The Strongest Dandy in the City-Chapter 456

Hei Xin, wearing a gray mask, faced Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong’s curiosity by pouring himself a glass of red wine. He took a slight sip and said, "In half an hour, you will naturally know the defects of this blue liquid."

Seeing that Hei Xin did not give them a clear answer, Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong tactfully refrained from asking further. Their instincts told them that the man in the gray mask was no ordinary individual; they could only wait as time ticked away.

As the half-hour mark approached, Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong stood before the bodyguard who had been injected with the blue liquid, carefully observing any changes in his body. The bodyguard’s face was filled with immense excitement; he knew that with his newfound abilities, he was no longer just a bodyguard. Thinking of the beautiful days ahead, a smile uncontrollably spread across his face.

Hei Xin raised his hand to check the time and said to Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong, "I advise you both to keep your distance from him."

When Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong heard Hei Xin’s cryptic words, they were quite puzzled, yet they heeded his advice. Just as they started to move away from the bodyguard, they heard a loud "Bang!" as the bodyguard’s body suddenly exploded. Blood mist and chunks of flesh flew through the air, filling the private room with the pungent smell of blood.

Not a single part of the bodyguard’s body was intact. Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong were splattered with his blood, and as they had witnessed the explosion themselves, their legs involuntarily began to tremble. Though they were accustomed to rough scenes, the carnage before them was a bit too much to stomach, wasn’t it?

Looking at the minced meat and fragmented organs on the ground, Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong felt their stomachs churn, and they began to retch. When they looked again at Hei Xin with the gray mask, a sense of fear rose from the depths of their hearts.

Hei Xin’s lips were also splattered with a few drops of blood, which he licked off with his tongue, saying, "The taste of blood is much better than that of red wine. Adding some warm blood to red wine makes it the most delicious."

Hei Xiong, standing by Hei Xin’s side, had been stern from beginning to end, as if everything around him was of no concern to him.

Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong wiped the blood from their faces with their sleeves, looking extremely pale. Their breathing was somewhat irregular, and they felt suffocated being with Hei Xin, the man with the gray mask who seemed nothing short of a demon.

"Now, you two should know the defect of this blue liquid, right? Those injected with it will explode and die after half an hour. That’s the price to pay for a quick boost in strength," Hei Xin said.

Hei Xin, without regard for Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong’s current feelings, continued, "There are nine of these syringes left. You can select seven strong individuals to be injected with this liquid, and then you can go kill Ye Chenfeng. The remaining two can be kept for yourselves, in case Ye Chenfeng manages to escape."

"Since I have prepared this liquid for you, you must do as I say, or bear the consequences," Hei Xin stood up and left the private room, accompanied by Hei Xiong.

As the door of the private room slowly closed, Hao Maoyan and Yin Feilong exchanged glances. Hao Maoyan asked with a trembling voice, "Chairman Yin, what should we do now?"

Yin Feilong’s emotions were not much better than Hao Maoyan’s; he clenched his teeth and said, "This man with the gray mask, having something as powerful as this, is definitely not someone we can afford to provoke. This time we have no choice but to take a chance. If our people really can kill Ye Chenfeng, that would be great. If Ye Chenfeng escapes this ordeal, we can still plan for the long term."

"Alright, I’ll follow your lead this time, Chairman Yin. Let’s immediately select seven strong individuals," Hao Maoyan said, nodding firmly.

...

A serene moon hung quietly in the night sky, its silver-white moonlight pouring down like running water.

After spending several hours at the First People’s Hospital with Qianqian and Ning Yuting, Ye Chenfeng was ready to return to the Ye family. Ultimately, under Ning Yuting’s insistence, Qianqian could only stay in the hospital for the day. Qianqian wanted Ye Chenfeng to stay, but Ning Yuting insisted that he should go home to rest, knowing that he had been tired all day.

Walking out of the First People’s Hospital, Ye Chenfeng strolled along a quiet path, which would lead to the bustling streets of Capital City where he could hail a cab home.

The path was eerily deserted, with dim street lights flickering menacingly. The only sound was the soft footsteps of Ye Chenfeng, when suddenly, seven shadowy figures dashed out from a fork in the road and swiftly closed in on him.

Under the dim streetlights, Ye Chenfeng could barely make out the appearance of the assailants. The leader was a bald man in his thirties, exceptionally burly, who upon seeing Ye Chenfeng, didn’t hesitate to say to the six others, "Inject the blue liquid into yourselves right now. As long as we complete this mission, our president has promised us great rewards."

Following the bald man’s order, the other six similarly burly men took out syringes filled with blue liquid from their persons and injected it into their bodies.

What these seven men, including the bald man, didn’t know was that half an hour after injecting the blue liquid, they would self-destruct. Their president had only told them it was a high-tech product capable of enhancing strength, little did they know they would never return from this mission, regardless of its success. And they naively believed in the great rewards promised by their president?

Once the blue liquid entered their systems, their bodies quickly reacted. Muscles across their bodies bulged uncontrollably, causing their clothes to rupture. Thanks to their robust physiques, their strength surged, increasing by about fifty times under the influence of the blue liquid.

The bodyguard who had injected the blue liquid back in the private room was not as well-conditioned as these seven men, so his strength had only increased by about twenty times.

Watching the sudden changes before him, Ye Chenfeng’s eyes gradually turned grave. He had encountered this strength-enhancing blue liquid before in the Taiping Mountain Range—it was used by Gael of the Bloodkill Mercenary Group. However, the liquid Gael used could only double the user’s strength, but these men before him had increased theirs by several dozen times at least, according to Ye Chenfeng’s initial estimation.

"How is this possible? With today’s technology, it’s impossible to produce such a liquid that can enhance one’s strength by dozens of times. Could it be because my soul traveled to this era, causing many things to deviate from their original trajectories?" Ye Chenfeng quietly mused to himself.

"You’re Ye Chenfeng, the president of the Victory Sky Society, right? Tonight will be your end. Who asked you to mess with the Blood Dyed Association and the Wanren Association? Capital City is not your Victory Sky Society’s world," the bald man, feeling the surging power within him, was brimming with confidence.

"The Blood Dyed Association? The Wanren Association? How could these gangs possibly possess such a liquid that enhances strength? And the original strain of the mutated flu virus that Jess and his team had—if these things could even be developed in this era, surely they wouldn’t be in the hands of people like them. What exactly is going on?" Ye Chenfeng had no clarity in his mind.

A fog seemed to have settled in front of Ye Chenfeng, with many unpredictable events unfolding one after another. An inexplicable sense of crisis was growing stronger inside him. It seemed that to get to the bottom of this, he first had to deal with these men in front of him, then directly confront the presidents of the Blood Dyed Association, Hao Maoyan, and the Wanren Association, Yin Feilong. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)