Her only sentence was: "No need to find him. Just kill me here..."
Raven frowned tightly, her expression turning displeased.
"What do you mean, 'kill you'? Once we go out, someone from the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps will come to kill you anyway. I won't do something superfluous that I don't like."
"Don't you want to see where he actually is and what he's doing right now?"
Raven became more agitated as she spoke. By the end, she even grabbed Raiden Mei by the collar, growling into her pale face, "Whether you like it or not, I'm going to make you see with your own eyes what kind of selfish person the one you trust and rely on truly is. Even if you die, you must die knowing the truth."
Mei didn't resist much. Like a puppet with its strings cut, she was roughly dragged away by Raven.
The two left the basement and returned to the surface of Nagazora City.
The summer night street was empty and exceptionally desolate.
Relying on her understanding of mercenary operation patterns and the brief plan she received before the mission started, Raven roughly deduced the area where the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps was last active.
As long as she found a member of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps first, she could just ask them to know if Li Wu had made contact with them.
Raven scoffed coldly, "You'd better pray that kid was caught and not that he ran away. If he really escaped to another city within these two hours, I'm not sure I can withstand the pressure from the employer and the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps to protect you. After all, the mission requires you to die tonight."
The two walked into the planned base, a dilapidated apartment building. The higher they went, the stronger the sense of wrongness in the air became.
It was too quiet.
She didn't see any of the sentries or patrol personnel she expected.
Instead, the stairwell was scattered with some unusual debris...
Deformed bullet casings, torn tactical backpacks, grenades with the safety pins still in.
There was a battle here?
As a top-tier mercenary, Raven instantly realized what these fragmented pieces of information meant.
Someone had broken into the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps' base and gone on a killing spree.
Was it Li Wu?
No, impossible. How could an ordinary person like him do something like this?
Refusing to believe it, Raven continued to lead Raiden Mei upwards.
Then, they saw the first corpse...
Curled up in the shadows at the mouth of the alley, its neck twisted at an unnatural angle, lying in a pool of blackish-red blood that had already gone cold.
Then the second one, draped over a rusty iron fence, with a clear bullet hole in the center of its forehead.
Following that were the third, the fourth...
Corpses were everywhere... like a silent exhibition of death. Members of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps lay collapsed in all directions in various grotesque postures.
The strong smell of blood mixed with the scent of gunpowder smoke was pungent.
Raven's footsteps slowed down. Her original anger faded bit by bit, replaced by an increasingly heavy solemnity.
"Knife wounds... Gunshot wounds... Traces of close-quarters combat... All fatal attacks." Raven muttered to herself, her wine-red eyes carefully examining the wounds on the corpses. "Not a large-scale firefight... It's what I'm best at... Ambush, assassination. Very precise. Someone who can do this to this extent is definitely not an ordinary person. Like me, they must be a top-tier mercenary ranked among the world's best. Did Li Wu hire someone? No, there aren't many people who can do this. Those old fogies are far away; it's impossible for them to arrive in the Far East within two hours, let alone finish off the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps. And judging by these wounds... they've been dead for a long time. The approximate time of death is..."
Raven quickly analyzed based on her mercenary experience.
"About two hours ago."
After reaching this conclusion, Raven's hand froze in mid-air, delaying her next move.
Two hours?
Isn't that the exact time Li Wu left after making the bet with her?
A bizarre thought suddenly surfaced in Raven's mind.
"Impossible, impossible. How could an ordinary person like him kill everyone in the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps? Absolutely impossible. Maybe it was those Valkyries from Schicksal, or maybe it was a cyborg cultivated by Anti-Entropy, but it absolutely cannot be Li Wu."
Raven forced herself to be convinced. With Raiden Mei right beside her, her analysis just now was undoubtedly a slap in her own face.
Mei saw all of this too. Her fingers tightly gripped the hem of her clothes. The scene before her exceeded the scope of her understanding. Several times, she wanted to vomit but held it back.
Even though she understood human nature well, she couldn't avoid the physiological discomfort caused by such a bloody scene.
The scene inside was even more shocking.
Stairwells, corridors, and even the ventilation grilles on the ceiling bore traces of combat and death. Bullet holes densely covered the walls, and coagulated blood splatters formed various horrific shapes.
"...Did Li Wu do this?" Mei asked timidly.
"I don't know." This time Raven compromised and didn't deny it immediately. "If Li Wu really did this, then he is definitely not as simple as you think. Even the most battle-hardened mercenary couldn't eliminate peers not much weaker than themselves in such a short time. being able to do it and being able to do it in a short time are two different things."
"Even if it were me, it would be absolutely impossible to wipe out everyone in the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps within two hours. Reality isn't a game. The opponents communicate, have tactical coordination, run away if they can't win, and hide to ambush people..."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. But other than him, I can't think of a second person with a reason to do this."
Raven pursed her lips, her gaze extremely complex.
After eliminating other options, the remaining one, no matter how unbelievable or incredible, was likely the correct answer or the correct direction.
Although the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps had committed many evil deeds like arson, killing, and looting, because they acted meticulously and had extensive connections, few people were willing to offend them, let alone fight them to the death.
That Kaslana at Schicksal was only focused on fighting the Honkai, and the executors of Anti-Entropy were all thinking about how to save the people around them.
Cocolia wanted to use the power of the Herrscher of Thunder to save Seele; Raiden Ryoma wanted to use the power of the Gem of Conquest to save Mei; Einstein and Tesla stayed in the lab all day researching ways to alleviate Honkai corruption to help Welt Yang.
In the vast Far East, Raven couldn't think of a second faction, not even one with a reason to annihilate the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps.
The Far East officials wouldn't intervene; after all, the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps was let in by the Far East nobles themselves. Other than Li Wu, who would do such a thing?
But how could that ordinary person single-handedly kill the entire Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps?!
Putting aside intelligence, he simply lacked the combat experience!
Raven was absolutely certain of this, because when she first met Li Wu, his reaction was completely unlike that of an experienced person.