Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

"wrong……"

Gu Heng, standing in front of the control panel, instantly froze with a smile.

His pupils contracted sharply, and an extreme fear gripped his heart in an instant.

He recalled the photos in that top-secret file—the terrifying, bottomless, mirror-smooth giant pit on the original site of the Nanshan Nursing Home.

At this moment, the chilling energy emanating from Li Rui seemed purer, more resolute, and exuded an irreversible sense of destruction than Han Xiao's previous energy fluctuations!

"What is he going to do?! Stop him!"

Gu Heng's voice completely lost its usual deepness and composure: "Open fire! Kill him! Kill him immediately!!!"

The moment the order was given, the city's most advanced machinery of violence roared deafeningly.

"Buzz—!" The power of the infrasound generator was pushed to the overload limit, and the invisible shockwave stirred up an unseen storm in the study.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" On the distant skyscraper, the sniper team abandoned the tranquilizer grenades and instead used their real weapons to smash the glowing figure.

All the firepower was enough to raze an armored fortress to the ground in an instant.

However, at the heart of this devastating meat grinder, Li Rui slowly stood up.

The alloy mesh burned out, the foam evaporated, and the electrode plates hanging on the body fell off like withered leaves.

Countless armor-piercing bullets, violent infrasound waves, and high-voltage electric arcs powerful enough to instantly char a person fell into his body without any hindrance—but like a mud ox sinking into the sea, they didn't cause a ripple or any substantial damage.

Because at this moment, he has already stepped halfway out of the physical dimension.

He used his entire soul essence as fuel to exchange for this brief but absolute "sublimation".

He stood there, surrounded by an extremely pure dark red flame.

The body has a translucent, glass-like texture, like a god reborn from ashes and endless sins.

Li Rui slowly turned his head.

He looked at the dense array of gun barrels outside the door, spitting fire.

Looking out the window at the drones that represent surveillance;

Looking further into the distance, there are those who lurk in the darkness, plotting to control the fate of all living beings.

He looked at the city that had besieged him, at the thick, suffocating darkness that filled the world.

Then he smiled.

That was the laughter of a god, transcending all worldly rules!

"Do you think this is the end?"

Li Rui spoke up.

His voice wasn't loud, but it possessed an incredible penetrating power, ignoring the roar of gunfire and the interference of infrasound, clearly reaching the ears of everyone present, and even resonating deep within the souls of everyone in the command vehicle through the communication network.

"Do you think you can extinguish the flames of evil with foam? Can you shatter conscience with guns? Can you forever cover up the sins of this world with your lofty power and certificates?!"

Li Rui suddenly opened his arms wide, and the ruby ​​brooch on his chest burst forth with the most dazzling light.

"I will burn my life here today!"

"I don't ask gods or Buddhas to descend to earth, nor do I ask Heaven to open its eyes! Everyone in this city, as long as they still harbor a grudge, can borrow my fire!!!"

His voice grew louder and louder, like rolling thunder, tearing through the dull night sky of Chenxi City.

"From this day forward, every cry of injustice will be my echo! Every glare against the darkness will bear my embers!"

"I will become a spark that ignites a prairie fire, imprinted in the eyes of each and every one of you, and rooted in the soul of each and every one of you!"

"Oh, you desperate people—!!!"

Li Rui raised his head and, facing the vast night sky, let out the last roar of his life:

"Go burn! Go burn through this endless night! Go burn away the darkness and bring forth a bright and clear world!!!"

boom--!

!

!

The moment the words left his mouth, Li Rui's glass-like body began its ultimate self-immolation.

His body disintegrated from the inside out, turning into billions of dark red points of light.

Those points of light were lighter than the finest dust and more dazzling than the most brilliant stars.

They had no temperature, no physical lethality, yet they carried Li Rui's pure and unadulterated will of judgment, sweeping in all directions.

This was a grand farewell.

It is also a silent sowing.

Dark red light poured down from the top floor of the Cloud Palace like a tide, illuminating the entire night sky.

Looking up from the ground, it seems as if a star is falling, or as if a flame is rising.

They drifted away silently.

The sharp shards of glass, piercing through the shattered bulletproof glass, shone with a crystal-like brilliance as the light passed through them, like jewels adorning the funeral.

It pierced through the thick steel plates of the armored vehicle, and the steel became transparent in the dark red light, as if even the metal bowed its head at this moment.

They fell like a flurry of dark red snowflakes, sweeping down from a height of 100 meters and drifting towards everyone who witnessed the scene.

It drifted into the depths of the pupils of those commandos who pulled the trigger.

They were stunned.

Some people's gun barrels began to droop, some stood still, and some even forgot to breathe.

They didn't know what it was, only that something was quietly taking root deep within their souls.

It drifted into the eyes of all the experts inside the command vehicle.

Chen Jingrun stared at the screen, his mouth agape, but no sound came out.

His brain was still trying to explain the scene scientifically, but his heart had already given the answer—this wasn't science, it was a miracle.

Fang Weiguo slowly stood up, something warm welling up in his eyes.

It drifted into the eyes of the hardliners.

Inspector General Liu Changhe stood frozen in place, his lips trembling slightly.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say "This is impossible," but the words turned into a silent sigh.

The notebook in the hands of Administrative Coordinator Wu Yong slipped to the ground, but he did not bend down to pick it up.

He just stood there, looking at the screen, something deep in his eyes shifting.

It drifted into Gu Heng's violently contracting pupils.

The moment the light touched his pupil, it melted into it without any resistance, deeply embedding itself in the crevices of his soul.

That was an "ember" that could not be extinguished.

It doesn't hurt, it doesn't itch, and it can't be detected by any instrument.

But it will be there in every late night, in every moment of facing injustice, at every crossroads where one can choose to remain silent or stand up—

Change their will, reshape their souls.

The last bit of dark red light dissipated in the night wind.

The world suddenly fell silent.

The gunfire ceased. Those fingers that had been pulling the triggers had somehow released them.

The infrasound was shut down. The invisible vibrations that were powerful enough to shatter internal organs finally ceased to tear through the night sky.

The drones' buzzing stopped. Six drones hovered in mid-air, as if paused, simply floating silently, overlooking the empty floor-to-ceiling windows.

In the dilapidated study on the top floor of Yunxiao Mansion, in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, there was no one.

The man named Li Rui disappeared from this world without leaving even a handful of ashes.

"bite--"

A crisp sound of metal striking metal rang out abruptly in the deathly silent ruins.

The ruby ​​brooch, now devoid of all its luster, fell from mid-air, struck the charred marble floor, rolled a few times, and finally lay quietly in the center of the ruins.

Its once dazzling brilliance has completely faded.