dognovel Chapter 96: After the play ended, his head was severed and blood flowed!
Chapter 96: After the play ended, his head was severed and blood flowed!
Chapter 96: After the play ended, the head was severed and blood flowed!
As instructed by Meng Chao, Tang Sheng and the catwoman were originally waiting outside to intercept any possible attacks and to report to Meng Chao.
But at this moment, they were experiencing the same thing as the people in the containment room, and suddenly the words "Soul-Severing Platform" appeared in their minds.
It was as if a consciousness had been forcibly poured into my mind, leaving me completely unprepared.
Meng Chao opened the door to the containment chamber, and Tang Sheng stood outside with a look of horror on his face, but there was no sign of the catwoman.
"It must be the Regional Investigation Bureau—they've started making their move!" Tang Sheng exclaimed in horror. "This is because a certain Sequence user was stunned before he could finish speaking."
Not only Tang Sheng, but everyone here saw the scene change in an instant. The containment room and the wide corridor were gone, replaced by a huge red curtain that fell all around, engulfing everything, including themselves.
The elevator doors on the 28th basement level opened.
Tong Cheng strode out with a swagger, his gaze sweeping over everyone around him.
In the corridor outside the elevator, there was a large number of cats, almost covering the entire floor, making it difficult to even find a place to stand.
Tong Cheng barely looked closely. Instead, he flicked his right arm, put his index and middle fingers together, pointed forward, and sang: "Hey, you witch, you use your power to devour people's marrow, you use your domestic beast to harm your colleagues, what use are you? Ya ya ya ya————"
Upon hearing this, a black object slowly rose from the middle of the cats, and the catwoman who had been hiding suddenly appeared, kneeling on the ground with her graceful body, shaped like a gourd, not daring to raise her head.
Clearly influenced by the stage, she has become completely immersed in her role in "The Broken Soul Terrace".
Meanwhile, all sorts of cats near Catwoman were lying on the ground, their bodies trembling violently, and some even let out a death scream.
"Do you know your crime?" Tong Cheng asked, approaching closely.
"I am guilty of conspiring with my superior to murder my colleague!" Catwoman replied in a trembling voice.
"A life for a life, give me your life!"
Tong Cheng took out the cloth bag he had just tucked into his waistband, spread out the white cloth to reveal the silver-corroded dagger that Li Jiuhe had sent to headquarters for research. He grabbed the catwoman's hair, exposing her snow-white neck, and then stabbed her with the dagger.
The blade was incredibly sharp; with a single twist, Catwoman's head was severed from her body, and her dripping head was then lifted up.
This scene was clearly seen by everyone in the command vehicle through the surveillance cameras in the corridor.
Everyone, including Cao Rong, was pale-faced, except for Li Jiuhe, whose eyes revealed a hint of pleasure and even more desire.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that Tong Cheng, the special investigator he had just met, was exactly to his liking. He was decisive and efficient, and his personality and way of doing things were exactly the same as his own.
After today's events are over, he decided to get to know Tong Cheng better.
In the scene, Tong Cheng casually tossed the catwoman's head into the trembling group of cats and strode forward.
With each step, the cat beneath his feet automatically dodges to make room for him to move.
At the entrance of the Y-01 containment chamber, the Fiend Warrior Tang Sheng stood there blankly.
Although this guy's muscles were bulging, as if he was about to unleash an attack at any moment, the scene froze at that instant.
He couldn't unleash his formidable martial prowess at all, and even his mind, like Catwoman's, was completely controlled by the stage.
It is evident that, in terms of the magnitude of sequence abilities, Tang Sheng's martial arts sequence abilities are equally powerless against the stage abilities.
"If you see bandits killing an orphan girl and allow it to escalate into a future disaster, shouldn't you execute them?"
Tang Sheng knelt down with a thud, his eyes vacant, his body swaying, muttering, "Cut, clang—clang—cut—"
"Take your life!"
Like Catwoman, Tang Sheng's thick neck was pierced by a knife, and then, with a twist, his head, along with his spine, was forcibly ripped out by Tong Cheng.
The command vehicle was completely silent.
After a moment, Cao Rong couldn't help but say, "He—he—this Investigator Tong—does he want to kill everyone?"
"He just said that one person will stay behind," Li Jiuhe replied.
Just as Tang Sheng's throat was slit, an incomparably domineering martial arts aura emanated from his body. The power he had painstakingly accumulated with great effort and resources vanished completely in an instant.
Tong Cheng casually tossed aside his head and stepped into room Y-01.
The surveillance cameras inside have been destroyed, so the people in the command vehicle can't see anything.
But you can still hear sounds.
In Tong Cheng's view, Meng Chao and Feng Jinwen were already kneeling on the ground inside the house.
The two knelt obediently, like prisoners awaiting trial.
However, you can see the struggle on both of their faces, which means that their sequence abilities are relatively strong and they still retain a trace of consciousness.
However, overall they were still no match for Tongcheng, so they only subconsciously wanted to refute him, but their bodies were very obedient.
Suddenly, Meng Chao began to chant in a low voice: "For the greater good, I commit minor evils; loyalty and righteousness are caught in a dilemma—"
Before he could finish singing, Tong Cheng interrupted him with a stern shout: "You wicked villain! What a dilemma between loyalty and righteousness! You killed your colleagues, harmed the innocent, and plotted a great evil! Tonight, we have no choice but to put you to trial—we will put you to trial for your heartless and treacherous nature!"
He then looked up at Feng Jinwen, who was kneeling beside him, his expression twisted with inner turmoil. He pointed two fingers at Feng and said, "Number 7 Containment—you bear this great responsibility! Yet, beneath your official robes lie a ghost—human grease seeps through the cracks of the vermilion gate—tonight I'll interrogate you—"
"Crowned beast!"
"I'm innocent!" Feng Jinwen immediately shouted. "I was misled by villains and oppressed by evil people. I'm willing to atone with my life. Please, sir, spare my life!"
When he said the word "villain," his gaze was on Meng Chao; when he said the word "evil person," his gaze was on the corpse of Si Mingyu on the ground.
As soon as Tong Cheng entered the room, he saw the third person lying on the ground, already lifeless.
He knew the plan had to change; right now, he could only kill one of the two and keep the other for questioning.
He then grabbed a chair, sat down with an air of authority, placed his left palm against the back of his right hand, and asked, "Who should I keep?"
Meng Chao quickly called out, "I... I'll stay!"
Feng Jinwen pleaded in a deep voice, "This humble servant is well aware of Si Mingyu's strange behavior—Meng Chao and his ilk don't understand—they absolutely don't understand!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than, with a soft thud, the silver-plated dagger plunged into Meng Chao's neck.
Meng Chao froze, while Feng Jinwen shuddered violently and quickly lowered his head.
The third head was pulled off by Tong Cheng, tossed into the air, and kicked away like a football before it hit the ground.
Tong Cheng turned to Feng Jinwen and began to sing: "I'll leave you with your eyes to see the world, I'll leave you with your tongue to spread theatrical stories, releasing animals today is not out of compassion."
As he sang, he stood up and approached the other person: "I want you to live~ to work for me~"
"This humble servant—this humble servant would gladly die for it!" Feng Jinwen knelt down in extreme fear, lying motionless on the ground.
Tong Cheng grabbed the few bald spots on his head, lifted his head up, and chanted: "I'm keeping you here not because you're innocent~ Your path in this world has changed~ From now on, you'll sing operas~ See ghosts and demons~ Your remaining life will be spent on the stage."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tong Cheng grabbed his own face and tore it off, then slammed it onto the terrified Feng Jinwen's face.
Upon closer inspection, the face turned out to be a Peking Opera mask. The moment it touched Feng Jinwen, the entire mask seemed to be branded into him, and white steam rose up.
Feng Jinwen screamed in pain, trying to scratch his face, but he couldn't grab anything.
Soon he stopped moving altogether.
Tong Cheng, carrying Feng Jinwen in one hand, looked up at the sky and laughed heartily.
"Don't say that plays are all illusions—the human world itself is a stage—if you do something against your conscience..."
At this point in the song, he removed another illusory mask from his face, revealing a face that was half skull and half human, which was extremely eerie.
Then he sang the last line.
"Listen to the gong—it comes at midnight!"
Bang!
The sound of a gong rang out.
With a wave of his hand, the entire illusory stage vanished without a trace, and all the characters in the play returned to their original positions.
Tong Cheng's face returned to normal.
At the same moment, above the entire containment area, the thick black clouds were rapidly dispersing, revealing the clear sky that had just appeared.