My whole family was brutally murdered? I awakened the thug system and went on a killing spree.

The cold autumn rain gradually stopped.

The horizon was bathed in the greyish-white light of dawn.

In the central business district of Jiangcheng, a holographic projection screen suddenly lit up with a blinding red light.

[Major Arrest Notice]

Five large, blood-red characters occupied the entire screen.

The announcer's mechanical, cold female voice blared through the empty streets via a high-powered loudspeaker.

"Last night, several vicious murders occurred in Jiangcheng."

"Suspect Qin Meng brutally murdered a prison guard and escaped from prison. The Public Security Bureau has confirmed that the suspect has severe antisocial personality disorder."

"Surveillance footage shows that after Qin Meng escaped from prison, he went straight to a slum on the outskirts of the city."

"After failing to extort money from them, he cruelly strangled their parents to death and then took their bodies away to dispose of them."

Screen display switching.

A series of highly edited surveillance videos began to play in a loop.

The lighting in the image was deliberately dimmed.

Qin Meng carried the huge waterproof tarpaulin bundle with one hand and walked into the thunderstorm.

Below the text is a bolded caption: "Unfilial and mad, parents died tragically."

"A reward of five million Star Coins is offered. A substantial reward will be given for any information leading to this person's arrest. This individual is extremely dangerous; citizens are advised to stay away."

Qin Meng stood in the shadows at the street corner.

Water droplets slid down his chin.

It splashed into the puddle at my feet.

Five million Star Coins.

The Zhao family not only wanted to physically destroy him, but also to completely erase him from society.

To legalize all illegal activities.

To completely whitewash the crimes of the Zhao family.

He has no room for rebuttal in this world.

At the breakfast stall across the street.

Several early-rising laborers stared at the large screen, gasping for breath.

"They're fucking inhuman, they even killed their own parents."

"This beast deserves to be torn to pieces! Why haven't the inspectors caught him yet?"

"A five million bounty, those desperate criminals in the underworld are probably going to go crazy."

Qin Meng looked at the images of his parents' wrapped bodies on the screen.

......

Since the world has already defined him as a demon.

Then let's just do the devil's job to the end.

"Damn, five million!"

The entrance to the internet cafe, ten meters away.

A young man wearing a ripped jacket and dyed green hair pushed open the glass door, stared at the big screen, and swallowed hard.

Green Hair lowered his head and lit a cigarette.

The lighter lit up.

The firelight instantly illuminated the dark golden giant standing beside him.

A body two meters tall.

His bare, muscular upper body was covered in dried blood.

It looks exactly like the wanted photo on the screen.

The lighter in Green Hair's hand fell to the ground.

My legs went weak, and I leaned against the glass door.

five million.

With this money, I'll never have to stay in this crappy internet cafe eating instant noodles again.

Green Hair slowly reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a black walkie-talkie.

This is the internal communication device of the "Snake Gang," an underground force in Jiangcheng.

The Zhao family distributed the bounty to underground banks, and the gang's informants spread throughout the city.

Green Hair pressed the call button.

"Brother Dao... I saw it..."

A large, thick hand suddenly reached out.

It gripped the green-haired man's neck tightly.

Qin Meng used one arm to lift the young man, who weighed over 100 pounds, directly into the air.

Green Hair kicked wildly with his legs and desperately clawed at Qin Meng's fingers with his hands.

The nail broke off completely.

Even Qin Meng's skin couldn't be scratched by a single white mark.

"What did you see?"

Qin Meng's voice was completely flat.

Green Hair's face turned purplish-red, and his Adam's apple was severely squeezed and deformed.

Panic completely replaced greed.

He clasped his hands together and bowed frantically to Qin Meng.

Qin Meng clenched his five fingers.

Click.

The sound of cervical vertebrae cracking was particularly crisp on the streets in the early morning.

Green Hair's head tilted to one side, drooping limply.

[Killing a target increases Berserk Value by 100]

Qin Meng released his grip.

The body crashed into the puddles, splashing up a cloud of mud.

The black walkie-talkie that had fallen to the ground emitted a buzzing electrical sound.

"Green hair? What did you see? Is it a clue about Qin Meng?"

A rough male voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie.

"Report the coordinates immediately! Young Master Zhao has increased the reward; the bounty will double if the exact location is provided!"

"All the underworld brothers in Jiangcheng are looking for him. Whoever can get a piece of his flesh today will buy a house in the inner city!"

Another voice broke in.

"Stop searching in the southern district, set up checkpoints around the cross-river bridge."

"The Zhao family just picked up several important witnesses from the West City Branch and are about to cross the bridge and leave the city."

"The leader of the team is Lei Bao, the chief retainer of the Zhao family."

"A peak fifth-tier lightning-type ability user. That was quite a spectacle; they essentially chartered an entire heavy armored convoy."

"Detective Captain Wang Hai was also in the car. That guy's really lucky to get Lei Ye to personally escort him."

The sound from the walkie-talkie was extremely noisy.

Qin Meng raised his right foot.

Stomp down heavily.

The black walkie-talkie was reduced to shattered plastic and electronic components.

A bridge spanning the river.

Wang Hai.

The last name on the list.

The Zhao family mobilized a peak fifth-tier ability user to move Wang Hai out of the city overnight.

Staying here will only attract an endless stream of security teams and gangsters.

Once Wang Hai leaves Jiangcheng, the most crucial link in the chain of revenge will be broken.

The five million reward is nothing more than mobilizing the entire city's informants to buy time.

Fifth-tier peak, lightning element.

It is known as the most ruthless and destructive elemental branch.

Qin Meng glanced at the data panel on the right side of his retina.

The accumulated killings and the looting along the way have brought his brutality value to over 17,000 points.

There's no point in killing a fifth-tier ability user who can summon heavenly lightning and saving points for the night.

"System, suppress all ferocity points and increase physique."

The red-background numbers jumped rapidly, showing a precipitous drop.

A dull, crushing sound emanated from beneath the skin and flesh, and the bone density increased exponentially in an unreasonable manner.

[Consumed 2120 Violence Points!]

[Physical Strength: 78.8 → 100!]

[Physical strength has exceeded the three-digit threshold, indicating a leap in life level.]

[New Awakening Trait: Divine Healing (Basic)]

[Characteristics: Unending vitality of the body. Severed limbs can regenerate, and internal organs can regenerate.]

[Characteristic: Copper Skin (Intermediate) upgrades to Copper Skin (Advanced). Ignores regular armor-piercing firepower and intermediate elemental attacks.]

The process of bone and blood remodeling is brief yet ruthless.

The value did not stop at the 100 mark; the red value pool continued to drain away.

[Physical Strength: 100 → 130!]

The numbers finally settled.

The violence level has been completely reduced to zero.

Qin Meng stared at the changes on the panel.

I poured in 15,000 points of inventory, and after it broke 100, it only rose 30 points.

The rules for adding points have changed.

Before reaching 100 physique points, 100 points of ferocity could be exchanged for 1 point of physique. After reaching 100, the system raised the exchange threshold for a single point of physique to 500 points.

A five-fold price difference.

This also indirectly confirms that a physique of over 100 indicates that physical strength has completely deviated from the evaluation standards of the conventional strength system.

The Qi and blood circulate rapidly within the body, generating endless heat.

Qin Meng stretched his neck, and the joints cracked with a teeth-grinding sound.

One hundred and thirty points of physical strength, plus high-grade copper skin and divine healing.

That's enough to turn that fifth-tier worshipper who plays with electricity into ashes.

With knees slightly bent, press down with all your might.

The hard cement road surface could not withstand the weight and collapsed directly, creating two half-meter-deep pits.

The airflow was violently forced out.

Qin Meng transformed into a black shadow and headed straight for the cross-river bridge.

Life is like a passing breeze.

The surging air currents whipped up fallen leaves and trash, and the glass windows of shops along the street cracked extensively under the pressure of the strong air, with debris scattered all over the ground.

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