Use first and repay later: Advance the future cultivation fruits

Chapter 82: 81, A Sky Net and an Earth Trap

“What’s going on? Wasn’t the plan to make a move tonight?”

Startled and somewhat incredulous, Xiao Peidong couldn’t believe it. “Could it be that they plan to catch this Zhao Jiayi first? Wouldn’t that alert the enemy?”

But this thought barely flashed through his mind when he immediately realized his mistake!

Because—

“Boom!”

He saw ‘Chu Tianyao’ like a violent wind, his body becoming a blur, instantly weaving through the crowd of Patrol Officers.

Those cold eyes were fixed on Xiao Peidong. As the sound of the air burst rang out, his right leg turned into an afterimage, slicing through the air like a battle-axe, and brutally slamming down towards his head!

“How can it be me?!”

Xiao Peidong’s pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, his heart filled with endless fear.

Even before the strike landed, the oppressive wind pressure was already bearing down on him!

Facing the terrifying strike with such massive power and weight, his instinct kicked in, and he felt the despair of being engulfed by darkness!

“No!!!”

In that moment, Xiao Peidong exerted all his strength to activate Combat Skill, his arms glistening with a metallic sheen in an instant. At the same time, dense black lines appeared in the depths of his eyes, desperately resisting the attack!

However—

“Crack!!”

Xiao Peidong felt the terrifying power of the strike was far beyond what he could bear. The moment they made contact, his arms, like rotting wood, broke and shattered instantly. Flesh and blood flew in all directions.

Then, the force of the leg continued unabated, brutally kicking towards his head!

“Thump!”

Xiao Peidong’s head, not as fortified as his Combat Skill-enhanced arms, burst open instantly. Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere, and skull fragments created holes in the ground!

All that was left was a headless corpse, collapsing powerlessly into a pool of blood.

In just an instant, he was dead beyond any doubt.

“Captain Xiao!!”

“Damn it!”

This all happened in a flash. Many Patrol Officers hadn’t even noticed Chu Tianyao’s appearance, and when they turned their heads, they saw that Captain Xiao had already been killed!

Immediately, Zhao Jiayi and the other Patrol Officers drew their guns and frantically fired at ‘Chu Tianyao’!

“Bang Bang Bang Bang!!”

Amidst the gunfire, powerful bullets whirred through the air, all aimed at ‘Chu Tianyao’.

But ‘Chu Tianyao’, with an indifferent look, saw his right hand, clad in a black glove, vanish in an instant, becoming an afterimage that flickered a few times. Each bullet was blocked by his hand!

Then, ‘Chu Tianyao’ once again became a blurry figure, crossing the busy traffic-laden road, and quickly disappeared from the crowd’s view.

Leaving behind a group of stunned and furious Patrol Officers on the opposite side of the road, standing lost at the scene.

Chase? How to chase?

Road barriers were in place because of the high speeds of autonomously driven vehicles.

If the speed was slower, the autonomous cars would stop automatically, but with faster ones, the laser sensing couldn’t react in time, and inertia would simply send people flying.

Unless one had the outrageous speed of ‘Chu Tianyao’, crossing through the gaps of autonomous cars would be easy.

And none of the Patrol Officers on the scene could do that.

Moreover, even if they caught up, it would just mean giving up another life.

“…This is a disaster.”

The leader of the Patrol Group, Captain Liang, had a pale face as he looked at the pool of blood that contained Xiao Peidong’s body and said with a trembling voice, “Chu Tianyao… dared to publicly assassinate a Patrol Officer?”

“And Captain Xiao had just been discharged from the hospital, surveillance protection had just been removed, and they acted immediately?”

“This Chu Tianyao is even more ruthless than the legends say!”

“Arrogant… too arrogant!”

“The Inspection Headquarters will definitely be furious. They will send people to thoroughly investigate, and even if it means turning Lin’an and the entire Jiangnan upside down, they will find Chu Tianyao!”

“This time… Chu Tianyao has really caused a big mess…”

The Patrol Officers present knew well that with only the Xiao Shan Patrol Bureau’s power, they couldn’t deal with a rogue with terrifying abilities like Chu Tianyao. Now, they could only strongly condemn and hope that the Inspection Headquarters would intervene.

“Using the power of the Inspection Headquarters to deal with Yuanhong Society and the Original Research Institute? Isn’t that a bit exaggerated…”

In the crowd, Zhao Jiayi muttered to himself while his telekinetic power spread out far away.

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Several hundred meters away was the Xiao Shan District People’s Hospital building.

On the corner of the gray and white wall of the building, a figure concealed beneath a gray and white cloth clung to the wall, moving up like a gecko, with an incredibly fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, this figure reached a window on the fifth floor.

That window automatically opened, and after the figure wrapped in cloth darted in, the window closed by itself.

Not far from that spot on the building’s wall, there were cameras.

But the two cameras that could capture this angle – one had been smothered by bird droppings that fell from the sky yesterday, and just as the other was about to capture the figure, a leaf blew past, blocking the lens for a mere blink of an eye.

Everything was as calm as usual, leaving no suspicious trace behind.

In the hospital building, on the fifth floor in the restroom stall.

‘Chu Tianyao’ quickly removed his already tattered clothes, shoes, hat, and bald cap disguise. Then, his hands shimmered with a metallic sheen and became a blur as he tore the clothes into shreds, then ground them into powder.

Simultaneously, his face and body shape began to change drastically, quickly reverting to Lin Qing’s original appearance.

In just over ten seconds, all that was left in the sewer was a pile of powder that was meaningless even if found, swept away by the fierce current of water.