Chapter 1 Just the First Step

Playing around with those silly ghost runners and constables was only the first step; there was no challenge in that. Whether it was the former him or the current him, if he couldn't even manage that, he wouldn't be An Buqi.

However,

After the first step,

Lawyer An didn't feel much relief.

The noses of the enforcement team were much sharper than he had imagined.

Many, many years ago, a group of fish accidentally swam into a stone cave, devoid of light. They lived and bred there, and gradually their eyes degenerated.

However, in Lawyer An's view, after decades of confinement, these mad dogs didn't seem to have regressed in that aspect at all.

He had cooperated with the enforcement team before when carrying out missions, but at that time, everyone was on the same side, and the feelings and experiences were indeed not as profound as they were now, standing on opposite sides.

Originally, Lawyer An had the opportunity to leave the city directly. After fooling those ghost runners and constables, he could have left this city, this "urn."

But he didn't do so. Although, in the eyes of most people, running away is a derogatory term, only those who truly love running away understand how profound the knowledge contained in those two words is.

Leaving the city would certainly speed up his movement and seem to escape this fishing net, but it would undoubtedly make his location clearer, followed by a swift pursuit by the enforcement team with a group of ghost runners and constables.

On the other hand, continuing to stay in the city, relying on the dense population, would instead make the other party hesitate, and it would also be more convenient for him to operate.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

Strands of black spider silk cascaded down, with a kind of power that enveloped everything.

Lawyer An did not resist, but turned and ran into an old residential building with a high occupancy rate, leaving the other party with a dashing and memorable back view.

The woman who spat out the spider silk hesitated for a moment, but still retracted the silk. She didn't dare let her spider silk enter, because if she wasn't careful, the toxicity of the silk could cause many residents in the building to die.

She was unwilling to bear the karmic debt caused by this kind of diffusive killing.

"You go in, I'll wait outside!"

The woman stood still,

And four figures darted out instantly from her side.

Two went in from the first floor, one climbed directly up the wall, and the last one went up to the roof.

"Shua!"

A black shadow appeared behind the woman,

Then,

The black began to bifurcate,

Her hair spread out,

Revealing that very effeminate face.

"A Que, is it blocked?" Shan Ying asked.

"Blocked, a Ding-level team has already gone in."

Shan Ying shook his head, "Not enough, I'll go in myself. Let the people behind be responsible for blocking this place. There can't be any more accidents, otherwise, when the adults from the Yi-level team arrive, neither you nor I can bear the responsibility."

As soon as he finished speaking,

Shan Ying's body turned into a shadow again and merged directly into the residential building, disappearing.

A Que spread out her hands,

Strands of fine, almost invisible spider silk spread rapidly from the palms of her hands,

Like a huge spider web covering the top of this residential building,

And then she stopped moving, really like a spider, quietly waiting for its prey to touch the web.

"You're leading the disaster eastward. Once you push them too hard, they might disregard the lives of the residents..."

"Shut your mouth, who exactly is the bad guy? Are you out of your mind? They are the authorities, we are the bandits!

When have you ever seen bandits care about the safety of the people?"

Lawyer An went up to the fifth floor in one breath and immediately stopped. He formed hand seals, and black light condensed in his palms.

"Hey, help."

"We're trying to escape, not resist the law!"

"Then you go down and communicate with them, and let us leave?"

"..." Geng Chen.

"The Yin realm has order, the law of the dead is merciless, seal!"

Lawyer An struck the stairwell below with a hand seal, and the stairwell immediately became filled with ghostly aura, as if all the light had been sucked away in an instant.

Seeing this scene, the several enforcement team members who were chasing below did not rush up rashly, but stopped.

However,

A figure rushed out of the dense blackness,

This person was wearing a hoodie with the tag still attached.

The two enforcement team members at the front, one stepped forward and the other stepped back, almost an instinctive action, showing the seamless cooperation between the two.

The one who stepped forward stretched out his arms, and a green barrier was erected for defense;

The one who retreated opened his mouth, and a scarlet-red heat spewed out from his mouth at extreme speed for attack.

The figure in the hoodie did not dodge,

He didn't even launch any offensive,

He just came here,

And then,

Stopped in front of the barrier,

When the enforcement team member behind him opened his mouth,

The man in the hoodie suddenly raised his head.

…

"Open!"

Upstairs, Lawyer An directly released the white bone hands that were originally placed in front of his eyes. In his eyes, there was a scarlet-red luster flickering.

"Open!"

The baby on Lawyer An's back also stretched out his small arms, with a serious expression, but in the depths of his eyes, there was a hint of helplessness.

A beauty by nature, why become a thief,

This may be the best interpretation of Geng Chen's current state of mind.

…

In the stairwell, the man in the hoodie raised his head and opened his eyes at the same time.

The enforcement team member in charge of erecting the defense at the very front was stunned. In front of him, it was clearly a puppet, dull, wooden, without any breath fluctuations!

Damn it, he was tricked!

However,

At this moment,

The puppet's eyes opened,

Scarlet-red eyes appeared.

The enforcement team member who had just spewed out the scorching beam felt as if his brain had been struck hard, and then he moved his mouth down in a ghostly manner.

The muzzle shifted down,

Aimed,

Fired…

"Ahhhhhhhh!"

The scorching beam hit the companion in front who was originally erecting the defense for himself,

Facing this sudden attack from his teammate from behind, he was completely caught off guard. Immediately, his whole body was burning, and even his soul was scorched in it, trying to escape this body, but he couldn't leave at all.

The puppet's body trembled,

His eyes seemed to be wider than before,

The enforcement team member behind him slammed his mouth shut in the midst of setting his teammate on fire.

In an instant,

The scorching energy began to run rampant in his own body,

And then from the inside out,

The skin began to crack,

The flames "whooshed" up.

In the stairwell,

Two screaming fire men "danced wildly,"

The soul and body gradually annihilated in the dance steps!

…

Lawyer An closed his eyes,

Smacked his lips,

And smiled:

"Little kids shouldn't play with fire."

As soon as he finished speaking,

The experience of feeling good about himself didn't last long, and he didn't have time to brew and revel in it.

"Crash!"

The glass behind him shattered directly,

A masked man holding a dagger appeared directly behind Lawyer An,

A fully charged strike,

Came extremely suddenly!

"Hey!"

Lawyer An didn't turn around, didn't even dodge, but his scarlet-red eyes glared fiercely forward!

At the same time, three paper figures flew out from Lawyer An's sleeves and floated forward.

"Buzz!"

Inside the stairwell in front,

There seemed to be a muffled groan.

The masked man who had already reached the back of Lawyer An stabbed the dagger into Lawyer An's body, but then dissipated with it. Obviously, this was a doppelganger projection, an illusion!

And in the stairwell in front,

A man wearing a silver mask trembled and revealed himself, his eyes beneath the mask filled with confusion and fear.

Three paper figures had already arrived beside him,

But his whole body was paralyzed, and he couldn't control his body at all in these few breaths.

Playing illusions in front of Lawyer An,

Was really showing off an axe in front of Lu Ban (a master craftsman).

The first paper figure floated past his neck,

His head fell off,

The second paper figure floated past his wound,

His soul was forcibly taken out,

The third paper figure instantly ignited itself,

And collided with his soul,

His soul also began to burn.

Lawyer An stretched his palm from his neck over,

Geng Chen did not react,

"Hey, come on!"

Geng Chen still did not respond.

"Hey, don't ruin the atmosphere!"

Geng Chen reluctantly,

Stretched out his small palm and slapped Lawyer An's big palm.

"Pa!"

Crisp!

"Nice cooperation, perfect!"

Only two encounters,

Of the four enforcement team members who chased him in, three were lost.

It's not that they were weak,

In fact,

Any one of them could fight an ordinary inspector alone,

But so suddenly, facing this kind of rhythm of attack, such precise calculations and almost perfect cooperation, life and death were often decided in an instant.

The kind of thing that happens in three hundred rounds of a great battle is really rare in real-life fighting.

"We should escape,"

Geng Chen reminded.

"Oh yeah, we should escape."

Lawyer An took a deep breath,

And continued to run upstairs.

"Escaping should look like escaping," Geng Chen reminded again.

"Oh yeah, escaping should look like escaping."

"You've killed them all, what the hell are we escaping for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Geng Chen really, really didn't want to attack the enforcement team again!

He was in Cao Ying but his heart was in Han (serving one side while longing for the other). He was clearly an infiltrator, an informant, but now, he really couldn't wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

…

"Squeak!"

The iron door of the rooftop was pushed open,

"Crack!"

The terrifying astral wind swept past instantly,

An old man's body trembled, and his upper and lower body were completely cut in half, "thud," and fell into a pool of blood.

The man frowned slightly.

Killing an ordinary person was not impossible, but it meant some trouble. After the matter was over, he would have to spend some energy and time to resolve these karmic consequences.

"Come down!"

Lawyer An shouted at the top from the stairwell on the next floor, and at the same time, he raised his middle finger, provocation, provocation, provocation!

"I know you're up there, and I also know that you just killed an innocent, pitiful old grandpa!"

"Using living people as bargaining chips, aren't you afraid of divine retribution?"

The man above said in a deep voice.

He just moved forward a few steps and came to the iron gate. In his hand, he tightly gripped a peach wood sword, with his sword energy attached to the blade.

He was waiting, waiting for his companion to come up to respond. Just now, he sensed the movement of the fight below. His companions should have forced the target up.

"Bullshit, who's cleaner than whom? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? What kind of spotless beings are you!

Besides, you killed the person. You're the big head, I'm the small head. If heaven wants to strike, it will strike you first. At most, I'll get electrocuted!"

"Heh."

The man snorted coldly.

"If you don't come up, I'm going down!"

Lawyer An shouted again.

The man above smiled slightly,

Then,

The smile froze,

He looked down in shock,

And found that two withered hands had pierced through his chest.

The old man who had just been cut in half by his sword actually launched a sneak attack on him!

The man's body trembled, he opened his mouth, and his soul prepared to move out.

But at this moment,

The blood on the ground suddenly boiled,

Terrifying corrosive liquid splashed everywhere,

This was a suicide bomber puppet.

"Ahhhhh!"

The roar and roar of the soul came,

Before it could escape the physical body, the soul was directly annihilated.

Lawyer An walked to the iron gate,

Looked at the deep-fried corpse lying on the ground,

Smiled slightly,

"I told you to come down, but you just wouldn't. Disobedient, disobedient."

"It's time to escape,"

Geng Chen reminded weakly.

If we don't escape,

We're really going to kill all the people chasing you…

We're fugitives,

Fugitives!

For crying out loud,

Is there any semblance of a fugitive left!

"Yeah, okay, okay, escape, I understand, I understand, don't rush me, okay? Even when retreating, you have to pay attention to setting up an ambush, right?"

"I regret giving you that family background."

"Don't be like that."

"You're getting cocky, An Buqi."

"You were just demoted, I'm being chased, hiding here and there for so many years. You don't understand this feeling of getting something back that was lost."

"I only know that we should escape."

Lawyer An picked his ear with his little finger,

The person on his back was clearly a little baby,

But why did it feel like he was carrying an old, nagging grandma on his back?

Lawyer An came to the edge of the rooftop, prepared to jump down, but hesitated, and after retreating a few steps, he formed a hand seal and struck forward.

"Crack!"

An invisible net appeared.

"Damn it, so insidious!"

It was a good thing he didn't impulsively jump down just now, otherwise, he would probably be captured alive and made into a skewer of bones and flesh.

"Sssssssssss…"

A faint rubbing sound came,

A black figure appeared at the edge of the rooftop,

His eyes swept over the deep-fried corpse at the iron gate,

And then moved to Lawyer An.

He,

Had lost four more subordinates,

Adding the one who acted without authorization before, that made six. If you count the three hidden in Tong City, that's nine!

Even if they were all Ding-level teams, this kind of loss was a very painful price for the enforcement team, which had just been unbanned and was already seriously injured and no longer as glorious as it once was.

Most importantly, it was about face. Everyone was thinking about regaining the glory of the enforcement team when the big leader was around when they were released and came back, but now, the face of the enforcement team had been thrown on the ground by the person in front of them and rubbed back and forth hard.

Lawyer An turned around, looked at Shan Ying,

And even reached out to say hello,

Saying:

"Do you remember me?"

"We're fugitives…" Geng Chen reminded, almost desperately.

"You are…"

Shan Ying obviously didn't remember,

Generally speaking, people who recognize the current An Buqi are those who had deep grudges with the former An Buqi, the kind of enemy that even if you turned into ashes, I would still recognize you.

"Okay, if you don't recognize me, that means you're ignorant."

Lawyer An took a deep breath,

Pointed to his back,

Said:

"Tell that spider demon to release the net and let me go. I'm a fugitive, I have to escape. My partner already has a lot of opinions about me."

"..." Geng Chen.

"Who are you?" Shan Ying was still thinking about this question, but then he shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'm not interested in knowing the name of a dying person."

"Brother, those lines are usually said by extras who are about to get their lunch boxes in TV series…"

Shan Ying moved,

In fact,

He had already moved when he was speaking. What was left in place was just an afterimage.

Before Lawyer An could finish his sentence,

He felt a bone-chilling coldness suddenly coming from his chest.

"Reinforcement!"

The baby on Lawyer An's back clenched his small fists,

"Shua!"

A plastic film appeared in front of Lawyer An,

But the film was instantly pierced,

Lawyer An was also sent flying,

Slamming hard into the iron gate on the rooftop.

"Cough cough cough…"

Lawyer An struggled to get up,

There was a patch of purple bruises on his chest, which was frostbite;

If it hadn't been for that layer of film blocking it just now,

His heart might have been frozen to death in that sudden attack!

"Bah!"

He spat a mouthful of blood on the ground,

Lawyer An gasped for breath and asked:

"Are you satisfied now? We have the feeling of being fugitives."

"Not bad."

Geng Chen felt much better,

It seemed that this feeling of being chased and suppressed,

Was what he had always been pursuing.

"I sincerely feel sorry for you. I really didn't expect that after I tricked you into going there back then, it would change your emotional orientation."

Geng Chen was silent.

Shan Ying's figure reappeared in front of Lawyer An,

His speed and footwork were really amazing,

Especially in the Yang realm,

Everyone would basically have some limitations because of the unsuitability of their physical body,

But he didn't seem to have this problem at all.

The others were all choosing suitable physical bodies, while he was transforming a physical body to suit himself. Just looking at that terrifying amount of hair wasn't something ordinary people could have.

But,

This time,

When Shan Ying approached again,

In Lawyer An's scarlet-red eyes,

Fresh blood began to drip out,

"Come and play, grandpa!"

"Boom!"

A mental storm exploded directly,

Releasing together with the ghostly aura on Shan Ying's body,

Forming an extremely terrifying aura!

In the distance,

Boss Zhou and the others were still mourning for Lawyer An, who might have encountered a ruthless interception,

They didn't expect at all,

That the person creating this terrifying aura,

Was Lawyer An himself.

Shan Ying only felt that the light and shadow around him were undergoing subtle changes,

He, who was moving quickly, suddenly lost his sense of speed and space, like a running athlete who suddenly became "top-heavy."

Shan Ying began to lose control of himself. His sense of direction was being blurred, and the position of space was being reversed. He forced himself to resist the interference from the outside world, but he didn't succeed. The other party's mental attack was like a sea, directly tilting down. He had nowhere to hide and could only passively endure it.

"Drip… drip… drip…"

Blood,

Kept dripping from his eye sockets.

"Is it worth it?" Geng Chen asked.

"It's not worth it."

"Then why are you still doing this? We're fugitives. What we should be doing is escaping, is running."

Lawyer An took a deep breath,

In his eye sockets, besides the blood dripping down,

There were also tears mixed in,

It was bitter blood and tears.

"But he runs faster than us. If we don't get rid of him, what the hell are we escaping for!"

"…" Geng Chen.

…

A Que stood on the open space below the residential building, her eyes fixed on the top.

The enforcement team's losses this time were a bit too great. If it were in the past, losing some Ding-level teams wouldn't have been anything.

But now it was different. In the past, they had a large family and a large business, but now everything was waiting to be rebuilt. Especially those who were confined together for decades. Even if their strength hadn't increased, or even if most of them had declined, they were the only remaining elites.

It was hard to imagine what kind of punishment she and Shan Ying would face after those three Yi-level team adults arrived.

Also,

Up there,

The commotion seemed to be a bit too big.

A Que frowned.

Looking at it now,

The estimation of the target was obviously wrong.

At this time,

The figure of a woman appeared beside A Que,

A very plump and graceful lady.

A Que's expression was a little complicated. Logically speaking, as an enforcement officer of the Bing-level team, she didn't need to put on a low posture to this inspector, but one was that the enforcement team was not what it used to be, and the second was that after this, this person might have a chance to compete for the position of judge.

"Fourth Master, you're here."

A Que still used honorifics.

Feng Si'er nodded and said, "Is Shan Ying up there?"

"Yes, the target seems to be a bit difficult."

Feng Si pondered, "I'll go help him."

"Thank you for your help, Fourth Master!"

"You're welcome."

Feng Si took two steps forward, then stopped, turned back, and said to A Que behind him:

"Oh, I forgot to tell you."

"What is it, Fourth Master?"

"Happy Women's Day."

Today was March 8th.

"…" A Que.

A Que was a little speechless. She really couldn't understand why this man who was about to become a judge would say such a thing at this time. It made her a little uncomfortable.

But since people were joking with you,

As a matter of politeness,

And to ease the relationship,

A Que said, "You too, happy Women's Day, Fourth Master."

Feng Si, who was a woman, smiled,

A Que also smiled along with him,

Feng Si took two steps back, walked to A Que's side, reached out and patted A Que's shoulder, smiling even more happily,

A Que was a little flattered and excited. She felt that her joke was just right, and the other person was very happy;

Smiling and smiling,

Feng Si waved his hand,

With a gust of wind in his palm,

"Bang!"

A Que's head exploded directly.

Feng Si'er covered her mouth, continuing to laugh, tears dripping down uncontrollably as she laughed,

"Hehe, I told you to be cheeky."