Phi-Fic Chapter 143 The Downfall of the Tycoon, A Chill Flows Back
Chapter 143 The Downfall of the Tycoon, A Chill Flows Back
Click.
A dull cracking sound echoed through the underground fortress.
Richard's meticulously groomed blond head shriveled up completely. Red and white liquid splattered on the carpet, and one drop even landed on Ye Hongyu's cloth shoes two meters away.
The headless, suit-clad corpse twitched twice before crashing heavily to the ground.
Lu Yuan pulled his foot back and rubbed the sole of his shoe against the clean edge of the carpet.
Shen Qingci's hand, holding the tactical rifle, pressed down uncontrollably. She stared intently at the pile of mangled flesh on the ground, a dry heaving sound escaping her throat. Six S+ level monsters, whose cost was immeasurable, were wiped out without even a chance to fight, and now even the high-ranking executive of the conglomerate had been trampled to death before her very eyes.
She didn't even dare to look directly at Lu Yuan's back.
Lu Yuan ignored Shen Qingci's physical reaction. He stretched out his right hand and made a grasping motion in the air with his five fingers.
A semi-transparent, distorted mass of light and shadow was forcibly torn out of Richard's shattered skull.
The light and shadow revealed Richard's distorted face, silently howling and struggling in mid-air. This was a Mahayana-stage Soul Searching Technique. To deal with the soul of a mortal who hadn't even touched the threshold of the Qi Refining stage, Lu Yuan didn't need any complicated incantations.
He suddenly clenched his fingers.
The light and shadow exploded instantly, turning into countless tiny fragments of memory that were forcibly poured into his sea of consciousness.
Money, women, assassination, live experiments.
Lu Yuan filtered out this worthless junk information and directly extracted the most confidential files at the bottom level.
"A high-dimensional energy overflow point has been discovered in the high seas area of the East China Sea..."
"The boundary stone fragment salvage project...attempts to piece together the key to ancient ruins..."
Lu Yuan released his grip.
Richard's remnant soul didn't even get to utter a final scream before it vanished completely into thin air.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. was indeed collecting these spatial stones all over the world. They had no idea what boundary stones were; they simply regarded them as some kind of high-energy radiation source. But from Richard's memories, Lu Yuan confirmed one thing.
Deep within the East China Sea, a spatial node is loosening. The energy fluctuations emanating from it far exceed those of the Dragon Transformation Pool beneath Kunlun Mountain.
"Richard is dead...and you won't live either..."
A hoarse, dry voice came from the corner.
Ye Hongyu was tightly chained to the torture chair by several iron chains as thick as a thumb. Several of her ribs were broken, and her chest heaved violently with each breath. Her cloudy eyes were fixed on Lu Yuan, without fear, only a kind of madness born of utter collapse.
"You think you've won?!"
Ye Hongyu suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs.
"The Ye family is gone! The Wang family is gone too! We're all just food for those demons to use in their alchemy! You destroyed the Ye family, and that old monster hiding underground will never let you get away with it!"
Lu Yuan turned around and looked down at the old woman who once held sway over the capital's underworld.
"Are you barking at me hoping I'll give you a quick death?"
Lu Yuan's voice was very calm.
Ye Hongyu's laughter stopped abruptly. Her dry lips trembled, and a hint of barely concealed fear finally appeared in her eyes.
She truly didn't want to live anymore. The despair of realizing her family's wealth and influence, which she was so proud of, was nothing more than meat on someone else's chopping block, was more terrifying than physical torture. She deliberately provoked Lu Yuan, wanting to die a quick and easy death.
"Since you enjoy being food for demonic cultivators so much."
Lu Yuan raised his hand, and a faint black light flicked from his fingertips.
The black light entered Ye Hongyu's brow, transforming into a black lotus mark no bigger than a fingernail.
Soul-Devouring Death Curse Seal.
"For the next seven days, every midnight, you will clearly feel your soul being slowly gnawed away by tens of thousands of ants. Don't worry, the SHIELD Foundation has excellent medical equipment; they will keep you alive with IV fluids so you can stay conscious for those 168 hours."
Lu Yuan turned and walked towards the broken alloy door.
"This is the price you pay for plotting against my sister."
Ye Hongyu's body suddenly stiffened.
A few seconds later, an extreme pain originating from the depths of her soul erupted instantly. Like a fish out of water, she thrashed wildly on the torture chair, her wrists and ankles marked with deep, bloody welts from the chains.
"Kill me! Lu Yuan! Kill me!"
A piercing scream pierced through the thick blast wall.
Lu Yuan didn't even turn his head.
"Pack up all the materials here and take them back to the Astronomical Bureau."
As he passed by Shen Qingci, he left her with a remark.
"Then you..." Shen Qingci asked, barely suppressing the urge to chatter.
Lu Yuan raised his left hand.
The mysterious bronze piece in his palm was getting hot, and the brightness of the star array pattern on its surface was three times more dazzling than when they were in Kunlun. The coordinates of that old man from the Blood River Sect's arrival were resetting at an accelerated pace.
At the same time, the protective true essence he left on Lu Qingxue emitted extremely violent fluctuations.
"Return to Jiangzhou."
Lu Yuan did not take the elevator.
He raised his right hand, pointing it like a sword, and slashed it fiercely at the fifty-meter-thick layer of rock and blast-resistant concrete above the fortress.
Boom!
A terrifying sword aura, over ten meters long, surged upwards.
A blinding white light sliced through the ceiling. Tons of reinforced concrete rolled to both sides like tofu. A deep abyss-like chasm leading straight to the ground appeared abruptly in Shen Qingci's field of vision.
The night wind blew in through the crack.
With a tap of his toes, Lu Yuan transformed into a blur and soared into the sky.
......
At the same time, in the Panlongshan villa area of Jiangzhou.
The heavy rain has stopped.
But this is not because the weather has improved.
Raindrops falling from the sky freeze into sharp ice blades hundreds of meters above Panlong Mountain. They splatter and crackle as they hit the asphalt road.
The temperature plummeted to below minus forty degrees Celsius in just over ten minutes.
A thick layer of white frost covered the surface of the trees surrounding the villa area. Several stray cats hiding in the grass turned into stiff ice sculptures without even making a sound.
Ye Qingcheng stood on the ruins of the pavilion, her long sword pointing diagonally at the ground.
The blood dripping from the sword's edge froze into dark red ice beads before it even hit the ground.
She looked at the villa in front of her, which was enveloped by the Nine Heavens Gathering Spirit Array, and her breathing became unusually heavy.
The transparent shield of the grand formation had now turned into a translucent ice-blue color. Visible to the naked eye, the extremely cold air currents resembled giant white pythons, churning and crashing wildly within the formation.
That was the power erupting from Lu Qingxue's body.
Ye Qingcheng's fingers, gripping the sword hilt, were stiff and aching. The faint true energy that had just been generated within her was like a matchstick in a storm, ready to be extinguished at any moment in the face of this terrifying chill.
This is not martial arts power at all.
This level of cold air would freeze even the most powerful elders of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance within fifty meters of the villa, instantly shattering their protective aura.
"Beep...beep..."
A rapid electronic buzzing sound came from the winding mountain road below.
Ye Qingcheng turned her head.
Six heavily armored off-road vehicles painted with black double sword crosses smashed through the electronic fence surrounding the villa area, their engines roaring like beasts as they sped toward the mountaintop.
This is a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle specially made by the Chinese military, with its tires wrapped with anti-skid alloy chains.
The convoy stopped 300 meters from the villa.
The blinding tactical searchlights instantly lit up, and six beams of light locked onto Ye Qingcheng, who was standing on the ruins.
The car door opened.
Two rows of fully armed soldiers, dressed in specially designed exoskeleton cold-weather suits, quickly jumped off the vehicle, each holding an electromagnetic restraint rifle with an alarmingly large caliber.
The man at the head of the group removed his tactical helmet, revealing a face with high cheekbones. His shoulder insignia showed no rank insignia, only three crossed silver daggers.
Gao Tiancheng, captain of the special operations team of the Jiangnan branch of the Bureau of Strange Immortals.
He was holding a tablet computer; the energy meter on the screen had turned a glaring dark red, and alarms were blaring incessantly.
"Signs of awakening S-rank or higher ice-type superpowers."
Gao Tiancheng glanced at the instrument, then looked up at the frozen villa, a hint of fanaticism flashing in his eyes.
"The target is inside. Everyone activate your magnetic field shields and prepare to forcefully break through the formation!"
"stop."
Ye Qingcheng lightly touched the ground with her toes and gracefully landed on the ruins of the pavilion.
She stood with her sword drawn, blocking the path of the armored convoy. Her white, form-fitting outfit fluttered in the cold wind, and her exquisitely beautiful face remained expressionless.
"Restricted area ahead. Anyone who approaches will die."
Gao Tiancheng narrowed his eyes and looked Ye Qingcheng up and down.
"Who do we have here? It's Special Envoy Ye from the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance."
Gao Tiancheng sneered, completely disregarding Ye Qingcheng.
The intelligence he received was shared by the Celestial Surveillance Bureau. It only stated that there were violent energy fluctuations at Panlong Mountain. He had no idea what Lu Yuan had done in the capital, let alone that the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance was already defunct in name only.
In the eyes of this elite of the Extraordinary Immortal Bureau, who was equipped with the latest generation of electromagnetic weapons, the so-called Grandmaster of Transcendent Realm was nothing more than a more resilient target.
"Ye Qingcheng, this place is now under the control of the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals."
Gao Tiancheng raised the electromagnetic restraint gun in his hand, and the dark muzzle was pointed directly at Ye Qingcheng's forehead.
"The awakened one inside is extremely dangerous and must be taken back to base immediately for containment and dissection research. I advise you to get out of the way. Obstructing the Bureau of Extraordinary Immortals from carrying out its duties is something that even your alliance leader cannot protect you from."
Ye Qingcheng stared at the dark muzzle of the gun.
She recalled the S-class genetically modified humans she had cleaved in two with her sword half an hour earlier.
"You have no idea you're courting death."
Ye Qingcheng flicked her wrist, and the longsword emitted a clear and melodious sword sound.
"My master instructed that anyone who dares to approach this house before dawn will have their bones crushed inch by inch. Since you can't understand human language, then leave your lives behind."
"Your master?"
Gao Tiancheng was stunned for a moment, then looked as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
"A special envoy of the Ancient Martial Arts Alliance, actually acting as someone's dog? It seems your martial arts world is truly rotten to the core."
He suddenly waved his hand.
"Open fire! Dead or alive!"
More than a dozen electromagnetic restraint rifles simultaneously lit up with blue charging light.
But before they could pull the trigger...
A sharp sonic boom suddenly came from the night sky above.
The sound was like a rusty iron saw tearing at everyone's skulls. Several soldiers behind Gao Tiancheng couldn't even withstand the noise, dropping their guns, covering their ears, and crouching down in pain.
Gao Tiancheng suddenly raised his head.
The flying ice blades were forcibly torn apart from the middle by an invisible, violent force.
A figure in a white shirt stepped through the air and plummeted straight down from a height of several thousand meters.
boom!
Lu Yuan's feet slammed onto the asphalt road.
The entire Panlong Mountain shook violently. The massive shockwave sent the armored off-road vehicle, weighing over ten tons, flying away from Gao Tiancheng.
The SUV tumbled twice in mid-air before crashing heavily onto the cliff beside the road, exploding into a blinding fireball.
Lu Yuan slowly straightened up.
He patted non-existent dust off his shoulders, his gaze sweeping over the slumped soldiers of the Immortal Bureau, finally settling on Gao Tiancheng, whose face was deathly pale.
"You just said you wanted to take someone back for dissection and research?"