470: Chapter 468 The Chaos Erupts

Lin Liguo was stunned upon hearing this and furrowed his brows deeply. "I can go through lie detection equipment..."

"For high-level Transcendents, ordinary lie detection equipment is no longer effective. It's better to use my method."

Old Guo waved his hand to interrupt what Lin Liguo was about to say next and said with a cold face, "Don't blame me for doubting you. Since you saw Chu Xuan, why didn't you report it earlier?"

"We separated from Chu Xuan after completing the mission, assuming he had arrived in the capital ahead of time, plus..." Lin Liguo paused, sensing that something was not quite right.

"Noticed it? You've already fallen into a self-justification trap!" Zhang Qiang puffed out clouds of Smoke. The Smoke in front of him grew thicker, gathering around him without dissipating. He said with a sneer:

"This old guy doesn't care at all whether what you say is true or false. He just wants to target anyone related to Chu Xuan. These people have already stood on the opposite side of the organization."

"Nonsense! Zhang Qiang, please watch your words!" Old Guo rebuked. "I have never targeted Chu Xuan; we are just discussing the facts..."

"Shut up! Someone has already come forward to prove that Chu Xuan went to resolve The Gloom incident, yet you still want to stir up trouble. Heh..." Zhang Qiang suddenly raised a hand and pointed, shouting loudly, "Qin Shaowu, move!"

Before his voice had even faded, a plume of Smoke rose in front of Old Guo, and within this Smoke, a figure with several pieces of Gold Paper pasted on his chest abruptly appeared.

Qin Shaowu's entire arm had transformed into a Smoke state. When he reached forward to grab, the Smoke had already touched Old Guo's body.

Old Guo was just about to take countermeasures when he suddenly found himself unable to move. In the next instant, his body had vanished.

When he reappeared, he was actually inside the swirling Smoke beside Zhang Qiang.

He hadn't expected to be teleported like this over such a distance. Old Guo's expression changed drastically. Under the suppression of this even denser Smoke, he had no power to resist and was grabbed by the neck by Zhang Qiang.

At the same time, three people closer to Qin Shaowu had grim expressions and attacked him together, but they hit nothing but air.

Qin Shaowu completely transformed into Smoke and vanished, appearing directly next to Zhang Qiang.

As he disappeared, a piece of Gold Paper was left behind. While drifting in mid-air, it suddenly transformed into a ball of flame and exploded.

The three people who had lunged at Qin Shaowu wailed in agony and scattered, rolling continuously on the ground as chaos broke out in the area. Although the flames were quickly extinguished, they were almost burnt to cinders, with only half a breath of life left.

"Nobody move!" Zhang Qiang gripped Old Guo's neck and simultaneously pointed at the Night Watchers standing up in the first-tier audience seats, shouting as he looked around at everyone:

"This old guy harbors ill intentions and must be plotting something! I will use Mind Reading on him now to manifest his thoughts. If anyone acts rashly, I ask all colleagues to act together and take them down!"

As he spoke, the air above Zhang Qiang distorted slightly, and an illusory image was about to emerge.

More than thirty Night Watchers were about to move restlessly but were stared down by the others around them.

At the same time, the illusory image above Zhang Qiang froze, revealing an afterimage of Old Guo. It made no movement, but voices rang out from it, repeating continuously and spreading throughout the Great Hall.

"Stir up trouble!"

"Stir up trouble!"

"..."

The voice was somewhat blurred, but everyone present could hear it clearly—it was unmistakably Old Guo's voice.

"I guessed right, you old thing really do have ulterior motives!" Zhang Qiang barked coldly, "Who are your other accomplices? Is someone instructing you? What are your plans..."

As he spoke, Zhang Qiang's gaze was ice-cold, staring at those thirty-plus Night Watchers, especially the ten City Captains.

At this moment, Old Guo, held in Zhang Qiang's hand, did not speak, but that illusory afterimage spoke tremulously: "No one instructed me. I followed my heart. When necessary, I was to stir up trouble during this meeting, preferably triggering a combat conflict. If conditions allowed, I was to first kill everyone related to Chu Xuan to force him to appear..."

"Followed your heart?" Zhang Qiang frowned deeply, looking at the dozens of Night Watchers, and especially looking up at the more than three thousand civilian Transcendents in the third row.

Zhang Qiang said with a grim face, "It seems your situation is much the same?"

No one answered; they all stared fixedly at Zhang Qiang, faintly revealing murderous intent.

"No matter what you intend to do, weigh it carefully before you act. Chu Xuan is not dead; he will be back soon!" Qin Shaowu shouted loudly from the side:

"Surrender now and do not cause trouble, and things can still be salvaged! Otherwise, if you take a wrong step, even if you can escape from here now, you will be liquidated in the future!"

Minister Liu Fumin, who had been watching in silence, now walked to the front of the rostrum, leaned into the microphone, called out the names of those ten captains, and said in a heavy voice: "Step forward with all your people and submit to the organization's investigation."

He then pointed his hand at the civilian Transcendents on the third tier and said solemnly: "Allowing you to attend as civilian representatives was already the greatest tolerance shown to you. Please act according to your capabilities; otherwise, though you are many, if we truly start fighting, it will definitely be you who die."

No one spoke.

Only the murderous intent grew more intense.

And the ten captains who were named, as well as their team members, did not step out on their own, simply looking on with eerie gazes.

An indescribably weird atmosphere enveloped the entire Great Hall.

Everyone felt that something was not right.

Just then, Lin Jie, located in a corner of the first-tier audience seats, suddenly snapped his eyes open, stood up with a start, and shouted loudly:

"These people have added too much to their Charm attribute. Most of their minds have been affected and they will soon lose themselves. They are the chosen vessels for the descent of the Specters. Kill them quickly!"

Lin Jie's words were like a giant boulder thrown into a lake, setting off a thousand-layer wave.

The entire venue immediately boiled over.

"They're actually slandering us! The authorities are setting a trap to put us to death. Everyone, fight them!" The Hook-nosed man on the third tier was the first to roar.

Thousands of people leaped down together like a swarm of locusts.

"Fight them!"

"Kill Zhang Qiang first!"

A slaughter broke out, and the entire Great Hall instantly fell into Confusion.

Especially those thirty-plus Night Watchers; they immediately drew their blades as if they had gone mad, attacking the people beside them.

Although the other Night Watchers were prepared, there were many in the crowd who had not stood up before and had remained silent; now their eyes were blood-red as they began slaughtering those around them.

Many people were caught off guard and were cut down directly.

However, the normal official Night Watchers present still maintained an absolute advantage, especially the more than two hundred City Captains, all of whom were above Level 8.

Transcendents like Zhang Qiang, who had already reached Level 10, numbered nearly fifty.

With these people taking action, although the civilian Transcendents jumping down from the third floor like dumplings were numerous, they were clearly no match and suffered heavy casualties in the first encounter.

However, there were simply too many of them, and they appeared to be unafraid of death; some even showed hideous countenances and transformed directly into monsters.

Amidst their roars, their combat power suddenly soared.

Zhang Qiang transformed into Smoke to join the battle. Anyone who fought him was basically suppressed to death once enveloped by the Smoke.

"Uncle Qiang, take it easy, I'm hiding first." A piece of Gold Paper on Qin Shaowu's body turned to powder, and in an instant, he became invisible and vanished from the spot.

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A Night Watcher ran up to Minister Liu Fumin and shouted urgently: "Minister Liu, it's too dangerous here. I'll escort you out..."

As he spoke, he ran forward, intending to grab Minister Liu Fumin's arm, but halfway there, his hand transformed into a giant cannon barrel emitting an eerie light, aimed right at Minister Liu Fumin's head.

Puchi!

A sharp sword suddenly pierced through the center of his brow.

The Night Watcher didn't even groan before dying on the spot, his entire head blasted open by Sword Qi.

Junior Brother Shen Guyun slowly withdrew his sword and stood in front of Minister Liu Fumin. Looking at the chaotic scene across the hall, the corners of his mouth curled up. He turned back to the grim-faced Minister Liu Fumin and chuckled softly:

"Minister Liu, with the few of us here, you have no need to worry."

Minister Liu Fumin took a deep breath and said repeatedly, "Then I must ask Mr. Shen for your assistance..."

"Our mission is only to protect you. Everything else has nothing to do with us." Junior Brother Shen Guyun smiled indifferently, the grin on his face deepening as he watched the chaos filling the hall.

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