"What?!"
"Where is Lu Shiyan? What happened to his men?!" Lei Lao Hu grabbed the signalman by the collar.
The signalman was strangled to the point of being unable to breathe, his teeth chattering as he answered incoherently, "No... I don't know... The explosion was too violent, our people... couldn't get close enough to observe..."
"The scene was a sea of fire and thick smoke. I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."
"Afraid of what?! Tell me!" The veins on the back of Lei Lao Hu's hands bulged, and he almost lifted the signalman off the ground.
"I'm afraid... it's very dangerous..." The signalman closed his eyes and shouted as if he had risked his life.
Lei Laohu let go of his hand and the signalman collapsed to the ground.
Scorpion was finished, and so were those foreign aids that appeared out of nowhere! But did his sharp knife also break along with him? !
"Prepare the car!" Lei Lao Hu slammed the table, veins throbbing on his forehead, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes. "I'm going to take a look myself! Mobilize all available manpower and seal off the exit of Area B! Even if we have to dig three feet into the ground, we must find Lu Shiyan for me!"
He would see the person alive or dead! He would never believe that Lu Shiyan would die so easily!
When Area A was in chaos due to the violent explosion in Area B, a dark shadow quietly sneaked into the core area of the heavily guarded base.
The movements were swift and precise. Every step he took perfectly avoided the sight of the patrol teams and the surveillance of the secret sentries. He knew the layout of the place very well.
Target, Lei Lao Hu’s private database.
It was Lu Shiyan.
He shuttled between the shadows of the buildings, his figure almost blending into the darkness. The guards outside the database, both visible and invisible, seemed meaningless to him.
An almost imperceptible electric current flashed across his fingertips, and the screens of surveillance cameras at several key locations instantly turned into a piece of snow, making only a slight crackling sound, and then returned to normal, but the records of those few seconds were blank.
He came to a heavy alloy door, and his wood-based ability was about to silently penetrate into the complex lock core structure.
"Who's there?!"
A loud shout and hurried footsteps came from around the corner.
Two burly figures rushed out with guns in hand, and the dazzling beams of flashlight shone directly on his face.
One of the experienced guards narrowed his eyes, trying to see the face of the person who came: "Wait, this figure... Damn! Adjutant Lu?" There was a hint of uncertainty and suspicion in his tone.
The other man was younger and had a hotter temper. The moment he saw Lu Shiyan clearly, his pupils suddenly constricted, and then he became furious and pointed the gun directly at Lu Shiyan.
"Lu Shiyan! Why are you here?! This is Master Lei's forbidden area! Shouldn't you be leading the team to deal with the explosion in Area A?!"
Lu Shiyan had a blank expression and cold eyes.
The old soldier Lao Wang, who recognized him, turned pale in the blink of an eye. He frantically reached for the signal gun on his waist and shouted fiercely, "You...you want to rebel? Betray Master Lei? Master Lei has treated you well! You traitorous bastard!"
He roared and was about to pull the trigger of the flare gun.
Lu Shiyan's figure just shook slightly, leaving a residual image on the spot.
Lao Wang felt a flash before his eyes, and the wrist that was about to pull the trigger was held tightly by a hand like an iron clamp.
“Crack!”
The crisp sound of bones breaking was particularly harsh in the silent corridor, making people's scalps tingle.
As soon as Lao Wang's scream reached his throat, Lu Shiyan covered his mouth tightly with his other hand and strangled his throat with such force that his eyeballs popped out.
The fingers kept tightening.
Lao Wang kicked his legs violently several times, his eyeballs bulged out due to suffocation and severe pain, his pupils dilated rapidly, and soon he became silent. His whole body fell limply, and the signal gun fell to the ground with a clang.
The other young guard was so frightened that he could hardly hold the gun steadily and his fingers were shaking badly.
After the extreme fear, he was overwhelmed by anger caused by betrayal and the tragic death of his companions.
"You...you traitor! I'm going to fight you!"
He raised the old pistol in his hand tremblingly, the muzzle shaking wildly due to nervousness, and pulled the trigger frantically at Lu Shiyan.
“Bang! Bang!”
The bullet grazed the corner of Lu Shiyan's clothes and hit the wall, sending out a few sparks.
"Noisy."
Before he finished speaking, a slight sound of breaking air was heard in the air.
The young guard only felt a piercing pain in his ankle. A dark and tough vine quietly emerged from the shadow under Lu Shiyan's feet at some point, and like a poisonous snake waiting for an opportunity, it precisely wrapped around his ankle and twisted it violently in front of his horrified gaze.
"ah--!"
He screamed and fell forward, losing his balance.
“Snap!”
The pistol flew out of his hand and hit the ground with a dull sound.
Lu Shiyan took a step forward with clean and neat movements, without even glancing at the guard who was lying on the ground and twitching.
The corridor fell silent again, leaving only two gradually cooling corpses and a strong smell of blood.
He stood up straight, not even the corners of his clothes were messy, and glanced coldly at the corpse on the ground.
He turned around and faced the heavy alloy door again.
The wood power came out silently and easily penetrated into the alloy lock core, which was a hundred times more complicated than an ordinary door lock. The tiny gears, springs, and lock pieces slowly twisted, deformed, and shifted under his precise control.
"Click... Click..." After a series of subtle mechanism sounds, the heavy alloy door opened quietly and silently.
Inside the database, a smell mixed with the cold breath of metal and the musty smell of old paper hit me in the face.
Lu Shiyan turned a blind eye to the mountains of paper documents and scattered hard drives on the bookshelves on both sides.
His goal was very clear from the beginning - the energy stone.
The interior of the database was larger than he had expected, and the structure was more complicated. Secret compartments, mezzanines, and safes disguised as ordinary walls could be seen everywhere, which showed how cunning and suspicious Lei Lao Hu was.
“Found it.”
Lu Shiyan's gaze finally locked on an inconspicuous metal cabinet in the corner of the wall.
The cabinet looked extremely ordinary, even a little old and rusty, and it was out of place with the other safety devices that shone with a brand new metallic luster and were obviously very expensive.
It is this deliberately created "ordinariness" that reveals its extraordinaryness.
He did not choose to crack it violently, as that would make too much noise. He once again used his wood power, condensed it into an invisible hand, and carefully reached into the equally inconspicuous keyhole of the metal cabinet.
A series of increasingly subtle mechanical popping sounds were heard, and the cabinet door opened.
Almost at the moment the cabinet door opened, a gentle yet powerful energy wave emanated from it, instantly filling the entire secret room, and the air seemed to become a little thicker.
On the velvet pad in the middle of the cabinet, a crystal stone about the size of a fist, completely transparent and flawless, was quietly floating there, emitting a dreamy colorful halo.
“It is indeed it.”
Energy stone!
Lu Shiyan's eyes narrowed slightly. Even though he had expected it, seeing it with his own eyes now, he couldn't help but feel a little moved.
He stretched out his hand and carefully took the energy stone that was emitting a warm glow into his palm.
A warm and powerful current instantly surged into the palm of my hand and quickly flowed through my limbs and bones, reducing my fatigue a little and making my mind clearer.
Everything went as planned, exactly.
At this moment, Lei Lao Hu must be extremely worried and furious about the grand "fireworks" in Area B.
He quickly left the database and returned along the same route. According to the original plan, he should meet up with Xiao Han and others at an abandoned maintenance station on the edge of Area A, and then go together to the final evacuation point agreed upon with Su Wan and A'mo.
However, the expected figure did not appear.
Lu Shiyan had a bad feeling in his heart.
"It seems...something happened."
Lu Shiyan's eyes darkened, and a rare sense of hostility quietly gathered in his eyes.
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