City 5, Mountain City.
At 4 AM, the Gingko Villa halfway up the mountain was still brightly lit.
It was like a paradise that never rested. Every night, the scions of wealthy families with bleak futures in their families would drive their sports cars to wake up the entire city.
But the small house on the mountain of Gingko Villa was quiet.
Like two worlds that never merged.
In the small house where the Head of the Qingshi Clan lived alone, the old man was still sitting cross-legged in the darkness, his head bowed, not knowing what he was thinking. The Qing Family Shadow waited quietly behind him.
After an unknown amount of time, Shadow said, “You succeeded.”
“Mm,” the old man casually replied.
Shadow calmly said, “When Qing Chen left A02 Base, he took away all Qing Family intelligence personnel. This proves that he already has the Qing Family in his heart. In that case, you should have mocked my weakness instead. Why aren’t you speaking this time?”
The old man softly said, “Winning against you only proves that I didn’t teach you well, there’s nothing to be happy about. If you were to defeat me, then that would be worth celebrating.”Shadow fell silent for a moment. This old man’s way of thinking was always unique, different from ordinary people.
Just as the old man had once thought that simply letting Qing Chen take Qing Mu back wasn’t enough to give Qing Chen enough prestige, only letting Qing Chen become the second Qing Mu would do.
Even during the rescue operation, Qing Chen could have been saved earlier, but the old man deliberately “sent” him to A02 Base.
For example, the mysterious expert who had once found Qing Chen and was chasing Shendai Yunhe all over the world must have been the old man’s person.
For example, Qing Chen’s information in the film crew was released by the old man’s spies.
Even the person sent by the Shendai Consortium to capture Qing Chen wasn’t Shendai Yunhe, but another expert named Shendai Yun Cang.
As a result, the old man sent people to hold Shendai Yun Cang back, causing the Shendai Consortium to only be able to send Shendai Yunhe.
Only because the old man felt that although Shendai Yun Cang was stronger, Shendai Yunhe had more methods and a higher success rate in taking away Qing Chen.
This is something Shadow only learned later.
The old man wanted all Qing Family intelligence personnel to remember the name Qing Chen, and he also wanted the 929 Qing Family intelligence personnel in A02 Base to return and sincerely praise Qing Chen. This was the old man’s goal, and now it had been achieved.
A close call.
No, Shadow was thinking, for the Head of the Qingshi Clan, was everything in this matter calculated, a close call?
Shadow suddenly asked, “When I was checking the satellite map just now, I was thinking about a problem. Six years ago, you sent me personally to the northern snowfield to hunt down a traitor. At the time, I thought he had the family’s secrets, so I had to go kill him personally. But later I found out that he was just a small fry. I’ve never understood, did such a person need me to travel thousands of miles to kill him?”
“But just now I looked at the map and found that the place where I hunted him down back then is exactly where the Wild Battle Division is advancing now. You also know that the Shadow Gate in my hands can only be opened in places I’ve been to. So, did you plan all this ahead of time, preparing the conditions for me to open the gate there? But time travel hadn’t even started back then,” Shadow said.
The old man said lightly, “You don’t need to think of me as so magical. Go, take Qing Chen home, bring him back to receive support and applause, that’s what he deserves. Let Shendai know that they provoked someone they shouldn’t have provoked.”
Shadow looked at the old man deeply and walked directly into the Shadow Gate.
However, Shadow didn’t go directly to the northern snowfield, but to a high mountain.
In the night.
He stood on the edge of a cliff, almost another step would cause him to fall.
Shadow, dressed in black, silently looked down at the mountain, where there was a tea plantation, Jingshan Tea.
Next to the tea plantation, there was a small fence enclosing a small patch of sunflowers.
Strangely enough, it was unknown whether it was because the soil had been planted with too many Metahumans that it had become magical, or for some other reason, but these sunflowers, which should have withered in winter, were still blooming brilliantly.
In the middle of the sunflower garden, there was a delicate tombstone.
Shadow whispered, “It’s not time yet, wait for me.”
Then, Shadow suddenly shouted loudly, “Qing Ye!”
Someone behind him said, “Yes.”
“Qing Qu!”
Another voice responded, “Yes.”
Shadow smiled and turned to look at the three hundred and thirty people in black clothes, standing neatly and imposingly, silent, like three hundred and thirty statues.
Letting the heavy snow fall on their heads, motionless.
Thirty Awakened Ones and cultivators under him.
Three hundred Gene Soldiers he secretly trained.
This was the secret force responsible for rescuing Li Shutong’s imprisoned friends.
They had been waiting here for six hours, and they knew Shadow was going to kill someone.
Shadow smiled and said, “This time, you don’t need to put camouflage on your faces. By the way, any questions? Ask them all at once.”
Qing Ye: “Was Qing Chen mind-controlled?”
“No, he was born unable to be mind-controlled. Or rather, people from the Qing Family with the unique bloodline of the Qing Zhen ancestor cannot be mind-controlled.”
Qing Qu: “Did he surrender in A02 Base?”
“No, he didn’t surrender, not for a single second. He has now single-handedly killed his way out of A02 Base. A total of 2383 soldiers in A02 Base, including Commander Shendai Yunzhi, have all been killed.”
The pupils of everyone in the secret force suddenly contracted, because they knew what this meant.
“Any more questions?” Shadow smiled.
“None.”
These people didn’t ask who to kill, how to kill, or how many to kill from beginning to end, these were not their concerns.
They only cared about whether it was worth it.
Now they were sure it was worth it.
As long as it was worth it, it didn’t matter if it was killing from night to day, from one end of the world to the other.
Shadow smiled, “Let’s talk about the battle plan. It’s very simple. Two Shendai Wild Battle Divisions are going to encircle and wipe out Qing Chen. One will be dealt with by Li Shutong, Fire Pit Elder, and Li Yunjing, and the other will be dealt with by us. Two Demi-Gods, four A-Class, this formation, those who don’t know would think we’re going to save the world.”
Shadow’s smile faded, “Everyone, have fun tonight.”
Then, a Shadow Gate suddenly opened beside him, and he walked in first.
The next moment, Shadow was standing in the middle of the Shendai Wild Battle Division’s military camp. He smiled and said, “Wow, I hit the jackpot.”
At this moment, all the Shendai soldiers looked at this scene in surprise. A man in black just appeared out of thin air from the dark gate, standing in the middle of the camp as if he were the master of the world.
“Alert!” A Shendai soldier was about to roar.
But at that moment, the time around Shadow began to become as viscous as water.
The heavy snow that was falling heavily in the sky suddenly slowed down. The snowflakes stopped in the air, stopped in this dark night, stopped in the white beams of the camp’s searchlights, stopped around Shadow.
The Shendai soldiers’ open mouths could not close, and their figures were frozen in the action of reaching for their guns.
In the command tent, having just received news of the neighboring friendly army being attacked, they were angrily questioning why they couldn’t organize effective resistance.
This questioning expression also stopped.
The world stopped for Shadow, only he did not stop.
Shadow slowly walked through the curtain of falling snow, toward the Wild Battle Division’s command tent.
He opened the tent door, walked in, stood in front of the division commander for a few seconds, and then cut the commander’s carotid artery with his fingertip.
He then picked up a document from the Shendai Consortium from the table, read it for a while, made sure he had memorized all the nutritious information, and then poured himself a cup of hot water.
Throughout this process, everyone’s movements were so slow that they were almost imperceptible.
After drinking the hot water, Shadow walked out of the tent again, and he reopened the Shadow Gate in the darkness.
At this time, the flow of time suddenly returned to normal, and Qing Ye, Qing Qu, and others filed out of the Shadow Gate.
Shadow calmly said, “Kill them all.”
Three hundred and thirty members of the secret force, with ten B-Class Gene Soldiers led by one Awakened One or Metahuman, including Qing Ye and Qing Qu, two A-Class experts.
Thirty of the world’s most elite combat teams opened the curtain of slaughter in the darkness.
Qing Ye passed by, and all the Shendai soldiers’ firearms were sucked over, gathering around him.
One after another black automatic rifles floated around him, like an iron throne studded with iron swords.
They spat out dense gunfire, like a Metal Storm covering everything with firepower.
Wherever the gunfire passed, the tents in the camp were riddled with holes.
The ten Gene Soldiers behind him moved like ghosts, moving freely in this Wild Battle Division, killing from east to west, from south to north.
A dozen Shendai Consortium Gene Soldiers gathered together, trying to use their powerful physiques to stop these ten Shadow warriors.
But when they fired from a distance, they found that even if these Shadow warriors were shot, they would continue to fight desperately, without fear of death.
Before the Shendai Gene Soldiers could react, these Shadow warriors had already rushed to their faces, and in just a moment, the Shendai defense line was torn apart.
The Shendai Gene Soldiers were somewhat stunned, these men in black were actually all B-Class Gene Soldiers?!
In this entire camp, those ghostly figures in black clothes were all B-Class Gene Soldiers?
How much financial and material resources would this cost? How many elite soldiers would have to be selected to train such a secret force?
But the question is, why would such a ferocious secret force be used against their rearguard unit, which had just been reorganized?
Shadow didn’t make another move. He just slowly paced through the camp, as if a tango called “A Step Away” had suddenly sounded in the world.
As if it had nothing to do with him.
No one expected three hundred and thirty experts to suddenly appear in the camp, and no one expected that such an elite force would be used against their rearguard unit.
Such an elite force would be enough to go to City 22 to assassinate the head of the family!
Who would have the leisure to use such an elite force to attack an ordinary unit?!
Dawn broke.
The camp fell silent, leaving only 323 Shadow warriors standing in place, breathing slowly.
Seven casualties.
Shadow suddenly pondered, “Both ambushes were successful, but I haven’t seen the old turtle of Shendai yet, where did he go?”
Shadow looked north and said, “Using two Wild Battle Divisions as a smokescreen, the plot is very big. Li Shutong, I hope you can figure this out, the rest is up to you.”