Xyrin Empire

Chapter 290: Chapter 290: Robbery Chapter 290: Chapter 290: Robbery This place is the busiest part of the city, a commercial street, a shopping paradise, a walker’s paradise, any name fits. As a consumption-dense area, it’s not upscale to the point where only celebrities and dignitaries can enter, but its products precisely cater to the slightly inflated material desires and vanity of the middle class. Therefore, the middle class, making up seventy percent of the city’s population, are interested in this consumption zone, which is classy yet affordable.

Dense crowds, layered sales floors, shopping malls, and the occasional minor friction—such a place really isn’t suitable for crimes that require high confidentiality to succeed.

“But according to my intuition, their trading spot must be somewhere around here.”

To my doubts, Lin Xue responded with uncompromising confidence.

“Or are you doubting the Prophet’s intuition?”

“You even have to ask? Your intuition hasn’t been of much use these past few days… Hey, hey, hey! Calm down! Restrain yourself!”

“Bang!”

Jeez, what a petty and violent woman.

Yes, just as if it had happened countless times before, after skillfully exchanging about ten moves with Lin Xue, I ended up, as usual, being hit by a fierce direct punch…
Satisfied, Lin Xue suddenly bared her teeth and claws, roaring at the onlookers of ‘ABC’ and ‘D’:
“What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen shopping before?”

…Whoever sees shopping suddenly turn into a dazzling, four-star, live Mortal Kombat next to them!

Just then, Qianqian’s voice suddenly came into my mind: “Ah Jun, Ah Jun, this is Team Three, respond if you hear this.”

“I hear you… but do we really need this formal procedure?”

“It sounds professional, doesn’t it… Never mind that, have you found anything on your end?”

“A lot of people, clear weather, tall shopping malls, Lin Xue is quite violent, that’s it. What about you?”

“First three, same as above, lastly, Little Baobao is giving me a headache…”
“And Sandora?”

“…”
“Sandora?”

“…Ah?”

Needless to say, that girl had probably buried herself in some food court, blissfully forgetting everything else.

“Did you find anything?”

“No… um, yes, yes, yes, the soup dumplings here are really tasty! Ah Jun, you guys should come over later!”

“I’m starting to wonder whether you guys came to help or to mess things up,” Lin Xue’s voice ground through her teeth, echoing across the public channel, “How can I even be sure of your real intention for coming here?”

Qianqian: “Shopping!”

Sandora: “Eating!”

Big Sister: “Purchasing!”

Me: “And then incidentally helping.”

“I must have been out of my mind to let you unreliable folks come out on patrol together…”
“Alright, alright,” seeing the frustration on Lin Xue’s face, I knew to stop there; her patience was equally limited, “Relax, with so many professional Imperial Officers and patrol squads on the periphery, and us Leader Level folks on the inside, under this tight security net, do you think our opponents could grow wings and fly away?”

Lin Xue sighed and said, “I of course know the troops mobilized this time are potent, but to be honest, you also know that Xyrin soldiers have always been most adept at direct destruction. Once they start, there will definitely be casualties. For those troops to complete such a task without harming the vulnerable civilians… I always have a severe sense of insecurity… And recently one thing after another has already given grandpa a lot of headaches. If an unintended accident happens today, I really don’t know how to face him…”

I looked at Lin Xue with a surprised expression as she suddenly showed worry. When did this ever-confident and domineering Miss ever display such emotional vulnerability?

“This is Earth,” Lin Xue caught my puzzled look. With her already superior intuition, she naturally guessed what surprised me. “Those who might get hurt are all my human compatriots, and this time the burden is squarely on the shoulders of our Superpower Team. You, the ‘Great God,’ of course feel no pressure…”

Hey hey hey, did you just subtly exclude me from the circle of humanity? Also, was it because the main burden was always on our Xyrin Army that you never felt any pressure during our previous missions?

Why on earth did I have to be unlucky enough to end up in a group with this unfortunate Miss Lin Xue today… Even being paired with Lilina, the “Fake Lolita,” would have been much better than this…

Meanwhile, a few hundred meters away in a certain mall.

Visca and Pandora, paired with Big Sister, were staring each other down, engaging in their usual squabbles.

“Why do I have to be paired with this guy!?” Visca furiously pointed at her twin sister, her face unwilling as she spoke to the Big Sister.

Big Sister, with a healing smile, patted the angry little girl’s head, not caring about the “Don’t treat me like a child” protest in her eyes, “Visca, be good. You agreed when we drew lots.”

“It’s a rigged game! You must have rigged the draw!” Visca immediately used a term she had learned from television just yesterday.

“Oh really? Ah Jun and I were the ones who prepared the draw,” Big Sister continued with her gentle smile, but in Visca’s illusion, it seemed as if a dark and ominous fog suddenly surrounded them, and even a terrifying entity known as a ghost slowly emerged behind the smiling Big Sister, “Are you suggesting your beloved brother or I manipulated the draw—secretly?”

“No no no!” Even the normally fearless and somewhat crazy Visca immediately understood the most appropriate reaction, “I never thought that!” As she spoke, she even unabashedly grabbed the arm of Pandora, whom she considered an “enemy,” seemingly intimately hugging her and saying, “I am very happy to be paired with Sister Pandora, right, Sister?”

Pandora slowly turned her head to look at Visca’s stiff smile, then at the suddenly very ominous Big Sister, and shuddered all over.

Nod, nod.

“Good girl,” Big Sister, who possessed a formidable Big Sister Aura that ignored any Attribute Defense and had one-hit kill abilities on young subjects, pressed the two girls’ heads satisfactorily, then stood up, “Alright, now let’s continue shopping… patrolling! Patrolling!”

The Big Sister’s eyes gleamed as she scanned the surrounding shops. The moment she turned her head, Pandora and Visca decisively stopped their squabbling and, at a speed incomprehensible to ordinary people, straightened their clothes and stood there seemingly obediently, “We just saw a little craft stall there. Should we go take a look?”

In that instant, the Big Sister revealed her true nature…

But just then, a commotion suddenly erupted from a passage not far in front.

“Bang!”

The sudden noise caused the somewhat noisy shopping area to quiet for about a second. Only the music playing from a few shops, previously drowned out by the crowd, oddly echoed in the air. Then, as often seen in movies, chaos erupted instantly, starting with a woman’s shrill scream. The entire floor boiled over at the same moment, the brief second of music sound being drowned out once again.

“Bang! Bang!!”

Two consecutive gunshot sounds, accompanied by a rough man’s voice echoing across the floor, “Everyone, fucking quiet down! From now on, if there’s a scream, I’m killing one person!”

A burst of sudden panic, though temporarily plunging the crowd into disarray, at least didn’t scare them silly. After a few seconds of turmoil, the crowd once again fell into a deadly silence, the drowned-out music abruptly resuming. The extreme switch between movement and stillness, along with the background DJ music that seemed to come out of nowhere, turned the sudden event even more dramatic.

Casually restraining the two eager troublemakers beside her, the Big Sister whispered, “Wait a moment, act like ordinary people.”

“Everyone, sit down on the ground!”

The rough male voice resounded from behind the crowd, and then, in a state of panic, the crowd dispersed and obediently squatted on the ground. A tall, burly man with disheveled hair and a beard brandished a handgun as he walked over. Behind him, two underlings, also wielding handguns and scaring the already terrified customers with fierce eyes, differed from their leader; the two underlings wore silly-looking monster masks, clearly the cheap kind you’d find on the street sold two for five bucks.

The muscular bearded man strode to the center of the clearing, his gaze briefly resting on a long-haired girl not far in front, hugging two little girls and seemingly cowering with her head low—그 didn’t pay much attention to her, but the two expressionless little girls, still watching him with what seemed like curiosity, slightly caught his attention.

But that wasn’t worth focusing too much on.

“Listen up, we’re only after your money, not your lives!” the bearded man blared, seemingly having forgotten his initial declaration of “a scream kills a person,” “Everyone, hand over your valuables!”