Li Yue felt a bit helpless after learning the full details of the situation; how did he get involved in this?
He had originally planned to stay in this world quietly for a while, and then leave after obtaining the Compound V sample.
He had no intention of getting involved with Vought International or any other matters.
But who would have thought that the more you try to avoid trouble, the more it finds you? Now this kind of thing had actually happened.
After Li Yue got a clear understanding of the general location of the terrorist group from A-Train, a blue light orb appeared in his left palm.
"No, no... don't kill me, I've told you everything I know, please let me go!"
Watching Li Yue's movements, with the blue light orb in his left hand continuously approaching his body, A-Train was filled with extreme fear.
He could only beg Li Yue incessantly, hoping he would spare him!
Although he didn't know what the blue energy in Li Yue's left hand was, he knew that Li Yue would never make a useless move.
As Li Yue's left hand slowly approached him, A-Train felt as if Death itself was slowly extending a scythe towards his neck!
...Certainly, there are people who can ignore the fear of death, but such people are few and far between, and they are all individuals of great resolve.
Unfortunately, A-Train was not one of those people.
While he could easily take the lives of others with a laugh, once such a thing befell him, he too would be afraid, he too would be terrified, and he too would beg for mercy like a coward!
But Li Yue, of course, would not let him go.
Leaving aside how many innocent lives he had taken before, just for killing Starlight's mother this time, Li Yue could not possibly spare him.
Moreover, there was a bit of his own involvement in this matter.
Therefore, Li Yue was even more determined not to let him off!
Furthermore, before his death, Li Yue wanted him to experience the feeling of watching death draw closer and closer, yet being unable to resist or escape.
One could say Li Yue's method was somewhat cruel!
However, at this very moment, Li Yue just wanted to do it.
There was no other reason, or one could say, no reason at all!
...Finally, the blue energy, amidst A-Train's incessant pleas, made contact with his body.
In a flash of blue light, the orb transformed into countless tiny electric arcs, like earthworms, slowly wriggling across his body.
With each wriggle, it was as if a sliver of his flesh was being devoured!
And A-Train could clearly feel the pain of his flesh being consumed!
In just over ten seconds, his body was devoured layer by layer by thousands of electric arcs, with some areas already exposing stark white bones.
This was even with Li Yue deliberately controlling the process to slow it down!
Yet, A-Train was still not dead, still enduring a death process infinitely more painful than being cut into a thousand pieces!
"Sigh, never mind, I'll just give you a quick end!"
Looking at A-Train, who was under his control, enduring such immense pain yet unable to scream, Li Yue found that he still couldn't be more cruel.
He sighed inwardly, and with a thought, the countless electric arcs that were slowly devouring flesh instantly exploded.
Almost instantly, A-Train's bloodied body vanished directly in the blue light, turning into specks of blue starlight, dissipating in Li Yue's hand!
"I hope you can be an ordinary person in your next life, or perhaps a true Flash!"
Li Yue found himself becoming a bit sentimental at some point, unable to resist offering a blessing after killing someone.
"No, I must change this next time! Otherwise, if others see it, they'll think I'm an idiot."
Li Yue silently made a decision in his heart: next time he killed someone, he would absolutely not give them a death blessing anymore!
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With the task done,
Li Yue slowly walked to Starlight's side.
Seeing Starlight still crying while holding her mother's body, he felt a bit at a loss.
"Annie, the dead cannot be brought back to life, please accept my condolences!"
Li Yue wasn't very good at comforting people to begin with, let alone when someone's close relative had passed away.
In this situation, Li Yue was even more unsure how to comfort her, so he could only condense a thousand words into one phrase: "Please accept my condolences."
Sure enough, after hearing Li Yue's comfort, Annie only paused for a moment before continuing to cry while holding her mother's body.
Helpless, Li Yue could only continue to wait quietly by her side...
Annie cried for a full half hour.
She wiped away her tears with the back of her hand, stopped crying, then looked up at Li Yue, who was standing straight by her side, with tear-filled eyes, and softly asked,
"Li Yue, can you help me bury my mother?"
Annie and her mother had relied on each other since Annie was a child, as her father had abandoned them long ago.
Only today did she learn that her father had left because he no longer wanted to lie to her and felt unable to face her.
Although she somewhat blamed her parents for participating in that baby project without her consent, she only blamed her mother for hiding the truth from her and not telling her.
But when danger arrived and her mother pushed her away, Annie knew that her mother loved her!
"Of course!"
Li Yue saw that Annie had finally stopped crying and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
Hearing Annie's question, he quickly nodded repeatedly.
Annie's mother's funeral proceeded smoothly, without any unexpected incidents.
After the priest finished the eulogy in the church, she was buried in the cemetery.
The memorial service was originally meant to invite friends of the deceased, but Annie and her mother had relied on each other since childhood, living in a remote small town, so they didn't have many friends.
Moreover, her mother's death could not be made public this time, so the funeral and memorial service were kept simple, with only Li Yue accompanying Starlight.
After everything was over, it was already evening.
Li Yue watched Annie say a few words in front of her mother's tombstone, place a bouquet of flowers in front of it, and then turn and walk towards him.
"Feeling better now? Let's go home!"
Seeing Annie come to his side, Li Yue gently said to her.
"Home? My last remaining relative has also left me.
I feel like I'm homeless now! Where should I go?"
Hearing Li Yue's words, Annie fell into a state of confusion.
She truly didn't know where to go now.
After such an incident, she no longer wanted to return to her old home, as her mother had died there, and she would always be reminded of it.
And she certainly didn't want to go back to Vought International.
"Since you don't know where to go, come with me!"
After Li Yue finished speaking, without waiting for Annie's agreement or refusal, he directly reached out and placed his hand on her shoulder.
Then, with a thought, the two of them vanished together from the cemetery.
Fortunately, there were no other people around at that time, otherwise, if they had witnessed such a situation, they would probably have been scared half to death, thinking they had seen something unclean!
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