Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

The dormant machinery of the Special Investigations Bureau suddenly roared into action.

Six heavy armored vehicles drove out of the police station compound like steel behemoths, their piercing sirens tearing through the night sky of Chenxi City.

This represents the strongest force currently available to the state apparatus in combating supernatural phenomena.

The Special Investigation Bureau went to great lengths to capture Li Rui alive this time.

Each commando was wearing "heavy superconducting flame-retardant armor" secretly developed by the Strategic Technical Support Bureau of the Lieyang Military Region.

This armor can withstand temperatures of over a thousand degrees Celsius, and its inner lining of superconducting gel can absorb and disperse heat energy instantly, theoretically enough to forcibly propel itself through a sea of ​​fire.

The armored vehicle is equipped with the latest directional infrasound generator on its roof.

This weapon does not require direct contact. As long as the target is locked, the emitted infrasound waves can resonate directly with the human body's internal organs, instantly depriving the target of their ability to move, or even causing them to faint.

Inside the carriage, there is also an ultra-large capacity compressed polymer flame-retardant foam launcher. Once sprayed, this foam can drain all the oxygen in an area within seconds and form an indestructible heat-insulating solidified layer on the target surface.

"Li Rui..." Gu Heng stared at the green dot on the big screen, representing the Special Investigation Bureau's convoy speeding toward the Fourth District, his fists clenched tightly.

"Even if you had the power to burn the heavens and boil the seas, you'd still be no match for the meat grinder of the state apparatus and be captured by me!"

Two immense forces—the Blackstone wolf pack and the Special Investigation Bureau's steel torrent—are converging frantically around Cloud Mansion.

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Time moved forward slightly.

When most people in the Special Investigation Bureau wondered why Li Rui had come to the Fourth District.

Wang Shiwei, Gu Heng's assistant, felt as if all the blood in her body had frozen at that moment.

Her gaze was fixed on the constantly flashing coordinates on the screen—"Yunxiao Mansion Back Street".

She knew all too well who lived there.

Countless scattered fragments of information rapidly pieced together in her mind in that instant.

The first piece is Li Rui's logic of revenge.

Starting with Zhang Ziqian, who laughed outside the courthouse, to Sun Weimin and Sun Qiang, who covered for him, to Zhou Shouzheng, who sold his conscience for promotion, and finally to Zhang Zhaoqing, who wiped out the entire Starlight Lab.

Everyone connected to the Su Xiao case is being burned away by him one by one with raging flames.

The second piece of evidence is the origin of the Su Xiao case.

Why was Zhang Ziqian able to escape punishment with just a "psychological evaluation"?

Because of the medicine produced by Glowing Medicine, and even more so because of an unseen giant hand that wove an unbreakable protective net for him from behind.

The third fragment was the armed squad that Li Rui had just wiped out in an instant.

Special Investigations Bureau experts identified the top-of-the-line military-grade equipment.

In the current tense and chaotic Dawn City, the only organization capable of mobilizing and daring to mobilize private soldiers like the Black Stone Mercenaries is the Five Mountains Society, and only my brother!

The fourth fragment, the location where Li Rui counterattacked that squad, was precisely on the only road leading to the back street of Yunxiao Mansion.

And the direction he continued to walk in was unwavering, pointing straight towards that top-tier apartment building that pierced the clouds.

The last piece of evidence was her understanding of Li Rui.

That person had a burning passion for justice, a flame that allowed no compromise.

After he burned down all the front-line executors, how could he not trace back to the source?

In Li Rui's eyes, the mastermind behind the scenes, the one who disregards human life and weaves the web, is the most sinful demon.

Click.

All the fragments fit together perfectly to form a chilling and complete picture.

The older brother is Li Rui's next target!

What's most terrifying is that the older brother was completely unaware of this, and even arrogantly believed that he was the hunter who could manipulate his prey at will.

Wang Shiwei's breathing became rapid, and her nails dug deeply into her palms.

On one side is his blood-related older brother, who represents the interests of the family;

On the other side is Li Rui, whom she once deeply loved, but who is now burdened with a blood feud and transformed into a demon.

These two people, who are extremely important to her, are about to clash in a life-or-death struggle.

She's caught in the middle; it's wrong for her to side with either of them.

Helping my brother is a complete betrayal of conscience and justice;

Helping Li Rui is tantamount to personally pushing the family into the abyss.

She was left with only one choice—to escape this inevitable outcome and prevent the collision from happening!

My brother must stay away from Li Rui!

Wang Shiwei quietly retreated, and while everyone's attention was focused on the big screen and communication channels, she turned and walked out of the command center.

As Consultant Gu's personal assistant, no one would question her whereabouts.

The lights in the corridor were blindingly white.

As she hurried toward the elevator, she pulled out her phone and, with trembling fingers, dialed the number she knew by heart.

……

"Beep...beep..."

The moment the call connected, Wang Shiwei rushed into the elevator. The metal doors slowly closed behind her, completely shutting out the noise from the outside world.

"Brother!" Before the person on the other end of the phone could speak, she said rapidly, "Li Rui's target is you! He's not running away, he's after you! Leave Yunxiao Mansion immediately!"

On the other end of the phone, at the edge of the sky garden of the penthouse apartment in Yunxiao Mansion.

The night breeze ruffled Wang Shijun's clothes as he held the glass of crimson wine. He paused slightly upon hearing his sister's almost out-of-control voice.

His first reaction was that it was absurd.

How could Li Rui possibly know it was him?

Zhang Zhaoqing's phone call before his death continued until the explosion, giving him no chance to reveal any information about himself to Li Rui.

Moreover, how could a low-level criminal police officer possibly uncover the Five Mountains Society's secret plans in Chenxi City?

"Shiwei, you're too nervous." Wang Shijun's voice remained as composed as ever. "He's just a mad dog driven to desperation; he doesn't even know what I look like..."

But before he could finish speaking, Shen Jian's report flashed through his mind.

The location where the sixth squad lost contact was a narrow alley behind Yunxiao Mansion.

If Li Rui hadn't been fleeing in a panic, if his encounter with the Sixth Squad wasn't accidental, if he had... deliberately headed towards the Fourth District, towards Yunxiao Mansion.

And then, considering Li Rui's bizarre and unpredictable methods of taking lives...

Wang Shijun's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, and a chill he had never felt before shot up to the top of his head for the first time.

"I see."

Wang Shijun casually smashed the glass of wine in his hand on the floor, the crimson liquid splattering like blood.

He whirled around and roared at Shen Jian, who was standing to the side, "Everyone abandon the search of the perimeter and retreat back into the building immediately! Protect me as I evacuate this place!"

Shen Jian was startled by Wang Shijun's sudden loss of composure, but he did not hesitate and quickly pressed the communicator to prepare to issue an order.

But it was too late.