Gale Force Head Split

"Tell me, who was it?!" Li Wei demanded coldly.

"Y-you, what are you talking about? I really just... just did it by accident." The young Enforcer stammered incoherently, whether from guilt or because Li Wei had frightened him.

"Forget it. Even if you won't tell me, I already know! It was probably 'Fatty' Aubrey, and the Iron Fist Gang behind him, wasn't it? Who else besides them would want my life now?"

The Iron Fist Gang? Wasn't that Piltover's most notorious Zaunite Gang?

Everyone frowned.

And the fantasies held by many people at the scene were shattered by this sudden turn of events.

Especially Professor Viktor and Seraphine.

One had grown accustomed to the civility and enthusiasm Enforcers showed in front of him as a university professor. The other had barely ever stepped outside, naïvely seeing Enforcers as the flawless force of justice from fairy tales.

Everyone had thought that as long as Li Wei honestly cooperated with law enforcement, anything could be resolved afterward through proper channels.

But the reality was:

"You people didn't come here to enforce the law—"

"You took dirty money from the Iron Fist Gang and came to illegally 'execute' me!"

Only now did Li Wei realize that he had actually been even more foolish than Seraphine.

"Yeah, how hadn't I thought of that? How could a vile Zaunite gang like the Iron Fist Gang establish itself in Piltover without the tacit approval and support of the Piltover Enforcers behind it?"

"They don't need to take revenge on me personally. They just need to send a few dirty cops like you, flying the banner of impartial law enforcement, and openly kill me."

"The suspect resisted. The police weapon discharged—"

"Heh. Doesn't that sound nice?"

Enforcers "accidentally killing" Zaunites had never been news. But when that tired old story truly unfolded before their eyes, it felt entirely different.

Witnessing Li Wei's plight and hearing him explain the cause and effect, every Zaunite student present was filled with indignation.

These Enforcers always treated Zaunites as potential criminals, claiming that Zaunites were the ones destroying Piltover's public safety.

Yet behind the scenes, they themselves were in league with Zaunite gangs?

The students felt both the grief of shared fate and burning outrage. Their sorrow and fury stirred up anger, and that anger needed an outlet through resistance.

Li Wei could sense that everyone's faith was rapidly firming up again. Even several students who had not originally been official members were now faintly drawing forth Threads of Faith.

Of course, that was probably not just because of their anger.

It was also because—

Li Wei's composure in the face of danger, his bearing like a master beyond the mortal world, and his extraordinary power to wield storms so effortlessly had given those students, who had feared and wavered beneath the Enforcers' guns, hope of victory and faith in the struggle.

Seeing that Li Wei could so easily handle even Enforcers, those who had worried for their personal safety and remained uncertain in their stance finally swayed to the side of the Wind Takers.

Thus, everyone shared the same hatred for the enemy, their gazes growing resolute.

"Cough, cough. Everyone, please calm down." The older officer leading the group could only step forward with cold sweat beading on his brow. "We merely received orders from our superiors to come here and ask Mr. Li Wei to return with us to assist in an investigation."

"The one who fired at you just now is only a rookie. He absolutely did not shoot at you on purpose. Calling us 'dirty cops' is perhaps going a little too far."

"Is that so?" Li Wei fixed the young Enforcer, whose face had already turned green, with an icy stare. "When this guy fired at me, his breathing was still steady. Now that he sees I wasn't shot dead, he's so nervous his heart is practically jumping out of his chest."

"Officer, do you really dare guarantee that your subordinate isn't a dirty cop?"

The old officer's expression shifted.

He secretly glanced at the young Enforcer, whose face was full of guilt, then finally said through gritted teeth, "A misunderstanding. It's all a misunderstanding. I still hope you can cooperate with us and return to be investigated, so we can make everything clear."

What a joke!

After something like this had happened, how could Li Wei possibly cooperate with an investigation?

The Enforcers and the Iron Fist Gang were clearly in cahoots. If he foolishly went back with them, wouldn't that be like diving into a tower one-versus-five and deliberately feeding himself to the enemy?

"Professor Viktor, Seraphine, I'll leave my sister in your care for now."

"And students, don't forget what we agreed on. I believe that even if I can't be there for the time being, you'll definitely be able to make our 'business' bigger and stronger."

Li Wei unhesitatingly gave his "final instructions," then turned to leave.

Yes, he was going to run.

He had no choice but to run.

Earlier, he had ridden the currents, controlled raging winds, and stood unharmed amid a hail of bullets. He had looked incredibly imposing and dashing, as though the Wind Sword Master himself had arrived.

But in truth, that level of wind magic was already the limit of what Li Wei could currently manage.

If these Enforcers came to their senses and realized that they only needed to call in more reinforcements and fire a few more bursts of bullets to break through this "extraordinary powerhouse's" defenses—

Then Li Wei would not be able to escape even if he wanted to.

While they still did not dare make a move, he needed to get out of there as fast as possible.

"What?"

"You want to keep me here?"

Li Wei assumed the arrogant bearing of a master beyond the mortal world and strode toward the Enforcers with the imposing aura of a peerless expert charging out of an enemy stronghold.

The Enforcers swallowed nervously.

Li Wei took one step forward, and they took one step back.

When they retreated all the way to the classroom door and could go no farther, they naturally parted for him like the sea split by Moses, opening a path.

The wall of people blocking his way was just like that, divided.

But before Li Wei could leave, he discovered that behind the parted wall of people, someone had not moved aside. Someone was still standing before him.

The female Enforcer who had originally hidden at the back of the group had now become the foremost barrier to Li Wei's escape.

"Move!" Li Wei barked coldly.

But the young policewoman, with her fair skin and youthful features, was more resolute and courageous than all her seniors and superiors. "Mr. Li Wei, please stay."

"Please believe in the Piltover Enforcers." As she spoke, she thoughtfully glanced at her colleague whose weapon had "discharged from nervousness." "No matter what secrets lie behind this, we will investigate it thoroughly and bring the truth to light."

The beautiful policewoman's tone was extremely firm, reassuring to hear. It was as though if Li Wei simply surrendered and followed the legal process, she would surely obtain justice for him.

But how could Li Wei trust her?

One look at her somewhat youthful face told him she was merely a rookie.

How could such an overly naïve rookie Enforcer, who could not even see the world for what it was, uphold justice for anyone?

"Stay? Stay and wait to die?"

"I've already experienced your 'justice.'"

Li Wei took another step forward.

But the female Enforcer did not retreat.

She stood firmly in the doorway, raising the rifle in her hands. "Please do not come any closer, Mr. Li Wei!"

"Are you sure?" Li Wei narrowed his eyes, putting on the air of a master.

He planned to scare her away like this. Or he would simply rush forward and take her down cleanly with a quick combo.

But just then—

The old officer shouted nervously, "Miss Caitlyn, please don't do anything rash!"

"Caitlyn?" Li Wei froze slightly.

That name sounded rather familiar.

Then he heard Caitlyn say, "Sorry, sir. I must fulfill my duty as an Enforcer."

"Mr. Li Wei—please forgive me."

The moment her words fell, the young female Enforcer named Caitlyn decisively pulled the trigger.

With a sharp crack, muzzle flash bloomed again.

But what shot from the barrel this time was not a bullet, but—

A net?

"Damn!" Li Wei remembered. "So it really was her!"

She was also a hero character from the game, the Piltover Enforcer, Caitlyn.

He had seen too much of her swimsuit skin. Now that she was wearing an ordinary Enforcer uniform, he truly had not recognized her at first glance.

"Rising Winds!"

Seeing the net about to drop over his head, Li Wei immediately used the same move again, shaping an invisible wall of wind before himself with raging gusts.

The powerful airflow blew the spread net off course. Before it could touch Li Wei's body, it drifted and trembled in the wind, tangling itself into a mess before falling limply to the ground.

Li Wei seemed to have casually neutralized his enemy's attack once more. Every movement carried the bearing of a master.

But while he summoned the airflow to block the net, Caitlyn had not remained idle.

Like a hunter who stayed calm in a crisis, she used the recoil from firing the net to glide backward lightly, while sharply twisting the mechanism on her rifle and changing its firing mode.

Bang!

Another gunshot rang out.

This time, what flew toward him seemed to be an ordinary bullet, aimed only at Li Wei's thigh, a nonlethal area.

Li Wei instinctively wanted to use the wind wall to block it again, and the move still seemed like it would work.

But at the instant the bullet came into contact with the airflow, just as it violently trembled and was about to veer off course—

The bullet "exploded."

It was not an ordinary bullet at all, but—a blade compressed into the shape of a bullet!

The bullet casing instantly shattered and disintegrated. Its core unfolded at lightning speed into a broad, razor-sharp blade!

The blade tore through the air as it flew toward him, ripping apart the atmosphere like an iron plow bearing down head-on.

"This is... Peacekeeper?!" Li Wei recognized the move.

"Damn it!" But recognizing it was useless.

His low-grade wind wall could only divert a bullet's trajectory; it could not completely stop flying projectiles.

The shot had indeed been deflected, but the bullet had turned into a blade, greatly expanding its attack range.

No matter how quickly Li Wei dodged, he would inevitably be grazed by the edge of the flying blade.

Although that level of injury was within his tolerance, and he could continue fighting even if wounded, still—

He could not afford to be injured now!

The moment he was hurt, those Enforcers would all know that his strength was limited.

The confidence he had worked so hard to build in the students would collapse along with it.

So he had to win.

And he had to win stylishly!

"Uh, wait."

In that split second, Li Wei suddenly realized something.

If all he wanted was to look cool, then getting a little hurt seemed fine.

After all, there was more than one way to look cool.

Mages had a mage's elegance, and warriors had a warrior's romance.

"Then... let's go!" At that moment, Li Wei completely abandoned defense and dodging.

He channeled the storm into both fists and charged straight ahead toward the blade.

The blade cut Li Wei's arm.

But at that very moment, a fierce wind began to howl.

Yet the wind did not appear around Li Wei. Instead, it emerged behind Caitlyn, borrowing the natural gusts blowing through the classroom doors.

As Li Wei charged toward Caitlyn through the blade's path, a storm also violently shoved Caitlyn toward him.

Using the wind, he caught Caitlyn off guard and "pulled" her over:

"Gale Force Head Split!"