Chapter 68: Destroying the Body and Erasing All Traces

In the noisy motor room, the motors still hummed and turned, masking all the sounds of the brief fight that had just occurred.

Chen Chong stood before the corpse of Yin Hu, who was kneeling on the ground, gazing at his own palm. A strong surge of joy and confidence rose in his eyes:

“This… is my current strength…”

In truth, with Chen Chong’s meticulous mind, when he ran into Yin Hu, he had already anticipated that the other party would likely sneak over to spy on his secrets. He had long been prepared, without any burden, to silence him permanently.

Lying in wait, he indeed waited until this person arrived.

For him, Yin Hu delivering himself to his door also served an important purpose: testing the intensity of his current strength. Although he had initially achieved Current Push, he had never been clear on the specific extent of his power .

The result still somewhat surprised Chen Chong. Without any fancy techniques, relying purely on savage strength and speed, Yin Hu could not even withstand a single punch from him and was directly beaten to death!

He hadn’t even used his full power.

Yin Hu was also a seasoned Awakener, likely on the same level as Qiao Jun, who had been routed in one strike by the Blood General. Compared in this way, this meant Chen Chong had fully acquired the capital to contend against the Blood General.

Looking down from above, staring at Yin Hu’s corpse, Chen Chong’s gaze flickered, his thoughts drifting:

“The Blood General has that strange method, the Bloodline Gu. I wonder if Yin Hu had been implanted with a Bloodline Gu? And since I killed Yin Hu, would the Blood General sense it?”

Chen Chong had witnessed firsthand the scene where the Blood General used the Bloodline Gu to torture Qiao Jun, making him lose his ability to resist directly. However, he couldn’t be sure if Yin Hu had been implanted with a Bloodline Gu, or if the host’s death would alert the Blood General.

Now, with power in hand and ample confidence, unlike before, Chen Chong only thought briefly before picking up Yin Hu’s corpse with one hand and walking to a fiercely burning boiler.

Whoosh.

The coal feed door opened, and tongues of fire spat out. The blazing firelight illuminated Chen Chong’s face.

His expression was blank. With a casual toss, he threw Yin Hu’s corpse directly inside.

Completely destroying the body and erasing all traces. Without a doubt, this was the most perfect way to eliminate the evidence, saving him a lot of trouble.

Chen Chong turned and left. He first went to Old Xu’s room and found Old Xu still snoring loudly, reeking of alcohol, completely unaware of everything that had happened outside. Then he collected some coal ash and dealt with the bloodstains in the motor room.

After finishing all this, in the end, Chen Chong acted as if nothing had happened. He did not do any training but instead waited quietly in the Boiler Room.

It was past midnight, and outside the Power Station, all was as quiet as usual. No one came looking for him, nor was there any unusual commotion.

“It seems either Yin Hu was not implanted with a Bloodline Gu, or the Blood General simply lacks the ability to sense if a parasite host is dead or alive!”

Silently watching through the coal feed door as Yin Hu’s corpse turned to char under the fierce flames, gradually shattering and turning to flying ash, Chen Chong thought to himself.

Clearly, the death of an Awakener was no small matter. If the Blood General could sense Yin Hu’s death, the Territory would not be so calm right now.

Having dispelled the worries in his heart, Chen Chong stood up, twisted his neck, and went to the motor room to begin his auxiliary cultivation using Electrotherapy.

An hour later, his Ultimate True Qi had once again grown significantly stronger. The current generated in his dantian during the spiral rotation became even more powerful. Chen Chong dismantled the circuit and began the physical tempering of his Body Tempering Iron Body once more.

Time passed in such cultivation. When the sky began to brighten, Chen Chong stopped all training and returned to the Boiler Room.

After a whole night of burning, the high temperature and pressure inside the boiler had completely incinerated Yin Hu’s corpse, mixing it with the charcoal ash until not a trace could be found.

After inspecting it, when quitting time came, he added the last remaining coal and left the Power Station before the other five station laborers started their shift. Facing the first light of dawn, he walked towards his residence.

…

In the early morning, the silence was shattered.

Clang… Clang… Clang…

With the urgent ringing of work bells echoing throughout the Territory, one laborer after another dragged their weary bodies out of bed. With bloodshot eyes, they walked out of their shabby houses, then shuffled towards various factories like packs of walking corpses.

“Hurry up, don’t dawdle, damn it!”

Within the dense crowd, Wei De, Lu Kai, and over twenty members of the Supervisor Squad stood at various road junctions, cursing and grumbling. They occasionally cracked their short whips in the air with snapping sounds.

A moment later, after all the laborers had entered the various factories, Wei De and Lu Kai called out to the other supervisor underlings: “You all go keep an eye on things first, we’re going to fetch water for the captain to wash up!”

Then the two of them jogged all the way to a water-fetching house not far from the Blood General’s manor. After reporting their identities and entering, they carefully carried out a basin of relatively clean water.

The main source of water in the Crimson Territory was extracted groundwater, and its use was extremely strictly controlled. Let alone water for washing up, even normal drinking water was greatly restricted. Even so, their daily share was only one small cup per person. As for anything more, forget about it. Aside from when it rained, the vast majority of people in the entire Crimson Territory might not have the chance to bathe even once a year.

However, as an Awakener and the Supervisor Squad captain, Yin Hu obviously did not fall under this restriction. His resource quota was considered among the higher tier for captain-level personnel, so he could even afford the luxury of using clean water every day to brush his teeth and wash up. As the two most quick-witted and attentive henchmen under Yin Hu, Wei De and Lu Kai naturally took on the chore of running errands.

Carrying the water basin and weaving through the lanes, they arrived at the door of the single house where Yin Hu lived. Lu Kai gently knocked on the door and called out diligently:

“Captain, we’ve fetched your washing water for you!”

The house was silent, with no response.

Lu Kai was about to knock again when Wei De looked closely and saw the latch was locked. He was stunned for a moment and said: “Wait… stop knocking. The captain’s door is locked, he’s not inside!”

Lu Kai couldn’t help but freeze too. He leaned in to see the fastened lock, puzzled: “Could the captain have already gotten up? How come I haven’t seen him at all?”

The two immediately looked at each other. Then, harboring doubt, Wei De and Lu Kai put the water basin down, jogged around and ran through all the factories in half an hour, asking everyone they met, but not a single supervisor team member had seen Yin Hu.

“What the hell.”

Returning to Yin Hu’s residence, the door was still locked. Wei De didn’t even consider any bad possibilities. He was panting and muttering:

“Where exactly did the captain go?”

Lu Kai wiped his sweat, then as if remembering something, had a sudden idea and said:

“Wait, I remember around daybreak the general’s motorcade seemed to go out. Could it be there was some special matter and the captain went with the general?”

Around dawn, when Lu Kai went to the toilet, he happened to hear the commotion of the Blood General’s motorcade moving out, and naturally made the connection. Although Yin Hu’s duty was Territory supervision, he was an Awakener after all, so the possibility of him being temporarily summoned by the Blood General couldn’t be ruled out.

Wei De immediately complained: “Damn, why didn’t you say so earlier? You made me run around for nothing!”

“Hell, I just thought of it too!”

Believing they had found the reason, the two cursed each other a couple of times, then stopped looking for Yin Hu. They started acting like proper lackeys, strutting around between the various factories, bullying others by flaunting their authority.

…

At the same time, in his own room, Chen Chong, who had been keeping an eye on the noises outside, also felt that something was strange.

Scanning the Territory outside through a small window, which had been unusually calm all along, Chen Chong frowned slightly:

“Could it be that no one has noticed Yin Hu’s disappearance yet?”

Naturally, he had no idea that the Blood General’s motorcade had conveniently departed in the morning, temporarily covering up Yin Hu’s disappearance. Chen Chong thought for a moment, then stopped paying attention to the outside world. He also didn’t go out to gather information. Instead, he calmed his mind and continued with the step-by-step cultivation of his Body Tempering Iron Body.

Yin Hu’s late-night visit to the Power Station to spy on him was clearly a personal, impulsive action, definitely not something he would let others know about. He had no open conflicts with Yin Hu, and furthermore, the Blood General’s side had no sense of Yin Hu’s death. Even if Sherlock Holmes were alive, absolutely no one could possibly connect Yin Hu’s death to him.

With such a case without any leads, Chen Chong naturally sat firmly, as if fishing from a steady boat.