Chapter 82: Controlling Black And White, Isolating Inside From Outside
Li Ye really had something to do.
Busy killing people.
In a certain residential building in the West District, a middle-aged man who had fallen to the ground with a large hole dug out of his abdomen spat blood and pointed at Li Ye standing in front of him.
“Even if I become a ghost, I won’t let you go!”
Bang!
Li Ye cleanly gave him a shot, blowing his head apart.
He stared at the corpse for a while, then shook his head: “Ghost? Where is it? Come out and let me see?”
As the most typical demonic creature, it is recorded in the Zuo Zhuan, Book of Rites, Chu Ci, and Huainanzi.
People become ghosts mostly out of resentment and unwillingness after death.
But no one can say exactly how they are born.
It could be from being killed by demonic creatures, or by martial artists, or even ordinary people harming each other, and it’s not unheard of for someone hit by a large truck to become one.
Earthbound spirits, wandering souls, vengeful ghosts—they’re all this kind of demonic creature.
It can only be said that between heaven and earth, there seems to be an invisible scale weighing everything.
Shenzhou history books have made the final judgment on this: it is the ordinary people’s resistance.
But the one thing that can be confirmed is that martial artists cannot become ghosts.
And the whole family of the person he killed can’t become one now either.
“Leave the cleanup to you.”
Li Ye said to the two trembling information officers who had followed him, then walked out.
The two information officers nodded vigorously, “Captain Li, rest assured, we’ll handle it properly.”
Short on manpower, Li Ye simply borrowed people from the Information Section. Previously, Huang Qingyi acted with him and kept records along the way, but he’s a disinfection officer after all and has his own tasks.
Anyway, as long as they record and clean up, information officers can do it too, especially since Li Ye has already scared the gangs in Ningjiang City downtown area.
What they were dealing with now were these people who had openly jumped out, vowing to side with the Ren Family to the end and clamoring against the Disinfection Bureau.
Now they were looking for the typical one, also the last one.
Li Ye rode his motorcycle back to the Disinfection Bureau, opened the door to his captain’s office, and before he could rest for two minutes, the door was pushed open, and Sun Shun came in smiling with a food box.
“Got you some food.”
Sun Shun opened the food box and placed the dishes inside one by one on the table, finally setting a bowl of rice in front of Li Ye.
He smiled and said, “Our Deputy Captain Huang was invited to a banquet today, and the dishes happen to be from the same restaurant as yours.”
Li Ye also smiled: “I had him pass on a message, and he even got a meal out of it.”
“No way around it, your recent reputation for brutality has spread throughout the downtown area. With Captain Huang carrying your orders, of course people are scared. Not just them—even our Information Section people get nervous seeing you now.”
Sun Shun sighed: “It was to make you establish prestige, but I didn’t expect you to do it so impressively. As expected of a young man.”
Humans are social creatures, always second-guessing things; only machines complete tasks without hindrance, but machines can’t make people fear them from the bottom of their hearts and obey.
Li Ye had done it just right: strong in martial prowess, and he put on the right show, but if you call it wanton killing, it wasn’t mindless slaughter either—the current effect seemed the best.
These past few days had also been Sun Shun’s most relieved time.
This was the momentum where the Disinfection Bureau’s arrival alone made people scatter in fear!
Hearing this, Li Ye said nothing, just shook his head with a smile, took out the jade box, picked up the Five Flavors Chopsticks, clamped a piece of meat, and started eating.
His brutality was targeted too—like the one just handled, the whole family was no good, raising several people under them for loan sharking, with the whole family involved, driving quite a few people to death.
This kind of person was on the fringes of Ningjiang City’s martial artist circle; they knew of the Ren Family’s existence but hadn’t even brushed against its edges—something the Disinfection Bureau could handle even without Li Ye.
Self-righteously seeing an opportunity, they loudly clamored that the Disinfection Bureau was nothing special, that they would side with the Ren Family, and if they had the guts, come kill his whole family—it’s modern society, he wasn’t afraid, and so on.
What more was there to say? After Li Ye investigated thoroughly, he went and sent his whole family to the afterlife.
But sometimes he didn’t want to be brutal; it was just unavoidable. Others’ martial arts weren’t weak either, and he couldn’t instantly kill them in a clean way.
For example, the Dragon Mountain Gang leader Ye Ming—the things he handled weren’t too bad, and he was quite righteous; Li Ye had no ill feelings toward him and originally planned to just beat him into submission.
But the problem was the guy was too righteous, insisting the Ren Family had done him a great favor, that the Disinfection Bureau wouldn’t last long, and so on, refusing to yield and continuing to fight. Li Ye got angry, and in the end, when he unleashed, he couldn’t hold back, twisting the man into a pretzel.
His martial arts weren’t soft either; the moves he learned weren’t aimed at vital points, but they were absolutely wide-ranging and forceful—looking brutal was normal.
Including that Jiang Crocodile Sect sect master—that one deserved to be torn apart, but Li Ye didn’t intentionally tear off his limbs; he aimed for a quick decisive strike, a heart-piercing kill.
But they were all martial artists who had broken through the Vajra Pass, and the opponent’s cultivation of the Vajra Pass was even tougher than Li Ye’s—clearly years immersed in it.
In the end, Li Ye got worked up, just wanting to end it faster, so after unleashing, he tore off the limbs and head, then subconsciously followed up with a Golden Dragon Grasp.
Purely wanting to kill quickly, with no deliberate brutality at all.
He had of course heard the reputation spreading outside, but Li Ye thought the effect was pretty good—better to be feared than disrespected—so he gladly accepted it.
“The next step is to counter-pressure.”
Li Ye said while eating, “Use the underground forces to pressure the Ren Family’s industries, first take care of those in the downtown area, completely sever the Ren Family’s black-and-white connections, then formally enter the monitoring period. During this time, I won’t let anyone die or go missing—not even accidental or natural deaths; every cause must be investigated clearly!”
He looked at Sun Shun, “Uncle Sun, if it really doesn’t work out during this time, take a vacation. The Disinfection Bureau won’t be too safe; don’t worry about it stopping—those rats can temporarily take over order.”
Sun Shun laughed heartily: “I wasn’t afraid during the flood disaster back then; how could I fear a few Skin-Peeling Demons? Do what you need boldly; don’t worry about the rest!”
Li Ye’s method was simple: cut off contact and force out the Skin-Peeling Demons.
No matter how smart or wise demonic creatures are, they are still demonic creatures—intelligent but inhuman. Harming people and pollution are as natural to them as eating and drinking are to humans—it’s inevitable, impossible to defy.
With Li Ye intimidating Ningjiang City’s martial artist circle, preventing unexpected incidents, and Director Pan now stationed at the Ren Family, unable to contact or guide them, the Skin-Peeling Demons would definitely come out to ‘hunt’.
The Disinfection Bureau had thought of this method before, but Ningjiang City upper and lower levels didn’t cooperate, and they lacked the martial force to execute it. Pan Zhengyang hadn’t wanted to tear faces with the Ren Family back then either, so they could only investigate slowly.
Sometimes, it’s not about lack of strategy or rules—purely an issue with the executors.
As long as Li Ye forced out the Skin-Peeling Demons, everything would be fine.
Control Ningjiang City’s martial artist circle with strict monitoring, find a few Skin-Peeling Demons and kill them to make them aware of the danger—with their cleverness, they would definitely hide again.
But if controlled harshly enough that they can’t hunt, they will eventually be unable to suppress their demonic nature and act according to their habits.
Skin-Peeling Demons’ habit is to go from near to far; they head to the places with the most of their aura residue and closest relations, polluting them into Human Skin Slaves to hunt and pollute for them, while they themselves hide.
Especially when facing danger.
Ningjiang City’s Skin-Peeling Demons have been around for ten years; after so long, close relations are definitely gone, so the next closest is only one!
The Ren Family!
If they were raising demonic creatures and using Skin-Peeling Demons to absorb essence blood, they must have Skin-Peeling Demon aura left, and the Skin-Peeling Demons would go to the Ren Family.
If not
If not, then no big deal.
From start to finish, Li Ye’s banner was investigating Skin-Peeling Demons and cults; he hadn’t deliberately targeted anyone.
Besides, would the Ren Family admit to ties with the gangs?
At worst, an apology— no big deal.
But if there is
Crunch!
Li Ye bit through a leg bone with meat, chewing and swallowing it bones and all.
Then he could eat his fill!
