The next moment, the tools in the girl's hand fell to the ground.
She stared in disbelief as two Energy Pulse shot from Wen Jing's eyes, rapidly melting a rectangular space through which a person could pass on the alloy door in front of her.
"Walk."
Wen Jing kicked open the small alloy door that had been burned through, stepped forward, and greeted the girl.
Chapter 84
As a long-established gang in Xinpu City, the Jackal Gang has well-equipped base facilities, and the prison was converted from an armory two years ago.
At the sentry post in the core prison area, several gang members were drinking and playing cards.
"I lost again! What bad luck today!"
"There's still an hour until the next shift change. Let's continue."
I want to go out for some fresh air.
"Don't mess around. The boss personally instructed us to keep an eye on these guys until they're handed over, and it seems the Red Dragon Gang is making a move..."
At the urging of those around him, the young man with exaggeratedly purple hair sat down again, grumbling, "They think they can even get to our base?"
"I don't know, but our task is to guard these people until the handover."
Upon hearing this, Purple Hair turned to look at the dozen or so people locked in the cell and couldn't help but ask, "Who exactly wants these people?"
These people had no weapons, had not even undergone cybernetic modifications, and were very self-aware as prisoners, remaining well-behaved throughout their imprisonment.
Their clothes and appearance were similar to those of ordinary people on the street, but some of them possessed an indescribable special aura.
In addition, there were two middle-aged men with refined manners.
In this era, middle-aged people are either missing limbs and riddled with injuries, or they've undergone mechanical modifications and are clearly ruthless individuals who are not to be trifled with. Neither of these two resembles them.
"Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask. Our job is to see people through the handover process."
At the card table, the previously silent gang leader slammed his cards down and glared at the overly energetic Purple Hair: "If you're going to be a gang leader, act like one. If you can't, go find a job! Anyway, your prefrontal cortex has already been modified, so you don't need to sleep."
Upon hearing that he was told to go find a class, Purple Hair's face changed drastically. He stood up abruptly, unsure of what to do with his hands and feet, and hurriedly apologized in a panic, "I'm so sorry, boss, I was wrong, I... I..."
"Haha... Boss, don't scare him. This guy has severe work-related PTSD."
"Playing cards, playing cards."
In a nearby cell, a middle-aged man and woman watched this scene silently.
The man shook his head with a sorrowful look. "Young people shouldn't be limited to living like this."
"You're all barely able to save yourselves; you'd be better off keeping your pity for yourselves," the woman beside her said indifferently, arms crossed.
The man then looked at her. "I'm sorry, Old Xu, we've dragged you into this. You saw it yourself, I explained to that Jackal that you had nothing to do with us... but he didn't believe me."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yin glared at him angrily.
"Are you going to explain to him or drag me into this? I really shouldn't have made a deal with you for money. Those people were right, once you get involved with this kind of organization, you can't get rid of it."
"I'm sorry." The man knew further words were useless, so he sincerely apologized.
"You guys claim to be all over the Federation, so how come you've been held captive for so many days and no one has come to rescue you? Have you been abandoned?"
The man shook his head and said, "There's no such thing as giving up or not giving up. We are ready to sacrifice ourselves for the organization at any time..."
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't. I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore anyway." Xu Yin interrupted the man's declaration, staring intently at him. "I'm an old man, it doesn't matter whether I live or die, but Little Ye is only fifteen years old..."
" Little Ye? The child you adopted?" The man looked on with a look of recollection.
Xu Yin nodded. "I don't want to know what your backup plans are. If I'm captured, she will definitely try to save me. Whether I live or die in the end, if your people encounter Little Ye, they must protect her from being found by the Jackal Gang."
"I will do my best." The man listened to her entrusting him with this important task and nodded seriously. "However... when you faced that Jackal before, didn't you say you had connections among Awakened Ones? Is that person trustworthy?"
Upon hearing this, a hint of embarrassment appeared on Xu Yin's sorrowful face. "I..."
She was just a buyer of research materials she met through connections with amateur scientists. All she knew was that the buyer was Awakened, but it was just research data. How could she guarantee that Awakened, high above all others, would actually make a move for it?
Perhaps the other party saw that she was out of contact, felt stood up, and had already tacitly cancelled the deal.
This "connection of Awakened ones" was merely an excuse Xu Yin used to scare away the Jackal, but the other party seemed to have seen through it and completely ignored it.
"Drop--!"
Unexpectedly, at that moment, an alarm suddenly sounded in the prison cell converted from a weapons depot, and the heavy locks and mechanisms clicked and clattered, reinforcing the defenses of the place.
The sentries playing cards all stood up at once, completely shocked.
Of the group, only the Purple Hair youth was both shocked and confused: Wasn't this the time they were supposed to meet? Did they launch ahead of schedule? Why didn't he receive any notification?
"Grab your weapons, don't go out, stay here and guard the place, don't let anyone escape!"
At the sentry leader's shout, the surrounding henchmen quickly grabbed the weapons at hand.
At the same time, the entire cell was flashing red light, and the prisoners in the cell all stood up, nervously watching as another pulse barrier appeared outside the alloy cage that trapped them.
"They can't escape," one of the henchmen quickly said.
The eldest brother stared nervously at the only door leading to the outside world.
"Bang!"
Faster than anyone expected, just five seconds after the alarm was triggered, they heard the sound of the nearest door being broken open.
Normally, breaking through from the outside to get here would never take such a short time.
It was as if all defenses were down, and the enemy was charging straight in at breakneck speed.
The leader's hair stood on end, his eyes bloodshot, and a thought flashed through his mind—there's a mole?!
"Wait first!"
He was too slow to shout. Hearing the door open, the weapon in the hand of the henchman beside him flashed brightly, and a burst of assault bullets poured out towards the door that had been pushed open not far away.
The real mole, Purple Hair, wasn't sure who the newcomer was, and hesitated for a moment before making a decision.
He rolled to the nearby cover, deciding to let the sentries scout out the situation while he hid and took the opportunity to rescue the people.
What happened next made Purple Hair incredibly grateful.
Because the bullets that were fired were like mud oxen entering the sea, making no sound of hitting anything, but instead clattering and falling to the ground in front of the figure who opened the door.
The next instant, the alloy door not far away was torn off like a piece of paper and smashed towards their location with lightning speed.
It was fast, unbelievably fast. Neither the henchman who fired the shot nor the team leader, who was trying to guard against an inside man, could react in time.
"Boom!"
The men were hit like bowling balls, crashing into the shipping container behind them; their fates are unknown.
This sudden turn of events caught not only the gang sentries off guard, but also the dozen or so people in the cell completely off guard.
Until the girl's nervous, clear voice rang out. "Aunt Xu!"
Xu Yin, inside the cell, shuddered and anxiously walked to He Jin's side, shouting, " Little Ye! Where are you!"
--Are you here to rescue them?
The other prisoners all looked at the middle-aged man, while the man stared at the alloy door that had been smashed into the box.
A soldier with a modified robotic arm might be able to unleash the same strength, but he could never achieve the effortless power and skillful maneuvering seen before, hitting so many people with a single blow...
As the smoke cleared, two figures wearing Ocher Soil school uniforms came into view.
One of the shorter girls ran quickly toward the cell, her face anxious, while the other woman, who was older, remained calm.
"Don't worry, I've controlled the power; no one here will die."
Upon seeing the two students' school uniforms, primarily the latter's, the middle-aged man's eyes lit up, confirming his suspicions.
An Awakened One has arrived!
After confirming that Xu Yin was safe and sound, Wen Jing breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she was alright, the mission could basically be declared complete.
Suddenly, she tilted her head and looked at a corner where shipping containers were stacked.
"Huh? Wouldn't it be better to play dead? You're trying to ambush me?"
Wen Jing sensed every living thing in the area. She had originally planned to let the person who had been hiding at the beginning go, but since the other party was determined to court death, there was nothing she could do.
The next moment, the Purple Hair, who had been moving cautiously, felt himself being pulled by an unknown force, and his body was suddenly thrown forward uncontrollably.
"Boom boom boom..."
Purple Hair was dragged and slammed into several shipping containers, leaving him dizzy and disoriented. In desperation, he shouted for help.
"Wait, wait... I'm an undercover agent!"
"An undercover agent?" Wen Jing blinked, without stopping, and pulled the bruised Purple Hair in front of her.
" The Tenth Planet... gazing..."
Upon hearing Purple Hair's desperate cry, the expressions of the people in the cell changed. The middle-aged man hurriedly shouted to Wen Jing, "No, he really is an undercover agent!"
Upon hearing the words shouted from the cell, Wen Jing finally released Purple Hair and ignored him.
"You're Xu Yin?"
"Yes." Xu Yin, in the cell, recognized the person in front of her as an Awakened and asked nervously, "Who are you?"
"The buyer," Wen Jing answered, glancing at the prison's confinement measures.
Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man immediately said, "This is an automatic emergency device; the switch should be located at..."
"Sizzle..."