The sky was extremely dark at three o'clock in the morning, at least that's what Cheng Lin thought.
And when he drove the He Sword and arrived at the boundary of the capital amid countless nervous gazes, and saw countless bright lights in the distance, he suddenly stopped.
Yes, stopped.
The passing cold wind suddenly stopped. We have not yet entered the main city, but we are not far away.
Under his feet was a winding road, pitch black, like a belt thrown onto the earth.
Normally, even at this time, there would be trucks passing by late at night, but there were none today, so the entire suburb was particularly quiet.
Thick clouds in the sky obscured the thin starlight, making the world look a little cold.
Cheng Lin was suspended in mid-air, staring intently at the group of familiar figures on a certain mountain in front of him.
That was a monk transferred from Yanshan. Unlike the elites who were constantly chasing behind him, most of those in front were newcomers who had just graduated.
Not long ago, Cheng Lin greeted everyone one after another in the field not far from here.
But no one expected that in just a few days, the identities and force fields of both parties would undergo such a big change.
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On top of the dark mountains.
Song Jun stood silently in the queue, clearly feeling the indescribable emotions floating in the air.
Her eyes passed over one young face after another, and she found that everyone's expression was different.
No one knows what they are thinking, just as no one knows why Cheng Lin returned.
After the projection disappeared, they all returned to Yanshan from various places. According to the original arrangement, they would take a period of rest, but no one thought that in just a few dozen hours, everything would be different.
The original "supervisors" and "colleagues" suddenly became criminals against humanity who caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
After receiving the news, almost everyone fell into a state of extreme shock and disbelief.
And then, there was a whole day of silence.
When the Secret Service was busy and nervous, no one knew that the buildings on Yanshan Mountain were also experiencing unspeakable anxiety.
Some small-scale conflicts even occurred because of this.
Song Jun didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. She, who had been so high-spirited in the face of any danger in the past, fell into extreme confusion for the first time.
It just refreshes the message mechanically.
Seeing Cheng Lin being hunted, seeing him arriving in Lian City, seeing him breaking out and escaping from the capture team returning from abroad... watching it all.
No one knew that when she learned that Cheng Lin had successfully left the country, her hanging heart finally fell to the ground... However, immediately after, they received an order to assemble for action.
It all happened too fast.
Even Song Jun is like this, let alone these "newcomers" who fought alongside Cheng Lin not long ago?
They walked out of the room in a swarm, then hurriedly and haphazardly took a vehicle, broke through the night, passed through the suddenly empty capital, and arrived somewhere on Cheng Lin's route after being instructed by the Secret Service Department, and then forced them to
Wait patiently.
All this was too sudden, even, in a sense, a bit absurd.
"It's as absurd as me standing here in a daze." Song Jun thought quietly, and then suddenly, he noticed that his companions around him became "alive".
Exclamations came from the silent and silent mountains:
"Look!"
"He stopped!"
"He's there and he's watching us!"
"He...is here..."
Naturally, there was no shortage of monks with keen senses in the team. Even though the distance was still quite far, when Cheng Lin looked over from the sky, he was still noticed by many people.
People suddenly became nervous, their wandering thoughts quickly converged, and Song Jun felt that the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
I noticed the one from the Ninth Courtyard in the team, and the members of the small team, who were vaguely sorted out from the others, rushed to look into the distance, with blank expressions...
She also noticed that more people drew their swords and tightened their grip on their weapons, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
Is there going to be a war? Are we really going to fight each other?
Song Jun thought, and then he was shocked to find that his right hand had instinctively grasped the hilt of the sword at some point, and he felt a little fear in his heart.
But he couldn't tell whether this fear came from Cheng Lin himself or his power.
But at the next moment.
When Song Jun tried her best to look at the distant sky, and finally saw the figure in the distance, and was ready to fight, she was shocked to find that the gaze he directed calmly moved away.
His figure also quickly became smaller and lighter...
A gust of mountain wind blew, and hundreds of monks who had been standing here for a long time suddenly froze, as if they were frozen in this moment.
After a while, a suspicious voice finally sounded again:
"He...left...?"
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"He left."
Secret Service Building.
In the office, when Xu Gu saw Shi Shengcun open his eyes, he heard these words.
First there was a moment of confusion, and then the deputy-level official finally asked repeatedly in shock: "You said... he... left?"
"yes."
"Is there a fight?"
"There was no, or even, any contact. He just took a look and left." Shi Shengcun explained in a complicated tone.
Xu Yan was even more confused. He suddenly realized something and looked at him: "Is it because of you? Could it be that you said something to him?"
Although he was not a monk, Xu Gu knew very well that with Shi Shengcun's current level of cultivation and full spiritual power, he could completely cover the borders of the capital.
Naturally, you can also talk to Cheng Lin quietly and through your spirit.
However, Shi Shengcun shook his head again: "I originally planned to say it, but... he left before I could speak."
"This..." Xu Gu moved his lips for a while before saying, "Maybe he sensed your presence, so he was worried."
This was the only answer he could think of.
It seems to be the only reasonable answer.
But as soon as he said this, Xu Qui became confused again.
If Cheng Lin left because he was afraid of Shi Shengcun, then... why did he fly over again?
After all, he should know very well that Shi Shengcun is in the capital without arriving.
Such a big fight, making everyone nervous, but leaving without doing anything, is too confusing.
"What on earth is he thinking? Is he just teasing us? He is dissatisfied with the fact that we want him, so he is showing off his force in this way?" Xu Gu suddenly said angrily.
This seems to be the best explanation for Cheng Lin's "nonsensical" behavior.
Then, I heard Shi Shengcun retracting his gaze out the window and saying calmly:
"Maybe... it's not as complicated as we thought."
"What?"
"I mean... we have always guessed at the motives of his actions, thinking that he wanted to do something to harm the city, thinking that he wanted to express and convey some kind of message to us through this behavior... But... you
Have you ever thought that maybe we made things too complicated, maybe we were too 'wishful', maybe... he just came to take a look."
Just... a look?
Xu Ku was stunned and instinctively wanted to refute. After all, this explanation was too... not "serious".
The whole world is looking for you, arresting you, and killing you. At this time, shouldn't you be cautious, hide in Tibet, and find ways to escape pursuit and sanctions?
How could you go through so much trouble and put yourself in danger just for such a "willful" reason?
"This is impossible..."
Xu Ku couldn't help but laugh, and then heard Shi Shengcun raise his hand to interrupt him.
"Our alarm has not been lifted yet. Let's take a look at his trajectory. Ha, I have a hunch that he will not leave for a while. No matter what his purpose is, in short, we must make the worst case scenario.
response."
With that said, Shi Shengcun pointed to the "satellite positioning board" on the table.
On this board, I saw that the red arrow representing Cheng Lin stopped for a moment at the border of the capital, then suddenly changed direction and sped towards the southeast.
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"He left..."
On the mountain on the border of the capital, Song Jun and others looked blankly at Cheng Lin's disappearance, and confirmed this fact from satellite positioning.
This was hard for them to accept for a while.
This feeling is like you have been hesitating all day long and finally gathered the courage to "confess", but the person turned around and left before you could say anything.
"We...what should we do next?"
One person asked blankly.
After a moment of silence, everyone turned their attention to Xing Hong and others who were leading the team.
After that, I heard the team leader use the communicator to communicate with the headquarters for a moment, then turned back and looked at everyone seriously:
"The latest order from the headquarters! Wait where you are. A special car will arrive later. Then, we will split into two groups with the arresting team to pursue the target!"
"yes!"
Everyone was shocked and instinctively stood at attention to answer.
Then, Xing Hong suddenly walked towards the team and came to the members of Jiushi "Jiyingshe". He said to Fu Zhongting, Xie Qingke and others who looked complicated:
"You guys don't need to participate in this operation. Yanshan also needs to keep a few people to deal with emergencies."
Fu Zhongting and other Shueisha members were startled when they heard this, and immediately realized the meaning of this sentence.
This is because the Secret Service is worried that they will behave similarly to Sun Xiao, obstructing the arrest operation.
So we simply "grounded" them.
"We... understand." Fu Zhongting pursed his lips, unclenched his clenched white fists, lowered his head, and replied in a low tone.
Xing Hong nodded, then moved his eyes slightly and whispered: "This is also for your sake."
After saying that, he stopped looking at a few people and turned to look at everyone. Just as he was about to say something more, he suddenly froze for a moment and called out a name: "Cao Wei?"
No one answered.
Xing Hong's expression changed slightly: "Did any of you see where Cao Wei went?"
Everyone then woke up and looked around, but where could they find the little girl?
"She was obviously still there before." He Shu murmured in the team.
Then he realized that she had probably run away secretly just now when everyone's attention was attracted to Cheng Lin.
"Positioning! Communicator positioning!" Xing Hong shouted.
Then I saw a young lapel pick up an intercom and a small mobile phone with a pink case and a string from the ground, and said with a grimace: "She threw them all here."
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At the same time, under the night, on the deserted fields, Cao Wei, who had thrown away all her electronic equipment, activated her dragon form, spread her wings to the limit, flapped them wildly, and chased resolutely in the direction where Cheng Lin flew away.
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"The latest situation! Cheng Lin has left the capital area!"
Within a few minutes after Cheng Lin turned around, his latest news was officially released on the Internet. As a result, tens of millions of nervous and sleepless people in the capital let out a long breath at the same time.
Some people finally settled down and were overwhelmed by tiredness, while others couldn't sleep at all and were still discussing enthusiastically on the Internet, posting posts similar to "alert cleared" with an optimistic attitude.
However, unlike the citizens of the capital who had settled down, people in other cities on Cheng Lin's route finally fell into similar fear.
"The target has entered Cangshi!"
"The target is approaching Ji City!"
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On the Internet, the latest news is refreshing one after another, attracting everyone's attention.
A seventh-level monk who hides thousands of "war soldiers", considering that he possesses human wisdom, has a lethality that is not weaker than nuclear weapons in a sense.
If we use a more appropriate metaphor, Cheng Lin at this moment is like an anti-humanity terrorist running around with nuclear weapons, or a lunatic that ordinary people cannot understand.
In particular, his behavior intensifies the image of a "madman".
No one knows what he wants to do, and no one knows whether he will suddenly and "in a bad mood" attack the cities he passes along the way.
On the other hand, people are worried about irritating him and making him really crazy who is not likely to "explode".
Therefore, they did not dare to use real large-scale firepower attacks, especially after Cheng Lin lowered his altitude and turned into the river from the air, which greatly limited the ways for thermal weapons to attack.
This helpless situation made people extremely miserable, so they could only send two groups and one division of monks to continuously pursue him while evacuating the cities along Cheng Lin's route.
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Time passed in this panic, and the night receded quickly.
When another early morning arrived, Cheng Lin finally reached the southwest of Bohai Bay with his sword. To explain it in more popular terms, it is the "estuary of the Yellow River".
Afterwards, Cheng Lin glanced at the silver-gray fighter jets that vaguely surrounded him, decisively lowered his altitude and entered the "Yellow River".
With the help of liquefaction ability, he went upstream and entered the urban area. Then he broke out of the water and flew with his spiritual sword on the river.
With the morning sun on his back and feeling the warmth on his back, Cheng Lin raised his head and chuckled, glancing at the fighter jet following him in the sky and ignoring it.
I just put my hands on my back, ride through the waves, and leisurely admire the urban buildings on both sides of the river bank.
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"Cheng Lin has entered the Yellow River Basin! He is flying upstream!"
"He has left Ji City and is approaching Kaifeng Mansion..."
“Contact the local department to set up a card interception!”
On the Yellow River, speedboats were speeding through the waves, with hundreds of monks who had returned from abroad scattered on them.
Li Yang stood at the bow of the ship, and the positioning board in his hand was updating at a near-synchronous low-latency, keeping abreast of Cheng Lin's latest movements.
His hair was a little messy and his face was dull and ugly.
The same is true for the people behind him, including the head of the Second Division who are also in the seventh level.
They received the order yesterday morning and began to arrange foreign affairs and return to the country.
Then he acted in a play in Liangang non-stop, and then he was hung behind Cheng Lin's butt without rest for dozens of hours.
If physical energy loss is not a problem for them and can be replenished with medicine, then what really hurts their spirits is this feeling of powerlessness.
Cheng Lin can wield a sword, but they can't fly like this.
Although the plane is faster than Cheng Lin, considering that they can't fight in the sky, once the plane is cut down by Cheng Lin's sword, they will fall to death let alone fight back, so they can only use vehicles or
The speedboat gives chase.
Fortunately, Cheng Lin chose to take the water route.
If they had traveled by land, given the domestic traffic conditions, they would have been lost long ago.
After all, the road is curved, but Cheng Lin's flight is straight!
In addition, Cheng Lin escaped into the Yellow River from time to time and entered the spiritual world to recover his strength, so they were not thrown away.
But it was this feeling that made these people even more depressed.
"He did it on purpose! It must be like this! This bastard is trying to trick us on purpose!"
Li Yang punched the water hatefully, then looked at the splash of water and cursed in anger.