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

The night wind, carrying a strong smell of blood and gunpowder, swept across the ruins.

Wang Shoucai knelt in the mud, his obese body trembling into a lump of rotten flesh.

He frantically slammed his head against the ground, which was covered in sharp pebbles.

The skin on his forehead had long since rotted, and white bone fragments mixed with mud were oozing blood, but he dared not stop.

"Master Qin! Grandmaster Qin! Ancestor Qin!" Wang Shouchai's voice was hoarse, choked with sobs. "I'm a dog! My entire Wang family are dogs! Just spare my life, and all the assets, funds, and women of the Jiangcheng Wang family will be yours! I'll be your chamber pot!"

A strong, pungent stench wafted from his crotch, mingling with the night air.

Extremely humble, extremely lowly.

Qin Meng looked down at this local tyrant of Jiangcheng. Rain and blood evaporated from his dark, golden skin under the intense heat, turning into wisps of white smoke.

He didn't speak, and didn't even glance at Wang Shoucai.

This kind of person doesn't even deserve to be stepped on.

Not far away, Zhao Wuwei forced his trembling legs to stand up from the mud. He bent down, picked up the shattered gold-rimmed glasses, and put them back on his nose.

Even at this point, this genius from the Zhao family in the provincial capital still tried to maintain his respectable facade.

Zhao Wuwei turned his head and looked at Li Shiyi, who was dozens of meters away, with his sternum collapsed and coughing up blood.

"Brother Li!" Zhao Wuwei's voice suddenly rose, righteous and resolute, revealing a determination to die for his cause.

"This wicked creature has attained sainthood through physical cultivation; conventional methods cannot kill him! Let us join forces, sacrifice our life essence, and activate the incomplete killing array brought from the provincial capital! Even if it costs us decades of lifespan, we must suppress and kill him here, preserving the honor of our family!"

Li Shiyi lay on the ground, writhing in excruciating pain. He raised his head, staring intently at Zhao Wuwei. His eyes were filled with doubt and wariness.

We're all from prominent families in the provincial capital; who doesn't know what kind of people we are? We usually fight like dogs for profit, so what's the point of talking about face now?

However, watching Qin Meng approach step by step, the oppressive feeling emanating from that dark body was too suffocating. It was pure violence that instilled despair.

Li Shiyi had no choice. He gritted his teeth, which were covered in blood, and forcibly squeezed out the last bit of life force he had left.

Azure energy seeped from his body once more, mixing with his life essence, and forming intricate array patterns in front of him.

"Alright! Form the hand seals!" Li Shiyi roared, his ten fingers flying wildly as he formed a series of strange hand seals.

Zhao Wuwei's hands also moved swiftly, his fingertips rapidly drawing out the inner energy.

The moment their array patterns were about to converge in mid-air.

A sudden change occurred.

Zhao Wuwei suddenly flipped his right hand, which was originally forming a hand seal, and his inner energy was contained.

Using the pull generated by the resonance of the two array patterns, he instantly crossed a distance of tens of meters and appeared behind Li Shiyi.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Zhao Wuwei unleashed his full power with his right palm, slamming it hard into Li Shiyi's back.

boom!

The dull thuds of flesh striking flesh were particularly jarring in the deathly silence of the ruins.

Li Shiyi's eyes suddenly bulged out, his eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets.

He coughed up a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. Caught completely off guard, he was used as a human shield by the violent palm force and slammed straight towards Qin Meng.

"Zhao Wuwei! You will die a horrible death!" Li Shiyi's venomous curses echoed in the air.

Zhao Wuwei completely ignored it. Using the recoil from the palm strike, he flew backward at high speed.

While suspended in mid-air, Zhao Wuwei pulled out a talisman radiating a strong aura of blood from his pocket.

This is a high-level Blood Escape Talisman bestowed upon him by the Zhao family patriarch; it is priceless.

He crushed the talisman in one swift motion.

boom!

A blinding flash of blood-red light instantly enveloped Zhao Wuwei.

His body transformed into a blurry red line amidst the bloody light, fleeing madly towards the outskirts of Jiangcheng at an incredible speed.

This sudden turn of events left the spies who were secretly observing from the outside completely dumbfounded.

Who would have thought that the high-ranking provincial genius, at the critical moment of life and death, would not only fail to show any family background or integrity, but would also betray his companion without hesitation, just to buy himself even a second to escape.

There are no bottom lines. Only the most naked desire to survive.

Facing Li Shiyi, who was hurtling towards him with the sound of wind and thunder, Qin Meng did not even pause for a moment.

His dark, deep eyes held a chilling sarcasm.

Qin Meng's physique, which reached 227 points, enabled him to have superhuman hearing, allowing him to absorb all the sounds and noises within a radius of several kilometers into his brain.

When Zhao Wuwei was trying to remain calm while speaking, his heart rate had already soared to two hundred beats per minute, and his blood was completely flowing backwards and surging wildly.

Such clumsy acting is utterly laughable in the face of absolute perception.

Qin Meng looked at Li Shiyi flying towards him and casually raised his right arm.

It's like shooing away an annoying fly.

Intermediate-level punching force activated.

A high-pressure vacuum column with a diameter of three meters was released from the hand.

boom!

The high-pressure air column slammed into Li Shiyi's body head-on.

This eighth-level genius from the Li family in the provincial capital didn't even have time to let out a scream before his body folded into a bizarre angle in mid-air.

The powerful kinetic energy propelled him diagonally upwards, smashing through the concrete floors of more than a dozen abandoned factory buildings.

Ultimately, it became deeply embedded in a load-bearing wall, its fate unknown.

The obstacles have been cleared.

Qin Meng's gaze locked onto the crimson streak of light that had already fled two kilometers away.

Run? Where to run?

Qin Meng raised his right foot and stomped heavily on the void in front of him.

The ability to step into the air is activated.

boom!

The extreme compression between the sole of the shoe and the air molecules triggered a dazzling white sonic boom. The enormous reaction force traveled up the leg bones and throughout the entire body.

Qin Meng's body vanished from the spot in an instant.

He didn't rely on any ground rebound, but simply on the thrust generated by stomping on the air, leaving a dark red afterimage in mid-air.

The sound barrier was broken in an instant. A tremendous roar exploded over Jiangcheng, shattering the windows of a large number of buildings below.

Two kilometers is less than a breath away at the speed of breaking the sound barrier.

The local leaders on the periphery, who were holding high-powered binoculars, only felt a blur before their eyes, and a dark red burn mark was left on their retinas.

"What... what kind of speed is this?"

"Where's the radar? Why isn't there an alarm?!"

The scouts gasped. Their prized tactical radars couldn't detect Qin Meng's movements at all.

This physical speed, which surpassed the limits of mechanical perception, completely shattered their understanding.

midair.

Zhao Wuwei, who was frantically activating the Blood Escape Talisman, suddenly felt an extremely terrifying high temperature coming from above his head.

A huge shadow completely enveloped him.

Zhao Wuwei struggled to lift his head. Through the shattered lenses, he saw that dark gold face.

Qin Meng hovered directly above him, coldly looking down at him.

"No!!"

Zhao Wuwei was utterly devastated.