“Y-y-you… What k-kind of sorcery are you using?”

Zhuo Yuze was horrified. Only moments ago, the guy who was standing in front of him suddenly appeared next to him in a flash. Did he teleport himself across more than ten meters? He was like a scary phantom, and just like that, all the knowledge and understanding that he had of this world turned topsy-turvy.

“Commander Zhuo, did you have a lot of fun hitting me earlier?”

Xiao Luo mocked in a chilling tone. Instantly his hand went up, and he delivered a scathing slap across Zhuo Yuze’s face.

SLAP!

The blow was enough to knock out one of Zhuo Yuze’s teeth, causing blood to splatter from his mouth. The force of the slap made him rotate half a turn before he slumped to the ground in a heap.

Feeling the burning pain on his face, Zhuo Yuze let out a scream. Despite the distress, he kept his chin up, trying to maintain some semblance of pride and authority as a commander. “I’ll make sure you pay for what you have done today, and I’ll make sure you…” he growled.

“Have you heard of the Ministry of State Security?”

Xiao Luo cut him off immediately. His fierce, cold eyes looked as if he were staring at someone as good as dead.

Ministry of State Security—did he mean the NSA?

Zhuo Yuze’s eyes opened wide. How could he not have heard of this special department? He heard that everyone in there was exceptionally competent and that they possessed the country’s best fighters. Forget the police, even those in the military were only second to the NSA.

A horrified expression washed over Zhuo Yuze’s face. “You…you are from the NSA?” he asked, trembling.

“What do you think?” Xiao Luo replied. A sinister-looking smirk was forming from the corner of his mouth.

Huh?

Zhuo Yuze gasped in shock and had a hard time swallowing his saliva. He turned around and glared at his younger brother, Zhuo Wei, with accusing eyes. “You sure have landed me in deep trouble this time around… Bloody hell, I’ve just landed myself in a hornet’s nest,” he thought!

He quickly put on a nervous smile and said, “Brother, you’re one of us. It doesn’t matter if it’s the NSA or the Xiahai Military Region Command. We’re both under central jurisdiction, so we’re all part of the same organization. It seems like I’d failed to realize that we’re part of the same family—we’re part of the same family, but yet we didn’t recognize one another, that’s all. Haha, haha…”

His put-on laughter was awkward, and Xiao Luo continued to eye him indifferently with no expression on his face.

“The same family?”

Xiao Luo sneered, “You sure are good at pulling strings. No wonder you hold this rank at such a young age. But I’m sorry to say this—both of you will have to die today!”

It had been quite a while since he had the urge to kill someone, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t kill them. Both Zhuo Yuze and Zhuo Wei had made a couple of unforgivable mistakes. The first was to threaten him using Su Li as the leverage, and the second was to have given him a slap across his face.

He turned around to face Zhuo Wei and instantly threw him a sidekick. It was like a strong wind blowing up a bunch of leaves and as fast as lightning.

POW!

Zhuo Wei was blown away, flying in the air like he got hit by a running train. His stomach started to churn, and he was suddenly unable to control his bowels. Zhuo Wei screamed in agony as he sailed in the air for a distance, his mind disoriented and wondering where he was. And when he looked down, Zhuo Wei was shocked, overcome with a fear he’d never felt before, for he was heading over the edge of a bottomless cliff.

“Oh no, it’s over!”

Those words flashed in his head. There was a desperate scream as he fell beyond the cliff’s edge, his anguished cry trailing off until a sickening thud ended it some three to four seconds later.

It was hard granite at the bottom of the cliff, and there was no need for second-guesses. Zhuo Wei was now a bloody heap of flesh and bones.

Even though they were brothers, in the face of death and the bad fortune of encountering a terrifying killer like Xiao Luo, Zhuo Yuze cowered in fear.

“I think I’m doing you both a great favor by making this place your grave,” Xiao Luo said. He sighed as he lifted his head and looked at the surrounding scenery of Wild Wolf Mountain.

“You can’t kill me! I’m the commander of this entire military region. You don’t have the right to do this just because you’re from the NSA. If you even touch me, the authorities will punish you!” Xiao Luo was glowering with murderous intent, and it caused Zhuo Yuze’s body to tremble in fear. He no longer felt the stinging pain in his swollen face.

Xiao Luo raised his hand, and as he stretched out his five fingers, an assault rifle instantly came flying into his hand. He swiveled around and took aim. Zhuo Yuze barely had time to react before Xiao Luo pulled the trigger.

RAT-TAT-TAT

The assault rifle was on automatic mode and spat out a continuous barrage of shots. Xiao Luo emptied the entire clip, and when the shooting stopped, what was left of Zhuo Yuze was only a pile of mashed-up meat. It was impossible to even differentiate between flesh and bone any more.

Looking at what remained of Zhuo Yuze’s body, now strewn in little pieces, Xiao Luo took a deep breath. Without any expression on his face, he said, “I’ve already killed you, but so what?”

Just like kicking a can, he went over and kicked the heap of flesh and bones off the cliff. It had become the burial place of the Zhuo brothers.

After finishing the job, Xiao Luo took out his handphone and dialed Ji Siying’s number, explaining the entire situation that had taken place.

“Mr. Xiao Luo, I’ll report it to the superiors and send people there to clean things up. Investigating corrupt senior officials is one of the NSA’s core roles, ensuring the country’s safety. Zhuo Yuze has already been on our blacklist for quite a while. He has used his authority, embezzled military funds, and privately got a gun license for his younger brother, Zhuo Wei. The reason why we never took action before this was because of the people he had behind his back, but since Mr. Xiao Luo has already taken care of him, it’s about time we take care of his backers as well,” Ji Siying said.

“The people behind his back?”

Xiao Luo said suspiciously, “Is it a senior official?”

“Yes, it’s the Bai family from Jingcheng. He’s the son-in-law of the Bai family. There’s a national deputy officer from the Bai family standing on an equal footing as our director.”

“That strong an influence?”

“Yes, but you don’t have to worry about anything, Mr. Xiao Luo. Our director will negotiate with the Bai family. I believe with all the notorious things that Zhuo Yuze has done, the Bai family will prefer to stay on good terms with us.”

“All right, understood.”

Xiao Luo nodded his head. He finally understood why Zhuo Yuze was able to get promoted so quickly and why Zhuo Wei could freely go about exposing the private lives of so many celebrities without any repercussions. Nobody would dare offend them on account of his backing from the Bai family.

“Right, please let the director know that his younger daughter is in Xiahai now, and she’s with me.”

“Got it,” Ji Siying replied.

Xiao Luo realized that the conversation he was having with her sounded rather cold. It was as if he was speaking to an online translator who had no emotions. “Is something wrong with you?”

“I’m doing my job as a liaison. Why does Mr. Xiao Luo ask me such a question?” Ji Siying said.

She sounded frigid; in fact, she was like a total stranger.

Xiao Luo was not a clueless person, and he knew the root of the problem. “I think we need to have a good talk. I’ll go and find you when I have the time,” he said.

Ji Siying kept quiet for a while, and after what felt like half a day, she replied with one word, “Okay.”

Then she put down the phone.

Xiao Luo furrowed his eyebrows and was feeling a little bit distressed. He was having mixed feelings about how he felt about Ji Siying.

…

“Xiao Luo, how should we deal with both of them?”

Gu Qianxue asked the moment he stepped into Su Li’s apartment in Crescent Bay. Zhuo Yuze had sent two of his soldiers, but Gu Qianxue had already knocked them out cold and dumped them into a corner.

Su Li and Shen Qingyan were pretty shocked. Neither could have imagined that the petite and cute-looking Gu Qianxue could deal with two muscular-looking men that quickly. On top of that, she was incredibly powerful, and with each hand, she threw the two burly men and sent them crashing into the corner. If they had not witnessed it in person, they would have never believed that she could do that.

“I’ll just throw them outside later,” Xiao Luo said with a smile on his face. Gu Qianxue had never disappointed him. Back in Jiangcheng, she had been responsible for the safety of his younger sister and brother-in-law.

“Are you injured?” Su Li asked. She looked at Xiao Luo with caring eyes.

Xiao Luo shook his head and said, “No, I’m fine.”

Su Li asked again, “Was it Zhuo Wei?”

“Yup, but I’ve settled the problem, so you don’t have to worry about a thing anymore,” Xiao Luo said with a smile.