Chapter 164: Qi Family’s Reaction
“Hu, hu, hu……”
It sounded like the breathing of a bellows being pulled, accompanied by the continuous white mist being exhaled from Zhou Ming’s mouth.
In just a few short minutes of assassination, Zhou Ming’s Spiritual Power had been almost completely exhausted, and a scorching pain continuously surged through both of his arms.
With the Thunder Type-3 Revolver used consecutively, even though Zhou Ming’s physique was already comparable to a Ferocious Beast, during the second round of continuous firing, he still had to support it with both hands.
At this moment, both of his hands were braced against the bare ground, and the snow beneath his body had already been blasted apart by the recoil.
Just as Zhou Ming was catching his breath, several combat vehicles in the distance charged toward him like mad beasts. They were the Qi Family’s guard team stationed at Red Maple Ridge.
After discovering the abnormal situation and confirming that their family’s Grand Elder had been assassinated, they immediately chose to come to his aid.
Zhou Ming sensed the disturbance and raised his head to look into the distance.
With a single thought, a snake head emerged from his right hand, then continuously extended its body and expanded in size.
Facing the Qi Family guards’ reinforcements, Zhou Ming directly summoned the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python, preparing to clean up these insignificant stragglers.
With the strength of just a few combat vehicles, they were still unable to threaten the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python, a high-tier Ferocious Beast.
Under Zhou Ming’s command, the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python charged toward the combat vehicles at top speed.
Facing the sweeping fire of the vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, the scales of the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python gleamed with a metallic sheen, its defensive power instantly doubling as it completely ignored the bullets.
Then, as it closed in on the vehicles, a two-meter-long tail bone blade appeared, directly splitting the combat vehicles in half. Several combat vehicles were destroyed in the blink of an eye.
As for the remaining stragglers, dark green venom sprayed out like a waterfall, and within moments, everything was neatly taken care of.
The abilities used by the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python originated respectively from Silver Scale, Vermilion Jade, and Colorful Scales.
As Zhou Ming had already fully mastered the abilities of a Ruler, the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python formed by the fusion of the Ironthread Snake swarm could now, for a short period of time, borrow the abilities of Inkband and the other secondarily mutated Ironthread Snakes.
At this moment, Zhou Ming, whose physical strength had already recovered, was collecting his spoils.
One Spatial Ring, one Phantasmal Beast Crystal Core, and one Greenwood Necklace.
As for Qi Kaiyuan and his Beast Tamer beast, one corpse was torn to pieces, while the other had already turned into withered wood, with only a small amount of flesh remaining at the core.
From this remaining flesh, Zhou Ming sensed an extremely dense life aura and immediately cut it off.
After that, Zhou Ming began to clean up all traces, especially the shell casings and bullets from the Thunder Type-3 Revolver. After all, the Thunder Type-3 Revolver was purchased by order, and the purchase records could easily be traced.
Once the traces were cleared, Zhou Ming immediately lifted Qi Kaiyuan’s corpse, mounted the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python, and retreated in time.
At the same time, inside the main hall of the Qi Family’s estate in Qinghui Base, Family Head Qi Chenguang and the others were waiting for Grand Elder Qi Kaiyuan to return so they could discuss Qi Shouwu’s death.
However, what they waited for was not Qi Kaiyuan’s return, but news of his death.
“Fa, Family Head, this is bad. The Grand Elder was assassinated on the way back.”
Outside the hall, a guard rushed in with a panicked expression.
“What!”
Qi Chenguang slammed the table and stood up instantly, the anger on his face unmistakable.
The others, upon hearing this, also felt alarmed. This was clearly someone trying to make a move against the Qi Family.
“Dad, this must be the Han Family’s doing. They probably haven’t returned to the base yet. Let’s go wipe out the Han Family right now.”
The one who spoke was none other than the Qi Family’s genius, Qi Lingxuan.
Dressed in luxurious attire, a trace of sinister aura leaked from his expression.
Now that the Qi Family had suffered heavy losses, as the heir of the Qi Family, he was naturally filled with rage.
After all, his willingness to advance early back then was to stabilize his position within the family and prepare for sitting in the Family Head’s seat in the future.
Now, before he had even taken the Family Head’s position, the Qi Family’s strength had already been cut by more than half. Naturally, he wanted to retaliate against the Han Family at the first opportunity.
“Family Head, Lingxuan is right. The Grand Elder was just assassinated, and that old ghost from the Han Family definitely hasn’t returned to the base yet. This is the perfect chance for us to strike.”
“Even if it wasn’t the Han Family, given that two Professional Beast Tamers from our Qi Family were killed, the Alliance won’t come looking for trouble with us.”
The one sitting opposite Qi Lingxuan was none other than the Qi Family’s Second Elder, Qi Shoufeng, of the same generation as Qi Shouwu.
After learning of Qi Shouwu’s death, he was the first to propose taking action against the Han Family. In the end, Qi Chenguang temporarily suppressed the idea, intending to wait for Qi Kaiyuan to return before making a decision.
Now that he heard news of Qi Kaiyuan’s assassination, he could no longer sit still.
“Arrange people. Head to the Han Family.”
“Yes.”
Upon hearing the Family Head’s command, the Qi Family members in the hall immediately obeyed.
When the Qi Family began mobilizing forces toward the Han Family, the second-tier forces within the base immediately took notice. Even the first-tier forces and the Alliance authorities received the news.
After all, conflicts involving Professional Beast Tamers had not occurred within the base for a very long time.
And the Qi Family’s actions were naturally detected by the Han Family at the first possible moment.
When many members of the Qi Family arrived at the Han Family, Han Yanshuo had already led people to stand guard at the entrance of the Han Family Estate.
“Family Head Qi, you’ve come with such momentum today. May I ask what business brings you here?”
Seeing that all three of the Han Family’s Professional Beast Tamers were present, Qi Chenguang frowned slightly, thinking to himself that the Grand Elder’s death might not have been carried out by the Han Family.
However, since they were already here, it was impossible to leave in disgrace.
“Han Yanshuo, you sent people to assassinate my Qi Family’s Grand Elder and Fourth Elder. Today, I want your Han Family to repay this blood debt with blood.”
“Ah, Qi Kaiyuan and Qi Shouwu were killed? Hahahaha… I never thought that Family Head Qi would personally come to deliver such good news today.”
Han Yanshuo had naturally already known about Qi Shouwu’s death. What he hadn’t expected was that in less than a day, the person who had come to seek cooperation with the Han Family would kill Qi Kaiyuan so quickly.
Although somewhat shocked, Han Yanshuo and the others from the Han Family were extremely pleased.
“Han Yanshuo, it seems this matter really was your Han Family’s doing.”
As soon as the words fell, Qi Chenguang immediately summoned his Phantasmal Beast, and the Qi Family members also summoned their own Beast Tamer beasts one after another.
Although it was common knowledge that all factions secretly possessed firearms, they would not use them openly. After all, they did not yet have the qualification to slap the Alliance in the face.
Seeing this, the Han Family also immediately summoned their Beast Tamer beasts.
Just as both sides were locked in a tense standoff, the Public Security Bureau arrived in combat vehicles, and the machine cannons on several armored vehicles directly aimed at everyone.
“Are the two of you planning to fight inside the base?”
Zhuo Xiong, Director of the Inner City Public Security Bureau of Qinghui Base, slowly walked to the center between both sides.
True to his name, Zhuo Xiong had a tall build and a buzz cut, with an invisible pressure spreading throughout the surroundings.
Possessing Professional high-tier strength, his chosen profession was Beast Knight. At this moment, he was like an old tiger patrolling its mountain, staring at everyone present.
“Director Zhuo, it’s not our Han Family causing trouble. We were staying at home when people came looking for us. We’re just defending ourselves.”
When Han Yanshuo saw Zhuo Xiong appear, joy instead surfaced on his face. After all, he did not want to have a direct conflict with the Qi Family.
With Qi Shouwu and Qi Kaiyuan both dead, the Qi Family’s overall strength was still greater than that of the Han Family.
“Director Zhuo, two elders of our Qi Family were killed by the Han Family. Naturally, we must seek an explanation.”
“Evidence?”
Zhuo Xiong’s expression remained steady. After scanning the surroundings, he directly uttered two words, “Evidence.”
“This……”
“If you don’t have any, then get lost. Whoever dares to cause trouble for me, I’ll wipe them out.”
As the Director of the Inner City Public Security Bureau, in terms of authority and strength, within the Qinghui Base administrative system, he ranked among the top three. He had no need to give face to either the Qi Family or the Han Family.
With Zhuo Xiong’s domineering intervention, this farce finally came to an end.