Chapter 20: No Reason Needed to Kill You!

Fan Haiqiang's scream was only half-uttered before it was abruptly cut off, because Li Jiayu had already reached out, gripping his throat tightly like pliers. He leaned in close and enunciated each word:

"Principal Fan screaming like this is against the academy rules. Where is the demeanor of an advanced educator? If you shout randomly again, don't blame me for carrying out corrective education on you one more time."

Fan Haiqiang, drenched in cold sweat from the pain, his face deathly pale, was like a toad about to expire. His eyes bulged, the muscles around his mouth twitching. But he still nodded desperately, signaling he wouldn't shout again, begging Li Jiayu not to torture him further.

"You must be very curious why I'm torturing you like this, right?"

Li Jiayu used his other hand to straighten Fan Haiqiang's tie, making this "highly respected" advanced educator's attire look slightly better. However, being choked like a dead dog, forehead covered in cold sweat, pants torn with a large hole revealing his completely frozen lower body, and his reproductive organ lying quietly beside him – this image rendered any semblance of being well-dressed utterly meaningless.

"What... what grudge do I have with you... why strike so ruthlessly?"

Feeling the hand gripping his throat loosen slightly, Fan Haiqiang gasped for air like a bellows, then stared deadly at Li Jiayu, asking with a mixture of anger, shock, and fear.

"So far, I have no grudge or enmity with you."

"Are you... related to the Department Head? You couldn't stand me pushing him to his death and want to uphold justice?"

"Department Head? Oh, you mean that scapegoat you pushed out? Sorry, I don't even know his surname; And what crap is justice? Can it be packaged and sold?"

"Then why did you cut off my privates! You cruel butcher..." Fan Haiqiang shouted agitatedly. He was almost angered to the point of fainting by Li Jiayu's words. Could it be that this young man, simply because he disliked him, cruelly kicked his internal organs and cut off his manhood?

How could such an unreasonable person exist in the world?

No! Not unreasonable, simply devoid of humanity!

Poor Fan Haiqiang, in the prime of his life, full of vigor, had established quite a harem within the school through coercion and enticement... Could it be that in the future, he could no longer taste the flavor of female students?

Damn white-haired young man! I curse you to hell! You're even more hateful than the insects!

"No grudge or enmity now doesn't mean no grudge or enmity in the future."

Deep-seated disgust and hatred surfaced in Li Jiayu's eyes. He wished he could use the cruelest methods to torture Fan Haiqiang!

This ungrateful, treacherous, despicable old dog!

Even grinding his bones to dust wouldn't quell the hatred in Li Jiayu's heart!

In his previous life, after the insect disaster erupted, Fan Haiqiang, relying on his status as principal, led the students in the first major campus escape. But he was an idiot, completely lacking strategic sense, repeatedly making extremely foolish decisions, causing the students to fall into insect encirclements multiple times!

There were still 5,700 people at the start of the escape, but fewer than 800 actually managed to reach Yong City!

If it weren't for this idiot leading the students into fire pits, the casualties wouldn't have been so severe back then; at least two thousand or more students would have survived!

During the escape, food and medicine were scarce. Fan Haiqiang took control of managing food and medicine distribution but was extremely harsh. The best food was all for him. Only those close to him and firmly supporting him would receive sufficient food... As for those students who didn't listen to him and lacked special combat abilities, sorry, food was severely insufficient; you'll just have to make do with some instant noodles tonight and dig up some tree roots to chew on.

Fan Haiqiang's various management methods caused dissatisfaction among many. Helplessly, during the escape, Fan Haiqiang managed to connect with the military and occasionally received some military support. Otherwise, Fan Haiqiang probably would have been overthrown by the angry college students long ago!

Relying on the military's negligible aid, Fan Haiqiang vigorously promoted "obedience" and "conformity," presenting a facade of utter devotion and self-sacrifice in public. But secretly, he committed many evil deeds. As far as Li Jiayu knew, he secretly forced two female teaching assistants and two female students to sleep with him. If they refused, he would use despicable means for revenge. Those who resisted strongly were directly silenced. Those weaker and afraid to speak out had their food rations further reduced, protection further diminished. Many girls died tragically because they resisted him.

Even after escaping to Yong City, Fan Haiqiang continued his evil ways. He even secretly joined some crazed evil organization, fully believing that if he collected the hearts of forty-nine combat personnel and brewed them into a soup, drinking it would allow him to become a powerful Tier 3 ability user!

Casually drinking a pot of soup to advance to Tier 3, possible? Even if the price was forty-nine combatant hearts!

Probably anyone with a shred of rationality wouldn't believe it! But Fan Haiqiang did! He foolishly believed it. Or rather... someone like him sincerely envied the noble and superior status of Tier 3 ability users, so even if he had to exhaust all means, he wanted to reach that peak!

Therefore, using his identity as the Principal of Xijiang University and an Eastern Knight of Yong City, he once again deceived the students, step by step luring the ability users among them into his trap... Finally, tragedy struck as expected. Naturally, Fan Haiqiang did not become an ability user.

Paper can't wrap fire. Among the forty-nine ability users, more than twenty were students from Xijiang University. Their collective disappearance naturally attracted investigation. Two months after the incident, feeling he could no longer hide it, Fan Haiqiang colluded with several scoundrels and threw dirty water onto Li Jiayu!

This slander... ruined Li Jiayu's reputation. Although many people insisted on believing Li Jiayu was innocent, quite a few suspected him and consequently hated him, leaving him no place in Yong City. It even... planted the seeds for him to be hunted by the entire country later on!

However, these weren't what Li Jiayu hated the most.

What he hated most was... Fan Haiqiang, in order to curry favor with one of Li Jiayu's mortal enemies... actually, actually introduced Li Jiayu's younger sister, Li Banyue, to that enemy!

Although that enemy genuinely liked Li Jiayu's sister, Li Banyue never gave him a second glance. No matter how outstanding, how handsome, how much stronger than Li Jiayu he was, it was useless, because Li Banyue's heart only had room for one person!

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! If it weren't for Fan Haiqiang, my sister wouldn't have suffered so tragically! She wouldn't have died!

The fuse for all this was Fan Haiqiang!

Li Jiayu dreamed of crushing Fan Haiqiang into dust!

"Why are you glaring at me? Isn't it just missing that piece of meat? Compared to those students whose hearts you dug out... what's losing a piece of meat? Heh, you still dare glare at me?"

"When... when did I ever dig out anyone's heart? I am a law-abiding citizen, I have never done anything illegal!"

"If I say you did! Then you did! No need for your confession!"

Li Jiayu patted Fan Haiqiang's cheek, insultingly. But he still felt unable to vent the hatred and killing intent in his heart. So, he clenched his fist and, using all his strength, smashed it heavily onto Fan Haiqiang's face like a muffled hammer.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Each punch made Fan Haiqiang spurt blood from the corner of his mouth. Each punch made Fan Haiqiang wish he were dead. He even feared the next punch would directly flatten his nose and crush his skull!

"Don't... please don't hit me anymore, anymore... I'll die."

Hearing Fan Haiqiang's plea, Li Jiayu finally sneered and stopped. However, he still kicked Fan Haiqiang's frozen groin wound, trampling it viciously. Then, with all his might, he stomped on Fan Haiqiang's lower abdomen, causing Fan Haiqiang to curl up like a shrimp, writhing in agony.

Conservatively estimating... Li Jiayu's stomp would at least rupture Fan Haiqiang's bladder; if severe, it might have already burst.

"Principal Fan, just stay here and feed the insects with your body. I think... all the students will thank you!"

Even though his body had been ravaged beyond recognition, Fan Haiqiang remained conscious. But when he heard Li Jiayu wanted to feed him to the insects, he was still scared into tears and snot: "No... no... you, you let me go... I don't want to die yet. As long as you don't hurt me anymore, I won't blame you. Don't let me feed the insects! I have money, I have women! As long as you let me live through this insect disaster... everything I have is yours! I just beg you to let me go, I really don't want to die yet!"

Li Jiayu took a deep breath, turned around coldly, took Hua Xiaolu back from Han Xiaoqi's arms, carried her on his back again, and called out:

"What? Stunned? Think I'm a bit cruel? I'll only explain once... If I don't kill him today, he will bring eternal damnation upon me in the future!"

The few girls, and even Lin Zhibin, had complicated expressions – confusion, incomprehension, and a faint fear. They only knew Li Jiayu was ruthless towards insects, but didn't know he was just as cruel and bloody towards humans.

However... they all had various feelings for Li Jiayu to some extent – the pure friendship of childhood sweethearts, ambiguous friendships between genders, blatant affection... Plus, they had shared thhe recent hardships together. They were thoroughly on Li Jiayu's side, so naturally, they wouldn't question his actions. Moreover... Li Jiayu was shrouded in mystery; he seemed able to predict the future. His actions might have some incomprehensible reasons behind them.

"The way you looked like you had an irreconcilable hatred with him just now... I can tell, you definitely have your reasons... I won't melodramatically think you're cruel... I only know you protected me before, and that's enough, isn't it?"

Han Xiaoqi looked at the friend she grew up with and said slowly. Her expression showed no insincerity, only trust born from friendship.

"Very good... Sigh, seeing this guy... my mood instantly dropped to rock bottom, thinking of some unhappy things. Let's go, don't worry about him. Insects will naturally come to deal with him soon."

As soon as his voice fell, a Venomous Spider leaped up from the outer wall of the building. Seeing Fan Haiqiang lying limply on the ground like a pile of mud, it narrowed its scarlet spider eyes happily and eagerly pounced onto his face, starting to chew.

"Ah! Don't go! Don't go, I beg you! Quickly help me kill it! Ah! Kill it quickly, my neck..."

"The blood debt from the past life... should be repaid by you in this life! Perhaps you'll feel wronged in hell, but being wronged is useless, because the apocalypse doesn't need laws. If I want to kill, you must die! Hehe, this is the first time I feel that killing humans is even more satisfying than killing insects!"

Li Jiayu glanced back, a cruel yet slightly cathartic grin twisting his lips. An indescribable pleasure surged in his heart, along with sighs for the regrets of his past life. The two intertwined, like overturning a bottle of five flavors, impossible to distinguish the taste anymore.

Without saying anything more, Li Jiayu beckoned everyone and strode forward, running towards the thirteenth floor... Extremely chaotic noises and screams were already coming from there. It seemed the thirteenth floor was already under attack by Acid Bugs?