great-warnovel Chapter 175 Demolition and Bloody Liquidation
Chapter 175 Demolition and Bloody Liquidation
The Second Ring Road of Beijing. Headquarters building of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory.
The usually bustling extended section of Chang'an Avenue was completely cordoned off today. All shops and office buildings within a two-kilometer radius received an emergency evacuation notice half an hour ago due to natural gas pipeline repairs.
Nearly five hundred people were now standing densely packed around the iconic black and gray main building of the Observatory.
They were all wearing identical black combat uniforms. No official insignia were worn.
Leading the group were two elderly men. The one on the left, holding two walnuts in his hands, was Wang Zhenyuan, the head steward of the outer gate of the Wang family. The one on the right, with a red cloud embroidered on his cuff, was Ye Wudao, the Grand Elder of the Law Enforcement Hall of the Ye family.
Behind the two men, twelve portable electromagnetic pulse cannons were neatly set up. These were contraband heavy weapons that the S.H.I.E.L.D. had smuggled into Beijing through underground channels two weeks ago.
The main entrance to the headquarters of the Observatory was tightly closed. Behind the entrance stood Zhao Li, the acting director, and dozens of armed bodyguards.
The two groups faced off against each other through a layer of bulletproof glass.
"Director Zhao, don't hold it in."
Wang Zhenyuan cracked the walnuts in his hands.
"Half an hour ago, the thunder in Xishan stopped. Although the signal from Tianji Pavilion was cut off, my elder brother Wang Hai and Deputy Director Liu Zhengfeng were there. You know the power of the Xishan Fengshui Formation better than I do. The stagnant water in Jiangnan has already overflowed, and that little beast Lu Yuan is probably drained of all his bones by now."
Wang Zhenyuan took a step forward, his leather shoes making a dull sound on the asphalt road.
"Open the door. Hand over the key to the top-level vault on the third basement floor of the Sky Surveillance Bureau. Director Zhou Ming of the Third Division at headquarters is one of our men, and Deputy Director Liu will be back soon with top orders to take over this place. Open the door now, and the Wang family will guarantee you a life of comfort for the rest of your days. If you keep dragging this out, once the electromagnetic cannon blasts this door open, you won't even have the chance to choose sides."
Behind the bulletproof glass, Zhao Li's face was so gloomy it could drip water.
He gripped the golden key to the top-tier vault tightly in his hand.
"Wang Zhenyuan. The Astronomical Bureau is a privileged institution of the Chinese government, not your Beijing aristocratic backyard! Your mobilization of private troops to surround headquarters is treason!"
Zhao Li gritted his teeth and roared.
"That traitor Liu Zhengfeng! He dared to collude with foreign forces in the Sirius Star Region to drain the dragon veins of Jiangnan. Once Elder Li investigates, neither of your families will escape!"
Ye Wudao let out a harsh, cold laugh from the side.
"Old Li? The defense zone hasn't uttered a single word. That old bastard Chu Jianguo's garrison hasn't even left the barracks. Do you think the higher-ups haven't tacitly approved it?"
Ye Wudao raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"Lu Yuan killed Wang Zhentian, the head of the Ye family, and destroyed the Ye family's foundation. No matter how strong that monster is, he is still just a mortal. Mortals cannot fight against the will of Heaven. Zhao Li, I'll count to three. If you don't open the door, everyone in the Heavenly Surveillance Bureau headquarters today will be killed on the spot as terrorists."
"three."
"two."
The twelve electromagnetic pulse cannons began charging. Dark blue arcs of electricity leaped wildly around the cannon barrels, scorching the surrounding air and releasing a pungent ozone odor.
Just as Ye Wudao was about to shout out the last number.
The sky above suddenly darkened.
It's not that dark clouds are obscuring the sun.
It was the atmosphere above the entire Chang'an Avenue that was forcibly pushed apart to both sides by some incomprehensible kinetic energy of immense mass.
There were no air raid sirens. There was no radar lock-on.
There wasn't even a whisper of wind.
Because the object's falling speed far exceeded the limits of sound propagation. It compressed the surrounding air into a visible barrier of high-temperature plasma.
boom!
The first muffled thud came from underground.
At the same time, all the manhole covers within a three-kilometer radius of the Sky Surveillance Bureau building were ripped into the air by the violent underground air pressure. Dozens of jets of water slammed directly onto the heads of the black-clad martial artists.
Followed by.
The figure, glowing with a blinding red light, crashed straight into the center of the Astronomical Bureau headquarters building.
The special alloy dome, which was supposed to withstand a direct hit from a bunker-buster missile, crumbled more easily than a cheap compressed biscuit the moment it touched the person's feet.
Without the slightest pause.
Twenty-four floors. Eighteen floors. Ten floors.
Within a second, the building's main load-bearing structure was vertically pierced through. Alloy fragments and concrete blocks flew everywhere, mixed with a violent and unparalleled wave of true energy, exploding outwards in a ring from the first-floor lobby.
The bulletproof glass shattered instantly.
The twelve electromagnetic pulse cannons, which had just finished charging, didn't even have a chance to fire. The several-ton cannons were lifted up by the blast wave and shredded into scrap metal in mid-air by an invisible force.
Wang Zhenyuan and Ye Wudao didn't even have time to react before they were thrown more than 30 meters away by the overwhelming shockwave, crashing heavily into the green belt across the street.
The smoke and dust cleared.
In the center of the lobby on the first floor of the Astronomical Bureau, a huge meteorite crater, ten meters deep and more than twenty meters in diameter, has appeared.
Lu Yuan stood at the bottom of the pit.
He still held the broken sword tip, covered in rust and stained with blackened blood, in his hand. The hem of his down jacket fluttered in the aftershocks of his true energy, without a speck of dust settling on it.
The entire street fell into a deathly silence.
The five hundred black-clad warriors, who were originally arrogant and domineering, were now all pressed firmly to the ground by a tangible pressure.
This oppressive force was not the refined aura of an ancient martial artist, but rather a dimensional attack from a lower level of life itself.
The internal strength martial artist's kneecap shattered on the spot. The Grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm had his internal organs squeezed out of his body, and blood gushed out through his seven orifices.
Wang Zhenyuan struggled to lift his head from the green belt.
He could see the young man's face clearly at the bottom of the pit.
That face was expressionless. There was no anger in its eyes, only an extreme indifference, as if looking at a dead person.
"Lu...Lu Yuan..."
Wang Zhenyuan let out a distorted roar.
"You weren't in Jiangnan... at the formation in Xishan... with Deputy Director Liu and the others..."
Lu Yuan didn't even lift his eyelids.
His Mahayana-stage divine sense swept across the entire area. The distribution of personnel, the flow of meridians, and even the last bit of information in the minds of the Wang and Ye families were all clearly seen through in a fraction of a second.
"Wang Hai and Liu Zhengfeng have already set off. I've stuck Zhao Changkong's brain to the wall of the Heavenly Mystery Hall."
Lu Yuan took a step and walked out of the deep pit, stepping on the ruins.
"I mentioned it in Jiangnan earlier. The building of the Astronomical Bureau is leaking. I've come to help you demolish it."
He walked up to Wang Zhenyuan.
The true essence of the peak Mahayana stage spread outwards from the soles of Lu Yuan's feet.
There were no unnecessary movements. There were no fancy moves.
Within a radius of 100 meters.
All the Wang and Ye family assassins kneeling on the ground, dressed in black combat uniforms, suddenly began to experience severe dehydration.
This is a kind of utterly unreasonable and crushing law.
The laws of heaven and earth control water during the Mahayana stage.
Seventy percent of the water in a living person's body is forcibly stripped away in just two seconds. The skin dries out. The muscles atrophy. The eyeballs sink into their sockets due to loss of moisture.
Five hundred living people.
He didn't even have time to let out a complete scream. He instantly turned into a dried corpse that had been lying on the ground for hundreds of years.
A gentle breeze blew by.
The mummified corpses crumbled into a shower of grayish-white powder, mingling with the concrete debris on the ground.
Wang Zhenyuan and Ye Wudao barely managed to protect their heart meridians thanks to their peak Transformation Realm cultivation. However, their left hands and legs had completely turned to ash and disappeared.
Extreme fear completely destroyed the sanity of these two old monsters.
They finally understood. What kind of forbidden being their patriarch had provoked?
"Monster...you monster!"
Ye Wudao frantically used his remaining right hand to dig at the dirt on the ground, trying to back away.
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He threw the broken sword tip in his hand in front of Ye Wudao.
"The blood-red altar of the East Sea Ruins. The spirit-suppressing array of the air-raid shelter in Jiangnan. You two dogs, you've been running errands for the Sirius Star Region quite happily."
Lu Yuan's voice was completely flat.
"But why is my father's blood in the interdimensional portal of the Sirius star system?"
Ye Wudao stared at the blood-stained broken sword tip on the ground, his pupils trembling violently.
"That was...that was from ten years ago, under the dungeon..."
He hadn't finished speaking.
At the end of Chang'an Avenue, a piercingly screeching sound of tires could be heard.
Twelve black Mengshi SUVs, bearing the highest-level passes of the Beijing Defense Zone, crashed through the guardrail at the street corner and drove recklessly to the front of the Astronomical Bureau.
The car door opened.
Chu Jianguo, dressed in a crisp military uniform, jumped out of the car, his brow beaded with sweat.
He completely ignored the shocking puddles of grayish-white powder on the ground. He roared directly at the more than one hundred elite guards behind him.
"Get the bolts off, all of you! Eject the magazines! Anyone who dares to put their hand on the trigger, I'll shoot them on the spot!"
More than a hundred guards moved in perfect unison, ejecting their magazines and slinging their rifles over their backs.
Chu Jianguo jogged across the ruins and came to within five meters of Lu Yuan.
He didn't salute. Instead, he bowed deeply, bending at a ninety-degree angle.
"Mr. Lu, the Beijing Defense Zone, acting on the supreme order of Elder Li, has shut down all air defense radars along your route to clear your airspace."
Chu Jianguo held a military-grade encrypted tablet computer in both hands and handed it to Lu Yuan.
"This is what Mr. Li asked me to give to you."
The screen lights up.
Old Li's face, covered in facial expressions, appears in the frame. The background is the underground command post, the core of the defense zone.
This elderly man, who wielded the highest secular power in China, also stood up and bowed deeply, even through the screen.
"Mr. Lu. The scheme orchestrated by the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion was a conspiracy between corruption within the Heavenly Surveillance Bureau and the Wang and Ye families. The authorities had absolutely no involvement whatsoever."
Old Li's voice conveyed a deep weariness and reverence.
"You want to demolish the Bureau of Astronomical Observation building? We'll hand you the hammer. Liu Zhengfeng's immediate family and cronies, a total of 172 people, were all taken into custody by the Internal Security three minutes ago. How do you want to kill them? Just say the word."
Lu Yuan didn't even glance at the tablet screen.
His gaze fell on Chu Jianguo's square face.
"You politicians are faster at shirking responsibility than anti-aircraft missiles."
Lu Yuan raised his hand and pointed to the broken sword tip on the ground.
"I'm not in the mood to deal with the messy internal accounts of your Astronomical Bureau today."
"Old Li, you're almost ninety years old. Don't tell me you don't know about what happened in prison ten years ago."
On the screen, Old Li's face turned deathly pale.
Lu Yuan tapped his toes. The severed sword tip sprang up from the ground and hovered directly in front of the tablet camera.
"I dug out my father's nameplate at a depth of 7,000 meters in the East China Sea. I extracted the star domain origin of the Sirius star system from the earth's eye in the dragon vein of Jiangnan. This drop of blood was extracted along with the origin."
Lu Yuan's tone finally carried a chilling undertone.
"That mutated Yin Corpse at the bottom of the Heavenly Prison's Dead Water Cold Pool isn't my father at all. He's a rag fed with the essence blood of the Wang and Ye families, used to cover up the fluctuations of the interdimensional teleportation array."
"My father was used as a bargaining chip and sent to the Sirius Star Region ten years ago. Isn't that right?"
The air was completely frozen in that second.
Chu Jianguo remained holding the tablet. The muscles in his arms twitched wildly from extreme tension.
He felt as if he were not facing a person, but a molten furnace at the Earth's core that could ignite the planet at any moment.
Mr. Li remained silent for a full ten seconds on the other end of the screen.
He slumped back into his chair.
"Mr. Lu. Ten years ago... the final part of File 0... was a transaction."
Old Li closed his eyes.
"Old Master Wang and the first patriarch of the Ye family unearthed a damaged communication array in Kunlun Death Valley. They made contact with the extraterrestrial force that calls itself the Blood River Sect."
"The other party needs a pure martial arts god-level realm native to Earth as a vessel to test the stability of the interdimensional passage."
"Lu Zhan... your father... was the only soldier king in the Chinese military at the time to break through to the Divine Realm. The Wang family and the Ye family, in conjunction with the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, set up a trap under the Heavenly Prison. They stripped Lu Zhan of his destiny and sent him into the passage."
Old Li opened his eyes, his gaze filled with bitterness.
"The high-ranking officials at the time... chose to acquiesce in exchange for the life-extending pills promised by the Blood River Sect. This matter became a top secret, sealed forever."
Lu Yuan listened.
His lips were pulled back straight. There was no outburst of emotion.
He simply and quietly put the severed sword tip back into his Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
"Okay. Very good."
Lu Yuan turned his head and looked at Wang Zhenyuan and Ye Wudao, who were paralyzed on the ground and had completely lost their minds from fear.
The true essence of the Mahayana stage condenses at the fingertips.
Two wisps of Samadhi True Fire shot directly into the foreheads of the two old monsters.
There were no screams. There was no struggle. The remains of two peak-stage Transcendent Realm experts were incinerated into nothingness in a fraction of a second.
"Chu Jian Guo"
Lu Yuan's voice echoed over the ruins.
"Yes, Mr. Lu, what are your orders?" Chu Jianguo responded loudly, cold sweat dripping from his chin onto the screen.
"Pull up the map of the capital."
Lu Yuan raised his head. His divine sense, at the peak of the Mahayana stage, was unleashed without reservation.
Within a 50-kilometer radius of the capital city, all living beings bearing the bloodline of the Wang and Ye families were, at this moment, locked in an invisible net of slaughter.
"The Wang and Ye families' manors. How many gates are there in total?"
Chu Jianguo swallowed hard.
"The Wang family lives in the eastern suburbs. It occupies 300 mu (approximately 20 hectares) and has four gates. The Ye family lives in the southern mountains. It occupies 500 mu (approximately 33 hectares) and has six gates."
"Send your bodyguards over there. Weld all the doors shut."
Lu Yuan turned around, his back to the ruins of the Sky Surveillance Bureau building.
The hem of the black windbreaker moved automatically even without wind.
"Tonight, neither of these families is allowed to let a single dog out."
"I want to dig up all the ashes of their ancestors for eighteen generations and fill them into that pool in the Heavenly Prison."
Chu Jianguo gasped sharply.
The first and second most powerful clans in the capital. Together, they numbered over a thousand people. This was an attempt to completely exterminate their entire clan.
But he didn't dare utter a single word of dissent.
"Yes! I guarantee not even a fly will get out!"
Just as Lu Yuan was about to tear through space and descend directly upon the Wang family manor.
Inside the Nine Heavens Storage Ring.
The communication jade talisman used to suppress the Panlong Mountain formation suddenly emitted an extremely sharp cracking sound.
Lu Yuan suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He opened his palm. The surface of the jade talisman was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
This was a mother-child talisman he left at his villa in Panlong Mountain, Jiangnan, and gave to Lin Zhen to shield against abnormal signals. This talisman would only shatter in an extreme crisis that even Lin Zhen couldn't handle, or even when the formation began to collapse.
A divine thought, hoarse and filled with despair, traveled through the jade talisman into Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness.
It was Lin Zhen's voice.
"Mr. Lu... I'm so sorry... we couldn't hold on..."
"Three S-class mutants from the S.H.I.E.L.D.... led by that executive officer named Richard... they dug through the underground rock strata of Panlong Mountain... directly bypassing the Spirit Gathering Array's defensive network..."
The sounds were intermittent, mixed with muffled thuds of flesh being torn apart and Lin Zhen's gasping breaths as he coughed up blood.
"The target isn't the formation... it's Miss Qingxue..."
"The Extreme Flame Dragon Marrow within Miss Qingxue's body... its aura has leaked out... They brought a forbidden artifact from the Sirius Star Region... and forcibly extracted it from Miss..."
Communication was completely cut off at that moment.
The jade talisman turned into a puddle of powder in Lu Yuan's palm.
The crimson sunset over Beijing faded instantly, losing all its color in that one second.
The temperature within a three-kilometer radius plummeted at an illogical rate. Moisture in the air condensed directly into fine icicles, which fluttered down.
The screen of the tablet computer in Chu Jianguo's hand cracked from the cold. A thick layer of frost covered the barrels of the rifles held by more than a hundred guards.
Everyone felt as if an invisible hand was gripping their heart tightly, and their blood had stopped flowing.
Lu Yuan lowered his head.
A peak Mahayana stage cultivation level. A Celestial Venerable who transcends star fields.
The instant he heard about his sister's accident, the extreme indifference that had remained in his eyes was finally replaced by a primal, violent, and destructive crimson.
That was during the early stages of Qi Refining, when people would go to extremes to steal a low-grade spirit stone to extend someone's life, even going so far as to wield a knife and hack down an entire street.
"The S.H.I.E.L.D."
Lu Yuan raised his hand. His five fingers suddenly clenched.
He directly created a black spatial rift more than ten meters long in the void. The turbulent winds of space raged wildly, carving deep furrows into the asphalt road.
"I've changed my mind."
Lu Yuan stepped into the spatial rift.
The sound came from the depths of the void, more chilling than the winds of hell.
"Old Li, send your bodyguards to clean up the mess at the Wang and Ye families' homes."
"I'm going to Jiangnan. Then I'll go to the high seas of the Pacific Ocean."
"I want to make the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Asian division disappear completely from the map of the earth."