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Chapter 528 Two Pieces of Good News

Faced with such a horrific scene, the fact that neither the living nor the dead could be considered good news actually became a positive development.

But this respite won't last long, because Homelander had already returned to New York eight hours earlier. In other words, he had already finished all the work that needed to be done.

They are now heading to other locations, where they will most likely only see the same scene replicated.

Kimiko looked at the faces in the camp. Some of these people she had seen before, and some she had not, but now, they all lay dead in the ruins without discrimination.

Rage, resentment, fear, and grotesque expressions contorted human faces into various death specimens. Cold bullet casings and deformed bullets were scattered throughout the camp. Just by looking at their lifelike and tense expressions, one could imagine the fierce struggles they had made before they died.

However, it was all in vain. Under the full-speed slaughter by the Homelanders, they only had time to make expressions, and before they even had time to despair, their heinous lives came to an end.

"Evil people will always have other evil people to deal with them."

Ma Zhaodi didn't look at the group any longer, but called to Kimiko and Frankie, "Let's go, let's go to the next camp first."

As for sympathy or sorrow, Ma Zhaodi felt no emotional fluctuation at the end of these madmen who would slaughter entire villages and kill entire families at the drop of a hat.

I even felt a little tempted to applaud.

Soon, the three arrived at the next campsite.

The same scenery, the same ruins, the same dead bodies—the only difference was that this time, more fragmented terrorist debris and explosion marks were found in the camp, making it look like a suicide bombing.

“A self-destruction of this magnitude is probably useless; it'll only entertain Homelander at best.” Ma Zhaodi shook his head. He had deduced Homelander’s defensive capabilities from the injuries he sustained after being hit by three Doom-shrooms exploding at his face last time. “Kimiko, is your brother’s face here?”

Kimiko shook her head in annoyance.

Logically, not finding him should be good news, but she has completely lost any clues about her brother, and this place has become her only hope. Now, with no one alive, even if her brother had survived, she wouldn't know who to ask for information from.
The mood is very complicated.

Ma Zhaodi didn't say much, but led the two of them on a run for another two hours, and then finally confirmed that from today onwards, Shining Glory would be removed from the world.

Homelander left no survivors. He killed all the members of the organization, destroyed all the buildings, and burned all paper documents and other evidence, whether or not they were related to Walter, to ashes. He took the elimination of all evidence to the extreme.

The only saving grace was that none of them were able to find Kimiko's brother's face in those camps.

“Your brother isn’t here,” Ma Zhaodi reminded him. “At least that means he’s not dead. We can look for him again.”

Despite telling the truth, Kimiko still cried very sadly, which showed that she had a very good relationship with her brother.

Although things had come to this, it was not Ma Zhaodi's style to make a wasted trip, so he went back and took pictures of the several completely destroyed camps. He had both videos and pictures. Then he put away his phone and spread out the wallpaper on the ground.

"What are you going to do?" Franky asked.

"Let's take advantage of this situation to try and get a witness—to be honest, I originally planned to simply torture him until he was willing to cooperate, but now it seems there's no need to wait."

After opening the door, the scene inside was like a magical space. The ground rotated ninety degrees, forming a right angle with the outside ground. Ma Zhaodi waved his hand, and the cat pushed the unconscious Aquino out.

While marveling at the cat's superpowers, Franky and Kimiko were also shocked by Aquino's miserable state. After all, he hadn't fallen into a coma willingly, and the torture he endured yesterday must have left him with considerable psychological trauma.

Yes, they both agreed in their minds that it was torture.

Boom!
"what!"

Aquino, who was rolling on the ground, suddenly lost his balance. Although he was still rolling, the sudden ninety-degree rotation of gravity made him feel as if he were falling, jolting him awake from his unconsciousness. He then hit his head on the ground. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was Ma Zhaodi's face, and he panicked and tried to get away. But the next second, he found that he saw blue sky and white clouds.

Sky?

He suddenly realized that he had come out of that haunted house and into the outside world. With lightning speed, he sprang up from the ground with the agility he had ever displayed and turned to run away.

Then I froze.

The dark gray smoke mixed with the stench of blood rushed into my nostrils, and the ruins before my eyes were filled with corpses and flames.

crackling and popping—

That was the sound of the meat sizzling and releasing its fat.

He suddenly stopped running, not only because the scene before him was too horrific, but also because he recognized the place; he used to be very familiar with it.

This is his organization, shining brightly, or rather, his faith.

But at that moment, faith vanished along with the blazing double-headed serpent banner.

He stumbled and squatted down, turning the faces under his feet over, not even noticing when the ropes binding him had been untied.

He kept searching and searching until he found a body on the ruins of a building, a body with only a head remaining.

That was their organization's leader.

Right now, these faces that Kimiko wanted to stomp on were incredibly familiar to him. He considered these people his brothers, his sisters, and his comrades-in-arms.
Of course, if we're to be serious, this total annihilation is just a bunch of madmen and beasts getting what they deserve. They've completely abandoned their humanity, so how can they expect a happy ending?

But for Aquino, the scene before him was indeed no different from purgatory.

“Ahhhhh——!”

The heart-wrenching screams were as ferocious as those of a wild beast. Compared to Ma Zhaodi's methods yesterday, Aquino finally understood what true pain was.

"Stop howling, it's no use."

Ma Zhaodi calmly said, "All of Shining Glory's strongholds have been destroyed. Now you are the only one left."

“But I didn’t do it. By the time we got here, everyone was already dead—but then again, even if he hadn’t killed them, my hands would have been itching to do it.”

"You all deserve to die."

These words naturally ignited Aquino's anger, and he lunged at Ma Zhaodi, only to be pinned to the ground once again.

"Two pieces of good news." Ma Zhaodi watched him struggle frantically in the blood and mud and said calmly, "The first piece of good news is that your organization is completely finished from today onwards."

"The second piece of good news is that we know who did this and also intend to deal with your enemies."

"You only have one choice left now: cooperate with us. Now that I've finished speaking, do you agree or disagree?"

(End of this chapter)