Carriage
The moment this voice sounded, Lu Xun's heart sank.
He looked up in a daze, and found that at this moment he was inside a train carriage. Outside the window was the howling night wilderness, a chaotic expanse...
Around him, over ten figures surrounded him, staring at him coldly like armed bodyguards. Behind him, a young man wearing a black windbreaker was expressionlessly tearing up the photo in his hands.
Lu Xun had fallen out from that photo.
"Dr. Lu, I'm very sorry for using this rough method to bring you over, but we also had no other choice."
That voice sounded again, but it wasn't spoken by anyone inside the carriage. Only after Lu Xun looked around did he lock onto the Electronic Screen at the very front of the carriage... On the screen, a figure sitting in a helicopter was slowly speaking,
"You are still in an abnormal state of Loss of Control right now. Before we figure out what happened to you, rashly letting you move about in the city is truly too dangerous... Please understand."
Seeing that face, Lu Xun's gaze gradually grew cold. He stood up from the floor of the carriage and spoke in a deep voice:
"Unknown is dangerous." The remotely connected Director Zheng spoke calmly. "Before we thoroughly figure out what happened to you, you are not suitable to operate in the outside world."
"I actively cooperated with your experiments for the progress of human science, not for you to place me under house arrest."
"Protecting public safety is the obligation of every one of our citizens..."
"The protection of public safety involving supernatural phenomena is not your turn to handle." Lu Xun said coldly. "... I want to see the higher-ups of Bureau 749."
Hearing the name Bureau 749, Director Zheng's smile on the screen stiffened slightly. He looked at Lu Xun's eyes, his expression gradually becoming cold, and spoke faintly:
"The higher-ups are very busy recently and are not in Shanghai, they cannot come see you."
"Then I want to speak with them on the phone."
"Dr. Lu, you better behave yourself." Director Zheng's tone became noticeably impatient. "Right now, you are just an unstable sample who rashly broke away from the laboratory. According to protocol, we have the right to restrict and control the sample."
As his voice fell, the two armed muscular men standing beside Lu Xun kicked out at the same time, kicking directly at the back of his knees, kicking him completely to the ground!
Thud—
Lu Xun fell onto the floor once again.
At the same time, a muscular man directly pulled a Handgun out from his chest. The crisp sound of the safety clicking rang out. He forcefully pressed the muzzle against Lu Xun's temple, restricting him to the ground.
Lu Xun's pupils slightly shrank. He didn't expect Director Zheng to be so crazy, not only directly carrying out violent suppression, but even daring to press a gun to his head. The squeezing sensation from the muzzle made the veins on his forehead bulge. A burst of anger surged into Lu Xun's heart.
The next moment, a brilliant starlight erupted in his eyes. In the night sky outside the train, several stars instantly lit up!
But before he could make a move, the three 'Black Hand' who had always been standing to the side frowned simultaneously!
Boom—!!
A dull loud noise like thunder rang out from inside the carriage!
Fourth Order, Third Tier, Third Tier;
Three Divine Path auras were released simultaneously. The pressure stacked together, directly pressing Lu Xun's body heavily to the ground. The latter groaned, a wisp of nosebleed flowing out uncontrollably. The brilliant starlight in his eyes also paled...
At the same time, the shining stars outside the window also gradually dimmed down, disappearing into the thick clouds.
The Rank of each of these three 'Black Hand' was above Lu Xun. With the three of them attacking at the same time, Lu Xun, who had already overdrawn his Spiritual Power, had no way to do anything else. Just being able to maintain consciousness was already quite difficult.
"Dr. Lu, you are a smart person." Seeing this, the smile reappeared on the corner of Director Zheng's mouth. He spoke calmly,
"You should be very clear about the current situation... In academic circles, you are indeed an authority on Astrophysics. But in this other circle, you are still too weak...
The current you has no right to make demands of me."
Lu Xun, whose head was being pointed at by a muzzle, wiped away the blood flowing from under his nose, and said in a deep voice:
"In such a short time, you summoned three 'Black Hand' to capture me... Director Zheng is truly generous."
"Dr. Lu is an important 'talent', and naturally deserves this kind of treatment." Director Zheng laughed heartily. "By the way... who were those two guys with you just now?"
Lu Xun lowered his eyes. For the first time since being captured, he remained silent.
He made an appointment to meet Chen Ling at Huangcheng Temple. Calculating the time, they should have already discovered his disappearance... But even so, it wouldn't change anything. They didn't know how he was captured, nor did they know where he was now, so it was completely impossible for them to come rescue him.
He was destined to be unable to escape from Director Zheng's hands. But fortunately, he had already chatted with Chen Ling, and the other party had also promised to secretly take care of the other few people. Escaping this time couldn't be considered to have yielded no gains...
With things having come to this point, he naturally couldn't give Chen Ling and Yang Xiao up.
"Not saying? Could it be, you are still expecting them to come save you?" Director Zheng said faintly. "I also came from Bureau 749. Those Divine Path Possessors in Shanghai, whether 'White Hand' or 'Black Hand', as long as they have some strength, I understand a bit about them...
I don't know where you found those two people, but I can guarantee that their strength is simply not enough to look at in this Shanghai, and they won't be able to stir up any waves... You should just give up on this idea."
Static rustle—
Before Director Zheng's words fell, the screen flickered slightly, as if there was a poor connection.
Director Zheng frowned. Just as he was about to say something, a voice calmly rang out from the screen:
"Oh... is that so?"
Director Zheng and everyone in the carriage were all stunned.
On Director Zheng's side, he was on a helicopter, and no one interrupted at all. And inside the carriage, no one was talking even more so... Then where did this voice appear from?
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"Wait... what is that?!"
An armed muscular man caught a glimpse of outside the window from the corner of his eye, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something, pointing outside and exclaiming.
Everyone looked out the window at the same time. Only to see that in the high-speed moving wilderness, a red afterimage was exactly like a roaring beast, flying past on a parallel road about tens of meters away from the railway tracks!!
...
The dim light of the flip phone screen lit up silently in the car.
The roar of the engine was like endless waves sweeping past outside the window. Chen Ling held the steering wheel with one hand, and closed the flip phone with a snap with his other hand.
"Is there anyone else on the train?"
"No, they are all their people. There are also some instruments and equipment scattered across a few carriages." Yang Xiao answered.
Chen Ling nodded slightly,
"Let's do it."