"But Dongfang Renxin escaped!"
The cold voice of Yue Wushuang, leader of the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils, echoed in the communication channel. "If we do not catch him on the spot, even the most solid evidence will be flawed. Also, Dongfang Renxin has taken away the mainframe crystal processor of the secret institute. Tremendous experiment data in the past are stored in the crystal processor. It is very likely that a lot of leadership of the Dongfang family will be involved!
"This is the evidence of paramount importance. We have to grasp it in our hands in order to completely nail Dongfang Wang and Dongfang Renxin!"
Dongfang Renxin escaped through teleportation arrays.
But he was destined not to run very far.
The moment the assault began, the eight "space ripple generators" that the reformists had secretly delivered to the underground world were activated at the highest efficiency at the same time, spreading out ripples that were breaking the void.
Those space ripples would not affect the creatures living and moving normally in the three-dimensional space at all, even if they were right next to them.
However, if somebody were to tear apart the three-dimensional space and jump to a place far away through the four-dimensional space, they would be involved in a man-made storm.
The four-dimensional jump was highly dangerous after all. Both the super long-distance space jumps across billions of stars and the short-distance teleportation that pursued the highest accuracy could not tolerate the slightest interference.
One moment of carelessness, and two outcomes could happen.
Firstly, after the creatures stepped into the teleportation arrays, their cells and even their gene strands would be dissected, but they would never be assembled again because of the interference of the "four-dimensional storm", or they would be assembled in a very weird way.
In such a case, what would appear on the teleportation array at the destination would likely be a pile of steaming meat and blood, or a monster whose internal organs were exposed, whose limbs had turned into tentacles, and whose body had turned into mud.
Secondly, the teleportation was completed successfully, but there was a "slight" error in the coordinates of the destination. They did not jump to the teleportation array at the destination but were several meters away from the teleportation array.
Then, it was very likely that they would be embedded into rocks, metals, or even somebody else's body by brute force. Their living cells would be melted with cold materials, which would be a dead end, too.
Therefore, when the eight "space ripple generators" of the reformists launched interference, it was like a transparent barrier had been established at the periphery of the twenty-seventh district. It was impossible for Dongfang Renxin to bypass the barrier and jump to the ground dozens of kilometers away instantly. The best he could do was to jump to a certain corner of the twenty-seventh district.
The resistance of the anonymous hospital was still going on, but a dragnet was spread out to the entire twenty-seventh district.
In the control room, Li Yao's hands turned into gray mist as he nervously operated the control interface.
Every time a teleportation array was activated, unusual space ripples would spread out from both the jump point and the destination. Although they were much weaker than the ripples caused by the long-distance jumps of starships, Li Yao could still sense them keenly with the search magical equipment that he had crafted himself.
In front of Li Yao, the transparent map of the twenty-seventh district was displayed on the 3D light beam. Deep inside the nameless hospital, there was a faintly flashing red spot. It was the teleportation circle that had just been activated.
Soon, at the bottom of District 27, near the edge, another red dot with the same luster jumped out.
It was also a teleportation array that had just been activated. It should be the place where Dongfang Renxin crawled out.
Dongfang Renxin, however, did the opposite. Instead of running to the surface, he fled deeper into the underground city.
Most of the soldiers of the reformists were gathered on the upper level of the twenty-seventh district. The search and interception on the lower levels were not strict enough.
Li Yao smiled and wiped his face. Then, he took out a Cosmos Ring from his pocket.
Ever since the encounter with Long Yangjun the other day, he had been carefully crafting a piece of magical equipment for the capture operation today.
…
Dongfang Renxin had been a well-respected elder of the Imperium in the beginning. He paid more attention to maintenance and demeanor than anything else. He was known as a handsome man when he was young. Even though he was old now, he still looked more like a middle-aged man in the prime of his life than an old man who was hundreds of years old.
But at this moment, while he was fleeing in a hurry, his hair was messy, and he was soaked in cold sweat. He had completely lost his elegance in the past. Wrinkles were bursting out at a visible speed, and his muscles were drying and shrinking quickly. He seemed to have aged a hundred years within a moment.
The foundation that he had painstakingly built up over a hundred years had been destroyed in an instant, and it was even possible that he would be implicated and lose his reputation. How could this elder of the empire, the vice president of the Royal Physician Society, not feel his insides shattering and his heart burning with anxiety?!
Deafening explosions echoed behind him. Furious flames were burning in the direction of the secret research institute.
The flames that burned in the underground world were not orange in color. Instead, they were green and glossy ghost flames. It was extremely demonic.
Dongfang Renxin, however, had no time to look back and simply fled into the abyss without caring about anything. He had three secret evacuation points in the sixty-third district, the seventy-fifth district, and the eighty-eighth district below. As long as he could evacuate back to the territory of the Dongfang family with the crystal processors and all the data that were of paramount importance, nobody would be able to find him.
The gunshots, explosions, and roars behind him were closer and closer and clearer.
The experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits" were sent out by him to block the pursuers, but they did not seem to be able to delay them for long.
Very soon, there were only two members of the "Thirty-Three Limits" left next to Dongfang Renxin, but a deafening explosion echoed behind him. Then, the flames, gunshots, and roars all fell silent.
Dongfang Renxin looked back in fear. There was an expert behind him who did not disguise his intimidating aura at all, as if a crystal warship had crawled below the ground and approached him.
Dongfang Renxin's pupils were constricted to the minimum. The two experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits" were also ready to launch their fatal attacks at any moment.
However, the person who blinked out of the darkness made Dongfang Renxin overjoyed. "It's you? How did you know — "
The plain face, the black hair that looked like a waterfall, and the tall and slender body. It was none other than Dongfang Mingyue, president of the Association of Demon Hunters!
"Enough talk. We've been fooled this time!"
Dongfang Mingyue was not wearing a helmet. In the feeble light, it could be seen that her eyebrows were furrowed, and the light Crystal Suit on her body was stained with blood. Sparks were even popping up nonstop. It was obvious that she had just defeated the pursuers after a hard battle. "The reformists have set up a trap on the ground to distract us. They are concentrating all their forces to attack the secret research institute. The prime minister asked me to protect your retreat. I don't have many people with me, and I can't persist for long. Let's go now!"
While talking, Dongfang Mingyue strode to Dongfang Renxin and the two experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits".
"How did this happen?"
Dongfang Renxin moaned. "How can the reformists know our great secret? We must've … Wait, prime minister. Did you just call Dongfang Wang 'prime minister'?"
Dongfang Renxin's pupils constricted to the minimum again, and his white hair was all standing up.
The two experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits" sensed that something was wrong, too, but there was no time!
"Dongfang Mingyue", who was right next to them, suddenly unleashed dazzling brilliance, temporarily blinding Dongfang Renxin. Before he realized what was going on, dozens of sharp tiny flying swords had pierced into the acupoints all over his body, unleashing intense electric arcs that locked his limbs and nerves. His bones and nerves seemed to have been plucked out alive. The excruciating pain was excruciating!
He was in pain, but the two experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits" were in a hundred times more pain than he was. They were both screaming in pain that they had never uttered even when they were performing the organ transplantation on the alien beasts.
Dongfang Renxin was temporarily blinded, and his bones and nerves were locked by the magical equipment. It was impossible for him to escape at all. He could only hear cracking sounds next to him. The two experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits" seemed to have had their bones broken inch by inch and ground in a millstone of flesh.
Their screams could still be heard in the first three seconds, but very soon, nothing could be heard at all.
When Dongfang Renxin gradually regained his eyesight, he saw pictures that would never appear even in his nightmares.
The two experts of the "Thirty-Three Limits" had their bones broken, and their flesh compressed into two giant balls together with the special Crystal Suit on their body. They died miserably on the spot.
It was naturally not Dongfang Mingyue standing in the darkness on his opposite side, but another face that had frightened the Dongfang family and even the four Kurfürst families in the past month.
"Vulture Li Yao!"
Dongfang Renxin shrieked in desperation.
They were both in the Divinity Transformation Stage, but the battle-type and the research-type were naturally vastly different. Besides, Li Yao had temporarily won Dongfang Renxin's trust by pretending to be "Dongfang Mingyue", allowing him to plant the confinement magical equipment that he carefully produced inside the guy's body.
Li Yao's confinement magical equipment could've been cracked by no more than ten people in the entire Imperium other than himself.
Dongfang Renxin was obviously not one of them.
"President Dongfang."
Li Yao rubbed his face slowly and took off the last bit of disguise. He put on a hideous smile. "Your crimes are unforgivable. Now, your retribution is here!"
Wriggling like an enormous maggot, Dongfang Renxin crouched to the depths of the darkness in vain. There was no telling how many locals living in the place were staring at them in silence with glittering eyes in the depths of the darkness.
"You … You cannot touch me!"
With a twisted face, Dongfang Renxin roared angrily, "I am an elder of the Imperium. I am an elder of the Dongfang family. Do you know what you are doing? If you touch me, you will be going against the Dongfang family, the Council of Elders, and the entire Imperium! "
Li Yao sniffed and moved forward.
"Don't touch me. Let me go!"
Rolling his eyes quickly, Dongfang Renxin said in a shivering voice, "I can give you whatever you want. I have a lot of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and unparalleled techniques. I have incessant resources. I can give them all to you!"
Unmoved, Li Yao continued moving forward.
"You … You are in the Divinity Transformation Stage right now, aren't you? But your fleshly body is so perfect that it is rarely-seen even in the battle-type Divinity Transformation Stage! "
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