[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done":3,"chapter-national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-165":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","National Guardian's Gone and We're Done",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1743899,2228,"Chapter 165: A Paper Tiger?","national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-165",165,"\u003Cp>A few bloody teeth clattered to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman’s vision went black, and the intense pain instantly blanked her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shattered bone pierced through her flesh, exposed to the air. The severity of the injury was dumbfounding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many of the more timid fans shrieked in terror, scrambling backward and covering their eyes, not daring to look again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman swayed, on the verge of fainting from the agonizing pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I may be from the Lighthouse Empire, but I have loved the Great Xia Empire with all my heart for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What gives you the right to treat my wife like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During my years in the Great Xia Empire, I have worked diligently, always promoting positive values,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and working to combat the unfair treatment and prejudice the Great Xia Empire faces on the international stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve even had my own child here in the Great Xia Empire. I’ve paid every cent of my taxes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and never missed an opportunity to do charity work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it just because I’m a foreign visitor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He, you must give us a reasonable explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And your Great Xia Empire owes me an answer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel was seething with uncontrollable rage, his hand gripping the microphone trembling violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s right. We may understand the reasoning behind the Empire’s and Chu He’s actions, but that doesn’t mean every foreign visitor is a bad person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daniel has been in the Great Xia Empire for over a decade. He’s always been fair and just in his commentary and has never once twisted the facts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if Daniel really did something wrong, they shouldn’t treat his family and innocent fans like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moved by Daniel’s emotional outburst, many of his fans mustered the courage to start accusing Chu He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The members from the Royal City headquarters Defense Team\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>subtly moved into a staggered formation behind Chu He to prevent any agitated crowd members from suddenly rushing the stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He was never soft in these matters. This would not only prevent a conflict but would also protect those people in the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no need for your silver-tongued act. I came here specifically to arrest you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He, however, just gave a faint smile,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seemingly unperturbed by Daniel’s attempt to be clever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the calmer Chu He appeared, the more uneasy Daniel felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea what Chu He really knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He waved his hand, and members of the Defense Team immediately stepped forward to handcuff Daniel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also called for medical assistance. An ambulance would be arriving shortly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way, Chu He didn’t bother interrogating Daniel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he directly used his Primordial Spirit Power to invade Daniel’s mind and extract all of his intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daniel is an elite operative trained by the Lighthouse Empire, proficient in various forms of combat and other skills,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but he has never practiced Martial Arts. The Lighthouse Empire was likely worried that making him a Martial Artist would attract too much attention from the Great Xia Empire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a person in the car specifically responsible for taking notes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He reached out and took the pen and notebook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly jotted down a few addresses and said, \"These are the locations of Daniel’s factories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, beneath the factories are numerous secret rooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These secret rooms are used to store all kinds of bizarre artifacts that he’s collected, all of which are secretly transported to the Lighthouse Empire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Chu, I’ll immediately arrange for the local Great Sea City Defense Team members to go and seize them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>said the team captain, Yuan Jixian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’d better take some of your people and go yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you think Daniel could have successfully smuggled those bizarre artifacts out of Great Sea City to the Lighthouse Empire every time without having local connections?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team captain immediately called out the names of two members from headquarters\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and began mobilizing members from the Royal City, telling them to dispatch reinforcements quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the reinforcements from the Royal City arrived, they would immediately launch their operation in Great Sea City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The next target is in Yanglan City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He picked up a file.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top was a photograph of a young heartthrob,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one of the hottest A-list celebrities of the moment, named Si Haowen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Yanglan City, International Airport.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Si Haowen! Si Haowen! Si Haowen!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look, he’s out! It must have been a long trip, he has to take care of himself!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re all dying to see his concert, but it breaks my heart to see him sweating so much on stage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The airport was jam-packed with teenage girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were so emotional they were sobbing uncontrollably,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a few even nearly fainted the moment they saw Si Haowen emerge from the terminal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This guy’s influence is way scarier than Daniel’s.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Chu He, Yuan Jixian, and the other members of the headquarters Defense Team emerged from a restricted corridor,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Jixian couldn’t help but marvel at the sight of the massive crowd of young people holding banners in the airport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These people are brewing a terrifying plot against the Great Xia Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But whether it was the bald man we first arrested or Daniel,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the information in their minds is like a key to the real secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this key has been shattered into countless incomplete fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying only on Daniel and the bald man is not enough to uncover the core of the plot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He swept a cold gaze over the emotional fangirls and said, \"You all need to stop approaching these matters with your old mindset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True terror is about to sweep the globe. Humanity’s hope is growing slimmer by the day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He had left a trace of his Primordial Spirit Power on Xiao Cangqing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which allowed him to continuously gather fragmented but extremely valuable intelligence from that end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Vampire Clan’s power had essentially been fully restored, and they had already reached an extremely ferocious level of strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single Vampire Clan like this could probably sweep through the entire White Elephant Empire without issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after being exposed, the Vampire Clan surprisingly chose to lay low, becoming even more discreet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When things are this abnormal, there’s always something more to it. When someone has the power to flip the entire table,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but just sits there and takes the world’s mockery like a coward, it’s obviously not normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu He refused to believe that the vast Vampire Clan, which had operated on Blue Star for millennia, was just a paper tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There had to be a more terrifying conspiracy hidden behind this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one that was likely closely related to the sudden emergence of numerous ruins and cultures of Deities all over Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Jixian and the other Defense Team members nodded with solemn expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they strode forward with purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, they flashed their identification as members of the headquarters Defense Team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who are these people? They just pushed me aside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I saw their IDs—they’re from the Royal City’s headquarters Defense Team. Are there bad guys here? They have to protect him and keep him safe!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s so weird. Why do they look like they’re heading straight for Si Haowen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1207,"2026-06-06T16:46:32.086Z",1,"novelbin.me","32c3569daa7f9b7dcad70be1dafc45babd1ad20a310ab6adfb8aca1d44eacb2b","national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-166","national-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-chapter-218",274,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fnational-guardian-s-gone-and-we-re-done-cover.jpg"]