We offered you a summer job, but you went and became a mercenary?

The dagger in Lin Ye's hand transformed into a silver afterimage that was impossible to detect with the naked eye, frantically piercing and cutting through the keratin layer of his abdomen, which he was so proud of and which was harder than alloy!

Each cut precisely avoided all internal organs and vital organs.

Each cut brought forth a spray of hot, foul-smelling blue blood.

Each cut transmitted the extreme pain clearly to every nerve ending of the Lord of the Abyss.

Our main specialty is professional slow slicing, and we treat everyone fairly, young and old.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The Lord of the Abyss's arrogant laughter instantly turned into a heart-wrenching scream.

He frantically swung his claws, trying to swat the wretched "fly" on his body, but Lin Ye's figure was like a ghost, always easily dodging his attacks just before they landed.

But the excruciating pain in his abdomen kept piling up and intensifying with each cut!

Less than ten seconds.

The Abyss Lord's massive body crashed to his knees. His once-proud abdomen had been transformed into a bloody, mangled mess, riddled with hundreds of deep, bone-revealing cuts—a horrifying sight.

Lin Ye's figure landed steadily in front of him.

He stomped heavily on the Abyss Lord's enormous head, which was filled with terror and confusion, pressing his face firmly against the cold alloy floor.

Lin Ye raised his wrist and glanced at the somewhat damaged Rolex watch.

His brow furrowed slightly.

"Tsk, the plane is taking off in two hours. Considering the round trip, the time is a bit tight."

He pressed down slightly with his foot, causing the skull of the Lord of the Abyss to creak and groan under the weight.

"I'm not playing with you anymore."

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At the same time.

With the castle's outer defense system violently dismantled by Lin Ye, the internal firewall was completely breached. The core network of this den of evil was exposed to the world's top hackers without reservation, like a naked beauty stripped bare.

Dragon Country, America, North Bear...

Top technicians from the five intelligence agencies, almost simultaneously and effortlessly, hacked into all the surveillance cameras inside the castle.

The next second, in the world's five most secret underground command centers, a clear image of the laboratory appeared simultaneously on a huge circular screen.

In the scene, a young man wearing flip-flops and carrying a red, white, and blue snakeskin bag is stepping on a terrifying monster that is three meters tall and covered in bone spurs.

The "Lord of the Abyss," who had just displayed godlike power under satellite surveillance, was now like a dead dog, pinned to the ground, unable to move.

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United States, CIA.

The bureau chief froze, his face, once etched with elitism and arrogance, now showing only pure, undisguised blankness.

On the screen, the young man even glanced down at his watch, his face revealing genuine and unpretentious annoyance.

"FUCK..."

The bureau chief squeezed out a dry word through gritted teeth. He felt that his worldview had been repeatedly crushed, reassembled, and then rolled over again by a road roller in the short hour he had spent today.

He suddenly grabbed the red phone in front of him and roared in a near-collapsed tone.

"Listen up! Immediately destroy all hostile plans related to 'Shura'!"

"Raise his danger level to the highest! The highest! The same level as a 'global nuclear strike'!"

"From this moment forward, he is no longer human! He is a walking, unpredictable, self-aware natural disaster!"

"Notify all agents on the ground: if you see this face—no, if you see this red, white, and blue bag—consider it the Grim Reaper! Evacuate immediately! At all costs!"

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Dragon Kingdom, capital city, underground command center.

The atmosphere, however, was completely different from that on the other side of the ocean.

Chief Li stared intently at the screen, his face flushed with excitement as he watched Lin Ye's domineering gesture of stomping on his head.

When he saw the replay of Lin Ye's smooth and effortless dismantling of the "Yaksha" squad with his bare hands, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something and slapped his thigh!

A loud "bang!" silenced the entire conference room.

"I understand! I understand everything!"

Chief Li's voice became somewhat hoarse with excitement. He pointed at Lin Ye's figure on the screen, his eyes shining.

"Look! Every move he made just now, seemingly simple and brutal, actually contained hidden techniques! It wasn't brute force at all!"

The staff officers around him all looked completely bewildered and gathered around.

"That power generation technique! That twisting waist and hip rotation! This is the purest form of ancient martial arts power generation! And that thing on his body that can deflect bullets—that's definitely the legendary protective aura that only grandmasters can master!"

"Hidden strength! It's the application of hidden strength!"

Chief Li became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he had discovered a huge secret.

"This kid! He's definitely a grandmaster!"

"A Grandmaster! That's an invincible being who can fight against a hundred thousand men single-handedly and safeguard the destiny of a nation!"

A young staff officer couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "But... sir, the records show he's just a student who just finished the college entrance exam, and he was working as a waiter in a restaurant for the past two months..."

Chief Li glared at him: "What do you know! This is called living in seclusion amidst the city! This is called experiencing life and tempering your mind! Otherwise, do you think grandmasters just fall from the sky?"

"It's a dereliction of duty for us to leave such a vital national asset to work summer jobs abroad! We must bring it back at all costs! No! We must bring it back with our utmost care!"

The entire command center instantly descended into a flurry of activity and frenzy.

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Ancient castle, underground laboratory.

"Heh...heh..."

The Abyss Lord, trampled under Lin Ye's feet, was shrinking at a visible rate, and the hideous bone spikes on his body were beginning to soften and fall off.

The side effects of the [Divine Serum] have begun to take effect.

The intense pain contorted his inhuman face even more grotesquely.

He struggled to lift his head, his three blood-red eyes filled with fear, confusion, and the last vestige of his will to survive.

"What...what do you really want?"

His voice was hoarse and weak, and his previous arrogance was gone.

"Money? Power? Beautiful women? I... I can give you anything! Ten times more money than the bounties on the dark web! All the wealth my 'Abyss' organization has accumulated over the past ten years! And all the biochemical technologies I've researched! I can give you anything!"

"As long as... as long as you let me go!"

Faced with this tempting offer, Lin Ye simply rolled his eyes.

He looked down at the creature at his feet, which was almost back to human form, and his impatience grew stronger.

"What you're saying sounds tempting, but I'm in a hurry."

He brandished the dagger in his hand, its blade flashing a chilling light under the laboratory's white light.

"I only want your head, one hundred million US dollars, payment on the dark web, no credit."

Lin Ye's tone was full of a simple and unpretentious business spirit.

"Don't move around. I'll be quick so you suffer less and we can finish early. It's better for everyone."

The last trace of color drained from the face of the Lord of the Abyss.

He watched the dagger slowly approach his neck, feeling the chilling killing intent emanating from it. The despair in his eyes was instantly replaced by an extreme madness.

"Heh...hehe..."

He suddenly let out a strange, owl-like shriek.

"You think...you've won?"

Lin Ye frowned and stopped what he was doing.

The Lord of the Abyss, whose handsome features had been somewhat restored, curled into a ferocious and smug smile.

"Kill me! Come on!"

He roared madly, his voice filled with the glee of mutual destruction.

"Beneath this ancient castle lies a full ton of military-grade high explosives! The detonation device is connected to my heartbeat!"

He pointed to his chest, his eyes fixed intently on Lin Ye.

"What if my heart stops beating..."

"Everything here, including you, will be buried with me! Hahahaha!"