Chapter 410: Why Don't You Demolish the House?

And the cause of all this was simply that Miss Xie was searching for the whereabouts of the Aberrant Species inside Heavenly Dome City, but in a sewer she saw a fast‑moving Ying Guang Lu Data Stream flowing along a Rune circuit.

She immediately swung her sword to slash, but struck nothing; she chased the Data Stream for a while, only to be left behind because it was too fast.

Xie Jingyan was certain it was some kind of life, yet her attack could not cause any damage?

Xie Jingyan stood at the doorway, watching the peach‑wood swords being taken from the workbench one by one and lined up.

"Miss, this one is also finished—" the old carpenter handed over the last peach‑wood sword; its blade bore several crooked Runes, probably copied from the Old World scriptures; whether it works is another matter, but it looks rather intimidating.

Xie Jingyan took it, weighed it in her hand; it was heavy, and even used as a club could knock out several people.

"Alright," she slipped the peach‑wood sword into the storage compartment, "how do I pay?"

The old carpenter fumbled and produced a very old communicator; Xie Jingyan promptly handed over the money.

She still thought the place she had just investigated was suspicious, so after making thorough preparations she set out to continue the investigation along the same path.

The investigation site was in an underground tunnel somewhere in Heavenly Dome City; she casually hung a small peach‑wood sword on her waist and went inside.

Underground tunnels always carry a strong stench, but Xie Jingyan simply pulled her mask up a bit and pressed onward.

She didn't know if the peach‑wood sword she had just bought was actually effective, but at least she hadn't seen that strange Ying Guang Lu again along the way.

She stuck close to the wall base and slowly turned the corner.

The tunnel gradually widened here, with several thick pipes crossing overhead—it must be an intersection of underground conduits.

But Xie Jingyan had just taken a step toward that side when she immediately retreated back into the corner.

She cautiously looked that way, sensing the aura there.

Seven or eight people lay sprawled on the ground, blood pooling around them; several were already dead, only one or two were barely clinging to life.

The underground tunnel was extremely dark; by the faint light, Xie Jingyan could only roughly make out the person's silhouette.

He was short and thin, holding a handgun.

He crouched and tapped a man's face on the ground with the barrel; the man flinched in terror, but only made his wound hurt more.

"I'll ask again," the man said, his tone a bit flippant, "where's the thing?"

The man on the ground said nothing, just shook his head frantically.

He sighed, as if regretting something, moved the barrel away from the man's face, brushed it over him, wiping the blood off.

"You don't have to tell me," he said, standing up, twirling the gun in his hand, "I don't really need to know; it's just that I'm working under someone else now, so I have to put on a show."

He raised the gun, pointing the barrel at the man's forehead.

Xie Jingyan tightened her grip on the peach‑wood sword; she wasn't sure whether this man was the mastermind she sought, but in this place, at this time, appearing in this sewer, pointing a gun at someone with a villainous look…

The man's ear twitched, still in that flippant tone, "Come out, hiding there is tiring."

Xie Jingyan didn't move, and only then did the man finally turn his head.

His hair was a mess of blue fragments, eyes red, looking exactly like the kind of street‑corner smoker who whistles at pretty girls—a petty thug.

Sha Yu Feng looked at Xie Jingyan, scanning from head to toe—mask, sunglasses, a face tightly covered.

He raised an eyebrow.

"Where's this little girl from? Are you with them?"

Xie Jingyan remained silent, pulling her usual twin swords from a spatial device.

The two slender blades were dark‑purple, engraved with many Runes, but the overall dark hue made them hard to discern.

Sha Yu Feng, seeing Xie Jingyan had no intention to talk, let out a cold laugh, casually kicked the person at his feet aside, and drew another gun.

"What a coincidence, I also have two."

"Too much standoff, let's skip it; better to settle it with real blades and guns than babble on."

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"The Old World has a saying: a gentleman speaks before he acts. Rather than jumping straight to action, perhaps we could talk first?"

Die Yuzhe forced himself to pull a smile, looking at the person before him, feeling downright unlucky inside.

He and Sha Yu Feng were dispatched together to handle the Dome's sudden incident this afternoon; after all, they now rely on the equipment Lei Zhao gave Sha Yu Feng earlier to join the Dome, and can only climb up from these grassroots tasks.

He and Sha Yu Feng didn't take the incident seriously, and given the already labyrinthine underground tunnels, they simply split into two groups to explore separately.

Originally, Die Yuzhe thought himself extremely lucky; despite the harsh environment, he managed to locate those people's temporary base relatively quickly.

But who could have imagined meeting this ancestor here?!

Ying Duo now had no reason to perform; a Cannon was being deftly shouldered by him. Though it had an outer reinforced shell, showing some change from before, it was still the Flame City Cannon's barrel!

Having witnessed Ying Duo fire the Cannon twice on site, Die Yuzhe felt he had developed a bit of PTSD toward the guy.

Firing the Cannon here would truly blast a hole through Heavenly Dome City.

Die Yuzhe wasn't worried about Heavenly Dome City falling from the sky—after all, he could still cling on using that mechanical phoenix‑tail butterfly—but don't point that Cannon at him!

"You see, now I'm also working for the Dome's Field Operations Department; strictly speaking, we're practically colleagues. If you're here for this mission too, we could fully cooperate..."

Die Yuzhe tried to reason with Ying Duo, though he didn't have much hope that Ying Duo would understand human speech.

If this person could truly communicate, would Tianmian City have to be bombed like that?

Fine, let it all be destroyed.

Heavenly Dome City would be best to meet the same fate as Tianmian City—its name follows theirs, yet it still can't truly take off; the worst would be an even more tragic end.

In the end, Ying Duo simply stared at him for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze, and actually retracted the Cannon's barrel, pointing it toward the ground.

Die Yuzhe:???

Is this right?

Shouldn't you, like Chi Jin An, just ignore teammates' warnings and start a demolition mode right there?!