Chapter 187: The Incinerator

Jian Changsheng’s figure flickered, arriving directly behind the window in the southwest corner. He hid himself in the shadows and peered inside the room.

At this moment, only a few scattered lights were on in the room. Under the dim illumination, three or four figures were gathered together, carrying a corpse wrapped in a white sheet and whispering among themselves.

As one figure pushed the door open and entered, the group immediately fell silent, bowing their heads respectfully.

“Brother Chen.”

The person who had just entered the room was none other than the figure Jian Changsheng had been tailing—the one who had emerged from the Stellar Chamber of Commerce. Brother Chen’s gaze fell on the white sheet draped over the shoulders of the group, and he asked in a low voice, “How did it go? No one noticed, right?”

The group exchanged glances, but no one answered.

Seeing their reaction, Brother Chen’s expression darkened instantly. “What’s with the silence? Explain yourselves.”

“Brother Chen… at the hospital, we’re pretty sure no one noticed us. But on the way back, it seemed like someone was chasing the car…” one of the figures stammered. “But we managed to shake them off in the end. No one knows we came here.”

“Chasing the car??” Brother Chen was stunned for a moment before flying into a rage. “What the hell are you all good for?! I sent you to dispose of a corpse, and you still got tailed?! Do you have zero counter-surveillance awareness?!”

“A bunch of idiots!!”

Brother Chen’s furious shouts echoed through the room. Outside the window, Jian Changsheng couldn’t help but roll his eyes… thinking to himself, You got tailed the whole way too, and didn’t even notice. Doesn’t that make you even dumber than the idiots?

“Brother Chen… we really don’t know where they came from. At the hospital, we cleared the area and made sure to load up in a secluded spot. Could the hospital have leaked the news?”

“They?” Brother Chen quickly seized on the key detail. “There was more than one person chasing you?”

“Seemed like more than one. It was too dark to see clearly… but they couldn’t keep up with the car. They all dropped off after a while.”

Brother Chen’s brows furrowed. He suddenly felt there was something strange about this. Even if the hospital had leaked the news and someone had set up surveillance, they wouldn’t have sent so many people at once—and on foot, chasing a car. Forget whether they could catch up, a group that large would be way too conspicuous…

But if it wasn’t an ambush, would anyone really be so bored as to form a group and chase a car in the middle of the night?

Brother Chen was utterly baffled. After pondering for a moment, he still felt uneasy and quickly walked to the door, peering outside as if to confirm whether anyone had followed them here.

However, just before he stepped out, Chen Ling—who had been waiting outside—raised an eyebrow and silently retreated half a step, his figure completely vanishing into the shadows of the corner.

At the same time, Jian Changsheng, hiding outside the window on the other side, swiftly flicked a drop of blood and teleported to the rooftop.

Brother Chen cautiously scanned the area, confirming that no one had followed them, then turned and went back inside.

“Did you clean up everything at the hospital?”

“The organs have all been transferred. The doctors involved were paid enough to keep their mouths shut. As for this kid…” The man paused before continuing, “He wasn’t actually a patient at that hospital. His mother was seriously ill and hospitalized, and he was there to take care of her. Tonight, our doctor tricked him into agreeing to a heart transplant—to ‘give his heart back to his mother’…

Since he was a caregiver, not a patient, there’d be no records of him. As for his mother, we switched her medication so she’d die of an apparent ‘sudden illness.’

In terms of connections, this mother and son had no close relatives or friends. And a few days ago, we moved them into a private room, isolating them from other patients. To the outside world, it’ll look like the mother died of her illness, and the son simply left the hospital afterward. No one will suspect a thing.”

Hearing this, Brother Chen’s expression finally eased slightly. “Good work.”

Outside the door, Chen Ling’s face darkened.

From the sound of it, the situation matched his suspicions. These people had secretly transported the corpse to the crematorium to destroy the evidence. But when he heard the line about “tricked him into agreeing to a heart transplant,” it felt like a thorn had been driven into his heart, and a surge of fury rose within him.

Their methods really haven’t changed at all… how laughable.

“Organ trafficking…” Jian Changsheng murmured thoughtfully from the rooftop. “The Stellar Chamber of Commerce is secretly involved in this kind of business? That doesn’t make sense… they shouldn’t be short on money.”

Even though Jian Changsheng had grown up in the Yan family, he’d never heard of their involvement in organ trafficking—though that might just be because he was an insignificant nobody. When it came to confidential matters like this, how would a crippled underling like him ever be in the know?

Still, Jian Changsheng’s eyes gradually lit up. He felt this might be a promising path for exacting revenge on the Stellar Chamber of Commerce.

Inside the room, Brother Chen checked the time and spoke coldly, “It’s getting late. Dispose of the body quickly—no need to tempt fate.”

The group nodded and immediately began fiddling with the incinerator. A raging fire burst to life inside the furnace, its scorching heat enough to reduce any flesh to ashes. The crematorium, silent in the night, began its grim operation.

Chen Ling knew he couldn’t wait any longer. The corpse they were about to push into the incinerator was the only clue and evidence left. There was no way he’d let them destroy it.

Yet before Chen Ling could make a move, a drop of blood shot through the window!

The droplet streaked through the air, landing precisely in front of the group just as they were about to toss the corpse into the incinerator. In the next instant, a black-clad figure materialized out of thin air!

The men carrying the corpse froze, but before they could react, the figure had already grabbed the white-sheet-wrapped body with one hand. With a sideways kick, he sent one of them flying several meters through the air before crashing heavily to the ground.

That single kick caved in the man’s chest, his broken ribs piercing his heart. He wasn’t going to survive.

The other two gasped in shock. Before they could move, the black-clad figure’s fist came whistling toward their faces, knocking them senseless. Then, grabbing them by their collars, he flung them one after another into the incinerator behind him like they were nothing more than chicks.

The blazing flames licked at their living bodies. Piercing shrieks rang out—only to fade almost instantly. In the fire that seemed capable of burning away all things, their sins and evils became shackles that pinned their souls in place, their flesh descending into the fiery purgatory.

Before the incinerator, the black-clad figure hoisted the white sheet over his shoulder and slowly raised his head.

Under the flickering firelight, his bandage-wrapped face resembled an avenging demon emerging from the flames.