Shadow!

City No. 5, a mountain city.

The Ginkgo Manor, located halfway up the mountain, was still brightly lit at 4 a. m.

This place is like a paradise that never stops. Every night, the Tuanzi who have no future in their families drive their sports cars to wake up the entire city.

The cabins on the mountain in the Ginkgo Manor are quiet and peaceful.

It's like two worlds that have never merged.

In the small house where the head of the Qing family lived alone, the old man still sat cross-legged in the darkness, his head bowed, seemingly lost in thought, while the shadow of the Qing family behind him waited quietly.

After an unknown amount of time, the shadow said, "You've succeeded."

"Hmm," the old man replied casually.

Shadow calmly said, "When Qing Chen left A02 Base, he took all of Qing Clan's intelligence personnel with him, which proves that he already has Qing Clan in his heart. In that case, you should be mocking my weakness instead, why are you silent this time..."

The old man said softly, "Winning against you only proves that I didn't teach you well, there's nothing to be happy about. You beating me is what's worth being happy about."

The shadow paused for a moment. This old man's way of thinking had always been unique and quite different from that of ordinary people.

Just like the old man once thought, simply having Qing Chen bring Qing Mu back was not enough to give Qing Chen enough prestige; only by making Qing Chen the second Qing Mu would it be possible.

In fact, Qing Chen could have been rescued much earlier during the rescue operation, but the old man insisted on "sending" him to A02 Base.

For example, the mysterious expert who once found Qing Chen and is now hunting down Kamiyo Yunhe must be one of this old man's men.

For example, the news of Qing Chen on the film set was also leaked by the old man through secret agents.

Furthermore, the person the Kamishiro Corporation sent to capture Qing Chen was not Kamiyo Yunhe, but another expert named Kamiyo Yun Cang.

As a result, the old man sent people to hold off Kamiyo Yun Cang, forcing the Kamishiro Corporation to send Kamiyo Yunhe over.

The old man believed that although Kamiyo Yun Cang was stronger, Kamiyo Yunhe more methods and a higher success rate in taking Qing Chen away.

This was something Shadow only learned later.

The old man wanted all Qing clan intelligence personnel to remember the name Qing Chen, and he also wanted the 929 Qing clan intelligence personnel in A02 Base to return and sincerely sing praises to Qing Chen. This was the result the old man wanted, and now he has succeeded.

It was a close call, but no real danger.

No, Shadow wondered, was everything planned out for the Qing family head in front of him, without any surprises or dangers?

Shadow suddenly asked, "I was looking at satellite maps just now and I was thinking about something. Six years ago, you sent me to the northern snowfields to hunt down a traitor. At the time, I thought he carried a family secret, which is why you insisted I kill him personally. But later I found out that wasn't the case; he was indeed just a small fry. I've never understood why someone like that needed me to travel thousands of miles to kill him?"

"But I just looked at the map and found that the location where I chased him back then is exactly the route the Field Division is now taking. As you know, the Shadow Gate I have can only be opened in places I've been. So, you planned all of this in advance and prepared the prerequisites for opening the gate there? But the time travel hadn't even started yet," Shadow said.

The old man said casually, "You don't need to think of me as something so magical. Go, bring Qing Chen home, bring him back to receive support and applause, that's what he deserves. Let the Divine Era know that they've messed with the wrong people."

The shadow gave the old man a deep look, then opened the Shadow Gate and went inside.

However, the shadow did not go directly to the northern snowfield, but instead came to a high mountain.

In the darkness of night.

He stood on the edge of a cliff, almost one more step and he would fall.

The shadow, dressed in black, silently gazed down the mountain where a tea garden, Jingshan Tea, was planted.

Next to the tea plantation, someone had fenced off a small area and planted a patch of sunflowers inside.

Strangely, whether it was because the soil had become magical after being planted with so many extraordinary individuals, or for some other reason, the sunflowers, which should have withered in winter, were still shining brightly.

Right in the middle of the sunflower field, there is a delicate tombstone.

The shadow said softly, "Not yet, wait for me..."

As he spoke, the shadow suddenly called out loudly, "Qing Ye!"

Someone behind him said, "Here."

"Qing Qu!"

Someone else chimed in, "Yes."

The shadow turned around with a smile and looked at the three hundred and thirty men in black in front of him. They stood in neat rows, looking solemn and silent, like three hundred and thirty statues.

They remained motionless as the heavy snow fell on their heads.

Thirty Awakened and practitioners under his command.

Three hundred genetically engineered warriors he secretly trained.

This is the secret unit that was responsible for rescuing Li Shutong's imprisoned friend.

They had been waiting here for six hours and knew that Shadow was going to kill someone.

Shadow chuckled and said, "This time you don't need to put camouflage on your face... By the way, do you have any questions? If so, just ask them all at once."

Qing Ye: "Has Qing Chen been possessed?"

"No, he is naturally immune to being possessed. Or rather, no one in the Qing clan, whose lineage is unique to Qing Zhen, can be possessed."

Qing Qu: "Did he ever surrender at A02 Base?"

"No, he never yielded, not even for a second. He has now fought his way out of A02 Base all by himself. All 2,383 soldiers at A02 Base, including their commander Kamiyo Yunzhi, have been killed."

The pupils of everyone in the secret service contracted sharply, because they knew what that meant.

"Any more questions?" Shadow asked with a smile.

"There is none left."

These people never asked who to kill, how to kill, or how many to kill; these were not their concerns.

They only care about whether it's worth it.

Now that it's confirmed, it was worth it.

As long as it's worth it, it doesn't matter if we fight from night to day, from one end of the world to another.

Shadow laughed and said, "Let me explain the battle plan. It's very simple. Two God Era Field Division are on their way to besiege Qing Chen. One will be dealt with by Li Shutong, Great Elder Huotang, and Li Yunjing, and the other will be dealt with by us... Two demigods and four A-levels. Anyone who doesn't know the situation would think we're going to save the world."

Shadow's smile faded, "Gentlemen, you had a great time tonight."

As he spoke, a Shadow Gate suddenly opened beside him, and he stepped inside first.

The next moment, Shadow stood in the middle of the Kamishiro Field Division's camp, and said with a smile, "Wow, I've won the lottery."

At this moment, all the soldiers of the God Era looked at this scene in astonishment. A man in black walked out of the dark door out of nowhere and stood in the middle of the camp as if no one else was there, like the master of the world.

"Warning..." a soldier from the Age of Gods was about to shout angrily.

But in that instant, time around the shadow began to thicken like water.

The swirling snowflakes in the sky suddenly slowed down, lingering in the air, in the darkness, in the white beams of the searchlights in the military camp, and beside the shadows.

The soldier from the God Era couldn't close his mouth, and his body was frozen in the action of touching his gun.

In the command tent, having just received news of the attack on the neighboring friendly battalion, he angrily questioned why they had failed to organize an effective resistance.

The questioning expression also stopped.

The world stopped for the shadow, but he himself did not stop.

The shadow slowly passed through the curtain of falling snow and headed towards the Field Division's command tent.

He opened the tent door, went inside, stood in front of the division commander, examined him for a few seconds, and then severed the man's carotid artery with his fingertip.

He picked up the documents from the Kamishiro Corporation and looked at them for a while. After confirming that he had memorized all the useful information, he poured himself a cup of hot water.

Throughout all of this, everyone's movements were so slow that they were almost imperceptible.

After taking a sip of hot water, Shadow stepped out of the tent again and reopened the Shadow Gate in the darkness.

At this moment, the flow of time suddenly returned to normal, Qing Ye, Qing Qu, and others led the team out of the Shadow Gate one after another.

The shadow said calmly, "Kill them all."

The secret force of 330 people consists of ten B-Class gene warriors led by an Awakened or extraordinary individual, including two A-level experts, Qing Ye and Qing Qu.

Thirty of the world's most elite combat teams began their fierce battle in the dead of night.

But wherever Qing Ye went, all the weapons of the God Era soldiers were attracted and gathered around him.

A row of black automatic rifles floated around him, like an iron throne studded with iron swords.

They spewed out dense gunfire, covering everything with firepower like a metal storm.

Wherever the gunfire passed, the tents in the military camp were riddled with bullets.

The ten gene warriors behind him moved like ghosts through the Field Division as if it were empty, killing their way from east to west and from south to north.

More than ten genetic warriors from the Kamishiro Corporation joined together, attempting to use their powerful physiques to stop the ten shadow warriors.

But when they fired from a distance, they discovered that even when these shadow warriors were shot, they would continue to fight the enemy fearlessly and without regard for their own lives.

Before the genetic warriors of the Age of Gods could react, these shadow warriors had already joined forces and rushed in front of them. In just a moment of fighting, the Age of Gods' defensive line was torn apart.

The genetic warriors from the God Era were somewhat taken aback. These men in black were all B-Class genetic warriors?!

Throughout this entire military camp, those black-clad men who move like ghosts are all B-Class gene warriors?

How much financial and material resources would this require? How many elite military personnel would need to be selected to train such a secret force?

The question is, why would such a fierce secret force be used against their newly reorganized rear force?

Shadow did not make another move; he simply paced slowly through the camp, as if a tango called "One Step Away" had suddenly begun to play in the world.

It seemed that none of this had anything to do with him.

No one expected that 330 experts would suddenly appear from the military camp, nor did anyone expect that such an elite force would be used to deal with their Field Division located in the rear.

Such an elite force is more than qualified to be sent to City 22 to behead the head of the opposing family!

Who would waste their elite force fighting against an ordinary army?!

Daylight broke.

The military camp fell silent, with only 323 shadow warriors standing in place, breathing slowly.

Seven were killed in action.

Shadow suddenly pondered, "Both raids on the camps were successful, but we still haven't seen that old tortoise from the Age of Gods. Where did he go?"

Shadow looked north and said, "Using two Field Division as a cover, they're plotting something much bigger. Li Shutong, I hope you can see that. The rest is up to you."