I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 216 - 214: Crossroads of Destiny

Chapter 216: Chapter 214: Crossroads of Destiny

2:40 a.m.

Wei Tianyang’s flight had arrived over Fengrao City.

His trip to Heisai State had been full of rewards, not only had he found the horse, but he had also unexpectedly gained the abilities of a spider.

However, his moth form was severely damaged, and he feared he wouldn’t be able to fly for some time.

After leaving the Seychelles Waters, they had docked in Yemen, where Spencer had arranged backup support, but Wei Tianyang hadn’t followed them back to the Sethiyan Federation by plane. Instead, he took a flight that day back to Yin Country.

It was all because Zhao Ling had suddenly called him.

Zhao Ling’s tone had changed from before; she seemed angry and particularly sullen, but she didn’t give any reason, simply demanding that Wei Tianyang hurry back.

He felt she was just upset because he hadn’t informed her of his trip in advance, and added to the fact that she, as the Emperor, was under a lot of pressure, that’s why she lost her temper with him, so he didn’t take it to heart.

Wei Tianyang had lived with Zhao Ling for three years, and their relationship had become somewhat ambiguous. Were they close friends of the opposite sex? Or was she like a stepmother? In any case, it had been a long time since he had seen Zhao Ling simply as the "Emperor." To him, half of the time she was a wise and nurturing mother, and half of the time she was a small woman who loved to act up and lose her temper.

Once Wei Tianyang arrived in Fengrao City, his confidential secretary, Li Ruyun, was waiting with her team outside the airport. As soon as he disembarked, they took a business sedan back to the Jade Pavilion.

After the last covert meeting, Wei Tianyang couldn’t help but look at Li Ruyun in a new light. He had originally thought her just a pushover, but he discovered she was, just like Zhao Ling, a reform-minded pioneer dedicated to changing Yin Country. Plus, with her previous assignment from Zhao Ling to seduce him, willing to resort to any means to achieve her goals, Wei Tianyang liked such people, so he developed a bit of a fondness for her.

"In the future, if you’re going abroad, give us a heads-up," Li Ruyun said.

Wei Tianyang didn’t respond; he was still jet-lagged and extremely tired.

"...We interrupt this broadcast for urgent news. Tonight in Fengrao City’s lower Prosperity District, two violent armed murders occurred, leaving six dead and five injured. Among the deceased, Li and Zhao had backgrounds in violent gangs... The assailant, a 14-year-old middle school student surnamed Wang, has been apprehended by the Public Security Bureau..."

The car’s radio was broadcasting the nighttime news, but Wei Tianyang said, "Your capital isn’t very peaceful either."

"There are lunatics everywhere; it’s no same down here than up there," Li Ruyun replied, pushing up her glasses.

Wei Tianyang noticed there were some slight burn marks on her right hand.

"What happened?" Wei Tianyang asked with a smile.

Li Ruyun was taken aback.

Wei Tianyang asked, "Something burn you?"

Li Ruyun looked at the scar on her right hand and laughed, "What, have you started to care about me now?"

"Just curious," Wei Tianyang stretched lazily.

"We can talk about it in bed," Li Ruyun said with a laugh, a trace of venom in her smile.

"Is this another order from Zhao Ling?" Wei Tianyang closed his eyes and settled back into his seat.

Hearing this, Li Ruyun gritted her teeth in anger, but soon calmed herself and said, "Women have desires too. Honestly, you’re the strangest man I’ve ever met, rejecting every opportunity for pleasure that comes your way."

"I just... have no interest in that sort of thing," Wei Tianyang said indifferently.

He had seen too many corpses, and his right hand, transformed into Bone Knife, had often penetrated people’s insides, touching bones, organs, muscles, fat... The sensation was nauseating to him.

That was all there was to human tissue—inside the abdominal cavity were mostly excreta and undigested food, along with all sorts of warm, sour-smelling fluids. When the human body was attacked, it swelled, it broke, wounds bled, festered, and left scars. This was the essence of the human flesh: a machine of meat that converted energy and produced excreta.

He couldn’t imagine himself in that act.

More than physical touch, he preferred the exchange of emotions and thoughts, transcending gender and nationality, with different personalities, worldviews, logic, knowledge, and opinions shaping independent characters, and that truly defined the essence of a person.

"Alright, I guess that might be part of your Black Medicine syndrome... Oh, by the way, there’s something you should know—we have the technology to remove your superpowers," Li Ruyun hinted obliquely.

Wei Tianyang sighed, "I’m aware of that technique, retired members of the Superpower Special Department all undergo that surgery."

"It’s 100% safe. The symptoms of the Black Medicine syndrome would also disappear in an instant. I think it’s an option to consider relinquishing it when the time comes, to return to an ordinary life," Li Ruyun said.

"So, how will your reforms fare without me? Can you succeed?" Wei Tianyang asked.

"You think too highly of yourself..." Li Ruyun said with a light laugh.

"If I weren’t important, Zhao Ling wouldn’t have taken me to that secret meeting," Wei Tianyang said.

"She has her reasons," Li Ruyun said.

The two made their way back to Jade Pavilion.

Zhao Ling was nowhere to be seen; perhaps she had already fallen asleep. Wei Tianyang tiptoed back to his room and saw Yaha sleeping on her side, clutching the blanket with her fair thigh exposed, so he gently covered her.

Soon after, he disappeared.

Meanwhile.

Wang Ye was handcuffed and brought into the interrogation room, bare-chested with a few gauze patches on the stabbed area of his abdomen and his head simply dressed.

Two peace officers beat him with rubber batons, taunting him with filthy language as they struck his waist and belly.

The floor beneath Wang Ye was stained with his blood and vomit, the entire lower part of his abdomen dyed red from the wounds.

The supervisor stood by, watching coldly from the sidelines.

Now that Brother Chang and Yangyang were dead, the entire gang was leaderless and would soon be swallowed by the other two gangs.

With the loss of their financial backer, the senior leaders above were likely to be unhappy. Since the incident occurred on his turf, the supervisor was also in for a reprimand.

A dozen peace officers met the dark-faced fat man and Wang Ye outside the hospital. The latter was just about to pull a knife, so they decisively intervened and brought them both to the station.

Now, the dark-faced fat man was curled up on the floor of another interrogation room, clutching his head while another group of peace officers beat his head with rubber batons, leaving him swollen and unconscious.

The vicious events of the evening had been exposed by the media, and without protection from the higher-ups, they could only enforce the law strictly.

The supervisor said, "Alright, alright, if you keep hitting this little bastard, he’s going to die. How’s he going to face the firing squad then?"

With that, the peace officers stopped.

The supervisor walked over to Wang Ye and looked him up and down, still unable to understand why a slap to his mother’s face had led him to commit murder. Everyone else paid their stall fees obediently; why was he so reluctant?

"Young man? What were you thinking? Murder is punishable by death, but paying a bit of stall fee won’t kill you," the supervisor said.

"Corrupt..." Wang Ye murmured.

The supervisor didn’t hear him clearly and leaned in, saying, "What? What are you saying?"

Wang Ye sighed and said, "The law..."

The supervisor burst out laughing and said, "The law is set by your family? Do you understand the logic of how society operates? Do you understand the concept of unspoken rules?"

"It’s unfair..." Wang Ye shook his head.

"Then you deserve to be punished," the supervisor chuckled.

He waved his hand and said, "Take him back to the hospital ward. The deaths tonight will all be on his head. Make an example out of him! Just because he got slapped by a slap to his mother, he went and killed someone. He’s been bad seed since he was little!"

Wang Ye was then dragged by two peace officers to the police hospital ward.

Wang Ye lay dazed on the bed, the room dark without the lights on, but he felt there was someone standing in the doorway’s corner.

And Wei Tianyang was just standing there, arms crossed leaning against the wall. He had held back for a long time, thinking that this was Zhao Ling’s territory, so he refrained from killing.

Had it been 3 years earlier, the police station would have already been a river of blood, but now, he wanted to handle this matter through the systems built by people; he wanted to replace violence with a greater meaning.

Only a stable, transparent structure could bring fairness and justice, and that was what he believed now.