Don't follow the rules

Chapter 563 The Church of the Cross (Twenty-Six)
The moment Geng Xun kicked open the warehouse door, his vision was enveloped by that familiar toxic smoke, and his ears were filled with the crackling sound of burning flames, interspersed with faint cries for help. Instantly, the fear etched deep in his soul was activated and amplified, as if an electric current swept through his entire body.

Put out the fire and save lives!
This was the last vestige of human will remaining in Geng Xun's mind before he completely turned into a demon.

Then, Grandpa Geng's rationality completely collapsed. His slightly hunched back suddenly arched back, making a crisp cracking sound as it broke. The security guard's uniform was stretched into tattered strips by his bulging, dark purple muscles. His body temperature rose sharply, as if he were surrounded by an invisible ring of scorching fire.

This caused Chunyu Kong's talisman to be burned before it could get close, leaving him no choice but to spin in mid-air and fall back to the ground.

"Geng Xun!"

Chunyu Kong placed his glowing fingertips against his throat, and his voice suddenly became clear and bright, carrying a calming and soothing meaning that penetrated the barrier of the ghost transformation. He tried to call back Grandpa Geng's mind by calling back his soul, but to little avail. Geng Xun's ghost transformation process was not interrupted and was even completed more quickly.

At this moment, Geng Xun is exactly the same as when he went berserk in the open space of Shuangxi Apartment.

"Oh? An old friend, but you've come at the wrong time. Now is not the time for catching up." Ning Yao emerged from the poisonous fog and stood next to Chunyu Kong. "The mummy's belly was full of contraband. It seems that Du Jingxiu deliberately left this batch of goods behind."

Chunyu Kong glanced back and said, "This is considered 'personal goods'? It's just a swarm of mosquitoes. You should have killed them earlier."

Ning Yao said with a bitter face, "There's no electric mosquito swatter. Am I supposed to slap them one by one by hand? That's too much work."

“Always good at shirking responsibility and being lazy.” Chunyu Kong stopped looking at him and turned his gaze back to Geng Xun.

After being transformed into a ghost, Geng Xun was stunned for a few seconds, as if his ghostly brain was forcibly taking over his entire system, and his CPU was buffering. Seeing this, Ning Yao cheekily picked up a small stone and threw it at Grandpa Geng. As expected, the stone bounced off Geng Xun and hit the door frame with a thud.

As if a switch had been flipped, Geng Xun reacted as if under stress, opening his charred, gaping maw and letting out a howl that was completely inhuman. He raised his arm and smashed the warehouse door with a single punch, blowing away the entire outer wall and kicking up a huge cloud of dust.

"The door's open! Run!" Ning Yao immediately turned around and called to Manyi.

"Do you need to tell me? I'm not stupid!" Dr. Man cursed as he put several colleagues into a small cart and quickly left under Dr. Chu's escort.

It was only at this point that the commotion in the temporary warehouse finally alerted the slow-to-react Minister Guo, who began frantically mobilizing manpower.

"What do you mean 'nobody'?!"

Minister Guo roared into the intercom, "Does the entire association have to stop operating just because Jiang Yingying is gone? Does the entire field operations department only have Jiang's team? Even if other field operations teams are out on missions, what about the security department patrolling the building? What about the organization's internal guards? Isn't this the time to put them to use? Are you all brainless dead people? Call everyone over here! All of you!"

"The association that specializes in suppressing ghosts and monsters has had its headquarters disturbed by a little devil. If word gets out, where will I, as the commander, put my face?"

“I’ll say it one last time,” Minister Guo gritted his teeth, his jaw muscles trembling, “Immediately, right now, send people over and wipe out this devil who dared to demolish buildings at the association headquarters! It must be done with swift and decisive action, to suppress this matter cleanly and efficiently, without letting a single word leak out or reaching the higher-ups! The scene… yes, the scene must be cleaned up thoroughly… what are you waiting for? Get to work!”

After hanging up the phone, Minister Guo's facial muscles did not relax; instead, they tightened even more, and he even turned red in the face and was panting.

Dididi

Minister Guo's hand hadn't even left the receiver when the internal phone rang again.

"I'm speechless. Wasn't what I just said clear enough?" He frowned and answered the phone.

"Hello? What is it now...?"

A soybean shot out from the receiver, passed through Minister Guo's ear and into his brain, blooming into a murky flower of blood on the other side of his temple.
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Chunyu Kong's ears twitched slightly: "We need to hurry." Ning Yao followed Kong's words and looked out of the warehouse. He saw figures moving back and forth in the corridor, their footsteps rustling, and an indescribable sense of tension permeating the air.

He was somewhat puzzled: "Does arresting Grandpa Geng really require mobilizing so many people? Or is it that Grandpa Geng has already cultivated into a Ghost King without our knowledge?"

The two looked at the ghost-like Geng Xun, whose state was almost identical to that they had seen in the Shuangxi Apartment's ground floor. It seemed that Grandpa Geng was completely immersed in his security guard career and had not seriously cultivated himself as a ghost at all.

Even in his irrational, berserk state, Grandpa Geng could still be easily defeated by any field team leader.

Why are so many people here?

“Although I don’t know their intentions, I think it’s best not to fall into their hands,” Chunyu Kong judged. “Let’s finish this quickly and take Geng Xun away.”

"Okay~" Ning Yao obeyed.

The two of them shifted their bodies and disappeared from Geng Xun's sight.

Having lost sight of his target, Geng Xun became somewhat bewildered and anxious, and threw a punch into the air.
But the punch was caught by someone else.

"Sorry, sir." Chunyu Kong suddenly appeared from his side, caught the huge fist, and carried the guy's arm behind his back. With a side throw, he sent Geng Xun flying half a meter into the air. Then, he twisted his body and completed a beautiful over-the-shoulder throw.

Before Geng Xun could land, Ning Yao's tentacles crawled out from all directions, binding his hands and feet and suspending him in mid-air.

Although Geng Xun was large and strong, he seemed to have no way to deal with these flexible tentacles. In addition, his intelligence dropped to offline level in his berserk state, and for a time he could only struggle in vain.

"Pure mind like water, meditative stillness, without delusion or anger, without desire or seeking, without giving up or abandoning, without action or self..." Chunyu chanted the Pure Mind Mantra to suppress Geng Xun's rage, while at the same time taking out another talisman and coating it with a layer of colorless water light.

boom!
A bullet was fired into the warehouse.

Fortunately, it didn't hit anyone, but its abundant violent spiritual power clearly terrified the evil spirits in the warehouse, causing them to run around wildly and emit piercing screams.

"What the hell is this idiot commander? Is he crazy? There are still people in here, and they dare to open fire?!" Ning Yao stuck his head out in shock. "Don't they plan to capture Geng Xun, but instead kill him outright?"

The people outside showed no intention of negotiating with Ning Yao and his group. No one in charge of negotiations even brought out a megaphone. Everyone just silently adjusted their formation, preparing to start a new round of shooting.

"It's the guard team... Wait, how could a ghost of Geng Xun's level have alarmed the guard team?" Chunyu Kong recognized the uniform of the newcomer.

"Guard team? What do they do?" Ning Yao asked curiously.

"You can think of them as an armed bodyguard team responsible only for protecting high-ranking officials. They don't usually go out on missions or catch ghosts. I rarely interact with them and had no idea that their style of doing things was like this..."

Chunyu Kong considered his words for a moment.

"Don't talk about martial ethics."

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