Once, I wanted to be a good person

And yet, at the moment when the plan was on the brink of failure, they chose to complete the mission with their lives...

As Fang Ze picked up those pieces of black debris, he recalled the introduction to Shadow Warriors from the Late-Night Investigation Room,

"The weakest of the Disaster Creatures."

"Their thinking is simple, only capable of following simple commands, but they know no fear and will battle to the death to fulfill those commands..."

Fang Ze fought back his sorrow and collected their remains, dug a hole, buried them on the spot, and then piled up a small grave.

Afterward, Fang Ze sat quietly in front of their modest grave for a while, composed himself, and then forced his body to stand to check on the ranger one last time.

However, before he could get close to the ranger,

Suddenly, he saw the ranger's broken body tremble slightly.

At that instant, Fang Ze felt a surge in his heart.

He hurriedly picked up the first iron spear he had found while collecting the Shadow Warrior debris, tensed up, and approached cautiously.

It was only when he got close to the ranger's body that Fang Ze was surprised to discover that half of the ranger's body had been blown away.

An arm and a leg were gone. Half of the body, neck, and half the face were also blown away, exposing the innards and flesh and blood.

But still... he was stubbornly alive.

It was unclear whether it was the ranger's higher Awakener vitality that was so tenacious, or if there was something related to vitality within his Awakening Ability.

He may have been left with half a life, and though he had passed out, he was still alive...

Even... this wasn't everything; from the broken parts of his body, sprout-like flesh buds were growing, like plant tendrils, slowly healing his body...

......

Seeing this, Fang Ze was truly scared.

This is a high-level Awakener?

To have withstood an attack 50 times his own formidable power and to survive despite half his body being blown to bits?!

But if he didn't die, it would be Fang Ze's turn to die!

With this in mind, he lifted the iron spear in his hand, raised it high, and prepared to deliver a few more blows to the ranger, to send him off for good!

But at the moment the iron spear was about to fall, Fang Ze abruptly stopped.

He looked at the ranger's broken body and then at the slow healing speed, a bold idea suddenly born in his mind!

Last time, with the three-person pursuit team, he had killed them outright, leaving no survivors.

This meant he couldn't find out why the organization was hunting him and how they had tracked him down!

Now, with a living enemy, instead of killing him now and waiting for the next one to come after him, it might be better to use the Late-Night Investigation Room to investigate and interrogate him.

To get from his mouth the reason and method of the manhunt, so as to find a way to solve it!

And moreover...

Actually, ever since using the Late-Night Investigation Room, Fang Ze always had many questions: Can the room investigate Awakeners?

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Would Awakeners get tricked by the interrogation room?

Could they still use their abilities inside the room?

Could those abilities hurt him? Could he control them?

Because of this series of questions, although Fang Ze had actually come into contact with Awakeners like Bai Ling and Bai Zhi, he had never dared to summon them into the investigation room.

But now... there lay a severely wounded, unconscious, and on the brink of death Awakener.

Fang Ze felt... perhaps it was time to test it out!

What's more, just investigating ordinary people with Awakening potential yielded so many good things.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Then, investigating an Awakener should grant even more benefits, accelerating the enhancement of his powers, right?

With this thought, although he knew the plan was risky, Fang Ze still clenched his teeth and decided to go through with it!

Fortune favors the bold! Without risk, how could there be high rewards!

With this in mind, Fang Ze stabbed the ranger with the iron spear several more times to slow his self-healing, then tore his battered shirt to make rope, and tied up the ranger on the spot. Dragging him along the ground, he left the battlefield...

........

Following the traces of battle, Fang Ze went back and collected all his belongings, all of which he now had to carry alone without the Shadow Warriors.

After the battle and being riddled with injuries, he found this to be the most difficult and humiliating few hours he'd had since his escape.

Thus, he fiercely dragged the vine, allowing the ranger's head to intimately contact the uneven ground...

So carrying the baggage and dragging the ranger's broken body, Fang Ze walked for hours in the jungle until he finally found a small cave behind some shrubs at the side of a mountain...

Having dragged the ranger into the cave, Fang Ze checked his recovery from the wounds, stabbed him a few more times with the iron spear, and then sat down with peace of mind.

Then Fang Ze opened his bag and took out a bottle of water he had seized from the trio, poured a little into the shrubs to make sure it wasn't poisoned, and then carefully took a couple of sips.

The water wet his lips and quenched his dry throat, making his body feel a bit better.

After sitting and resting for a while, Fang Ze began to check the belongings that the ranger had been carrying.

Whether it was because half of his body had been blasted away or because the ranger was too confident to need supplies, there was almost nothing left on him.