Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 207 - 179: The Winds Rise and the Clouds Swell, Responses from All Quarters

Chapter 207: Chapter 179: The Winds Rise and the Clouds Swell, Responses from All Quarters

"Beep beep..."

"Beep roar..."

In the vast, silver-grey hall, dozens of men and women were burying their heads in their keyboards as data streamed across their screens like a flood.

Occasionally, someone would stand up to pour themselves a cup of coffee or glass of wine, sitting at the bar at the far end to savor it finely.

But there wasn’t the slightest hint of a relaxed mood; instead, their brows were tightly furrowed...

Even if they took time out to relax, their brains were still racing, pondering over the problems they couldn’t understand.

"Manager, there’s a situation."

Suddenly, a slender, spectacled woman in her late twenties stood up, hurried a few steps, and knocked on the door of an office to the side.

"Go ahead, what’s the matter?"

The manager, with thinning hair, swiveled his chair without looking up, placed the document in his hands onto the desk, and asked.

"Client number 3001’s life wave pattern has ceased to spread, he’s most likely dead without any accidents."

"3001, let me see, let me take a look..."

The portly manager seemed to have too much on his mind and took a moment to react.

After flipping through some documents, he suddenly stood up.

He stumbled slightly and, with a thud, fell to the ground along with his chair.

Ignoring the pain, he struggled to his feet, oblivious to the suppressed laughter on his female subordinate’s face, and urgently said, "Quick, give the instructions to activate the fund, ten billion Skyhawk Currency, this time the commission is not small."

He sighed and added, "What’s the point for these people? You earn money with life, but can’t spend it without it. They toil their entire lives only to end up benefiting those butchers."

"Go on then, and remember, don’t talk more than necessary about things you shouldn’t."

The portly manager lamented, then suddenly realizing he shouldn’t grumble in front of his subordinate, his face darkened as he admonished her.

"Yes, Manager."

The slender, spectacled woman shrank her neck, obediently answered, and hurried out of the office to arrange the bounty.

The Sky Wolf Fund had an excellent reputation in the industry.

Regardless of whether the client was alive or dead, they would never break a promise.

Otherwise, once that precedent was set and their reputation was damaged, not just ten billion, but a loss of a hundred billion wouldn’t be able to stop.

...

In Zhuxia, at Southwest Jade City, on the thirtieth floor of Emperor Building.

Outside the window, the sky was clear and bright.

Fang Wenjing stood in front of the expansive floor-to-ceiling glass windows, arms wrapped around a slender and stunning beauty, with a general’s belly and a look of smug satisfaction, laughing loudly, "This is my world..."

Pop!

Before he could finish his sentence, his expression froze.

A tiny hole appeared between his eyebrows.

The hefty body dropped powerlessly, and it was only then that the woman clinging to him realized something was wrong and couldn’t help but scream.

More than ten heavily armed elite men burst into the room from outside.

Some aimed their guns around, some checked Boss Fang’s vital signs, others called loudly for reinforcements.

Of course, some sharp-eyed individuals noticed the tiny pinhole in Fang Wenjing’s forehead, and the identical hole in the not-too-distant floor-to-ceiling glass.

One of them pulled out a telescope and looked through it closely.

He saw a speck in the distant, clear sky that seemed like a bird soaring away through the lens, no longer a trace to be seen.

In the woodland outside the city, a young man with a faint smile fell from the sky, resting on the tree canopy, hovering heavily.

He stretched his arms out, and the thin, wing-like membranes retracted into his clothes. He landed lightly from the tree, walked along, and chuckled, "This mission was the easiest.

That Fatty Fang thought he could wall off the entire Great Xia Empire and that having dozens of bodyguards escort him everywhere meant no harm would come to him. Yet he never considered, what could those pieces of trash do?

They’re nothing more than perfect targets. Other than drawing attention, what else are they good for?"

"It’s just a small task worth three million. How hard can it be?

Crow, here’s a big deal for you, are you in? It might be dangerous..."

Approaching the cabin, a woman dressed in casual attire with a gentle demeanor came out to welcome him. She brought out a steaming cloth to wipe away the faint traces of sweat on the young man’s forehead, voice hesitant as she asked.

"Of course, I’m in. Fortune favors the bold; what’s there to fear about danger? The fear is not having money."

A vicious glint flickered in Crow’s eyes.

"I don’t believe there’s anyone in this world I couldn’t dare to kill."

"Perhaps we should let this one go, though. This ten billion Skyhawk Currency bounty is likely to draw out the top ten experts from the Black List. I’m not afraid the target is difficult to handle; it’s those people who play dirty, attacking their own kind to get ahead that worry me."

"How much?"

"Ten billion..."

"Ten billion, huh? It’s been a long time since such a big contract came up. It’s not a massacre, is it? A bit of trouble, but not impossible to handle. Just get some more potent medicine.

Or, could it be against some high-ranking official, either within the Federation or the United States..."

"Great Xia, Southeast Province, Zhou Ping’an of Dongjiang..."

The woman brought her laptop over, pointing to the face on the screen saying, "Look, this person is a Police Security, highly skilled, suspected to be a Strong A-Rank expert, not so easy to deal with."

"Magpie, just an A-Rank, nothing I haven’t dealt with before. Today, I feel my blood boiling, and it turns out it’s for good reason."

Crow chuckled lightly, "The moon belongs to those who are close to the water. Whether I can climb the Black List depends on whether I can kill this man before the others."

"I still feel something is off. Such a large bounty sum is just not normal; pies don’t just fall from the sky."

Magpie still looked worried.

"Why worry about that? Magpie, you are always too cautious. It’s ten billion. Without some challenge, I wouldn’t rest as easy having earned it."

"Back then, I swore that I would make sure you both have a good life, and now, the opportunity has come."

Crow gently embraced the woman in his arms.

"As long as there’s money, gods or buddhas, I can kill them for you to see, just an unscrupulous Police Security official, others might care about his identity, but in my eyes, it’s useless."

With those words, a fierce glint appeared on Crow’s face as he slightly stuck out his tongue, and a cold light shot towards the distant forest.

Pop pop pop...

More than ten large trees were pierced in succession.

A man dressed in jungle camouflage, who had been lying quietly a hundred meters away, suddenly shook, a bullet hole appeared in his forehead, and he slumped to the ground, motionless.

"The heartbeat is like the beating of a drum. Did you think I couldn’t detect it just because you’re far away?"

Crow looked around, smiled, and shook his head: "We can’t stay here any longer, even if there’s no danger, too many dogs around could make it annoying."

He embraced the woman with one arm, clapped his hands, translucent wings appeared, and in a flash, they ascended more than twenty meters to the top of a towering tree.

Having determined the direction, he spread his arms again, and his figure disappeared from sight.

...

Northern Europe.

In front of a sturdy fortress.

Amidst the roaring noise.

Hundreds of people were yelling, their guns and cannon muzzles all sticking out of the wall, firing a fierce barrage.

These people had fear written all over their faces, as if they were not fully armed soldiers with machine guns and cannons, but rather like lambs that had been stripped bare, about to meet their doom.

Their enemy was not some large army.

It was one man.

A robust man, bare-chested, with a bronze-hued, muscular build and a thick beard.

As the man ran, the ground shook as if bombarded by artillery, throwing up clouds of dust, and the spots hit by bullets showed fine, shallow, blood-red pits.

But he seemed oblivious.

Laughing madly, he held a nearly one-ton heavy machine gun, spraying flames a foot long.

The firepower from a single man was even more intense than that of all the people on the wall combined.

"Buzz buzz..."

It was like hundreds of swarms of wasps rising simultaneously, where the bullets swept through, large swaths of the wall were cleared.

Boom...

When the shells exploded, the strong man was no longer in the same spot.

After charging forward thirty meters, he suddenly accelerated and rammed into the wall, creating a massive breach.

Among the flying debris,

he laughed as he spun around, limbs and severed arms flying chaotically until he had used up all the ammunition in his ammo box. Only then did he remove the huge ax from his back and began chopping off heads axe by axe.

After chopping for a while, his phone started to ring, and the strong man picked up.

"Blood Axe, congratulations, you’ve just earned another ten million bounty. I’ve sent the photos of the fall of Crow Gate Fortress to the employer, and the funds have arrived. However, there’s another job with a bounty of one billion Skyhawk Currency..."

"How much?"

The man’s body froze, almost thinking he had misheard.

With a thud, he jumped down from below the wall, and while brandishing his axe, he pursued and killed the scattered fortress personnel, all the while inquiring about the details.

After a while, he stopped his actions and said solemnly, "Let’s take it next, Zhuxia is a bit far, but one billion is worth the trip.

Zhou, King of Hell, huh? I’ve heard that common people dare not take the name of King Yan, the god of Hell from the Far East. It might be worthwhile to meet."

...

The news had already flown overseas.

In Dongjiang, however, they were still blissfully unaware.

Wei Changhe had a sip of tea but still felt very sleepy, thinking to himself that he was getting on in years and his energy was not what it used to be.

In Dongjiang, a lot had happened recently, almost affecting his performance evaluation.

This made him vaguely uneasy.

"I hope the port incident can be completely suppressed. The Resistance Organization has not surfaced for a long time. I didn’t expect that a few people from the Eternal Life Group would be able to draw them out. Should I send troops for a sweep?"

Thinking it over, Wei Changhe decided to dismiss the idea.

Better not to disrupt these last few months of peace. If another significant incident occurs, my appointment to Linhai might be jeopardized."

"Taihe, what a pity..."

As Wei Changhe thought this, he reclined in his chair and gradually drifted into sleep.

He had just dozed off when a knocking sound came from outside, persistent and urgent.

He was startled and rubbed his face vigorously, straightening up as he said gravely, "Come in."

"Something terrible has happened. People from the Eternal Life Group and the Chairman of Taihe Pharmaceuticals have all died. Green Water Villa has been leveled."

The secretary, disregarding formalities, reported the news urgently with a dismayed expression.

Large beads of sweat dripped down his forehead.

He was well aware that the biggest concern of the boss was any significant adverse events happening during this time.

Now, with the death of allied merchants from the Pan-Me Federation within the territory, the news was impossible to suppress.

The situation was likely to escalate.

If it got worse, it could even affect the boss’s future prospects.