Surprise Attack

Just as An Jing and the others were preparing to make their move.

At the edge of Xuanye City's southern district, in the suburban plantation grounds near the Safe Zone, beside a manor hidden within a lush forest of Evergreen Wood trees, stood the foremost of three small bunkers.

The plantation had originally belonged to a small agricultural company. The entire forest was said to have been the experimental project of some Grotto-Heaven person. After that Grotto-Heaven person succeeded in their project and obtained a senior spirit planter's certificate, the garden was abandoned. Later, it became a camp where homeless people, unemployed drifters, and fugitives from the Safe Zone gathered.

Still later, a group of mysterious cultivators arrived and put all that worthless human trash nobody cared whether they lived or died to use again. They transformed the manor into a secret underground fortress, cultivated forbidden crops in the gardens, and set up restrictions and concealed sentry posts without a single blind spot. Anyone foolish enough to wander into this place would mysteriously vanish, until this already deserted grove became a complete forbidden zone.

Their equipment and training were exceptionally good. The people nearby only knew that this area had been sealed off and knew none of the finer details. Still, the surrounding homeless people and dangerous Rogue Cultivators had indeed disappeared, making it much safer to come and go. Thus, no one bothered investigating their true identities, at most assuming this was some corporate security project established here.

They were, of course, not company employees. They were the Yekan Gang. Yet the nearby residents' guess was not entirely wrong.

Because the Yekan Gang had indeed originally consisted of a group of researchers whose projects had failed within the corporation, along with their department's armed security personnel. Some of these