Chapter 43: I Came from Phoenix Mountain

Four in the morning. The world lay dead silent. A villa stood alone in the empty south suburbs of Pine City. Tall iron fencing ringed the grounds. Bodyguards patrolled in layers, and countless cameras hid in the darkness, watching without blinking. Clouds swallowed the moonlight. The whole place seemed steeped in a lingering, grim haze that pressed on the chest and stirred panic for no reason at all. In the villa's dim basement, a man drenched in blood was strapped down inside a room sealed by...