird, you need to remember, there is nothing in this world that only have weakness and demerit. With weakness, strength will born. Never underestimate your enemy. There is a big difference between those who look weak and those who are truly weak. One can have thousands of army under them but they themselves are cowards who only hide in the back and command their people to fight and die without doing anything themselves. And one can be all alone in the world but his heart, will, and courage are stronger than anybody else in the world. If these 2 types of people fight, even if it will take eternity, I believe the latter will win eventually in the end."
"Master, I have completed all the download." Lulu's voice prompted from the holocomputer.
Lixue was pulled out from his mind by Lulu's voice. He smiled ironically. It was a genuine smile without any of his bone-chilling aura.
"Eternity…huh?" He stood up and looked at Ningjui who was still sleeping on the sofa. He ordered Lulu while walking towards him, "Transfer the 2 special folders to his communicator. Remember to lock them just like how I told you."
The smoke-filled room from half an hour ago was already clear with only a bit of smell left in the air. But that smell was also erased and overwhelmed completely by the smell of real smoke from burning.
The front half of the room was completely charred black as if the building itself was on fire. It continued down the hallway until near the elevator where a man was trying to escape. Unfortunately, Lixue's fire reached him faster.
After he gained the telekinetic control for his fire, a complete pyrokinesis ability, it was significantly more convenient for him to act. He didn't even need to move from the sofa while he burned all those people with his Wrath Flame.
Should he burn another factory? The people there was decent enough for his fill and it won't be investigated too much by the police because the illegal factory itself was basically non-existent in public eyes. It was perfect for him to swallow without causing any troublesome problem. After all, he already killed the boss.
From the data he got from Lei Weming's group's database, he has 3 factories in the capital planet. His group was relatively new and although he has significant power and influence, the capital planet was already dominated by another group that has been standing here for generations.
If he spends some time, he could locate those big factories that belong to the 2 Sky Lords. Especially the armory factory. If he could get it, not only he could get sacrificial points, he could also get those loads of fresh weapons.
There was a slight beeping sound from Ningjui's communicator and blue light blinked twice, signaling the successful file transfer, "It is completed, Master. Should I open the emergency passage for you, Master?"
Lixue glanced at Lei Weming's pitiful corpse on the table and at Ningjui. When Ningjui wakes up later, he will probably be shocked to black out by the horrifying sight. He thought for a second before thumping his fist down on his palm as an idea popped out.
"No need. Let's sweep up this building as promised and make an art exhibition."
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"Brother Lang, do you think he will do it?"
Lang Mujin patted Yu Songfu's shoulder, "It was a direct order from boss. He would definitely do it. He knows his way around the underworld. He wouldn't want to offend boss. So, stop worrying and eat your breakfast. We haven't eat anything since last night."
Yu Songfu bit down his nutrient bar aggrievedly, "What's the difference? All we eat is this nutrient bar."
"You whined that you wanted nutrient bar when we're at West's place. I even bought you the flavored one. Now you're complaining?" Lang Mujin kicked Yu Songfu on his ass.
"Hehehe…I'm just joking Brother Lang~" Yu Songfu laughed stupidly while rubbing his ass, "When I save a pile heap of credits, I promise I will treat you a full course natural food meal!" Yu Songfu promised while using his hands to make a giant circle.
"Yes, yes, keep your delusions to yourself. I won't be looking forward to it," Lang Mujin hopped onto the motorcycle he borrowed from the group's garage, "Pause your nonsense for now and hop on. Let's go back and report to boss."
"But I haven't finish the nutrient bar. I can't eat it through the helmet…"
"…Why not?" though he knew Yu Songfu would probably said something idiotic, Lang Mujin still asked helplessly.
"It's windy…?"
"…"
Lang Mujin snatched the nutrient bar, bit down half of it and shoved the other half into Yu Songfu's mouth. He took the helmet and plunged Yu Songfu's head into it.
"Problem solved. Now sit down and shut up." he ordered while wearing his own helmet.
Yu Songfu obediently sat down while slowly chewing the nutrient bar in his mouth.
Why is Brother Lang always so rough with him…? QAQ
Lang Mujin turned on the engine and checked the traffic through the plug-in GPS on the motorcycle. In the morning, the land-road was emptier than the sky-road while at night it would be the opposite. It was because the sky-road only has main roads without any small roads. The direction wasn't complex at all, and it act as a shortcut or highway.
In the morning, people would want to arrive at their workplace faster so they would mostly take the sky-road while at night, people would want to go to stores, bars, restaurants, and many establishments after work which many of them were located on branch or small roads rather on the main road full of office buildings.
Although it was called as small roads, their size wasn't exactly small. Every main road in the city has both ways with 4 lanes for each way. Small roads only have 3 lanes, branch roads with 2 lanes, and alleys one lane.
Sky-road doesn't have any particular lane as long as the hovercar is within the boundary of their road. Vertically and Horizontally.
Lang Mujin drove through the land-road. First because it was emptier and second because their office building was in a branch road and couldn't be accessed through sky-road.
Yu Songfu silently sighed in relief. Last night, Brother Lang used the sky-road and although the motorcycle was equipped with a safety device to make sure the riders didn't fall down, it was still too scary for him to look down. He practically plastered his whole body onto Brother Lang all through the road. Not to mention Brother Lang driving skill was as extreme as wild racers.
They quickly arrived back at the office building. But, once they got near, the road was actually closed with blue holographic police lines. The Keepers were on standby in front of the police lines, keeping civilians away from the road. In front of the office building, several police cars was parked. From the scale of personnel dispatched, what happened in the office building was definitely not a small thing.
"Brother Lang, why are The Keepers…?"
"Something big must've happened last night," Lang Mujin said solemnly before changing direction and drove away, "Let's go to the safehouse first."