Old Tang, where are you?

"Father! Father! Help!"

As soon as Father Chen answered the phone, the panic in the speaker's voice made him frown. "Speak clearly. What's going on?"

"It's the Zhou Family! It must be the Zhou Family... They're not playing by the rules, Father. They sent a bunch of body-modified Hybrids. Their Words of Power are being used like random spells! Daoist Sects' Palm Thunder, fiery Xing Yi Quan, Dustless Land reflection... This is definitely illegal bloodline modification!"

"What did you say?!" Father Chen didn't understand what all this nonsense was about for a moment.

"And, and! They're bombing our cargo warehouse with tactical missiles! Hahaha, they're crazy, the Zhou Family is completely insane!"

The voice on the other end of the line sounded like a mix of terror and inexplicable madness. If it weren't for the intense gunfire and clear alarm sounds coming through, Father Chen would have thought the person on the other end was drunk and acting out.

"Calm down! Hold on, victory will be ours soon... I'll arrange for family support. We also have Gattuso's reinforcements. The Zhou Family wouldn't dare to cause too much trouble openly—"

"It's no use, Father! The situation is completely against us!" The voice on the other end almost broke into a cry.

"Let's just stop and escape. The area outside the base is full of people from other families! I contacted them, and our people outside have been stopped. They must have prepared to block reinforcements and mitigate the aftermath, planning to team up and devour us! Father, quickly check if those families have already set up ambushes near our home!"

Immediately realizing the danger, Father Chen tensed his body. He quietly called out a burly Hybrid, who was in charge of the manor's security personnel arrangements. After understanding the urgency of the situation, he immediately left to prepare for potential enemies lurking outside.

Father Chen then asked the person on the other end of the communication, "Did the Zhou Family break into that testing and inspection center?"

"What?" The voice on the other end was clearly taken aback.

"I'm asking if the Zhou Family broke into the testing and inspection center, the one near the medical research institute and the warehouse! If they haven't broken into the underground level of that facility, then you keep holding on and wait for support!"

"No, no, there's no hostile activity over there..." The person on the other end clearly didn't understand the deeper meaning of this statement. "No, Father, why do we have to defend that place? What exactly is in the underground level of that center—"

Father Chen didn't wait for the other party to dwell on it and directly hung up the communication. He didn't think his children were qualified to know about that place, even though they were his blood descendants.

Next, he had to busy himself with mobilizing family members scattered in other locations, and he really didn't have the time to chat or socialize with Gattuso's people.

Anyway, all they cared about was Nono, that one piece of cargo...

Father Chen dialed a few other numbers on his communicator again, issuing orders one by one, but even so, it didn't put his mind at ease. The things in that underground level were too important...

He began to instruct and arrange for drivers and security guards again. If they could break through the families' blockade outside, they should take him to the base area immediately. Even if something unexpected happened, going there would be safer.

Suddenly, there was a slight whooshing sound behind him.

It sounded like something sharp cutting through the air.

Father Chen felt a sudden surge of deadly danger, but the instantaneous piercing sensation twisted his body, as if pinning him in place. He saw a short sword, similar in shape to an Eastern Ocean Wakizashi, pierce through his body from the back and emerge from his chest.

Thick, dark blood splattered.

"You, you actually..."

Father Chen turned his head weakly and saw Nono's cold, sharp face. Her speed just now was incredibly fast, so much so that even the bodyguards hiding in the shadows didn't react.

At this moment, Nono's golden eyes bloomed wide, filled with rage and hatred. Several prominent, sacred-looking Bai scales appeared on her fair little cheeks, reflecting a crystalline cold light under the night lamps.

The underground level of the Chen Family base's medical research institute.

Zhou Minhao's fists were red and hot, his aura imposing. He threw a "Cannon Fist" from Xing Yi Quan, fiercely pursuing a burly Hybrid who was trying to escape. His fists instantly produced astonishing fiery explosions that swept in all directions, turning several people nearby into "fire men" caught in a torrent of raging elements.

Having landed a successful blow, Zhou Minhao quickly retreated into the darkness.

At this time, armed personnel from the Chen Family were still continuously firing from the shadows. Unfortunately, the lighting system had been destroyed, and this area was plunged into deep darkness except for a few patches of firelight.

Moreover, those ignited by Zhou Minhao were their own people, and the fierce, pervasive high temperature in the surroundings also overwhelmed the infrared sensor system, making it difficult to distinguish numerous misleading heat sources.

Zhou Minhao wasn't worried about the gunmen. In the darkness, he only needed to use Mana Reinforcement to enhance his hearing and rely on sound to pinpoint locations to dodge or even counterattack.

Just 1 left.

The opponent's continuous firepower seemed to be suppressing their offensive, but in reality, it exposed their lack of reinforcements.

Estimating the enemy's firing rate, Zhou Minhao preemptively channeled Mana to Reinforce his legs. The moment the opponent hastily changed magazines, he turned into a swift shadow and charged forward.

An unexpected Crushing Fist, launching a pouncing flame light, instantly engulfed the panicked personnel, turning them into a charred figure melting into the raging fire.

"Area B cleared."

Zhou Minhao returned to the stairwell according to the agreed-upon contact signal. The team members around him also reported team communications like "Area A cleared" and "Area C cleared."

It seemed everything was going smoothly. Next, they should continue exploring the lower levels of this building. The lower levels might be experimental areas more dangerous than the data section, possibly hiding dangerous types of Death Servants, requiring concentrated combat power before proceeding.

But Zhou Minhao looked around and suddenly realized that a grinning, laughing guy was missing from the team.

Wait, where was Old Tang?

At this moment, the underground of the testing and inspection center welcomed a King of Flame.

Invisible high temperature emanated from Norton's body, rapidly baking and melting the sturdy door locks and thick alloy doors.

In this instant, the automatically triggered machine guns hidden in the dark spat out dense, fierce metal projectiles, but they were immediately disintegrated in mid-air. After that, these hidden door mechanisms melted and were damaged one after another due to the high temperature.

Norton walked unhurriedly through the dim corridors of the basement, as if he wasn't in enemy territory but strolling along the Dragon Path in his own Bronze Palace.

Norton continued to melt a metal archway—these sturdy defenses that humans painstakingly built were like nothing to him—and was met by a tall, strong serpentine Death Servant coiled there.

The unlucky Death Servant barely had time to do anything before its entire body rapidly burned, turning into a silent pile of ash.

This scene terrified the other Death Servants crawling around in the hidden passages. They let out sharp, fearful cries like infants, frantically fleeing deeper into the archway or into other narrow hidden passages, just to avoid the terrifying high-temperature grim reaper.

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