Zhang Yu's Thunderous Strike

Under the same night sky.

Located on the outskirts of the city.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen stood in a small alley, their gazes piercing through the rain-shrouded darkness, surveying an apartment building not far away.

Bai Zhenzhen asked, "Are you sure this is the place?"

Fu Ji said, "Hmph, how could a mere Evil God mixed in with the first level compare to my control over Ritual? Besides, I used their Shadow Gu to find me, so there's absolutely no problem."

"You'd better hurry. Although I lured those people away with false information, they'll be back soon once they realize something's wrong."

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Then I'll go first."

His muscles twitched and vibrated, and soon his body shrank and twisted slightly. Then his facial muscles changed, and he became a completely unfamiliar face.

Then Zhang Yu changed into the deliveryman's uniform he had prepared beforehand and went to the dilapidated apartment building.

The exterior walls were dilapidated, the lighting was dim, and the corridor was piled with things.

Zhang Yu swept his hand over the moss growing in the cracks of the steps and noticed a faint, unpleasant odor in the air.

The entire apartment building gave him a sense of being old and decaying.

Even the surveillance cameras had been broken for a long time due to aging wiring and deliberate damage by followers of the Evil God.

However, because the rent is relatively cheap, the entire apartment building has a diverse population and is full of people.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "The Evil God must have deliberately chosen such a dilapidated and old apartment, right? It makes our operation today much easier."

Zhang Yu arrived at the door of room 606 and rang the doorbell, but no one answered.

He rang the doorbell again and said, "Is anyone home? The package has arrived."

"I'm in a hurry, so I'll just leave it at the door. You can come and get it yourselves in a bit."

After saying that, Zhang Yu took a picture of the package while standing still, and then left in a hurry, just like an ordinary deliveryman.

Shortly after he left, Li Quan opened the door, looked around to make sure no one was there, and then looked warily at the cardboard box in front of the door.

Seeing that the address on it was indeed this way, Li Quan took it into the room and asked, "Master, it seems the package you ordered has arrived."

"Oh?" Huo Shan skipped over, shouting, "Is this the new mouse I ordered online? Hurry up and open it so I can see it!"

Besides the Evil God Huo Shan and his follower Li Quan, there was also a burly man with a dark face quietly consuming Dao Heart Buffer, lying on the sofa with a look of enjoyment on his face.

Li Quan and the burly, dark-faced man were both high school graduates who had long since reached the Qi Refining Peak. They were also the two most loyal followers of the Evil God Huo Shan, and had been protecting his safety all along.

Even if Song Xu leads his men to seize that ten million today, they will still guard Huo Shan's side.

At that moment, after Li Quan quickly opened the package, he found a high school General Knowledge mathematics book inside.

"What the hell?" Huo Shan said angrily, "Did the seller send me the wrong item? I'm going to file a complaint!"

Just then, the sound of police sirens could be heard in the distance, and soon they were getting closer and closer to the apartment.

Huo Shan and his two followers were slightly startled by the noise and quickly opened the window to look downstairs.

As Evil God and Evil God followers, they are always very sensitive to such commotions.

They became even more nervous when they saw the police car parked downstairs at the apartment building.

"Could this be aimed at me?"

Just as Huo Shan was filled with worry, Li Quan said, "Besides the police cars, there was also the security team from Xianyun Corporation. It must be related to company matters, and has nothing to do with us."

Huo Shan breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly sensed that something was wrong.

Just as the constable knocked on the door, a sudden inspiration flashed through Huo Shan's mind.

The numbness from lying down and playing for so long ultimately failed to completely erode his vigilance as an Evil God, causing him to suddenly grab the math book beside him.

Huo Shan quickly glanced through the pages, then his eyes widened in shock.

Inside the math book was a martial arts technique called "Boundless Spring Autumn Zen".

"Damn it! Who's trying to harm me?!"

At the same time, the voices of the constables and company security team could be heard outside the door. "Routine inspection, please open the door and cooperate."

Li Quan, who was standing nearby, grabbed his math book and was about to throw it out the window, but Huo Shan stopped him.

"Haven't you seen the news or the movies? There are definitely some company dogs downstairs watching our windows and taking pictures! Throwing it down is just handing over evidence to them!"

"Burn it! Burn this book right now!"

Huo Shan urged repeatedly, "Burn it! Burn it!"

Two believers, one lit the book on fire and the other brought an iron bucket, only to find that the book was made of extremely tough material and burned too slowly.

Just then, the knocking outside the door grew louder, and a constable said, "As citizens of Songyang City, you have an obligation to cooperate with the investigation. Please open the door immediately."

One of the company employees said, "Can you smell something burning?"

The constable's voice grew increasingly urgent. "We now suspect you are involved in the spread of illegal Cultivation Method. If you don't open the door soon, we're going to break it down!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them were terrified and became as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

"Damn it..." Huo Shan cursed inwardly, while lowering his voice to say, "Pour some oil on it! Put it on the gas stove and light it!"

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! If we get caught, the fines will be astronomical!"

"Burning even one more word can reduce the fine!" "Li Quan, you go deal with them first! Buy them time!"

As the knocking grew louder, the warnings from the constables and company security team became increasingly urgent.

Sensing the intense magical energy surging outside the door, Li Quan, covered in sweat, said into the room, "They're about to come in."

At the same time, the entire book finally burst into flames.

Huo Shan watched as the math book was thrown into the bucket and gradually turned black, and only then did he breathe a slight sigh of relief.

With a deafening crash, the door was smashed open.

Seeing a large group of constables and members of the company's security team walk in, Li Quan and another burly man with a dark face quickly raised their hands, not daring to make the slightest move to resist.

Huo Shan lay quietly on the sofa, just like a real teddy bear, without making a sound.

The head of the company's security personnel looked at Li Quan and said, "Why did it take you so long to open the door?"

Li Quan said nervously, "I... I don't know who you are, why are you opening the door?"

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Just then, one of the team members said, "Sir, they just burned something."

Everyone immediately looked at the charred metal barrel.

Seeing the company personnel searching through the burnt remains, the three members of the Huo Shan immediately tensed up.

The company employee looked at the charred booklet for a while, then shook his head helplessly. "We can't make out the contents anymore."

Just as Huo Shan completely relaxed, another company employee suddenly reached into the metal bucket and started rummaging through it.

Then, to everyone's astonishment, he pulled out a piece of iron the size of a palm.

Upon seeing this, Huo Shan immediately realized that someone had slipped a piece of iron into the book. He cursed inwardly, "Who's so ruthless? To do this to me? Damn it, I'm going to be punished to death this time..." Looking at the two believers on the scene, he began to consider whether or not to abandon them.

The company employee glanced at the inscription on the metal plate and his expression changed. "It's the Boundless Spring Autumn Zen, a top-tier Expert-level Cultivation Method."

Upon hearing this, the constables immediately retreated, afraid of seeing what was written on the metal plate.

The company employees immediately surrounded the metal sheet and sealed it away.

"Gentlemen, we suspect you of purchasing Pirated Cultivation Method. Please come with us to cooperate with the investigation."

In the alley downstairs.

Having already changed out of his deliveryman uniform, Zhang Yu leaned against the wall, watching quietly as Li Quan and the other man were taken into the Immortal Rhythm Company's car, looking like a complete stranger.

Watching the company and police cars speed away and disappear into the night, Zhang Yu sighed, "Anonymous phone reports are this effective? Even better than I imagined."

Fu Ji said, "After all, Cultivation Method of the Spring and Boundless Spring Autumn Zen level that was leaked. These company people will definitely be as eager as dogs that have smelled shit."

Zhang Yu recalled the two people who had been brought into the car, thinking to himself, "These two must be believers, right?"

Fu Ji chuckled and continued, "That's the advantage of information asymmetry. Just the fact that we know his address, but he doesn't know we know his address, is enough to crush him."

Zhang Yu, however, did not relax at all.

After the company arrested two believers, they were fined enough to get away with it.

Even if these two believers were sacrificed, the opposing Evil God would still exist.

Zhang Yu looked at the apartment building and thought to himself, "Theoretically speaking, the believers in that room should have all been taken away by the company."

"But..."

After thinking it over, Zhang Yu decided to test the waters again.

So he picked up his phone and ordered takeout.

More than ten minutes later, accompanied by a blur of light, a deliveryman appeared at the door of room 606, carrying a drink, like a ghost.

Looking at the door that had been violently broken open, he paused for a moment, then asked, "Is anyone home?"

No one responded.

After glancing at the notes on the delivery order, the deliveryman sighed helplessly. With a swift movement, he created a gust of wind and swept the entire room.

Then he went out of the room, picked up his phone, and typed to the customer. "I looked around, but nobody's here. What about your order?"

The customer replied: Thank you for your trouble. It's alright if he's not here, but please have this drink.

Shortly after the deliveryman left, the teddy bear on the sofa stirred slightly, jumped off the sofa, and tried to run outside.

But the next moment, he abruptly stopped in his tracks.

"No, what if... what if their real target is me, this Evil God? Perhaps they're already waiting outside, ready to trap me."

"We can't just go out like this."

"Now, without the protection of believers, this is the most dangerous time for me. What I should do is..."

Thinking of this, the bear doll sent a message to Song Xu and the others.

"At their speed, they should arrive in about twenty minutes at most."

"All I need to do is stay out of sight for these twenty-odd minutes."

With that thought in mind, Huo Shan went to the wall behind the sofa, slowly opened the Hidden Door, and disappeared into the room.

(End of this chapter)