Killing Intent swept wildly inside the carriage, and the temperature plummeted abruptly!
Trapped in his seat, Chen Ling stared blankly at Han Meng, whose Killing Intent was imposing. For a moment, his mind went somewhat blank...
Han Meng had left District Three, suddenly appeared here, and even blown up the train's driving wheel with one shot. This was definitely no coincidence... The only explanation was that he came for himself.
But how did he know that the Stars Chamber of Commerce was going to make a move against him?
The man was locked onto by Han Meng's gun muzzle, and a stream of Killing Intent had already enveloped him. He frowned and stared at Han Meng for a long time, as if he had recalled something.
"Han Meng... I seem to have heard this name." A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes,
"I heard that a few years ago, a rookie District Three Law Enforcer killed the nephew of the President of the Stars Chamber of Commerce in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path. After being detained, he forcefully survived three rounds of Soul-Shattering Evidence Retrieval and still maintained his sanity... This matter even alarmed the higher-ups of headquarters at the time.
That Law Enforcer... seemed to be named Han Meng?"
"Is that so." Han Meng spoke indifferently. "Then that's really a coincidence."
Sensing the terrifying aura contained within this Domain, the man's expression grew even uglier. Without hesitation, he raised his hand, just about to sketch something in the void, when a thick beam of light flashed past his temple in an instant!
The invisible Deconstruction Power was like a bullet, directly wiping away the hair at his temples and instantly piercing through all the carriages of the train, leaving behind only a massive circular hole!
"What makes you think your words can be faster than my gun?"
Han Meng was still in that posture, holding the gun single-handedly. Faint green smoke drifted out from the muzzle, and he was expressionless.
But at this time, several drops of cold sweat had already slid down the man's forehead... On that deathly pale face, a hint of lingering fear and panic flashed past.
If Han Meng's shot just now had deviated even slightly, his head would have been deconstructed into nothingness... The reason he survived wasn't because the other party missed, but because the other party hadn't intended to kill him at all.
"This is a warning... Never attempt to frontally attack a 【Judgment】, idiot."
Han Meng pointed the muzzle at the man and motioned towards Chen Ling. "Undo the word on his body, otherwise the next shot will hit your head."
The man was both shocked and angry at this moment. Although both were Fourth Order powerhouses, he could only be firmly suppressed by Han Meng's 【Tribunal】. This made him feel extremely aggrieved... He possessed a full body of Path of the Scholar God abilities, but in front of that gun muzzle, everything he did was too slow.
But he had no other way. The frontal Combat Power of the vast majority of Divine Pathways was almost impossible to surpass the Way of the Soldier God, and the 【Judgment】 Path was the Path with the strongest lethality among all the branches of the Way of the Soldier God!
As a Path of the Scholar God user, being locked onto by the opponent in advance, what could he use to fight against a 【Judgment】?
No matter how fast a word was, could it be as fast as a bullet?
The man's expression changed repeatedly. He stared at Han Meng for a long time, gritting his teeth as he spoke:
"Do you know what consequence there will be for offending the Stars Chamber of Commerce..."
"No one is clearer about it than me." Han Meng's eyes narrowed slightly, and a wisp of Killing Intent spread within the carriage once again. "Don't make me repeat it a third time... let him go."
Seeing that the second bullet was about to be fired again, the man gritted his teeth and lightly wiped his palm in the void, remotely unlocking the character controlling Chen Ling.
Chen Ling immediately felt his body lighten, and the right to control returned to his body!
"Don't think that just by always hiding outside Aurora City, they have no way to deal with you..." The man slowly retreated backwards. Following his footsteps, mysterious characters continuously surfaced on the floor of the train carriage.
"Next time we meet, you won't have the chance to point a gun at me again."
A cold glint flashed in his eyes. The next moment, those few mysterious characters suddenly lit up!
His figure turned pitch-black right before Chen Ling's eyes, like ink being dismantled stroke by stroke—horizontal, vertical, left-falling, right-falling, hook—and rapidly disappeared into the void.
He could turn his own body into words?
Chen Ling witnessed this scene with his own eyes, feeling extremely shocked in his heart. All the skills of the Path of the Scholar God seemed to exceed his cognition...
Seeing that person leave, Han Meng calmly put away his gun and glanced at Chen Ling,
"Still not leaving? Do you really want to follow him to Aurora City?"
After speaking, he turned and walked out of the train.
Blowing up the train's driving wheel with one shot had shocked the Train Stewardess and other pedestrians on the platform. They watched helplessly as Han Meng in a black windbreaker walked out of the platform, their expressions as if they were looking at a monster.
Chen Ling pushed through the crowd and walked to his side. "How did you know I was here?"
"There is only one train entering Aurora City a day, and since it departs from Winter Harbor, it can only be here."
Chen Ling still wanted to ask how he was certain the Stars Chamber of Commerce would secretly take him away... but recalling what the man said just now, he still didn't ask this question.
According to what he said, Han Meng had offended the Stars Chamber of Commerce in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path a few years ago, and had even experienced three rounds of Soul-Shattering Evidence Retrieval... What Chen Ling had already experienced, or even hadn't had time to experience yet, Han Meng had experienced a few years ago.
No one understood the methods of the Stars Chamber of Commerce better than him, this victim.
The two just walked side by side in the snowfield like this.
Han Meng didn't ask Chen Ling what happened in the Ancient Vault, and Chen Ling didn't ask Han Meng about his experiences back then. They both maintained silence, like two fellow travelers walking home with their heads lowered.
Finally, Han Meng's voice rang out again:
"I still underestimated you."
"What?"
"I thought you would at most kill a few people... I didn't expect that in the end, only you would come out." Han Meng's voice didn't reveal whether it was praise or blame. "This time, the matter has been blown too far out of proportion."
Chen Ling suddenly remembered that before he came to the Ancient Vault of the Military Path, Han Meng specifically left him a message:
——If you encounter some... matters in the Ancient Vault of the Military Path, you don't need to be too timid. You are a Law Enforcer of our District Three. Even if you poke a hole in the sky, I will shoulder it for you.
Chen Ling hadn't been timid;
And Han Meng had indeed shouldered it for Chen Ling...
When Chen Ling walked out of that small cabin, all the Law Enforcers and Enforcers had chosen to close their eyes.
Only Han Meng ran for hundreds of miles, blew up the train with a single shot, and raised his gun muzzle against the powerful authority within Aurora City... If it weren't for him, Chen Ling would probably have been forcibly kidnapped into Aurora City, and his fate would still be unknown.
Chen Ling remained silent for a long time, before earnestly and seriously saying two words:
"...Thank you."
Han Meng turned his head to glance at him, his black windbreaker continuing to advance towards the end of the snow.
"...It's good to be alive."