Chapter 105

"Are you sure Zhang Mingze is really dead?!"

In the office of the Chief in the Administration Building, Gu Zhenhui asked with a surprised look on his face.

The secretary nodded to him:

"My lord, it is absolutely true; many people saw with their own eyes the Green-Faced Ghost snapping Zhang Mingze's neck on the street!"

"Haha!"

Gu Zhenhui laughed rarely.

Then he fell into deep thought: "In that case, is it really the Qingyuan Fist Village that is disrupting the situation?"

Secretary: "It should be like this; after all, that Great Leader even made a move."

"No."

But Gu Zhenhui shook his head, "If it were really the Qingyuan Fist Village wanting to deal with the Hu Dao Gang, after the fake Green-Faced Ghost was caught, they shouldn't have jumped out to kill people again, and they even killed people on both sides at the same time."

Secretary puzzled: "Then what exactly does this Qingyuan Fist Village want to do?"

Gu Zhenhui narrowed his eyes: "There is another possibility; the Qingyuan Fist Village sensed that we intended to move against it, so this time it chose to cooperate with the Green-Faced Ghost, and all of this is planned by this Green-Faced Ghost."

Secretary was startled: "Is this Green-Faced Ghost so powerful?"

"Zhang Mingze underestimated him, and now his corpse is already cold."

Gu Zhenhui shook his head, then ordered:

"Let Cheng Bi take people to the Qingyuan District and order the people from the Inspectorate to withdraw."

"My lord, the one leading the team in the Qingyuan District is Qian Hengjun of the Third Brigade; I'm afraid he won't listen obediently."

The secretary reminded carefully.

Gu Zhenhui laughed: "Zhang Mingze is already dead; does the Inspectorate still dare to attack the Qingyuan Fist Village? Wu Yihua is a smart person; even if I don't speak, he will order people to withdraw."

The secretary understood; Gu Zhenhui wanted to take the initiative to show goodwill to the Qingyuan Fist Village.

"After the people from the Inspectorate withdraw, let Cheng Bi find a way to contact that Great Leader and say that I want to talk to her."

"Yes."

The secretary took the order and left.

A few minutes later, Gu Zhenhui received detailed intelligence on today's battle.

When he learned that the Great Leader of the Qingyuan Fist Village was able to gain the upper hand even when besieged by a group of experts from the Stop-Goe Academy, he couldn't help but frown, feeling wary.

He also only learned from the other side after the Hu Dao Gang proposed to cooperate this time that Hao Yi, a special lecturer at the Martial Arts Hall, was actually a powerhouse at the Dao-Foundation Realm, and also the senior brother of the Great Leader of the Qingyuan Fist Village.

Now it seems that the strength of that Great Leader is stronger than Yan Yichen of the Stop-Goe Academy, plus having a senior brother at the Dao-Foundation Realm, the strength of the Qingyuan Fist Village is no longer weaker than the Hu Dao Gang.

However, Gu Zhenhui still decided to unite with the Qingyuan Fist Village to deal with the Hu Dao Gang together.

No matter how powerful the Qingyuan Fist Village is, as long as it doesn't intend to rebel, the threat it poses to Gu Zhenhui, the Chief, is ultimately limited.

But the Hu Dao Gang is different; it is truly possible for the opponent to completely hollow out Gu Zhenhui!

Of the six academies in Xingcheng, Gu Zhenhui only completely controlled the Supervisory Academy and half of the Interior Academy.

And the Stop-Goe Academy stood on the side of the Hu Dao Gang from the beginning, and now the Inspectorate has also fallen into the hands of the Hu Dao Gang.

The remaining Judicial Academy and Justice Academy are the focus of competition between the two sides, and neither can do anything to the other for the time being.

From this, one can see the pressure the Hu Dao Gang brings to Gu Zhenhui; he cannot command the two most important martial force institutions in a place, so how can he, the Chief, be tough?

In recent years, many of the decrees proposed by Gu Zhenhui have failed to pass, and more and more officials dare to disobey his orders in public while pretending to comply in private; how can he not hate the Hu Dao Gang?

If the Hu Dao Gang is not removed, he, the Chief, will sooner or later become a joke!

"Draft a Chief's Order!"

After reading all the intelligence, Gu Zhenhui said seriously:

"Let the City Defense Army move out, Wei Ge will lead the team personally, go to the Wu Guangqu to make arrests, the reason being that there are thieves using hand grenades and firearms in the city; to ensure the safety of Xingcheng, arrest all the troublemakers, and if anyone dares to resist, kill them on the spot!"

Hearing this, the secretary was shocked and looked up at Gu Zhenhui abruptly.

The City Defense Army is the armed force responsible for city defense; they usually guard the city gates and almost never participate in affairs inside the city.

The City Defense Army is independent of the six academies and is directly under the jurisdiction of the Chief; it can be regarded as the Chief's personal soldiers.

However, the military pay and provisions of the City Defense Army are paid by local finance, so this team cannot truly become anyone's personal soldiers; they only take orders from the Chief.

After taking office, Gu Zhenhui firmly held onto the City Defense Army and almost replaced all the key members inside with his own trusted aides.

As long as he is in office for one day, this team will be under his command!

After all, the Supervisory Academy does the work of secret agents, and its frontal combat capability is weak.

In the situation where both the Stop-Goe Academy and the Inspectorate stand on the side of the Hu Dao Gang, the City Defense Army has become the only armed force Gu Zhenhui can rely on.

Now that he wants to use the City Defense Army, it is equivalent to using his trump card.

"My lord, but the Wu Guangqu is a prosperous commercial area with a large flow of people; starting a war there, I'm afraid..."

The secretary looked at Gu Zhenhui carefully.

Gu Zhenhui turned around and looked at him with a sinister gaze.

The secretary's body trembled; he didn't dare to say another word and left in a hurry to convey the order.

Inside a drill ground in the west of the city.

A brawny man with his upper body naked, muscles knotted, and scars all over his body was fighting a black fierce tiger over two meters tall with his bare hands!

The size difference between the man and the beast was huge, yet the one being beaten back step by step was the black fierce tiger.

The brawny man suddenly made a flexible turn, circled behind the black tiger, grabbed its two hind legs with his hands, exerted force, and actually pulled the black tiger, which weighed over a thousand pounds, up, rotated it once on the spot, and threw it away fiercely!

Bang!

This black tiger fell heavily into the sand, creating a large pit.

It quickly climbed out of the pit, shook its body to shake off the dust, and looked like it had no major problems.

But the gaze of this fierce tiger looking at the brawny man not far away clearly carried fear; it didn't dare to pounce again.

"No, next time I have to increase the dosage for this beast; it's too fragile!"

The brawny man pointed at the black tiger not far away and said.

"It's because you, my lord, are too mighty."

A group of City Defense soldiers watching the battle on the side shouted one after another.

This is the garrison of the Xingcheng City Defense Army; the black tiger on the drill ground is a third-grade superior exotic beast, and its strength is enough to rival a martial master!

And the one fighting the black tiger with his bare hands is the Garrison Commander of the City Defense Army—Wei Ge.

The City Defense Army belongs to the military officer system; the civil officer system and military officer system of the Great Lan Dynasty are separate, but military officers are also divided into eighteen grades like civil officers:

Leading ten people is a Team Leader, thirty people is a Flag Leader, one hundred people is a Battalion Commander, and three hundred people is a Garrison Commander.

The Xingcheng City Defense Army has a total of more than three hundred people, so Wei Ge is the Xingcheng Garrison Commander, an eighth-grade military officer.

In terms of rank, he is not as high as Li Lei, the First Brigade Commander of the Inspectorate, but his actual status is enough to rival the head of the six academies!

"My lord!"

A City Defense soldier suddenly ran into the drill ground, knelt on one knee, and said to Wei Ge:

"The Chief has an order, commanding you, my lord, to lead the team to the Wu Guangqu to quell the chaos immediately!"

"Quell the chaos?"

Wei Ge turned around abruptly to look at the messenger, "Quell what chaos?"

"The Chief said that there are thieves in the city using hand grenades and firearms to injure civilians, fearing that it will pose a threat to the city defense of Xingcheng, so he asks you, my lord, to lead the troops into the Wu Guangqu to quell the chaos, arrest all the thieves, and if anyone dares to resist, kill them on the spot!"

"Good—"

Hearing this, Wei Ge shouted loudly, his voice like thunder, resounding through the entire drill ground, making everyone present feel a buzzing in their ears!

"Hahahaha!"

He laughed, "The Chief is finally going to make a move against the Hu Dao Gang; I have been waiting for this day for a long time!"

After speaking, he stretched out his right hand, and a powerful suction force erupted from his palm.

The next second, a huge straight-slashing saber nearly two meters long was sucked over from a weapon rack more than ten meters away and fell into Wei Ge's hand.

Wei Ge held the saber with both hands, shouted angrily, and suddenly charged toward the black tiger not far away with terrifying killing intent!

This black tiger had been beaten by Wei Ge for years and had long since developed a psychological shadow toward Wei Ge; later, it could only stimulate its ferocity by taking drugs to have the courage to fight Wei Ge.

At this moment, the drug effect had passed, and plus Wei Ge was revealing such terrifying killing intent toward it for the first time, it actually made this third-grade superior exotic beast completely forget to resist and wait for death.

A layer of black light covered the huge straight-slashing saber, and a huge suction force was generated, sucking the black tiger forward.

In the end, the black tiger actually seemed to hit the blade actively; they saw a flash of black light, and a huge tiger head flew high.

"Skin it, dismantle its bones; I want to eat tiger meat tonight!"

Wei Ge pointed at the black tiger corpse on the ground and said.

Then he turned around, carried the straight-slashing saber on his shoulder, and waved his large hand:

"Form up, set off!"

【Level: 9, 23%

Blood Souls: 32 + 67%

Blood Soul Skills: Blood Rage, Blood Sha

Transformation Skill: Blood Demon】

In a room, Li Fei, who had already lifted the 'Blood Demon State', was applying the cockscomb blood just taken from a live chicken to his body while checking the situation of the Blood Soul Bead in his body.

In today's battle, he was hit by arrows, hit by bullets, slashed by sabers, blown up by hand grenades, and finally withstood Yang Xuan's Yi Wood Gang Qi head-on.

Plus the consumption of using Blood Soul skills, he had consumed nearly 70 Blood Souls in total!

And the energy absorbed was only a little over 20%, which shows that after upgrading to Level 9, the energy required for the Blood Soul Bead to upgrade was even more.

If he hadn't unlocked the transformation skill, Li Fei would have chosen a different fighting style, with Nether Spring Poison as the tactical core, and wouldn't have deliberately withstood so much damage like before.

This tactical choice was mainly to test the power of the transformation skill 'Blood Demon'.

The result made Li Fei very satisfied!

The 'Blood Demon State' was indeed very powerful, but after entering the 'Blood Demon State', Li Fei would consume 5 Blood Souls every minute; he could choose to terminate it at any time.

The transformation skill could only be used when the total amount of Blood Souls was below 50%, so even without using Blood Soul skills, Li Fei's 'Blood Demon State' could only be maintained for ten minutes.

And if he consumed more Blood Souls to use Blood Soul skills, the maintainable time would be even shorter.

Of course, as the number of Blood Souls continues to increase in the future, the duration of the 'Blood Demon State' will also rise with the tide.

"I am becoming more and more like a BOSS in a game, with a second-stage transformation; I wonder if I will unlock new transformation skills in the future, maybe a third-stage transformation, a fourth-stage transformation?"

Li Fei thought with a smile.

In the future, he could say to people: "You can't even see my second stage, what kind of expert are you?"

Besides trying the power of the transformation skill 'Blood Demon', in today's battle, Li Fei also had a great harvest in the martial arts realm.

After killing Zhang Mingze, his thoughts were clear, the obstacles in his heart were further removed, his mind power was enhanced again, and the steel armor implant in his body received feedback for the first time, entering a period of rapid growth again.

Li Fei had already taken a large amount of elixirs, just waiting for the steel armor implant in his body to absorb and digest the medicinal power; he estimated that he should be able to officially step into the late stage of the Body-Breaking Realm!

After applying the cockscomb blood, Li Fei completed the 'trace removal work'.

The courtyard he was in was a courtyard waiting to be rented, and no one had lived there for a long time.

Back before killing Feng Zhenshan, he had 'scouted' in advance, found several such courtyards in the city that had been uninhabited for a long time, and then kept the live chickens he bought in these courtyards temporarily.

Afterward, before every move, he would check in advance if there were any problems with the live chickens hidden in these places, confirm the escape route, and ensure that he could escape to the location in time to use the cockscomb blood of the live chickens to remove traces, so as not to be tracked by magic arts.

About ten minutes later, Li Fei, who had changed into a set of clothes, reappeared on the street.

At this time, he had changed into the clothes of the Martial Arts Hall; to be on the safe side, he had hidden the Level 3 protective suit and the Nether Spring Poison in a different place and did not carry them on his body.

"Boss, give me two taels of beef noodles."

Li Fei found a noodle shop on the side of the street, walked in, and sat down.

At this time, the noodle shop's stall was almost full of people, and they were all discussing the movement just now:

"What exactly happened over there? Why was there gunfire and explosions?"

"And quite a few people died!"

"I heard people say it seems like the Hu Dao Gang is killing people."

"It's the Hu Dao Gang again! I really hope God drops a thunderbolt and strikes those bastards to death!"

"Do you think that Green-Faced Ghost who killed seven corrupt officials will go to kill the people of the Hu Dao Gang?"

"It's possible."

"I really hope there are a few more heroes like the Green-Faced Ghost."

"..."

Li Fei listened to everyone's discussion, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

Just at this moment, a box truck with a blue military flag drove past the street outside the noodle shop.

Then came the second one, the third one...

"Is this a car from the Inspectorate?"

"No, it should be the City Defense Army's."

"Even the City Defense Army has moved out; I wonder how big the matter today is?"

"..."

Li Fei looked at the passing box trucks of the City Defense Army outside, lost in thought.

The number of people in the City Defense Army was about the same as in the Inspectorate, and the weapons and equipment used by both sides were also about the same, but the combat effectiveness was different.

Those who entered the Inspectorate were all ordinary people; even if they were agile after training, they still belonged to the category of ordinary people.

But the City Defense Army was different; every military officer inside was at least a martial artist at the Body-Breaking Realm!

Even if they both used guns, firearms could exert greater power in the hands of martial artists.

Li Fei learned from Shangguan Xiao that Wei Ge, the Garrison Commander of the Xingcheng City Defense Army, was a Force-Practicing Martial Master at the peak of the Qi-Transformation Realm; besides the three powerhouses at the Dao-Foundation Realm and that ancestor of the Chen family whose life or death was unknown, the person with the strongest strength might be Wei Ge.

That is to say, the opponent was very likely one of the top five experts in personal combat power in the entire Xingcheng!

Of course, Shangguan Xiao also specifically mentioned Yu Hu; she felt that this Hu Dao Gang Leader might have been hiding his strength all along, and his true combat power was far stronger than what he displayed, but no one had seen Yu Hu make a move in recent years, so it was impossible to determine what Yu Hu's strength was.

Not long after the City Defense Army's cars drove past, intense gunfire rang out again in the distance.

After Li Fei finished his beef noodles, he found a place with a public telephone and then called Shangguan Xiao.

Calculating the time, this Senior Martial Aunt should have safely returned to the Qingyuan Fist Village by now.

Sure enough, the call was connected quickly:

"Who is this?"

"Senior Martial Aunt, it's me."

"How are you? Are your injuries serious? I have top-notch trauma medicine here; do you need me to send it to you?"

The concerned voice of Shangguan Xiao came from the other end of the phone.

Li Fei looked down at the two wounds on his arm that were almost completely healed:

"Senior Martial Aunt, I didn't get much injury, don't worry."

"You must not be brave."

"Don't worry, Senior Martial Aunt, I know my limits."

"Alright. Just as you guessed, the Chief's side did send someone to find me; they should want to join forces with me."

"What does Senior Martial Aunt think?"

"I don't like the Hu Dao Gang, but I also don't like the Chief's faction."

Shangguan Xiao said very directly.

Hearing this, Li Fei laughed: "Then there's no need to join forces."

"What ideas do you have?"

Shangguan Xiao on the other end of the phone asked.

(End of chapter)