by <unknown>
The illusionary ecstasies were often associated with the indulgence of physical desire too.
After being injected with all sorts of narcotics, dozens of naked bodies entangled with each other and relished the most primitive pleasure. That was perhaps the happiest moment for the hominoids below the ground.
The authorities of the Imperium gave connivance to the hominoids' action.
On one hand, it was because the authorities believed it was normal that a subhuman life such as a "hominoid" could not control their animalistic instincts. On the other hand, if the hominoids were all devoted to physical entertainment, they would have no time to consider the unorthodox things, which would certainly be beneficial for the order and stability of the Imperium.
As a result, all kinds of bizarre diseases naturally prevailed in the underground world.
In order to compete with the spiritual puppets in the blood factories, they had to exploit their bodies in the most extreme ways. Long-time fatigue led to many painful illnesses.
Bathed in the fluorescence created by the seemingly glamorous minerals in the mining holes that were full of radiations, their bodies gradually mutated, evolving into something with many abnormalities.
Then, there were the neural pathologies caused by the cheap entertainment products and the narcotics and the epidemic of STDs because of the outburst of desires… All kinds of sufferings haunted the underground hominoids like ghosts, corrupting their bodies as well as their souls.
In such a situation, a hospital that could at least give them the maximal anesthetics and comfort even if it could not treat any disease was as bright as a heaven in the dark, underground world.
There was exactly such a massive hospital at the center of the twenty-seventh district.
The hospital did not have a name, but the ivory brilliance it emanated every day seemed enough to illuminate the heart of everybody in the twenty-seventh district.
The medical facilities and expertise of the hospital were naturally incomparable to the cities of the Immortal Cultivators on the ground, but thankfully, the hominoids' requirements were not high either. As long as the nerves inside their bodies could be tricked and the damaged joints and muscles could be blocked so that they would be able to have the strength to make a living tomorrow, or their abnormal parts could be excised, they would be more than satisfied.
The doctors and nurses in the anonymous hospital had done those jobs very well.
Therefore, not just the twenty-seventh district, even the people in the neighboring districts had been visiting the hospital, and most of them returned in satisfaction, complimenting the benevolent and caring doctors in the hospital in gratefulness.
Few people knew that the anonymous hospital was a place where people were eaten.
However, the people it devoured were not hominoids, because most hominoids were not even qualified to be swallowed by the hospital.
At this moment, a large batch of unannounced guests had reached the periphery of the hospital from all directions through various channels.
Chapter 2293: The Sky Changing Operation Begins! |
Fifty meters away from the anonymous hospital, in a dilapidated alley transformed from a forsaken mining tunnel, the miner who was lying on the ground, as if he had drunk too much wine to stand up, was in fact "Shadowless" Duan Rui, one of the best assassins from the peripheral worlds of the Imperium.
His invisible and unpredictable blades were even more volatile than the shadows in a mist. The queer saber that Li Yao had carefully forged for him could even pierce through the tiniest gap on the joints of the crystal suits.
Twenty meters away from "Shadowless" Duan Rui was a woman in sexy clothes and heavy makeup, but her face and her body were both old and flabby. At first look, she appeared to have been exhausted in the oldest trade of mankind, and she could barely do anything with her legs anymore except for opening them.
However, under the disguise of sloppiness and weakness, it was the healthiest and most perfect slaughter machine named Zhu Linglong that the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils had trained with the secret techniques that had been passed on for a thousand years. As an expert in the Nascent Soul Stage, she was Yue Wushuang's most trusted subordinate and ranked top on the "Seven Devil Huntresses".
In order to break the limits of the body and even the soul, the super warriors of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils would even intentionally guide countless devils to invade their bodies and then grit their teeth to resist the intruders, until they drove the devils away from their bodies or even swallow them as the nutrition to develop their minds.
The Seven Devil Huntresses who had been polished through such a cruel secret technique were all specialists in mental attacks and the most brilliant "Meditation Healers".
Take Zhu Linglong for example. As long as she glanced at the target, she would be able to plant an uncanny seed inside the head of the target, making the target's spiritual energy lose control and body burn on its own!
Before her, the muscular man, whose upper body had expanded abnormally and with three enormous lumps on the back and arms that were thicker than the waist of a normal person, seemed to have come to the place for physical pleasure, but he was in fact the most fearless captain in the Astounding Thunder Fleet named "Iron Head" Ran Xiong. He was a lunatic who truly had the courage to charge at the Covenant Alliance's battle formation on his own at the cost of his own life.
The brothers in the army called him "Iron Head" not because he had practiced any secret technique that made his skull extremely solid, but because everybody thought that there was nothing but a cold iron block inside his head, and he had absolutely no fear of anything!
There were a lot of other experts from the civic circle, the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils, and the army such as "Shadowless" Duan Rui, "Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong, and "Iron Head" Ran Xiong.
After meticulous investigations beforehand, they had pretended to be miners, prostitutes, dealers, fighters, gamblers, patients, thieves… and any other kind of people that could be seen in this place as they moved to the nearby of the anonymous hospital and entered their positions, locking onto their targets.
The reconnaissance on the twenty-seventh district had been conducted far too many times, and the virtual battlefield had long been established. Everybody had rehearsed in the virtual battlefield for so many times that they could reach the gate of the anonymous hospital with their eyes closed.
Even so, those slaughter experts, who were experienced, ruthless, and audacious, couldn't help but feel a little bit nervous the moment before the operation started.
It was because the targets who seemed to be locked onto by them were also experts who considered slaughter their job. Those people were even more professional and brutal than them!
Dongfang Renxin was the biological brother to Dongfang Wang, who was the leader of the Dongfang family and the Prime Minister of the Imperium. His marvelous, evil techniques were the sources of Dongfang Wang's power.
It was not hard to imagine how heavily he would be defended when the techniques were performed.
For the sake of confidentiality, Dongfang Renxin did not trust the warriors of his family or the special agents of the Association of Demon Hunters. Instead, he established a tactical squad named "Thirty-Three Limits" which was only loyal to him alone.
Thirty-Three Limits was a weird name, but it represented thirty-three abnormal, strong experts.
They used to be experts who were notorious in the entire Imperium. When they were dying after some dangerous battles, they were delivered to Dongfang Renxin for treatment.
Dongfang Renxin did not replace their body parts with artificial limbs made of metals and crystals or synthetic organs through the regular approach. Instead, he transplanted tremendous organs, bombs, and limbs of the alien beasts onto those lunatics and beasts who did not care about their own lives but only wanted to grow stronger for their vengeance.
The universe was a vast place full of mysteries. Alth
ough mankind had never encountered an advanced civilization of the same size during the hundred thousand years of governance on the three thousand Sectors, a lot of strong alien beasts could be found lurking in the remote space zones.
Many alien beasts had absorbed powerful radiations and high-energy particles. Their cells also had abnormal changes in the extremely harsh environments, or as the ancient Cultivators put it, they "absorbed the essence of nature". They were a hundred times stronger than the animals that human beings had domesticated!
In the Great Dark Age when the demons had reigned over the universe for thirty thousand years, since demons focused more on biotechnologies, alien beasts were slaughtered to be studied on a large scale. Almost all the alien beasts in the three thousand Sectors were butchered.
But the Star Ocean Imperium collapsed very soon after human beings reclaimed the leadership of the universe. The whole universe was in fact mired in chaos and darkness in the ten thousand years that followed. The fire of civilization died out in many worlds, and the alien beasts took the opportunity to proliferate again.
From the Star Ocean Republic to the Imperium of True Human Beings, an important training method for the human experts had always been to execute the alien beasts.
However, the experts in the past only swallowed the flesh of the alien beasts and purged their "cores" at best. Few of them directly transplanted the organs and limbs of the alien beasts onto human beings as creatively as Dongfang Renxin did.
With the wealth of Dongfang Renxin as an elder of the Imperium and the Dongfang family, he could naturally gather the strongest and freshest organs and limbs of the alien beasts.
The heavily-wounded experts who had been transplanted with the organs of the alien beasts, as long as they could survive the painful periods of conflicts, would not only recover and even improve their combat ability but also be influenced by the brutality of the alien beasts, which would turn themselves into the worst nightmare of any enemy.
According to the files that Li Linghai had secretly collected, when those "animalized experts" went back for their revenge, there were indeed bloody cases where they tore the hundreds of people in their opponent's family apart on their own. However, Dongfang Renxin simply suppressed those cases from leaking out using his power and considered those revenge as live tests for the "animalized experts".
Such terrifying beings who were half humans and half alien beasts were strong enough to deal with one tactical squad even if there were only one of them. It was needless to say what would happen when there were thirty-three!
At the periphery, the elite soldiers of the Dongfang family who stayed alert all the time were there. Inside the building, it was the unparalleled brutal men like "Thirty-Three Limits" who were responsible for the defense. Below the ground, it was a whole volcano of crystal bombs. No wonder Dongfang Renxin was bold enough to continue his evil tests below the ground when a storm of blood was blowing in the capital because of the clash between the Dongfang family and the reformists!
It was 1:55 in the afternoon.
In a world of darkness where sunlight was nowhere to be seen, "afternoon" seemed to be a meaningless word.
However, according to the latest intelligence, it had been more than two hours since Dongfang Renxin and his companions entered the anonymous hospital through a secret channel. If he was indeed performing any wicked surgery, it must've reached the most critical moment that was not to be interrupted!
The members of the arrest team that had taken their positions one after another could not dawdle any longer either. It would be unreasonable if a prostitute and a customer flirted with each other for a long time in the alley without finding a place to get the job done, right?
Quite a few tough men, who were wearing crimson leather armors with iron nails embedded in them, had already grown suspicious of them. Cursing, they walked to "Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong and "Iron Head" Ran Xiong. They seemed to be complaining that the whore looked rather unfamiliar and that she was bold enough to not pay any protection fees to them.
At first look, they looked like gangsters who occupied the twenty-seventh district, who were anything but unusual in the dark world.
But according to the intelligence, they were actually the experts of the Dongfang family and Dongfang Renxin's most trusted nephews. They were here to protect Dongfang Renxin while pretending to be local gangsters.
No more waiting.
All the communication chips on the eardrums of the members of the arrest team received three long and two short beeps.
It was a signal asking them to take action when they were ready.
"Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong suddenly exclaimed, as if her breasts had been pinched hard by the pleasure-seeker that was pretended by "Iron Head" Ran Xiong.
"Iron Head" Ran Xiong burst into laughter.
It was exactly the signal to attack.
At this moment, the few warriors of the Dongfang family who pretended to be gangsters were walking by "Shadowless" Duan Rui who was lying on the ground. Their attention was entirely distracted by Zhu Linglong's exclamation and Ran Xiong's laughter, and they did not notice that the "dying" drunkard on the ground was slowly opening his clear and cruel eyes.
Right after the last warrior of the Dongfang family walked by, "Shadowless" Duan Rui stood up without a sound and delivered his blade that almost did not have any thickness into the heart of the warrior from his back softly.
The warrior of the Dongfang family bulged his eyes before he had any time to let out an exclamation or summon his crystal suit.
The other warriors of the Dongfang family, including the main troop at the edge and the "Thirty-Three Limits" in the anonymous hospital, were more alarmed than ever.
Although "Shadowless" Duan Rui's assassination was a textbook method, it was still noticed by them at the earliest time.
However, the moment Duan Rui pushed the shadow blade forward softly, all the lights within several hundred meters from the anonymous hospital died out, turning the place into a pitch dark swamp.
The hospital, where the lights were still on, became the most eye-catching target. Bombarded by thousands of flying swords and crystal cannons, it was also swallowed by darkness after abnormal fireballs burst out one after another!
Chapter 2294: Bomb Expert! |
In the swamp of darkness, the flames of light were shining brilliantly when the Immortal Cultivators of the reformists and the Dongfang family all put on their crystal suits.
The shimmers of their spiritual shields made everybody look like a glittering ghost. In the next second, all the ghosts were enshrouded by their own spiritual energy and the enemy's bombardment, burning furiously.
The experts from the army, including "Iron Head" Ran Xiong, were responsible to block the elites of the Dongfang family at the periphery, while "Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong led a hundred devil huntresses at the gate of the anonymous hospital. The battle of the two parties entered the most heated phase almost from the first second of the engagement. The dark swamp was simmering immediately!
Hooooooo!
Three devil huntresses had leaped over the first defense line of the anonymous hospital swiftly and were about to break into the hospital when an abnormally brawny man suddenly charged out from the hospital in devastating roars.
His body was already as thick and heavy as an iron tower, but his right arm that had been expanded to the maximum was more than one meter in diameter and almost as thick as his body. At first look, he was almost like a pair of conjoined twins whose shoulder blades were connected!
Not just that, the abnormally huge arm was also extremely long and dangled to the ground. The hand had retrograded into five enormous blades, and the whole arm was brimming with lumps. Among the lumps, tremendous bright yellow objects that looked like eyeballs were growing. It was both disgusting and blood-freezing.
Shua!
Thousands of dazzling lights were emanated from the crystalline lenses among the lumps on the arm, immed
iately disrupting the attack of the three devil huntresses.
The arm that was three meters long was both tensile and rapid when it was waved like a whip. Under the sound of air being split apart, it slapped the body of a devil huntress brutally, cutting both her crystal suit and her body into halves. The abnormal lumps on the arm of the freak seemed to contain highly-corrosive acids. When the lumps exploded and the acids splashed to the crystal suit, the crystal suit was immediately smoking with earsplitting noises and collapsing at a visible speed!
The freak was "Fearful Claw", a warrior of "Thirty-Three Limits". His entire arm was from a world fragment named "Venomous Wind Sector", a land of terror covered by an ocean of acids!
"Fiery Sorceress" Zhu Linglong lunged forward and rescued her subordinate narrowly before Fearful Claw ripped apart the second devil huntress.
On the forehead of her crystal suit, a vivid, red eyeball carved out of crystals shot out a red spark under the boost of his soul, which darted into the eyes of Fearful Claw as quickly as a bolt of lightning.
Fearful Claw was slightly dazed. As if mired in Fiery Sorceress' mental attack, his movement was immediately slowed down. With painful moans coming from his throat, tremendous blisters emerged on his body one after another, and when the blisters exploded, flames dashed up from below!
It was a secret technique to interfere with the enemy's central nerves and make their brain issue wrong orders to the nerve endings all over the body. As a result, all the hormones would be secreted crazily, and the mitochondria inside the cells would do work peculiarly. Eventually, the cells would be "overloaded", resulting in the spontaneous combustion.
It was exactly what Fiery Sorceress was best at!
Fearful Claw, as a member of "Thirty-Three Limits" who had received the transplantation of the organs of alien beasts, focused purely on the buildup of the physical body and attached less importance to the training of the soul and the mental warfare. Therefore, he was hit immediately when he encountered Fiery Sorceress who was an expert in mental warfare.