"Haha, I was right to pick you, I never expected there to be such a gem among the 'human-livestock'!"
In front of a densely packed residential high-rise, resembling a pigeon coop, a young man with an arrogant demeanor excitedly grabbed a well-built woman.
According to Kowloon's standards, there were many criteria for "human-livestock" maturity. If they didn't meet these standards, the new cities would continue to cultivate them.
However, ultimately, no "human-livestock" would live past thirty-five.
The woman before him appeared to be around thirty. Besides her excellent figure, what was more captivating was her gentle and demure demeanor.
But this demeanor was now completely shattered.
Li 5a7654 desperately tried to break free from the young man's grasp, but no matter how hard she struggled, his hand remained like an iron clamp, unmoving.
Li 5a7654 was the woman's name, and also her designation.
Due to issues with soul growth, Kowloon needed to assign names, experiences, and lives to humans.
Thus, these humans had their own designations, common sense memories instilled by machines, and over a decade of work, along with a large amount of unnutritious, low-level entertainment.
Li 5a7654 believed she was thirty-two this year, but in reality, this was only her physical developmental age.
According to Kowloon's internal records, the actual time she had lived from her cultivation to the present was only twelve years.
Yet, even with only twelve years of life, and even though her mind had been implanted with absolute obedience to Kowloon, she still possessed all the emotions of a normal human – joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.
Li 5a7654 recognized the young man before her; he was a powerful figure from the noble district.
At the same time, Li 5a7654 feared the young man because she had seen what happened to women taken away by him.
When they reappeared, they were discarded like garbage from the noble district.
At that time, they had already become a pool of cold, broken flesh.
In this metal city, naturally, there were metal-made cleaners to dispose of the minced flesh that was once called women.
Li 5a7654 had the misfortune of glimpsing them before they were completely cleaned.
And that sight was enough to plant the seed of fear in Li 5a7654's mind.
She was afraid and wanted to hide in her small home forever, but Kowloon's orders were absolute.
Every day, she had to wear the prescribed clothing and follow the established procedures to complete the numb and repetitive production work assigned by Kowloon.
And this time, misfortune had befallen her.
The young man before her called her a gem?
Li 5a7654 understood the concept. She knew that as a woman, her appearance was somewhat outstanding.
But this was also the root of her fear, because many of the women who had been turned into minced flesh were not as outstanding in appearance as she was.
And now, the source of her fear had arrived before her:
"Ah!! Please let go of me!! Noble Sir!!"
For the sake of soul quality, the cultivated humans retained complete emotions.
Of course, Kowloon had also inputted many pre-set prohibitions into their underlying thought processes.
For example, obedience to Kowloon, prohibition of unauthorized mating...
Therefore, Li 5a7654 could express her resistance at this moment.
But,
*Slap!!*
Su Jie fiercely slapped the beautiful woman across the face. A palm print instantly appeared on her fair cheek, visible to the naked eye.
Yet, the tragic state of the beautiful woman only made the young master of the Su family feel an irrepressible excitement.
He enjoyed seeing these mature women being "ruined."
Literally ruined.
He grabbed the beautiful woman before him and, under the fearful gazes of the surrounding people and "human-livestock," dragged her directly towards his sports car.
"Haha, you can resist all you want, I just love seeing you scared and helpless!"
"Father was worried I'd pollute the Su family bloodline? How could that be! None of the women in my hands last more than seven days."
"Haha! The training at Kowloon is so painful, it's much better back home, where I can do whatever I want!!"
Dazed by the slap, Li 5a7654's mind was a blank. She couldn't comprehend what the man before her was saying.
She only knew that she might soon be thrown out of the noble district like those cleaned minced flesh.
But as Su Jie, who was street-snatching the woman and heading towards his sports car, suddenly stopped, freezing in place.
Between him and his beloved sports car, at some unknown time, a young man in a silver-grey trench coat had appeared.
The young man's appearance was unfamiliar, and he looked less than twenty years old, but his features were so handsome that Su Jie felt jealous.
The young man simply stood there, yet seemed out of place with everything around him, as if the entire world could not accommodate him.
Su Jie casually let go of Li 5a7654 and looked at Chen Luo with some wariness.
The young man wasn't wearing the "human-livestock" uniform, clearly not a human modulated by Kowloon.
But Su Jie was also very sure that there was no such person among the other families in Crescent City.
However, if people from other cities came to Crescent City, as the son of the city lord, he would definitely have been informed.
"Who are you? What are you doing in our Crescent City?!"
A sense of inexplicable crisis made Su Jie instinctively take a few steps back, and his words carried a hint of hostility.
Chen Luo looked at the B-class Soul Heart user before him. With the absolute gap in Soul Heart and mental power, the opponent's thoughts and memories were like an open book, allowing Chen Luo to flip through them at will.
Golden light flashed in Chen Luo's eyes. In an instant, Su Jie felt as if he had been completely seen through.
The extreme discomfort made him lose his composure and shout:
"Damn it!! Who the hell are you?!"
Looking at the panicked young master of the city lord, Chen Luo's face showed no hint of a smile. His eyes returned to their deep black, filled with icy meaning:
"I don't like you, nor do I like your families here. So, go to hell."
Looking at the young man who answered without answering, Su Jie felt like he was going mad.
The instinct of survival at this moment made him feel like he was being targeted by a natural predator. His legs began to tremble, and even his sphincter showed signs of loosening.
But the young man's voice directly echoed in Su Jie's mind:
"Don't be afraid, because you are already in hell."
The next moment, a scene of boundless terror completely enveloped Su Jie's spirit.
In reality, Chen Luo simply walked forward, gently pulled up Li 5a7654, who had fallen to the ground, and casually cast a purification spell to help the innocent woman alleviate her fear:
"Don't worry, you won't have to be afraid anymore. However, your lives might change in a different way."
Beside them, the young master of the city lord's face looked ashen, as if he were dead.
He wanted to cry, to scream, even to die.
But under Chen Luo's will, his spirit was dragged into an endless torment of hell.
He would continue to experience this journey through hell until his spirit was completely shattered.
And as Chen Luo helped Li 5a7654 up, the tallest metal tower located in the center of the noble district in the distance, after a flash of light, collapsed with a roar!
A ten-meter-tall, earth-yellow battle armor burst out from the ruins of the collapsed tower, and a roar echoed throughout Crescent City:
"Damn rebels! Enemies of Kowloon!! You are seeking your own destruction!!!"