Zhao Tu looked around, then at Shen Ye and Xu Xingke, and his expression changed.
"Who told you to threaten Shen Ye?"
Xu Xingke asked.
"Who are you?" Zhao Tu demanded.
Xu Xingke said calmly, "Who told you to threaten Shen Ye? Tell the truth now, and you can still live. Lie, and you die. Refuse to answer, and you also die."
"Guards! Someone's causing trouble here!" Zhao Tu shouted.
He took a defensive stance and backed away step by step, then suddenly stopped moving.
In an instant.
His entire body became a black stone statue.
The ashen stone texture spread from his body to the ground, staining the entire entrance of the Security Bureau before continuing forward at a visible pace.
Within a few short breaths.
The entire Security Bureau turned ashen gray.
No-
More precisely, amid this deathly silence, the towering building and everyone inside it had all turned to stone.
Xu Xingke remained motionless, holding Shen Ye's phone as he said:
"Go, tell the World Government what happened here. Find someone who can take responsibility and have them talk to me."
"Your request is being processed," Kunlun replied.
Shen Ye looked at Xu Xingke, then at the fellow named Zhao Tu.
The man remained in his retreating pose, his expression wary and panicked, his hand in his pocket as he prepared to pull something out.
But he had been frozen in that moment.
-as a statue.
"Teacher, isn't taking on the World Government directly going a little too far?" Shen Ye asked.
"Not the entire World Government, just a group of officials within it-they want to destroy this world," Xu Xingke said.
"Destroy the world?" Shen Ye did not quite understand.
"Those idiots really think Chaotic Spiritual Light is something they can manipulate at will?"
The muscles