A luxurious villa in Shanghai.
Soaked and covered in blood, Bai Xiaosheng stumbled into the villa and collapsed onto the floor.
"Master!"
A maid, seeing Bai Xiaosheng return in such a state, turned pale with fright and rushed to help him.
"Get lost!"
Bai Xiaosheng shoved the maid away and shakily stood up, his expression grim and terrifying.
The maid, who had fallen to the ground, trembled with fear at Bai Xiaosheng's appearance.
She had never seen Bai Xiaosheng look so fearsome!
Bai Xiaosheng endured the pain and sat on the soft sofa, then instructed the maid, "Bring the medical kit and healing pills."
"Yes, yes..."
The maid dared not hesitate and hurried to fetch the medical kit.
After instructing the maid, Bai Xiaosheng turned on the television, intending to switch to the exclusive channel of the Hongchen Pavilion to report the events at the research branch to his superiors.
However, he caught a whiff of the foul odor emanating from himself and had no mood to report. Annoyed, he tossed the remote aside and stripped off all his clothes.
The maid, who had brought the medical kit and healing pills, seemed accustomed to Bai Xiaosheng's nakedness. She carefully placed the medical kit on the coffee table and began to wipe the wounds on Bai Xiaosheng's body with a clean white towel.
Bai Xiaosheng ignored the maid tending to him. He directly picked up the jade bottle containing the pills from the coffee table, swallowed the healing pills, and then took two painkillers from the medical kit.
"Today's news: Following the large fire at the well-known Sun Family Manor in this city, a second serious fire has occurred. It is the research institute of the Hongfeng Group. Firefighters are currently actively extinguishing the blaze. The specific cause of the fire and casualties are currently unknown."
"It is understood that the Hongfeng Research Institute is the most important research institute of the Hongfeng Group and a key supported project for national development strategy. It is..."
At this moment, the local Shanghai news was broadcast on television. The maid, seeing the news, was slightly taken aback and asked Bai Xiaosheng, "Sir, isn't the Hongfeng Group's research institute our Hongchen Pavilion's research branch? How could it..."
Bai Xiaosheng sharply rebuked, "This is not something you should concern yourself with. Do your job!"
At Bai Xiaosheng's reprimand, the maid trembled and dared not speak further. She merely lowered her head and quietly continued to wipe his body.
Just then, the image on the television suddenly shifted, and a dark silhouette appeared.
"Bai Xiaosheng."
A deep voice emanated from the television, startling Bai Xiaosheng. He immediately pushed the maid, who was wiping him, aside and quickly stood up, stammering, "Honored... Honored Master..."
Bai Xiaosheng stared at the shadow on the television with a look of terror, trembling, his eyes filled with fear.
Although he could not see the face of the person on the television, he knew that the person on the screen was his master, a figure who now wielded immense power on Earth...
Ye Feng!
Bai Xiaosheng suppressed his fear and tremblingly asked Ye Feng, "Honored... Honored Master, it is not yet time for our meeting. How... how do you have time to contact this humble servant?"
Ye Feng said coldly, "Something has happened at the research branch. If I don't come to see, what further disaster could you possibly cause?"
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Bai Xiaosheng was so terrified that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly towards the television, "Honored... Honored Master, this has nothing to do with this humble servant! This was all Ye Ling's doing!"
"Ye Ling is too strong! He is not an ordinary Hongchen Immortal. Even if I used the Pixel Holy Sword, Ye Ling could cleave my game paradise with a single sword!"
"This humble servant barely escaped with his life after great effort, and I came to report to Honored Master!"
"Please believe this humble servant, Honored Master. Ye Ling is simply too powerful! This humble servant is no match for him!"
Ye Feng said coldly, "Ye Ling again... Zhengyi Sect has ruined my plans, and now they have destroyed my First Generation Tongtian Tower... I value you so highly, yet you cannot accomplish even one task properly."
"I have no need for useless trash."
Ye Feng's tone was extremely cold. Even though Bai Xiaosheng was separated by a screen, upon hearing Ye Feng's words, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his limbs stiffening.
Bai Xiaosheng was beside himself with fear and kowtowed frantically, begging, "I beg Honored Master to give me another chance! There will be a solar eclipse in the latter half of this month. I will definitely go to the ancient ruins overseas to bring back the Yuan Ling!"
Extreme fear coursed through Bai Xiaosheng's entire body. At this moment, he had lost all his arrogance. His forehead was already broken, and blood was flowing.
However, he acted as if he felt no pain, kowtowing harder and harder, his head even smashing through the floor!
*Swoosh!*
At this moment, the maid who had been wiping Bai Xiaosheng's body suddenly grabbed a surgical knife and mercilessly plunged it into Bai Xiaosheng's neck.
Blood splattered!
"Wuwu..."
Bai Xiaosheng clutched his throat, looking at his maid with utter terror. The maid's expression had turned icy, her eyes extremely indifferent.
Amidst Bai Xiaosheng's endless confusion, he collapsed into a pool of blood, looking at his maid in despair as his consciousness gradually faded.
The maid no longer paid attention to Bai Xiaosheng. She knelt before Ye Feng on the television and said coldly, "Honored Master, the trash has been cleaned up."
Ye Feng looked at the maid and said indifferently, "Bai Xiaosheng is dead. You have no further value. Kill yourself."
"Yes."
The maid replied faintly, then pulled the surgical knife from Bai Xiaosheng's neck and plunged it into her own neck without the slightest hesitation.
Bai Xiaosheng lay on the ground, watching the maid fall. His consciousness completely vanished, but his eyes remained open.
He died with his eyes wide open!
It turned out...
He had been constantly monitored by Ye Feng.
He had never been trusted.
As Bai Xiaosheng and the maid lost their lives, the television screen automatically went black, and Ye Feng disappeared.
At this moment, outside the luxurious villa, Ye Ling calmly watched everything that happened inside.
After taking Ye Yi away, he had anticipated that Ye Feng might make a move against Bai Xiaosheng. Therefore, as soon as he settled Ye Yi, he followed Bai Xiaosheng here.
He had expected Ye Feng to personally deal with Bai Xiaosheng, but he never imagined that Ye Feng would merely instruct the maid by Bai Xiaosheng's side to act through electronic means.
Who could have imagined that the maid Bai Xiaosheng had carefully chosen and who had taken care of his daily life for years was actually Ye Feng's hidden operative?
Bai Xiaosheng's dying regret was likely the realization that his trusted confidante had always been someone else's operative.
Every move he made was under someone else's surveillance.
This was truly terrifying!
Bai Xiaosheng had lost all hope.
Ye Ling instantly appeared inside the villa, glanced at the corpses of Bai Xiaosheng and the maid, and transmitted a message to Blood Fiend, "Blood Fiend, did you check the villa information I sent you to see if any signal was connected to the television in this villa?"
Blood Fiend excitedly replied, "Your Majesty, you won't believe it! Those guys actually captured the input signal and have now pinpointed the exact location of the signal source!"
"You found it?"
Hearing Blood Fiend's words, Ye Ling's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, "Where is it?"
"It's in Shanghai!"