Right after they left, a man in a suit walked hurriedly to the basement of the bar's back kitchen.
At this moment, outside the room with the communicator locked inside stood two men dressed in security uniforms. They were also Eld's accomplices in carrying out the assassination plan.
Seeing these two companions guarding the door, Zhang Ying's anxious expression finally eased a bit. Just a moment ago, he received the order to head to the abandoned factory on his chip.
It must be Eld, that idiot, who wanted to act on his own before issuing the order. He didn't think about it either. The code word that Xiao Chen had conveyed in the bar before was to hold off on the action, not to take action. What if this stupid guy was in such a hurry to ruin their big event?
If it weren't for the fact that Eld was the owner of this bar and an important investor in their organization, Zhang Ying wouldn't have been able to hand over something as important as the central communicator device to him to look after.
But the fact that these two guards were still there meant that Eld hadn't left yet, and everything was still not too late.
"Quickly open the door!" Zhang Ying ordered anxiously.
Ridika and Goli, who were guarding the door, had the same message appear on their chips. They were waiting for Eld to come out and go to the abandoned factory together. Seeing Zhang Ying in such a hurry, the two instantly realized something was wrong.
As soon as the door opened, Zhang Ying rushed in and tried to open his mouth to stop the other party. However, the room was empty, and there was no sign of Eld at all.
"Where's the boss?"
"That's not right, we two brothers have been guarding the door. We haven't seen the boss go out at all!" The two guards were flustered, completely unable to understand what had happened.
Zhang Ying's heart raced uncontrollably, a sense of foreboding spreading throughout his body. His gaze fixed on the central communicator, and he ran towards it in a panic, frantically pressing the screen with both hands, hoping to quickly cancel Eld's foolish command.
However, the communicator, which used to be extremely responsive, was as if it was dead at this moment, with no movement at all. A cold sweat quickly broke out behind Zhang Ying's back.
"Teacher Zhang, what should we do now?"
The two guards anxiously said.
"Prepare the hovercar and rush to the abandoned factory as soon as possible. We must stop Eld before he makes his move!"
Zhang Ying's face was pale and his legs were weak as he ran out. No one knew how Eld had gotten out of such a confined space.
They absolutely couldn't let Eld, this one idiot, ruin their entire plan. Otherwise, no one in the organization would be able to survive.
On the other hand, Eld woke up from his sleep. In the haze of his eyes, he saw the young man standing on the abandoned rooftop. Under the bright moonlight, the pair of huge black bat wings and tails behind him were endlessly strange and dark.
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Seeing Eld wake up, Ya Xiao spun on his feet and jumped from the high rooftop railing to the other man's side, his movements light and his tone nonchalant.
He didn't have much time himself and needed to get back to work before dawn.
Eld very much didn't want to answer, but the monster in front of him would force an answer out of him even if he refused to answer. The eerie feeling of being controlled swept through his body once again.
"Yes."
Satisfied, Ya Xiao sat cross-legged next to Eld and continued with the question from a long time ago with a smile, "You said that there are three butlers involved in this plan, what are their names and identities?"
Ya Xiao intended to squeeze all the value out of the other party. After all, judging from Eld's previous deeds, his position in the organization was not low, and he must have known very well who those three butlers who did not have the chip implanted were.
Eld's throat tightened. Even if he covered his mouth with his hand, he couldn't stop his voice under magical control:
"The Fifth Base Adjutant's butler, Chen Kui."
"The Eighth Base Lieutenant General's butler, Ert."
"The First Base Adjutant's butler, Ariel."
Ya Xiao originally hadn't experienced any change in his emotions when he heard the identities of the first two butlers, but when he heard the identity of the last one, his eyebrows raised under his mask.
"First Base?"
The First Base wasn't part of the border bases. As far as Ya Xiao knew, there was no way they would be coming to the border meeting.
"Ariel is at this base now?"
"No." Eld gasped. He had told Ya Xiao everything he knew.
But their organization was just a lesser branch of the whole organization. He suddenly burst into laughter, his eyes full of mockery.
"The people of the Seventh Base are all avengers left behind. Unless you wipe us all out, as long as there are people alive from the Seventh Base, the flames of hatred will continue to burn."
"One day, it will burn Qin Qi to the ground."
Eld knew that this monster wanted to protect the marshal, but so what?
Their determination to avenge the Seventh Base and their families would never be weaker than the other side's. Because they had nothing to lose, they wouldn't be afraid of anything, they only thought of revenge.
Eld's hand reached into his pocket without a trace.
Ya Xiao raised his hand and touched the ear from which he had already removed the bone stud, realizing that there were more people who wanted to kill Qin Qi than he had thought.
This was not good news.
There were light footsteps coming from outside.
Ya Xiao thought for a moment and arched an eyebrow at Eld, who had fallen to the ground, "Can I borrow that little toy you have in your pocket for a moment?"
Eld, who was pulling a bomb out of his pocket to die with the monster: ......
In the end, Ya Xiao still didn't use Eld's bomb, mainly because he wasn't very good at using this dark thing.
Ya Xiao casually threw the bomb into his own system warehouse. Amid Eld's wide-eyed expression, he leaped up and landed on the balcony railing, overlooking the continuous stream of people entering the dilapidated factory below.
It should be almost time for them to come.
Ya Xiao exerted force beneath his feet, his body leaping into the air. His feet glided along the black wall as he descended continuously, landing on the ground with slightly bent knees, making no sound.
He turned to look inside the building, his blue eyes calmly observing the figures ahead. These dozen or so individuals might not have undergone professional training and lacked strong vigilance. Ya Xiao's lips curled into a smirk, and the next moment, he appeared behind these people.
Zhang Ying and the two guards were the last to arrive. They rushed over anxiously, intending to stop Eld from confronting head-on. However, before they could find anyone, they suddenly collapsed as soon as they entered the building. When they woke up again, they found themselves tied up next to Eld.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground was a young man with braided hair, muttering numbers under his breath. Behind him were two enormous black bat wings and a tail emitting a faint blue glow.
Before Zhang Ying could come back to his senses in his trance, he heard the young man wearing a clown mask say in a pleasant tone, "Exactly seventeen, the members of the organization with implanted chips are all here."
Zhang Ying: ......???
Why would he know that?
Ya Xiao didn't care about the assassin's thoughts. He happily got up and snapped his fingers. After knocking all of these associates unconscious, his gaze fell on Eld.
Unlike the others, Eld had seen his face. Just in case, Ya Xiao could only endure the pain of using up some of his magic once again, blurring the other's memory.
Silence returned to the abandoned factory.
Ya Xiao looked at the seventeen people who had collapsed and glanced down at the time, the marshal should be waking up soon at this time.
Thick curtains blocked the possibility of moonlight penetrating in. The dark room was so quiet that only the sound of subtle breathing could be heard. The man lying on the bed had his eyes closed tightly, sleeping heavily. In the next second, he suddenly opened his eyes, drew the silver gun next to him, and quickly pressed the trigger.
The stern eyes did not have half a bit of sluggishness after sleeping, awake as if he had never slept from beginning to end.
Bangâ
The sound of a bullet breaking the window rang out.
Qin Qi put away the silver gun, eyebrows furrowed slightly. He seemed to notice something. He pushed open the window, the base light under the hazy moonlight was bright, without any abnormality.
He closed the window and turned around, his black eyes sank slightly when his sight fell on the wall.
At the same time, the subordinates who were awakened by the sound of gunfire rushed up.
After permission was granted, Mist and the others opened the door to the room. They followed the marshal's gaze to the wall, and their faces immediately darkened. Under the white light, two lines of words written in red blood stood out in an eye-catching and eerie manner.
[Someone on the rooftop of the abandoned factory wants to assassinate the marshal. Don't worry, it has been solved.]
The next day, Qin Qi sat on a chair, listening to Mist report the information he had found out.
"We traveled to the abandoned factory, found seventeen of the original Seventh Base residents, and conducted physical examinations on several of them." Mist pursed his lips, his tone heavier:
"After testing, they were implanted with chips in their bodies. Based on the information patterns on their optical brains, these seventeen people do have a plan to assassinate the marshal."
Qin Qi's expression did not change, and he did not seem surprised.
"And?"
Mist looked at the next report with a somewhat strange expression, but continued to report anyway:
"According to the clues provided by these seventeen people, the person who attacked them was a young man wearing a clown mask and a scorpion braid in a state of alienation."
Qin Qi's eyes darkened slightly when he heard this.