Biochemical Martial Arts: Supreme Heavenly Venerate

Lin Rui and Lin Xi had just terminated their communication when "Dead Eye" Horn was fully exerting True Yuan, shuttling through the foul-smelling sewer like a fleeting shadow.

He had indeed sustained injuries, having been hit in the chest by bomb guns carried by the armed police.

It was a type of heavy individual weapon specifically used to launch micro-armor-piercing rocket rounds, which had penetrated his exoskeleton armor with two shots.

However, Horn had already treated his wounds and had injected medicine to stop the bleeding.

He abandoned that set of exoskeleton armor, which was now carrying his blood and mimicking his scent to lure the pursuers away.

This was the last chance he had bought for himself to escape alive; his survival depended on this final move.

Horn was fully concealing his scent, and his movements were agile and precise, his footsteps on the water not even causing a ripple to avoid making noise and attracting the armed police.

About one minute later, Horn heard a distant explosion.

The exoskeleton armor must have been found by the armed police. Horn had set the combat AI in the armor so that it would self-destruct at the first sign of capture.

By then, Horn had reached a wall marked with an 'X'.

— This is it!

Behind this wall lay a tunnel, illegally excavated by immigrants, to route electrical wires and gas pipelines.

The 'X' mark had been made by Mechanic Bolosi.

Unfortunately, the current Bolosi was most likely dead at the hands of the armed police, his team completely annihilated.

Horn broke through the half-meter-thick cave wall with a punch and stepped into the broken tunnel.

But as soon as he entered, his form stiffened slightly, and he looked incredulously toward his left.

There stood a person in the 'Tianyu' Model 5 standard exoskeleton armor of the Federal Security Bureau, quietly standing inside the cavern, looking at him with a slightly mocking gaze.

Horn's heart turned cold as ice. He had just been separated from this person by a half-meter-thick wall but had completely failed to detect their presence.

What alarmed him even more was that the assertive aura of the knife, the unusual stance, the slightly hunched body, and the knife-holding hand all felt eerily familiar to him.

"Are you Lin Rui?"

Horn recognized Lin Rui's style with the knife, an engraving memory, unforgettable even if turned to ashes.

That day on the orbital train, Lin Rui was in the same sword-drawing pose and nearly disarmed one of his arms!

The nearby walls were also filled with various printed talismans.

Horn was utterly puzzled as to how this guy could appear here.

Horn's gaze then turned sharp, "Did this matter have something to do with you?"

Although he didn't know what Lin Rui's connection to the Federal Security Bureau was or how Lin Rui found them, Horn instinctively judged that this scum must be involved with today's events.

"Pretty much."

Lin Rui thought that both parties were aggressively converging; if it wasn't for Horn's group who wanted to assassinate him during the opening ceremony, Lin Xi might not have been able to locate these people so quickly.

Knowing that villains who talk too much end up dead, he wasn't planning to waste words. At that moment, he simply chuckled, "Ready to die, scum?"

Dead Eye Horn's eyes also held a cold sneer, his hands tightly gripping a pair of Type 6 pistols at his waist.

His previous favorite gun had been cut by Lin Rui, rendering it unusable.

This pair of 'Dead Line' Type 6 pistols was heavily purchased by Dead Eye Horn for this mission. He had them enhanced by a firearms master, making them a pair of 6S+ grade kinetic pistols, complementing each other's abilities.

Lin Rui's "Yang Pulling Slash" was indeed fearsome, but he had already witnessed it once.

Although Horn no longer had the help of his exoskeleton armor, his embedded gear was still intact, and he fully calculated his chances of dodging Lin Rui's blade and obliterating this bastard with his 'Dead Line'!

In that instant, Horn saw a flashing white light and, without hesitation, activated his ability—Time Black Holy Pupil! Find your next read at My Virtual Library Empire

"The same sword technique will not work on me a second time, today you will die!"

As Horn thought this, he moved his body to dodge the opposing blade while drawing his pistols and aiming them at Lin Rui's head.

But the next moment, Horn's eyes stiffened slightly.

Because the golden blade light swung by Lin Rui unexpectedly shattered the still time-space and reached right in front of him.

"How is this possible?"

Horn's eyes were filled with shock and despair, mixed with utter disbelief.

He immediately understood the reason; it must be the power of concept!

The abyssal concept of 'Predetermined Death' and 'Certain Hit' held by Lin Rui had broken through his stilled time-space!

Since it was destined to hit and kill, such stilled time-space should not exist.

This meant that the man before him had become even more powerful!

"Shh! Shh! Shh!"

In the void, four barely audible sounds of slashing wind resonated, and the golden blade light swept through the void, severing Horn's hands and feet with three slashes.

Lin Rui then sheathed his sword, his words filled with disdain, "Idiot!"

This fool still thought it was a few days ago! By now, not only had he implanted the SSS-tier embedded gear 'Immortal Sun God', but he had also progressed 5% with the four abyssal concepts.

His knife skills were growing stronger every day!

At that moment, Lin Rui glanced outside the hole and instructed Xue Lingxue watching from behind, "Wait here for those armed police brothers to arrive, and help me deal with them."

He carried the corpse of Horn, which had been whittled down to something resembling a human stick, deeper into the cave until he reached a turn several miles away, where he threw Horn's mangled body to the ground like a broken sack.

"Talk, who hired you to kill me three months ago? Don't tell me you know nothing!"

With blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, Horn let out a light laugh and looked at Lin Rui with eyes filled with hatred and curiosity, "I am actually very curious, how did you manage to survive? I had turned your head into mush, how could you possibly be alive?

It couldn't possibly be that guy who picked your brains up bit by bit and pieced them together? Or are you actually a cloned copy now? But then, how is your soul handled?"

With a calm expression and indifferent eyes, Lin Rui thrust his knife into Horn's groin and twisted it viciously.

The knife was one he had taken from the security bureau's armory, not his own, so he didn't care if it got dirty.

"You bastard, I'll fucking kill you! Fuck your whole family!"

Horn had actually activated the painless suicide chip hidden inside his head.

However, the chip needed time to take effect, and Horn not only suffered immense pain from Lin Rui's knife but also had his excretions in disarray.

"I'll talk!"

Horn looked at Lin Rui with extremely resentful eyes, and only when he felt Lin Rui's knife stop inside him did he finally speak, "During our employer's transfer, Katiusza was closely monitoring the financial flows of various underground banks, and she noticed that our employer's funds came from the 'Maternal and Child Healthcare Fund,' which I had encountered before and happened to know the background of."

With a cold laugh, he said almost word for word, "My employer is likely a high priest of the Guang Ming Sacred Sect!"

Horn wasn't interested in keeping secrets for his employer and even looked forward to conflict between the two sides.

The Federal Guang Ming Sacred Sect originated from within Tianji Star and is a human branch of the Guang Ming Sacred Sect of Tianji Star. After 200 years of development, it now has a significant number of followers and considerable influence in fourteen base cities of the Federation.

He was looking forward to Lin Rui seeking revenge, as whoever died or was injured in the process was something he was happy to see.

"Guang Ming Sacred Sect?"

Lin Rui's pupils rapidly dilated, but he soon regained his indifferent demeanor, "Transfer all the video records from your smart terminal bracelet from before and after that assassination, as well as those from the past three months, to me."

Horn had no objections and began operating without a second thought.

He was a loner; there were no secrets in the videos from the last three months that he was concerned about people seeing.

By now, Horn's painless suicide chip had begun to take effect, and the light in his eyes was fading.

However, Horn's smart terminal bracelet was still following its master's orders to transfer the videos.

Lin Rui quickly opened the video records from around 11 AM on June 1st, the day he was assassinated, and started watching them.

Lin Rui's expression became tense as, in those videos, he saw someone he recognized.

—That was Xue Bogao!

Just after Lin Rui was declared dead and Horn withdrew, he saw a stout middle-aged man hurry towards the same alley where Lin Rui had died.

"Xue Bogao?"

Lin Rui recalled Horn's earlier statement—'It couldn't possibly be that guy'—and figured that Xue Bogao might be the one Horn referred to.

He thought about the many secrets this War Spirit Number 1 might still hold.

He also remembered the small database he had taken from Xue Bogao's basement.

Lin Rui had not dared to let Lin Xi crack this device, fearing that Lin Xi might discover something incredible that would reveal he was not "Lin Rui."

Yet, he was still curious about what exactly was inside this small database?

Lin Rui then shook his head and put his thoughts aside.

He just wanted to know how he had died and what enemy was targeting him, and now he had his answers.

So the small database was better off buried in the ground.

Unknown to Lin Rui, Xue Lingxue, who was far away, was quietly retracting a highly expensive "super stealth nano-drone."

Xue Lingxue was responsible for protecting Lin Rui and would not let him be isolated and unsupported out of her sight.

However, her nano-bot might have heard something explosive.

"Guang Ming Sacred Sect, huh?"

Xue Lingxue pondered for a moment before destroying the data inside the drone.

Now that she had stopped her surveillance mission of Lin Rui and become his assistant, she couldn't touch some matters and must leave no evidence that could be used against Lin Rui.

Just like the footage of Lin Rui illegally interrogating Horn.

Coincidentally, in a secret base, Lin Xi was also clearing the database and super-computer of Katiusza of information.

Mainly, the traces of her online battles with Katiusza.

Hunting Katiusza was legal, but Lin Xi did not want to expose her presence or her hacking abilities.

Lin Xi then replayed a few videos copied from Katiusza, watching them over and over.

Her pupils showed a hint of suspicion, "Xue Bogao?"

After Lin Rui's death, the body must have ended up with Xue Bogao, but what did Xue Bogao do with Lin Rui's body afterwards?