Night.
De City, the city next to Star City.
Compared with Star City, the provincial capital, De City was noticeably quieter at night, without so much glittering nightlife everywhere.
But quiet did not mean peaceful.
Knock, knock!
An armed squad wearing black tactical vests, fully equipped with even compact submachine guns, entered an unremarkable residential building.
The astonishingly burly man in the lead gave a signal with his eyes, and someone immediately stepped forward to knock.
The others all looked grim, their minds and bodies taut, their muzzles trained firmly on the door.
Presumably, there was something inside that even they, armed with loaded guns, considered extremely dangerous.
Dead silence...
The knocking drew no response from inside. Instead, the next-door neighbor heard the noise and opened their door to take a look.
One glance was all it took for the neighbor to shut the door in sheer terror.
As ordinary citizens of the Xia Kingdom, most people had never even touched a gun, much less seen anything like this. The sight of this armed squad, with loaded weapons and an air of steely killing intent, nearly scared their legs out from under them.
"Breach it."
The burly leader was a ruthless man of few words, with no intention of dragging things out. When no one answered the knock, he waved expressionlessly for the squad member responsible for breaching to step forward.
In fact, had Xia Xu been there, he would certainly have recognized this burly man. He was none other than Luo Hongyun, who had left half a month ago.
Boom!
At Luo Hongyun's signal, the breacher stuck a miniature bomb directly onto the door, blasting a large hole through the lock with a boom.
The tremendous noise seemed to shake the entire residential building for an instant. Then, in