Taking the money, the three men's expressions softened, and they lowered their guns.

"You guys are not bad. Alright, we won't pursue this matter here. Go back," the squad leader waved his hand, generous.

"Go back? This... anyway, there's no one around. Why not let our client go in and have a look? As long as we don't say anything, no one will know..." Li Wei smiled cautiously from the side.

"That won't do. The higher-ups..."

'Must hurry.' A thought flashed through Baldy's mind. While suppressing his opponent, his back split open, and a black-red knife hilt slowly rose from the flesh of his right shoulder.

That was his most powerful special cutting weapon, made from extremely expensive high-grade alloy hongtie, several times sharper than the weapon he had just used, capable of cutting most special alloys on the market.

Even he couldn't withstand a single strike head-on.

Clang!

Another strike heavily knocked Li Cheng Yi away, shattering a lot of purple fragments.

Baldy's expression hardened, and he reached back towards his shoulder, gripping the knife.

Suddenly, his hand paused, and he inexplicably dove towards the ground, as if there was something extremely important to him in the gravel and dirt there.

Baldy abandoned gripping the knife and fell straight to the ground like a playing card, his back straight.

He hugged a pile of dirt and gravel as if it were the most precious treasure in the world.

This was Huayu! Hand of Enchantment!!

Taking the opportunity, Li Cheng Yi lunged forward, grabbing the knife hilt on the other's shoulder.

Bang!!

Before he could pull the knife out, Baldy slammed a fist into his chest and abdomen.

The Hand of Enchantment only controlled the opponent for one second!?

Before Li Cheng Yi could be shocked, he was sent flying backwards two meters by the force, landing in a half-crouch.

Clang!

Baldy seized the opportunity to draw his knife and slash diagonally down at Li Cheng Yi's head. www.

The rainbow-like blade light fell in the blink of an eye like a ribbon.

Whoosh!

With a crisp sound, the flower scale armor on Li Cheng Yi suddenly shattered, turning into countless purple petals scattering.

He looked up at the rapidly falling rainbow blade.

'Gladiolus!'

Chiiii!!

A burst of sword blades shot out, instantly piercing Baldy's body.

At this moment, everything around seemed to freeze.

Countless wisteria petals swirled around Li Cheng Yi, beginning to change color and shape like sand.

Soon, the purple petals faded, turning into a faint golden color.

The golden petals slowly dispersed, revealing his current condition.

The previous wisteria flower scale armor had disappeared, replaced by a set of heavy golden armor.

The armor seemed to be made of pure copper, the helmet on the head resembling a locust, with a hideous mouth. Forehead, shoulders, elbows, knees, all had dense golden crystal spikes.

Each spike was like a short sword growing on the armor.

In addition, there was a dense circle of at least dozens of golden blades on the back of the armor.

The blades on the wheel were of varying lengths, some broken, some irregular, some were even just spikes, but each one gleamed with a sharp, cold light at the end.

Among them, the five longest blades extended outwards for more than a meter, precisely the ones that had pierced into Baldy's chest.

Clack.

Li Cheng Yi reached out, each hand drawing a long sword from the sword wheel on his back, and stood up.

As he stood up, the blades on his back were pulled out from Baldy's body, shrinking back into the sword wheel as if alive.

"Why couldn't you just let me properly ask who was behind this…" He sighed, swiping his hands forward.

The two long swords suddenly sliced across Baldy's dull face. The body, which had just been quite hard, was easily cut into an X shape under the blades of the Gladiolus flower scale armor, as if cutting a potato.

"This... what is this!!?" Baldy's voice was intermittent, unable to speak clearly.

He couldn't understand what he was seeing at all. What was that just now!?

Exoskeleton armor? Bio-armor? Or some kind of cutting-edge technology?

Poof!

But he wouldn't know anything anymore. His head had been completely cut into four pieces, two intersecting cracks appearing on his face.

Li Cheng Yi released his hands, and the blades in his hands automatically shattered, turning into golden Gladiolus petals. Then, new blades automatically condensed in the sword wheel on his back to fill the gaps.

This was the Gladiolus flower scale armor. Although the Huayu ability was sturdiness, the flower scale armor itself didn't have much defense, mainly focusing on offense.

'The Gladiolus's Huayu, sturdiness, is more for strengthening offense than for defense. Making all the blades of the Gladiolus flower scale armor sturdier, more indestructible, and less likely to break during an attack.'

'I misunderstood from the beginning. The Gladiolus's Huayu just happened to be suitable for defending in coordination with other flower scale armors. Its essence is for offense.'

He looked down at the armor on his body, at least dozens of blades embedded all over it, with intricate flower patterns of Gladiolus flowers everywhere.

Coming back to his senses, Li Cheng Yi looked down at Baldy, drew his sword again, and swung it down to divide the body.

Soon, Baldy was cut into dozens of pieces.

There was no blood or flesh in any of the fragments, just metal scraps and parts.

'A robot, or a complete type?' Li Cheng Yi's heart tightened. To prevent the secret of the flower scale armor from being exposed, he looked left and right and began to swing his sword to further divide the fragments.

After a few chops, he thought of a better idea.

Immediately, he pounced on the Baldy fragments, pressing down with his whole body.

Then he rolled around on the 'corpse'.

The many blades attached to the Gladiolus flower scale armor acted like a shredder, turning Baldy's fragments into even smaller pieces in a few passes.

After confirming that there wasn't a single complete device, Li Cheng Yi got up, shook off the debris, and quickly left.

Finding a blind spot in a CCTV camera in the alley, he switched back to his normal state and jogged towards the Candy Bar.

Since he had been attacked, it was likely that other people from the company had also been attacked.

Where did those attackers come from, what was their background, and why were they attacking him? He had to find out all of this.

Sprinting along the alley, he quickly found an exit and ran to the side of the street.

Not far from the street was a bus stop. Further away, along a hundred-meter-long wall, a row of police cars was parked.

Police cars with white bodies and blue lettering flashed red and blue lights, and a group of armed police officers had set up yellow police tape around the area.

From a distance, Li Cheng Yi saw his boss, Syndra, and Zhong Ying standing inside the police tape, talking to a tall man in a black, fitted police uniform.

The other police officers' uniforms were light blue, but this man's was pure black, with a silver cross star on each shoulder.

The man had thick eyebrows, large eyes, a square face, and a muscular build. One of his arms was a completely black metal prosthetic, without any virtual skin covering it.

Li Cheng Yi moved closer, walking to the edge of the police tape and standing with the rest of the onlookers.

"Boss!" he shouted.

Syndra heard him and saw him, nodded in his direction, then said a few words to the man in the black police uniform and walked closer with Zhong Ying.

"Are you alright?" Syndra frowned, sizing up Li Cheng Yi, and said in a deep voice.

"I'm fine. Someone tried to kill me, but I managed to escape first, then ambushed them in an alley and killed them!" Li Cheng Yi said quickly. "Boss, were you guys attacked too?"

"Yeah, complete-type cyborgs, two of them came, but they were all garbage models with downgraded functions. We drove them off," Syndra said casually, but it wasn't hard to imagine how dangerous it had been.

Li Cheng Yi himself had encountered a suspected complete-type attacker and knew how formidable they were.

And Syndra had been attacked by two of them at the same time, making it even more dangerous!

"Where's Song Ge? Where's Sima Gui?" Seeing that the two people in front of him were unharmed, Li Cheng Yi asked about the other two.

"They're all fine. A Ran suffered a minor injury, nothing serious. Sima Gui wasn't attacked. The assassin was scared away by the police who arrived," Syndra said calmly. "The most urgent thing now is to find out who is attacking us? And to dare to do this in a Yiguo city, this kind of boldness isn't something ordinary people would do."

Li Cheng Yi nodded, glanced into the distance, and saw a patch of charred human remains still burning on the road.

"Is that the attacker?" he asked.

"Yes, the police who arrived sniped him from a distance. He was blown up," Syndra replied. "But complete-type cyborgs are hard to kill. It's a bit troublesome to be targeted, so we need to find out where they came from as soon as possible."

"Wait a minute, boss, wasn't that guy blown up? What do you mean, hard to kill?? He's not completely dead even like that?" Zhong Ying, who had been holding back for a long time, finally couldn't help but ask.

Having experienced the blind spot and the shock just now, her nerves seemed to be getting tougher.

"Oh, didn't I tell you?" Syndra asked in confusion.

"No," Li Cheng Yi nodded in agreement. He wanted to know too.

"Yeah. No!" Zhong Ying echoed.

"It's simple," Syndra said without changing his expression. "Complete-type cyborgs, as the name suggests, are living people whose entire bodies have been modified. The only flesh and blood tissue inside their bodies that belongs to them is the medulla. The rest is either bionic tissue or pure alloy."

"But that guy exploded and still isn't dead?" Zhong Ying asked again.

"Because their consciousness is backed up," Syndra replied. "For complete-type cyborgs, even the brain can be cultivated and replicated. All of their consciousness and memories are backed up in a personality repository. As long as their outer body dies, a new human brain can be replicated and cultivated immediately, and then a new body can be reconstructed based on the human brain. All it costs is money."

"They can do that!?" Li Cheng Yi and Zhong Ying were both stunned.

"So does that still count as a person?!" Li Cheng Yi couldn't understand why anyone would be willing to turn themselves into such a ghoul.

"Why wouldn't it? The personality repository can only replicate and cultivate a new human brain after the previous human brain is completely destroyed. There are strict restrictions on this. And complete-type cyborgs have essentially achieved immortality," Syndra sighed. "What is the essence of a person? No one can really say for sure. But for outsiders, a living person who still has their previous memories and uses their previous brain cells is still considered the original person, even if their limbs are different. From an ethical and moral point of view, as long as multiple people with the same memories are not allowed to be replicated and cultivated at the same time, everything is fine."

"Then who restricts that?" Li Cheng Yi keenly grasped the key point.

"The Ethics Committee," Syndra replied. "A global international organization jointly led by Yiguo and Bai Xing, but in reality, because the cultivation technology isn't very difficult, many people are secretly pursuing this kind of perverted immortality. So no one knows exactly how many complete-type cyborgs there are in the shadows."

"That's too exaggerated, right??!" Zhong Ying was almost stunned.

"It's nothing special," Syndra said. "Many of the older generations of the major families in the high-level circles of Yiguo and Bai Xing have chosen to become complete-types. It's just that because of the Silent Fortress, complete-types aren't allowed to enter the city, nor are they allowed to hold power, so not many people know about it. I didn't expect some force to dare to do this this time. It seems like the other party is probably some well-known terrorist organization."