Chapter 001: Female Ghost

  Killing machine?

  Yang Hua was stunned all of a sudden.

  "Yes! And it's still a killing machine in the guise of justice." Bai Songren's tone was filled with helplessness.

  "Since I was eighteen, I was sent to the army and learned how to kill people... until finally, I became one of the thirty trained men who were best at killing." When Baek Sung-jin finished speaking, there was no pride in his eyes, but rather a deeper sense of sorrow.

  But Yang Hua just listened quietly, not saying a word. He looked at the old man and felt that he was not a murderer as people thought outside, but an old man who had been worn out by the years.

  "In the end, in order to cultivate us without any emotions, and let those thirty people who were once like brothers training day and night together start killing each other."

  "What?!" Yang Hua couldn't help but exclaim.

  "At first, we still cared about each other because we were always training together... but in the end, no one cared about that feeling anymore, everyone was thinking about how to kill the person next to them as quickly as possible... haha."

  "Do you know? Those thirty people were locked in there for a whole day and night, and the only one who walked out alive was me!" Haha! Bai Songren burst into maniacal laughter, his voice sounding like a ghost.

  "Did you kill all those thirty-odd people who trained together day and night?" Yang Hua asked, hardly daring to believe.

  "Yes! I killed them all."

  "Not one will be left, all will be killed!"

  "Then I was the only one who came out alive from inside."

  Yang Hua glared at the old man with anger in his eyes, shouting: "You're not even human... How can you be so cruel? Even an animal would develop feelings after being with you day and night for over 30 days... But you... You actually..."

  "You have no right to accuse me!" The cruel old man suddenly shouted savagely.

  Yang Hua was also startled by his loud and mournful roar.

  "You know nothing. A woman's mercy will never accomplish great things, and do you know that if I had shown a little pity back then, my bones would have rotted away by now."

  Yang Hua heard him say that, and suddenly he was stunned, looking at the old man in front of him. Although he had killed many people, but in Yang Hua's eyes, he now felt a deep sadness for this old man.

  "You think being weak... and pretending to be pitiful will make heaven sympathize with you? Humph, how childish." Bai Songren continued coldly.

  "Just like you... look at your current state... a weakling, being trampled on by others every day, bullied and oppressed. Don't you understand the law of survival in this society yet?" Ba Songren glared at him and shouted.

  Yang Hua was stunned... What Bai Songren said in front of him was right, wasn't he too stupid before? Wasn't he too naive?

  "From today on, you must learn to be ruthless, to anyone, no matter who blocks your way, you have to eliminate them. Until the day you truly stand at a high place, then you can learn to sympathize. Now? You don't even have the qualification to say these two words 'sympathy'."

  Yang Hua almost threw up after listening, the person in front of him was simply a beast.

  "Only then did Bai Song turn his head to look at him, saying disdainfully: 'Remember, in this society, sometimes if you don't kill others, others will kill you. So you must become stronger, stronger than anyone else.'"

  Yang Hua thought what he said was good, but as soon as he thought of him killing so many people who had trained with him day and night, he couldn't help feeling nauseous.

  "Ever since I was the only one who made it out of that room alive, I've been sent into the military and became an instructor for the Demon Slayer Corps' special forces."

  "Oni Koroshi (Demon Slayer) Special Forces?"

  "Right! You may not have heard of it, but as long as it's the government or the military, just mentioning these two words makes them tremble with fear. Because our establishment is for secretly assassinating them. This (Ghost Killer) special forces team has become the top assassination team in the national and even global assassination organizations." Ba Songren said with a hearty laugh, his voice revealing an unparalleled domineering aura and pride.

  "But... it's just such an elite troop... yet... yet... all of them were buried in (the City of Oblivion)."

  Bai Songren's voice was filled with sorrow and regret.

  "The City of Forgetting?" Yang Hua heard this strange name and couldn't help but pause for a moment.

  "Ah, it's been many years... let's not mention it! But I'm telling you... never again bring up (the Forgotten City), because those who mentioned it are now basically all dead. And the reason that city is called the Forgotten City is only because it has been abandoned, no one will ask about a discarded city, even if they knew about it, no one dares to mention it again. Do you understand what I'm saying?" Only Bai Songren's eyes were filled with desolation as he spoke.

  Yang Hua thought for a moment, yes, since it was called the (City of Forgetting), something unusual must have happened there, and after thinking about it, she didn't ask again.

  "After that, the (Demon Slayer) assassination organization disappeared from the government... and I... haha, also became a useless person, haha." Bai Songren looked up at the sky and let out a long sigh, his desolate voice echoing in the entire dead house for a long time.

  "Now, you know what kind of person I am, right?" Bai Songren turned his head and said slowly to Yang Hua.

  Yang Hua couldn't help but feel a chill emanating from his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat. Ah, so that's what White Butterfly's father was like... No wonder even Laughing Tiger Tang Qing feared him. This man, who had once been so powerful, had spent the rest of his life locked in this dark room. Yang Hua couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness when he thought about it, but thinking about his own fate made him feel even more miserable.

  Yang Hua said: "To be honest, I've only seen some movies about special forces on TV, and actually, I don't know much about it at all." He was telling the truth.

  "Just listen, Bai Songren smiled and said: 'You may not understand this, but I can tell you that I can make you stronger, to the point where even an excellent special forces soldier wouldn't be a match for you, let alone those criminals.'"

  "Is it possible?" Yang Hua asked in a disbelieving tone.

  Although he still doesn't understand Bai Songren's abilities as a special forces instructor, he sincerely hopes that only by killing can he become stronger. From the moment he entered the Black Prison, he understood that survival of the fittest is the only rule in this world.

  Just like what Big Brother 117 said, in this world, sometimes there is no fairness to speak of. You being stronger than others, that's the greatest fairness.

  Bai Songren smiled and said with a sarcastic tone, "I can tell you this, I may not have other skills, but when it comes to killing people, I've been doing it for so many years. Nationwide, I'm not the only one, but in this dark prison, none of those vicious prisoners can compare to me."

  As he finished speaking, his eyes were filled with confidence, and his entire body emitted a kind of innate terrifying aura.

  "Really?" Yang Hua looked at the disheveled-haired man, his heart racing with excitement. If he could really become as powerful as Qing Long or 17, surely no one would dare to provoke him again, and most importantly, he could protect his loved ones.

  Protecting the female ghost in the dream, You Ruo...... (To the readers: This guy still doesn't know that it was the female ghost who had been protecting him all along, NN.)

  "Don't you believe?" Bai Songren's face was full of disdain, obviously very angry at Yang Hua's words.

  Yang Hua thought for a moment and after hearing Bai Songren's story, he just couldn't believe it.

  Yang Hua said, "I believe you, but even if you teach me, it's useless! If even you can't get out of this dead man's house, how could I possibly get out?"

  Yang Hua thought for a moment and said sadly.

  Bai Songren suddenly burst out laughing wildly.

  "It seems you really don't understand me... Let me tell you, kid, I'm not unable to go out, I'm just not allowed to go out, get it? Not to mention a black prison, even in the government's grand hall, I can come and go as I please." Although Bai Songren's tone was full of bravado, Yang Hua couldn't help but believe his words without any doubt when he saw the sharp aura emanating from him.

  "Why don't you go out then? Why stay in this dark and dismal prison?" Yang Hua couldn't help but ask.

  "Foolish child, I was caught by them in the first place because I wanted to protect Xiaodie and her mother." Bai Songren's voice revealed a deep fatherly love.

  Yang Hua suddenly understood and now looked at Bai Songren, no longer feeling that he was a killer, but rather like an old man in his twilight years, making people feel pity.

  "So I'm telling you, kid, living this life isn't always just about one person, you know? You've got to sacrifice something for the loved ones around you."

  Yang Hua's heart skipped a beat when he heard Bai Songren say that, as if the clouds had parted and he saw the dawn. He suddenly felt that what Bai Songren said was so right. Ah, sometimes living is not just one person's business. He suddenly thought of the female ghost You Ruo... Although he still didn't know in his heart why he had been saved by her many times, he could vaguely feel it. Every time he was injured, no matter how badly, as long as he made it to the next day, he would be fine. Yang Hua didn't understand why, but he knew that only You Ruo could do this, and he had also made a promise to her... This lifetime must nurture her.

  "Can I really learn the combat skills you teach me?" Yang Hua said excitedly, his heart not only happy but also thinking that if he could really become stronger, wouldn't he be able to protect his loved ones, protect Rou...

  Bai Song Ren turned his head and looked at him with a bookish appearance, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "Your physique is indeed quite weak, but that's okay. As long as you train according to what I say, I believe it should be enough! Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, that scoundrel Tang Qing must think that after three months, you'll be killed by me and he'll come to collect your corpse. These three months will be more than sufficient."

  "Really?" Yang Hua almost jumped up.

  "Don't rush, your physical condition is far from keeping up with the physical strength of practicing martial arts. So for now, start by training your body from scratch, starting from now, you'll begin to train your basic physical skills first."

  "From today, you will start training according to what I say. If you can persist, I can responsibly tell you that in three months, within the Black Prison, there will be no one who is your match."

  "Really? Really?" Yang Hua's mind was filled with a thousand questions. Could he really become as powerful as Qing Long? As majestic as his 17th brother? But what he didn't know was that he was about to learn the most famous assassination skills in the entire country, as well as comprehensive combat!

  "In three months, it's almost done. From now on, do 300 push-ups every afternoon, after 10 days, do 500 every day, and in the afternoon, do 500 frog jumps, after 10 days, do 1000, start now."

  Yang Hua's excitement cooled down a bit when he heard Bai Songren say that.

  Mom, isn't this risking one's life?

  Yang Hua, who is still in school, to be honest, 50 push-ups were his limit, but now it's 300 in the morning? And 500 frog jumps in the afternoon?

  Hearing Bai Songren say this, I almost vomited blood and fainted.

  Bai Songren said, "I've told you before, as long as you can hold on, you can become a strong person. However, if you can't hold on, then I'm also powerless." Bai Songren looked at him and said. To be honest, Bai Songren himself didn't have much confidence either. After all, it was hard to imagine that someone who had never been in contact with combat skills before could suddenly bear such great pressure.

  "I can definitely do it."

  Only one voice came slowly, not loud, but with unyielding determination.

  Yang Hua

  Bai Songren turned his head and looked at him, secretly pleased in his heart. The young man who could catch Xiaodie's eye was indeed a good one.