Chapter 49

Throughout his life, Damaqinos was always entangled in intrigue. In his youth, he had seen too many plots in the party struggles. From that time on, he developed an impulse to take everything through intrigue. Over the following centuries, he acted on this impulse.

Like a spider hiding in the shadows, he wove a web of intrigue and gradually tore his enemies apart. Of course, it wasn't just his enemies; it also included those close to him, his wife, and his children.

Through intrigue, he obtained supreme power. To maintain this power, he used intrigue to eliminate all those who threatened him. Intrigue was the epitome of his life, and because of this, he never trusted anyone.

A person who lived by intrigue always viewed others with suspicion. Damaqinos was such a person. From beginning to end, he only trusted himself, and everyone else was untrustworthy, whether they were enemies or friends, heroes or ordinary people.

So, the moment Zhou Yi spoke, he immediately chose to refuse. As he himself said, he was not reassured and never believed in others' promises.

Damaqinos' stubbornness was within Zhou Yi's expectations, so he changed his approach. He suspended his arm above Nisha's head and said to Damaqinos:

"Your daughter is in my hands, and she has no devices on her. Aren't you afraid I'll kill her?"

"Feel free to try," Damaqinos said with a playful look at his daughter. "My daughter has already changed, ever since she returned. Besides, for our kind, how can blood ties compare to the sweetness of power?"

Damaqinos' words made Zhou Yi feel nauseous. He released Nisha, whose eyes were dim, and made a prophecy to Damaqinos:

"Believe me, you won't live to see dawn. If possible, I hope to see you evaporate in the sunlight."

"That day will never come," Damaqinos smiled, confident in his survival.

Zhou Yi ignored the corrupt man and soared into the sky, stirring up massive waves on the ground and creating countless storms in the clouds. At this moment, he had already reached his top speed.

Everything on the stage was temporarily irrelevant to him because Damaqinos' intrigue had pulled him onto another stage. Now, he had to catch up with that plane and find the vampire butler in the shortest time possible.

"Medusa, search for all flight routes from New York to London, and the planes that have already taken off."

Searching for a plane in the vast sky was not an easy task, especially when the search was limited to flights from New York to London, and there was a black vampire named Yasa on board.

Fortunately, Zhou Yi had a super AI named Medusa. With Medusa's capabilities, the major U.S. airlines were virtually defenseless. Their network defenses could not detect Medusa's intrusion. Soon, all the information Zhou Yi needed appeared before him.

Summarizing Medusa's findings, Zhou Yi discovered both good and bad news. The good news was that due to a storm on the route, only one flight was heading to London today. The bad news was that this flight had already been in the air for eight hours. Who knew how a vampire managed to enter the airport in the afternoon, but now he was on that plane.

Without time to investigate further, Zhou Yi followed the plane's route. He had to resolve the issue with the vampire butler before anything happened. Just as Damaqinos did not trust him, he did not trust Damaqinos to stop his despicable methods.

He had to cut off all of Damaqinos' tentacles and eliminate him completely before dawn.

Traveling at 25 Mach meant Zhou Yi was moving at hypersonic speed. His speed exceeded 30,000 kilometers per hour, and his acceleration was over 8,000 meters per second. If this speed were to be displayed before humans, it would surpass their imagination.

In the sky, he could tear through cloud layers, and if they were rain clouds, the high-speed wind pressure he created could disrupt them. In other words, by circling a few dozen times, he could alter a natural rainfall.

On the ground, he would become the most violent disaster. The air currents he stirred could form hurricanes, causing indiscriminate destruction to everything in his path. Buildings would collapse, and rivers would surge.

By ancient standards, such abilities were those of deities who could control the seas and bring rain.

Under normal circumstances, such speeds only occur between celestial bodies. Zhou Yi's hypersonic speed was the first level of celestial motion, the first cosmic speed. This was the speed at which spacecraft orbit the Earth, and from a speed perspective, it had reached a cosmic level.

At this level, how long would it take Zhou Yi to catch up with a plane about to reach London, crossing a vast ocean? It wouldn't take long. Medusa had already calculated the most precise answer: less than ten minutes.

Clouds split, and thunder rumbled. Soaring through the sky with thunderous roars, Zhou Yi seemed to understand why deities were revered. They could do things that humans could not even imagine, just like he was doing now. Parting the clouds, accompanied by thunder, he was, in the eyes of ordinary people, no different from a deity.

As a being equivalent to a deity, he should do what deities do. He had to save the ignorant humans, and his target was right before him.

The Airbus A380, the latest and largest passenger aircraft developed by Airbus, was also the world's highest-capacity airliner. This aerial giant was 73 meters long, had a wingspan of 79.8 meters, a height of 24.1 meters, and a wing area of 845 square meters. It could carry up to 555 passengers. This was the pinnacle of human aviation technology, but here, it had become the most effective tool for evil to threaten others.

Flying directly above the airliner, Zhou Yi used his super vision to check every corner. He found Yasa but did not find the deadly substance Damaqinos mentioned. He did not believe Damaqinos was lying; otherwise, he wouldn't have sent his most loyal subordinate away. He could have just sent a minor lackey.

Yasa's presence was the strongest proof of Damaqinos' intentions and the most effective guarantee of his threat. Only someone as loyal as Yasa would go to any lengths to carry out Damaqinos' orders.

All the questions centered on Yasa. Only by confronting him would Zhou Yi know what dangerous things Damaqinos had prepared.

Realizing this, Zhou Yi flew to the cabin door. He didn't dare to crash in as he usually would. The risk of the plane losing control was enough to deter him. If the plane broke apart, the consequences would be even more terrifying.

So, he chose the safest method.

Using telekinesis, he turned the door handle through the thick cabin wall. As soon as the door opened, Zhou Yi slipped inside and immediately closed it. The large airliner only wobbled slightly, and the passengers inside only felt a sudden cold breeze.

Apart from that, no one noticed Zhou Yi's entry. Of course, not everyone. A female flight attendant pushing a cart was now staring at Zhou Yi in shock, clearly not understanding what had just happened.

"Don't worry, I'll buy a ticket," Zhou Yi said, unsure of what else to say. Fortunately, his usual charm made it easy to break the awkwardness with women.

The flight attendant, regaining her composure, paid no attention to Zhou Yi's offer to buy a ticket. Instead, she approached him with excitement.

"Dawn Knight? I'm your fan. Can I have your autograph?"

Seeing the flight attendant about to take off her coat to have him sign her name on her bra, Zhou Yi felt the world was small. To meet a superhero fan like this was just bad luck.

He quickly stopped her and whispered, "There's a very dangerous person on the plane. I need you to contact the chief flight attendant and help me with something."

Listening to Zhou Yi's whispers, the flight attendant's eyes grew brighter. What could be more satisfying for a superhero fan than helping a superhero save humanity? There were other answers, but most superheroes couldn't achieve them.

Yasa was wrapped in a thick coat, looking somewhat weary and worried, like someone recovering from a serious illness. He didn't sit in first class as usual but chose the more crowded economy class. The reason was simple: he had to cooperate with Damaqinos' plan to threaten more lives.

In nearly two centuries, he rarely left Damaqinos in such dangerous situations. So, he was very worried about his master's current situation. This worry made him frequently check his watch, the steady pulse indicating that Damaqinos was still safe. Each time he saw this, he felt a sense of relief.

Perhaps due to his intense focus, he didn't notice the changes around him. It wasn't until a flight attendant approached him and spoke to a young couple nearby that he realized something was wrong.

"Excuse me, sir and madam. The plane just encountered turbulence, which might have affected your checked luggage. If you don't mind, could you help our crew check your luggage?"

Yasa instinctively felt something was off but couldn't pinpoint what. It wasn't until the couple, also a bit confused, followed the flight attendant away that he suddenly realized planes didn't usually check luggage this way, and most people's luggage wasn't in the cargo hold.

Yasa was startled and instinctively looked up. He found that the area around him was now empty. The flight attendants had cleared all the passengers around him while he wasn't paying attention. The only person he could see, very close to him, was the black knight sitting behind him, facing away.

"Dawn Knight!" Yasa felt an intense unease and instinctively looked at his watch. The steady pulse indicated that his greatest fear had not yet come to pass. He breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at Zhou Yi, who was now standing in front of him, with a calm expression.

"I've been waiting for you, Dawn Knight!"