Ding! Seven or eight minutes later, the elevator door opened, and Han Qi walked out, his face pale.
He looked at Jiang Yan's back as if he were looking at some terrifying existence, even though he was already mentally prepared.
When he arrived downstairs, he was still shocked by hundreds of corpses that looked peaceful yet had been disemboweled.
"Mr. Jiang, the cloud footage of the surveillance downstairs has been deleted, and I've also turned off the current surveillance," Han Qi said respectfully from behind Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan slid his finger across his phone screen and replied without raising his head, "Alright, go outside with Li Yong and get a few more barrels of oil."
"Yes." Han Qi grabbed a bucket nearby and walked out.
Jiang Yan's phone was playing a trending news video.
[Insane! Mad Scientist Violates Law to Illegally Conduct Human-Animal Gene Combination Experiments!]
In the video, a serious-looking host in a black suit was narrating his crimes.
"Genetic scientist Dong Guangjie violated laws explicitly banned by the state by concealing the truth from volunteers participating in experiments and secretly injecting them with animal genes, resulting in thirteen people exhibiting various physical ailments."
"He will receive the verdict from the Supreme Law Court three days later in Mingzhou, Wenqin City!"
Dong Guangjie's photo also appeared in the video; he was a man around thirty years old, with messy black hair, a thin face, heavy dark circles under his eyes, and a look of madness in his eyes.
The comments section below the video was also buzzing with activity.
The Future is Full of Pigeons: "Good catch! This kind of immoral trash should be shot!"
Heaven Rewards the Diligent: "What is he trying to do? Humans are clearly the most perfectly evolved species. What else does he want to change?"
Chicken Roll: "I admire that he had the thought and the initiative, but given current human technology, this is still far off."
Jiang Yan's eyes lit up as he watched the news. Isn't this the best resume?
He was just worrying about finding a suitable candidate; he never expected to find one just by casually scrolling through his phone.
Click! The sound of the door opening came, and Li Yong walked in carrying a barrel of gasoline.
Jiang Yan stood up. "Go pour it downstairs and burn them all in a fire."
"Okay!" Li Yong nodded and walked toward the elevator, while Jiang Yan headed outside.
A moment later, Han Qi also carried a barrel of oil inside.
There were quite a few plastic chairs in the underground space, so Jiang Yan wasn't worried about the fire not catching.
He stood outside and continued waiting. Before long, Han Qi and Li Yong came back into the room on the first floor and dragged all the corpses on the ground downstairs.
After a while, the two walked out of the first floor.
Han Qi looked at Jiang Yan. "Mr. Jiang, the fire has started, and the flames are huge."
Jiang Yan nodded and watched silently from the doorway. He only spoke once the flames below started rising: "Let's go, head back."
Han Qi nodded and drove the car over. Li Yong instinctively opened the door for Jiang Yan and then sat in the front passenger seat.
In the car, Jiang Yan looked at the driving Han Qi: "Handle the arrangements for Li Yong's grandmother, and transfer five million yuan into his account."
"Yes, Mr. Jiang." Han Qi, who was driving, immediately nodded. Anything that could be solved with money wasn't a problem, especially since it wasn't his money being spent.
In the passenger seat, Li Yong showed his gratitude: "Thank you."
"It's a small matter. Tell me about your ability," Jiang Yan said flatly, leaning back in the rear seat with his eyes closed.
This time, Li Yong no longer concealed his ability and began telling Jiang Yan about the process of awakening it.
"Half a year ago, after something happened to my grandmother, I felt extremely distressed. That very day, I suddenly gained the ability to see one second into the future, and my physical fitness also improved significantly."
As soon as he said this, Jiang Yan opened his eyes and looked at him with some surprise. Even Han Qi next to him occasionally turned his head to look.
The ability to predict the future is a heavy-hitter, whether in novels or film and television works.
'Although it's only one second, if he can improve it later, it might become an extremely terrifying ability.' Jiang Yan hadn't expected to strike gold.
"Can you use this ability constantly?" Jiang Yan was curious; this was his first time encountering such a thing.
Li Yong shook his head: "If I encounter danger, it appears automatically. If I use it proactively, it consumes a lot of mental energy..."
Bang!
Before he could finish speaking, a hand suddenly shot up and blocked the fist Jiang Yan had thrown.
"It seems it's true." Jiang Yan lowered his left hand. The kid had started defending before he even threw the punch; clearly, he had seen it coming.
The car drove on, dropping Li Yong off at the City Center Hospital. Jiang Yan looked at him: "Come find me tomorrow morning at Nanfeng Manor in the western suburbs."
"I understand, Mr. Jiang." Li Yong bowed to Jiang Yan and watched the luxury car drive away.
He only turned toward the hospital after the taillights disappeared. He checked his phone; it was already eleven o'clock at night.
Just as he walked into the first floor of the inpatient department, a young nurse approached him: "Mr. Li, your grandmother, Ms. Zhou Yunqiu, has just been transferred to a VIP ward. All expenses have been settled, and experts from Zhoucheng will be coming in a few days to personally perform surgery on Ms. Zhou Yunqiu."
"I see, thank you." Li Yong felt a huge weight lift off his chest upon hearing all this; the pressure that had been constantly weighing on his shoulders was finally gone.
He then followed the room number given by the nurse to a ward on the fifth floor. Through the glass, he saw an old woman sleeping peacefully inside.
Watching all this, Li Yong sat on a chair in the corridor. He took out his phone and looked at the location of Nanfeng Manor that Jiang Yan had provided.
When he was at his wit's end, if it weren't for Jiang Yan, he probably wouldn't have walked out of the Underground Boxing Ring alive tonight, and his grandmother would have died without money for treatment.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yan's image immediately became magnificent in Li Yong's heart. He didn't care what Jiang Yan had done; he only knew that Jiang Yan had saved him and his grandmother.
'It seems I can only repay this debt of gratitude with my life.'
On the other side, Jiang Yan and Han Qi returned to the villa entrance inside the manor.
Han Qi got out and opened the car door: "Mr. Jiang, everything inside the villa has been replaced with new items. You can reside here."
Jiang Yan nodded and quickly walked toward the brightly lit villa in front of him.
Han Qi drove toward the entrance, where there was a small building, which served as the current residence for him and the other Bodyguards.
After Jiang Yan reached the first floor and closed the door, his consciousness sank into his mind. The pearl of the abyss was full, emitting a faint white light.
"Negative Emotion Value is full. Proceed with Summoning?" A message appeared.
Jiang Yan moved his intent: 'Summon!'
Buzz! A purplish-black cloud mass appeared out of thin air in the living room a few meters from Jiang Yan, and the cloud quickly expanded under his gaze.
Before long, the cloud mass reached over four meters high. Jiang Yan mused, 'Fortunately, the first floor of the villa is five meters high, which is just enough. Looks like I can't summon indoors next time.'
If a behemoth over ten meters tall came out, the villa would be demolished.
Rumble!
A series of rumbling sounds came from the purple cloud mass, as if something was passing through the cloud to enter this world.