Chapter 764: Secret Strategy

By: Sanjiu YinyuWord Count: 1269

“Director, is there a need to be so nervous?” an armed man beside him questioned. “We’re flying in the sky, already far from the train, and we’re still moving. How could he possibly harm us?”

“Better safe than sorry! Better safe than sorry! Don’t you understand? If it weren’t for my caution, do you think I’d be where I am today?”

“...Yes.”

Director Zheng watched the train gradually disappear, his anxious heart finally easing slightly. Just then, he seemed to recall something:

“Didn’t the Master give us three brocade pouches in total? The first predicted Lu Xun’s movement trajectory, and the second was for us to open in times of crisis… Hurry, give me the second brocade pouch now!”

“Director, the pouch is here.”

“By the way, Director, did the Master tell you when to use this third brocade pouch?”

“No, he didn’t… After he tossed out the third pouch, he didn’t say another word… He wouldn’t respond even when I spoke to him. I don’t know when to open it.”

“...Never mind that, let’s open the second one first.”

The Director took the brocade pouch and tore it open forcefully. A strip of paper fell out.

Looking out at the train, the Director fumbled to open the paper. Four large characters appeared before his eyes:

—Certain death.

Director Zheng: ???

Meanwhile, inside the train.

Chen Ling slowly closed his eyes, his consciousness instantly locking onto the helicopter flying in the distance through the surrounding communication signals!

He pressed one hand onto the floor of the carriage. The next moment, faint tendrils of electric light began to flicker in his palm!

“Reshape.”

A slender, two-meter-long javelin was reshaped from the electricity. Chen Ling clutched it tightly in his hand. At the same time, his eyes, capable of capturing every detail, had already locked onto the helicopter, which appeared no bigger than a fly in the distance!

To Lu Xun’s disbelief, Chen Ling, with all his might, hurled the javelin like a cannonball!

Whoosh—!!!

A streak of electric light instantly cut through the sky!

Inside the cockpit, Director Zheng stared blankly at the words “Certain death.” Before he could react, a dark, electricity-shrouded shadow rapidly grew larger in his vision!

Boom—!!

The javelin accurately traversed several kilometers, directly striking the propeller. Raging flames instantly engulfed the aircraft, which then plummeted, swaying, towards the wilderness below!

A deafening roar came from the distance, and clouds of dust rose into the air.

It was only then that the shattered train car slowly came to a halt on the tracks…

Lu Xun stared blankly at the bodies scattered on the ground and the smoke- billowing wreckage in the distance, his mind filled with utter astonishment… He knew Chen Ling was no ordinary person and might be very powerful, but he never expected him to single-handedly wipe out Director Zheng’s entire team!

The “mountain” that had imprisoned him for so long and caused him immense anxiety had, with Chen Ling’s casual move, collapsed with a crash… All that remained was utter devastation.

“Director Chen… Thank you.” Lu Xun looked deeply at the brown overcoat and spoke sincerely.

“Don’t thank me, I’ll demand payment.”

As Chen Ling spoke, he casually pulled out his gun, aimed it at the half-dead cameraman on the ground, and expressionlessly pulled the trigger.

Bang!!

A gunshot.

Scarlet blood splattered on Chen Ling’s cheek. He casually wiped it away, then, without even glancing at the cameraman on the ground, walked directly towards the aircraft wreckage.

“Let’s go… See if there are any survivors.”

Chen Ling’s ruthlessness and decisiveness in killing astonished Lu Xun. He never imagined that in this society, someone could kill so calmly… Anyone who harbored killing intent towards him did not survive.

But despite his astonishment, Lu Xun followed Chen Ling out of the carriage and walked towards the aircraft. Yang Xiao, who had just parked the car, quickly followed.

The three traversed several kilometers of wilderness, finally arriving at the smoke-billowing aircraft wreckage.

The helicopter was now completely disfigured by the fire, with two or three bodies lying within. Several other injured survivors struggled to crawl on the ground; they must have survived the crash landing and managed to escape the burning cockpit in time.

Chen Ling’s gaze swept over those figures, and he raised his gun again…

Bang, bang, bang—!

Continuous gunshots rang out. Several armed men were instantly shot in the head and killed, leaving only one dying figure cowering in fear on the wilderness ground.

“Director Zheng…” Lu Xun’s gaze immediately turned cold when he saw that person.

Chen Ling walked over, directly kicked aside the cowering Director Zheng, pointed the gun at his forehead, and calmly asked:

“I only have one question for you… How did you predict Dr. Lu’s location?”

Since Chen Ling had saved Lu Xun, he intended to see it through. Director Zheng could predict Lu Xun’s location, but this time, Chen Ling hadn’t seen any Divine Path users with similar abilities, indicating someone else was behind him… If that were the case, even killing Director Zheng wouldn’t guarantee that Lu Xun wouldn’t be tracked again. To cut the grass, he knew he had to eliminate the root cause.

“Please… please let me go!! I beg you! I promise I won’t…”

Bang—!

The booming gunshot next to Director Zheng’s ear made it bleed profusely, and his pathetic pleas for mercy instantly ceased!

Chen Ling held the gun, slowly moving the barrel from his ear back to his forehead, and spoke again,

“Answer my question.”

“It’s Master Chonggui! He possesses the power of the Divination Path! He’s a high-ranking ‘White Hand’! And a key target for Bureau 749!”

Director Zheng was already timid, and Chen Ling’s fright completely knocked the soul out of him. He tremblingly spilled everything.

The Divination Path…

Chen Ling’s eyes narrowed slightly.

This result was about what Chen Ling expected, but in the era after the Great Cataclysm, he had never seen anyone from the Divination Path appear… This was his first encounter with this Divine Path.

“What else did he tell you?”

“Nothing else… He just gave me three brocade pouches…”

“Pouches? Where are they?”

“The first two were burned… I, I only have this last one. He didn’t say when to open it…”

Chen Ling caught sight of the third brocade pouch in Director Zheng’s arms, took it directly, and slowly opened it under the dim moonlight…

Inside the pouch was a strip of paper.

On the paper were two lines of blood-soaked handwriting, with chaotic and vicious strokes, as if someone had insanely bitten their finger and written two lines of frenzied script on the paper!

Ghosts mock the world’s destruction, descending upon humanity.An era of chaos, heaven and earth unite to condemn.