After "Jiang Yuanfeng" disappeared and melted, the liquid slowly flowed across the ground. But after only a few seconds, it evaporated completely, as if it had never existed.
As for the corpse of Jiang Yuanfeng that Lu Daoxing had thrown out, the wound piercing through its chest was horrifying.
Lying on the ground facing upward, its face still held the expression from the instant of death. Its brows slightly furrowed, its eyes filled with deep fighting spirit.
It was clear that until the final moment before his death, he still had not realized that death had arrived.
Lu Daoxing said calmly, "You think such a crude substitute item can fool me?"
"You…"
At this point, Jiang Yuanrui was completely unable to speak.
And Jiang Changqing behind him was also dumbfounded.
From beginning to end, Jiang Changqing had not known what to do. He had only watched Jiang Yuanrui and Lu Daoxing accuse each other.
He did not even know when his Sixth Uncle, Jiang Yuanfeng, had been replaced by a substitute.
Of the three, Jiang Yuanfeng was the only one who might have been able to fight Lu Daoxing, yet Lu Daoxing had killed him with ease.
The deep fear made the two of them completely forget to resist.
Lu Daoxing spoke again, "Jiang Yuanrui, I know you were stalling for time, waiting for Jiang Yuanfeng to ambush me. But I still went along with the conversation. Do you know why?"
"Because… because you were confident you could kill Sixth Brother?"
"Because I wanted to talk to you in the first place."
Lu Daoxing gestured toward Zhao Longfei, "Got a cigarette?"
Zhao Longfei threw him a cigar.
Lu Daoxing waved one end of the cigar through the faint blue patterns of light beside him, and it lit.
A wisp of white smoke slowly came out of Lu Daoxing's nostrils, and his tense expression relaxed slightly.
"My original plan today was to risk my life to kill Jiang Hao."
"If I was outmatched and Jiang Hao killed me, then it would all be over. After all, I'd already killed so many people from your Jiang family. I'd gotten my money's worth long ago."
"If I successfully killed him, then probably no one would dare protect you anymore. I could then calmly go find you and ask you about the whole matter from beginning to end. You, the Minister of the Ministry of Economics, are the one who carried everything out. I wanted to ask you why you did it and how you framed my wife."
"But somehow, Heaven had its own arrangements and let me meet you first today. Since it's better to act when the opportunity comes, I had no choice but to say a few more words to you first, then go kill Jiang Hao."
"But there's always a gap between what people think and reality," Lu Daoxing exhaled another long stream of smoke, "As we talked, I realized there was nothing worth talking about with you. And there was no point asking about the remaining questions."
"Let's just leave it at that."
Swish!
As Lu Daoxing's voice fell, a streak of silver light flashed past.
A thin line of blood opened across Jiang Yuanrui's neck, and bright red blood seeped from the wound.
A moment later, his head slid from his shoulders and slammed heavily onto the ground. The head rolled several meters like a ball before finally stopping nearby.
Jiang Yuanrui's eyes were wide open, dying with his eyes unclosed.
Blood gushed from his severed neck, quickly pooling into a patch of red on the ground, and the strong smell of blood filled the surrounding air.
"Third Uncle?!"
Jiang Changqing suddenly came back to his senses and realized that the corpses of two Jiang family elders were already lying beside him.
He would be next.
Facing death directly, Jiang Changqing trembled all over like a sieve.
He suddenly thought of something and no longer cared about his dignity.
With a "thud," he dropped to his knees and repeatedly slammed his forehead against the ground, producing dull "thump, thump, thump" sounds.
"Please, Professor Lu, spare my life! Please, Professor Lu, don't hold this against me!"
There was some disappointment in Lu Daoxing's eyes, "Although Jiang Hao and I have a deep hatred, I still have to say that he's an impressive man. How did he end up choosing you as his heir?"
Jiang Changqing did not answer.
He just kept kowtowing.
Lu Daoxing flicked away the cigarette butt beside him, "Stop wasting your effort begging for your life. Jiang Changqing, you must die."
"Why?!", Jiang Changqing looked confused, "Professor Lu, earlier, my elder brother Jiang Changfu begged for his life by kowtowing. Didn't you spare him?"
"Is Jiang Changfu's position in the Jiang family the same as yours?"
"But I'm just a child! I'm younger than Jiang Changfu, and more deserving of forgiveness! Professor Lu, I had no choice before. Please spare my life! I promise I'll turn over a new leaf!"
Lu Daoxing's tone was indifferent, "I can spare him. I can't spare you."
Swish!
Another streak of silver light, and Jiang Changqing's head fell.
But no blood came from Jiang Changqing's wound. Instead, it was filled by some unknown substance that gave off a silver light.
Before Lu Daoxing, Qin Siyang, and Zhao Longfei could see what it was, a white barrier suddenly surged out from the wound.
With lightning speed, it wrapped around Jiang Changqing's corpse, then disappeared from in front of them with a "whoosh."
The entire process was like a magic trick.
In the blink of an eye, only the corpses of Jiang Yuanrui and Jiang Yuanfeng remained in front of them.
Qin Siyang stared blankly, "Just now…what happened?"
Zhao Longfei's brows were tightly furrowed as he shook his head, "I don't know. It's probably some method Jiang Hao set up that can take Jiang Changqing's corpse away."
"Corpse? Jiang Changqing is already dead?"
"Yeah. Professor Lu's slash… anyway, he's completely dead."
Only then did Qin Siyang regretfully shake his head, "What a pity. Jiang Changqing's performance at the Crystal Coin Issuance Conference today was so stupid that there was no one more stupid above or below him. Killing such a brainless heir somehow feels like Jiang Hao got the better end of it."
Lu Daoxing turned back to look at Qin Siyang, his expression slightly puzzled.
Zhao Longfei reproached him from the side, "Why didn't you say so earlier? Professor Lu doesn't know what happened at the Crystal Coin Issuance Conference. Since you didn't want him to die, couldn't you have let him go when Jiang Changqing was kowtowing just now?"
Qin Siyang shrugged, "It doesn't matter. Jiang Hao was going to die sooner or later anyway. Whether Jiang Changqing dies at the third watch or the fifth watch won't change the result. It's more important that Professor Lu got his way."
"You really are something… Fine."
Zhao Longfei shook his head, completely helpless about Qin Siyang's hindsight.
Lu Daoxing put Jiang Yuanfeng and Jiang Yuanrui's corpses away.
Then the air beside him once again gave off ripples of blue fluorescence, beginning to tremble and twist like a curtain.
At this moment, Zhao Longfei suddenly spoke to himself, "They're both important figures in the Jiang family. There might be countermeasures set up in their minds to prevent their memories from being read."
Lu Daoxing gave a slight nod and took one step across the blue fluorescent light, his figure disappearing into it.
Then the blue light gradually faded as well.
Only Qin Siyang and Zhao Longfei remained.
From beginning to end, Lu Daoxing had only asked Zhao Longfei for a cigarette.
Other than that, he did not say a single word to Zhao Longfei or Qin Siyang, who were within arm's reach of him. He did not even exchange more than a few glances with them.
Because the Lu Daoxing now was not a university professor.
He was the only high-level wanted criminal with a real name.
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