Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 188 - 163: Emergency Self-Rescue, Preemptive Strike (Subscription and Monthly Pass Requested)

Chapter 188: Chapter 163: Emergency Self-Rescue, Preemptive Strike (Subscription and Monthly Pass Requested)

In the Southern City Laboratory.

Located on the third underground level.

Inside a spacious suite.

The place was brilliantly lit, the air was fresh, and dynamic simulations of garden and ocean images floated on the glass walls all around. No matter how closely one looked, there was no hint of falsity.

Chen Ziwen, bare from the waist up, lay sprawled with a lazy, beautiful young girl.

Even hidden in a heavily guarded underground lair, he had all the luxuries one could want.

This is the plain life of the rich.

Perhaps due to the emptiness after tiredness, Chen Ziwen’s mood was not very good.

He felt oppressed.

This time, the losses had been significant...

He had not only lost all of his elite combat teams, but also Number Two and Number Three, two gene modifiers who would have been extremely useful in the future.

Importantly, the true owners of these gene modifiers were not him.

It was Chen Guangyuan, the Chairman of Taihe Pharmaceuticals, the old man in the family.

Chen Ziwen was merely in charge of managing the family business, able to make temporary assignments.

When nothing went wrong, playing a few minor tricks was not an issue at all.

But once something went wrong.

The problem became serious.

One could imagine the old man’s reaction at home.

Would he be absolutely furious, or completely disheartened and disappointed?

Thinking he was as ineffective as a puddle of mud.

No amount of father-son affection could outweigh favoritism.

After his mother’s death, the old man had moved on and fallen for another. That bastard held a much higher place in the old fellow’s heart than himself.

This time, having messed up and invited endless troubles, it wasn’t as simple as just being grounded.

He might lose his managerial position and even be ostracized and stripped of his inheritance rights.

Thinking that the family’s billions would be inherited by that Oscar-worthy half-brother.

While he, penniless, would end up begging on the streets, Chen Ziwen couldn’t help but shudder.

His face expressionless, he watched the news on his phone, occasionally making indistinct chuckling sounds, "This, quite a play, heh heh..."

Although he was laughing, it sounded almost like crying.

His voice was very hoarse.

"Qi Tong, tell me, if I might be stripped of my inheritance rights due to some issues and kicked out of the family, what should I do?"

With Ren Changxing gone, Chen Ziwen felt utterly helpless.

Especially after seeing the news and hearing a particular phone call.

His mood had become extremely awful.

Search Warrant?

That meant, even if he hid underneath the laboratory base, he could not escape.

Tomorrow, that little bastard would bring his men and storm the laboratory base.

All his long-term plans might be utterly ruined.

Thinking of the other’s ruthless and merciless actions, Chen Ziwen felt a chill in his back; at this moment, he somewhat neglected even the old master’s rage at home.

The girl in his arms giggled and said, "Stripped of inheritance rights? Is Young Master Chen joking?

But, even if Young Master Chen becomes penniless, Xiao Tong will always be with you."

While she said that, a hint of hesitation flickered in the depths of her eyes.

She had a bad feeling.

After a moment’s thought, she added, "I have heard some sayings, if you truly face danger, it might be better to strike first..."

"Strike first, what a concept of striking first."

Chen Ziwen’s eyes lit up.

"Right, why should I wait for others to declare my crimes, why fear the search warrant, fear that little bastard storming in?

The base holds the most advanced weapons, the best of the Field Guard Army, hundreds strong."

"Once the gates are closed and we suddenly attack, no matter how strong he is, he is still flesh and blood. No matter how many officers he brings, they’re just coming to their deaths."

"Search warrant? Attacking officers?"

Qi Tong’s face turned pale.

Is that what she meant?

She had no idea.

"Rest assured, it’s not like we haven’t killed officers before. Three years ago, we killed a bunch of them, scared them into submission, and they pressed down the news.

Qi Tong, let me tell you a principle; this world is always survival of the fittest, everything else is a lie."

"Having money and power truly means you can do whatever you want."

"But, this field-based guard force is just to defend the base; they wouldn’t participate in illegal activities with you, right?"

Qi Tong’s teeth began to chatter.

She already deeply regretted following this playboy here.

She had thought that after returning, she could brag proudly to her friends about catching a wealthy suitor...

Even if she couldn’t marry into a wealthy family, having had a relationship with him was still something worth boasting about.

She had already figured out the tone and gestures with which she’d casually reveal her "secret" to arouse the envy and praise of her classmates.

But now, she was caught up in this mess.

Damn...

"Qi Tong, you spoke well, just now you indeed gave me a wake-up call.

Although the armed personnel here wouldn’t blindly follow me, there is an item at home that can make it happen.

The old master values that item more than anything else; even when temporarily away, he locks it tightly in a safe, and the vault is sealed with a laser device, inaccessible to anyone...

Do you want to know what that item is?"

"I don’t want to know."

Qi Tong’s face was already full of horror.

She wasn’t foolish, after all.

Hearing such crucial information, could she still live to return?

Either the other party was an idiot, mindlessly thick; or she was as good as dead, and therefore wouldn’t leak the information...

Which it was didn’t need guessing.

"No, you really want to know, that treasure is an ancient Qin Dynasty general’s Tiger Talisman.

You know what a Tiger Talisman is, right? Yes, you have higher education than I, you definitely know.

Compared to ordinary symbolic items, this Tiger Talisman is so powerful, let me tell you...

Just by holding it, as long as they are nominally your subordinates, you can command the army as easily as moving your own arm.

Moreover, everyone will be absolutely loyal.

So, if I get this thing, wouldn’t the powerful military at this base become mine to command?"

"Once Zhou Ping’an comes to the base, never mind if he has a search warrant, even if he has an imperial edict, he only has one path—death."

Thinking this, Chen Ziwen’s eyes took on a slightly crazed look.

He knew, after all, the manpower of the Field Brigade, and the guards under his own command were entirely different matters.

These people, who had battled ferocious beasts in the wild for years, were equipped with some of the most advanced weapons, and belonged to the external military force.

Completely different from civilian armed forces.

Additionally, the base was equipped with a Particle Light Net, intelligently controlled...

If external defense was truly activated, even a fly that got in would find it extremely hard to escape.

"Spare me..."

Qi Tong was already pale as a ghost.

"I would like to spare you, but sadly you know too much."

Chen Ziwen shook his head with a smile, and kicked the girl off the bed.

He clapped his hands.

The garden’s seascape wall suddenly split open to reveal a portal, and a tall figure with dark purple skin stepped through.

Looking in the direction Chen Ziwen pointed, the dark purple-skinned figure suddenly extended dozens, even hundreds of slender limbs, and pierced...

through the woman’s body.

The Limb Monster looked extremely terrifying as it opened its mouth wide and took a deep breath.

The woman’s body corroded into a mass of dark blood plasma, which it inhaled into its body.

"Number One, this time, we have a big job to do, come with me."

Chen Ziwen got dressed, neat and tidy, even sprayed some perfume, and styled his hair with wax...

And had the terrifying "Number One" drape a cloak over itself, and they left the base one after the other.

As the nominal manager of the base, he could come and go freely, and no one would stop him; some even came forward to pay their respects, only to be waved away by Chen Ziwen.

Once in the car, Chen Ziwen’s mood had already calmed down.

Some decisions are the hardest to make.

Once truly determined to act, one’s heart becomes cold and hard.

"Head back to Half Mountain Villa; it’s been a while since I’ve seen Auntie and my younger brother, they might miss me."

"Yes, Young Master."

The trusted driver Li Zhong, without asking a word, took a bottle of wine from the storage compartment and silently handed it over: "A thirty-year-old apricot blossom vintage, the only bottle left, should I contact the other party for more?"

"No need, over the years, Uncle Sandler has drunk so many bottles of my wine, it’s about time he quit drinking."

Chen Ziwen took a syringe from his pocket, found the cork of the wine bottle, inserted the needle tip, injected a bit of transparent liquid, and smiled, "This wine will definitely please him this time."

...

The car zoomed through the night, like a phantom in the darkness.

Whether it was Chen Ziwen, the driver Li Zhong, or the cloaked figure sitting motionless in the back seat, none of them noticed that a barely discernible, ghostly shadow was flitting along behind them, a hundred meters away.

"Ghostly Shadows Step" Ninth Level, not only facilitates One Step Ascension, light as a swallow.

But also integrates all the strengths of the previous eight levels.

It can gather every illusion, turning tangible into intangible.

If at the eighth level, Shadowless Under the Sun, it was only about deceiving the eye with illusions concealing its true form.

At the ninth level, not even a shadow can be seen.

The ghostly shadow can move as desired, to disappear and appear at the thought.

Under the faint moonlight, Zhou Ping’an clad in a black fitted outfit was so quiet in his movements he didn’t even stir a breeze.

Blending completely into the night sky, yet his speed was so swift, chasing a car that dashed over a hundred and twenty meters away seemed effortless.

’What if the enemy hides in a shell and doesn’t show up?’

’Then make the enemy stick their head out of the shell themselves...’

While fully enhancing the "Five Desires Evil Art," Zhou Ping’an also laid out a strategy to ’force the enemy into a corner.’

It didn’t matter how the opponent thought.

Being so ’aggressively threatening,’ anyone with a sound mind would crave counteracting it.

Unless, Chen Ziwen had a magnanimity to ignore all the losses up till now.

Or could forsake all current achievements and decisively eradicate all traces.

Is he that easy-going?

If so.

He wouldn’t have recklessly done so much already.

So, after much thought, Zhou Ping’an felt that if he were Chen Ziwen, it was time to prepare all kinds of trump cards.

A fight to the death.

’So, what are those trump cards, really?’

Zhou Ping’an’s heart was slightly hopeful, his mind firmly locked on this playboy, like watching prey trapped in a snare.