Chương 2: Hunting System! Kamen Rider ZZZ!

Kamen Rider ZZZ!

"No... this isn't either..."

He turned over the disfigured corpses one by one, carefully examining their clothes and physical features.

His hands were covered in blood, but he didn't care.

After searching extensively, he confirmed the identities of all the bodies in the shop.

No! Jiang Xian's body is not there!

Jiang Che's tense nerves immediately relaxed a little. He slumped to the ground and let out a long sigh of relief.

"That's great... that's great..."

Jiang Che was panting heavily, a smile on his face that looked more like a grimace.

"Maybe my sister went outside to wait for me after answering my call? I knew it, Jiang Xian is such a lucky charm, how could anything happen to her!"

Jiang Che tried his best to comfort himself. He braced himself on the blood-stained ground with his hands, preparing to stand up and leave to find Jiang Xian outside.

Just as Jiang Che had regained his footing.

"Tap, tap, tap."

Suddenly, a series of steady footsteps came from the back kitchen of the cake shop.

Jiang Che turned his head to look.

A young man dressed in expensive casual wear was slowly walking out of the ruins of the kitchen.

He appeared completely unharmed, not even a speck of dust on his clothes, a stark contrast to the chaotic scene around him.

The young man was casually carrying a corpse on his shoulder.

The young man, named Yang Yiming, muttered irritably as he walked.

"Ugh, what bad luck. I misjudged that finishing move again, didn't control its power properly. How did I end up killing so many ordinary people again? This is so troublesome."

Yang Yiming curled his lip, his tone devoid of any reverence for life, only showing disdain and impatience.

"Forget it, there's no way to prove it since they're dead. When the report comes out, we can just pin it on that mutant beast. After all, it's normal for mutant beasts to kill people."

After saying that, Yang Yiming tossed the corpse he was carrying on his shoulder aside as if it were a bag of trash.

"Bang."

The body flew through the air in an arc before landing heavily on the pile of mangled corpses outside.

At this moment, Jiang Che, who was standing not far away, widened his eyes to their limit, his eyeballs were covered with blood vessels, as if they were about to burst at any moment.

His breathing stopped completely.

Because the corpse that Yang Yiming had just thrown out like trash was wearing a white dress that he was most familiar with.

That was the dress he bought for his sister with his first part-time job paycheck.

Jiang Che moved his feet mechanically, step by step, until he reached the corpse.

The corpse had a huge, charred hole in its abdomen, caused by some kind of high-intensity energy weapon. The flesh around the wound was also burned.

Jiang Che slowly lowered his head and looked at the corpse's face.

It was Jiang Xian.

Jiang Che froze on the spot when he saw Jiang Xian's pale, lifeless face with her eyes closed, a face that would never smile again.

His soul seemed to have been forcibly ripped out at that moment, leaving him as an empty shell devoid of thought.

There was no miracle.

There are no koi fish.

His only relative, his only pillar of support in this world, is dead.

Moreover, he didn't die at the hands of the alien beasts, but at the hands of this self-proclaimed mistaken awakener!

They died from the skills he released at will!

"Huh? There are still survivors?"

After Yang Yiming disposed of the body, he dusted off his hands and quickly noticed Jiang Che, who was standing to the side, dumbfounded.

He looked Jiang Che up and down and found that Jiang Che had no energy fluctuations at all, and was just an ordinary person at the bottom of society. He immediately smiled with relief.

"Looks like my combat control has improved this time. I unleashed such a wide-range skill, and you, an ordinary person, still managed to survive. Not bad luck, kid."

Yang Yiming said with a smile, as if showing off his skills.

Jiang Che stiffly turned his head upon hearing the grating laughter.

His eyes, bloodshot and swollen, stared intently at the man before him, his voice hoarse as if produced by rubbing two pieces of sandpaper: "Why... kill my sister!"

Yang Yiming paused for a moment, looking somewhat surprised.

He glanced at Jiang Xian, whom he had thrown into the pile of corpses, and then at Jiang Che.

However, he quickly reverted to his usual aloof and indifferent attitude.

"Oh? She's your sister?"

Yang Yiming shrugged and said in a condescending tone, "Well, you're in luck, kid. If you ordinary people from the bottom of society are killed by mutant beasts, the government will give you a pension. The family can get a subsidy of 100, 000 yuan! 100, 000 yuan is enough for a poor kid like you to live on for several years, right? You should thank me for helping you get rid of the mutant beast."

Jiang Che ignored his plea for charity, his eyes still fixed on him, like a malfunctioning machine mechanically repeating the same question: "Why... kill my sister!"

Yang Yiming's face immediately turned cold, and a hint of disgust and impatience flashed in his eyes.

"Are you deaf?" Yang Yiming said coldly.

"It was the mutant beasts that killed your sister! She died in their attack! What does that have to do with me? I'm here to eliminate the mutant beasts!"

After saying that, Yang Yiming snorted coldly, too lazy to pay any more attention to this ungrateful ordinary person. He put his hands in his pockets and walked out of the cake shop.

However, as Yang Yiming passed by Jiang Che, he suddenly stopped.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly took a few steps back, moving to Jiang Che's side.

Yang Yiming lowered his head slightly, leaned close to Jiang Che's ear, his face filled with extreme disdain and mockery.

He lowered his voice, speaking in a volume only the two of them could hear, "What? Judging from your eyes, you seem quite resentful? I'll just say it straight, I killed him."

"What's wrong with me, a noble armored awakener, killing a few ordinary people like you ants? It's just bad luck that she had to wander around near those mutant beasts!"

"Do you intend to convict me? Just because you're some nobody? That's utterly ridiculous!"

After speaking, Yang Yiming straightened up, glanced at Jiang Che with a cold smile, and prepared to leave.

He did not intend to kill Jiang Che here to silence him.

Because he knew very well that now that he had killed the alien beast, the area outside must be crowded with onlookers and arriving defense personnel.

If I were to kill Jiang Che, an ordinary person who poses no threat, in front of so many passersby, I wouldn't be able to completely blame the mutant beast.

When the higher-ups investigate, it may not be a major problem, but it will be very troublesome.

As for telling Jiang Che that he killed those ordinary people, Yang Yiming didn't care at all.

Because no one would believe what Jiang Che, an ordinary person, said.

In this world, one is an ordinary civilian who is unarmed and of low status; The other is an armored awakener with great power who has just "protected" the city.

The Defense Bureau and the public, of course, unconditionally believed in him as the armor awakener.

Even if Jiang Che went to complain, he would be seen as a madman who had gone insane because of his sister's tragic death.

Jiang Che did not chase after Yang Yiming, who walked away nonchalantly.

He stood there all alone.

Jiang Che could hear Yang Yiming's words echoing in his ears.

"What's wrong with me, an armor awakener, killing ordinary people?"

"Do you intend to convict me?"

Jiang Xian's gentle smiling face kept flashing through his mind.

"Xiao Che, I got paid today, I'll buy you pork ribs for dinner tonight!"

"Xiao Che, we won the lottery! We're going to have our own home!"

"Xiao Che, I'm waiting for you at the shop..."

All the beauty and hope of the past were shattered in that casual toss.

Jiang Che lowered his head, his fists clenched tightly together, his nails digging deep into his flesh, and drops of blood dripped from between his fingers onto the ground.

His body began to tremble uncontrollably, initially just a slight tremor, but eventually turning into violent spasms.

Extreme grief and anger gnawed at his heart like venomous snakes.

He hates!

He hated that he wasn't an awakened one!

He hated himself for being an ordinary person who could only be slaughtered by others!

He hated himself for not running faster, for not going to find Jiang Xian sooner!

He hated this rotten world even more! He hated this bullshit rule that allowed so-called awakened beings to slaughter ordinary people at will without paying any price!

Just as Jiang Che's anger reached its peak and his reason was about to be completely consumed, suddenly!

A notification sound rang in Jiang Che's ear.

[Ding! Host detected to be in a state of extreme rage. Armored Knight Hunting System activated!] Immediately afterwards, a blinding dark red light flashed across his retina, and two lines of cold text appeared.

[Received the New Player Gift Pack: Kamen Rider ZZZ Driver, Impact Dream Capsule.] As the system notification sound faded, Jiang Che felt a sudden heaviness in his chest as an extremely large, cold, and destructive energy surged into his body.

This force was so powerful that it made his heart tremble, so powerful that it was enough to tear apart all hypocrisy!

Jiang Che slowly raised his head.

Those eyes, which had been dimmed by despair, were now radiating a chilling crimson glow.

He looked at Yang Yiming's back as he approached the door.

"stop!"

Jiang Che's voice was no longer hoarse, but instead carried an extreme coldness and killing intent as if it came from the depths of hell.

Hearing the sound, Yang Yiming stopped impatiently and turned around.

Jiang Che stared intently at him and said, word by word: Did I let you leave?

"Do you really think that you can get away with murder without paying with your life?"