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Chapter 211 - 211 178 Intercepting the Six Great Experts

211: Chapter 178: Intercepting the Six Great Experts 211: Chapter 178: Intercepting the Six Great Experts After entering the hidden door, what Huo Shan saw was a space between the walls, just over ten centimeters wide and less than a meter high.

This was a small secret room that Huo Shan specially prepared for himself after moving into this apartment.

Since its completion, Huo Shan had never used this secret room even once.

The space of this secret room was extremely small, only enough to hide a bear doll like himself.

But precisely because of this, this small secret room was very hard to discover.

At this moment, after entering it, Huo Shan felt a slight sense of relief and was extremely thankful for his decision to build this secret room.

Then, Huo Shan quickly opened his phone and sent a message to Song Xu, urging his believers to hurry over to protect him.

“Damn it, if I were in the city as usual, they would have arrived quickly.”

“But this time they’re all in the suburbs…”

At this moment, Huo Shan’s body slightly stiffened as he heard some noise from the apartment.

“Did someone come in?”

Next, it seemed like someone in the room was searching for something.

Huo Shan immediately looked out through a gap in the wall, seeing a stranger rummaging through the room.

“A neighbor taking advantage of the fire?”

“Or is someone… looking for me?”

After sending the message to Song Xu, Huo Shan quickly silenced his phone and dared not make any extra movements, lying there quietly like a real doll in the hidden space without making a sound.

Meanwhile, in Huo Shan’s apartment room.

Zhang Yu had changed into the appearance of a stranger, wearing a hood, quickly searching the room.

But the room was too cluttered, with so much stuff that Zhang Yu felt it was impossible to search completely without a few hours.

Fu Ji said, “He must be hiding in this room.”

“But the forms each Evil God can take vary greatly; it could be a toy, stationery, a pen, a glove, a necklace…”

“Searching one by one definitely won’t make it in time.”

“Smash it!

Use your fastest speed, smash everything in the room, and you’ll definitely find him!”

Layers of Formless Cloud Gang suddenly surged from Zhang Yu’s body.

However, to conceal his characteristics, he had already activated the Great Sun Qi Sea before deploying the Formless Cloud Gang.

As the light was absorbed, the Formless Cloud Gang released by Zhang Yu appeared pitch-black, like rolling dark clouds, rushing towards everything in front of him.

A series of banging sounds continually erupted.

But such noise was common in this complex old apartment building, mixing with quarrels, music, video sounds from other floors, without attracting much attention.

And inside the hidden space, Huo Shan watched through the gap, hearing the continuous sounds of things being smashed and feeling a tightening in his chest.

He knew if it were a neighbor taking advantage with looting, they wouldn’t come and smash everything in his house.

This action of smashing things sent a chill through his heart: “Are they really looking for me?”

Thinking about his bought electronics, game consoles, computers, figures, models… all being smashed, Huo Shan felt his heart bleed.

“Damn it…

came to wreck my house?”

“Bullying the Evil God for not daring to call the police, huh?!”

“Just you wait!”

Huo Shan quickly pressed his phone, urging Song Xu to come and save him as soon as possible.

…

Not long ago.

In the unfinished building in the suburbs.

After probing with a flying sword and finding nothing unusual.

Song Xu and the other five believers entered from different positions of the building’s unfinished state.

“There’s nothing at all.”

One believer frowned and said, “Was the information wrong, or was the timing not right?”

Song Xu frowned and said, “Something feels off, let’s retreat first.”

As Song Xu and the five others were leaving the abandoned building, a beam of light suddenly shone towards them.

Two security guards looked at them and said, “You six!

What are you doing?

Stealing in the middle of the night, huh?”

“Do you know this is company property?”

Song Xu glanced at the security guards wearing uniforms of the Wanli Group, thinking to himself, “Is this building owned by the Wanli Group?

Even an unfinished building is guarded?

This is too fast, isn’t it?”

Thinking of this, the ominous premonition in Song Xu’s heart intensified.

As for fighting these security guards?

Rushing out directly?

Song Xu and the six believers dared not do so, as these security guards represented the company behind them and were equipped with constantly connected cameras.

In the eyes of the six Evil God believers, these two security guards were even more dangerous and troublesome than other Evil Gods.

After all, in battles with other Evil Gods, even if both sides were bloodied, neither dared involve the police; they just fought quietly.

But if they beat up these security guards, they feared they’d be unable to escape the company’s lawsuit even if they fled to the ends of the earth.

Especially among the six, there were two delivery believers and one courier believer; seeing the security guards made them immediately lose their composure, not daring to even retort, just bowing their heads.

Song Xu sighed inwardly, knowing they were suffering from occupational illness, and stepped forward saying, “We didn’t steal anything, you can check if you don’t believe us.”

The security guard, holding an electric baton, said, “We received a report of someone stealing building materials here, you all need to come with me to register your information.”

A construction site believer pulled out a Dao Heart buffer and handed it over with a smile: “Bro, we accidentally ran in while night jogging.

We really didn’t take anything…”

The security guard slapped away his hand, scolding, “Who’s your bro?

Come with me for registration!”

The six Evil God believers dared not speak up, having to kindly and continuously explain.

The leading security guard grew increasingly arrogant.

Even though there were six people on the other side, he had the entire company backing him.

What could these six individuals, who appeared to be nothing but poor wretches, possibly do to resist?

Especially with his decades of experience as a security guard, he could tell at a glance that these guys reeked of the express delivery, takeaway, and construction sites – suppressing them was only natural.

Amidst the confrontation, Song Xu touched the phone that had vibrated several times.

Upon seeing the screen, his expression suddenly changed, and he thought to himself, “Huo Shan’s been reported?”

“Pirated cultivation technique?”

“Someone’s searching for Huo Shan?”

Recalling today’s experiences, his mind exploded like lightning, followed by a surge of intense anger in his heart.

“Even the Evil God is playing internal strife by reporting?

And finding a constable?!”

“Their Evil God is damn unprincipled!”

Song Xu glared fiercely at the two security guards before him, realizing he could not afford to be bogged down here.

The rest of the five believers noticed Song Xu’s change in demeanor and all turned to look at him.

The six exchanged a glance, and their air abruptly shifted.

If earlier they were somewhat subservient facing the security guards, now they stood tall and firm.

“Can’t delay any longer, then we have to…”

Song Xu’s figure flickered suddenly, blocking the surveillance camera with one hand and extending the other, “Bro, it’s the company that’s good, not you, so let’s work something out.”

The security guard saw the bundle of several thousand bucks shoved in front of him, and his attitude softened immediately.

Song Xu coldly chuckled to himself, “Hmph, just a couple of company security guards.

I only explained earlier because I was unwilling to splash out money.”

“Now I’m in a hurry, what point is explaining!”

…

As Song Xu and his group tangled with the security guards.

Bai Zhenzhen was watching the images streaming from the surveillance software on her phone.

Since Song Xu and the six entered the derelict building, Bai Zhenzhen had been closely monitoring the footage.

She thought to herself, “Luckily, the cameras put up yesterday still work, though they weren’t cheap.”

Considering battery life, connectivity, and resolution, the cameras, batteries, and network cards stashed in the derelict building had cost Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu several thousand bucks.

But they were worth the investment; Bai Zhenzhen managed to identify Song Xu from the footage right away.

“It’s him!”

A little over half a year ago, as Bai Zhenzhen attempted to investigate the head of the Poor People Alliance, she had narrowed down several suspects from White Dragon High School.

Song Xu was one of them; Bai Zhenzhen still had his photo and data stored on her phone.

“Are they leaving?”

Bai Zhenzhen saw the security guards approaching Song Xu and his companions, and she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

“Wanli Group’s response is swift; they arrived so quickly?”

It was Bai Zhenzhen who made the call, reporting suspected theft of steel in the derelict building, which brought the Wanli Group’s security guards.

Yet Bai Zhenzhen knew these two guards could easily be dealt with for a few thousand, even ten thousand bucks, and promptly messaged Zhang Yu.

Bai Zhenzhen: They’re about to leave the derelict building, speed up.

Bai Zhenzhen: I recognized one of them as Song Xu.

I’ll send his info to you.

Moments later, when Bai Zhenzhen checked the surveillance again, Song Xu and the six had already disengaged from the security and left the derelict building.

However, Bai Zhenzhen wasn’t too concerned.

She opened the navigation software, observing the route from the derelict building to Evil God Apartment, and saw the roads lit red.

“Haha, this timing and location weren’t randomly picked by me and Yu Zi.”

“It’s peak hours of midnight shifts, with heavy traffic on the way.”

“This could delay them a little longer, right?”

…

Inside the apartment room.

Zhang Yu looked at the messages from Bai Zhenzhen, musing to himself, “Are they returning?”

Scanning Song Xu’s information, he raised his head, glancing at the various broken furniture he had smashed, with furrowed brows.

“Why does this dump have so much stuff?”

Looking at the random assortment of clutter, clothes presumably for pets, massage cushions, rows of sports shoes, detergents, figurines, models…

“It’s practically a trash heap.”

Meanwhile, in the crevice, observing Zhang Yu smashing things for over ten more minutes, Huo Shan felt a mix of heartache and extreme relief: “Who the heck said I bought things at random?

If I hadn’t bought so much, how could I delay this long?”

Fu Ji, seeing Zhang Yu already smashed so many things without finding the Evil God, remarked, “Something doesn’t feel right.”

“Could there be a secret room or crevices in this dump of an apartment?”

Zhang Yu frowned, “Do we need to smash the walls?”

Fu Ji suggested, “Smashing walls could be too noticeable, which might draw the property management by neighbors.”

Just then, Zhang Yu’s phone buzzed with a message from Bai Zhenzhen.

Zhang Yu knew Bai Zhenzhen was downstairs in the alley while scouting for him and keeping an eye on the derelict building.

The message was bound to be crucial, so he immediately grabbed his phone to check.

Bai Zhenzhen: They’re here!

Bai Zhenzhen: Get out!

Zhang Yu’s eyes narrowed, “So fast?!”

Bai Zhenzhen: Hurry!

They’re too quick!

You won’t make it in time if you don’t leave now.

Looking at the garbage heap before him, Zhang Yu scoffed, carrying a hint of intense reluctance, as he exited the room.