ATPnovel Chapter 97 The Accounts of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau, Settled Ahead of Schedule
Chapter 97 The Accounts of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau, Settled Ahead of Schedule
Headquarters of the Jiangnan Astronomical Observatory.
This greyish-white building, located on the edge of the city center, is usually so safe that even a bird wouldn't dare approach it. But tonight, the police tape outside its gate was torn to shreds.
Several bulletproof armored vehicles with provincial license plates were parked across the steps, their searchlights casting a ghastly white light on the main entrance of the building.
Two underground floors, a top-secret warehouse.
The half-meter-thick alloy explosion-proof door had been forcibly blasted open with high-energy explosives; the metal edges were curled up, and pungent gunpowder smoke was still billowing out.
Inside the warehouse.
Rows of heavy metal filing cabinets were overturned and placed on the ground.
Several guards in the uniforms of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau lay in pools of blood, their fate unknown.
Lei Dong, wearing a long trench coat, sat imposingly on a solid wood desk. He was cracking two walnuts in his hands, and his foot was planted on the head of a deputy director of the Astronomical Bureau.
"Vice President Lei... this is treason! Forcibly storming the Tianjian Bureau's warehouse—if the Yanjing General Bureau investigates, you wouldn't have enough heads to go around!"
The deputy director's face was covered in blood, and he was gritting his teeth and roaring.
Lei Dong suddenly exerted force with his foot, and the sole of his leather shoe slammed the deputy director's face hard into the cement ground.
"The Yanjing General Bureau?"
He scoffed.
"The fact that I dare to stand here tonight is because of Yanjing's orders. Gu Ku's old case and the Lu family's messy affairs, the higher-ups said, cannot be exposed."
Lei Dongchong waved to several of his men, who were wearing black raincoats.
"Have you found them all?"
A subordinate strode over carrying two cardboard boxes and placed them on the desk. The boxes were stamped with a bright red "Top Secret" seal.
"Vice President, it's all here. The Gu Kushui Eye Formation Diagram from twenty years ago, Lu Changfeng's escape route map, and a few shady accounts from Yanjing."
Lei Dong nodded in satisfaction.
He pulled a windproof lighter out of his pocket and lit it with a "snap".
Blue flames danced in the dimly lit warehouse.
"Burn it. Clean it up completely, along with these guards. Just say that the fire was caused by aging wiring in the Astronomical Bureau."
The subordinate nodded, picked up a can of gasoline, and poured it onto the cardboard box.
Just as the lighter was about to be thrown onto the cardboard box.
"boom!"
A deafening roar came from outside the warehouse.
Immediately afterwards, the building's alarms blared wildly, and the red emergency lights flashed frantically.
Lei paused, his lighter twitching.
"What's going on! Where are the sentries outside?"
Before the words were finished, a dull thud echoed down the corridor.
That was the sound of human bodies hitting a metal wall, dense and numerous, like a hailstorm.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sound grew closer and closer, so fast that it gave no one time to react.
Lei Dong stood up from his desk, clutching the walnut in his hand. He had brought the elite of the provincial bureau, with more than thirty guns on the outer perimeter. Even a Grandmaster at the peak of the Transcendent Realm would have to risk his life to break through.
But the commotion in the corridor didn't seem like a firefight at all.
It's more like a one-sided massacre.
"Click."
A bloodstained tactical boot flew in from outside and hit a cardboard box full of gasoline.
Lei Dong's pupils suddenly contracted.
Those were the shoes he had arranged for the sniper at the stairwell to wear.
Outside the explosion-proof door, the smoke and dust slowly dissipated.
Lu Yuan stepped through the broken glass and bullet casings scattered on the ground and entered the second basement level.
His clothes were still dry, without a single wrinkle. Only his right sleeve was stained with blood, which was dripping down.
Lei Dong stared intently at the young man.
He had read Shen Qingci's report and knew what Lu Yuan looked like. But he just couldn't understand how this kid had single-handedly broken through the three layers of defense of the Sky Surveillance Bureau in five minutes.
"You are Lu Yuan."
Lei Dong put away the lighter, put his hands behind his back, and his internal energy at the peak of the Transcendent Realm circulated wildly within his body.
"You've got some nerve. Killing the vice president of the Martial Arts Association wasn't enough, you even dared to storm the Celestial Surveillance Bureau. Do you really think you're invincible?"
Lu Yuan didn't even look at him.
His gaze fell on the two cardboard boxes on the desk that were soaked in gasoline.
"That's mine."
Lu Yuan took a step forward.
Lei Dong's six black-clad henchmen immediately drew their short knives, spread out in a fan shape, and blocked the desk.
"Your things?"
Lei Dong sneered.
"This is stamped with the top-secret seal of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau. When did it become the property of the Lu family? Kid, I don't care what kind of evil kung fu you practice. You can't break this game tonight."
He stomped his foot suddenly.
Several cracks instantly appeared in the concrete floor. A visible blast of air erupted from beneath his feet, causing the surrounding metal cabinets to rattle.
"Attack him together! Cripple his arms and legs!"
The six henchmen moved simultaneously. Under the red emergency lights, their blades traced six ghastly white arcs. Their coordination was impeccable, effectively sealing off Lu Yuan's upper, middle, and lower defenses.
Lu Yuan didn't even stop walking.
He raised his right hand and casually drew a semicircle in mid-air.
The spiritual energy of the Golden Core stage transformed into a solidified wind blade, sweeping across the ground.
There was no metallic clanging sound.
Only the chilling sound of flesh being torn apart filled the air.
The three men in black at the forefront were still charging forward with their upper bodies, but their lower bodies remained in place. They were sliced in half at the waist by this invisible wind blade.
Blood and entrails instantly covered most of the warehouse.
The remaining three men were terrified. The daggers in their hands clattered to the ground, and they turned and ran.
Lu Yuan made a grabbing motion from a distance.
The three men were sent flying backward uncontrollably. Lu Yuan clenched his fingers, and a cracking sound like firecrackers rang out from their chests simultaneously. Their ribs shattered, and they died instantly.
Lei Dong's hands, which were behind his back, began to tremble.
Those were six martial artists who had reached the peak of internal energy cultivation! They couldn't even last a second!
Internal energy released externally? Qi taking form?
This is absolutely not a technique that someone at the Transcendent Realm could use!
"You... what level of cultivation have you reached?!"
Lei Dong suppressed his fear and roared, his voice strong but his heart weak.
Lu Yuan walked to the desk and placed one hand on the cardboard box.
The pungent smell of gasoline was instantly covered by a refreshing fragrance, completely dissipating.
"You're not qualified to ask that question."
Lu Yuan turned his head and looked at Lei Dong.
"I told you to bring enough bags to hold the bodies. Did you bring them?"
Lei Dong knew things couldn't end well today. He bit his tongue hard, spitting a mouthful of blood onto his hands.
"I've been in Jiangnan for thirty years, and no one has ever dared to talk to me like that! Die!"
He roared, unleashing his peak Transformation Realm cultivation without reservation. He transformed into a furious black bear, his fists whistling through the air as he slammed them straight at Lu Yuan's temples.
He was confident that this punch could smash through a half-meter-thick steel plate!
Lu Yuan did not dodge.
He simply extended his left hand and casually grasped Lei Dong's fist, which was as big as a sandbag.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud.
Lei Dong's overwhelming fist force vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
He felt as if his punch had landed not on a person's hand, but on an unshakeable iron mountain. The immense recoil caused his entire right arm to instantly lose sensation.
"Thirty years, and this is all the strength you've gained?"
Lu Yuan's fingers slowly tightened.
"Click click click..."
Lei Dong's fist bones began to deform, and he was forcibly crushed into a pile of broken bones.
"ah!!!"
Lei Dong was in so much pain that he knelt on the ground, his trench coat instantly soaked with cold sweat.
Lu Yuan released his grip and kicked Lei Dong in the chest.
Lei Dong was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the blast door and creating a huge, human-shaped dent in the thick metal. He slid to the ground, vomiting mouthfuls of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
"You... Yanjing... will not let you go..."
Lei Dong stared intently at Lu Yuan, still uttering harsh words.
Lu Yuan walked up to him and looked down at him.
"Yanjing?"
He crouched down and took the urgent secret order out of Lei Dong's pocket.
"Go back and tell your people at the provincial bureau, and those old dogs from Yanjing too."
Lu Yuan slapped the secret order onto Lei Dong's blood-covered face.
"Wash your neck clean. I'll go to Yanjing myself to collect the debt."
He stood up, picked up the two brown cardboard boxes from the table, and turned to walk out of the warehouse.
I just walked into the corridor.
The elevator doors at the end of the corridor suddenly opened.
An elderly man dressed in a gray long robe came out. He was leaning on a dragon-headed cane, and there was no internal energy fluctuation from him; he looked just like an ordinary old man strolling in the park.
But the moment he stepped out of the elevator...
The air on the entire second basement level seemed to have been sucked out. The light bulbs in the corridor burst one after another, plunging the area into a deathly darkness.
The old man raised his head, his cloudy gaze piercing through the darkness and locking onto the cardboard box in Lu Yuan's hand.
"Young man, you can't take the things from the Celestial Bureau with you."
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He looked at the old man, a cold smile curving his lips.
"Divine Realm".
"Finally, someone who can breathe again has arrived."