The Pursuit Battle

In the hotel room, Qing Chen crushed the Bluetooth earphones.

This time, he didn't use headphones to eavesdrop on the other party's plans.

After all, he had used this trick too many times, and the other party would definitely be aware of it. Even if he heard something through the earpiece, it might be meant to mislead him.

Therefore, instead of going to great lengths to listen to and analyze information, it's better not to listen or watch at all.

Tonight, Qing Chen will proceed at his own pace.

Everyone must follow his pace.

Qing Chen searched the assassin's body, but found that the assassin in the room was not carrying any firearms.

It seems that Huan Yu doesn't have many firearms, at least not enough to equip all the assassins.

Qing Chen pondered, what exactly is Huan Yu's identity in the Inner World?

He now has about three leads.

The first clue is that back in Laojun Mountain, he didn't know anything about guns...

But now he understands, and even knows the models and calibers of all the handguns and firearms in the Inner World.

Therefore, when he took the gun from the previous assassin, he understood that the pistol, the silencer, and the subsonic bullets all came from the Inner World.

The Woodpecker K24 model, 5.4 mm caliber, has a subsonic bullet muzzle velocity of 310 m/s and does not produce a sonic boom.

Huan Yu has the ability to transport large items like firearms from the Inner World, or rather, one of his subordinates has this ability.

No wonder they were able to get so many handguns in an environment with such strict gun control.

The second clue is that the Forbidden Item ACE-017 Demon Stamp in Huan Yu's possession should be in the hands of a certain conglomerate.

The third clue is that Huan Yu has far too many people under his command.

Even if the other party's methods are strange, it is still very unreasonable for them to have so many subordinates in just over a month.

Unless, of course, these subordinates are Time Walker controlled by a conglomerate, only a conglomerate could possess such efficiency.

Qing Chen and Huan Yu had clashed multiple times, and one thing that was clearly noticeable was that Huan Yu's men had gradually transformed from ordinary thugs into well-trained assassins.

Those assassins were probably ordinary people before they traveled through time; they must have received long-term, systematic training to achieve such results.

The third clue also corroborates the second clue.

Therefore, Qing Chen is now very certain that Huan Yu is either one of the powerful figures in a certain conglomerate, or a direct descendant of a powerful faction.

As for whether the other party is from the Li family, the Qing family, the Chen family, the Kashima family, or the Kamishiro family, Qing Chen is still unable to determine this.

But if Xiancheng is the foundation of Huan Yu, then which conglomerate controls Xiancheng corresponding City No. 16? The Chen family, the Qing family!

Wait, Qing Yi isn't from City No. 16, which means Qing Yi isn't Huan Yu?

The next moment, he opened the hotel window and nimbly climbed out.

For a knight, a five-story building is nothing.

Anyone who has ever climbed Green Mountain Cliff will not find this difficult.

In the bar next to the lobby of the Vienna Hotel.

The students sat there anxiously, not knowing what had happened. They only heard Xu Zimo say that they seemed to be caught up in a conflict between Time Walker.

Everyone doesn't have to do anything; they just need to wait in the bar until it's over.

Xu Zimo said all of this, and no one, including math teacher Tian Hailong, questioned it, because Xu Zimo would not joke about such a thing.

"Zimo, can you tell us what happened?" Xia Xiaoran asked curiously.

"I promised someone, so I can't tell," Xu Zimo shook his head.

Before leaving, Qing Chen specifically instructed her not to tell anyone.

"Is it Qing Chen?" Wang Jiale asked curiously. "It's not hard to guess. You left with him during dinner, but he wasn't there when you came back."

Xu Zimo didn't want to lie, so he simply took out his phone and started looking at the error correction questions one by one.

The so-called error correction questions are to record all the questions you have missed in the past, and then go back to review them from time to time to verify whether you have really mastered the knowledge points.

This is a method used by the vast majority of top students.

However, Xu Zimo was only pretending to look at the questions; her mind was elsewhere.

Soon, Xiao Ying came downstairs again and introduced himself, "Hello everyone, I am Xiao Ying from the Kunlun Organization. I know you are representing Los Angeles High School in the math competition, but I'm sorry to trouble you to stay here until the event is over. Don't worry, it will definitely be over before 12 o'clock."

Zhou Xuanying asked, "Did Qing Chen get into some trouble? If so, why are we waiting here for him? We have a competition tomorrow."

"It's not that he caused any trouble," Xiao Ying's smile gradually faded. "The organization that came tonight to target Qing Chen killed countless people back in Laojun Mountain. Do you want to be killed too? Then you can just let this kind of organization grow stronger. He's doing things you can't do. If you think the competition is particularly important, go back to your room and study. Whether you're safe or not is none of my business."

Zhou Xuanying opened his mouth, but said nothing more.

In fact, if Zheng Yuandong and Lu Yuan were present, Xiao Ying would have been punished for what he said.

However, in the battle of Laojun Mountain, both Banshou and Shanzha died on the mountain, and Qing Chen avenged them.

So regardless of the relationship between Kunlun and Qing Chen, or whether Qingchen has joined Kunlun or not, Xiao Ying is grateful for this favor.

Xu Zimo hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Hello, may I ask you some questions privately?"

The Xiao Ying paused for a moment, then said, "Sure."

The two walked to a booth and sat down. Xu Zimo got straight to the point. "Is Qing Chen a member of the Kunlun Organization? Otherwise, why would you come to help him clean up the mess?"

Xiao Ying thought for a moment, and realized that Qing Chen really was a member of Kunlun. That boy was not only a member of Jiuzhou, but also a member of Kyushu, a member of Bai Zhou, an instructor at the Li Clan Academy in the Inner World, Li Changqing's personal bodyguard, and the Tigerweight Boxing Champion at the Begonia Boxing Gym...

What the hell is all this nonsense?

Xiao Ying suddenly realized that Qing Chen had acquired a whole bunch of identities during his two months of transmigration!

This is incredible!

Xiao Ying carefully considered his words before saying, "Strictly speaking, he is indeed a member of Kunlun, but his identity is rather special."

Xu Zimo then asked, "... Is he very capable?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ying perked up. "Amazing! Extremely amazing! He must be among the most powerful Time Walker!"

In fact, Xu Zimo didn't know what she wanted to ask. She just wanted to find out what kind of person Qing Chen was through various channels.

Looking back now, it seems so naive of me to have told that boy if he could show his true abilities in the exam.

Because in their eyes, exams are no longer such trivial matters.

"Is he still upstairs?" Xu Zimo asked.

"He's probably gone. I don't know where he went. That kid's always been elusive," Xiao Ying said.

Xu Zimo looked out the window, seemingly lost in thought.

At this moment, in the black night outside the window, a few white snowflakes drifted down, like plum blossoms swirling in the air.

It's snowing.

"Boss, Target Number 1 didn't come out of the Vienna Hotel's main entrance," a middle-aged man reported from a corner outside the hotel.

"Boss, Target Number 1 didn't come out through the back door either. He should still be inside the hotel," someone reported from the back door.

A voice said through the Bluetooth headset, "Stay on standby."

"I'm already out."

The voice came from behind the assassin.

However, as soon as the sound fell, the assassin at the back door suddenly felt a numbness in his lower back, as if all the strength in his body had been drained away.

That's a typical symptom of the body losing its blood supply after the spleen ruptures.

Qing Chen didn't necessarily want to pierce the other person's spleen, but this method had become the "persona" by which the outside world judged his identity. If he wanted to use this persona to hide his other identity, then he needed to maintain this persona and create a stereotype among everyone.

At this moment, the assassins did not know when or how Qing Chen left the hotel.

Previously, they were clearly in the shadows while Target Number 1 was in the open, but now they can't even find Target Number 1's movements.

Qing Chen headed north alone, towards Xiancheng Station and also towards Xiancheng Weiyang Lake Park.

His destination tonight is right there.

Inside the Bluetooth headset, the mastermind behind it all Huan Yu, sensed something was wrong and immediately ordered the nearby assassins to rush to the back door.

But when the other assassins arrived at the back door, they could only see Qing Chen's departing figure.

"Boss, he went north," one of the assassins reported.

"North?" Huan Yu hesitated for a moment.

Liu Dezhu had stood at the entrance of Xiancheng Station for so long in order to lure the assassins surrounding the Vienna Hotel to the north.

As a result, Qing Chen broke out of the hotel and instead of running away to other places, he actually went to meet the assassin who was returning to the Vienna Hotel.

This is not normal. Qing Chen must know that the assassins from Xiancheng Station are returning, so why would he walk into their trap?

What makes a teenager, who is visiting Xiancheng for the first time in his life, think he can fight his way north?

"Boss, should we leave some people at Xiancheng Station? It's possible that when Liu Dezhu came before, Boss Baizhou arrived on the same train. Now Qing Chen is going to meet up with Boss Baizhou," a deep voice said in the Bluetooth headset. This wasn't the first time this voice had appeared, and the assassins knew very well that it belonged to a higher-ranking member of the organization.

Huan Yu laughed and said, "Zhang San, he might be meeting up with his boss, but they're definitely not going to Xiancheng Station. After all, there are three stations in Xiancheng, and they can leave Xiancheng by going to any of them. There's no need for them to fight to the death at Xiancheng Station, right?"

"What are they trying to do?" Zhang San asked, puzzled.

"They want to fight us to the death," Huan Yu's voice grew colder. "Since that's the case, then let's grant their wish. Everyone outside the Vienna Hotel is chasing Target Number 1, while the rest of you head over there. Zhang San, you take your men and wait for him at the ends of Fengjin Road, Mingguang Road, and Zhuhong Road. He doesn't know the terrain of Xiancheng, so we'll give him a surprise there."

Heading north from the Vienna Hotel, there are only three forks in the road. If Qing Chen wants to continue north, he will definitely pass through these three intersections.

However, as time passed second by second, the assassins who were following Qing Chen from afar suddenly noticed...

Instead of choosing any of the three paths, Qing Chen went straight into a residential area and forcefully broke through their blockade through an extremely narrow alley.

This road doesn't even have a name on the map!

"Boss, he's already crossed the blockade!" The assassin pressed the call button on his headset and said urgently, "I don't know how he knew about this alley; it feels like he knows the terrain better than we do."

Many assassins were stunned when they heard this. Didn't the boss say that this young man was visiting Xiancheng for the first time? How could he be more familiar with this place than them, who were born and raised in Xiancheng?

However, what they didn't know was that this afternoon, Qing Chen spent three whole hours memorizing the entire route of Xiancheng, and even used Google satellite maps to clearly observe the route he had planned.

A person living in their native city will naturally have a sense of superiority, feeling that this is their home turf.

However, would the assassins really dare to guarantee that they know and recognize every single street in the city?

But Qing Chen was certain that he knew every single road in Xiancheng at this moment!

Now, Qing Chen is the one who knows Xiancheng best.

At this moment, a huge city model of Xiancheng was being built in Qing Chen's mind with blue lines, as clear and accurate as a giant linear palace.

A voice came through the Bluetooth headset. "Zhang San, go and catch him yourself."

The deep voice replied, "Yes, boss. The man chasing him, tell me his current location."

"Fengcheng Fifth Road!"

"Keep an eye on it, I'll be there soon."

As they were talking, a man in his thirties wearing a baseball cap rushed out from the shadows at the end of Fengjin Road and sprinted toward Fengcheng Fifth Road at an astonishing speed.

The snowflakes falling from the sky were originally drifting down gently, but as he passed through, the turbulent airflow behind him caused them to swirl and tumble.

In just a few minutes, he had crossed several streets and was heading straight for Qing Chen's route!

At this moment, as if he had foreseen all of this, Qing Chen suddenly turned around and slipped through a small door into a residential area, disappearing from everyone's sight.

"I know this upscale residential area. There are three-meter-high electric wire mesh fences on the perimeter walls for alarms. He can't jump over them. There are four gates in the area, and all of them can be used for entry and exit," one of the assassins said.

As Zhang San rushed into the residential compound, he said coldly, "I'm going in to chase him. You guys block all four gates."

From afar, Zhang San could already see Qing Chen's agile and nimble figure running in the night.

Surprisingly, Qing Chen didn't run towards any of the exits, but instead went straight into the underground parking garage!

Zhang San paused for a moment, then asked, "How many exits does the underground parking garage in this residential complex have? Do they overlap with the surface exits?"

"This community separates pedestrians and vehicles. There are a total of five exits, four of which overlap with ground-level exits, and one is on the west side, where there is no ground-level exit," someone replied.

Zhang San understood; Qing Chen had come in specifically for the western exit.

But the problem is, is this really the first time the other party has come to Xiancheng? All of them who are chasing after Qing Chen have the same feeling: Xiancheng is not their home ground, but that boy's!

Zhang San was very fast; in terms of speed, Qing Chen was no match for him at all.

However, Qing Chen actually used his familiarity with the terrain to widen the gap between them several times, thus bridging the gap between them.

Every time Zhang San felt he was about to catch up, he would lose sight of the other person, and by the time he found them again, the distance had already increased.

This feeling is so strange, it's like having all the strength in my body but being unable to use it at all.

It's infuriating.

Dozens of people split up to intercept him, but Zhang San no longer cared about the dangers of using firearms on the street. He took out his silenced pistol and pulled the trigger.

The accurate range of a silenced pistol is 20 meters, while the distance between Zhang San and Qing Chen is about 100 meters.

Zhang San knew that it would be difficult to hit Qing Chen while he was running, but as long as the other party made some evasive moves and slowed down, he could close the distance between them.

However, Qing Chen in front didn't even try to avoid the bullets, as if he knew very well that Zhang San couldn't hit him.

Five minutes later, Zhang San lost track of Qing Chen again in the next residential area. He said into his Bluetooth headset, "Don't chase him anymore. We won't catch him like this. We have to drive to the two intersections to the north and block him."

Through the Bluetooth headset, Huan Yu calmly said, "Don't worry, just keep driving him north. Someone is already waiting for him there."

However, before he could finish speaking, Qing Chen's familiar voice came through the Bluetooth headset. "You mean a middle-aged man and a young man? They... are already dead."

The previously noisy conversation in the Bluetooth headset suddenly fell silent.

Huan Yu glanced at the map in front of him. The men he had arranged to ambush Qing Chen were clearly 800 meters away from Zhang San.

In other words, in the short five minutes that Qing Chen was out of their sight, he stopped circling around and playing hide-and-seek, and instead, like a surgeon's scalpel, he plunged straight into the heart of the ambushers.

This was a textbook example of a chase and counter-chase, an encirclement and counter-encirclement battle!

And up to this moment, only one person had appeared during the day!

No, there must be more than one person, Huan Yu pondered. If Qing Chen were only one person, he simply couldn't have done this.

Perhaps there are several other people constantly providing Qing Chen with information, including the location of the assassins and route maps, just like a rally driver needs a navigator.

This is a power struggle and declaration of war between two organizations. At one point, Huan Yu even wondered if Qing Chen's appearance in Xiancheng was also something Bai Zhou had planned in advance.

Otherwise, why would the preparations for daytime be so thorough?

No, if it was prepared, why not bring Liu Dezhu, an Awakened, as part of the fighting force?

There are too many mysteries tonight.

Qing Chen, standing outside the encirclement, chuckled, "Why is it so quiet? Are you starting to overthink things?"

Huan Yu laughed, "Interesting. Now that you're out of the encirclement, where are you planning to go? Take the high-speed train home from Xiancheng Station? Or shall we continue our game tonight?"

Qing Chen laughed too, "Didn't I already say that Bai Zhou will accompany you to the end? Don't bother looking for me anymore, the Bai Zhou organization is waiting for you at Weiyang Lake Amusement Park in Xiancheng... waiting for you to come and die."

Huan Yu paused for a moment. "Weiyang Lake Amusement Park? That's quite a distance from you. How do you plan to get there?"

Qing Chen waved to a taxi on the roadside. "Don't worry about it, I'll take a taxi."

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