Chaos Heavenly Emperor Art

The next morning.

A rapid knock on the door broke the silence.

"Open the door! Routine inspection of the Natural Disaster Military District!"

Ling Feng suddenly opened his eyes and quickly got out of bed.

Is it coming again?

Lifting a corner of the curtain, through the window, I saw fifteen soldiers in the uniform of the Scourge Army standing outside the yard. Leading them was a tall man with major's epaulettes. He had a stern face and eyes as sharp as an eagle.

These were not the same soldiers who had been patrolling the neighborhood last night.

Could it be that the people from the Judgment Academy discovered something?

No, probably not.

Soon, Ling Feng overturned this assumption.

If they really find out that this matter is related to me, I am afraid that the person who will come will be a small major of the judgment level.

At the very least, we need a group of truth-followers.

Thinking of this, Ling Feng quickly calmed down.

At this moment, Lant's message came from the communicator, "Attention, everyone, gather outside the courtyard."

……

About a minute later, all members of the Howling Wind Adventure Group gathered in the hall.

"What are you doing?"

Bai Qiangwei still had a tired look on her face, and she looked annoyed. "You disturbed my sweet sleep so early in the morning!"

Ye Xiao and Huang Shaotian looked at each other, and probably knew that this matter must be related to the theft in the library of the Judgment College.

However, the two of them had great acting skills and immediately joined Bai Qiangwei's complaints, cursing loudly.

Lant hesitated for a moment, then said: "Everyone, please be patient. This should be just a routine check."

The knocks on the door became more and more urgent. Lant winked at Selina and said lightly, "Open the door."

"Ah."

Selina nodded slightly, then turned on the communicator's operating panel and pressed it lightly. With a "click", the alloy door automatically slid open slowly.

The defense level of the entire villa has reached the "B7" level. In theory, this door is enough to defend against an attack from a Truth-level strongman.

Otherwise, the soldiers outside would have been unable to hold back and would have broken in.

"The Seventh Special Operations Group of the Natural Disaster Military Region has been ordered to search for suspicious persons."

As the door opened, the major and his soldiers walked in quickly. His cold eyes swept over everyone on the scene, "Please cooperate with the investigation."

As he spoke, he waved to the soldiers behind him and slowly uttered three words: "Go in and search!"

"Wait?"

Lant took a step forward with an aristocratic smile on his face. "Mr. Major, this is the property of the Rodson family. In addition, it is also the base of our Xiaofeng Adventure Group. I would also like to mention that our Xiaofeng Adventure Group has just been promoted to A-level, and is now an adventure group under the protection of the Explorers Guild."

After a pause, he continued slowly, "Have you applied for permission from the Explorers Guild to search this place? Isn't it against the rules for you to barge in like this?"

The major's eyelids twitched slightly. With the military district's capabilities, they had naturally found out long ago that the villa had been bought by the Rodson family.

But a small Rodson family is not enough to make the military district wary.

On the contrary, it is the Explorer Guild...

As one of the three major forces in the upper zone, even the Scourge Army would not openly clash with the Explorers Guild.

After all, exploring the world of miracles is inseparable from the relay stations outside.

The seven existing relay stations were all built by the Explorers Guild.

The major narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice, "We are investigating the theft case at the Judgment Academy library. This is the highest priority case in the Third Calamity City. I will search wherever I want! What's the matter, Mr. Rodson? Are you feeling guilty?"

Lant shook his head and smiled, ignoring the major's questioning. He said calmly, "Then I want to hear what Vice President Yize has to say. Without the consent of the Explorers Guild, can the military district search the base of an A-level adventure group at will?"

As he spoke, he directly called up the communication interface of Deputy Mayor Yize on his communicator and pretended to dial the number.

"Vice President Yi... Vice President Yi Ze?"

The major's expression froze, and he obviously knew the background of that important person.

The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and his attitude softened immediately. He said in a deep voice, "Sorry, I'm on official business. You should know about the theft in the library of Judgment College. There is an order from above that all adventurers who have entered and left the City of Calamity recently must be interrogated. Ahem... I hope you can understand."

"Of course, we understand."

Rodson smiled and said, "You can search, but if you destroy anything..."

"Don't worry, absolutely not!"

The major immediately smiled and said, "If there is any accident, we are willing to compensate you ten times the original price!"

Ling Feng narrowed his eyes and smiled secretly. They had just met Vice President Yize yesterday, but today he was brought out by this kid Lant to intimidate these scoundrels.

That’s why they say it’s nice to take shelter under a big tree. It really is different when you have a backer.

"That's pretty much it!"

Li Wei on the side nodded, and Lant also stepped aside and said, "Okay, you can go in and search."

"Thank you for your cooperation."

The major was obviously relieved. He sent half of his team members to search the villa, while the rest continued to guard outside the yard.

Seeing those soldiers of the Scourge Army going upstairs and starting to search, Ling Feng didn't care.

Anyway, everything related to the Judgment Academy Library was stored in the Donghuang Bell.

It would be a miracle if they could find any trace of it.

Then, the major looked at everyone again and said in a deep voice, "Please cooperate with our routine questioning. Tell us your name, occupation, and whereabouts in the past week one by one."

……

About half an hour later, the people from the military zone finally left.

"call--"

Bai Qiangwei let out a long sigh and slumped down on the sofa. "I was so scared. I thought they had discovered something."

"What did you think you found?"

Ling Feng shook his head and smiled.

"I thought they found out about Team Steelheart."

Bai Qiangwei patted her chest in fear, "After all, Steel Heart is the elite of Judgment College. Now they are all wiped out. If they are found out that it was us who did it, they will definitely..." Huang Shaotian snorted coldly, "Even if they are found out, so what? They first hired the Vulture Adventure Group to kill us halfway, and then launched a sneak attack on us in the B-72 ruins. Oh, does it mean that they only have to kill us and we are not allowed to kill them!"

"That's true, but there's nothing we can do about it. The Steelheart Adventure Group has a strong backing."

Ron sighed softly. After becoming an adventurer, he had seen too many similar things.

Speaking of the ground, the law of this world has always been four words: the survival of the fittest.

"That's fine. Steelheart has a backer, so why don't we have one?"

Lanter said calmly: "We are now an A-level adventure group, and we will be promoted to S-level soon. At that time, we will truly become core members of the Explorers Guild. We have the Explorers Guild's support behind us."

After a pause, he continued, "The information we received from the Vulture Adventure Group that Steel Heart hired them to kill us is direct evidence. Some things are not as heavy as two taels if they are not weighed, but once they are weighed, they cannot be suppressed even with a thousand pounds. As long as we show this evidence in public, can the Judgment Academy dare to openly harm us?"

Ling Feng nodded secretly. Lant was indeed a smart guy. He analyzed the key benefits and disadvantages in just a few words.

In short, if these things were not made public, they would just be private grudges between the Howling Wind Adventure Group and the Steelheart Squad.

If it were to be put on the table, it would become a game between the Explorers Guild and the Judgment Academy.

At that time, if the Explorers Guild showed weakness and failed to protect its own adventure group, people's hearts would be broken.

Likewise, the Judgment Academy also had to save face and could only swallow this loss in silence.

"Of course, this is all later."

Lant narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "It's best if this matter never sees the light of day. As long as no one mentions it, I believe that the Judgment Academy will not be able to find any evidence at all. In the end, we can only speculate that the Steel Heart Squad encountered the Zerg in the Miracle World and was completely wiped out."

"Correct!"

Everyone looked at each other and nodded in tacit understanding.

……

Judgment Academy, in the confinement room.

As the door of the dark room slowly opened, an old man with a white beard and a sturdy and strong build strode in.

In the middle of the dark room, Professor Edgar, the unlucky guy who had robbed the library that night when Ling Feng broke into it, was now tied to a chair with various shackles.

Almost a month had passed since the theft in the library, and after numerous investigations, the top brass of the Judgment College had finally cleared Professor Edgar of suspicion.

"Old Ed."

The white-bearded old man strode up to Edgar, raised his hand, and tore off the shackles on Edgar.

The next moment, he raised his powerful hand and patted Edgar on the shoulder. "The college's investigation team has proven your innocence. You can go out now."

"go out?"

Edgar's face was filled with anger. "I'm not going out! I'm staying here. It's so comfortable here. Why should I go out? One day someone might steal from the lab building and send him back to me. I might as well stay here and avoid the hassle of going back and forth."

"Old Ed, don't say angry words."

Norton Wilson shook his head and smiled, "I came to pick you up in person, and you won't even give me this courtesy?"

It turned out that this white-bearded old man was Norton Wilson, one of the top ten leaders of the Judgment Academy.

The current patriarch of the Wilson family and captain of the Steelheart Squad, Howson Wilson, is his great-grandson.

In comparison, the Rodson family, to which Rant belongs, is not even worthy of carrying shoes for the Wilson family.

"Okay, come out with me."

Norton bowed to Edgar and said, "This time, the college leaders have let you down, but you also have to understand that we can't just do nothing for such a big thing. If it were any other professor, as a member of the Presbyterian Church, wouldn't you have any doubts?"

Edgar was silent for a moment, and finally sighed, "Forget it, it's my bad luck!"

A cold light flashed in his eyes. "It's been so long, have you found out anything? Who pretended to be me and stole from the library? I'm going to kill him myself!"

"The perpetrators are very cunning."

Norton shook his head. "So far, no valuable information has been found, and there has been no unusual movement in the black market."

"It seems that guy is very patient!" Edgar analyzed in a deep voice.

"We at the Judgment Academy are becoming a laughing stock! Even those guys at the City Hall think we may not be able to recover these books."

Norton sighed and clenched his fists, saying, "Such a huge knowledge base, especially those living libraries, are all isolated copies without backup! The loss this time is really too great!"

"Elder Norton, you don't want to give up the investigation, do you?" Edgar frowned, "I can't swallow this!"

"We will definitely have to investigate, but the longer we delay, the slimmer our hope will be."

Norton said in a deep voice: "Fortunately, Hausen has passed the selection of the Divine Court. It won't be long before he can be promoted to the Sky Zone and become the bishop of Purdue Academy. Over the years, our Judgment Academy has sent no less than a thousand geniuses to the Sky Zone. The more people we have in the Sky Zone, the more stable the position of our Judgment Academy will be. The City Hall or the Explorers Guild will never be able to suppress us!"

At this moment, an urgent message automatically popped up on Norton's communicator.

Accompanied by a burst of alarms, Norton turned on the communicator and saw a holographic image of an assistant researcher pop up, and then said urgently: "Oh no, Elder Norton, all members of the Steel Heart team have lost contact!"

"What did you say?"

Norton frowned, "Be more specific!"

"Reporting to the elder, the coordinates of the Steel Heart team's last mission log appeared at the Xuanwu Relay Station. After leaving the Xuanwu Relay Station, the time spent outside and entering the overclocking zone has exceeded the 72-hour limit."

"Not only that, we used the military region's most advanced life signal positioning technology but failed to track it. There are only two possibilities..."

The assistant researcher trembled and said, "The first possibility is that all members of the Steel Heart Team may have been destroyed. The second possibility is that they accidentally entered the prison."

For a moment, Norton's face was as gloomy as water. No matter which possibility it was, the Steel Heart Team was probably unlikely to survive.

"According to the signal tracking of their armored vehicles, their last appearance was near the B-72 ruins, which has now been renamed the A-108 ruins. Existing data shows that there is a high probability that there is a Zerg hive in that area. If they encounter a hatched Zerg mother..."

"Damn it!" Norton's eyes suddenly burst into rage. He had just mentioned his great-grandson who he was so proud of, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, his life or death would be in danger.

"No, I have to go there myself!"

Norton clenched his fists. Even if there was still a glimmer of hope, he was unwilling to give up this outstanding offspring easily.

"Elder Norton, please think twice!"

At this moment, it was Professor Edgar who stopped Norton. "Although your strength is almost the pinnacle below the priesthood, it would be difficult to rescue people if you face the Worm Queen alone. Moreover, everything is just speculation. Maybe the Steel Heart Team did not encounter the Worm Queen."

Norton frowned, "Old Ed, what do you mean?"

"What I mean is that you can contact the Explorers Guild right now. They can directly issue rescue missions to their adventure groups. If the adventure groups near the ruins go directly there, it will be much faster than if you set out now."

"I was so anxious that I lost my mind."

Norton nodded, "I'll contact the Explorers Guild right away!" (End of this chapter)