At dusk.

The sky is dark and the brightness is quite low.

The lights in the city were lit up one after another, and the light emitted by the spiritual energy brought all the bright colors to this giant city with a population of nearly 10 million.

These artificial brilliances, within the dimest of five or six days of the month, are the most amazing landscapes.

In the brilliance, an almost transparent afterimage flashed through and flashed at a speed that the naked eye could not capture, getting closer and closer to a luxurious mansion in the west of the city.

...

Zhang Mansion.

In the study room in the back house.

Under the illumination of the ceiling chandeliers, a middle-aged man wearing a green dress stood in the room with his hands behind his back, and frowned at the miniature sand table in front of him.

He was worried, paced back and forth, thinking about the solution to an extremely difficult thing.

How to stop the immortal from infiltration?

Yes.

With the rapid development of Zhenlin City, the infiltration of various forces into Zhenlin City has reached an extremely serious level in recent years.

Either the arsenal lost a spiritual cannon in the arsenal today; or the equipment drawings and confidential formulas are lost in a workshop tomorrow; Zhou Ming's substitute was assassinated, and more than 100 scientists were kidnapped.

He is the head of Zhenlin City, a powerful city, who has been murdered in succession in recent years.

Without exception, it was all done by immortals.

Among these immortals, there are even several ancestors in the trance stage.

They regard Zhenlincheng as their backyard, taking whatever they like, and taking whatever they like.

No hello, no spiritual coin is handed over.

After succeeding, he basically fled without a trace.

Zhenlin City suffered heavy losses, but there was no good way to effectively curb it.

Zhou Ming had to make someone announce: If an immortal dared to kill the city people in Zhenlin City after stealing, if he found out that the immortal came from that sect or specific person, Zhenlin City would dispatch the Lingyuan battleship to completely destroy someone and his sect behind it!

If you cannot find out which sect comes from, Zhenlin City will issue the "Immortal Slaughter Order" and kill all the immortals within the Zhongyuanzhou (Zhongyuanzhou, a general name for place names within a radius of 100,000 miles)!

This warning has some effect. Many sects have heard of the power of the Lingyuan Battleship and are quite afraid of it. They claim that one can destroy a medium-sized sect and can kill the ancestor of the God-Stage stage with one shot.

The Lingyuan Battleship and Zhenlin City built a total of 300,000 ships, and the forces of all parties were not sure about it, so they did not dare to offend them to death.

As for the casual cultivators, they can steal and kill people without any scruples, but Zhenlin City has an "Immortal Cultivator" with 8 people. The members are all immortals with the Gudan stage cultivation level, with elite equipment and fewer than three people. If they want to steal in Zhenlin City, once they are discovered, the outcome can be predicted.

Even so, even if various countermeasures are adopted, any immortals who enter the city or sneak into the industrial area can basically return with full load.

If it weren't for a few years ago, Zhou Ming had transferred some of the most important industrial facilities to a mysterious base in Feiyun Mountain's territory in time, the losses would have been greater.

Shaking his head, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Who would have thought that a noble immortal could do such a stealing thing, run to the mortal city and become a professional thief?"

"This is indeed the best way to deal with Zhenlin City. The monks' order could not aim the muzzle of the Lingyuan Cannon at the dense houses and the immortals who were fleeing among the crowd."

"The losses these methods bring to Zhenlin City every year exceed hundreds of millions of spiritual coins."

"Economic losses are second, and the worst impact is the kidnapping of senior scientists and assassination of senior figures."

"Even my substitute was killed three times. I hid all day and didn't dare to show up. I couldn't take charge of many jobs and became more and more passive..."

"But some forces have the momentum of not killing me and never giving up. They even sent a trance-stage ancestor who had been squatting for a long time in Zhenlin City..."

"What should I do?"

Thinking of this problem, Zhou Ming's head felt swelling and painful.

"Zhang Shanhe, it turns out you are here."

A sudden sound came from my ears.

This voice made Zhou Ming feel a little dazed, and his thoughts were interrupted. He turned his head and looked back. A woman in white with purple eyes and red lips was standing behind him.

"Who are you……"

As soon as he started to ask who she was, there was a hand on his neck. With a slight force, his feet were taken off the ground and hung in the air.

The hand that pinched itself was very white, without any flaws, but the nails were very long and embedded in the flesh, as sharp as a blade.

A suffocation sensation came, and my whole body was also imprisoned. If I wanted to run the ritual, the spiritual energy in my body did not move at all.

If you want to call for help, you can't shout out half a syllable.

My heart was over. It was over, it was probably over this time.

Another sigh came from my ears:

"I haven't seen you for twenty years. The young and handsome guy is gone. He has become a rough and black old man. He is so ugly, so ugly!"

"I just wondered if I would torture you and give you another pleasure. Now it seems that there is no need for this. It is better for an old and ugly person to die sooner."

"Zhang Shanhe, die!"

Looking at the man in his hand, Jiang Ruonan, who was extremely disappointed, was getting stronger and stronger.

"etc……"

Zhou Ming, who felt like he was pinched, still said two words at the last moment.

Jiang Ruonan was unmoved and pinched for a while. Seeing the man rolling his eyes, his breath became weaker and weaker. He felt that killing him like this seemed a bit too cheap, and at least he would have to torture him for a while.

She let go of her hand, put the man down, and gave him another breath.

"Cough~Cough~Cough!"

Zhou Ming coughed desperately. He heard the system prompt "The character is in a dying state, whether to withdraw from the dungeon?" It took him a while to recover.

"Jiang Ruonan, why do you want to kill me?"

He asked the woman in front of him and said, "I asked myself that there is nothing wrong with you. Why did you take my life as soon as you meet?"

"Why should I kill you?"

Jiang Ruonan sneered in a "giggle" and suddenly hit his chest with bare hands. When he couldn't dodge, he inserted it into his chest.

"ah!"

A sharp pain came, and Zhou Ming found that after one hand penetrated his chest, he held his heart. With only one pinch, he would be heartbroken and die...

I thought to myself: This woman is so cruel!

"You are so smart, you even ask me why I killed you?"

She said coldly, then turned to another intoxicated look: "Tsk tsk, I really want to take out this heart and see if it is red or black, or not a heart at all, but a stone."

The nails at the end of her index finger were scraped on her heart and gently wrapped around her five fingers, as if she was really trying to dig her heart.

Zhou Ming didn't dare to breathe. In the unspeakable severe pain, he felt his weakness for the first time.

For the first time, I deeply realized the importance of individual strength.

Especially in this world, the stronger the more free you are!

"This game is almost OK here. The seeds of science have been sown, and the benefits of the artifacts have been valued by people. Even if I suddenly don't exist, I will continue to develop."

"So, just die. In the next game, match a good qualification, work hard to practice, keep making breakthroughs, and strive to become an immortal and a saint in terms of cultivation!"

Thinking of this, he silently closed his eyes.

“Huh~”

Seeing his appearance, Jiang Ruonan's playful smile froze there, becoming very ugly, "Why, aren't you afraid of death? Why don't you struggle? I'm still waiting for you to beg me not to kill you?"

Zhou Ming shook his head: "Stop playing. If you want to kill me, no matter what I say, you will still kill me. Instead of doing this, you should give me some fun. If you want to see my heart, you can take it out and take a look."

After saying that, he closed his eyes again.

"Haha, I don't make you cheaper so easily!"

Jiang Ruonan pulled out the hand that was inserted into his chest, licked the blood on his nails, and a charming light came out of his eyes: "I won't let this sweet and hot blood flow dry easily."

She took some bleeding measures, blocked several arteries that had lost a lot of blood, and leaned into his ear and said, "You always think that you know everything in this world, and always think that things will develop in the direction you imagined; you always think that everything is in your hands..."

"Do you think I owe you the favor I won't come back to kill you?"

She looked solemn and said, "Zhang Shanhe, I will give you one last chance. You can answer this question yourself: Why do I kill you?"

"If you give the right answer, I can spare your life!"

"If you answer wrong, I will take your life!"

"Give you half a moment, and answer me immediately!"

Her words that were not like joking made Zhou Ming look shaking and he began to turn his brain.

Why did Jiang Ruonan kill him?

What did she do to make her so resentful?
To be continued...