Chapter 86 - Relax, I’m here. What’s the worst that could Happen?
Yun Sheng was very impressed at the same time, as even a branch chief of the Special Task Force like him, had to deal with things carefully. He was unable to afford to act as he fancied like Lu Xuan.
He recognized that the world was indeed one where might made right.
Yang Chengsi’s frightening level of cultivation and the potential menace he would have brought about as the head of the Coalition of the Woods meant that even the provincial boss of the Special Task Force had to be wary of him.
However, none of that mattered to Lu Xuan. He slapped the man like he would an ant.
A boss of the coalition was nothing but a joke before someone truly powerful.
Yun Sheng was unable to help but recall the big boss of the headquarters. That single man who had been able to overwhelm all of his enemies served as a stabilizer of sorts, keeping all who would have caused a great commotion throughout the nation.
The man was the very reason the Special Task Force became what it was at this moment—a status forged through many brutal battles.
Yun Sheng knew all too well about the futility of reasoning with cultivators. Only fists harder than theirs would have made those people listen.
That was why the Special Task Force gathered all those people around as there would probably be a very brutal, terrifying bloodbath waiting for all of them.
Lu Xuan took a look at the escape routes that those people had taken so far, which Yun Sheng had just sent him.
He came to a conclusion almost immediately. He said, “They were running in circles. It seemed that they were waiting for someone.”
What Lu Xuan said reminded Yun Sheng of something right away. Things would have taken a turn for the worse if that was truly the case.
He knew that there were Martial Arts Legends in the midst of those robbers. Conventional logic said that they would have long reached the beach if they traveled at normal speeds. However, all of them had yet to even be in the province yet, a testament saying that they were indeed running in circles.
They would have known that the authorities had placed a lockdown throughout the country. The longer they took with their escape, the greater the force the country would have been able to mobilize against them, yet they chose to run around in circles nonetheless.
There was only one possibility as to why that happened—they had someone to pick them up.
“Indeed. It’s impossible for them not to have someone picking them up. We’ve been careless.”
Yun Sheng realized the plan at that moment. If the Falling Star in Mount Tai Incident had happened too abruptly, then the act of foreign spies lurking in the country choosing to go all out and steal the Heirloom Seal of the Realm would have been some spontaneous operation.
With so much time passed from the moment the incident broke out, the forces behind those people would have definitely known about it, and it was impossible for them not to send anyone to pick up the robbers.
As such, there was only one reason why those people kept running in circles—they were waiting for rescue.
“I’ll contact the headquarters right away and ask for reinforcements. It will be too late otherwise,” Yun Sheng said immediately.
“You think they would have made it in time? Judging from the route they have taken, we will be clashing head-on with them in 30 minutes at most.” Lu Xuan added with a low voice, “But relax, I’m here. What’s the worst that could happen, eh?”