Along the way, they encountered several gangs of thieves who took advantage of the turmoil in the city to rob. Whenever Zheng Yubai encountered them, he would grab them and throw them away. Seeing those thieves crying and screaming, Zheng Jingzhe and others who followed Zheng Yubai were a little stunned.
No one had ever seen Zheng Yubai so excited. In their impression, Zheng Yubai was an honest and steady young man who seemed like nothing could make him angry.
But now Zheng Yubai seemed like a different person, like a dragon whose reverse scales were touched, he suddenly became furious. If someone was his enemy at this time, Zheng Jingzhe believed that Zheng Yubai would tear the enemy to pieces.
The four of them completed the tutorial very quickly. There were traffic jams in many places in the chaotic city. Even if they took a car, it would not be as convenient as going home from the small road. Twenty minutes later, they had arrived outside the residential area where Zheng Yubai lived.
The community was extremely quiet. What was surprising was that there was not a single light on in the several buildings in the community. The entire community was silent. Except for a few street lamps dimly illuminating the road, other places were pitch black.
Seeing this scene, Zheng Yubai stopped and stared at the building where he lived, sensing a dangerous smell in it.
"Hypnosis." Zheng Jingzhe came to Zheng Yubai's side and said in a low voice.
"Look at me breaking their hypnosis." Yang Feiyun said coldly. The training he and Zhang Daosheng had been doing for the past month had indeed achieved good results. Yang Feiyun, who would have fainted if he had used his soul-cleansing ability once, had already used his soul-cleansing ability three times in the past few hours. Although his face was very pale and made people a little worried, he was still energetic.
Zheng Jingzhe raised his hand to stop Yang Feiyun, shaking his head and said, "No need, it's better to do it when it's late at night and everyone is asleep. If everyone wakes up, the mess will only get in the way."
Yang Feiyun thought so too and asked, "Then what should we do?"
"Since the other party has set an ambush, let's just go in. They are the ones who want to kill people, and they are also the ones who are anxious. Let's just wait and see what happens." Zheng Jingzhe said, and was the first to stride in.
The boundless darkness before my eyes was growing thicker and thicker. This night was a little different from usual ones. Not only was it eerily quiet, but it was also abnormally dark.
"It's just an illusion." Yang Feiyun sneered as he walked in the center of the team, observing all around.
Zheng Yubai said nothing as he followed Zheng Jingzhe. In his eyes, the scenery on both sides was no different from usual. His quadrilateral pupils had undergone a huge change after the "help" from the American alien. All illusions were nothing in his eyes and could not escape his sharp eyes.
Zheng Jingzhe, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. Not far in front of him, several blurry shadows slowly emerged and became clearer and clearer.
"Zheng Yubai, we have been waiting for you for a long time." A sinister laugh sounded in the darkness.
"You bastards from Yipintang, stop sneaking around. If you have the ability, stand out openly." Zheng Jingzhe shouted.
"Zheng Jingzhe, you have a good son. I have worked hard to train the mage army for six years, but all of them were lost in your hands. It is really beyond my expectation." The voice sighed and refused to reveal its figure. The blurry shadows in front of him stopped, and Zheng Jingzhe saw clearly that two of them were very familiar.
Zheng Yubai couldn't hold back and stepped forward: "Jin'er, Uncle Xu!"
Zheng Jingzhe also saw clearly at this time that the two slightly hunched figures in the middle of the three strange shadows were Xu Jin and Xu Ruoyu. They really fell into the ambush of Yipintang, which made Zheng Jingzhe's heart tighten and worried.
"Don't go any further, or I'll kill them?" The voice sounded again, ethereal and nowhere. The surrounding atmosphere was even more bizarre, making people feel like they were no longer in the human world, but in some unreal, non-existent space.
"What do you want?" Zheng Yubai stopped and asked.
"You killed my son and destroyed my dream. I want the same in return." said the voice.
"Are you Lee Chong Wei?" Zheng Yubai was stunned.
"It is me." The voice suddenly became old. "You have ruined my life and my great cause. Without my son, what am I fighting for? Without the Mage Corps, how can I unify Yandao Hall? I have nothing left, and it's all because of you."
Zheng Yubai was silent. In a way, what Lee Chong Wei said was not wrong. It was he who ruined Lee Chong Wei's plan and made him fall from the clouds of confidence to the earth, and he was covered in disgrace.
"I will not offend others unless they offend me. If it weren't for the pressure from Yipintang, I would not have killed them." Zheng Yubai said in a deep voice. He was no longer a young boy who liked to take all the responsibilities on himself. Now there was only a fire in his heart, that is, any enemy who wanted to hurt his relatives and friends must not be spared.
"It doesn't matter. Things have come to this point. Either you die or I die." Lee Chong Wei said, his voice full of despair and madness.
"What do you want?" After all, there were hostages in the hands of the other party. Zheng Yubai could only calm down and deal with Lee Chong Wei calmly.
"I want to cut your beloved into pieces in front of you and see your grief-stricken expression. Only then can I feel happy." Lee Chong Wei laughed.
"You dare!" Zheng Yubai roared, and the darkness beside him was shaken by the power of his shout, like a soap bubble that was about to burst.
Li Zongwei exclaimed, looking a little surprised, and then angrily said: "If you dare to come forward, I will have someone kill him with a knife!"
As he spoke, a vague figure beside Xu Jin pulled out a shiny steel knife and put it on Xu Jin's neck. The steel knife was extremely sharp, and even if Zheng Yubai had the speed of the Flash, he probably couldn't save Xu Jin safely at this distance.
Zheng Yubai didn't dare to move, but his body began to tremble with anger. He had a huge amount of strength in his body, but he had no way to vent it. It was like a volcano that wanted to erupt, but couldn't find a gap to break out of the earth's crust.
"Don't be impulsive..." Zheng Yubai suddenly heard Zheng Jingzhe's voice. His father's voice calmed him down a little, and his clenched fists gradually loosened, and his body returned to a relaxed state. After taking a few deep breaths, Zheng Yubai calmed down again and said, "Your enemy is me. I will exchange with her, and you can cut me to avenge your son."
"Hehe, do you think I'm a fool? Your martial arts are so good, I'm afraid it's a trap, unless..." Lee Chong Wei was holding a hostage and was extremely arrogant.
"Unless what?" Zheng Yubai asked hurriedly, as if he saw a glimmer of hope.
“Unless you break your hand first…” Lee Chong Wei laughed.
"Bullshit!" Wu Neng roared, and the light golden light on his palm became brighter. "Brother Yu Bai, let's go together and kill this guy."
"Who dares?" Lee Chong Wei shouted.
Zheng Yubai stopped the impulsive Wu Neng and said, "Break my hand."
"Are you kidding?" Wu Neng said angrily.
Zheng Yubai said nothing, but Zheng Jingzhe said, "Okay, I'll do it!"
"Bang!" Two palms slapped Zheng Yubai's shoulders, and Zheng Yubai's shoulders were immediately dislocated. His two arms fell off like noodles and hung on both sides of his body. Zheng Yubai showed a painful expression on his face, but he didn't say a word.
"How is it? Is it okay?" Zheng Yubai asked with pain.
Li Zongwei obviously didn't expect Zheng Yubai to actually do this. The flame of revenge in his heart suddenly became strong. In fact, he had already despaired of revenge. The most elite mage corps of Yipintang was so vulnerable. Such a devastating blow had crushed his confidence in conquering the entire Yandaotang into dust. Now he just wanted to torture Xu Jin and make Zheng Yubai suffer. He had long given up hope of killing Zheng Yubai to avenge his son.
Now Zheng Yubai actually broke both arms, which rekindled hope in Li Zongwei's eyes. He pondered for a moment and smiled, "Come over first and talk."
Zheng Yubai staggered forward, and Wu Neng behind him shouted, "Brother Yubai, you can't go and die."
Zheng Jingzhe grabbed Wu Neng who was about to stop Zheng Yubai and said, "Don't try to persuade him. This kid has been so stubborn since he was young."
Wu Neng was about to cry: "He will die!"
Zheng Jingzhe remained calm, with a cunning gleam in his eyes.
Zheng Yubai walked in front of the three blurry figures, his two hanging arms swinging back and forth, completely out of control. Li Zongwei saw it and sneered, "Well, you actually delivered it to me, very good."
"You should keep your word and let him go." Zheng Yubai said.
"Okay, I, Li Zongwei, am also a big shot. Since you're here to die, I'll satisfy your request." As soon as Li Zongwei finished speaking, the blurred figures of Xu Jin and Xu Ruoyu were pushed out, rolling several meters away.
Zheng Jingzhe and the other two immediately went over to help them up. Upon closer inspection, they found that both of them had fainted, apparently under the influence of hypnosis.
"Are they okay?" Zheng Yubai seemed unable to bear the pain in his arm. He fell to his knees with a plop and asked in a low voice.
"They are fine." Zheng Jingzhe was experienced and knew that they were fine after touching the two men's bodies a few times.
"Very good." Zheng Yubai laughed and said, "Lee Chong Wei, come and kill me if you want."
"Hmph, Zheng Yubai, go to hell!" Lee Chong Wei roared, and three blurry shadows in front of Zheng Yubai pounced on him together.
A smile broke out on Zheng Yubai's face and he rolled on the ground. His arm, which was originally hanging at his side, somehow returned to its original position perfectly after being rolled over.
"Asshole!" Li Zongwei was furious when he saw Zheng Yubai's move, but he still had one last trump card. He was sure that Zheng Yubai had no way to resist his hypnotic technique.
Zheng Yubai restored his arms, did a somersault on the ground, leaped up, and kicked out with a spring kick, hitting a blurry shadow in the chest. The shadow groaned, stepped back three steps, and coughed loudly while stroking his chest.
The other two blurry shadows stopped, shook a few times, and burst like soap bubbles. The darkness around them also disappeared in an instant. The shadow kicked by Zheng Yubai gradually revealed his figure, and it turned out to be an old man.
"Lee Chong Wei, you finally show up." Zheng Yubai moved the joints of his shoulders, and everything returned to normal. He could deliver the most powerful punches at any time.
"How do you know it was me? You couldn't have known." Lee Chong Wei started coughing violently, his back bent like a cooked shrimp.
Zheng Yubai looked at the pitiful old man and couldn't bear to tell him that he had seen from the beginning that the one in the center of the three blurry shadows was Li Zongwei himself, and the other two were phantoms he created using magic. In Zheng Yubai's eyes, all illusions were useless.
"I never thought that after hunting geese all year round, I would be pecked in the eye by a goose." Lee Chong Wei said with a long sigh.
Zheng Yubai looked at Lee Chong Wei with some confusion. The force he used in that kick just now was so strong that if his estimation was correct, Lee Chong Wei's lungs would have been crushed.
"Are you wondering why I haven't died yet?" Lee Chong Wei suddenly said.
Zheng Yubai didn't say anything, but the expression on his face told Lee Chong Wei the answer.
"There's a saying passed down from the ancients that goes 'Old ginger is more spicy', you must have heard of it, right?" Lee Chong Wei suddenly laughed loudly, took out a round black object from somewhere, and slammed it to the ground.
With a "bang", thick smoke rose up, with a spicy smell in it. Zheng Yubai was surrounded by the smoke, and immediately held his breath, kicking towards where Li Zongwei was. But Li Zongwei had disappeared.
The smoke filled the air, obscuring everyone's vision. This smoke was lingering and not only pungent, but it also seemed to contain some toxins, causing Zheng Yubai to feel a sharp pain in his nose. He quickly retreated and finally got out of the range of the smoke.
"Son, are you okay?" Zheng Jingzhe pulled Zheng Yubai to his side and stuffed something into Zheng Yubai's nose. Zheng Yubai felt itchy in his nose and couldn't help but sneeze loudly.
"Are you feeling better?" Zheng Jingzhe asked.
Zheng Yubai sniffed his nose and found that his nasal pain had improved a lot. He looked closely and saw that his sneeze had sprayed out two streams of green pus.
"What is this?" Zheng Yubai was shocked. Only then did he realize that if it weren't for his father's experience, he would have been poisoned.
"The Yipintang's Duhuo Bomb is their magic weapon to save their lives. I have retired from the martial arts world for many years and forgot that they still have such vicious things." Zheng Jingzhe said embarrassedly, "It will take at least two hours for this smoke to dissipate."
"It's a pity that Lee Chong Wei escaped." Zheng Yubai was a little annoyed. If he let Lee Chong Wei go, there would be troubles in the future.
However, there was one thing that puzzled Zheng Yubai even more. That was why his heart-wrenching kick did not kill Lee Chong Wei in one blow.
When Zheng Jingzhe told this question, the old man frowned and said, "Li Zongwei must be wearing silk soft armor."
"Silk soft armor?" When Zheng Yubai heard this term, he couldn't help but think of the invulnerable armor worn by Wei Xiaobao in The Deer and the Cauldron.
"Don't think that thing only exists in martial arts novels, it also exists in reality." No one knows a son better than his father. Zheng Jingzhe knew what Zheng Yubai was thinking as soon as he saw his expression.
"Is it really that magical?" Zheng Yubai asked.
"If you use a gun, you will definitely kill him. But silk is really magical and can offset a lot of force. Next time you meet that old guy, use all your strength and don't be afraid that he will escape again." Zheng Jingzhe said.
Zheng Yubai kept this in mind and focused all his attention on Xu Jin and Xu Ruoyu. Fortunately, Yang Feiyun was there, and he easily removed the hypnosis from the two of them, and of course, he also removed the hypnosis from the entire community.
The address of the house had been exposed, so they could not stay any longer. They rushed directly to Jinghai Hospital, and took Yang Huting with them, and Yang Feiyun arranged a secret place for them to stay temporarily.
After Du Bisheng and Yu Luo followed fellow apprentice Luo Hengyang and arrived, Zheng Yubai contacted Zhang Daosheng again and learned that everyone in the Superman Association was relatively safe and had found a secluded place to stay temporarily. He felt a little relieved.
Zheng Jingzhe massaged Xu Jin and Xu Ruoyu for a while before they both recovered from the dizziness and headaches caused by the hypnosis.
"Yubai, come here." Just as Zheng Yubai was about to comfort Xu Jin, he heard his father calling him.
Following Zheng Jingzhe to the outer room, seeing his serious expression, Zheng Yubai hurriedly asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"
"Next time we meet Lee Chong Wei, we must be fully prepared," said Zheng Jingzhe.
Zheng Yubai still remembered his father's words just now. His tone was very relaxed, but now he seemed like a completely different person. He couldn't help but wonder, "Why?"
"Lee Chong Wei suffered a great loss this time, and his entire army was annihilated. But don't forget that he is the head of Yipintang, which has tens of thousands of believers. If he really goes all out, we may not be his opponent." Zheng Jingzhe said seriously, which was rare for him.
Thinking of the superpowers of the mages in Yipintang, Zheng Yubai was a little scared. In fact, he also knew that this time he was really lucky. If Yipintang was not so arrogant, the outcome would be hard to predict. Take Yun Baifa's group for example. He took advantage of them before they could show their strength, which directly led to a disastrous defeat.
Judging from the information obtained from other people, the four groups of the Mage Legion all made a mistake, that is, they were too confident and did not display their strongest abilities from the beginning, which led to their complete defeat.
"Lee Chong Wei used to be extremely arrogant, which is why he was beaten up by other martial arts sects ten years ago and had to retire. But a lean camel is bigger than a horse. It seems that he has not been idle all these years. He has actually cultivated such a powerful force." Zheng Jingzhe recalled what happened in the past and said with some emotion, "But he still hasn't changed his arrogant problem, which is why he suffered such a big loss."
Changing the subject, Zheng Jingzhe continued, "Even though he lost miserably this time, and lost both his wife and his army, you still can't underestimate him. Just based on his hypnotic illusion that can affect an entire community, this person's ability is extraordinary."
After Zheng Jingzhe said this, Zheng Yubai also came to his senses. Among the aliens he met, Lan Ruoer's superpowers affected the most people, but that was in a closed space, and there were many means that could be used. Li Zongwei controlled tens of thousands of people in a community, and this ability was unprecedented.
"I'll be careful." Zheng Yubai was reminded and had a plan in mind.
After a hard battle, everyone was injured to varying degrees and very tired. After a simple resettlement, everyone fell asleep. Zheng Yubai was still a little worried, so he sat by Xu Jin's bed, letting her hold his hand and fall asleep, but he kept thinking about what happened that night. From time to time, police sirens could be heard outside, and it was destined to be a sleepless night for the city of Jinghai.
The next morning's news program broadcast a long segment about the riots last night. Fortunately, Zheng Yubai had already informed Leng Tie, and the truth of the matter was covered up. Only some clips of hooligans who took advantage of the situation to smash and loot were reported.
Zheng Yubai bought a new phone and reissued a SIM card. As soon as he turned on the phone, several calls came in. Ding Beibei, Susu, Tang Qing and Yang Feiyan's calls almost filled up the missed call column. Zheng Yubai could only call them back one by one to let them know they were safe. He was busy for half a morning and finally calmed down the beauties. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the phone rang again. It was an unfamiliar number.
"Hello, who is this?" Zheng Yubai answered the phone.
Zheng Yubai was stunned when a string of English words came out of the receiver. After a moment, he reacted and asked happily, "Mr. Hannibal? Are you in Jinghai?"
"I'm here, but you seem to be very unfriendly to foreigners. Why should I be detained at the airport?" Hannibal said very dissatisfiedly.
The phone was then handed over to the airport staff, who said that there were some very strange things in Hannibal's luggage and they could not let him go for national security reasons.
"What is it?" Zheng Yubai asked. He had a vague guess, but he didn't want it to be the truth.
"These are specimens of human internal organs," said the staff.
Zheng Yubai didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It was just as he expected. Who knew which unlucky person had fallen into the hands of the cannibal doctor again? It seemed that he would have to get an X-ray first after seeing him next time, otherwise he wouldn't know which part of his body had been eaten by this guy as a delicious meal.
With no other options, Zheng Yubai could only ask Leng Tie to help him out. With the help of the Director of Special Affairs, Hannibal was released. Zheng Yubai was afraid that he would cause trouble, so he asked Yang Feiyun to go to the airport to pick him up.
When he saw Hannibal, Zheng Yubai could hardly recognize him. The old man with a red nose in London was now wearing a neat black suit, a shiny forehead, and a pair of black-rimmed glasses that were very popular at the time. He looked like a university professor. This outfit was quite similar to the wise and deep Hannibal in the movie.
"Dear Zheng, thank you for picking me up." Hannibal was pulling a black suitcase. Seeing how carefully he protected it, Zheng Yubai knew that most of the so-called "specimens" were in the suitcase.
Yang Feiyun knew that the person in front of him was the legendary cannibal doctor Hannibal, and the only person who could cure his grandfather, so he respected him very much. Hannibal obviously enjoyed this VIP treatment and seemed very happy.
The three of them got in the car and drove to the city. Hannibal and Zheng Yubai chatted for a while about the weather and scenery in Jinghai, and suddenly changed the subject and said, "Something big is going to happen recently, did you know?"
"What happened?" Zheng Yubai asked curiously. He had been paying attention to the movements of Warner Company and Yipintang these days and had no idea what happened inside Yandaotang.
"It is said that Yan Dao Tang is going to go into all-out war with the Skull and Bones Society." Hannibal said with a smile, as if he was saying that the weather in Jinghai was really nice.
Zheng Yubai and Yang Feiyun's faces changed. They both knew what this sentence meant.
Is World War III about to begin? (To be continued)