ATPnovel Chapter 113 The Mystery of West Mountain, A Blind Dog Blocking the Way
Chapter 113 The Mystery of West Mountain, A Blind Dog Blocking the Way
Pushing open the peeling paint on the security door of the rented room, the hinges made a dry, scraping sound.
A dim, yellow light was left on in the living room.
Lu Yuan tiptoed to the bedroom door. Lu Qingxue lay on her side on the narrow single bed, breathing evenly, but one hand was still tightly gripping the corner of the blanket, and her brows were furrowed.
The little girl was frightened at the hospital during the day, and now she's on edge even in her dreams.
Lu Yuan walked to the bedside and quickly traced lines in the air with his fingers.
Several invisible strands of cyan spiritual energy condensed out of thin air and entered Lu Qingxue's body through her brow.
His furrowed brows gradually relaxed, and the fingers that had been gripping the corner of the blanket loosened.
Lu Yuan pulled a piece of jade of extremely poor quality from his pocket. It was an ornament he had casually picked up from the coffee table at the Wang family manor earlier.
He forced out a drop of his vital essence from his fingertip and forcibly carved a miniature defensive array inside the inferior jade. A faint glow appeared on the surface of the jade pendant, then disappeared again.
Lu Yuan placed the jade pendant beside Lu Qingxue's pillow and then turned to leave.
The morning in Yanjing was chilly.
Steam rose from the breakfast carts lining the street. Lu Yuan bought two fried dough sticks and ate them as he walked out of the alley.
Having cultivated immortality for nine thousand years, he had long since abstained from grains, but the taste of this mixture of inferior carbohydrates and gutter oil on Earth inexplicably made him feel at ease.
Once on the main street, Lu Yuan flagged down a taxi.
"Master, to West Mountain."
The driver with the Mediterranean-style hair stepped on the gas and glanced at Lu Yuan a few times in the rearview mirror.
"Young man, going to Xishan to see the autumn leaves? This isn't the right season. And I advise you not to go too far in. Something strange has been going on in Xishan these past few days. I heard they've put up a cordon and even deployed the special police."
Lu Yuan swallowed the last bite of the fried dough stick.
"Just park it outside the cordon."
The driver didn't say anything more. Half an hour later, the taxi stopped at a fork in the road at the foot of Xishan Mountain.
The asphalt road ahead was completely blocked by three black armored riot control vehicles. Yellow and black police tape stretched for hundreds of meters, all the way into the woods halfway up the mountain.
Lu Yuan scanned the QR code to pay the fare and got out of the car.
The air temperature was at least five degrees lower than in the city.
A wisp of white mist drifted out from the depths of the mountains and forests, swirling along the ground. This mist carried a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy, along with a barely perceptible stench of blood.
Lu Yuan put his hands in his pockets and walked towards the police line, stepping on the fallen leaves.
"stop!"
A crew-cut man in a black combat uniform emerged from behind the riot control vehicle. He carried a tactical baton with an electric shock function and stared at Lu Yuan with the eyes of someone looking at a thief.
"The Observatory is investigating; the area ahead is sealed off. Go back to where you came from."
Lu Yuan did not stop walking.
"I'm going for a walk in the mountains."
The crew-cut man chuckled and tapped his baton twice in his palm.
"Can't understand human language, huh? This place is now under the jurisdiction of the Yanjing Astronomical Bureau. No matter which noble family's young master you are, or whether you are a reckless rogue cultivator, if you take one more step forward, you will be shot on the spot for treason."
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He looked at the crew-cut man's uniform collar, which had a golden shield embroidered on it. It was exactly the same uniform that the fat man, Li Gang, had been wearing in the Wang family's surveillance room earlier.
"Didn't Li Gang notify you to evacuate before he fled?" Lu Yuan asked casually.
The crew-cut man's expression changed.
Only a very small number of high-ranking officials within the Astronomical Observatory knew that Deputy Director Li had suddenly rushed out of headquarters like a madman half an hour ago and had arranged for a private plane to flee overseas overnight.
How could this young upstart know that?
"Who exactly are you?" The crew-cut man gripped his baton tightly, his other hand already reaching for the pistol at his waist.
Several Sky Surveillance Bureau officers nearby also noticed something was wrong, and they all raised their automatic rifles, pointing the muzzles at Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan was making plans in his mind.
The Celestial Surveillance Bureau, a secular organization, reacted quite quickly. They deployed at least three hidden sentries around the perimeter, and the riot control vehicles were equipped with small spiritual energy detection radars. Unfortunately, these things were nothing more than scrap metal in the face of the array formations of the cultivation world.
"Get out of the way, or die," Lu Yuan uttered.
The crew-cut man was furious.
"Take him down! Dead or alive!"
He drew his pistol and pulled the trigger.
The gunshots echoed far and wide in the empty valley.
The brass bullet stopped three centimeters from Lu Yuan's brow.
The crew-cut man's mouth was slightly open, and the light in his eyes flickered violently. The sound of the wind in the surrounding forest seemed to vanish in that instant.
Lu Yuan didn't even raise his hand.
He simply took a step forward.
The bullet, suspended in mid-air, instantly shattered into powder.
Immediately afterwards, an invisible pressure descended from the sky.
The crew-cut man and the seven or eight agents around him didn't even have time to scream before they were hit head-on by a hydraulic press.
The dull thuds of bones breaking echoed throughout.
Several bodies were embedded in the asphalt road, and blood seeped out from the cracks in the ground.
Several huge handprints were suddenly dented into the thick bulletproof armor of the riot control vehicle.
Lu Yuan stepped over the bloodstains on the ground and crossed the police line.
The fog is getting thicker and thicker.
He took out the parchment scroll that Wang Jianguo had given him from his pocket and ran his fingers over the remaining patterns on it.
"This flawed spirit-summoning array has actually had its nodes forcibly altered, turning it into a killing array that extracts people's life essence. These natives on Earth really do treat any kind of trash as a treasure."
Lu Yuan casually crushed the parchment scroll into powder.
This thing is no longer useful.
The divine sense of the peak Mahayana stage spread out without reservation, directly piercing through the sky full of white mist and locking onto the energy vortex that was running wildly deep in the Western Mountain.
There, he sensed a pure aura belonging to the cultivation world.
Lu Yuan quickened his pace.