Chapter 61
Before running head-on into Zhou Qingzi, who was out for revenge, Yi Yan was leading a group of team members to collect plant samples deep in the swamp.
"The ecological environment here is really good," a team member looked at the surrounding mountains shrouded in clouds and mist and couldn't help but sigh, "I have never felt such fresh air, it feels like my lungs have been filtered."
"That's right, my rhinitis has improved a lot."
His companion nodded approvingly.
Yi Yan glanced at them and reminded them calmly: "Don't be distracted. The road here is not easy to walk on."
Each of them wore long rubber boots, because there were swamps and mud everywhere, and they would fall into it if they were not careful. To be on the safe side, Yi Yan also tied a rope around the waist of each team member, and he led the way, and the team members behind him followed his footprints.
"By the way, Captain Yi," because there were basically no creatures that could threaten them except for the timid small wild animals nearby, someone in the special action team started gossiping with Yi Yan, "What's going on between you and Gu Liang?"
"What's going on?"
"It's just... they're all spreading that rumor, saying that you like him."
The man laughed and scratched his head, but he almost lost his balance and fell on his butt in the swamp. Fortunately, someone walking behind him quickly helped him up: "Hey, watch the road!"
"It's not a rumor," Yi Yan was silent for a moment, and answered without turning his head, "I do like him. Also, don't discuss irrelevant topics during the mission."
The man immediately shut his mouth, but exchanged an excited look with his companions as if he had gotten something big.
Suddenly, Yi Yan stopped, pursed his lips and looked around. Although he didn't find anything unusual, his muscles tensed up and he quickly gestured to the back.
The crowd, who were originally in a relatively relaxed mood, suddenly showed serious expressions when they saw his gesture, and became more vigilant and observed the surrounding environment.
There was something faintly surging in the clouds ahead.
"Everyone get down!" Yi Yan shouted sternly.
As soon as the words fell, the trained special forces members immediately fell to the ground with their heads in their hands, not caring at all about getting their bodies soaked in mud and water. Their movements were amazingly uniform.
Almost at the moment they fell to the ground, a strong wind brushed past their heads!
The snow-white peacock's feathers flew close to the ground, and the originally soft feathers stirred up a gust of wind in the air because of the amazing speed, which made people's faces hurt. Zhou Qingzi looked at the group of people wearing strange clothes in black combat uniforms on the ground, snorted coldly, and drove the peacock to the shore of the big lake.
"What the hell, what is this, a peacock?" Yi Yan heard someone behind him exclaiming in surprise, "It's too big!"
This white peacock is not only incredibly large in size, enough to carry the weight of an adult male, but its claws are also extremely cold. With one claw, any mortal being would have their flesh and blood turned inside out.
Yi Yan thought that this person probably had bad intentions, but the other party did not attack them immediately. His behavior just now could only be considered a provocation at most.
Therefore, he calmly pressed the emergency button on the communicator to request support from the school, while trying to talk to Zhou Qingzi:
"What do you mean, sir?"
"It doesn't make any sense," Zhou Qingzi asked, with his hands behind his back, staring at them. "I want to ask you, which sect are you from? Why are you here?"
"…This seems to have nothing to do with you, right?"
"Our Linshen Sect is the number one sect in the world. Although this area is a public area, as an elder, I also have jurisdictional responsibilities." Zhou Qingzi said coldly, "Besides, if you encounter evil cult members, everyone has the right to kill them. I ask you again, who are you? Did you kidnap my disciple?"
At the end of his speech, his face turned slightly red and his voice was filled with gritted teeth.
A team member standing behind Yi Yan whispered to him, "Captain Yi, could it be that Zhou Ming's master has come to visit us?"
Before Yi Yan could tell him to shut up, Zhou Qingzi, who was at the Spiritual Transformation Stage and had sharp eyes and ears, widened his eyes and shouted:
"It is indeed you, a bunch of scoundrels! Give me back my disciple!"
"Fuck, are all cultivators' ears so good?" The team member was shocked. Yi Yan grabbed his collar and said, "Stop talking nonsense and get ashore first!"
A beam of golden light instantly shot out from Zhou Qingzi's fingertips. Yi Yan quickly dodged it by turning his head and fired a flare into the sky. Although flares are not as obvious during the day as at night, this place is not too far from the campus, and they are carrying locators, so it should be easy for the school to find them.
"Spread out! Stay hidden!"
Upon hearing the order, the special action team members quickly dispersed and cooperated tacitly to drop several smoke bombs to confuse the enemy's sight. As expected, Zhou Qingzi, who was originally planning to use the same trick, was stunned for a moment, and then frowned tightly.
"They have quite a few tricks," Zhou Qingzi sneered, "Unfortunately, these tricks don't work on me. King Ming, teach them a lesson!"
The white peacock let out a clear cry towards the sky, spread its wide wings, and flapped forward without hesitation!
A strong wind blew up from the flat ground, and the thick fog was blown away in an instant, but there was no one in the swamp in front of them, and only a few empty footprints were left there - because the situation was urgent, the special task force did not have time to deal with the traces they left behind when they evacuated.
Zhou Qingzi sneered, suppressed his worry for his disciple and his anger towards these daring demon cultivators, and with a cat-and-mouse mentality, followed a trail of footprints that disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.
"Xiao Mo, activate all nearby defense mechanisms, and transfer all drones from the other three directions of the campus." Yi Yan said to the communicator while running wildly in the jungle, "How long will it take for the support to arrive?"
"Based on your current coordinates, it will take about seventeen minutes."
Yi Yan's eyes darkened: "Then tell them to hurry up. By the way, tell Principal Zong not to send a helicopter over. The visibility is too low, and his bird is very troublesome."
As he spoke, Yi Yan glanced back quickly.
While running, he heard the sound of trees falling one after another from behind. It seemed that the immortal cultivator was chasing him as he expected.
Just now, at the moment of the smoke bomb explosion, Yi Yan took advantage of the other team members' evacuation and trampled on the footprints left by them, leaving only his own clear footprints. After doing all this, he evacuated into the forest in another direction.
The reason for doing this is because Yi Yan is confident in his own abilities.
They came out this time to collect plant samples and did not bring too many weapons. In this case, as the leader of the team, Zhou Qingzi's attention must be all on himself.
Moreover, Yi Yan thought that he was the only one in the entire team who could guarantee to hold out for more than ten minutes under the hands of an angry cultivator.
"Do you think you can outrun my Ming Wang just by your two legs?"
Zhou Qingzi sneered at this kind of demon cultivator who didn't know his own strength. His Ming Wang was a rare fairy beast that only appeared once in a hundred years! It seemed that although this person had many strange little tricks, his cultivation was completely unimpressive. He was basically just a straw bag with a flowery frame.
"Just surrender!"
Looking at Yi Yan's back in front of him, he shouted loudly.
Yi Yan suddenly stopped, stood where he was, and looked back at him, panting.
When his sight met that pair of exceptionally calm dark eyes, Zhou Qingzi couldn't help but be stunned. He thought that the demon cultivator who had been chased to a dead end by him would show a panic-stricken expression, but considering that Zhou Qingzi had the courage to let other companions escape first, he was willing to spare his life as long as he was willing to tell the whereabouts of his disciple and turn over a new leaf.
Yi Yan loosened his clenched left hand, and several mini smoke bombs fell to the ground through his fingers.
“Bang!!!”
Looking at the smoke filling the surroundings, Zhou Qingzi frowned impatiently: "Still coming? Didn't I tell you this trick won't work on me?"
The white peacock spread its wings and used a fan to clear the thick fog as before. But at the moment when the man and the beast regained their vision, a dazzling red laser pierced straight through the dense forest and hit the white peacock's left eye!
"call out--"
The laser instantly blinded the white peacock. Zhou Qingzi, who was standing on its back, was almost thrown off by the painful white peacock. Fortunately, he adjusted his body shape the moment he landed.
"You bastard!"
Seeing his beloved pet injured, Zhou Qingzi flew into a rage: "Well, first you seriously injured my beloved disciple, and then you hurt my fairy pet. I think you are really tired of living!"
He immediately forgot about the "be careful" instructions that the first and second elders had repeatedly told him to do before he left, and made hand gestures with one hand, and shouted coldly:
"Form a sword formation!"
A white light flashed from the jade ring on Zhou Qingzi's left hand. Yi Yan, who was hiding behind the cover, narrowed his eyes and saw countless short-handled flying swords with cold light appear beside Zhou Qingzi in the blink of an eye, with the tips of the swords all pointing in his direction.
Is this the legendary storage ring?
"Go!" Zhou Qingzi shouted at the flying sword floating in the air.
Yi Yan gritted his teeth and unfolded the folding explosion-proof shield tied to his right arm with a click, but its area was only enough to protect the most critical parts of the human body - the head, neck and chest. Facing hundreds of flying swords that were full of momentum and were determined to pierce him into a sieve, he felt powerless and unable to continue.
But he had already held out for fifteen minutes. At worst, he could just go back to the living place. It was better than being wiped out. Yi Yan quickly put on the safety of the gun with his left hand, thinking with a cold face.
I hope that Xiaomo’s weapons support will arrive within the next three minutes.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
After several brilliant bursts of fire, Zhou Qingzi was surprised to see that after his flying swords collided with unknown objects in mid-air, they all deviated from their original launching positions and stuck into the surrounding tree trunks.
"You have quite a few tricks." But he remained unmoved, controlling the remaining flying swords like a cat playing with a mouse to chase Yi Yan, who was hiding in the dense forest. "But I have as many of these flying swords as I want. Do you think you can dodge them all?"
"Really?" Yi Yan panted, staring at him with sharp eyes, and suddenly curled his lips in the shocked look of Zhou Qingzi, "I'm so sorry."
The reason why he hid behind that cover for so long, instead of running away while the white peacock was injured, was for this moment!
“Bang!!!!”
An explosion sounded from under Zhou Qingzi's feet. Zhou Qingzi, who was standing at his original position, gasped and was completely surrounded by the hypnotic gas. This time he didn't have the help of Peacock, and the smoke couldn't be dispersed for a while. When he rushed out staggering on the flying sword, his mind had become drowsy.
"You are so... despicable..."
He stared at Yi Yan intently, feeling extremely regretful - with Zhou Qingzi's strength at the Spirit Transformation Stage, if he hadn't been careless, even Yi Yan wouldn't have been able to do anything to him, his full-strength attack could directly blow down a mountain!
However, there is no "if" in this world. Even if Zhou Qingzi is unwilling, he can only be forced into a coma under the effect of hypnotic gas.
After Zhou Qingzi fell to the ground, Yi Yan stood there and took a breath for a while, but his body still maintained a tense defensive posture, ready to respond to external attacks at any time.
——Because of Zhou Ming’s previous experience, he was afraid that another unknown creature would run out of Zhou Qingzi’s stomach.
But he waited for a while, and except for the wailing of the white peacock not far away, the surroundings were quiet and there was no movement at all.
Knowing the buzzing sound of a drone coming from behind him, Yi Yan turned his head and saw Gu Liangyou and a group of fully armed special forces members rushing to the scene.
The black-haired young man was standing at the front. He was the first one in the crowd to notice Yi Yan's position. His eyes, which had been looking around, fixed on Yi Yan the moment he saw him. He scanned him up and down, and after confirming that Yi Yan was not injured but just looked a little embarrassed, he looked away as if nothing had happened, glanced at Zhou Qingzi who was lying on the ground, and once again revealed his usual indifferent expression.
The corners of Yi Yan's mouth rose slightly.
Gu Liang and his friends came to support him, not only bringing people, but also bringing hundreds of drones that Xiao Mo had brought.
This is the jungle combat version that has been improved and upgraded by the command. Each drone is only the size of a baby's fist, equipped with a mini camera and a small internal storage space, which can be loaded with various smoke bombs, flash bombs, tear gas bombs and even poison agents. It also has the function of infrared guidance and automatic navigation. When they are dispatched collectively to perform tasks, at first glance, they look like a swarm of bees, so they are also called drone swarms.
As long as there are enough of them, these little things can play a big role on the battlefield.
"Gu Liang," Yi Yan looked at the black-haired young man who walked in front of him, still panting slightly, "Don't get too close. That cultivator is very dangerous even if he is unconscious."
"Don't worry, they have special tools for handling it."
Gu Liangyou raised his chin and gestured. Since there was no room for him to appear, he was relieved.
Yi Yan watched as a group of fully armed "biochemical suit warriors" carefully put Zhou Qingzi in a thick explosion-proof suit, and put on an oxygen mask for him to breathe, and then carefully lifted him onto a stretcher. His expression was a little complicated: "Is this what they came up with?"
"Yeah, isn't that smart? Before we figure out what that thing is and why it exploded, we can only prioritize making sure our own people aren't hurt."
Gu Liangyou didn't feel that there was anything wrong at all.
He leaned against the tree trunk wet by the mist, crossed his arms, raised his eyebrows, and said jokingly:
"Besides, Zhou Ming has been clamoring to see his master. Now, they can finally be reunited in the ward."
Yi Yan: “…………”
He felt that neither of the master and disciple would want this kind of reunion.
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