True Solution of the Sword Dao
Chapter 82 - 82 77 Conclusion 2

Chapter 82: Chapter 77 Conclusion 2 Chapter 82: Chapter 77 Conclusion 2 “You’d die even faster if you left! This woman is much faster than you think!” The middle-aged man held out his arm straight, letting his subordinates carefully wrap it with gauze. “I, Hong, have been in Ping City for so many years, and only today did I find out that the bizarre grading system is actually real. Seems like I’ll have to start gathering these kinds of talents from now on.”

“Gather later? What’s important is what to do now??” Xiao Yuntao halted in his tracks. After hearing this, he didn’t dare to leave on his own anymore.

Hong Quan said in a deep voice, “I have no idea how this woman found our location. Without figuring that out, if she could find us once, she’ll definitely come again!”

Suddenly, a ringtone sounded in the surveillance room.

“Phone!! It must be my dad!” Xiao Yuntao hurriedly pulled out his cell phone from his jacket pocket, and the screen displayed a call from his father, Xiao Lang.

“Hello, Taotao, we are just outside the complex. Hurry out, we are here to back you up!”

“Okay!”

Hong Quan stood up abruptly, grabbing a silenced pistol, “Let’s go!”

“Bang!” The door to the surveillance room was suddenly kicked open.

A man with an extremely strong build stood indifferently at the doorway.

“Too bad, you can’t go anywhere now.”

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“Ah!” Another scream was heard as a thug holding a silenced pistol staggered backward, his face drenched with sweat. In front of him, a large man was lying on the ground, clutching his abdomen.

The slim woman, right hand holding a short dagger, slowly pulled it out from the large man’s abdomen. Bright red blood soaked her upper body, indistinguishable whether it was her blood or someone else’s.

“No!! Don’t kill me!!” The thug suddenly dropped his pistol and turned to run.

Chen Chen didn’t chase after him, but instead gently wiped her face. The blood all over her body made her completely numb to the smell.

“Chen Chen is in the surveillance room,” An Ying said softly into her phone at the complex’s entrance.

Gently wiping the blood off her dagger, Chen Chen nodded slightly, her expression wooden as she rushed up the stairs to the second floor. The ground was littered with lifeless bodies, and black pistols were scattered everywhere.

Walking through the corridor, Chen Chen saw a room with its door wide open. Yu Fei was standing at the entrance, holding two pistols. Seeing Chen Chen, he did not speak but simply nodded slightly and then stepped aside.

In the surveillance room, Xiao Yuntao and Hong Quan were hiding in the farthest corner with ugly expressions on their faces, with a corpse lying on the floor.

“Bang!” Chen Chen lunged forward and kicked Xiao Yuntao hard in the stomach.

Xiao Yuntao screamed, flying backward and crashing into the surveillance console, then rebounded violently back to the floor.

Tears were slowly trickling down Chen Chen’s cheeks, carving clean tracks through the blood on her face.

“Bang bang bang bang…” She cried mechanically, kicking Xiao Yuntao repeatedly like hitting a sandbag. At first, Xiao Yuntao was still screaming, but gradually his voice grew softer until there was no sound at all. He passed out completely.

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Outside the complex, over a dozen individuals dressed in black police uniforms were in a standoff with officers in light blue Public Security uniforms. A circle of yellow police tape was pulled around them, preventing unrelated people from entering.

“My son is inside, his life is in danger at any moment!!! What the hell is the National Security doing!!” Xiao Lang’s face was ashen as he stared down the middle-aged woman in black police attire. Her special status and jurisdiction superseded his, and with more manpower, they had firm control over the access to the complex.

“I have to go save my son!!” Xiao Lang roared lowly.

“Commissioner Xiao, please calm down. We’ve received intelligence that an important case concerning national security has occurred here. Therefore, as of now, everything here is under the control of the National Security…” the middle-aged woman said indifferently.

“Bullshit!” Xiao Lang couldn’t help but burst out in anger, “Feng Yihan! I’m asking you one more time!! Have you made up your mind to go against me??”

The chief of the detective squad, Mu Yuan, also frowned and stepped forward. “Commissioner Feng, we did indeed receive a report tonight. There’s been a murder that might be related to Commissioner Xiao’s son, Xiao Yuntao.”

“I don’t care whether you’ve received a report or not, I am strictly following the rules and regulations. Less talk about other things!” Feng Yihan said with slight impatience.

“You!!” Mu Yuan also became enraged, but couldn’t utter a word.

“I am also acting on Director Bai’s orders. If you want someone, go find Director Bai!” As Feng Yihan was only the deputy director of the local bureau, the Director Bai she referred to was naturally the chief director, Bai Yang.

National Security and the police have always been at odds, especially Bai Yang and Xiao Lang, since both sides are law enforcement agencies and there is always some friction between them, leading to built-up resentment.

Then, a series of hurried footsteps came from outside the community. Three plainclothes figures, two men and a woman, quickly walked through the police cordon.

The man walking in front was none other than that middle-aged man with the last name Bai.

“Bai Yang! Have your men clear the way! There’s a major incident happening inside, we must get in now!” Xiao Lang saw the middle-aged man and suddenly shouted as if seeing hope. “Now is not the time for our conflicts!”

“Director Xiao, calm down first. Our team is already handling the situation inside. We’ve taken over here, so you can take your men and leave,” Bai Yang said with a stern expression.

“You!! No way! I have to rescue my son!! Mu Yuan, take your men and follow me!” Xiao Lang finally couldn’t contain himself, drew his pistol, and was about to rush in, but Mu Yuan and the others behind him did not dare to move.

Not far behind Bai Yang, a young man with a smile, accompanied by a woman dressed as a white-collar worker, walked out of the community quietly; the officers at the blockade only spoke with him in a low voice for a moment before letting him pass.

Xiao Lang noticed these two as well. Looking carefully, it turned out to be the new society president Lin Fei and his secretary, Xiao Ling. His mouth opened to ask for help, but seeing Lin Fei suddenly smile at him, the words he was about to speak became stuck in his throat. In an instant, he also connected why Lin Fei would appear here. A deep chill suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart.

He watched dazedly as Lin Fei walked out of the community composedly and got into a black Audi nearby. From the lowered car window, Lin Fei gave him one last look. In those eyes, there was pity as well as regret.

“Director Xiao Lang! Mind your status!” Bai Yang said harshly to Xiao Lang, “I hope you prioritize the bigger picture!”

The Audi behind him began to move slowly. Lin Fei’s last glance deeply pierced Xiao Lang’s heart. Bai Yang’s lips moved, but no more sound reached Xiao Lang’s ears; everything seemed to fall into silence, except for that black Audi, slowly driving away with his last hope, until it disappeared into the darkness.

In an instant, he understood everything, and an indescribable heartache welled up. He knew that Xiao Yuntao’s fate had been sealed the moment Lin Fei walked out of the community.

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Lin Fei stood on the cool riverbank, with a vast array of lights in the distance catching his eye. Breezes swept by occasionally, with passing vehicle sounds from the nearby road. Beyond that, there were no other sounds. The dim riverbank seemed like another quiet world, far from the city.

“Director Bai Yang has made his position clear with his investment this time. I’ve also explained things to Old Zhao,” Xiao Ling said softly from behind Lin Fei. “Xiao Yuntao has been getting out of line recently; everyone’s patience with him has reached its limit.”

“Director Bai sure knows how to read the winds,” Lin Fei laughed.

“No choice, that’s their style. Right now, you, president, are highly valued by the upper echelons. In the past few decades, pure Martial Artists advancing to Class D have been too scarce. Almost each one is a precious resource for the country,” Xiao Ling said with a smile.

“There must be even fewer who can join the state.”

“Indeed, remember the last member who advanced to Class D just with martial arts? He came from the Coastal region, and in a few years, he quickly rose to manage the affairs of a province,” Xiao Ling nodded.

“How are the newly deployed recruits doing? Did Li Lu send over the list yet?” Lin Fei asked.

“The list will be compiled next week.”

Suddenly, a ringtone sounded, and Lin Fei took out his mobile phone and pressed the answer button.

“Hello, Old Zhao, yeah, nothing much, how could I possibly? I would never do such a thing! Director Bai has also specially helped to clarify this incident. I’m just a teenager, still busy with schoolwork these days. Old Fei is there too? Nothing, nothing, everything is clear now, so there’s no problem. Yeah, some other time, I’ll definitely be there. Yeah, that’s it then.”

In a hospital room in Ping City

Old Zhao lay half-reclined on the hospital bed, his face speaking volumes without words.

“This kid! He’s even learned to speak like a bureaucrat…”

“It’s good it wasn’t him. I said it couldn’t be him,” Old Fei said, sitting aside.

“Now I’ve really gone out on a limb, apologizing to a teenager; I’ve lost all my face in this lifetime,” Old Zhao said helplessly. “But for his age, he’s resourceful in protecting himself, not simple at all. By the way, Old Fei, you yourself said you should treat him to a meal; you deal with that, I won’t!”

“It’s getting late; oh dear, my granddaughter is waiting for me to cook dinner at home, I must rush!” Old Fei, leaning on his cane and looking bewildered, quickly left the hospital room without looking back.