Chapter 264: Chapter 263: Is This Guy a Monster? (Please Subscribe)
When Chen Fan arrived in Anshan City, the atmosphere in the air was noticeably different.
In the past, there were always many people around, and even some roadside stalls.
Now, these people were notably absent.
Even if there were pedestrians, they walked with their heads down, hurriedly, as if walking slowly would bring great disasters upon them.
"Brother Chen!"
At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out from the right front.
A man who appeared to be in his thirties quickly approached.
"Who are you?"
Chen Fan looked at the man in front of him with confusion.
"The chairman asked me to wait for you here."
The man said respectfully, "Something big happened in the city. The chairman was worried about disturbing you with a phone call, so he sent you several messages, but didn’t get any replies. He then asked me to wait here and, if I saw you, to tell you not to wander off and go directly back to the base."
"Got it."
Chen Fan nodded, having a vague guess, but still asked, "What’s the big news?"
The man looked around cautiously and said in a lowered voice, "The market is in trouble. I heard a Meridian Refining Realm expert with a saber broke in, killed several Transforming Force martial artists, and even kidnapped the manager Lu Yang."
"What?"
Chen Fan widened his eyes and feigned surprise.
"Yes!"
The man nodded heavily, "The City Lord’s Mansion stands behind the market. It’s said that someone has already notified the City Lord. I fear this is the calm before the storm."
He sighed lightly before urging, "Brother Chen, we should hurry back."
"Yes, you go back to the base first. I have some fierce beast materials to deliver to Brother Lin." Chen Fan smiled slightly.
"Alright, take care."
The man breathed a sigh of relief and turned towards the city gate.
"Quick action,"
Chen Fan thought to himself.
But he had anticipated this scenario when he took action.
After the man entered the city, Chen Fan went in.
His gaze first swept over the Martial Arts Association and then slowly moved upward, landing on the highest villa cluster.
That was where the C-level Awakeners lived, his destination.
Before going there, he had something to do.
He found a deserted corner, and accompanied by the sound of crunching noises,
the burly man who had previously stormed the market, holding a saber, slowly emerged from the shadows.
In the city, publicly killing C-level Awakeners, if such a thing spread, even the Martial Arts Association would have difficulty protecting him.
Even if they could, the favor would not be small, and he might have to refine pills for the Association later.
Since that’s the case, it’s better to eliminate this hidden threat from the beginning.
Don’t even think of using bows or the Soul-Annihilating Finger, which could easily give away his identity from clues.
Fortunately, besides mastering bows and spirit secret techniques, he was also proficient in martial arts and a saber technique.
Even if he killed those C-level Awakeners in broad daylight,
he could turn around and disappear without a trace,
without worrying that someone would find him for revenge.
Chen Fan took a deep breath and activated Celestial Response.
The vast spiritual power instantly enveloped the entire Anshan City.
Tens of thousands of breaths were clearly perceived.
Most of the auras were very weak.
Clearly, they were ordinary people.
More than ten thousand auras were slightly stronger, likely Body Tempering and Muscle Refining Realm martial artists, also possibly including some Awakeners.
Several dozen auras were extremely strong.
A few felt very familiar to him, belonging to Sun Wei and Tu Yue.
More than twenty were stronger than them.
Especially the five auras at the mountain top.
If Sun Wei and the others were like fireflies in the night,
those five auras were like candles in the night, difficult not to notice.
"It seems Anshan City has gained another C-level Awakener in the past two years."
Chen Fan looked towards the highest villa.
His brows slightly furrowed.
One aura there was quite strong, but several surrounding it were extremely weak.
He looked in another direction,
where there was also a strong aura,
though it differed from the former,
seeming to be isolated.
There,
he looked towards a third villa,
where the auras were the most numerous, over thirty,
mostly Entry Force level,
plus four other auras,
one very strong,
two moderately weaker,
and the last one even weaker.
In the place with these four auras, there was also another aura.
This aura was very weak, even weaker than those of the ordinary people in the city, giving the impression of a candle in the wind, flickering and unsteady.
Chen Fan retracted his spiritual power, his gaze fixed on the third villa.
If he was correct, the extremely weak aura belongs to Meng Xue.
The reason was simple. He had killed the people at the market, and the news was reported to those C-level Awakeners.
Their first reaction would be to find Meng Xue to ask for the culprit’s whereabouts.
Hence, there were many strong auras in one villa.
The surrounding thirty-plus guards also confirmed this from another perspective. Other villas did not have as many guards.
"It seems my previous actions indeed brought trouble to Meng Xue. Hopefully, I’m not too late."
After speaking, Chen Fan’s figure flashed like a lightning bolt towards his destination.
On the road leading to the mountain top,
dozens of armed guards watched below,
when suddenly a violent wind blew through,
"Where did this strange wind come from?"
Someone adjusted his hat and muttered.
"Yes, quite strange."
The armed guards glanced around.
Seeing no abnormalities, they thought it was just their imagination.
They shook their heads and resumed their patrol.
At that moment, a figure appeared abruptly in front of a heavily guarded villa.
"Who are you!"
Several patrolling guards were startled and aimed their guns at the sturdy figure who had suddenly appeared.
"Who are you?"
"How did you get here?"
"What do you want? Drop your weapon and put your hands on your head, squat down!"
Several angry shouts rang out.
Chen Fan ignored them, his gaze fixed on the balcony on the second floor.
There, several figures were watching him through the window.
One figure, with white hair and a face full of wrinkles, looked at him with a flash of excitement.
"Looks like I found the right place."
Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Did you not hear me?"
A middle-aged man shouted angrily, "I’ll count to three. If you don’t put down your weapon, we’ll shoot you!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
Chen Fan acted as if he did not hear, his gaze meeting the gazes of the figures on the second floor.
"Fire!"
The middle-aged man yelled.
The Lord City was watching from the second floor,
If he let this unknown person break in,
he would have to face the consequences with his life!
Instantly, gunfire erupted.
Dozens of light and heavy machine guns sprayed fire, bullets pouring rain-like onto Chen Fan.
"Dang dang dang dang! Dang dang dang dang!"
Crisp impact sounds rang out.
Bullets seemed to hit an iron wall, bouncing off, even injuring some guards who were shot by the ricocheting bullets, falling down with shocked faces.
"Captain, there’s something strange about this guy!"
A guard noticed Chen Fan standing there unscathed and cried out in surprise.
"Captain, machine gun bullets don’t work on him."
"Captain!"
"Bring out the cannons!"
The middle-aged man shouted.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Dull cannon sounds rang out.
Nearly ten Entry Force martial artists held various cannons, firing at Chen Fan.
"Ding ding dang dang!"
Again, crisp sounds rang out.
In the blink of an eye, over ten thousand cannon bullets were spent,
even a high-level fierce beast would be turned to mush,
but there was no scene of flesh and blood flying,
the figure remained standing,
the cannon-holding martial artists stepped back in shock.
How, how could this be?
Such strong firepower couldn’t hurt him at all?
Is this guy a monster?
Or is he an Awakener like Lord Fang?
"Move aside!"
At that moment, the middle-aged man shouted,
carrying a rocket launcher on his shoulder,
as he spoke,
accompanied by a "whoosh" sound,
the rocket hit the target,
a huge fireball rose, followed by thick smoke,
even in broad daylight, it was very conspicuous.
This commotion soon alerted people in Anshan City,
tens of thousands looked towards the rising smoke, eyes filled with terror,
Was that a rocket explosion?
And there were so many cannon sounds earlier.
Why is there such a commotion near the City Lord’s Mansion?
Could it be a fierce beast attack?
But it’s broad daylight, where would fierce beasts come from?
Sun Wei stood by the office window, looking at the scene with a grim face.
The market incident happened in the morning,
less than an hour later,
such a big commotion occurred near the mountain top,
Can it really be such a coincidence?
"What happened?"
He nervously gripped his phone,
just then, hurried footsteps sounded from the door,
"Chairman! Chairman!"
"Chairman, did you hear the commotion outside?"
With a click, Xu Jie and others rushed in, their faces somewhat panicked.
"Chairman, upstairs..." Tu Yue hesitated to speak.
Sun Wei turned around and shook his head, "No matter what happened, given our strengths, we’d better not get involved blindly. Let’s wait here, we should know soon what happened."
The group exchanged glances and nodded.
Yes, if things turned for the worse,
with their strength, going up would just mean death,
hopefully, if a battle broke out, the impact won’t be too big.