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Chapter 210 - 210 177 Zhang Yu's Thunderous Strike

210: Chapter 177: Zhang Yu’s Thunderous Strike 210: Chapter 177: Zhang Yu’s Thunderous Strike Under the same night sky.

Located on the outskirts of the city.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen stood in a dark alley, peering through the rain and fog at an apartment building not far away.

Bai Zhenzhen asked, “Are you sure it’s here?”

Fu Ji said, “Hmph, how could those Evil Gods hidden on the first floor control the ritual better than I can?

Besides, I found it using their shadow gu, there’s absolutely no mistake.”

“If you’re going, hurry up.

Although I’ve distracted them with false information, they’ll be back soon if they notice something’s wrong.”

Zhang Yu nodded and said, “I’ll go first then.”

His muscles twisted and vibrated, and soon his entire body slightly shrank and contorted, followed by changes in his facial muscles, turning him into a completely different person.

Zhang Yu then changed into a delivery person’s uniform he had prepared earlier, and entered the dilapidated apartment building.

Cracked exterior walls, dim lighting, and corridors cluttered with stuff.

Zhang Yu glanced at the moss growing in the cracks of the stairs and felt a faint stench in the air.

The entire apartment building gave him a feeling of age and decay.

Even the surveillance cameras had been out of order for a long time due to line aging and sabotage by Evil God believers.

However, since the rent was relatively cheap, the building was filled with a mixed population.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, “The Evil God must have deliberately chosen such a run-down, old apartment, right?

It makes today’s operation easier for us.”

Zhang Yu arrived at the door of Room 606 and pressed the doorbell, but there was no response.

After pressing the doorbell again, he said, “Is anyone there?

There’s a delivery.”

“I’m in a hurry, so I’ll leave it at the door.

You can pick it up later.”

With that, Zhang Yu snapped a photo of the package and left quickly, just like an ordinary delivery person.

Not long after he left, Li Quan opened the door, looked around, and, confirming no one was there, cautiously stared at the delivery box.

Seeing that the address matched, Li Quan took it inside and asked, “Master, it seems your delivery has arrived.”

“Oh?” Huo Shan came bouncing over and shouted, “Is it the new mouse I ordered online?

Quickly open it and let me see.”

Besides the Evil God Huo Shan and Believer Li Quan, there was also a black-faced man quietly using a Daoist buffering agent, lying on the sofa, looking pleased.

Li Quan and the black-faced man had both been out of high school for many years, having already reached the peak of Qi Refinement, and were Huo Shan’s most loyal followers, always protecting his safety.

Even today, while Song Xu led people to snatch the ten million, they remained by Huo Shan’s side.

When Li Quan tore open the package, he discovered it contained a high school general mathematics book.

“What the hell?” Huo Shan cursed, “Did the seller send the wrong thing?

I want to file a complaint!”

Just then, the sound of police cars came from afar, getting closer to the apartment.

Huo Shan and the two followers were slightly startled, quickly opening the window to look downstairs.

As Evil God and Evil God believers, they were always sensitive to such disturbances.

Seeing the police cars stop downstairs, they became increasingly tense.

“Could they be here for me?”

As Huo Shan worried, Li Quan said, “Besides the police cars, there’s also the Immortal Cloud Group’s security team.

It should involve company matters, and has nothing to do with us.”

Huo Shan secretly breathed a sigh of relief but suddenly felt uneasy.

Until the constable’s knocking rang out, a flash of insight crossed Huo Shan’s mind.

Despite being lulled into complacency by endless leisure, his instincts as an Evil God hadn’t been completely dulled, and he grabbed the math book.

Huo Shan quickly flipped through it and was shocked, eyes wide open.

The book contained a martial art called The Spring and Autumn Endless Zen.

“Damn it!

Who’s trying to harm me?”

Meanwhile, voices came from outside: “Routine check, please cooperate and open the door.”

Li Quan reached to throw the book out the window, but Huo Shan stopped him.

“Haven’t you watched the news or movies?

There must be corporate spies filming our window from below!

Throwing it out is like handing them the evidence!”

“We need to burn it!

Quickly burn this book!”

Huo Shan repeatedly urged, “Burn it!

Burn it!”

One follower lit the book, the other brought an iron barrel, but they found the book’s material was very tough, burning slowly.

At this moment, the knocking grew louder, and they heard the constable say, “As citizens of Songyang City, you have an obligation to cooperate with investigations.

Open the door immediately.”

A company person said, “Do you smell something burning?”

The constable’s voice became more urgent: “We suspect you’re involved in illegal cultivation technique dissemination.

If you don’t open the door, we’ll break it down!”

The three were instantly in a panic, like ants on a hot pan.

“Dammit…” Huo Shan cursed internally, speaking in a hushed voice, “Pour some oil on it!

Set it on the gas stove!”

“Hurry!

Hurry!

Hurry!

If they catch us, it’ll be a massive fine!”

“Burn an extra word, and you can reduce the fine!”

“Li Quan, you handle them first!

Stall for time!”

As the knocking on the door grew louder, the warnings from the constables and the company’s security team became more urgent.

Feeling the intense mana surging outside the door, Li Quan, sweating profusely, said to the room, “They’re about to break in.”

Meanwhile, the entire book finally burst into flames.

Huo Shan looked at the math book thrown into the bucket, gradually turning charred black, and felt slightly relieved.

With a loud boom, the door was forcibly broken open.

Seeing a large team of constables and company security members enter, Li Quan and another dark-faced man hurriedly raised their hands, not daring to make any resistance.

Huo Shan also lay silently on the sofa like a real teddy bear.

The leading company security personnel looked at Li Quan and said, “Why did it take so long to open the door?”

Li Quan said nervously, “I…

I don’t know who you are, why would I open the door?”

Just then, a team member said, “Sir, they just burned something.”

Everyone immediately looked towards the iron bucket full of scorch marks.

Seeing the company people searching through the burning remnants, Huo Shan and his two companions became tense.

The company people looked through the charred book and finally shook their heads helplessly, “Can’t distinguish the contents.”

Just as Huo Shan was relaxing, another company person suddenly reached into the bucket for something.

To everyone’s surprise, he pulled out a palm-sized iron piece.

Seeing this, Huo Shan immediately realized that someone had tucked the iron piece into the book.

He cursed inwardly, “Who’s so vicious?

Trying to frame me like this?

Damn it, I’m going to be fined to death this time…” Seeing the two believers on site, he began to consider whether to abandon them.

The company person glanced at the engraved words on the iron piece, his face changed: “It’s Spring and Autumn Endless Zen, a top-tier expert-level cultivation technique.”

Upon hearing this, the constables quickly retreated, afraid to even glance at the contents on the iron piece.

While the company people immediately gathered around and sealed the iron piece.

“Gentlemen, you’re now suspected of purchasing bootleg cultivation techniques.

Please come with us and cooperate with the investigation.”

…

In the alley downstairs.

Zhang Yu, having removed his courier uniform, leaned against the wall.

In another guise, he quietly watched Li Quan and his companion being loaded into the Immortal Rhythm Company’s car.

Watching the company’s and constables’ cars quickly drive off, disappearing into the night, Zhang Yu muttered, “An anonymous tip-off is actually this effective?

More than I imagined.”

Fu Ji said, “Due to the leak involving something like Spring and Autumn Endless Zen, this level of cultivation technique, those company people are bound to be as eager as dogs scenting dung.”

Zhang Yu recalled the two people taken into the car in his mind and thought to himself, “Those two should be believers, right?”

Fu Ji chuckled and continued, “That’s the advantage of an information gap.

Just knowing their address when they don’t know we know is enough to play them to death.”

Zhang Yu didn’t relax at all.

After the company apprehended the two believers, once the fine was enough, naturally, it would be over.

Or even if these two believers were sacrificed, their Evil God is still there.

Looking at the apartment building, Zhang Yu thought, “Theoretically, the believers in that room should have been taken away by the company.”

“However…”

Thinking about it, Zhang Yu decided to probe further.

He picked up his phone and ordered some takeout.

Over ten minutes later, accompanied by a flash cutting through the air, a delivery person, like a ghostly figure, appeared at the door of Room 606 with a drink in hand.

Staring at the violently broken door, he paused slightly and asked, “Is anyone home?”

No response.

Glancing at the notes on the delivery order, the delivery person sighed helplessly, then, with a swish of wind, scanned the room thoroughly.

Then he walked out of the room, picked up his phone, and typed to the customer: I took a look, no one’s there, what should I do with your order?

The customer replied: Thank you, if they’re not there, just forget it, enjoy the drink yourself.

Shortly after the delivery person left, the teddy bear on the sofa twitched slightly, jumped off the sofa, and tried to dash out.

But in the next moment, he abruptly stopped in his tracks.

“Wait, what if…

what if their real target is me, the Evil God?

Maybe they’re waiting outside right now for me to walk into their trap.”

“I can’t just go out like this.”

“Now that I have no believers’ protection, it’s the most dangerous time.

What I should do is…”

Thinking of this, the teddy bear sent a message to Song Xu and others.

“With their speed, they can arrive in just over twenty minutes at most.”

“And I only need to remain undiscovered during this time.”

With this in mind, Huo Shan went to the wall behind the sofa, slowly opened a hidden door, and disappeared into the room.