However, since Black God's younger brother, Beard, is involved, it's clear that no one would dare to issue such an order, and Black God himself wouldn't be so heartless.
Humans are selfish. They can sacrifice other people's loved ones and possessions, but when it comes to sacrificing their own, of course they can't.
With a confident mind, Zhou Ziwei sped up and pulled Kyzylmer into the vicinity of the villa. He immediately released dozens of strands of soul power and began scanning the entire building. He quickly pinpointed the locations of the seven snipers hidden inside and then launched three darts without hesitation.
After dodging another round of sniper fire, Zhou Ziwei was hit by a bullet in his alloy suit. Although it was only from the side and the suit helped distribute the impact across his body, the heavy impact of the sniper bullet still caused him a slight pain all over his body. Therefore, he had to speed up and take out the snipers in the building first.
Sniper bullets are inherently fast, and the distance is so close that even Zhou Ziwei's reaction speed is almost too slow to keep up with the bullets. Therefore, these snipers need to be dealt with quickly.
Under Zhou Ziwei's control using liquid soul power, the three butterfly darts shot into three locations on the small building at a terrifying speed close to the speed of light.
Zhou Ziwei only needed to control the butterfly dart to shoot at the specific location, without having to care whether there were any cover or anything in front of the three targets. Because with the sharpness of the butterfly dart and the powerful assistance of the liquid soul power, it was an almost indestructible weapon. Nothing could stop the butterfly dart's attack wherever it went.
It felt like only three flashes of light, and the three snipers were silently taken down.
Under Zhou Ziwei's control, the three butterfly darts didn't need to be retrieved at all. After piercing through the bodies of the three snipers, they began to move around the small building like three elves with eyes. As soon as they touched a man, they would immediately and without hesitation pierce a hole in his brain, making him instantly dead.
Zhou Ziwei didn't have time to distinguish whether these people were from the black market assassin network. He only knew that he had come under the pretext of rescuing Anirias, so he could kill anyone he encountered who wasn't Anirias.
Even if he accidentally kills some people by mistake, it doesn't matter. After all, this isn't Chinese territory. It's the Japanese country. Even if he accidentally kills a few innocent people, Zhou Ziwei won't feel any guilt.
After Zhou Ziwei swiftly swept through the three floors of the small building with three menacing butterfly darts, he finally dragged Kyzylmer into the villa. By then, the building was littered with corpses, and there was hardly a single living person left to breathe.
Kyzylmer was stunned by the sight. Dead people... how could there be so many dead people here, and... they had all just died. Most of the corpses were still gushing blood from their brains, and some of their limbs were still twitching slightly.
Kyzylem's eye twitched violently. She was not a little girl who had never seen a dead person. On the contrary, the number of people who had died at her hands was definitely no less than the number of dead people she was seeing now.
But... seeing so many fresh corpses, clearly dead yet seemingly not quite, still gave Kyzylmier a profound sense of shock.
These people... were almost all killed at the same time, and all of them were pierced through the head with a cold weapon... How is this possible? Could it be that behind every single person here was a ruthless assassin, and they all agreed to attack at the same time? Or perhaps only in this way could such a scene have occurred! But... how is that possible? Where could so many assassins have infiltrated this place at the same time?
"How many helpers did you bring?"
Kyzylmer swallowed hard, then asked Zhou Ziwei beside him with some difficulty.
“Three…” Zhou Ziwei replied coldly, then reached out and waved his hand in the air. Kizilmel immediately saw three shimmering silver butterflies flying in from the sky. They landed quietly in Zhou Ziwei’s palm and were then put into his shirt pocket.
Kyzylmer's brain seemed to work sluggishly for a few moments before his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he exclaimed in horror, "You mean...you mean those three silver butterflies just now, were you...were your accomplices? Could it be...could it be that all the dead people in this building were...killed by you with these...these three silver butterflies?"
The usually eloquent Kyzylem had never imagined that she would ever speak like a stutterer. However, this conclusion felt so insane that it made Kyzylem feel like she was going crazy, so she could no longer control her tone of voice.
Zhou Ziwei was too lazy to explain these things to Kyzylmer. He quickly scanned the area with his soul power and found that the black-clad bearded man from before had disappeared in a short while, but he had found the whereabouts of Anirias.
In the basement of this villa, a beautiful woman who looked exactly like Kyzylem was naked and handcuffed in the basement bathroom. In the bathroom, besides Anirias, there were three other very beautiful blonde women accompanying Anirias. The difference was that these three women were wearing clothes.
Zhou Ziwei sensed a bad omen because he couldn't find the bearded man; he seemed to vaguely smell a conspiracy.
However, since he said he came to rescue Anerias, he couldn't just turn around and run away after finding her, simply because there was only a potential danger, and then immediately turn away and ignore her!
With a flick of his soul power, Zhou Ziwei launched another butterfly dart, which pierced through the thick floorboards and into the basement with lightning speed. In a flash, the dart severed all the handcuffs on Anirias's hands and feet. As for the three women guarding Anirias, Zhou Ziwei didn't care whether they were good or bad. He lightly tapped each of their beautiful foreheads with the butterfly dart. However, the impact was not very strong, and it was struck with the blunt side, so it only knocked the three women unconscious without immediately killing them.
Zhou Ziwei is not a pushover and would not easily leave any potential threats to his existence. However, these three women clearly posed no threat to him, so Zhou Ziwei did not kill them. After all, there are not many beautiful women in the world, and if he were to be so inconsiderate, wouldn't he be causing the world to lose a few more beauties?
"Your sister is in the basement of that study up ahead. I've already taken down her men. Go and bring her up!" After doing all this, Zhou Ziwei immediately turned to Kyzylem and instructed him. He always felt that there was a sense of conspiracy lurking around, so... until he figured out where the problem lay, he didn't want to stay here too long, and he especially didn't want to go deep into the basement. That way, if anything happened, Zhou Ziwei could break through the window and escape from the air immediately. But going into the basement, which was nearly twenty meters underground and required climbing a spiral staircase for half a day, would be quite dangerous.
Although Zhou Ziwei has the ability to burrow underground, and he just used this trick to help Kyzylem escape an aerial bombardment, this basement is not so easy to burrow into. After all, there is a small building above, and a foundation needs to be laid down below. The foundation is made of stone and cement, and its hardness makes it difficult for even Zhou Ziwei's burrowing ability to penetrate...
"Ah... my sister is really saved. I can feel how she feels. Thank you so much, dear Mr. Zhou. We... we sisters will never forget your great kindness. From now on, we... we sisters belong to you, Mr. Zhou."
Kyzylem was genuinely happy to have saved her sister, which was completely unexpected. She had already given up hope when she failed to complete the task given to her by the bearded man. Her attempt to save her sister was nothing more than a suicidal act, as she simply wanted to die with her sister in her final moments.
However, to her surprise, Zhou Ziwei not only agreed to help her rescue her sister, but also successfully rescued her from what was clearly a trap.
Volume 2, The Assassin's Nightmare, Chapter 460: Super Weapon
Even now, recalling the overwhelming artillery fire, Kyzylmier still felt lingering fear. If it were her, coming here would have been suicidal; there was virtually no chance of saving her sister. Of course… on her own, the enemy wouldn't have wasted so many shells attacking her; it would have been like using an anti-aircraft gun to kill a mosquito! But Zhou Ziwei was different. Even under such intense bombardment, he still managed to bring her in unscathed, and in the blink of an eye, he had wiped out everyone in the building, leaving only her sister alive…
At this close range, she could clearly sense Anerias's exact location, and she could even sense Anerias's current mood through the mysterious telepathic connection between twins. Therefore, she didn't even need Zhou Ziwei's specific guidance to find the entrance to the basement.
"Hurry up! I'm afraid there might be some danger here. You have to be quick. If you and your sisters haven't come out of the basement by the time danger comes, please forgive me for leaving first and not waiting for you here."
Zhou Ziwei was not swayed by Kyzylmer's words, "From now on, we sisters are all yours."
Blinded by those tempting words, Zhou Ziwei coldly told the truth: as long as he was safe, he wouldn't mind being a good person, but if there was a real danger that threatened his life, he wouldn't sacrifice himself for these two women who had nothing to do with him.
Of course... if these two women were Liu Xiaofei and Wang Xuewei, Zhou Ziwei probably wouldn't have been so calm.
Zhou Ziwei stood cautiously at the window, feeling that something was off about this place. The bearded man had escaped so easily, which meant they had decided to abandon the place from the very beginning.
Those who are putting up a stubborn resistance here are just some small fry from the black market assassin network. Even if Zhou Ziwei could kill as many people as they could, Black God probably wouldn't feel any pity.
Since Black God knew that even the top ten assassins ranked fourth and below in the world had fallen to Zhou Ziwei, why would he send these minor characters to deal with Zhou Ziwei? Did he think that he could take down Zhou Ziwei with some modern light and heavy weapons?
There must be a conspiracy involved.
Zhou Ziwei used his soul power to thoroughly search the entire villa again, but found nothing dangerous. He couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. At the same time, the ships around the island stopped firing in this direction, which made Zhou Ziwei even more confused.
Were the people on those ships really afraid of accidentally hitting their own people, which is why they didn't fire on this villa? You know, now that he's inside the villa, if there's another barrage of artillery fire from outside, it will be quite difficult for him to hide.
They actually gave up such a good opportunity just to avoid accidentally hurting their own people. It seems that the people in this black market assassin network still have some humanity!
However… do the people in the black market assassin network have any humanity? Zhou Ziwei was very skeptical about this, and therefore felt that there was a strong sense of conspiracy involved.
With nothing else to do, Zhou Ziwei took the opportunity to refine some of the souls rising from the corpses of the recently deceased people floating around the room, forming a dozen or so soul beads. There were still dozens of souls on the remaining three floors, but Zhou Ziwei didn't have enough time to refine them all into soul beads. So he could only recite the Six-Syllable Mantra once to capture all the souls in the vicinity, transforming them into pure soul power and absorbing them into his sea of souls.
After doing all this, without wasting a few seconds, Zhou Ziwei began to casually browse through the soul memories carried by those soul entities.
Kyzylmer acted relatively quickly, and in less than a minute, she had helped Anilias out of the basement. After carrying her sister out of the room, she saw Zhou Ziwei still standing by the window waiting for them, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go!" Zhou Ziwei said, conjuring up a huge vortex again. Just as he was about to use the vortex to sweep Kizilmer and Anirias away with him, he suddenly felt his mind become extremely chaotic. He instinctively sensed a heavy shadow of death approaching.
How could this happen? What is this thing?
Zhou Ziwei looked up at the window in shock, but instead of seeing the sky full of shells as he had expected, he could only vaguely see a bright spot on the horizon approaching rapidly at lightning speed.
When Zhou Ziwei thought of the "long-range missile," he breathed a slight sigh of relief. He had extensive experience dealing with missiles, having single-handedly dealt with hundreds of missiles. Even if the power of this long-range missile was far superior to that of ordinary missiles, it shouldn't pose much of a threat to his life.
Moreover, although the bright spot was moving very fast, it was still a bit far away from here. Zhou Ziwei could use that time to fly a distance away. Once he flew out of the island, he could easily dive into the sea. He didn't believe that the long-range missile could keep tracking them all the way to the depths of the ocean.
"Quickly—" Zhou Ziwei immediately pulled Anirias and Kyzylem to his side, then rode the whirlwind and smashed open the huge floor-to-ceiling glass window in front, flying outside the villa.
The speed of the bright spot was faster than Zhou Ziwei had expected. They had only just rushed out of the villa when they saw that the bright spot had already flown over the island and had begun to fall to the ground.
Wow, that can't be fast! What kind of missile is that? Its speed is insane!
Zhou Ziwei sighed inwardly, but when he looked along the trajectory of the falling light, he was surprised to find that the thing did not explode towards them; the landing point was about five or six hundred meters away from their location.
Haha... Looks like the person who launched this missile wasn't very skilled. The deviation is way too big! At such a distance, even if the missile was incredibly powerful, it would be useless.
However, just as Zhou Ziwei was marveling at his good luck, for some reason, the bad feeling in his heart grew stronger and stronger, as if some great disaster was about to befall him.
But Zhou Ziwei really couldn't understand how a missile that was five or six hundred meters away from him could possibly hurt him. Could it be that his senses were wrong?
"Run! Master!" But at that moment, in Zhou Ziwei's mind, Xiaoxin's voice was screaming like a madman: "That's not a missile, it's a nuclear bomb! I've detected the unique fluctuations of a nuclear reaction... They're going to use a nuclear bomb to kill you... Run! If you're any slower, it will be too late!"
"What?! That's a nuclear bomb! Holy crap... How could this happen?!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ziwei was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. However, at this moment, Zhou Ziwei had no time to verify whether Xiaoxin's words were correct. If... if Xiaoxin was right, then it really was a nuclear bomb. In that case, every microsecond was extremely precious to them.
A regular missile exploding five or six hundred meters away would indeed pose no threat to Zhou Ziwei, but if it were a nuclear bomb... then he would essentially be at the epicenter of the nuclear blast.
Putting aside the power of the nuclear explosion, the nuclear radiation after the explosion would be enough to kill people. Although Zhou Ziwei's physical condition was far superior to that of ordinary people, he dared not risk his life to experiment on whether he could withstand the corrosive effects of nuclear radiation.
If you're going to escape, you must escape as far away as possible.
Zhou Ziwei's first thought was to ride the whirlwind and escape into the sky, fleeing as far away as possible.
However, when he saw that the nuclear bomb was about to hit the ground and explode, he immediately changed his mind. After all, his speed in the whirlwind was not very fast. If he were to take the two sisters with him, the speed would be even slower, almost the same as when he was running at full speed on land.
To race against the shockwave of a nuclear explosion at that speed would be suicidal.
So Zhou Ziwei immediately dismissed the idea and turned his gaze to his feet.
Burrowing underground...maybe that's a good option!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." With a thought, Zhou Ziwei took out the dozen or so soul beads he had just refined, along with the dozen or so soul beads he already had on him, and arranged them in a straight line, continuously projecting them down towards the ground.
After Zhou Ziwei wrapped each Soul Bead with his soul power, it immediately burst into countless short decomposition rays upon impacting the ground, carving out a circular pit a meter deep. However, some fine, soft powder was scattered in the pit, which was the residue left after the soil was completely decomposed.
Zhou Ziwei's technique was very clever. As soon as the first soul bead exploded, the second soul bead immediately struck the deepest part of the hole opened by the first soul bead, instantly blasting the hole a meter deeper.
In just over a second, a circular hole more than thirty meters deep appeared on the ground. Before the hole was fully formed, Zhou Ziwei used the vortex of air to envelop Anirias and Kyzylem, pushing through countless fine dust particles, and plunged headlong into the hole...
Can a depth of more than 30 meters block the shock wave and nuclear radiation from a nuclear explosion?
Zhou Ziwei had no prior knowledge of this subject, so he had no confidence whatsoever. His only understanding of nuclear weapons was limited to the two atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan during World War II.
Moreover, all that is known is that Old M's two atomic bombs directly caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people in two cities in the island nation.
Now, more than half a century has passed. Will the power of nuclear bombs remain at the level of that era?
Therefore, Zhou Ziwei dared not slack off in the slightest. He could only do his best to drill down as long as he had a breath left. He was willing to drill down as far as he could, even if it meant drilling all the way to the Earth's core and falling into the magma to endure its deadly heat. He was unwilling to stop here and gamble on whether he could withstand a nuclear attack at this depth.
"Go—" Seeing that the more than 30-meter-deep pit was about to reach its end, Zhou Ziwei immediately threw out the butterfly dart on his body again. The three butterfly darts immediately formed a triangular formation, like a rotating drill, and began to grind the underground rocks into powder.
Zhou Ziwei had no more Soul Pearls left to use, and the underground was mostly hard rock. Zhou Ziwei's burrowing technique was of very limited use in this terrain. Even if he could manage to burrow down, the speed would be very slow. Therefore, he could only use this method to try to escape as quickly as possible.
He poured liquid soul power directly into the three butterfly darts, instantly maximizing their speed. The sharp edges of the darts could easily cut through metal, and using them to cut stone was like using a knife to stir a bowl of egg cake.
Whether it was solid soil or hard rock, it was completely turned into clumps of stone powder under the spinning of the three butterfly darts, allowing Zhou Ziwei to sink into the depths of the ground almost without any hindrance, without pausing for even a moment.
It wasn't until Zhou Ziwei dragged Kyzylmer and Anirias down to about fifty meters underground that the three of them finally felt a deafening roar suddenly come from the ground, followed by the earth shaking.
Holy crap... it really is a nuclear weapon. Ordinary missiles could never have such terrifying power.
Despite his shock, Zhou Ziwei did not slow down his burrowing speed in the slightest.
Even though the nuclear bomb had already exploded, he still hoped that he could dive as deep underground as possible. The farther away he was from the nuclear bomb, the safer he felt.
With a loud "crack," the entire underground world seemed to change drastically due to the explosion of the object on the surface. The deep pit, more than fifty meters deep and filled with soft dust, that Zhou Ziwei had just excavated, could not withstand the pressure from all directions and immediately became distorted. In more than one place, the stone walls collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, the deep pit was filled with soil and rubble squeezed out from the stone walls, burying the three people deep underground...
This world is absolutely insane.
Zhou Ziwei never imagined that he would become so important in the eyes of the Black God, to the point that the Black God was determined to kill him and would go to any lengths to do so.
In an era of global peace, for a notorious assassin group, primarily engaged in black market operations, providing and distributing assassinations and killer services, to actually drop a nuclear bomb on Zhou Ziwei... what kind of insane intellect and audacity must that require...?
Doesn't that guy fear incurring the wrath of governments and people worldwide? People now have a general understanding of how terrifying nuclear weapons are, and they also know that if the use of nuclear weapons is not controlled and countries are allowed to use their stockpiled nuclear weapons against each other, then... the world's nuclear weapons are enough to destroy the entire Earth. Therefore, in this era, nuclear weapons are more of a deterrent weapon, something to be kept at home to scare people.
No one would be foolish enough to be the first to pull out a nuclear bomb and drop it around indiscriminately; doing so would easily make them the enemy of the entire world.
Just like that Arab country back then, when the US suspected them of conducting nuclear tests, it sent troops to take over the entire country. If that Arab country had actually developed a nuclear bomb and launched it, it would probably be completely wiped out by now. The US wouldn't even leave them a puppet government.
Isn't this Black God afraid that the nuclear bomb they dropped will cause a global uproar? If it causes such a huge reaction and enrages governments around the world, then even if his black market assassin network is very well hidden, he probably won't be able to continue to hide safely.