Chapter 670 - 434: Do Your Best to Kill Me (4)

Based on past Killing Days, places like schools were rarely damaged.

After all, rioters wouldn’t waste their munitions on a place with nothing to gain.

But the middle school before him was an exception that broke the norm.

In the school plaza, a dilapidated white flag fluttered feebly in the wind. A still-bleeding corpse was impaled high upon it, the flagpole having pierced straight through its body.

It was a bald, heavily tattooed man. His eyes were wide open, his lifeless pupils reflecting the gray sky.

A deep-seated terror lingered within them, as if he had encountered something truly horrifying before his death.

Beads of blood dripped continuously from the hem of the corpse’s clothes.

DRIP. A drop landed in the murky puddle below, sending out faint ripples and spreading crimson rings.

Within the campus, bodies were strewn everywhere in disarray, nearly a thousand of them.

They lay in various states. Some had their limbs broken and twisted into almost bizarre positions.

Others had faces so heavily damaged they were unrecognizable, while some had less than half of their torsos left.

The injuries didn’t look like they were inflicted by a person; they more closely resembled the result of being hit by a moving vehicle.

Blood flowed freely, staining the ground a shocking dark red. The thick, cloying smell of it saturated the air.

The once-pristine campus was now a field of ruins.

Bricks and rubble were scattered everywhere.

However, amid the devastation, a single school building remained miraculously intact, looking utterly out of place in the ruins.

On the rooftop of this building, Hu Qi sat cross-legged, his expression calm.

Before him, the Black Banner planted in the ground fluttered continuously, making a rustling sound.

A dense black mist swirled around it.

The bodies strewn across the campus were none other than those who had recently attempted to besiege and kill Hu Qi.

They included Intern Readers, Yin Beasts, and even ordinary humans from this world.

Their reasons for hunting Hu Qi varied.

Unfortunately, no matter who they were, not a single one of them left this place alive.

After all, if you have the will to kill, you must also be prepared to be killed.

Hu Qi’s brow furrowed slightly.

He had originally thought the Yin Beasts would send more powerful ones to kill him.

But all that came was a group of weak minions.

The High Tier Yin Beasts, whose intelligence had already awakened, had become as timid as mice ever since witnessing the fall of Chiyu Sakura. They had all gone into hiding, not daring to show themselves.

Among the Yin Beasts that did attack, the strongest were merely Intermediate Yin Beasts.

More ridiculously, some of these Yin Beasts had been stuffed with high explosives, clearly intending to take him down with them in a suicide attack.

Unfortunately, such tactics were utterly useless.

Just then, Hu Qi let out a cold snort.

In an instant, several drones that had been secretly filming him exploded in mid-air, turning into a shower of sparks as shrapnel flew everywhere.

As for the cameras filming from further away, Hu Qi didn’t bother with them.

After doing this, Hu Qi could clearly feel a tide of emotions—terror and fear—surging toward him from all directions.

It flowed without end into the Damaged Black Banner in his hand.

This was the fear generated by the Yin Beasts and humans of this world who witnessed the scene.

These emotions were being continuously absorbed by the Damaged Black Banner through this world’s Mind Realm.

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’What kind of monster is this?’

In cities outside of Shenmu City, everyone was glued to their screens—phones, televisions, computers, and all other devices.

The scene of Hu Qi’s location was being broadcast live online. The viewer count had reached over a hundred million, and almost anyone with a free moment was drawn to it.

The number was still climbing at an astonishing rate, as nearly everyone who could take a break from work was tuning in.

The higher-ups had originally planned to cover up the situation and keep it from the general public.

But for some unknown reason, the live broadcast had suddenly appeared online.

Even after official intervention, it couldn’t be shut down, so they had no choice but to let the situation be known to the public.

However, they had altered some of the content.

They portrayed Hu Qi as an utter monster, through and through.

At this moment, because all electronic devices within a one-kilometer radius of the battlefield’s center had been destroyed, the drones could only film from a distance.

The dim sky cast a hazy shadow over the image, but this did nothing to lessen the oppressive feeling emanating from the figure on the screen.

It was as if a bone-chilling cold was seeping through the screen itself.

This fear stemmed from the continuous stream of shocking images over the past two days.

Hundreds of millions of people had witnessed scenes that defied imagination.

His strange abilities allowed him to ignore firearms and bombs, and to destroy a skyscraper with a casual wave of his hand.

What was even more terrifying was that not a single person who had attempted to encircle him had left alive.

There was one more thing.

They discovered that aside from the Young Man with the Black Banner, some of the attackers also possessed incredible, inhuman abilities.

There were also terrifying and bizarre monsters, such as black hounds covered in bloody eyes and giant insects the size of houses.

These images completely overturned everyone’s understanding of reality.

Such things had previously only been seen in works of fiction like movies and anime, but now they had appeared in the real world.