Chapter 133
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Xia Wu was startled, subconsciously wanting to pull the mask behind her head to cover her face and silence the witness. However, she saw the man who suddenly burst into the office smirk, revealing a smile that was inexplicable… but made her whole body cold.
Even though the fight hadn’t started yet, Xia Wu had a feeling that she was truly “caught” by the opponent.
Her intuition told her something was wrong!
Lou Yan glanced at the clock on the office wall. It was now 7:53. He said, “Time Reversal.”
[Spiritual power: 120/140]
Knowing who killed Lin Feng, Lou Yan was confident and immediately started the second time reversal without hesitation.
Time reversed again, back to five minutes ago.
This was the first time Lou Yan had performed two consecutive Time Reversals in such a short period of time, with less than three minutes between them. The burning sensation from the last Time Reversal had not yet subsided, and the next wave of heat came again. Lou Yan’s body was enveloped in a painful burning sensation from inside out. When he opened his eyes again, his whole body was red from the heat, emitting high temperature.
Lou Yan wanted to speak, but his throat was so dry that smoke seemed to rise from it. Fortunately, a bottle of water was timely handed to him. Lou Yan drank the water like a thirsty man in the desert, some drops of water even slipped down his mouth before he could swallow them, and they were gently wiped away from his chin and mouth by a warm and dry hand.
The cool water passed through his throat and reached his internal organs, greatly alleviating the heat in Lou Yan’s body. After recovering from the high temperature, Lou Yan found himself being half-supported by Li Sanxin, his shirt already unbuttoned, exposing his chest and abdomen to cool down.
The others looked at Lou Yan with concern, including the five heavily armed soldiers, all nervous, fearing that any problem with Lou Yan would mean losing hope of defeating the “water ghost.”
Lou Yan cleared his throat, wiped his mouth, and checked the time. It was 7:49. His return to consciousness from the high temperature had wasted one minute.
“I’m fine.” Lou Yan coughed again and called Lin Feng’s phone. The call was quickly answered, and Lin Feng’s energetic voice came from the phone, “Hello, Comrade Lou Yan, any news from the ‘water ghost’?”
With one hand casually buttoning the buttons of his shirt, Lou Yan’s handsome and heroic face was flushed red, and his eyes narrowed. “Team Leader Lin, I have something to tell you.”
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Just as Team Leader Lin hung up the phone, the door of the office was knocked.
His eyes darkened, and he asked in a deep voice, “Who is it?”
“It’s me, Team Leader.” Wu Qiong’s voice came from outside the door.
Team Leader Lin closed his eyes in pain, thinking of what Lou Yan had just said to him, and pressed the alarm without hesitation.
Wu Qiong waited for a while outside the door, seeing that Team Leader Lin didn’t say anything, feeling a bit puzzled and uneasy. He remembered his purpose, steadied himself, and said, “Team Leader, I have something to tell you, I’m coming in.”
Without waiting for a response, he pushed the door open and walked in on his own.
Team Leader Lin sat behind the desk, looking at him with a heavy gaze. Wu Qiong’s honest face showed a smile. “Team Leader, I want to ask you something.”
“No need to ask!” Team Leader Lin said, “I know what you want to ask.”
Wu Qiong’s face froze, his eyes widened incredulously. Just as he was stunned, many soldiers suddenly rushed in from outside, and the two leading soldiers decisively pressed Wu Qiong down.
Wu Qiong’s face changed drastically, his expression twisted, and he struggled to look at Lin Feng on the ground. “Lin Feng, you suspected me long ago, didn’t you! You, my master, actually doubted me!”
Lin Feng looked at him sorrowfully, his expression momentarily aging by more than ten years. He smiled bitterly, “I suspected everyone, except for you and Lin You…”
“Wow! Then why did you press the alarm so quickly? Old man, I think you’re just deceiving people!”
The red-haired girl appeared on Lin Feng’s back at some point, the ghost mask already on her face. Her fair skin turned ghostly pale and thin. Xia Wu held a dagger against Lin Feng’s neck, full of resentment, “With so many people surrounding here, I couldn’t kill you without wearing the ghost mask. I may not get the list of undercover agents, but killing you will suffice.”
Before she finished speaking, she cut Lin Feng’s skin. But when the dagger was about to go down further, a sudden force yanked her away. Xia Wu was suddenly pinned down by Lou Yan, his knee pressing against her waist, swiftly removing her mask and restraining her hands behind her back, forming the same imprisonment posture as with Wu Qiong.
“Ah!” The pain of forcibly removing the mask was like having one’s face torn off. Xia Wu screamed in agony, her eyes wide open with pain, and her ghostly pale skin quickly returned to normal. Blood gushed from her features onto her fair and tender face.
Lou Yan initially wanted to remove the mask from Xia Wu, but he felt like the mask had fused with her body. If he forcibly removed it, he might tear off Xia Wu’s skin.
To prevent Xia Wu from dying on the spot, Lou Yan reluctantly placed the ghost mask back on her head.
The entire process took only two seconds, and no one reacted. Lin Feng even felt a sting on his neck. He covered the wound on his neck and looked at the descending Lou Yan with surprise, feeling an inexplicable sense of relief.
“Cough, Comrade Lou Yan, thank you for your hard work.”
The doctor came over to help Lin Feng sit down and treated his wound. Lou Yan said it was nothing and looked down at Xia Wu, who was cursing incessantly. He coldly asked, “Who sent you here, Ghost-Faced Xia Wu?”
“!” Xia Wu exclaimed in shock, “How do you know my name is Xia Wu?!”
Lou Yan exerted force with his knee, causing Xia Wu to groan in pain. She even whimpered, “Waaah, someone is bullying a child, someone wants to kill a child!”
But Lou Yan’s expression didn’t soften at all. He chuckled twice and followed Xia Wu’s words, saying coldly, “That’s right. If you don’t tell me who sent you to kill Team Leader Lin, I will kill you.”
“D*mn it! I’m not scared of you!”
She gritted her teeth to stop her crying, closed her eyes, and kept a poker face, apparently refusing to say a word to Lou Yan.
Lou Yan didn’t rush and patiently waited. Xia Wu thought he was waiting for her to speak voluntarily and sneered in her heart. This man was too arrogant. How could she, Xia Wu, willingly betray them! Hmph!
Half a minute later, hurried footsteps were heard outside the door, and Li Sanxin and others rushed in. Seeing them coming over, Lou Yan immediately said, “Sanxin, come and help.”
Li Sanxin quickly walked over to him and frowned at the small girl pinned down by Lou Yan. He rolled up his sleeves to reveal his strong forearms and asked, “How can I help?”
Lou Yan said, “Use your ‘surgical thread.’ I have something to ask her.”
“You must be dreaming!” Xia Wu replied stubbornly, “I won’t tell you anything!”
Li Sanxin raised an eyebrow, smiling as he gently touched Xia Wu’s head. The surgical silk on his fingertips entered Xia Wu’s scalp without leaving a trace. “Little girl, you have quite a temper. Come on, tell me, how old are you this year?”
Xia Wu couldn’t possibly tell him her age. She was about to snort disdainfully and shake off the man’s hand when her mouth inexplicably opened on its own, “This lady is twelve years old this year.”
After saying this, Xia Wu widened her eyes in horror.
Lou Yan’s lips curled up, asking again, “Tell me, who sent you here.”
Xia Wu wanted to cover her mouth, but both her hands were controlled and unable to break free. She heard herself answer in shock and anger, “It was Saint Ye Ruan who sent me to kill Lin Feng. He said if I could, I should destroy the list of undercover agents in Lin Feng’s hands.”
“Saint Ye Ruan?” Li Sanxin rubbed his chin, “The saint of the cultists? You even have such a thing. You truly deserve to be called a cult.”
Xia Wu angrily shouted, “You’re not allowed to disrespect the Saint! The Saint is not a thing!”
Pfft.
Lu Haoxiu’s face twisted weirdly as he suppressed his laughter. He nudged Ye Buyan next to him. Ye Buyan turned his head in confusion, only to see Lu Haoxiu making exaggerated gestures silently, “Ha-ha-ha.”
Ye Buyan: “…” You don’t have to tell me.
“Indeed, your Saint is not a thing,” Lou Yan nodded in agreement, “Apart from Saint Ye Ruan, how many cultists are there in Chengjiang City?”
Xia Wu replied despairingly, “My brother, Ghost-faced Xia Jie, Snake-head Ye Lan, Dark Female Bai Tong, Magician Zhou Wuxin, Shielder Ji Yuan, Light Hider Wen Yian…”
She listed thirteen cultists in one breath. And these thirteen cultists were just the leaders among the cultists. Xia Wu didn’t know how many lower-level cultists there were.
As Xia Wu spoke more and more, Lou Yan’s expression became increasingly dark.
From Ghost-faced Xia Jie to Wen Yian, they were all well-known figures in his memory. Each one of them had committed great sins and was not easy to deal with.
Among them, the two most memorable were the Magician Zhou Wuxin and the Shielder Ji Yuan.
Ji Yuan’s talent was the ability to shield the talents of others within a certain range. Lou Yan and Li Sanxin had confronted Ji Yuan twice before. Once they lacked experience and almost died at Ji Yuan’s hands; the other time, they were about to kill Ji Yuan, but he escaped using a strange item hidden on his body, the “Angel Sculpture,” and Lou Yan and Li Sanxin almost didn’t survive because of it.
Ji Yuan was an old opponent, but the situation with the magician Zhou Wuxin was even more unique.
To be honest, the name of the magician Zhou Wuxin was once well-known, making everyone who knew him feel complicated. Lou Yan was no exception; he believed that Zhou Wuxin was a true madman, a terrifying and peculiar Grim Reaper among the cultists.
Zhou Wuxin’s way of joining the cultist was despicable. He, along with his friends and family, encountered a terrifying anomaly together. When they were nearly defeated by the anomaly and on the brink of destruction, Zhou Wuxin turned against his friends and family, offering their bodies to the anomaly and voluntarily requesting to become one of the cultists.
The anomaly accepted his surrender, and since then, Zhou Wuxin, who was ruthless and merciless to his compatriots, quickly became famous among the cultists, becoming one of the notorious leaders among them.
After becoming a leader, Zhou Wuxin began his “Grim Reaper” plan.
He prevented the anomaly from resurging domestically, constantly guiding it to resurge in foreign countries, causing the anomaly to kill humans in those countries.
Zhou Wuxin was undoubtedly a hypocrite… but it must be admitted that it was also because of Zhou Wuxin’s actions that the situation domestically was better during the later stages of the anomaly’s resurgence compared to foreign countries. While humans in foreign countries were on the verge of being wiped out, survivors in the domestic area could still barely survive.
And Zhou Wuxin eventually died at the hands of a human who had lost family members killed by him.
Lou Yan’s lips straightened, and he asked coldly, “Where are they now?”
Xia Wu said, “… I don’t know what that place is called.”
“But do you know the location?”
“… I… know.”
Lou Yan directly pulled Xia Wu up, his dark eyes looking at Lin Feng, saying uncompromisingly.
“With so many formidable cultist leaders gathering in Chengjiang City, they must have a grand plan. The riots at the two distribution points today were undoubtedly their doing, aimed at killing you and making Chengjiang City even more chaotic. Team Leader Lin, they are not easy to deal with, but we have no choice but to deal with them. Now is the best time to deal with them—swift counterattack. Before they realize it, we must resolve them as quickly as possible.”
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