If I leave too, Yunxiu will die." Shendai Kongyu stood in the City 10 Garrison Troops camp, staring blankly at her phone.
She knew exactly what Shendai Yunluo meant. To obtain intelligence, Shendai Yunxiu had been getting close to the Patriarch’s faction, even allowing herself to be monitored by them.
Now, all three of them are suspected. If she and Shendai Yunluo run away together, the consequences waiting for Shendai Yunxiu will be extremely cruel.
"So you’re going to use yourself to help him maintain their trust?" Shendai Kongyu asked, "You once said that as long as our goal is accomplished, it doesn’t matter who achieves it. Back then, I guessed you wanted to use yourself to gain trust for Yunxiu. But can’t we find a quiet place to live? No glitz and glamour, no scheming and backstabbing, wouldn’t that be better?"
In the past, the old guard within the Shendai Family firmly controlled all military power. The younger generation had ideas, but lacked the strength to support them.
To overthrow the old power, someone had to infiltrate it.
Shendai Yunluo was inherently impulsive and disdainful of placating those old men. Every time he thought of those people using Neuron to seize bodies and live for hundreds of years, shamelessly using their descendants to prolong their lives and seizing everything from them, he felt disgusted.
But Shendai Yunxiu was different. This younger brother was more patient and better suited to be the one to dismantle the old guard from within.
Shendai Yunluo was speechless for a moment amidst the rapid-fire questioning on the phone. He suddenly laughed.
"It’s not like you think. Don’t worry so much. You’re usually like a quiet person, not talking much. Now, when you question me, you’re quite eloquent."Shendai Kongyu whispered, "Come to City 10 quickly, or I’ll go back and join you now."
Her soft black hair cascaded down, her expression shrouded in shadow, her voice exceptionally low.
Shendai Yunluo smiled, "Stay put in City 10. We haven’t had many choices since we were born. Yunxiu and I have decided to let you leave this chaotic place first. Cherish this opportunity. I heard City 10 is a good place. I talked with Qing Chen for a long time, and I long to go there. Don’t worry, I’ll join you."
Shendai Yunluo hung up the phone, returned to the banquet, and continued to drink and chat with the female celebrities.
A female celebrity asked where Shendai Kongyu was. Shendai Yunluo smiled and asked, "Of course, she’s resting inside. Don’t you trust my skills?"
The banquet was filled with the chatter of women, laughing and giggling.
He glanced at his watch. When the minute hand reached a certain position, the sound of engines roared outside the Black Swan Bar. The front and back doors seemed to be blocked, and a bright white beam shone in through the floor-to-ceiling windows outside the bar.
The next moment, Shendai Yunluo, like an arrow leaving a bow, leaped from his seat.
The huge Hyakumegami cleared the way, and the power of the Ten Worlds began to pull. He was still inside the bar, but he instantly dismembered the armored vehicles outside through the glass!
Including the people inside, all were killed. This near Demi-God level power was terrifying. After Hyakumegami obtained 67 pairs of eyes, its power had increased again.
Hyakumegami’s eye collection is also divided into three stages: the first node is 33 pairs, the second node is 66 pairs, and the third node is 100 pairs.
Each stage corresponds to different levels of power.
This is why Shendai Yunluo was anxious to find new eyes. It is said that Qing Chen had killed two A-rankers, Arthur and Li Yunze, and Qing Chen also told him that he would bring these two pairs of eyes to Whale Island.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Shendai Yunluo’s lips. What a good friend.
He didn’t know that Qing Chen had already killed another Chen Family painter, preparing to have Dayu and Zard bring them to Whale Island.
Those eyes were also for Shendai Yunluo. The level of the eye owner affects the strength of Hyakumegami. The higher the quality of the eyes, the stronger Hyakumegami will be.
If among these 67 pairs of eyes, there were Demi-God-level eyes, Hyakumegami would probably already possess the power of an early-stage Demi-God.
According to Shendai Yunluo’s expectations, he could gather one hundred pairs of B-rank eyes for Hyakumegami. He didn’t even dare to think about A-ranks. After all, there aren’t even a hundred A-ranks in the entire Federation. Killing one lessens their numbers. He himself is just an A-rank; how could he obtain A-rank eyeballs?
It was too risky.
Obtaining B-rank eyeballs steadily was fine. But since Qing Chen appeared, things were different. The quality of eyeballs Hyakumegami obtained began to improve dramatically.
What a lucky star.
At this moment, Shendai Yunluo leaped from the Black Swan restaurant, his six Shikigami blocking the hail of bullets beside him. In just a few breaths, he tore a hole in the encirclement outside.
On the communication channel, the Garrison Troops immediately requested reinforcements.
Outside the city, Xiao San, the outlaw, who was resting on the treetops, heard his watch alarm ring.
He took out his night vision binoculars and saw the patrol troops begin to contract their routes, reducing the ten-kilometer patrol radius to five kilometers.
"The Leader really didn’t lie to me. He said this time, and it was this time," he leaped down from the treetops and kicked the Golden Cockroach King awake: "Let’s go, get to work! We only have twenty minutes, or the inside contact will die!"
The Golden Cockroach King was a bit slow, but seeing Xiao San’s gradually receding figure, it immediately squeaked, calling on its little brothers to follow.
In an instant, a dense, rustling sound of carapace friction echoed through the mountains and fields.
In the moonlight, the cockroach swarm, which had reproduced to an even larger scale in just a few days, surged towards the sewage canal like a tide.
Shendai Yunluo was very busy tonight. He had to send away Shendai Kongyu, welcome Xiao San, and do many other things.
The streets of City 20 were deserted. Due to the strike caused by the Guardians’ Union, the entire north was under a curfew, and only the High Caste were allowed to go out at night.
Shendai Yunluo was running desperately, seemingly running blindly, his escape route completely chaotic and without pattern.
At first, the Garrison Troops thought he was trying to escape out of the city, and even activated all the Metal Storms on the city walls. However, Shendai Yunluo kept leading them around the city, with no intention of leaving.
Some people began to wonder: Did this guy get lost?
Continuing like this, wouldn't he be surrounded sooner or later? He would surely die then.
As time went on, the encirclement tightened, and Shendai Yunluo’s range of movement became smaller and smaller.
Until one moment, he suddenly saw Shendai Yunxiu at the intersection ahead, wearing a suit and holding a long katana in his arms.
Shendai Yunluo slowed his pace, his hands tucked in his sleeves, smiling and asking, "Did they send you to kill me? Do they know you’re not my opponent?"
At the north end of the street, three Ittō-ryū masters appeared. They slowly dragged their long swords on the ground, sparks flying from the blades against the ground.
At the south end of the street, four more Ittō-ryū masters appeared, surrounding the two in the middle, forming a battlefield.
They didn’t rush in, seemingly wanting to give the opportunity to Shendai Yunxiu.
The eyes of these death squad members were firmly locked on the two. Once they showed any unusual behavior, the seven masters would immediately attack.
The air on this street seemed to be frozen, heavy and oppressive.
Shendai Yunluo looked at Shendai Yunxiu: "Do you intend to fight me?"
Shendai Yunxiu said calmly, "It’s your own fault, placing the interests of outsiders above the interests of the family. If even this kind of behavior is not punished, how will the family be managed in the future?"
Shendai Yunluo nodded, "Being a Guardian for Qing Chen, the family’s number one enemy, seems a bit excessive, and I even drank with him, and became enemies with your new Boss, the Kingdom, and the Future Organization…Even I think it’s a bit excessive! Yes, it’s understandable that you’re killing me!"
The Ittō-ryū masters looked at each other. Why did he suddenly start looking for reasons for his own crimes?
Shendai Yunxiu slowly walked towards Shendai Yunluo: "Since you know what you did wrong, don’t blame the family for not showing mercy."
But at this moment, someone suddenly threw a can of beer from the air.
With a bang, the beer can exploded at Shendai Yunxiu’s feet, the foam staining his shoes.
Residents on both sides of the road silently watched this scene. At first, they thought it was just an internal conflict within the Shendai family, and it had nothing to do with them.
But when Shendai Yunluo mentioned that he was being hunted and surrounded by the Shendai family because he was Qing Chen’s Guardian, even the timid townspeople couldn’t help but react.
Qing Chen, Guardians’ Union, had spread like a virus through the strikes and demonstrations.
In particular, Hope Media’s recent reports were pushing the reputation of the Guardians’ Union and Qing Chen to even greater heights.
Qing Chen himself might not know that his followers were far more numerous than he imagined.
So, someone threw a beer can at Shendai Yunxiu.
Shendai Yunluo stared at this scene in astonishment, then turned to the building and smiled, "I appreciate your intentions, but don’t show yourselves now. It will implicate you."
"Don’t say so much nonsense. I apologize in advance, I have no choice," Shendai Yunxiu slowly drew his katana, ready to fight to the death.
Shendai Yunluo smiled, "Let’s see if you’ve improved."
As soon as the words fell, Shendai Yunxiu charged forward with his katana, trying to directly kill the Yin-Yang Master’s body.
Shendai Yunluo retreated, controlling three Shikigami to deal with the enemy, while the other three Shikigami dealt with the obstacles behind him.
The two moved rapidly along the street, and the residents on both sides of the street held their breath!
Tonight, they actually had the opportunity to witness a duel between the top Cultivators of the Ittō-ryū and Yin-Yang Master lineages!
In the City 10 Garrison Troops camp.
Shendai Kongyu said hysterically, "Let me out! Prepare an Airship immediately! I’m going to City 20!"
Qing Ye leaned against the door frame, scratching his ear and sighing, "I heard this girl is usually quite quiet. Why has she suddenly become like this for Shendai Yunluo? By the way, aren’t they cousins?
"The Shendai family doesn’t care about such things. Look at the movies they make. They don’t seem to care about ethics at all…" Qing Qu mumbled.
"Ah, that seems to make sense," Qing Ye nodded.
Shendai Kongyu looked coldly at Qing Ye: "You still have time to gossip here! If Qing Chen hadn’t invited Yunluo-gege to be a Guardian, how could tonight have happened?"
Qing Ye glanced at his watch and patiently explained, "Big sister, listen to me, we’re not gossiping, but waiting for the right time."
"What time?" Shendai Kongyu froze, "What do you mean?"
Qing Ye smiled and shifted his gaze from his watch, "The time has come… What kind of person is our Boss, what kind of mind does he have? Haven’t you learned that yet? Starting tonight, everything is a chain of events. Since he wants to lure…invite you to City 10, how could he let you get into trouble? Brothers, let’s go, get to work!"
As he spoke, Qing Ye and Qing Qu took the lead in walking in, a family member holding a golden True Sight Eye, opening a Key Gate for them.
Hundreds of firearms floated behind Qing Ye, along with ten whole boxes of ammunition, looking as if they were going to massacre the city.
Seeing the Key Gate open, Shendai Kongyu immediately wanted to rush in, but Qing Ye forced her back with the firearms in the air.
He said, "Big sister, just wait here obediently, don’t make things difficult for us, or it won’t look good if we tie you up. Don’t worry, Shendai Yunluo won’t die tonight."
Then, Shendai Kongyu turned to look at the door of the meeting room. Fully armed Shadow troops were filing in. Their faces were painted in black and green, their expressions grim and murderous.
Is this the legendary Shadow troops with an average rank of B-rank?
At this moment, Shendai Kongyu realized that Qing Chen was going to use tonight’s opportunity to launch a night raid on Shendai City 20!
There were so many things she didn’t know, and Shendai Yunluo seemed to have already reached an agreement with Qing Chen, and it wasn’t a hasty response.
Thinking of this, Shendai Kongyu suddenly said, "I want to join the Shadow troops. Can I go with you if I join?
Qing Ye laughed, "What are you thinking? Your level of exploiting loopholes is far from our Boss’s."