Chapter 28: A Flash in the Sky, Rebellious, and Delightful – Little Did They Know the Original Star's Words Would Be So Provocative…

After receiving another instruction from the rhinoceros horn, the man put down his knife and fork and began to take action.

He pretended to rummage through the bag, holding it in front of him. His plan was to later lift the tablecloth and use the bag as cover to secretly stick the bomb under the table, and finally start the bomb's countdown before leaving.

He had done this kind of thing many times before and was very skilled at it, so there was absolutely no chance of him being discovered.

However, just as he unzipped the zipper to a size large enough to reach inside and operate it, a dark shadow fell from the sky and landed precisely on the table directly in front of him.

The tableware, which had been placed flat on the table, was smashed into pieces by the impact of the dark shadow. Some of the pieces spun around and came to rest on the table, while others fell to the ground and shattered into pieces of various sizes, causing the remaining sauce stuck to them to splatter around them.

Amid the gasps of the surrounding diners, Fu Ze kicked the man in the chest, saying, "Put your things down properly and get out of here."

Although they had the upper hand, how could a man chosen by the rhinoceros to carry out a mission so easily give in?

Not only did he disobey Fu Ze's orders, but he also overturned the previous covert operation plan after taking a kick from the other party and simply stuck the bomb on the table, and even pressed the countdown button on it.

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Since he's already been exposed, he's going to die either way, it's just a matter of time. So why not make things even bigger and drag a few more people down with him?

After seeing and realizing what the man had taken out, the diners who had initially wanted to watch the commotion were stunned for a moment. Then, led by the first person to react, they began to flee in panic, blocking the store entrance so that no one could get out.

"Everyone calm down! The guy in the blue shirt and the lady with the curly hair, step back a little!" Cui Ya tried to direct the scene of the accident, but his voice was drowned out by the screams of the crowd and no one heard him.

Amidst this chaos, Yuan Jianxing made his move.

He stood up, grabbed the heavy wooden dining chair, and threw it from the second floor to the first floor, where it landed precisely on the restaurant's glass window.

"Splash!"

With the sound of shattering glass, a cool evening breeze blew in through the crack in the window.

This prompted the diners below, who grabbed whatever they could find to break the window and fled on all fours.

With the last diner successfully escaping, Fu Ze finally had room to maneuver. After delivering a few heavy blows to the man he had restrained, enough to keep him from recovering for half a minute, he stood up and pounced on the table to check the bomb's status.

Defusing a bomb is not as simple as cutting a red or blue wire as in the movies. At least Fu Ze looked around and couldn't find a single part on the bomb except for the activation button.

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The countdown on the bomb ticked relentlessly, and Fu Ze currently had no way to deal with it.

Throwing them onto the street outside the restaurant might be an acceptable option, but the diners who had just escaped the restaurant were still being evacuated, and there were no conditions for Fu Ze to take such action at the moment.

Although the countdown was short, given that throwing it outside was such a simple and crude solution, there was even some time to spare.

So Fu Ze decided to spend about 30 seconds physically hitting the man who started it all.

Because of Fu Ze's previous attacks, which were delivered without holding back, the man was seriously injured. Perhaps he had internal bleeding or broken ribs. In any case, he was already in a state where he was exhaling more than he was inhaling.

Grabbing the man by the collar and lifting him up, Fu Ze pressed his head against the bomb and asked viciously, "How do you stop this bomb?"

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"Want to stop? You're dreaming!" The man's gums and teeth were stained bright red with blood flowing back up from his esophagus, and he revealed a terrifying smile.

Fu Ze was not surprised by the man's reaction.

He had already guessed that this person was most likely one of those "deliberately trained assassins".

The greatest role of suicide squad members is to "die in a worthy place."

So Fu Ze changed the direction of his question: "Who is your target?"

Is it Hara Mikihoshi?

Or...me?

Before he could observe any reaction from the man, Fu Ze felt his hand become light and his fingers grasped nothing.

In the blink of an eye, the man vanished into thin air!

Almost instantly, the man appeared outside the restaurant still in the position where he was restrained by Fu Ze, and then crashed heavily to the ground because he was no longer being held down.

What the heck?!

Fu Ze and Yuan Jianxing, who witnessed this scene, were both stunned for a moment, and then immediately thought of the "key" that Snake Eyes had mentioned.

The man who "appeared" on the other side was stunned at first, then overjoyed, he struggled to get up from the ground, pushed through the crowd of onlookers, and ran away.

Now that things have come to this, Fu Ze and Yuan Jianxing alone definitely can't catch up with this person in a short time, so dealing with the bomb has become the most important task.

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With that incident still ongoing, the remaining time to deal with the bomb is tighter than Fu Ze had anticipated.

Yuan Jianxing jumped down from the second floor and, together with Fu Ze, threw the bomb and the table it had stuck to onto the street outside.

If the onlookers were merely curious about what had happened at this well-established restaurant that would cause diners to flee in such a panic, their curiosity reached its peak after the table, complete with a bomb, was thrown out.

Accompanying the thirst for knowledge is often an unusual boldness, as well as a sense of luck that bad things will never happen to them.

Yuan Jianxing disliked the word "luck" and also disliked others making foolish mistakes in front of him with a "luck" mentality.

He raised his hand and fired bullets one by one in front of the surrounding crowd, using this violent but efficient method to force the increasingly close crowd back dozens of meters.

On the other hand, Fu Ze's strategy was different from Yuan Jianxing's.

Without a gun, and unable to fire it at will, and partly out of a sarcastic and competitive mindset towards Harami Hoshi's statement, "At least I should be able to subdue the enemy even without a gun," he simply stuffed the bomb, along with the table, into the roadside sewer.

Yuan Jianxing neither approved nor disapproved of his actions, but simply instructed, "Evacuate immediately. This bomb has a large yield; a mere manhole cover cannot contain it."

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While silently counting down the remaining time before the bomb exploded, Fu Ze disobeyed Yuan Jianxing's order to evacuate. Instead, he went back into the store and dragged out the sturdy freezer that was used to display ingredients at the store entrance, placing it on top of the manhole cover.

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After locking the freezer wheels, Fu Ze started running outside.

Sigh, it's just rebellion.

Well, aside from his rebellious nature, Fu Ze actually had a fairly high degree of confidence.

During the kidnapping of Snake Eyes, he drove the Demon Lizard 757, carrying the victim, at high speed through the sewers of V City.

At that time, Snake Eyes brazenly told Fu Ze that L City's sewers were several times larger than V City's, and the cement layer was frighteningly thick, designed to be at the level of a wartime air-raid shelter.

The speaker may have been trying to show off, but the listener remembered it.

It is precisely the accumulation of countless such details that enables Fu Ze to always do things that seem unconventional at first glance, but are actually quite reasonable upon closer inspection.

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boom--!

Driven by a pre-programmed sequence, the bomb's fuse was ignited by an electric spark after the countdown ended, causing the gunpowder and other substances inside to react and explode in the vertical section of the sewer, producing a tremor and muffled sound no less than "the earth-shaking drums of Yuyang".

The first to be hit were the manhole cover above the explosion site and the heavy freezer on top of it. The two items, weighing several tons together, were completely lifted up by the violent blast wave from the sewer and thrown more than two meters into the air!

However, since the main body of the explosive had already fallen into the horizontal main pipe, the remaining blast wave began to spread rapidly to the side, lifting up many manhole covers in the same block one after another.

Although the force had diminished considerably, the manhole covers still flew some distance, spinning and tumbling as they crashed into some unfortunate vehicles parked on the roadside. Immediately following, a series of piercing, ear-splitting alarms blared, making one's eardrums tingle.

During the explosion, streetlights along both sides of the street, stretching for hundreds of meters, dimmed, and some streetlights stubbornly flickered a few times before going out of commission.

Only then did the L City executive arrive belatedly, urged by countless terrified reports from the surrounding crowd. He immediately located Fu Ze and Yuan Jianxing, who were standing in the middle of a large open space cleared by pedestrians, trying to remove the manhole cover.

Overwhelmed by other matters and having only managed to muster enough police resources, the L City executive naturally assumed that the two men were the instigators of the incident. He immediately raised his gun and ordered the two men, "Don't move!"

However, as the dust kicked up by the explosion gradually dissipated, the lead officer, armed with a gun, was instantly dumbfounded when he saw Yuan Jianxing's face clearly.

He kept uttering "You! You!" for a long time without getting a clear answer.

“It’s me, Yuan Jianxing.” Yuan Jianxing took the initiative to admit his identity, and then quickly switched to work mode. “Leave one recorder down to communicate with my trainee Fu Ze, the rest of you come with me to arrest the person.”

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With the assistance of the L City executive, the man who was beaten so badly by Fu Ze that he vomited blood was quickly apprehended.

This time, however, the strange "flash" did not occur.

Listening to the man's account, the executive officer in charge of recording the events painfully rubbed his forehead: "Antisocial personality disorder? Sudden retaliatory behavior? You should at least come up with a different excuse."

Actually, when he heard Fu Ze recall the man's actions he had seen in the restaurant, he was already somewhat prepared, but after actually hearing the prisoner say those words, he still felt a sense of despair.

Without a doubt, the incident was orchestrated by the Kangming Group, and all connections between this man and the Kangming Group had been thoroughly dealt with beforehand, leaving no room for error.

As with countless previous incidents, it was utterly despairing.

After the assistant manager finished cleaning up the scene, Yuan Jianxing came over to check on Fu Ze's progress: "Is the recording finished? If it is, let me check it."

Fu Ze, who had been offline for a while, patted the recorder on the shoulder. Seeing that the other party was still immersed in uncontrollable pain, he simply took the other party's equipment and handed it to Yuan Jianxing.

After browsing through the records and keenly noticing that Fu Ze had concealed the fact that the person had "appeared," Yuan Jianxing understood and handed the equipment back to Fu Ze, saying, "No problem, sign it."

Just a second before Fu Ze was about to write his name in the recorder's section on the right, he couldn't help but prompt him, "The section for the person who reported the incident."

"Received." Fu Ze, engrossed in playing the role of the executive officer, casually bit into the edible ice cubes he had casually grabbed from the freezer while checking the situation after the explosion, and then signed his name on the left horizontal line below the document.

Yuan Jianxing considered it for a moment, then reached out and signed his name in the space left after Fu Ze's name.

This way, even if there are any problems with the recorded content, the L City executive officer cannot take Fu Ze over to check it without his knowledge.

The two names, neatly arranged side by side, are quite pleasing to the eye.

At this moment, the executive team leader, who had inquired with other colleagues about how this big Buddha had been blown here, came over. After reviewing the records made by Yuan Jianxing, he first asked a few symbolic questions, and then turned the conversation to the direction he was really concerned about.

"After arriving in L City, which branch was Brother Xing assigned to? Has he been on any missions?"

Yuan Jianxing naturally couldn't reveal the true purpose of his mission—to uncover the secrets of the Kangming Group—so he selectively answered the questions he could.

The team leader was shrewd enough not to poke at what he thought was Yuan Jianxing's sore spot: "Oh, that's great. I've only ever heard of Brother Xing's reputation, and now that I finally have the chance to work with him, I must learn from him!"

"You flatter me. We're all colleagues. I'm the one who's new here and still needs to learn from everyone." Yuan Jianxing shook hands with him in return.

Standing behind Yuan Jianxing, listening to the other party speak in such a stiff, official tone, Fu Ze had to go through all the sad things in his life to suppress his laughter.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Jianxing changed the subject, dragging Fu Ze into it as well, giving off an air of "If I'm not doing well, you're not going to get away either."

At this moment, Fu Ze was like a child who was sleeping in his room during the Chinese New Year but was suddenly dragged out by his parents to greet the relatives who came to pay their respects. He forced himself to say a few words to the executive captain.

Considering Fu Ze's recent act of throwing a bomb into the sewer, the executive captain couldn't help but remark, "Today's young executives are truly bold and energetic, full of ambition and drive."

At this point, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, do you two know where Du Yang is? If the information is correct, he was arranged to come and welcome you today. He should be here."

"About half an hour ago, Du Yang dropped us off here and then went to the furniture market to pick up his boss," Yuan Jianxing answered truthfully.

The team leader froze, staring at Yuan Jianxing in disbelief, and stammered, "But the Adjudication Bureau lost contact with the action team he led a few hours ago, and even the team that went to provide support didn't reply. How did Du Yang receive a notification from his superior?"

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Author's note: I hope the next time you two sign your names together, it'll be on your marriage registration form! [rainbow emoji]