Chapter 78: Xia Hanshi Visits
“This matter can’t be dragged on too long. There’s a Variable for every day it’s delayed. Who knows how powerful that thing is? We must quickly make the upper levels understand.”
Su Chen calculated in his mind, but his body had already entered the Gravity Chamber. He gulped down two mouthfuls of Potion, assumed a stance, and gusts of wind surged around his body, shuttling through his limbs and bones.
Like a dull knife cutting flesh, his muscles twitched, waves of intense pain assaulting him.
Su Chen was already accustomed to it, but today, not long into Training, his movements abruptly stopped, and he opened his eyes.
In his mental perception, two life auras that were quite impressive had already entered his ten-meter range.
“One on the left, one on the right, sneaking around… but just Second Order Professionals, not Zhou Xian.” Su Chen retracted his stance and quickly pulled out a tube of Nutrient Potion, shoving it into his mouth.
Ever since arriving here, he had never trained himself to complete exhaustion, maintaining extremely high vigilance, which played a key role today.
“Zhang Hengyu just left…” A cold glint flashed in Su Chen’s eyes, and silently, cyan Scale Armor appeared in his hand, gradually spreading over his entire body.
At the same time, he opened his Bracelet and sent a message to Old Sun.
“Hm, stopped?” Su Chen held his breath and focused, sensing mentally that the two had stopped in the corridor outside the Room.
His gaze turned to the smooth Wall of the Gravity Chamber; the opponents were right outside the Wall.
“They even know the Gravity Chamber’s location—well prepared.” Su Chen stood in the corner, and Qing Suo silently appeared in his hand.
………
“Security is this poor?”
Somewhere outside the Inspection Sub-bureau, Zhou Xian hid in the shadows. His Subordinate had been inside for a while, yet the entire Inspection Sub-bureau remained still.
He couldn’t help frowning: “Could I have overestimated Zhang Hongbo? At a time like this, still thinking of taking out Su Chen first?”
“If that’s the case, things will be easy. This guy only just became 【Gale Hunter】 not long ago. I won’t even need to act; two against one is no problem.”
“But…” Zhou Xian’s expression flickered uncertainly. “Su Chen actually came out unscathed from the identification. Could it be that he wasn’t the one who attacked me that night?”
This guy had too many secrets. If he could be captured, many things would be explained.
……
“Probably around here.”
In the corridor, two Strange God Followers cautiously moved along the Wall position, their bodies shrouded in Shadow-Evading Clothes.
“Once we act, it’ll be hard to hide. Aim for a one-strike kill.” One of them said in a low voice.
“Mm.” The other agreed. “I’ll do Wall Breaking; you do the Assassination.”
“According to the Information, he should be in the middle of Training, body fatigued. A sudden Attack will definitely catch him off guard.”
As the two discussed, the Strange God Follower responsible for Wall Breaking took a deep breath. His muscles bulged, taking on a strange blood-red hue, with swollen muscle fibers twisting into dark blue-black veins under his skin.
His fist, now several times larger, was raised high like a mallet, pulled back to his waist, then smashed out like a cannonball. The moment it hit the Wall, it exploded with a roar.
Boom!
The Concrete surface cracked, revealing the twisted Steel Rebar framework inside. The other immediately rushed in, at extreme Speed.
But upon breaking into the Gravity Chamber, his fierce gaze turned to shock. In the thin dust, the surroundings were empty—who was there?
“Where’s the person…”
The question hadn’t even fully formed when a chill hit his heart. A piercing sharp wind came from behind his head, accompanied by a whistling tear through the air.
In his peripheral vision, he only caught a glimpse of a whip shadow like a cyan snake, with a violent hurricane kicking up the surrounding dust.
Thunder boomed!
And exploding along with it was his head!
………
“Xia… Old Xia, really not going in to take a look?”
In a Building near the Inspection Sub-bureau, several precision Instruments were set up here. The central large screen displayed an infrared view.
Xia Hanshi looked up at it, one figure’s red glow nearly breaking through the screen.
The man in charge of security was now like a quail, forehead beading with cold sweat, carefully asking.
He was responsible for Su Chen’s safety and the protector in the fishing Plan—Exploration Department Deputy Minister Lu Sheng.
A few minutes ago, their equipment had detected two anomalous signals sneaking into the sub-bureau. Based on speculation, they had used Shadow-Evading Clothes to conceal their bodies.
They were preparing to provide support when Xia Hanshi suddenly arrived and held them back.
“This equipment captures via heat signals, but as long as they shield their own heat source, they can evade it. Does Nan Feng only have this?” Xia Hanshi glanced over.
Lu Sheng carefully explained, “It seems so, but after Research Department modifications, it can also capture faint Mental Power signals. This is secret Information; combined, it’s hard for anyone to sneak in silently.”
“Can even perform self-mental shielding?” Xia Hanshi murmured softly. “Then did you notice Su Chen disappear?”
“Gravity Chamber Materials are special; the equipment can’t penetrate…” He explained. “Su Chen spends almost the whole day inside.”
“…Heat source disappeared—only one left!” The Subordinate monitoring exclaimed. Lu Sheng’s expression changed slightly.
“So fast… He only just became a Second Order Professional not long ago.” Xia Hanshi said wistfully.
………
“Liu Cheng… Shift change. You go back and sleep first.”
In the sub-bureau lobby, the Inspector Guard coming for the Rotation held a cup of coffee, yawned, and said to the short-haired woman who was already drowsy-eyed.
“Brother Zhang, thanks for the hard work.” Liu Cheng was already utterly exhausted, but this perked her up a bit.
Before her butt could even leave the seat, a booming sound came from overhead!
Like thunder exploding, it immediately startled the Inspector Guards in the lobby.
“W-What’s going on!?”
“Seems like upstairs!”
“…”
After a moment of panic, everyone quickly regained their senses. Some swiftly found cover, others had already activated communication Terminals.
Boom!
Another muffled bang, followed by a crash. Under everyone’s stunned gazes, cracks spread from the Ceiling like a spiderweb in all directions. The dull thud of falling Concrete slabs mixed with the twisted groans of Steel Rebar.
The wires buried within sparked with crackling electric fireworks.
A figure dropped down, dust billowing everywhere.
Everyone was badly startled, throats bobbing. Liu Cheng carefully looked up. Through the damaged Ceiling, at its edge stood another figure, upper body covered in cyan Scale Armor.
The scales refracted cold light patterns, with dark blue Energy arcs seeping from between each Scale Armor piece, slithering like living things along the muscle lines.
Holding a long whip wreathed in cyan thunder arcs, he looked down at those below, his eyes also glowing with cyan thunder arcs.
“Su… Section Chief Su?” Liu Cheng hesitated, then exclaimed in shock.
“Sorry to disturb you.” Su Chen reined in his killing intent, his face showing a mild smile. “Someone suddenly tried to Assassinate me; I couldn’t control my strength for a moment.”
“No, no problem…” Liu Cheng hurriedly said. This second-generation dragon was rarely seen, occasionally bumped into once or twice in the Canteen, always quite amiable.
She hadn’t expected that side of him just now.
“You all follow procedure.” Su Chen nodded, then turned to leave. “Someone should come to take over soon.”
Once Su Chen disappeared, everyone finally reacted, gathering to look at the Corpse on the ground. Face-down, its back bore a massive wound that had lashed open the spine, edges charred black, no blood flowing out.
“Holy crap, that’s fierce…” Someone nearby dry-swallowed.
“Fuck, big trouble. This guy’s the Minister’s student—who dares to Assassinate him?”
