Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

This is an extremely precise control.

The attack only damages Tao Yongnian's right arm, preventing him from being electrocuted directly.

[Electrical Energy Explosion]

[The ability to generate and manipulate electrical energy. Users can consume their own physical strength and bio-energy to convert it into electrical energy and release it externally. The generated voltage, current intensity, and duration are related to the user's physical reserves and physical capacity. Simultaneously, the user can use this ability as a "fuse" or "seed"—using their own tiny electrical energy to stimulate, guide, and control the vast electrical energy already present in the environment (such as the mains power grid, lightning, and static electricity), achieving a powerful effect with minimal effort. This can achieve the diversion and overload of power grid energy, paralysis of electronic devices, electric shocks to living beings, or attracting lightning under specific conditions. This application method extremely tests the user's precise control over guiding electrical energy to avoid backlash. —The mighty power of heaven is in my grasp!]

Liu Zhen slowly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, as if suppressing a storm to the extreme.

He looked at Tao Yongnian, who was trembling in the lightning, as if he were looking at livestock waiting to be slaughtered, but deep in his eyes surged a bloody hole that could not heal after losing a loved one.

Three seconds later, the electric arc dissipated.

Tao Yongnian collapsed to the ground, his right hand turning a strange charred black, emitting wisps of smoke.

The intense pain finally brought him fully awake, and cold sweat instantly soaked his entire body.

"You...how did you do that..." Tao Yongnian's voice trembled, his eyes filled with disbelief. "This is high voltage...how could you control it...even if you're a seasoned electrician...this is impossible..."

He still tried to understand the scene before him with common sense, as if the fear would lessen if it could be explained by science.

Liu Zhen crouched down, looking down at him: "Ma Gang is dead."

Tao Yongnian trembled: "Wh...what?"

"He said some things before he died." Liu Zhen took out a voice recorder from his pocket and pressed the play button.

Amidst the hum of the electrical circuits, Ma Gang's desperate pleas for mercy before his death could be heard, along with his crystal-clear confession: "It was General Manager Tao... it was Tao Yongnian who ordered it... I only did the dirty work..."

The recording abruptly stopped.

Tao Yongnian's face turned ashen.

He scrambled forward two steps, grabbed Liu Zhen's leg, and begged incoherently, "Engineer Liu... Brother Liu... let me explain! That matter... I really didn't intend to kill anyone! It was that idiot Ma Gang who didn't know his own strength! I just wanted to scare you... I really didn't mean to hurt your wife and children..."

"So you got involved," Liu Zhen interrupted him. "Whether you did it yourself or you ordered it on, the result is the same. You were involved. You knew about it, and you suppressed it. That's enough."

"No! It's different!" Tao Yongnian screamed. He was no longer the arrogant man he had been moments before; he was like a dog with a broken spine. "I can give you money! Lots of money! I have shares, I have real estate, I can give you all of that!"

"If you let me go, I'll pretend I never saw you! There are security cameras here...yes, security cameras! There are security cameras here. Even if you kill me, you won't get away!"

Tao Yongnian seemed to have grasped at a straw, and suddenly looked up at the security camera at the alley entrance.

However, his pupils suddenly contracted when his gaze fell upon the black hemisphere.

The indicator light did not flash.

In fact, the memory chip inside had its logic circuit completely burned out by a weak current pulse half an hour earlier.

Now it's just an expensive decoration, a blind eye.

Liu Zhen didn't explain, but simply glanced in the direction of his gaze.

That gaze, cold as iron, told Tao Yongnian: all escape routes had already been cut off long before you arrived.

Tao Yongnian opened his mouth.

He suddenly realized something.

Liu Zhen didn't just come to kill him.

Liu Zhen had arrived long ago.

He chose the location, calculated the time, and even disposed of everything that might leave a trace beforehand.

He's a professional.

No, it's more terrifying than expertise.

Tao Yongnian collapsed to the ground, the effects of the alcohol long gone, and fear made him tremble all over.

He looked into Liu Zhen's eyes, which held no light, only bottomless black holes.

He knew that money was useless, begging was useless, and surveillance was useless.

The only way to survive is to hand over something of greater value.

"What do you want to know?" he said hoarsely, having given up struggling. "I'll tell you everything. Just let me die a quick death."

Liu Zhen looked down at him.

The oppressive killing intent made the surrounding air feel thick and sticky.

"The name of an important person."

"I don't know the name... I really don't know..." Tao Yongnian said with a mournful face. "We just follow orders. We only have code names or are communicated through intermediaries. But I know that Chairman Zhao Hongtu knows everything."

"Zhao Hongtu?"

"To the outside world, he's a philanthropist, a major taxpayer, and has a very good reputation." Tao Yongnian, panting heavily, hurriedly confessed as if grasping at the last straw, "All the dirty work is done by our subordinates, and we take the blame when something goes wrong."

"He's the one who plays the good cop, winning people over... He has connections at the city and provincial levels... He's the one who makes the final decisions! I'm just the executor! Engineer Liu, you should go find him, not the one to hold accountable!"

Liu Zhen listened quietly, without any expression.

But his fists clenched tighter and tighter, his knuckles cracking.

Zhao Hongtu.

Ma Gang was merely the knife, Tao Yongnian was the hand wielding it, and the one who truly wanted him dead was that "philanthropist" sitting high up in a building, looking down upon all living beings.

"That's enough." Liu Zhen slowly stood up.

Just as a glimmer of hope rose in Tao Yongnian's heart, he saw the last glimmer of humanity in Liu Zhen's eyes extinguished.

That was the resolute decision made after utterly falling into the abyss.

"You're all the same." Liu Zhen's voice was soft, yet it sounded like a judgment from the depths of hell. "For money, for power, you treat other people's lives like dirt. Do you think you can live a clean life just by hiding in the shadows, as long as someone else takes the blame?"

Liu Zhen raised his right hand, and the arc of electricity in his palm was no longer a ghostly blue, but turned into a blinding pale white.

The surrounding air began to ionize, emitting a teeth-grinding buzzing sound.

The overhead power lines hummed, and the streetlights flickered, as if the entire neighborhood's electricity was responding to some kind of call.

"No! You can't kill me! Even if you kill me, you won't escape! Zhao Hongtu won't let you go!" Tao Yongnian moved backward in terror, his back scraping against the rough ground, blood staining his clothes.

"I don't need to run." Liu Zhen lowered his head, looking at the man who had ruined his family. "I just need you to pay the price!"

The moment he finished speaking, a dazzling bolt of lightning burst forth from Liu Zhen's palm.

Three electrical wires overhead simultaneously exploded with blinding white light. The three arcs of electricity seemed to be grasped by an invisible hand, twisting together in the air and heading straight for Tao Yongnian's chest!