Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 346 - 311 Fire Phoenix Encounter, Yellow Bird Turns to Ash

Chapter 346: Chapter 311 Fire Phoenix Encounter, Yellow Bird Turns to Ash

"Why do you say that?"

Zhou Ping’an knew that with Senior Sister Tang Tang’s strong-willed character, she usually faced difficulties head-on. It was rare to see her looking so worried and anxious.

This time, the situation was obviously thorny.

Therefore, earlier at his home in Jinguiyuan, he only chatted with his mother and sister about household matters, not mentioning a word about work.

Zhou Ping’an certainly understood what this implied.

It was nothing more than concern that talking about work matters would make his mother and Xiao Lan worry as well.

"Get in the car."

Leading the way, Tang Tang arrived at an orange car parked by the road, opened the driver’s door for herself, and looked back at Zhou Ping’an.

"Just talking about it won’t make things very clear. Let’s go to the squad’s video room to look at the footage, and there are two members from the Seventh Group whose conditions can’t be explained clearly. Their situation is very serious."

Zhou Ping’an didn’t ask any further questions.

The current Seventh Group was completely different from the Seventh Group of the past.

Since the last incident, when the previous Seventh Group leader conspired with outsiders and deceived Tang Tang to go outside the city, the Police Security Special Combat Team had undergone extensive scrutiny and purging.

The fate of that former leader needed no further comment.

He was now "volunteering" in a free room, working on a sewing machine, repairing the earth, and it seems he would continue to do so for the rest of his life.

The other six members were also found to have serious issues and received different lengths of "free tickets": three years, five years, or ten years.

Besides those offenders, the rest also felt the blow, each having a month’s bonus deducted.

The strike was heart-wrenchingly painful.

But it wasn’t without benefits.

During the subsequent attack led by the Chief Inspector to overthrow Tang Tang, the Seventh Group did not err again but firmly followed the banner of the Special Combat Squad led by Tang Tang, taking a very firm stance and cheering for her.

Afterwards, among all eleven divisions of the Police Security Brigade, apart from the Third Group, the Seventh Group scored the highest points. Zhou Ping’an even rewarded them each with a Blood Fortifying Pill, in addition to practicing the Gentle Water Eight Steps.

It was a clear case of rewarding the meritorious and punishing the offenders.

Upon arriving at the Special Combat Squad’s office building.

This place was much more spacious than the Third Group’s base, with complete facilities and luxurious decoration.

The office Zhou Ping’an now occupied was the one that belonged to Chief Inspector Ke (the deputy squad leader) the last time.

Chief Inspector Ke, an old Police Security official accustomed to luxuries, had decorated his office like a luxurious hotel suite, which was even more comfortable than Tang Tang’s office as the squad leader.

This time, while Zhou was "on a business trip," there were people assigned to clean his office regularly. The air was filled with a faint floral scent, the desks, chairs, and couches were recently replaced. However, there were now three people lying on the carpet in the visitor’s room.

Two men, one woman.

The two men were, needless to say, Police Security from the Seventh Group.

After the last event that intimidated the Governor, Zhou summoned all the Police Security to transmit the Gentle Water Eight Steps, so naturally, he had seen them before.

Especially those two men, whose ecstatic expressions upon receiving the "Blood Fortifying Pill" as a reward, were still vivid in his memory.

"These are Yuan An and Zhang Zhihe from the Seventh Group. Their mental states are very abnormal; we can only control their capacity to move. Otherwise, with their strength, there is a high likelihood they could harm others or themselves."

Tang Tang pointed to two strong men writhing on the ground like creeping reptiles, and sighed, "These two were definitely set up by someone... They must have found traces of the enemy, hence the incident.

The woman beside them, who has been unconscious all along, it’s unclear what happened to her, but I thought you might notice something, so I brought her back too."

"It’s her."

Zhou Ping’an’s gaze was initially drawn to the two Police Security from the Seventh Group.

Their eyes were bloodshot, and they struggled non-stop, the chains binding their bodies almost embedded into their flesh, yet they did not feel the pain.

Upon seeing the other woman, his expression became stern.

"You’ve recognized her too, right? Although she looks wretched, almost inhuman, her attractive features can still be discerned from her bone structure. She has a striking presence.

I remember after you killed Chen Guangyuan and those two A-rank experts from the Eternal Life Group, you saved her in passing. But unexpectedly, she ended up in such a predicament."

"Fire Phoenix Li Yuzhen."

Zhou Ping’an said in a deep voice, "So she ultimately couldn’t escape from her pursuers, could she?"

As for Li Yuzhen, the woman from the Remnant Family of Frost Country, Zhou Ping’an actually had a good impression of her.

He remembered that day at Dongjiang Port, this woman was dressed in a fiery cheongsam, leading a dozen of her squad members to launch a do-or-die attack against Paul and Black Widow, the two A-rank experts from the Eternal Life Group.

...

That battle thirty years ago.

The international situation underwent a dramatic transformation.

Some small countries caught in the middle simply vanished into the annals of history.

When everyone lost their senses and deployed their most powerful weapons, humanity swiftly headed in a direction no one could have foreseen.

After that war, came the Ferocious Beast Chaos, leaving less than one-third of the world population.

It’s imaginable how many regrettable and hateful events occurred during that time.

As for the remnants of the Frost Country and the descendants of the Cherry Blossom remnants, they ended up as second-class citizens integrated into the Zhuxia Federation. These people seemed to work silently every day, as if they had forgotten the past.

But some of them,

always hidden in the shadows, gathered their strengths to take revenge against those who had bloodied their hands.

The Fire Phoenix Squad was one such small military force that survived under these circumstances.

Skirting the fringes, they survived by hunting Ferocious Beasts on a daily basis.

They also used this power to hunt down members of the Eagle Alliance.

Sometimes they would succeed, other times they would suffer heavy losses, and they would also be pursued by the local Police Security forces.

When Zhou Ping’an was still in Third Group, and Tang Tang was still the team leader, there had been a few cases involving this Fire Phoenix Squad.

Legality aside,

personally, neither Tang Tang nor Zhou Ping’an had any strong interest in capturing this team.

Therefore, they didn’t put in too much effort when handling these cases.

After killing two experts from the Eagle Alliance Eternal Life Group inside Green Water Manor, Zhou Ping’an even inexplicably showed kindness by rescuing Li Yuzhen.

"Her body did not sustain much damage, but there seems to be an issue with her spirit."

Zhou Ping’an merely glanced over.

And immediately sensed something was amiss.

Especially when he was about to use a Mental Probe to rescue these people, a slight movement in his mind caused the flames of Hong Lian to surge within his brain.

He immediately stopped his movement.

Instead of sending his spiritual power forward, he allowed it to spread behind him, and out in all directions.

"Huh..."

In the night sky, a Little Yellow Bird, as if startled by something,

Suddenly soared from a landscape tree over a hundred meters away from the Police Security Brigade, piercing into the night sky like an arrow.

It had just tucked in its wings and surged upward.

And it flew out eight or nine hundred meters away.

In the night sky, suddenly, a pale blue beam of light appeared.

Shooting forth to intercept it.

"Pfft..."

The entire tiny body of the Little Yellow Bird, like a bubble shadow, dissipated into a faint mist of blood.

The blood mist lingered mid-air, then was swept over by ripples and turned into wisps of green smoke and dust, scattering in the air.

In the deputy squad leader’s office, Zhou Ping’an retracted the Particle Ripple Gun from the windowsill, turned to Tang Tang who looked over anxiously, and smiled, "It’s nothing serious, just a bird that I suspect was being spiritually controlled and came to spy. The mastermind is far away, so it won’t be easy to find."

Seeing the speed at which the yellow bird took flight and the direction it flew,

Zhou Ping’an’s initial reaction was not to chase, but to shoot to kill.

It was because he was unsure whether the opponent was purposely leading him into a chase, to mislead him.

Rather than be led by the nose by the opponent,

It’s better to remain unchanged and respond to all changes.

Starting with the "injured."

These three "injured," if he wasn’t mistaken, should be a "challenge" set up by the opponent, or rather, a form of probing.

The warning in his mind told him that an ill-intentioned person has come, and one who comes without ill intentions does not exist.

It would be best to further his own strength before attempting to unravel this knot.

Otherwise, unpredictable incidents might occur.

"We can talk now, how were they injured?"

Zhou Ping’an dismissed the two special combatants standing guard and asked in a heavy tone.

"It’s like this,"

Tang Tang opened a video projection screen.

The display flickered to life showing multiple scenes from the Dongjiang Coastal Plaza.

There, uniformed personnel meticulously checked identities and scanned for forbidden items with their equipment.

From the video, it was clear.

The staff were very cautious and meticulous in their work.

This might be because after the last action by the Special Combat Squad, which led to the arrest of several corrupt officials, the demeanor of these workers shifted, providing reassurance.

"Stop, that scene is not right."

Zhou Ping’an’s eyes were exceptionally sharp.

After just three minutes of watching, he noticed the footage started to repeat. Although the repeated images were deliberately jumbled, they appeared to stream naturally like the flow of people.

Still, Zhou Ping’an managed to detect the discrepancies.

He glanced at the time displayed on the recording, which still flowed normally.

Tang Tang let out a sigh of relief and anxiously asked, "You’ve noticed the anomaly too, right? The tech department analyzed it frame by frame, and there’s a whole five-minute segment in the video that’s wrong."

"After discovering this problem, I felt that the situation was serious and immediately took people to the port. We checked the working staff’s logbook for that time period.

And then we made a shocking discovery. They had no consciousness for about five or six minutes at that time."

"No consciousness?"

Zhou Ping’an’s brows rose slightly.