Chapter 223 Aizen: Don’t be too proud, ant.
Chapter 223 Aizen: Don’t be too proud, ant.
Since the recruitment plan failed, Russell had no choice but to go home and rest.
Obviously, what he and Zeng Bo did would not ferment so quickly. After all, although there was a lot of noise, it did not actually cause any casualties.
If you really want to count it, it's just the death of an unknown young man.
However, if Russell and Zeng Bo had not appeared, the young man would have become a glorious limb-replacing demon, and the final ending would not have changed.
It would just make his parents suffer, although it is possible that the death of a filial son like him would be a relief for his parents.
Until Russell went to work at the association's headquarters the next day, the Guiyi Sect did not make any more noise.
"Strange." Russell was a little confused at this time, "Last time, he obviously got revenge very quickly, right?"
This time, he and Zeng Bo killed a member of Guiyi Sect in front of Li Shuo, but the other party actually endured it, which was completely different from the character he had shown before.
It's like you've made up your mind to be a turtle.
There must be something wrong when things are abnormal, and Russell doesn't think that the Unification Church will let it go.
The current lack of action could only mean that he is secretly planning something big.
On the way to the office, Russell met Sima Huai and Lu Yan, who looked at him strangely.
But Russell knew the reason, it was simply that Xie Ziying was dead.
"tsk"
With a subtle feeling of dissatisfaction, he saw the middle-aged man with expressionless face standing at the door of the vice president's office.
"Director Zeng? Is there something wrong?" Russell pretended to be confused even though he knew the truth.
Zeng Bo saw that he was silent for a moment, then he spoke up and said, "President Luo, someone attacked a Guiyi sect base last night. The initial speculation is that it was the Qiling Society."
"Is that so?" Russell raised his eyebrows, "Have you told President Sima?"
Zeng Bo nodded: "He asked me to find you."
"? Is the reason for guarding the headquarters so useful?" Russell complained in a feigned dissatisfaction.
The director of the Public Security Office pretended not to hear.
Seeing this, Russell sighed and said, "Let's go."
There was no need for him to go into this office.
"There must be something special about this base that made you come to me, right?"
"Yes, President Luo, you will know after you go and see it."
The familiar Wanhua Tower, the familiar two people.
But this time it was Russell and Zeng Bo, not Mr. Lu and Mr. Xu.
"It's back again."
They both thought in unison.
But they couldn't show it on their faces.
The two of them went to the secret room on the third floor together.
The appearance of the third floor was completely different from when they left last night.
The walls were blackened by the flames, and most of the broken limbs and arms hanging on the meat hooks had disappeared.
"Tell me about your discovery." Russell glanced around the scene and turned to look at Zeng Bo.
Since the other party could directly say that it was the stronghold of Guiyi Sect, he must have discovered something.
"President, look at the limbs on these meat hooks." Zeng Bo brought Russell to several meat hooks, "This is a human, this is..."
"Of the devil."
"So I have a reasonable suspicion that this is the place where the Guiyi Sect uses to transform limb-jointing monsters."
Hearing this, Russell nodded and agreed with Zeng Bo's statement: "Where are the staff here? Have you asked them?"
Zeng Bo showed some doubt at this time: "I asked them all, and they said they had no impression of this room."
"But the madam said that she was knocked unconscious by two strange young men yesterday. Their names were Mr. Lu and Mr. Xu."
The two parties involved are right here, and Russell feels a little uncomfortable for a moment.
Controlling his expression and passing over the topic, Russell asked in a deep voice, "Where is the boss of Wanhualou? If the employees don't have any impression of him, it's impossible that the boss doesn't have any impression of him, right?"
If the employees might be deceived by Guiyi Sect because they are unfamiliar with it and are just ordinary people, then the boss definitely knows the existence of this room.
After all, we have to come and inspect the building once it is completed.
Who would have thought that Zeng Bo shook his head and said, "The boss is missing. We went to his residence but couldn't find him."
"And judging by the signs of life in the residence, no one has lived there for some time."
"By the way, when our people were investigating the assets of Wanhua Tower, they found that there were many large expenditures with unknown destinations this month, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions."
Russell closed his eyes and began to summarize the information he now knew.
There are only two possible scenarios for the owner of Wanhua Tower now: either he is dead, or he was originally a member of Guiyi Sect.
After a long time, Russell opened his eyes: "Please ask Director Zeng to check the recent missing persons in various areas of Donglai."
"Ordinary people who have a criminal record or often make negative comments need to be paid special attention to."
"Finally, marking it on the map should yield some results."
Zeng Bo didn't understand what Russell wanted to do for a moment, but he still obeyed his orders.
It has to be said that as a behemoth that controls the coastal areas, the efficiency of the association when it is operating at full capacity is truly terrifying.
In just half a day, the information on missing persons reported by Donglai in the past half month had been sorted out and placed in front of Russell by region.
Their home addresses were also marked on the giant Donglai map behind Russell.
Russell selected the map of Fu County, where they were currently located, and connected the missing persons with a red line, barely forming a circle.
The Wanhua Tower is right in the center of the circle.
Then, he followed the same method to connect the missing persons in other areas: "Director Zeng should have figured it out, right?"
"Let your people check to see if there is any money that has gone unaccounted for in these central areas of the graphics."
Zeng Bo reacted after Russell drew the first circle.
If the Guiyi Sect has many such places in Donglai, then all members in each area must be active near the headquarters of their own area.
After all, you can't let members from Fu County go to Laiyang County to recruit supplies.
Not long after, Zeng Bo received a message from his subordinates, but it was not good news: "President Luo, we have checked everything."
"But this is only the case in one brothel in Ludong District."
"Just like Wanhualou, the boss is gone."
“There have been a number of large expenditures recently.”
Hearing this, Russell waved his hand and said, "It's good enough to catch a small braid. If the Guiyi Sect was so easy to reveal its true colors, it wouldn't have fought Master Fang in the north for so many years."
"Come on, let's go see what's going on."
Ludong District, Jinfeng Tower.
Russell and Zeng Bo looked at the brothel which seemed a little deserted during the day in silence.
They all had a subtle sense of déjà vu.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Russell asked the main force to wait at a distance while he and Zeng Bo conducted some investigation first.
As the two entered the Golden Phoenix Building, the heavily made-up mama-san was stunned at first. She didn't expect that a stranger would come to the brothel to consume in broad daylight. However, adhering to the principle of treating guests as guests, she still greeted them: "You two."
But before she could finish her words, Zeng Bo stretched out his right hand to stop him: "Association business, I ask questions and you answer them."
In the palm of his right hand was his ID card as the director of the Public Security Office.
Mama-san almost fainted when she saw the director of the Public Security Office. She never expected that her workplace would be related to such a big shot in Donglai.
As to whether it is fake or not.
Who is so bold as to impersonate the association's card maker?
Anyway, as an ordinary person, she dare not offend him regardless of whether he is fake or not.
"Master" Zeng Bo frowned and asked in a deep voice: "Which floor is your staff resting floor?"
Although Mama-san was a little surprised, she still answered honestly, "It's the fourth floor."
“Are there architectural drawings?”
"No."
Seeing that there were no items he needed, Zeng Bo turned to look at the young man beside him: "President?"
Meeting, meeting, meeting, President?!
Mama-san almost had a cardiac arrest at this point.
She didn't expect that the young man next to the director of the Public Security Office was the leader.
"Take us to the fourth floor." Russell withdrew his gaze from the first floor and said lightly to Mama-san.
"Yes, yes, please follow me, adults." Mama-san wiped the sweat from her forehead and hurriedly led the way.
The servants along the way saw the usually domineering mama-san acting like this and kept their distance from her.
As someone who works in a brothel, he does have some knowledge.
When they reached the fourth floor, Russell’s powerful mental power swept over instantly.
unfortunately
Just like last night, nothing was found.
Zeng Bo on the side watched everything silently. He knew that the Guiyi Sect stronghold in the Golden Phoenix Tower should be hidden by special means just like the Wanhua Tower.
But he couldn't say it because he couldn't explain the source of the news.
Just as Zeng Bo was thinking about how to break the impasse for the young man beside him, he heard a calm voice: "Mama-san, please ask everyone in the building to leave."
"The association's card makers will cooperate with your actions."
Zeng Bo was stunned, and seemed to realize what Russell was going to do: "President Luo?"
Russell glanced at him and said, "Director Zeng, send a message to the standby personnel and ask them to come and clear the area."
Seeing that his boss had already made the decision, Zeng Bo stopped trying to dissuade him.
But a vague idea still emerged in his mind.
I feel not as good as Lu Xi.
Soon, under the good advice of the mama-san and the covert threat of the association's card makers, the few guests who came during the day were all asked to leave.
"Hey," a big-bellied guest pulled Mama-san's sleeve, "Do you know what's going on?"
"Why would these devils come to your store?"
Mama-san knew very well that the more she talked, the more mistakes she made, so she just remained silent and shook her head frantically.
On the fourth floor, Russell realized that he and Zeng Bo were the only ones left in the building, so he immediately called out Misaka Mikoto and Aizen.
He planned to tear down the fourth floor directly.
It's just a brothel, he can afford the compensation.
What's more, if Guiyi Sect really has a base here, the association will naturally pay for it in the end.
At this time, the crowd of bystanders outside the building only heard a sharp thunderous sound, and then the fourth floor of the Golden Phoenix Tower was instantly turned into powder.
"Fuck!"
"Mama-san, are you going to demolish the house?"
Mama-san just stared blankly at the scene in front of her, wondering how to explain it to her boss.
But what happened next made the ordinary people present only regret that their parents had not given them two more legs.
It's not quite accurate to say that the fourth floor was reduced to dust, because there was a single room that survived Misaka Mikoto's attack.
With such a loud noise, even a deaf person would know that something had happened.
"Really."
"One or two, why do you bother me?"
A helpless voice lingered in everyone's ears, and then a pale figure instantly appeared in the air.
Seeing the leader, Russell's pupils shrank and he murmured in his heart: "Lannid"
"I won the jackpot."
"But what about Li Shuo?"
At this time, Russell only saw Lannide, and did not see the middle-aged man in the red dragon robe last night.
In mid-air, the pale female demon put on her glasses again, and looked at Russell below with some pity: "How dare anyone dare to provoke me."
She first glanced at Misaka Mikoto: "Poor and weak."
The brown-haired girl's eyes twitched. She always felt that the woman in the sky was making indirect accusations.
Lanid then looked at Aizen again: "."
She seemed to have no desire to judge Aizen.
Hearing Lannide's words, Russell frowned slightly and had some guesses in his mind: "Could her glasses be some kind of detection device?"
The other party’s performance yesterday made him doubt whether the glasses were some kind of detection equipment.
"It's similar to Spider-Man's appraisal?"
However, he immediately denied this speculation. After all, if it was really the same as Spider-Man's identification, then his and Zeng Bo's vests would have been exposed long ago.
"But is Aizen weak?"
[Disguiser]: Aizen's long-term disguise has made it impossible for others to detect his hidden true strength when they see him.
"Looking at it this way, her glasses seem to have some limitations."
"Similar to the combat power detector in Dragon Ball."
Russell felt that the glasses could only give a rough estimate of the strength of the card, but could not detect detailed skill information.
Just when Lannide wanted to say something else, Zeng Bo's [Prime Minister Turtle] took the first step.
The high-speed rotating dark blue water stream instantly slashed from the ground to the sky.
"squeak!!"
A harsh friction sound was heard, and a female demon in mid-air was holding an open book, and pure white defensive magic circles appeared on her body.
"You've been whining since the beginning." At this moment, the brown-haired girl's hair was pulsating with electricity, "Poor?"
"You're obviously not that old!"
"?" Lanid in mid-air tilted her head in confusion, and the pure white magic circle blocked a coin that was coming in an instant.
Then she seemed to realize something: ".Boring."
As if she had lost her patience, the pages of the book in Lannide's hand flipped rapidly, and several huge magic arrays condensed in the sky.
The next moment, flames mixed with lightning fell from the sky.
"The 81st Way of Binding: Cutting the Void."
A gentle voice was heard, and a transparent barrier suddenly formed in mid-air.
"boom!"
A deafening explosion sounded, and Lannide couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "I was wrong."
"Such an interesting card indeed."
"It's worth it that I fought for this opportunity from the teacher, hahaha."
The strange laughter came out of her mouth again, just like when she saw Spider-Girl last night.
Under Lannide's gaze, the brown-haired man who had been smiling all the time gradually turned cold.
The black frame was taken off by the right hand and shattered quietly in the air.
As the man used his left hand to push his hair back, a cold voice came from his mouth.
"Don't get too cocky, Ant."
(End of this chapter)