Xu Linsen Strikes Again

"Boss, I just got into the Art Troupe through connections," Gao Yang whispered on the phone in his newly rented apartment in the Great Hammer Building.

"Okay, tell me about the progress."

"There's nothing new, but this Art Troupe seems a bit strange. They seem genuinely doing good deeds without resorting to any tricks," Gao Yang said.

Chen Yidong sneered, "A small gang like you thinks you can do charity? This afternoon, even the Eighth District and District 7 heard about the Dove Cage incident, and I heard some people even wanted to protest against me. Doing charity on my doorstep, how ridiculous."

"They seem to have big ambitions, but they probably don't have any connections with higher-ups. What should I do next?" Gao Yang asked.

"It's good that they have no connection with the higher-ups. I was worried that some big shot had come here to play around... You continue to be an undercover agent. After confirming that they have no connection with the higher-ups, investigate the whereabouts of Zhang Qinghuan, the owner of that Art Troupe, and then I will arrange for someone to kill him," Chen Yidong said with a smile. "A club should naturally have its own way of doing things. If you don't like something, just wipe it out."

"Understood. I've been assigned to work by a guy named Luo Wanyai. He said he values my potential and wants to show me around the Art Troupe," Gao Yang said. "I might not be able to track Zhang Qinghuan's whereabouts for the next few days, but at most three days."

Gao Yang made a solemn pledge.

Chen Yidong said, "Then I'll give you three days. Zhang Qinghuan isn't hard to kill. Quickly find out his whereabouts, kill him and the Art Troupe will disband. Then you can come back."

Qing Chen walked out of the Black Swan Restaurant at midnight, tightened his collar, and exhaled a thick cloud of white mist.

Winters in City 22 are cold, especially after curfew, when the deserted streets feel even colder.

Now he no longer needs to take care of those drunkards he and Kamishiro Yunluo got drunk together. Qing Chen had instructed Manager Wang to leave two people in the concierge department to clean up the mess.

He's now Black Swan's cash cow, so naturally his words carry immense weight.

Qing Chen walked towards the light rail station and boarded the empty intercity light rail back to District 9.

In the past, the light rail was always packed at night, carrying all the midnight workers who had left the Lower Three Districts back home.

But now that there's a curfew, many residents in the Lower Three Districts have lost their jobs.

The light rail became somewhat deserted.

The surveillance cameras on this light rail have all been damaged by thieves, and it's also a well-known underground trading place in the Lower Three Districts.

Just as the light rail was about to enter District 9, Zhang Mengqian walked over from the next carriage, threw a black bag at his feet, and continued walking forward.

Qing Chen picked up the bag from the ground and, taking advantage of the light rail slowing down as it approached the station, opened the window and jumped out.

He clung tightly to the exterior wall of the building housing the light rail station, like a gecko, crawling backwards.

He changed his clothes in the shadows, and his appearance, almost like that of Wilderness People, was completely different from his image at the Black Swan Restaurant.

Twenty minutes later, Qing Chen walked along the shadows of the city and arrived at a bar in the District 6 called "Let's Take Off Our Pants and Fart Together Under the Neon Lights," a name that immediately exuded a punk vibe.

Qing Chen muttered to himself, "This name is pretty lame."

As he spoke, he slowly pushed the door open and entered, then locked the bar door from the inside with a click.

At this very moment, more than thirty Time Walker from the Kamishiro Corporation were laughing and chatting as they watched the stripper on stage sway her hips.

They didn't even notice anyone coming in from the outside.

Qing Chen walked past a person and gently placed his hand on the neck of a Time Walker, kneading it.

With a click, the Time Walker collapsed to the side amidst the deafening music.

Qing Chen walked around recklessly, and by the time someone discovered him, he had already executed more than ten people.

"Baka!" Someone saw the corpses spreading from the doorway into the house and panicked. He tried to pull out his pistol from the holster under his arm, but Qing Chen was already in front of him.

But then the boy punched him horizontally in the temple, his thumb knuckle pressing against the temple. The shockwave shattered countless blood vessels in the boy's brain.

When the Time Walker lay on the ground, both of his eyes were stained red with blood.

A Time Walker, unarmed, charged at Qing Chen, wielding a chair.

Just as he reached Qing Chen crouched down and punched him on the inside of his knee. With a crack, his kneecap instantly fractured, protruding outwards, and bone fragments pierced through the skin.

Qing Chen moved through the bar like a ghost, delivering punches to everyone's joints and vital points with steady precision.

However, just as he reached the edge of the stage, the stage where the strippers were standing suddenly shattered, and two people rushed out from below.

Master!

Draw your sword!

Blade flash!

The lights in the bar shone on the sword, as if they were concentrated, and together with the katana, they shone towards Qing Chen.

Qing Chen's pupils suddenly contracted; two warriors Kishare Gomen!

These two had been lying in ambush here for who knows how long. While others were drinking and reveling, they remained calm and patient, hiding here and waiting for their prey to appear.

Since the frequent disappearances of the Time Walker, the matter has attracted the attention of the Kamishiro Corporation. They have dispersed the hundreds of Time Walker and prohibited them from staying at home alone.

They set up an ambush, intending to wait for someone to come and kill these Time Walker.

They got what they were waiting for.

However, what awaited them was not an opportunity to make an arrest, but a fate of death.

Good job waiting, don't wait again next time.

Qing Chen sneered, as if he had foreseen the flashing blades that would appear here, and skillfully dodged the two katana blades by sidestepping.

The blade flashed like a bolt of lightning, and when it slashed through, two deep cracks appeared on the bar's ceiling.

He didn't use all his trump cards, but instead charged straight at the enemy with a head-on approach, like a divine bull on a snowy mountain, his posture simple yet full of explosive power.

Seeing that their first strike missed, the two Kishare Gomen immediately adopted the starting stance of "Iai".

But the blade flashed and quickly receded inward!

But before the crescent-shaped blade of light could turn back, it came to an abrupt end.

Qing Chen had somehow managed to grab the wrists of the two men, and with a slight twist of his Kishare Gomen, he dislocated their wrists!

With a clanging sound, two long katanas fell to the ground.

The two Kishare Gomen, exclaimed, "Rank A?!"

When Qing Chen and Zhang Mengqian worked together to kill people, they always lured and killed them separately, which gave people the illusion that the assassins might not be that strong.

What they didn't know was that Qing Chen only lured one at a time not because he couldn't kill that many, but because Xiao Mengqian was still an ordinary person and could only face one Time Walker of Gods at a time.

Furthermore, the Time Walker of the Kamishiro Corporation are at most D-Class. What organization would use an A-rank to deal with such ants? What A-rank would be so shameless?

However, the speed that Qing Chen just displayed was definitely A-level speed!

Otherwise, those two B-Class Kishare Gomen would never be so easily manipulated!

The two were also fierce. They both stepped forward and used their arms and ribs to clamp Qing Chen's left and right hands.

At this moment, both Kishare Gomen simultaneously drew short swords from their waists and thrust them upwards at an angle, trapping Qing Chen in a pincer formation.

But in that instant, the two of them felt a numbness all over their bodies.

It was as if lightning was emanating from the assassins between the two. On the surface, nothing was visible, but golden arcs of electricity coursed through their bodies and blood, making them tremble uncontrollably.

That was the power of thunder.

Ordinary Awakened, after mastering lightning, like to use it in the most explosive way. But Qing Chen prefers to figure out more ingenious methods. For example, along the way, he only needs to unleash invisible lightning within his body, and the monitoring screen will become disordered due to changes in the magnetic field. For example, at this moment, he uses lightning to paralyze and stiffen his opponent during close combat.

Qing Chen laughed as he broke free from the two men and chopped them on the neck.

In this battle, Qing Chen became increasingly adept at handling opponents of the same level.

He showed no reluctance to leave the battlefield; he simply used Puppet Master to sacrifice two B-Class corpses before turning and departing.

When he reopened the bar door, the lightning within him contracted and released rapidly, cycling more than ten times, and a huge electromagnetic pulse suddenly formed, destroying all the electronic components in the bar.

With a few loud bangs, the bar was filled with the acrid smell of burning electronic components.

More than ten minutes later, dozens of off-road vehicles sped up.

Wearing a thick black military cloak, Kamiyo Yunhe walked into the bar with a cold expression.

He crouched down to examine all the Time Walker's wounds, frowning. "Savage blows to joints and vital points everywhere... it sounds like the work of Fire Pit and Spades."

"Sir, besides Fire Pit and Spade, the Federation also has many experts in joint locks and close combat," an officer said. "This place is too far from Fire Pit and Spade's base, so it shouldn't be them."

"The Fire Pit Great Elder has all run to the north, nothing is impossible," said Kamiyo Yunhe coldly. "One of them Kishare Gomen, has a grudge against Spade. Kishare Gomen led a group to plunder the western Wilderness People settlement, and Spade has already vowed to kill him."

At that moment, a soldier ran out from the back of the bar. "Sir, all the electrical appliances here have been destroyed by EMP bombs, and the surveillance cameras can't see anything."

Kamiyo Yunhe sneered, "Check, check all the surveillance footage within a ten-kilometer radius. I don't believe he can evade all of them!"

Half an hour later, someone brought over an LCD screen, which showed a holographic projection of a figure dressed as a wilderness hunter walking alone in the shadows of the long street.

In the dim light, Kamiyo Yunhe could still see the black totem on the other person's face, mysterious and gorgeous.

"The Black Spade A?" Kamiyo Yunhe frowned. "He actually took action himself."

At this moment, Kamiyo Yunhe felt something was strange. One moment it was that mysterious master of Earth Element from the Qing clan, the next it was Bai Zhou, and then it was Hei Tao.

It's like the whole world is targeting the Kamishiro Corporation, and they've all come to City 22!

"Release the wanted poster for Xu Linsen, and offer a reward of 30 million for anyone who finds clues!" Kamiyo Yunhe said coldly.