247: That's brutal!

Watching this scene,

Zhao Tiejun's expression instantly turned grim, a flicker of horror flashing in his eyes!

The intelligence was wrong!

Ye Chen's strength was unbelievably formidable.

But the problem was...

The Sima Family hadn't told them Ye Chen was this strong!

"Fire!"

The team members on the perimeter holding the specialized needle crossbows were the first to react. Their captain roared the order!

They dared not hold back any longer, their fingers sharply pulling the triggers!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The custom-made anesthetic needles, propelled by the strong mechanism, turned into streaks of cold light, shooting toward Ye Chen's vital points!

This time, Ye Chen did not dodge.

He merely glanced over, then swept his hands in a complete, ancient arc before his chest. The movement appeared slow, but in reality, it was incredibly fast, leaving behind afterimages.

An invisible yet immense aura rippled outward with him at the center!

Tai Chi Bagua, Shifting Heaven and Earth!

The seven or eight anesthetic needles speeding toward him seemed to plunge into a swamp the moment they touched that invisible field of energy. Their momentum sharply decreased, and their trajectories were deflected!

Immediately after...

To everyone's disbelief, the crossbow bolts actually reversed direction and shot back along the path they came from, even faster than before!

"Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Several dull thuds sounded almost simultaneously!

The team members who fired the crossbows had no time to react and were hit squarely in the chest, arm, and thigh by their own anesthetic needles!

The potent drug on the needles took effect instantly!

Their bodies stiffened. Their eyes filled with terror, and then they collapsed limply to the ground, losing all strength, unable even to lift their eyelids!

In an instant, more than half of the encirclement formation was broken!

Zhao Tiejun's eyes split with rage as he roared, "Form the Death Array! Trap him!"

The four team members holding specialized short clubs simultaneously showed resolute looks upon hearing the order!

They fiercely bit their tongues and spat a mouthful of essence blood onto the short clubs!

The pitch-black clubs instantly glowed with strange blood-red patterns, emitting even more dangerous energy fluctuations!

The four men's auras surged, and they fearlessly charged forward again!

This time...

They no longer aimed for pressure points or capture; instead, shadows of clubs filled the air, weaving into a bloody net that descended upon Ye Chen's head with the momentum of mutual destruction!

The wind from the clubs was mournful, the forceful energy raged, even slicing shallow marks into the ground!

Facing this desperate attack, Ye Chen's expression remained unmoved. He lifted his right foot...

And then...

He tapped the ground lightly.

"Dong!"

A dull thud, as if echoing from the depths of the earth, suddenly spread out!

Centered on where Ye Chen's foot landed, the ground within a ten-meter radius suddenly sank downward, then, like a giant stone thrown into a calm lake, a circular wave of earth violently erupted!

The wave of earth, carrying terrifying, unstoppable kinetic force, burst out in a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree, no-dead-angle explosion!

"Rumble—!!!"

The four charging team members bore the brunt of the impact. They felt like they had slammed into an invisible steel fortress. The blood-red short clubs in their hands instantly twisted and deformed, their tiger mouths burst open, and blood sprayed wildly!

Immediately after...

The four men, like dead leaves in a gale, screamed as they were violently thrown back by the wave of earth, carried over ten meters away, smashing over tables, chairs, bowls, and dishes, finally crashing heavily to the ground and falling unconscious!

The dust slowly settled...

Ye Chen stood in place, brushed the dust off his trouser leg, and then looked up at Zhao Tiejun and the few remaining members of the 749 Bureau around him.

"Captain Zhao."

"It seems your group isn't qualified to take me back. What do you think should be done?"

Zhao Tiejun's face was taut, his eyes a mixture of shock and anger.

He was utterly stuck now.

But he represented the 749 Bureau.

How could he allow them to lose face???

For a moment...

He forced himself to maintain his imposing manner and sternly stated,

"Ye Chen! Do not continue to make mistakes!"

"Violent resistance to law enforcement and assaulting 749 Bureau personnel is an additional crime!"

"Even if Old Master Xuanyuan values you, he cannot protect you!"

"Oh? Is that all you have to say?" Ye Chen asked, tilting his head with a smile, "Nothing more?"

Zhao Tiejun's expression worsened.

Undoubtedly...

Ye Chen's words were equivalent to grinding his dignity and the authority of the 749 Bureau into the dirt!

He showed absolutely no respect!

He completely disregarded them!

Ye Chen stopped looking at him and turned his gaze to Bai Jie, who was already pale with fright on the side.

Then...

He started walking toward him, step by step.

As Ye Chen approached, Bai Jie instinctively wanted to shrink back, but his legs felt weak, and he couldn't move at all.

Ye Chen stopped in front of him and said calmly,

"I'm giving you one last chance."

"Tell me the truth—who instructed you, and how did you plan this whole show."

"Perhaps I will spare your life."

He paused, his voice still calm, but it made Bai Jie's blood run cold.

"Otherwise..."

"I will make you wish for death, but be unable to find it."

Bai Jie trembled all over, his face ashen white, his lips chattering.

"You... you devil!"

"You not only dare to attack people from the 749 Bureau, but you also dare to threaten me in public?!"

"Captain Zhao! Did you see that?"

"He wants to kill me to silence me! Stop him quickly!"

He screamed hoarsely, placing his last hope on Zhao Tiejun.

Ye Chen couldn't be bothered to waste any more words.

He lifted his right foot and then, with deliberate ease, stepped down on Bai Jie's left arm.

"Crack!"

Bai Jie fell to the ground, followed by the sound of bone fracturing, which was especially jarring in the dead silence of the night market!

"Ah!!!"

He let out a pig-slaughtering, piercing shriek. His left arm was twisted at an unnatural angle, and excruciating pain instantly drowned out all his consciousness!

The next second...

His eyes rolled back, and he passed out directly from the pain.

"Ye Chen! You dare!!!"

Zhao Tiejun's eyes split with rage, and he roared!

Breaking the arm of the 'victim' right in front of him?

This was a blatant provocation!

It was trampling on the authority of the 749 Bureau!

Too arrogant!

Too much!

Too damn disrespectful!

Ye Chen heard this, slowly turned his head, looked at the furious Zhao Tiejun, and beckoned with his finger.

"Since you have such a strong sense of justice and want to uphold the law and fairness..."

"Come here and push me away."

Zhao Tiejun's face instantly flushed red, like pig liver. Veins popped on his forehead, and his fists clenched with audible cracking sounds.

But his feet seemed nailed to the ground; he couldn't take a single step.

Go up?

Push Ye Chen away?

The strength Ye Chen displayed in that fleeting moment had already chilled his heart!

Slapping away the array-controlling member who was at the Late Profound Realm, shaking off all close-combat personnel with one kick, and casually deflecting anesthetic needles...

This level of strength probably exceeded the scope of the Earth Realm!

Go up?

That wouldn't be upholding dignity; that would be sending himself to his death!

Seeing Zhao Tiejun's expression shifting between anger and fear, Ye Chen sneered and ignored him.

He bent down again, looked at the unconscious Bai Jie, raised his foot, and used the sole of his shoe to kick Bai Jie awake.

Bai Jie woke up, his eyes filled with terror blurred by tears.

Ye Chen was not in a hurry. He raised his right foot again, this time hovering above Bai Jie's other, intact arm.

Then...

He turned to look at the surrounding crowd of onlookers and continued speaking lightly,

"Everyone, watch clearly."

"I, Ye Chen, am now going to use torture to extract a confession."

"Captain Zhao, isn't your 749 Bureau supposed to uphold justice and investigate the truth?"

"The evidence is coming right up, make sure to record it!"

The people around were dumbfounded, chills running down their spines.

They couldn't imagine...

Someone could be this arrogant, completely lawless!

Some people even secretly started live-streaming Ye Chen's actions, and the comments section was filled with curses!

However...

Ye Chen ignored the entire scene, and his suspended right foot made a motion as if it were about to descend.

"No... Don't! I'll talk! I'll talk!!!"

Bai Jie suddenly woke up with a start. Ignoring his fear, he screamed hoarsely!

Collapse!

It was too much of a collapse!

That last kick had already given him a taste of what hell on earth felt like.

If another kick landed...

He didn't dare imagine what he would face!

The employer's promise?

The reward afterward?

In front of this true 'demon,' they were all utter nonsense!

He just wanted to live!

Even if he was crippled or maimed, it was better than being tortured to death right now!

Ye Chen's foot stopped mid-air, and he asked calmly, "Speak."

Bai Jie gasped heavily, enduring the piercing pain in his left arm, and began to confess incoherently.

"It... it was the Sima Family from the capital! It was Sima Nong, the head steward of the Sima Family!"

"He found me, gave me a sum of money, and told me to find a group of people to stage this show!"

"Although those memorial portraits were genuinely of my family, they... they aren't dead! I arranged it all deliberately for the performance!"

"As long as they solidified the reputation of you being a murderer, they would have a way to ensure you could never recover!"

"They also said... as long as the job was done, they would give me more money later, help me solve all my troubles, and even ensure my livelihood for the rest of my life..."

"I... I was just a minor supporting actor getting paid to do a job! Please spare me! I truly know I was wrong!"