You Can't Work Overtime Even When Fighting a Boss

After her initial amazement, Wu Shanshan focused her gaze on Wenren Sheng, her expression complicated as she wondered what she was thinking.

Just then, Li Shi'an's sinister voice rang out again. "Not bad, very good. But if you can block one shot, can you block ten or eight? No matter how strong your Alien Power is, you're only twenty years old. How much could you possibly have? This old man has prepared dozens—no, hundreds—of bullets for you!"

Wu Shanshan's heart skipped a beat, and she looked at Wenren Sheng with some concern.

"Should we call the Black Shirts?" she said, immediately taking out her phone.

This time, Wenren Sheng did not object. But she discovered that her phone had no signal! At the same time, the second bullet came right on the heels of the first!

Li Shi'an's wild laughter accompanied it.

"Didn't expect that, did you? We'd understood long ago that technological weapons excel at destroying the body, while Alien Power excels at controlling the mind. They are fundamentally two entirely different paths of force!"

Wenren Sheng remained unmoved. He struck out another Dragon-Shaped Qi Strength, which once again arrived after the shot yet intercepted the bullet before it could reach him.

A second midair explosion erupted! Wu Shanshan noticed that this interception had taken place even farther away than the last one, more than a hundred meters out...

Only today did she realize that Wenren Sheng had never come close to displaying his limits.

Then came the third interception, dozens of meters farther away still.

She seemed to understand something.

Sure enough, in the next moment, Wenren Sheng thrust out both palms, firing two dark-purple Dragon-Shaped Qi Strengths at once. One crashed from afar toward the source of the sniper fire—the tall tower.

The other suddenly changed direction and struck Wu Shanshan herself!

"Ah?" Wu Shanshan nearly cried out, then felt the Dragon-Shaped Qi Strength slam into her body.

"Ah!" An even louder scream rang out, followed by a grayish-white mist drifting out of her body and vanishing into nothingness.

"Impossible! How did you discover where my true trump card was?" Li Shi'an's voice flickered in and out, extremely weak, as though he had suffered a severe blow.

Wu Shanshan instinctively lowered her head to scan her body, but she could not see her feet. A chill ran down her spine before realization dawned on her.

When had she been hit? When that mist had risen earlier? But why had she failed to resist it? She should not have.

As she pondered, she saw that the distant tower used for sniping had already had one corner blasted apart by the Dragon-Shaped Qi Strength.

The tower was several dozen meters tall and more than a thousand meters away from them.

She had never seen any expert whose Alien Power could still unleash such destructive force from that distance.

At the very least, her father could never do it. At most, he could project his power several dozen meters from his body; a hundred meters was already his limit.

After all, this demanded extreme control over Alien Power, as well as sufficient strength of the power itself.

Naturally, Wenren Sheng had no intention of answering his enemy's question. He merely leaped into the air toward the roof of a factory building, then ran swiftly across the battered, dilapidated rooftop.

Five minutes later, he came down carrying someone.

Wu Shanshan looked closely. The man was hunched over, ordinary-looking, with a bruise on his face. He was completely the image of a decrepit old man—precisely Li Shi'an, whom she had seen at Dengke Tower.

Who could have imagined that such a decrepit old man had just created such a dangerous situation?

Wu Shanshan believed that if Wu Liansong had been here instead, she would already have become an orphan.

Of course, if it had been Wu Liansong, he certainly would not have ventured so deeply into such danger. He would have called for Black Shirts support instead.

"All right, Shan Shan. You can call the Black Shirts now." Wenren Sheng looked up at the sky, calm and unruffled, as though he had done something utterly insignificant.

Wu Shanshan dearly wanted to pinch that handsome face of his, which carried a hint of arrogance, but after thinking it over, she obediently took out her phone.

At that moment, Li Shi'an, whom Wenren Sheng was holding, suddenly started laughing.

"Hahaha, young man, you truly are formidable." He shook his head. "But so what? Even if your divine might is unmatched and you capture me in one stroke, sending me to the Patrol Division, what can they do to me?"

"Is that so?" Wenren Sheng did not look at him. He merely gazed at the clear blue sky. Everything was so wonderful—the blazing sun was still directly overhead, and it was not yet past one in the afternoon.

Sure enough, efficiency was king. Even if he had to work overtime on the weekend to fight a Boss, he still had to get off work on time.

"Of course. Old He's Otherworldly User was induced away by Xu Qingshu. Everything was done by Xu Qingshu. I was merely a helpless old man who had been kept in the dark and knew nothing. He used money to pry the cultivation and transplantation methods for the Ancestral Seed out of the hands of my worthless descendants. He even threatened me with my great-great-grandson, forcing me to guard the place for him. I had no choice..." Li Shi'an rambled on.

By then, Wu Shanshan had already made the call. It only took sending a code.

Hearing this, she glared fiercely at Li Shi'an. "You sniped at us just now in an attempt to silence us. That is irrefutable evidence of a crime!"

"No, no. I merely took a liking to worthy prey and wanted to train this genius junior of mine. I deliberately put on a show for Xu Qingshu. I actually held back a great deal just now. Otherwise, you would not have captured me so easily. Now it seems we truly have successors. There are still people capable of defeating modern weapons of this caliber head-on. I am very gratified." Li Shi'an said it without the slightest shame.

"You old..." Wu Shanshan wanted to curse, but held herself back.

She suddenly noticed that as Li Shi'an spoke, an uncontrollable look of disappointment appeared on his face.

Just as expected. Though the old man talked tough, he could not conceal the tremendous blow of defeat in his heart.

After all, a loss was a loss.

"Yes, he held back just now..." Wenren Sheng instead admitted it frankly. "I'm actually a little grateful to him for not making me work overtime."

"How can you speak up for him? That bastard was trying to kill us just now." Wu Shanshan was immediately dissatisfied.

"But he did not hold back out of kindness. He saw that he was no match for me and habitually left himself an escape route, that was all." Wenren Sheng smiled faintly at her.

Li Shi'an froze upon hearing that. Only after a long while did he say faintly, "Not bad, young man. I understand now. I was the real fool. You only pretended to be one."

Wenren Sheng said nothing more. He continued looking at the sky, his expression unfathomable.

Instead, Wu Shanshan pressed on. "Li Shi'an, since you wanted to create an Ancestral Seed, why didn't you join the Patrol Division's research institute early on and conduct legal projects there? Why insist on these underground dealings?"

Li Shi'an quickly shook his head. "What do you mean, 'I wanted to create one'? You're a pretty girl with a wicked mind. Don't try to trap me."

"Because his own Otherworldly User had long since solidified and no longer had any value for cultivating into an Ancestral Seed. He could only take the crooked path," Wenren Sheng finally spoke. "To cultivate an Ancestral Seed, one must begin as soon as the Otherworldly User is activated, and the Otherworldly User cannot be over twenty years old."

"Yun Shuang is already twenty this year, while Xu Yuchen is only eighteen." Wu Shanshan seemed to understand something. "So that was it. No wonder Xu Qingshu could not hold back any longer. He really is a feudal old man."

"Oh? Why do you say that about him?" Wenren Sheng smiled.

"Hmph. Yun Shuang said before that if she had been a boy, Xu Qingshu would have been able to endure it. That was because if she had been male, Xu Qingshu would have passed the method of cultivating the Ancestral Seed to her two years ago, and none of this would have happened. All this trouble now is to buy time for Xu Yuchen, to ensure that before he turns twenty, they can cultivate and transplant an Otherworldly User with cultivation potential into him." Wu Shanshan analyzed the matter methodically.

When Li Shi'an heard this, he suddenly glanced at her a few times. Something strange flashed through his eyes, but it vanished in an instant.

"What is it, Old Man Li? Was I wrong?" Wu Shanshan noticed his reaction and immediately questioned him without courtesy.

"Hahaha, what are you talking about? I don't understand a word... I watched little Xu grow up. I never expected his thinking to be even more old-fashioned than mine. Can't a girl inherit the family legacy too? He could clearly solve the problem by bringing in a live-in son-in-law, yet he had to make such a complete mess of it." Li Shi'an looked deeply regretful.

Hearing this, Wu Shanshan wanted to punch him hard twice, but in the end she did not move.

She turned to Wenren Sheng instead. "This old fellow must still be hiding a whole bellyful of secrets. For example, why didn't he urge Xu Qingshu to start this project earlier?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I never urged him. Everything was voluntary on his part, all because he was provoked by Little Shuang's accident." Li Shi'an denied it outright.

Upon hearing this, Wu Shanshan seemed to think of something, and her gaze turned slightly cold.

As the three spoke, orderly footsteps finally came from outside in wave after wave. It sounded as if a great many people had arrived.

Wenren Sheng let out a breath, carried Li Shi'an, and turned toward the courtyard gate. "Wonderful. I can finally get off work."

"No, your workday has only just begun." Wu Shanshan followed closely behind.