Chapter 118: Self-Destruction

High above, the heart of that man in black suddenly sank.

A strong sense of crisis, like a cold tide, instantly flooded over him.

The dead silence in the communicator had already declared the only answer.

The two elite squads ambushed in the dense forest had actually been completely wiped out in less than a minute.

The mission had already completely failed.

He no longer hesitated in the slightest, suddenly turning around as the magic power within his body surged frantically, transforming into a pair of burning flame wings, and prepared to rapidly escape into the depths of the night sky.

However, the very moment he turned around.

A shadow even deeper than the night, who knew when, had already silently enveloped his head.

"Want to leave?"

A cold and mocking voice seemed to ring directly in the depths of his Soul.

The man in black raised his head in terror.

The slender figure emerging from the shadows could be seen looking down at him condescendingly, with a playful, cat-and-mouse smile hanging on its pale face.

It was precisely Moria, controlled by Zhou Huai.

"Bastard!"

The man in black let out an angry roar, the instinct for survival overwhelming his fear.

He beat his wings fiercely, his body transforming into a fiery meteor, advancing instead of retreating, and rushed straight toward Moria.

He was very clear that, facing this kind of elusive assassin, blindly running away would only lead to a dead end.

Only by fighting to the death might there still be a glimmer of survival.

"[Exploding Flame Serpent]!"

He shoved his hands violently forward.

Surging flame magic power spewed out, condensing in the air into several huge flame giant serpents, opening their ferocious giant mouths, roaring, and biting toward Moria from all directions.

Every single flame serpent contained terrifying high temperatures, and wherever they passed, the air was distorted because of it.

Facing this attack, which was enough to instantly melt steel, the smile on Moria's face remained unchanged.

Its figure, the moment the flame serpents approached, suddenly transformed into a wisp of light smoke and melted into the shadows behind it.

Several flame serpents pounced into empty air, exploding with a boom in the midair and turning into a sky full of fiery rain.

The heart of the man in black tightened, not daring to stay for even a second, and he beat his flame wings to continue fleeing.

But he had just flown less than a hundred meters.

The space not far ahead had its shadows writhing for a moment.

Moria's figure emerged once again, unhurriedly blocking his path.

"Your speed is too slow."

"Damn it!"

The face of the man in black turned livid; he had already realized that in the nighttime environment, it was simply impossible for him to shake off this ghost-like enemy.

He clenched his teeth, slammed his hands together, and the magic power within his body erupted without reservation.

"[Flame Prison Cage]!"

Boom!

With him as the center, thick pillars of flame soared into the sky, instantly interweaving into a huge spherical flame cage, enveloping both him and Moria within it.

Within the flame cage, the temperature climbed sharply, and the violent fire elements rampaged, forming a Domain of death.

This was his trump-card control skill; once trapped, even a powerhouse of the same Rank would be burned to ashes alive.

"Let's see how you hide this time!" The man in black had a ferocious expression.

Moria looked around at the raging flame barriers, and a trace of approval finally appeared on its face.

"A bit interesting."

It said softly.

The next second, it raised its hand and gently snapped its fingers at the man in black before it.

Dozens of pitch-black Devilish Qi surged up like poisonous snakes, instantly wrapping around the man's limbs and body.

"What?!"

The man in black changed expression in great shock, struggling desperately and urging the flames to burn off these tentacles.

But these shadows composed of pure Devilish Qi were incomparably tough, completely devoid of fear toward the burning of the flames.

He was like a moth captured in a spider's web, unable to move.

Moria's figure, as if taking a stroll in a leisurely courtyard, walked through the violent flames and slowly came before him.

"Now, it's my turn."

It raised its hand, its five fingers pressed together.

Shadow Demon Claw!

"No—!"

The man in black let out a desperate roar.

"Pfft!"

Shadow Demon Claw cleanly and neatly pierced through his chest.

The violent Devilish Qi exploded inside his body.

The flame wings and flame prison cage on his body suddenly went out, like a lightbulb cut off from electricity.

The entire person fell powerlessly from high altitude.

"Boom!"

The man's body slammed heavily onto the ground, smashing out a deep human-shaped huge pit.

He lay at the bottom of the pit, on his last breath, blood mixed with fragments of internal organs continuously gushing from his mouth.

The HP only had a tiny sliver left at the very end.

A figure silently appeared at the edge of the huge pit.

It was precisely Moria.

Zhou Huai controlled Moria to walk slowly down the huge pit, coming to the side of that man.

He looked down at the other party from above, his voice cold and devoid of a trace of emotion.

"Who sent you here?"

"If you honestly confess, I might consider giving you a quick death."

That man raised his head with difficulty, looking at this pale and handsome face before him, making a he-he laughing sound in his throat as blood continuously overflowed from his mouth.

"Cough cough… Never expected… by the side of that Zhou Huai, there would actually… actually be a powerhouse of your strength…"

"It seems that we still… underestimated him too much…"

Zhou Huai's brows furrowed.

He stepped forward and stepped with one foot onto the other party's already twisted and deformed palm.

"Snap!"

The crisp sound of bones shattering was particularly piercing in the silent night.

"Ah—!"

The man let out a painful muffled groan, beads of cold sweat instantly seeping out from his forehead.

Zhou Huai's sole was still slowly grinding with force.

His voice was even colder than the action beneath his feet.

"Wrong answer."

"This is not the answer I want to hear."

"I will ask again, who on earth sent you here?"

"Is it the Zhou Family? Or… the Liu Family?"

Facing this inhuman torture, that man no longer made any sound.

He just lay on the ground, staring fixedly at Zhou Huai with a gaze mixed with pain and malice.

Suddenly, he gave a miserable smile.

Within those dimming pupils, a resolute madness actually leaked out.

He opened his mouth, revealing a row of ghastly white teeth.

Zhou Huai had alarm bells ringing loudly in his heart.

Not good!

The next second, that man's body swelled up violently like a balloon blown to its limit.

Dazzling rays of fire burst out from the cracks in his body.

A destructive and violent energy was frantically brewing inside his body.

Self-destruction!

This fellow turned out to be a suicide operative!

Zhou Huai did not have the slightest hesitation.

The second before the other party's body exploded, he immediately controlled Moria, its figure instantly melting into the shadows of the ground.

Rumble—!!!

A deafening loud sound suddenly erupted!

A huge, mushroom-cloud-like fireball soared into the sky, illuminating the area within a radius of a hundred meters as bright as day.

The terrifying shockwave, mixed with scorching heat waves, frantically swept toward the surroundings.

The ground trembled violently, and countless trees were uprooted and turned into charcoal.

In place, only a terrifying huge pit with a diameter of over twenty meters was left, the soil at the bottom of the pit having been burned into a glazed state, still emitting rolling thick smoke.

Long afterward, the aftershocks of the explosion gradually subsided.

A figure slowly emerged from the shadow of a large tree in the distance.

Zhou Huai looked at this messy scene before him, and then looked at those scattered and still burning corpse fragments on the ground, unable to help complaining in his heart.

Dying so decisively, do you think you are Yasuo?

Afterwards, his consciousness quickly withdrew from within Moria's body, returning to his main body.

On the secluded road.

Xiang Yu was carrying Zhou Huai on his back, rushing through the forest at an extremely fast speed, heading toward the direction of the suburban courtyard.

Zhou Huai lay on Xiang Yu's broad and thick back, his face somewhat pale.

This was also the first time since his Transmigration that his main body had encountered such a fatal crisis.

If not for Xiang Yu's Guardian Oath bearing all the damage for himself, he would probably already be a charred corpse right now.

Very soon, the courtyard was visible from afar.

After confirming that Uncle Fu was safe and sound, Zhou Huai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Sitting in his new wheelchair, recalling that heart-pounding scene just now, his brain began to spin at high speed.

This gang of assassins were well-trained, coordinated seamlessly, and even had suicide operatives who didn't hesitate to self-destruct.

It didn't look much like the force Zhou Feng could mobilize.

Then the answer was already self-evident.

It was the Liu Family.

It was that Liu Family far away in the imperial capital, yet with eyes and hands reaching the heavens.

Could it be that his actions at Ye Xi's birthday banquet had completely enraged that lofty Liu Yuru?

Could she already be unable to wait to completely eradicate him, a thorn in her side and a thorn in her flesh?

It looked like the forces of the Liu Family had already lurked in secret within Donghai City.

Zhou Huai's knuckles unconsciously tapped on the armrest of the wheelchair.

Now someone had set their sights on him.

This courtyard was no longer safe.

He had to find a safer place.

In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived.

A piece of news instantly shocked all the major families in the entire Donghai City.

Zhou Huai, who had just attended the birthday banquet of the Ye Family's young lady yesterday.

Encountered an attack by unidentified individuals on the way back to the courtyard.

At the scene, only a car wreckage blown into scrap iron was left behind.

Zhou Huai himself left no corpse behind.