Outside Professor Jian's villa.
After receiving Han Feng's orders, Sharp Eye and Crazy Fist began their plan without hesitation.
Since Ye Yun had refused to cooperate with them,
it was time to put their plan into action.
Like wildcats slipping through the darkness, the two avoided the surrounding cameras and cautiously made their way toward the villa ahead.
They couldn't afford to alert anyone just yet.
Once inside the villa, Sharp Eye said, "I'll go to the living room. You go to the bedroom."
"Okay."
Crazy Fist nodded and strode toward the bedroom without a care.
Now that they were inside the villa, there was no need to hide.
He was extremely confident in his abilities, certain the two humans couldn't escape. So there was no need to rush.
Unbeknownst to him,
Han Feng was already as good as dead.
Suddenly,
a whip-like kick, fast as lightning, swept in.
Caught completely off guard, Crazy Fist took the sudden kick square in the chest. An immense force hurled him sideways, slamming him into the wall and embedding him in it.
"Whoosh."
A blur flashed past. Before Crazy Fist could react, the shadow that had delivered the kick sprang high into the air, giving him no chance to charge forward. Its knee slammed toward Crazy Fist's head.
Seeing the incoming knee, Crazy Fist instinctively tried to dodge.
But he was embedded in the wall and couldn't evade the powerful knee strike.
"Thud."
A muffled sound rang out, followed by crackling arcs of electricity.
Crazy Fist's head burst like a watermelon, but no blood sprayed out. Only arcs of electricity flickered.
"Too weak."
After straightening up, Ye Yun adjusted his slightly wrinkled suit and walked toward the living room.
These Intelligent Beings were nowhere near Jie Xing's level.
"Who's there?"
As the strongest Sniper in Duyizhi, Sharp Eye had exceptionally keen hearing. He hurriedly took cover and shouted.
"The one who's going to kill you."
A cold voice rang out.
Like polished shoes stepping across the floor, the footsteps came closer, crisp and steady, bringing with them a faint sense of oppression.
"You damn hunting dogs again."
Hearing that, anger flared in Sharp Eye's eyes. It was those damn hunting dogs again.
They really wouldn't leave him alone.
"Bang, bang, bang."
Sharp Eye cursed under his breath, pulled a grenade from his waist, yanked the pin, and tossed it to the floor. He rolled across the ground, smashed through the floor-to-ceiling window, and fled into the darkness.
The grenade's rolling was unmistakable. Ye Yun glanced at it and kicked it away with lightning speed.
"Boom!"
"Crash!"
A deafening explosion erupted. The grenade blew up just after flying out of the villa.
The blast wave shattered the nearby windows.
A shadow burst from the black smoke.
It sped up as it went, heading straight for Sharp Eye, who was trying to escape.
"Damn those hunting dogs!"
After reaching a spot he thought was safe, Sharp Eye picked up the sniper rifle he'd hidden there and cursed furiously.
Those hunters really wouldn't leave him alone. Just you wait. One day, I'll kill every last one of you.
It seemed
that Crazy Fist had probably met with disaster.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."
Just then,
a whistling sound rang out.
Hearing it, Sharp Eye raised his sniper rifle and fired on instinct without a second thought.
He got here so fast. Could he be an Intelligent Being?
The sniper rifle fired at tremendous speed—1,200 meters per second, fast enough to kill anyone within 1,200 meters in a single second.
Ye Yun leaned slightly to dodge the bullet without slowing down.
A Laser Sword appeared in his hand.
"Bang."
The sniper rifle's muffled report echoed through the night. A spark flashed and vanished; the bullet gave off a faint glow, an effect caused by its incredible speed.
"Whoosh."
Seeing the incoming bullet, Ye Yun swung the Laser Sword. The all-cutting laser sliced the bullet in two, and the halves skimmed past his cheek.
"How is this possible?"
Sharp Eye stared at the scene in disbelief.
As he tried to pull the trigger again, a Laser Sword had already swept across his neck.
The sniper rifle in his hands split in two and fell to the ground.
His head dropped from his neck.
The cut across his neck was smooth and clean. Arcs of electricity flickered.
"Thud."
At last,
Sharp Eye's body collapsed onto the grass with a crisp thump.
"Why bother?"
Ye Yun put away his weapon, bent down to pick up Sharp Eye's head, removed the Chip inside, tossed the mechanical head to the ground, and headed toward the villa in the distance.
"Th-this..."
Professor Jian swallowed dryly as he stared at Crazy Fist, the Intelligent Being embedded in the wall. Disbelief filled his eyes.
"Hot mama, that guy probably isn't an ordinary person. Or maybe he isn't even human."
Looking at Crazy Fist, embedded in the wall with his head blown apart, Qiao Er's Electronic Eye flashed with a string of numerical code. Her Chip was already working at high speed, calculating the extent of the damage.
"Based on my analysis, Crazy Fist was completely overpowered without being able to fight back at all. Only Jie Xing, or an Intelligent Being as powerful as Jie Xing, could do that. A human couldn't possibly have that kind of strength."
"That can't be right, can it?"
Professor Jian's eyes were full of doubt. It couldn't have been an Intelligent Being.
"That's just my analysis. After all, even I can't manage that kind of superhuman strength, and neither can Ye Zi."
Qiao Er shrugged and said, "But to you humans, nothing is impossible. You can create Intelligent Beings like us, so why couldn't you do something superhuman?"
"I'm sorry to have caused such damage to your home the moment I arrived, Professor Jian. I apologize."
Ye Yun looked at Professor Jian. Though he apologized, his expression remained as cold as ever.
"It's fine, it's fine. We should be thanking you. Without your help, I'm afraid..."
Professor Jian quickly understood what Crazy Fist and Sharp Eye had been after.
If he wasn't mistaken,
they had probably been targeting him and the Firewall Program.
Fortunately, Ye Yun had arrived tonight. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
"It's all right."
Ye Yun shook his head and tapped his Smart Watch.
"You've gotten yourself into trouble again. I don't even need to ask what happened," Feiran's voice came through the Smart Watch. "Be back before dawn tomorrow. Can you manage that?"
"Duyizhi?"
Ye Yun said, "Duyizhi attacked Professor Jian and the others. Sharp Eye and Crazy Fist have already been taken care of. I suspect—"
"Don't bother with your suspicions. Their target was the Firewall Program in Jian Jie's hands. If Duyizhi got their hands on her Firewall Program, they could easily exploit the logical flaws in Intelligent Beings," Feiran interrupted. "Come back now."
"I—"
Ye Yun was about to say more, but she interrupted him again. "You should know what's important and what isn't."
"Okay."
After thinking it over for a long while, he finally agreed.
The importance of the Initial Source Code went without saying. It was far more important than the Firewall Program.
If the Initial Source Code was lost, everything would be over.
If the Firewall Program was lost, they could activate the backup firewall.
"I'm sorry for the trouble. Something's come up at home. Please stay safe."
An apologetic smile appeared on Ye Yun's face, and he turned to leave.
"Then we won't keep you. You didn't even have a sip of water."
Professor Jian watched him get into his car and drive off, then glanced at the damaged house and gave a slight shrug.
"Hot mama, what were they talking about? Is there really something more important than the Firewall Program? The Initial Source Code?"
Qiao Er's eyes were full of confusion. Then she thought of the Initial Source Code that had created them and asked uncertainly.
The foundation of Intelligent Beings like her came from the Initial Source Code. Without it, it would be like a house without a foundation, ready to fall in the wind—and they couldn't be activated.
"Mm. They're Professor Hu Ming's children, so they're probably protecting the Initial Source Code."
Professor Jian nodded.
"Do you know where it is?" Qiao Er tilted her head and asked.
"I do."
Professor Jian nodded, not thinking much of it.
"Hot mama, are you all right?"
Since Ye Yun hadn't been asked by Zhuo Ran to undergo a safety inspection as in the original story, she had returned very quickly.
When she got close to home,
she saw smoke billowing and smelled gunpowder, so she hurried the rest of the way.
"We're all fine. We just need to renovate this place."
Professor Jian reached out and retrieved the undamaged Chip from Crazy Fist.
"Qiao Er, go check whether Sharp Eye's Chip was taken," Professor Jian said, his eyes flashing as he looked at the Chip in front of him.
He wanted to find out what kind of logical flaw had caused these beings to undergo intelligent mutation.
"Th-this?"
Seeing the scene before her, Ye Yun was stunned as well. She asked uncertainly, "Is this Crazy Fist? Did you do this?"
"Do you think I'm strong enough to do that?"
Ye Qiao Er glanced at her older sister.
"I forgot. You're just a little bodyguard. You're small and don't have much of an advantage. How could you have beaten Crazy Fist without giving him a chance to fight back?"
Only then did Ye Yun remember that Ye Qiao Er was just a little bodyguard-and-companion type of Intelligent Being. How could she have such great strength? She asked curiously, "Then what happened?"
"Don't ask."
Professor Jian shook his head, signaling Ye Yun not to ask anything. "Are you going to keep living here, or move out?"
"Let's move out now. I didn't undergo a safety inspection, so the people from the Intelligence Hunting Bureau have been watching me. And after what happened here, we should move out and have someone renovate the place."
Ye Yun chose to move out at once. The people from the Intelligence Hunting Bureau would be a real nuisance if she stayed.
And with Duyizhi causing trouble here, there was no way they wouldn't be watching this place.
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