79: Undercurrents beneath the calm surface

As night deepened, the lights in the residential area extinguished one by one, and the clamor subsided into tranquility.

The light in Father Lin and Mother Lin's room also dimmed, and the sound of their even breathing faintly carried through the door crack.

On the balcony, Lin Feng's eyes instantly sharpened like knives.

The peaceful, high school student aura he had deliberately maintained vanished, replaced by a ruthless and cold demeanor forged through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

The quiet days ended here.

"Xeno-Rift Aliens."

Lin Feng whispered in his mind.

Silently, a tall and burly man, dressed in coarse linen, with a somewhat honest face but sharp eyes, appeared like a ghost beside Lin Feng.

It was Xeno-Rift Aliens in his human form.

"Master."

Xeno-Rift Aliens's voice directly sounded in Lin Feng's mind, carrying a hint of bloodthirsty excitement.

"Drag that little rat out."

Lin Feng's command was clear and cold.

"Keep him alive and get the name of the mastermind."

"Yes, sir!"

Xeno-Rift Aliens grinned, his figure instantly blurred, like a wisp of smoke merging into the night, and he disappeared... In the small garden at the center of the Emerald Micro Garden residential area, the figure hidden in the garden was anxiously looking up at Lin Feng, and after seeing a figure appear and then disappear.

The sense of unease in his heart grew stronger and stronger, as if an invisible venomous snake had fixed its gaze on the back of his neck.

Just as he was hesitating whether to temporarily retreat... an irresistible terrifying force instantly gripped his throat!

He couldn't even let out a gasp; his vision blurred, and his entire body instantly disappeared from behind the bushes, reappearing in a secluded corner shielded by tall trees and rockeries.

Xeno-Rift Aliens's large, fan-like hand clasped Gray Snake's neck like an iron clamp, lifting him completely off the ground, his feet kicking wildly in the air.

A Silver-level professional was like a dummy before the Gold-level peak Xeno-Rift Aliens, instantly suppressed and unable to move.

"Who sent you?"

Xeno-Rift Aliens's voice was low, with a metallic grinding quality, directly pouring into Gray Snake's mind like a heavy hammer blow.

"..."

Gray Snake was indeed a well-trained assassin; even though he was now in enemy hands, he showed no trace of fear or unease, remaining silent in response to Xeno-Rift Aliens's question.

Seeing this, Xeno-Rift Aliens's two fingers instantly extended, precisely pinching Gray Snake's right pinky finger.

Crack!

A bone-chilling crunch!

The pinky bone instantly suffered a comminuted fracture!

The intense pain instantly contorted Gray Snake's face, and large beads of cold sweat rolled down, but he still didn't utter a sound, though his eyes, fixed on Xeno-Rift Aliens, were filled with endless coldness and killing intent.

"I'll ask again, who sent you?"

Xeno-Rift Aliens's actions did not pause in the slightest due to Gray Snake's gaze, and even his tone of voice remained unchanged.

"Just kill me!"

Gray Snake's veins bulged on his forehead, and cold sweat soaked his collar.

Upon hearing this, Xeno-Rift Aliens's expression was filled with ferocity, the brutal genes of an Alien instantly activated.

His hand, gripping Gray Snake's neck, tightened slightly, his knuckles making a chilling creaking sound. Gray Snake's face instantly turned purplish-black, his eyeballs began to bulge with bloodshot veins, and only suffocated "ho-ho" sounds could escape his throat.

"I hope your bones are hard enough."

Xeno-Rift Aliens's voice was like grinding ice shards.

He loosened his grip slightly, allowing Gray Snake to breathe, but his other hand unhesitatingly grabbed Gray Snake's ring finger.

"Crack!"

Another crisp sound of bone breaking!

The intense pain made Gray Snake's body convulse violently.

However, Gray Snake still gritted his teeth, not uttering a sound!

His eyes, filled with venomous hatred, stared at Xeno-Rift Aliens, even carrying a hint of mockery... Physical pain simply could not shake Gray Snake's will.

"Master."

Lin Feng's figure appeared silently in the shadow on the other side of the rockery.

He stood there quietly, observing Gray Snake with indifference, knowing well that physical pain was very difficult to shatter the will of a well-trained assassin.

"Let the Alien Queen come."

Lin Feng's voice was calm and unruffled, directly resounding in the consciousness of Xeno-Rift Aliens and another entity.

As Lin Feng's command was issued, an indescribable, cold and viscous pressure suddenly descended upon this small corner.

The air seemed to solidify instantly, and even the chirping of insects completely vanished.

Gray Snake's violently struggling body suddenly stiffened, his pupils instantly contracted to pinpricks, and a hundredfold stronger fear, stemming from life's primal instinct, instantly seized him compared to facing Xeno-Rift Aliens!

Xeno-Rift Aliens also tensed his body slightly, his eyes filled with reverence.

He released his grip on Gray Snake, but an invisible spatial force still firmly bound Gray Snake, preventing him from moving an inch.

Between Gray Snake and Xeno-Rift Aliens, space rippled like water.

A figure rapidly solidified from illusion.

Her appearance seemed to draw away some of the surrounding light.

She was not in human form but maintained the perfect battle stance of an Alien Queen... Streamlined, jet-black carapace covered her slender yet powerful body, gleaming with a metallic cold light.

A long, barbed bone tail swayed slightly behind her, cutting through the air with a faint hiss.

Her head was elongated and grotesque, covered with smooth bone armor, without distinct facial features, yet it radiated a terrifying psychic field that froze the soul.

It was the Alien Queen!

She tilted her head slightly, and her eyeless "face" seemed to "look" at Gray Snake, who was bound by spatial power.

An invisible, vast mental force, like a tsunami, instantly locked onto Gray Snake's consciousness!

"No... no... what kind of monster is this?!"

Gray Snake's will, which had not broken under physical torture, began to crumble like a fragile sandcastle before the Alien Queen's pure mental pressure.

He had never felt such pure, such cold, such vast malice!

This malice was not directed at his physical body but directly crushed his soul!

He felt like a snail stripped of its shell, exposed to absolute zero winds, his very thoughts on the verge of freezing.

"Buzz!"

The Alien Queen's mental power erupted silently!

No longer just oppression, but like countless invisible, cold, and tough silver threads, it instantly pierced through the weak mental barrier instinctively formed by Gray Snake's Silver-level professional body, invading the depths of his consciousness without any hindrance!

"Ah!!!"

This time, Gray Snake let out a truly heart-wrenching scream!

This scream did not stem from physical pain but from the indescribable, extreme torment of his soul being forcibly torn, spied upon, and churned!

However, before his scream could fully escape, a dense black mist suddenly emanated from the Alien Queen, directly enveloping Gray Snake. This thick mist not only obscured Gray Snake's figure but also muffled his screams.

Within the black mist, Gray Snake's body thrashed wildly like a fish out of water, his eyeballs completely rolled back, foam oozed from his mouth and nose, and all the blood vessels beneath his skin terrifyingly bulged and writhed.

The Alien Queen's mental tendrils moved through Gray Snake's chaotic, painful, and memory fragments filled with defense and distortion.

Gray Snake's sea of consciousness was filled with the imprints of blood, conspiracy, betrayal, and darkness, like a foul swamp.

Countless memory fragments scattered like broken mirror shards.

Dark rendezvous points, the cold wiping of weapons, the terrified eyes of targets before death... and the fear and obedience to a certain powerful entity deeply etched in his soul.

The Alien Queen's mental power was like the most efficient filter, ignoring the useless fragments of slaughter and precisely capturing information related to "missions," "employers," and "Lin Feng," as well as the core secrets of Gray Snake's identity.

Gray Snake's will before the Alien Queen was like a paper dam, instantly swept away by the raging mental torrent.

The secrets he would rather die to protect were now like a forcibly opened treasure chest, their contents completely revealed in the Alien Queen's "sight"...