#449Chapter 423 Special Class VS Seo Ji-wooAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Xu Zhiyu sat in the abandoned Xu's Pharmaceutical Group building, which had originally housed nearly a thousand employees.
But after Xu Zhiyu took control of the conglomerate, he directly abandoned all business operations, converted most of the assets into cash, and had previously initiated a business with End Empire.
Xu Zhiyu leaned on the sofa in the empty President's office; now only the sofa he sat on and a cabinet against the wall remained.
Xu Zhiyu repeatedly bounced a baseball he held against the cabinet, catching it as it rebounded.
He was waiting for a message, a reply from End Empire.
Whack!
The cabinet, struck too many times by the baseball, suddenly split open, and two corpses in suits tumbled out.
The two corpses were already covered in maggots, and the stench of decay filled the air.
"Tsk, even in death, they can't stand properly, can they?"
Xu Zhiyu stood up, lifted the two corpses again, and a crimson glow on his right hand, like a giant python, forced the two corpses to stand bound together.
These two were his father and younger brother, formerly the President and Director of Xu's Pharmaceutical Group.
Xu Zhiyu gently brushed off the maggots from his father's and brother's faces, then tidied their hair before sitting back down.
"One can lack talent, but one must learn to choose sides, Father, Brother..."
"I clearly told you that the future era would become like this, and asked you to assist me in becoming the King of Goryeo, but you said I was crazy. Alas, I get sad too."
The woman standing outside the door saw this scene, lowered her head, and dared not enter.
Che Zixi increasingly felt that Xu Zhiyu was probably completely insane.
No normal person would manipulate and play with the corpses of their own father and brother like this.
"Come in."
Che Zixi trembled, but still pushed the door open and walked in. The stench of corpses immediately assailed her nostrils, and she instantly felt like vomiting.
Whoosh, thud thud!
Xu Zhiyu appeared behind Che Zixi in an instant, and two forces pierced through Che Zixi's head.
The next moment, Che Zixi found that she could no longer smell the stench. She sniffed, then realized she had lost her sense of smell.
"Rest assured, Miss Che, I merely temporarily took away your sense of smell. Now, tell me about the matters I asked you to investigate."
When Xu Zhiyu wasn't insane, he was quite gentle and refined. Che Zixi once thought he was a true noble son of a chaebol.
However, she was now deeply involved in various affairs of the Yixin Society, and her true identity and home address were known to Xu Zhiyu, leaving her no chance to escape him.
"Yes, President. The Blue House has indeed secretly formed a Reincarnators team. This department is hidden within other departments, and I haven't yet found its exact location, but it can be roughly confirmed that its scale is not large, with about 10 Reincarnators, and no traces of Title-level Reincarnators."
"Additionally, Li Xianhou of the March Conglomerate previously discussed this matter with the President, but it was rejected by the President. It can be inferred that this department does not belong to the March Conglomerate. At the same time, the March Conglomerate also has the possibility of forming its own Reincarnators force."
Whack!
Xu Zhiyu suddenly threw the baseball with force, shattering the head of his father's corpse.
"See, Father, you're just not as good as Li Xianhou."
Che Zixi lowered her head, pretending not to see the scene, and continued to analyze other intelligence.
"Miss Li Qingzi of the March Conglomerate, whom you instructed us to monitor, previously went to Southeast Asia and has now returned to the country. Some say she brought back a man."
Then, Che Zixi took out a tablet, which contained only a very blurry portrait. The man in the portrait had a terrifying giant phantom behind him.
Xu Zhiyu took the portrait and tapped it lightly.
Beep, beep.
His phone rang. He answered the call, and a deep male voice came from within.
"Your Majesty says to abandon the plan to seize Goryeo and to proceed directly to the teleportation point. We will receive you into the Empire."
Xu Zhiyu's tapping hand froze. He frowned, and his voice turned cold.
"I remember we already reached an agreement."
The man on the other end of the phone did not accept Xu Zhiyu's threat. He simply explained,
"We have our own intelligence channels. Simply put, Tao Bai Bai has landed in Goryeo. Adhering to the principle of avoiding losses of high-level Reincarnators, we believe that seizing Goryeo is no longer cost-effective, hence we are abandoning it. That's all."
Goryeo, whether in terms of population or resources, is not particularly abundant. Its only commendable aspect, the economy, is not an irreplaceable resource in the current situation.
And Tao Bai Bai has now been proven to possess the strength to directly kill high-level Reincarnators such as Millennium Bug and Sage, and has even successfully returned from a world where Supreme Experts went missing.
It's not worth it to be an enemy of Tao Bai Bai for Goryeo.
Xu Zhiyu frowned, feeling that he had only been out of the Infinite Dimensional Space for a few days, yet he was already starting to not understand what these people were saying.
Tao Bai Bai landed in Goryeo, so what?
Tao Bai Bai was just a newly emerged fierce individual. Such individuals appear one or two times in the space after every few missions. Some rise, some die; it's nothing significant.
Beep beep beep.
The call had ended. End Empire had obtained the human resources it wanted, and its attitude towards Xu Zhiyu had become much colder.
Xu Zhiyu raised the baseball, poised to continue smashing his brother's corpse.
Che Zixi, however, immediately spoke up,
"President, Tao Bai Bai survived the recent B711 Sub-World anomaly. Many now speculate he possesses 'Fierce' tier combat power. The Empire just lost Tang Sanzang, so they likely don't want to be enemies with Tao Bai Bai."
Xu Zhiyu frowned. He instantly flickered back into the space, and due to the different flow of time, he reappeared before Che Zixi just as he had vanished.
But he had already acquired a very detailed piece of intelligence from the space.
"Moon Demon, Tao Bai Bai..."
Xu Zhiyu knew very well that Li Qingzi was Moon Demon, and therefore also knew that the man Li Qingzi brought to Goryeo was Tao Bai Bai. He just hadn't expected that after one mission world, Tao Bai Bai, whom he had previously disregarded, had become a "high-level Reincarnator" capable of making End Empire retreat at his name.
Beep, beep.
His phone rang again. He glanced at the caller ID, which clearly displayed the name [Li Qingzi].
After connecting, Xu Zhiyu did not speak, but a light chuckle came from the other end of the line.
"Mr. Xu Zhiyu, I'm still thinking about that treasure map. I hope you haven't traded it away."
There was undisguised greed in that voice.
Xu Zhiyu stood up and walked to the window. He indeed saw that the street below the building was, at some unknown point, completely empty.
"It seems Mr. Tao Bai Bai really wants that treasure map..."
Click.
An almost inaudible sound of a gun bolt being pulled back rang out. Xu Zhiyu pressed one hand on Che Zixi's head, and then the world seemed to pause in his eyes.
A large-caliber bullet shot through the wall, flying towards him in his almost-stopped world. Through the bullet hole left in the wall, he clearly saw several figures in black leather, appearing inside the building.
Bang!
"Careful, it missed!"
The sniping woman, seeing no blood flowing from the figure in her thermal scope, immediately warned.
The next moment, the burly man at the very front roared, his body instantly expanding, directly smashing through the wall and pouncing towards Xu Zhiyu.
This was their Goryeo Special Operations Department's first operation, and failure was absolutely not an option.
Whoosh.
The woman code-named "Qingying" suddenly saw her target disappear from the thermal imaging. She raised her head to warn her teammates, but she opened her mouth and couldn't speak at all.
Pfft!
Blood gushed from her neck, and a large amount of air rushed into her chest cavity. The woman clutched her neck, turned her head, and only saw Xu Zhiyu, dressed in a blue suit, already behind her. What had slit her throat... were his fingernails...
Thud.
As Qingying's body hit the ground, the few people who had rushed into the President's office only then realized what had happened. They turned their heads and saw their teammate already lying in a pool of blood.
Xu Zhiyu's eyelids were lowered, his phone pressed to his ear, and a cruel arc curved at the corner of his mouth.
"Tao Bai Bai, how interesting..."
The world almost froze in his eyes again. He took one step and appeared behind these black-clad figures, and lines of blood appeared on their necks.
Tao Bai Bai's voice also came from the phone at this moment.
"Keep it up, Mr. Xu. Slaughter your President's Special Operations Department. I'll finish things here and come find you."
"Ah!"
The screams on the phone, rising and falling, clearly indicated that Tao Bai Bai was also carrying out some plan.
Xu Zhiyu's mind was quick, and he instantly realized that the other party was using him.
But with the March Conglomerate's help, he was probably powerless to turn the tide.
Roar!
A roaring sound erupted from the ground floor. The next moment, a giant white tiger, directly running up the wall from the building's exterior, charged towards them.