Kill the Sun - Chapter 520

Chapter 520 – No Resistance

Jenny puked.

"I said, focus on information gathering," Nick said with a cold voice to the Dreamer. "You can have your torture after we're done."

This was the second time Jenny had puked while inspecting the gate guardian's dreams.

"I don't want this to happen a third time," Nick said with a serious tone.

The Dreamer didn't acknowledge Nick's words, but Nick could see that Jenny was calming down.

"Just make her go through the last month of her life. She planned the assassination attempt, and I'm sure that she had accomplices. I need to know who they are."

Nick waited at the side.

An hour passed, and Nick was getting impatient.

Finally, Jenny pulled her hands back from the gate guardian's head, and she released a shaky breath. Expplôre uptodate stories at no/vel//bin(.)com

"I got it," she said with difficulty.

"Good work," Nick said.

Then, he turned to the Dreamer. "Now, you can do whatever you want with it. Just make sure that she doesn't get rid of her hand. If she does, she can regenerate her Zephyx, and I'm certain that she will kill you first if that happens."

The Dreamer didn't seem to react, but a couple of seconds later, it moved one of its talons to the gate guardian's arm and stepped on it.

"Since we can't have you do this forever and stop all Zephyx production, you get one month or until you kill her. That should be more than enough," Nick said.

For the first time, the Dreamer looked at Nick.

It probably was annoyed, but that was only a guess.

The next moment, Nick walked out, and Jenny followed after him.

The two of them went past a couple of Extractors and entered Jenny's office.

Nick waited for Jenny to calm down.

"I don't have the names," Jenny said, "but I know their faces and what they do roughly. As long as I see them face to face, I will recognize them."

Nick nodded. "That can be arranged."

The next moment, Nick asked some of Sky Dream's Extractors to get some kind of cloak that could keep Jenny's identity a secret.

Nick did not want Jenny's identity to become public while she was identifying people in the upper layer.

Some minutes later, the two of them left Sky Dream and walked towards the upper layer.

As soon as they reached the entrance, they saw six Veterans guarding it.

"Liaison! Glad that you are alive!" the leader of the guards said with a salute.

"How's the situation?" Nick asked evenly.

"All the citizens have been put into their houses. Several guards are patrolling the upper layer, and every citizen found outside their home will be apprehended. There have been no arrests so far," the guard reported.

Nick nodded and walked past the guards.

The guards threw interested glances at the cloaked person following Nick.

They had never seen this person before.

Who was that?

"We're not changing our clothes," Nick said, walking through the locker room.

"We have to change our clothes?" Jenny asked. "I mean, usually."

"Usually, yes," Nick said, opening the door to the upper layer.

Jenny had never been to the upper layer before, and when she saw the green paradise, she became shocked.

She had imagined many things, but she couldn't have imagined that.

It looked so... peaceful.

It looked nice.

"This is simply a consequence of relying on the wrong person. If a Manufacturer goes bankrupt, all their Extractors lose their jobs. It's just how things are," Nick explained.

Jenny didn't answer.

She didn't like destroying the lives of innocent people.

However, corrupt criminals needed to be apprehended.

As someone also born in the Dregs, Jenny also had some dislike for the people in the upper layer, but her dislike couldn't be compared to Nick's undying hatred.

The next three houses were clean.

But when they arrived at the fifth house, things became different.

As soon as the door opened, Jenny focused on the man inside the house.

"That's one of them," Jenny said.

The man became terrified. "W-what? I didn't do anything!" he shouted.

His family became terrified.

"Take him to a cell," Nick ordered.

One of the guards walked forward and apprehended the man.

There was a lot of crying and shouting from the family, but they couldn't stop the arrest.

In the end, Nick looked at the family. "Someone will come to talk about your futures in the next couple of days," he said evenly before closing the door.

Over the next two hours, Jenny and Nick visited every household.

In the end, 18 people had been apprehended.

Finally, in the evening, the guards announced that everyone was free to move again and left the upper layer.

Yet, not many people left their houses.

The mood could only be described with the words despair and defeat.

It was over.

There was nothing they could do anymore.

Nick had won against the upper layer.

There was no one left who dared to oppose him.

However, just to make sure that the upper layer got the point, he called one member of every household of the upper layer to an open plaza behind the building that had once belonged to Anatomy.

Everyone was gathered there.

There was not a single person that wasn't nervous.

In the end, the 18 people Nick had apprehended a couple days ago were led to the plaza.

Nick also arrived, and he pulled one of the criminals with him to the front.

"This is what happens to people that resist Aegis," Nick said coldly.

Then, he grabbed the neck of one of the criminals, lifted them into the air, and squeezed.

The man couldn't breathe anymore, and he started to kick around.

However, Nick just ignored him.

Nick choked the man for five entire minutes before casually breaking his neck.

The people in attendance were absolutely terrified.

Nick looked at them.

He saw defeat.

No one from the upper layer would oppose him again.

Then, Nick grabbed the second prisoner.

17 more to go.