Chapter 199: Tong Bin (Alliance Leader Bonus 9/10)

At noon, the sun shone straight down; the campus, now in summer, looked increasingly vibrant, and even on the distant treetops one could already hear the cicadas' cries.

Tong Bin, leading a group of his subordinates, was strolling leisurely along the concrete path to the cafeteria, while on both sides of the road stood many small, individual storage sheds.

"Boss, do we really have to take the main road at this time?"

"Any problem?"

Tong Bin seemed blinded by the blazing sun, his eyes half‑closed as he sauntered at the front of the group.

"Isn't this just telling them we're here?"

"Then what do you suggest?"

"Shouldn't we sneak past them through the grass on the side and give them a surprise attack?"

"Who told you I'm going to attack them?" Tong Bin retorted.

"Huh?"

"Don't just go fighting at the drop of a hat; that's too low‑brow. We're civilized people, so we should negotiate first. Besides, everyone is a resource now—it'd be a waste to die pointlessly."

While speaking, Tong Bin showed no trace of the flushed, angry look he'd had when Song Yu had pissed him off at Qingbei Base; looking closely, one could even see a refined, cultured air mixed into his demeanor.

"No wonder the boss never gets his hands dirty, yet people still fear you."

"Has Song Yu been behaving himself these days?" Tong Bin ignored his subordinate's flattery, turned his head, and asked the person beside him.

"He goes every day to greet the principal, then heads out on duty, hunting—just like before."

"No surprise there—he really can keep his cool." Tong Bin gave a light chuckle, then asked, "And what about Xia Qing?"

"Same story—she's even lower‑key than before, hasn't left her room these days."

"So it's just me, this big oaf, jumping around scrambling for power and profit, while those two are unfathomable masters." Tong Bin laughed heartily.

"Boss, we're almost there."

"Is that the one?"

Tong Bin, who hardly ever went out on duty, had, through others' descriptions, roughly locked onto today's target location.

"Yes."

"The power of that kind of grenade is really great."

"Exactly—last time Yi Zhong suffered from it; it looks like those people punched a hole in the door and could lob bombs down from above."

"That's interesting." Tong Bin smiled, then turned to a tall, thin male student behind him and asked, "Are you sure you can handle the grenade problem?"

The boy nodded and said, "If the describer wasn't mistaken, the number of steel balls inside the grenade isn't actually large; my ability can fully cope with it."

"Then that's good."

Tong Bin nodded: "In a moment we'll be within their range; if they have someone posted up high, they'll likely strike first…"

However, Tong Bin's words hadn't yet finished.

An object from above flew toward them in a beautiful arc.

Because the launch point was too high and the speed too fast, almost no one in the group noticed.

Tong Bin instantly felt the world around him slow down; he leisurely lifted his head and then shouted loudly:

"Watch out!"

The warned crowd only then jolted awake.

The tall, thin male let out a loud shout, palms facing up as if lifting a cauldron, and straightened his arms upward.

Almost instantly, a transparent, reflective air shield appeared above everyone's heads.

The incoming object looked as if it were about to smash into the air shield.

Only then did Tong Bin see it clearly.

It was a stone spear.

Huge enough to be frightening.

A sense of unease welled up in him, and he immediately warned, "Be careful."

The tall, thin man instinctively added a bit more force.

The luster of the air shield noticeably grew thicker.

No sooner said than done.

The spear's tip slammed hard into the air shield.

One had expected it to pierce straight through, but the massive stone spear seemed to hit a wall, and its downward motion halted abruptly.

The next moment.

It exploded violently.

Firelight burst forth, and steel balls scattered.

The air shield's strength was astonishing; the stone spear's explosion hardly affected it, and everyone felt as if a firework had bloomed overhead.

However, this stone spear had been specially crafted by Chen Mu with great care; its steel balls were far more numerous and larger than usual, and due to the impact force, its explosive power was also increased.

The air shield blocked the stone spear's explosion.

But it could not stop the flying steel balls.

Although most of the steel balls were deflected and had their momentum reduced by the shield, a few still shot toward the crowd.

The steel balls that penetrated the shield had lost their original force, but they were still enough to threaten a person; a hit to a vital spot could even kill on the spot.

Because the balls were moving too fast, nobody could see their trajectories; everyone instinctively raised their hands to shield their heads.

Only Tong Bin.

Still faced upward, staring at the sky.

The next moment.

Those few steel balls that had slipped through suddenly burst, scattering powder that kicked up a cloud of metallic dust in the air, which the wind quickly blew away.

After a few seconds, everyone gradually came to their senses, but unfortunately no one saw what had just happened; they still thought they had been lucky not to be hit by the steel balls.

「Sorry! Boss! 」

The tall, thin male student panicked.

"It's not your fault." Tong Bin gazed at the top of the wooden door of the storage room and said, "It seems they've developed a new weapon; be more careful next time."

"Next time it definitely won't be like this."

His words hadn't yet fallen.

Whoosh, two Stone Spears shot again.

This time, without Tong Bin's reminder, the tall, thin male student reacted in advance; the Air Shield was the same as before, but its light was noticeably brighter.

「Bang bang! 」

Two blasts.

No more steel balls shot in.

Tong Bin nodded satisfactorily and asked, "How much longer can you hold out?"

"At this rate, after about a dozen more it won't hold; this thing's power is far greater than imagined." The tall, thin male student, though somewhat unwilling, had to speak the truth.

"A dozen or so is enough."

"What if they have more?"

"You don't need to worry about what comes next; focus on handling the present."

Before Tong Bin's words could finish, the subsequent Stone Spears shot again.

However, this time they shot off-target.

The Stone Spears fell to the ground not far from them; although the steel balls from the explosion still shot toward them, their force was far weaker than before, and the Air Shield easily blocked them.

"If they were all like this, that would be great." the tall, thin male student laughed.

Tong Bin also laughed, "It seems their precision guidance technology isn't up to par yet."

"Boss, what do we do next? We can't keep taking hits; who knows how much ammunition they have left?"

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Before they could speak, the Stone Spears kept being thrown down; as the distance closed, spherical explosives also fell, large enough to be frightening.

However, out of those dozen or so shells, only half directly hit the Air Shield, which made the tall, thin male student feel much more at ease.

Tong Bin gauged the distance, then turned and waved to summon a accompanying male student, saying, "Relay my message."

A few seconds later.

A loud voice rang out at the doorway of the storage room:

"Chen Mu, let's talk first, how about that?"

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