266: This is intolerable!

However, just as Yan Xing was about to bow and apologize...

Zhong Huai made a move that was even more incomprehensible to him.

He stopped looking at Yan Xing and turned his head toward the Young Man not far away, who had been like an outsider from the very beginning.

That Young Man named Lin Yu.

Zhong Huai didn't say a word.

He just looked at Lin Yu with a posture that carried a hint of inquiry, a hint of... seeking credit?

The meaning couldn't be more obvious.

Are you satisfied with how I've handled this?

Boom!

A bolt of thunder exploded in Yan Xing's mind.

He understood instantly.

Everything was connected in a flash!

This terrifying captain of the Fangs Special Operations Team didn't care about Alliance regulations at all, nor was he afraid of causing some diplomatic dispute!

He was letting them go not because he was magnanimous, and certainly not because he was afraid of trouble!

It was because of Lin Yu!

He was doing it for Lin Yu's sake!

A Fangs squad leader, someone even a Visitor from the Abyss Domain would find troublesome, would actually openly defy regulations and forcibly suppress a major incident capable of triggering a military conflict, all for a Young Man!

This Lin Yu... his background within the Blue Star officialdom must be incredibly deep?!

After going back... I must, I must immediately persuade the company's higher-ups to abandon all plans targeting Lin Yu!

Making an enemy of such a person isn't just seeking death; it's complaining that death isn't coming fast enough!

He didn't have much sense of belonging to the company; he was just doing it for a paycheck.

But... after all, jobs are hard to find these days.

Just as a storm was raging in Yan Xing's mind and he was preparing to completely abandon any small schemes...

A burst of hurried and orderly footsteps came from the direction of the park entrance, breaking the eerie silence of the scene.

A dozen or so officers wearing uniforms different from the Fangs, surrounding a man in his fifties with the emblem of the Customs Department on his shoulder, walked over quickly.

The man in the lead had a serious face and a brisk gait, carrying the bureaucratic air of someone who had long held a high position.

"Captain Zhong, thank you for your hard work."

The man walked up and first nodded to Zhong Huai, but his posture didn't hold much of the respect a subordinate shows a superior; it was more like a notification between equals.

Zhong Huai's face darkened.

Damn it.

Like cats smelling fish.

These guys from the Customs Department who specialize in Abyss Domain trade communications haven't been this proactive in centuries, yet today they're acting like they've been injected with chicken blood.

"Director Wang, what wind blew you here?" Zhong Huai's tone returned to its usual lazy drawl, but anyone could hear the displeasure in it.

The man addressed as Director Wang seemed not to hear Zhong Huai's sarcasm.

He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, bypassed Zhong Huai directly, and cast a scrutinizing gaze toward Yan Xing and the Dark Shadow.

More accurately, he looked at the storage ring on Yan Xing's hand.

"We received intelligence that unregistered high-energy items from the Abyss Domain have entered the border."

Director Wang spoke with righteous severity.

"After urgent tracing and comparison by the technical department, we are ninety percent certain that the core energy circuits and spatial structure of this ring belong to the standard products of our Blue Star's Thirteenth Industrial Base."

He held up a tablet displaying a complex stream of data and a 3D structural diagram.

"Since it is Blue Star-made, it falls under the category of special goods returned for domestic sale after export. According to Article 37 of the Customs Emergency State Act, we have the right to conduct an unboxing inspection to confirm if there is any smuggling of contraband."

His words were well-reasoned and airtight.

They completely blocked all the excuses Zhong Huai had planned to use to smooth things over.

Zhong Huai cursed inwardly.

These administrative types are usually like dead people, but when it comes to causing trouble, they're sharper than anyone.

Damn it, they don't even look at the current situation, who can be provoked, and who can't!

There must be someone pushing this from behind!

They're hell-bent on making this a big deal!

Fuck!

If I catch the bastard, I'll beat his guts out.

Zhong Huai was still rapidly thinking of a countermeasure, wondering how to get rid of these pests.

But Director Wang clearly didn't give him time to think.

He probably thought that with the Fangs Special Operations Team present, these two Visitors from the Abyss Domain couldn't escape even if they had wings.

Or perhaps he felt that Zhong Huai, this young captain, wouldn't dare to openly defy an official act.

He didn't even bother to greet Zhong Huai.

Director Wang waved his hand at his subordinates behind him, using an indisputable tone of command.

"What are you waiting for?"

"Detain them! Take them back to headquarters for investigation along with the evidence!"

No sooner had he spoken.

The dozen or so members of the Customs Action Team behind him immediately pounced forward like wolves and tigers.

At this moment.

Yan Xing and the Dark Shadow's patience finally reached its limit.

They didn't strike at Fangs and were polite to Zhong Huai partly out of wariness.

But mostly... it was because of Lin Yu.

Facts also proved their judgment was correct; this Captain Zhong was clearly on Mr. Lin Yu's side.

But what are these pieces of trash rushing up now?

A bunch of small fry whose Professional auras aren't even pure, and they dare to show their claws in front of them?

Did they really think people from the Abyss Domain were made of clay?

"Seeking death!"

Yan Xing didn't even move a hand.

An indescribably terrifying aura erupted with him as the center!

It wasn't an energy blast, nor was it a skill release.

It was simply the pure, undisguised pressure belonging to the strong!

"Boom—!"

The ferocity on the faces of the dozen or so customs members in the lead instantly froze.

The next second, they were hit head-on as if by an invisible giant hammer.

One by one, they spat blood, their bodies twisting into bizarre postures as they were sent flying backward.

They flew for a full hundred meters before crashing heavily onto the distant ground and armored vehicles like broken sacks, producing a series of dull thuds.

Their life or death was unknown.

The whole process took less than a second.

The entire field was dead silent.

The bureaucratic dignity on Director Wang's face completely shattered.

The several adjutants beside him were also clearly stunned in place, unsure of what to think.

Even the battle-hardened Fangs members under Zhong Huai had all assumed their highest-level defensive stances, their faces filled with gravity.

Zhong Huai himself was completely frozen in place.

His eyes, which always held a hint of laziness, were now wide and round.

These two guys... are much stronger than he had anticipated!

Much, much, much stronger!

These aren't some high-level Professionals at all!

Nor are they ordinary experts from the Abyss Domain!

If they really started a fight... Zhong Huai didn't dare to think further.

He abruptly turned his head to look at the Young Man who had been standing to the side from beginning to end, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

Lin Yu.

In the Abyss Domain, experts of this level would be famous masters in their own right.

If they were so respectful toward Lin Yu...

Then the power behind Lin Yu was something he had to imagine on an even larger scale!

Damn it, he and Qin Zhan had already tried to estimate Lin Yu's background as something terrifying, but it seemed they had still underestimated him?