Chapter 2636: Let's go alone!

After borrowing the slope to dismount, Ouberkun, Yun Ruoge no longer spoke to him further, merely replying with an "ok".

Seeing these two letters, Ouberkun's mood instantly turned terrible.

Although he had long known Yun Ruoge would reject him, upon actual rejection, he felt completely unable to accept it in his heart.

He was not the modest gentleman he appeared before Yun Ruoge; on the contrary, he was narrow-minded, holding grudges against anyone who had offended or slighted him.

In his view, Yun Ruoge's rejection of him was standard ingratitude.

Thus he could not help muttering angrily to himself: "Yun Ruoge, what the hell are you putting on airs for in front of me? You look down on me, huh? Just wait, I'll sooner or later find a chance to make you submit beneath me!"

During the latter half of the flight, he had been holding in a surge of evil fire with no outlet.

At eleven thirty at night, the plane landed at Larnaca International Airport; Ouberkun, having struggled to adjust his mindset, stepped out of the airport empty-handed.

At this time, the airport was already late at night, and light rain was falling in the southern region of Cyprus.

Ouberkun directly hailed a taxi at the airport entrance and then sped all the way toward the direction of the copper mine.

Before departure, Wu Shutong had already shown Ouberkun the specific location of the copper mine and its full layout plan; by now, Ouberkun had thoroughly understood the surrounding terrain and the internal structure of the mine.

According to his plan, he intended to first sneak quietly into the mine's main office building from the periphery, where Governor Ni Zhenyu resided.

More than half an hour later.

A taxi stopped by the roadside less than one kilometer from the copper mine.

The engine coolant temperature and hood temperature remained high, but the vehicle's interior was already empty, with no passengers and no driver.

At this moment, in the northern forest of the copper mine, Ouberkun hid in the center of a tall tree, using the dense foliage to conceal his form while also being able to easily observe movements on the northern side of the mine through gaps in the leaves.

On another tree behind him hung a corpse with head and body separated.

The corpse's skull had been brutally torn off by force, after which the body was bound at the ankles with the deceased's own belt and hung from a thick tree branch.

The corpse's neck continued to spurt blood outward, which mixed with rainwater and pooled on the ground into a red stream.

This corpse was precisely the taxi driver who had just brought Ouberkun here.

Ouberkun had actually wanted to kill someone on the plane.

However, killing someone on the plane was unrealistic; if the crew were startled, it might even cause an air disaster.

Thus, he set his target on this taxi driver.

The driver stopped at the roadside as requested, but did not expect to lose his life over it; Ouberkun dragged him into the forest and slaughtered him brutally to vent his pent-up frustration.

After killing the driver, Ouberkun finally calmed down, completely ignoring the still-dripping corpse behind him, and focused all his attention on the nearby copper mine.

Since Ouberkun had already mastered spiritual energy, his senses had also greatly improved; even from several hundred meters away, he could detect the mine's internal sentries.

There were not few sentries inside the copper mine, but this did not surprise Ouberkun, after all, such a garrison of death warriors was of great significance to the Anti-Qing Association, each built at enormous cost with massive manpower and material resources, so security work naturally was the top priority.

Fortunately, these Yingqiwei's strength was not strong, their combined combat power merely at the level of five-star to eight-star martial artists, still far below Ouberkun, so he had full confidence he could easily infiltrate them undetected.

Unlike Ye Chen, who fortuitously obtained the Nine Profound Heaven Scripture and directly mastered spiritual energy, Ouberkun gradually cultivated from a Bright Realm martial artist step by step—Bright Realm, Dark Realm, Transformation Realm, Master Realm—he advanced steadily, step by step.

Only after breaking through the Master Realm did he truly master spiritual energy; thus, though his control of spiritual energy is merely beginner-level, his combat ability and experience are extremely formidable.

And those who can gradually break through the Master Realm in martial arts are absolutely unparalleled geniuses in the martial way; such people train year-round, pursuing martial arts far beyond ordinary folk, and this will subtly make them arrogant, look down on others, even disregard modern technology.

Facing this copper mine, and its governor, Yingqiwei, and death warriors within, Ouberkun felt a sense of worldly superiority, believing that even the strongest governor, Ni Zhenyu, was merely a Dark Realm martial unworthy to tie his sandals, and facing such a place, he almost thought himself immune to any risk.

Yet he did not know that Ye Chen, to deal with a martial arts prodigy like him, had long abandoned the traditional path of fighting martial with martial, and the three close-defense cannons had already been loaded and powered, ready to deliver a lethal strike at any moment.

Ouberkun calmed himself, carefully observing everything around, wanting to see if anyone else was also secretly monitoring this copper mine like him.

However, after observing more carefully for over ten minutes, he concluded that besides himself, no one else was present outside the copper mine.

This meant the copper mine was not under external surveillance.

The problem likely lay within the copper mine itself.

Thus, Ouberkun decided to infiltrate immediately.

Before moving, he took out his phone and sent a message to Wu Shutong, Commander of the Right Army Governor's Office: "Junior brother, no abnormalities found outside the copper mine; I am ready to infiltrate; I will send the secret order to Ni Zhenyu in ten minutes."

Soon, he received Wu Shutong's reply, very simple: "Okay, elder brother!"

…

Ouberkun does not understand technology.

If he knew more about technology, he would know that the reason this world is not ruled by martial artists is because the power of cutting-edge technology far exceeds that of martial artists.

He thought everyone here was far beneath him in strength, so he instinctively felt no one here could threaten him.

Yet he never dreamed that at the three strategic high points of this copper mine, there were three weapons sufficient to take his life.

Under heaven, no one is so arrogant as to use close-defense cannons to shoot people—just as no one would openly drive a main battle tank to rob a bank.

But with Ye Chen, everything becomes natural and justified.

As Ouberkun held his breath and moved with extreme speed and extreme quietness to breach the northern wall of the copper mine, he did not know that when he was still two hundred meters from the wall, Wan Pojun's computer screen had already received an alarm.

At the same time, the servo motors of the three close-defense cannons rapidly turned, the gun barrels continuously adjusting according to their preset strike positions as Ouberkun moved.

At this moment, Ouberkun suddenly felt something was off; his intuition faintly sensed unease, as if multiple experts were secretly staring him down.

He could not help thinking to himself: "What's going on… why do I keep feeling vaguely uneasy…"

But the next moment, he thought perhaps he was overthinking.

After all, he had broken through the Master Realm and was no longer in the martial artist sequence; with his strength, who in the world could be his match? In such a place, how could experts possibly target him?

He did not know that at this moment, Wan Pojun had already placed his finger above the computer's Enter key.

As long as he pressed Enter, the three close-defense cannons would strike Ouberkun's position and surroundings with overwhelming saturation in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Wan Pojun had already begun nervously sweating cold sweat, while his master, Qiu Zhiyuan, stood behind him, equally tense, saying: "Pojun, fire! This person moves so fast, he must be one of the Four Great Marquises!"

Wan Pojun shook his head: "Master, I fear he still has companions; better wait steadily until he enters the first-level alert zone before firing—it's not too late!"

Meanwhile, outside the wall.

Ouberkun thought he had come unseen and unheard to the base of the wall.

He extended his spiritual energy to probe, discovering the nearest Yingqiwei was on a rooftop about twenty meters from him.

This distance is neither too far nor too close, but fortunately it is now deep in the night, and my body is agile, and I can conceal all my aura, so I suppose I cannot possibly be discovered.

Although I am full of confidence, yet gazing at this high wall, I still feel a vague unease, my heart keeps sinking, feeling utterly groundless, and even I feel as if someone is secretly watching me.

This feeling is too strange.

Ever since he, at a young age, charged into the Dark Realm with the force of splitting bamboo, his heart has never known fear again.

But today, here, in just a few short seconds, he has already twice felt inexplicable unease and dread.

He does not understand where this unease comes from; his extreme confidence in his own strength allows him only to temporarily attribute this unease to Yun Ruoge.

He cannot help cursing inwardly: "Damn Yun Ruoge, disturbing my peace of mind, I will sooner or later make you pay the price!"

Immediately, he shakes his head, refocusing his attention on the wall ahead; a nimble flip, and he floats down onto the inner side of the wall.

At this moment, Wan Pojun's finger still hovers over the Enter key.

The system issues another warning: the target has already entered the first-level alert zone.

And Wan Pojun also notices that the rectangular second-level alert zone has detected no other targets.

This basically confirms that the target is alone and only one person.

Thus, he gazes at the human outline marked by thermal imaging on the screen and says lightly: "Since only you are here, then you may go alone!"

Having spoken, his right middle finger lightly taps the computer's Enter key.

"Tap..."