From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 260 Thunderous Means
After coming out of the Tiexue Building, Yuan Hecheng thanked Lu Heng profusely, his gratitude was beyond words.

Yuan Yaoyao stretched out her right pinky finger and said, "We are not allowed to go back on our promise."

Lu Heng knew what she was talking about. He had promised her last time that he would keep the implant of the optical brain a secret for her.

This incident caused her to reveal a little bit of her secrets. She was worried that Lu Heng would reveal all her secrets, so she wanted to make a pinky promise.

Lu Heng smiled and asked, "Are today's primary school students still so childish? They have to make pinky promises for everything."

Yuan Yaoyao suddenly felt that pinky promise was a bit childish, so she changed it to handshake: "Then high-five."

Lu Heng reached out his hand and clapped his hands with hers, and agreed: "Okay."

After high-fiving her, Lu Heng looked at Yuan Hecheng and reminded her, "Recently, foreign forces have hired people with special abilities to attack the Tempering Master, so you have to be careful."

Yuan Yaoyao glared and said, "I told you. That guy definitely wanted to shoot us. My judgment must be correct."

Yuan Hecheng was actually still a little confused, but fortunately his daughter came out safely, so he was not so worried anymore.

Yuan Yaoyao began to think that she would have to take on the responsibility of a bodyguard when she went out in the future.

With the combat capability of the Black Feather Spirit, there wouldn’t be too many psychics on Blue Star that are stronger than her.

Therefore, there is no need to worry too much about Yuan Hecheng's safety.

However, there is more than one tempering master in Fire Emblem, there are also many tempering masters, forgers, and inscription masters.

It is definitely necessary to strengthen precautions, but there is no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days.

If we want to resolve this incident, we need to find another way.

……

After returning from the Tiexue headquarters building, Lu Heng reminded Lin Zeyu to strengthen precautions.

Early the next morning.

Lin Zeyu called in a hurry: "It seems something happened. Two hardening engineers want to terminate the contract with us. If we don't agree to terminate the contract, they will directly cancel it."

This is a bit strange, and if only one tempering engineer asked to terminate the contract, it could be considered an unexpected situation.

At the same time, two tempering engineers asked to terminate their contracts, which was obviously unusual.

When Lu Heng arrived at Fire Emblem, Lin Zeyu and the club manager were talking to the two temperers.

These two Tempering Masters are both talented Tempering Masters signed by Fire Emblem, and one of them is a female Tempering Master.

There are relatively few female hardening technicians. After all, the quenching process is very physically demanding, so relatively speaking, men are more suitable.

However, female hardeners also have advantages, such as being more meticulous in controlling the details of quenching.

As for the physically demanding work, it can be handed over to the quenching assistant.

Therefore, when it comes to quenching certain specific weapons, female temperers have an advantage.

The male temperer was rather impatient, and when Lu Heng arrived at the Fire Emblem Building, he heard him arguing with the manager.

"I told you to terminate the contract! Don't you understand? Isn't it enough for me to pay the penalty? Terminate the contract now!"

The tempering master's name is Zhai Zhihong, he is in his thirties and has a somewhat rough appearance. He ranks among the top five tempering masters signed by Fire Emblem.

Hearing him arguing, Lu Heng walked over and said, "You can terminate the contract, and it can be done immediately, but I want to know the reason."

When Zhai Zhihong saw that it was Lu Heng, he didn't dare to continue shouting. He took a deep breath and said calmly, "There is no reason. People want to move up. I don't want to work here anymore. It's that simple."

Currently, Fire Emblem has a dominant position in the quenching field and can guarantee continuous quenching business orders.

The tempering masters outside are trying their best to get in, but theoretically, the tempering masters under the Fire Emblem should not want to leave.

Even if you want to terminate the contract and seek other development opportunities, there is no need to be so anxious.

Discuss the termination normally and you can leave naturally after the handover.

But Zhai Zhihong seemed too anxious, as if he would not give up until the contract was terminated today, and he even went so far as to make a scene in the club.

Combined with the previous attack on Yuan Hecheng, there is a high possibility that there is a connection between the two.

Seeing that he was so anxious, Lu Heng asked tentatively: "Did someone threaten you?"

Zhai Zhihong was stunned for a moment, then immediately denied: "No! Don't talk nonsense! I'm here to terminate the contract. I'll pay the penalty. I just want to terminate the contract."

Lu Heng saw the panic in his eyes, which should be the threat of injury.

Moreover, the fact that he was able to come to the company showed that his freedom was not restricted, so it was very likely that his family was threatened.

Lu Heng turned his head and glanced at the club hall. The people here were a bit mixed. It was very likely that someone was here to monitor him, otherwise he would not be so anxious.

We have to take him to a place where no one is watching us so that we can get the truth out of him.

Lu Heng waved his hand and said to the manager, "Ask the legal department to write the termination agreement and take him to the meeting room to sign it."

When Zhai Zhihong heard that he could terminate the contract, he immediately relaxed and hurriedly followed the manager to the meeting room.

The termination agreement was quickly printed out and taken to the meeting room.

Lu Heng personally sat opposite him and handed him the termination contract.

Zhai Zhihong didn't even look at the termination contract. He immediately found a pen to sign it as soon as he got it.

"Don't you want to take a look at the contract? What if there are traps in the terms?" Lu Heng reminded.

"If there is, then there is. As long as I can terminate the contract, I can do anything." Zhai Zhihong picked up the pen and was about to sign.

Lu Heng stretched out his hand to block it and said, "Can you tell the truth now? Someone threatened you, right? And they threatened you with your family."

When Zhai Zhihong heard this, his expression immediately became nervous again.

Lu Heng continued, "Don't be nervous. If you want to terminate the contract, I won't stop you. I just want to know the truth. If you tell me the truth, I will let you terminate the contract and leave. But you have to think clearly. Since those people can threaten you for the first time, they can threaten you countless times. Are you sure that after the contract is terminated, you and your family will be safe?"

Zhai Zhihong was stunned for a moment, because this was also what he feared the most.

He scratched his hair and said, "I can't help it. You don't know, my daughter came back from kindergarten with a grenade in her schoolbag. Fortunately, there was no explosive in the grenade, but it didn't work this time. What about next time?"

"Besides the grenades, are there any other threatening letters or something like that?" Lu Heng continued to ask.

Zhai Zhihong shook his head: "There was no threatening letter, but last week, a quenching company came to negotiate something and wanted to poach me. I refused at the time, and the broker said I had a week to think about it. If I didn't agree, I would bear the consequences. Today is the last day."

They poach people while threatening them, and send killers if they don't accept.

The means are indeed cruel.

Moreover, on the surface, there was no connection between the Quenching Company that poached people and the supernatural killer, nor was there any threatening letter.

In other words, there is no evidence to prove that it was the Quenching Company represented by the broker that threatened him.

Lu Heng thought for a moment and continued to ask: "What is the name of that quenching company?"

"Wagli Quenching Service Company, I have checked the company information. It is a company registered overseas without any actual business. It is a shell company." Zhai Zhihong replied.

Even the companies that poached employees are shell companies, which means that even if the matter is exposed, the person behind the scenes cannot be caught.

After Lu Heng asked this information, he thought for a moment and asked, "Have you made up your mind, or do you want to terminate the contract?"

Zhai Zhihong nodded: "Yes, I want to terminate the contract. There is no end to making money. I must first ensure the safety of my wife and daughter."

Lu Heng nodded and agreed to his request: "Okay, then sign it. You don't have to pay the penalty, you can leave after signing."

Zhai Zhihong was stunned for a moment and asked, "Don't you have to pay the penalty?"

The penalty for breach of contract in Fire Emblem is still very high. If he is required to pay the penalty, he will basically go bankrupt.

He did nothing wrong in this matter.

People who have done nothing wrong should not be punished.

Lu Heng nodded and confirmed: "Yes, there is no need for liquidated damages. I hope you can protect your family."

"Thank you." Zhai Zhihong quickly signed his name and left with the termination contract.

……

Su Muyu was originally engraving rune gems in the gem workshop of Quenching Castle. When he heard that something happened outside, he came out of Quenching Castle.

Lu Heng had just finished talking to Zhai Zhihong and came out to see Su Muyu. He exchanged glances with her, then moved closer and whispered, "Keep an eye on him and see who he's in contact with."

"Okay." Su Muyu nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, Lu Heng went to talk to the female tempering master again.

This female hardener was rather tight-lipped and refused to tell the truth.

Lu Heng did not make things difficult for her and agreed to her termination of the contract, and also did not charge her for breach of contract.

After the two tempering masters left, Lu Heng took out his cell phone and called Chen Linian to inquire about the attack on the tempering masters.

"Your speculation is correct. Two more cases of tempering technicians being attacked occurred today. One tempering technician was stabbed at home. He was already dead when we arrived." Chen Linian's voice was filled with anger. Moreover, this incident was not a single case, but an organized and severe incident covering the entire country.

According to Tiexue's statistics, many tempering masters have begun to leave Daxia out of fear.

In this case, it is useless to pursue the case.

Solving a case and finding the murderer will not prevent similar incidents from happening in other places.

This was an organized and premeditated incident. If we want to resolve it thoroughly, we must find the source and deal with it once and for all.

"Have you found any clues? It's impossible that you can't find any useful clues at all?" Lu Heng asked directly on the phone.

"We did find some clues, but no evidence," Chen Linian replied.

"You need evidence, but I don't." Lu Heng expressed his attitude directly.

Chen Linian suddenly fell silent.

No evidence is needed, the meaning of this sentence is very clear, but this is obviously not in line with the iron-blooded case handling regulations.

"Just tell me which force the clues point to." Lu Heng continued to ask.

"Golden Leopard Mercenary Company." Chen Linian hesitated for a long time and finally reported the name of a mercenary company.

In this era, anyone who can open a mercenary company must have a backer.

The Golden Leopard Mercenary Company is a relatively well-known mercenary company in Binhai, but it is also known for its ruthless methods and willingness to do any dirty work.

After hanging up the phone.

Su Muyu came over and said, "I saw Zhai Zhihong meeting someone and seemed to have signed a contract. Should I care? I also heard their conversation. The man said that he would arrange for Zhai Zhihong and his family to leave the country tomorrow."

The competition in the quenching industry has reached this level.

If it were in peacetime, this might not have happened, but after the Age of Abyss, some people were even more cruel than demons when they did evil.

Lu Heng didn't expect it to be so fast. After thinking for a while, he said, "Let's follow the broker and take a look."

……

The two left the Fire Emblem Building together, led by Su Muyu, to follow the broker.

The broker took several contracts and drove to the base of a mercenary organization in the western suburbs, which was the Golden Leopard Mercenary Company.

After the broker entered the base, he met a senior executive of the Golden Leopard Mercenary Company.

While they were talking, Lu Heng and Su Muyu walked into the base of the Golden Leopard Mercenary Company.

The mercenary at the door tried to stop him, but Lu Heng simply broke his gun barrel and walked in.

Before the coming of the abyss, the Golden Leopard Mercenary Company was a force with many thugs. With the coming of the abyss, it slowly developed into an approved mercenary organization by relying on ruthless means.

The number one figure in the Golden Leopard Mercenary Company is nicknamed Golden Leopard, and his real name is Jin Shibiao.

As Lu Heng and his companion forced their way in, a group of mercenaries rushed out of the Golden Leopard Base and surrounded the two men with guns raised.

Jin Shibiao heard the noise, walked out of the building, and shouted, "What do you do?"

Lu Heng looked around at the mercenaries, and finally looked at Jin Shibiao and asked, "Are you the head of Golden Leopard?"

"It's me. What do you want to do? If you want to mess things up, you've come to the right place!" Jin Shibiao showed a grim smile on his face.

Before he fell into the abyss, he started out by hiring thugs to do evil. The thing he was least afraid of was someone messing up his business.

Moreover, he has resources, and with the continuous supply of resources, his current level has reached 25, and his combat power is not weak at all.

Lu Heng paced back and forth and asked, "You were the one who killed and threatened the Tempering Master these days, right?"

Jin Shibiao curled his lips and sneered, "So you're here to die."

In this era, killing a person is really no big deal.

What's more, this is his mercenary base. If he kills them, he will destroy the bodies and Tiexue will not be able to find any clues.

Jin Shibiao's eyes flashed with a cold look, and he raised his hand and ordered, "Kill him!"

The mercenaries surrounding them immediately raised their guns to shoot.

The moment they pulled the trigger, a sonic boom suddenly shook Lu Heng's body, his figure suddenly blurred, and he flew out like lightning.

Accompanied by a sonic boom, a sword light cut through the throats of these people, blood splattered, and more than a dozen mercenaries fell straight down.

After killing these thugs with one sword, Lu Heng raised his hand to hold Jin Shibiao's head and smashed it against the wall.

With a loud bang, Jin Shibiao's head was broken and bleeding, and he screamed miserably.

He watched helplessly as all his men were killed in seconds, and he didn't even know how Lu Heng made his move.

It seemed as if these men died in an instant. Almost at the same time, his head came into close contact with the wall, and the blood flowing from his forehead blurred one of his eyes.

"Big... Big brother, just tell me what you want." Jin Shibiao was very good at judging the situation and knew that he had met a truly powerful person. He immediately began to beg for mercy and did not dare to make any move of resistance.

On the other side, the broker was so frightened that his face turned pale and he wanted to leave the base along the wall.

Lu Heng pointed at him and said coldly, "Come here!"

The broker didn't dare to run away. He knelt down immediately, crawled in front of Lu Heng, and begged for mercy: "It has nothing to do with me. I am not from Golden Leopard. I am just a businessman. I don't know anything."

He thought Lu Heng was here to seek revenge on the Golden Leopard, so he quickly distanced himself from the matter.

Lu Heng asked in a cold voice: "You guys were the ones who assassinated the Tempering Master, right?"

When Jin Shibiao heard this, he quickly denied it: "No, it wasn't us."

"No?" Lu Heng's eyes turned cold, and he used force with his hands to press his head against the wall.

"Ah... No, big brother, no. It really wasn't us. We just used some means to threaten the Quenching Master to sign the contract, and then sent them out of the country. It was really not us who did the murder." Jin Shibiao hurriedly explained.

"Then tell me who it is, otherwise I will think it was you who did it." Lu Heng was very arrogant and had no intention of being reasonable.

"Brother, it really wasn't us. We were just threatening the Quenching Master. We didn't kill anyone. I swear." Jin Shibiao raised his hand and began to swear.

"Who did it?" Lu Heng continued to ask.

"I'll tell you, it was a man named Christopher who assigned me the task and offered a very high price. As for who is behind him, I really don't know." Jin Shibiao told everything he knew.

Lu Heng also realized that the people who threatened the Tempering Master and those who killed him were probably not the same group of people, and their methods were different.

However, the forces behind the two groups are likely to be the same.

"Christopher." Lu Heng repeated the name and then asked, "Where can I find him?"

"I really don't know about this. He was the one who came to me." After Jin Shibiao said this, he showed a pleading expression and continued to beg for mercy.

At this time, Su Muyu spoke up to remind: "The Iron-Blooded people are here."

Lu Heng had asked all the questions he wanted to ask, and the rest had to be handled by Tiexue. He reached out and grabbed Jin Shibiao's arm and broke it directly.

"what!"

Jin Shibiao screamed miserably and fell to the ground wailing.

When the broker nearby saw this, he immediately begged for mercy.

Lu Heng kicked him to the ground and he fainted instantly.

Then, the two left quickly.

Just left for less than a minute.

Chen Linian led a team to the scene, controlled the scene, and began collecting evidence.

When he saw the situation at the scene, he frowned and felt that he had gone a bit too far.

At this moment.

His cell phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Lu Heng calling.

He knew very well that Lu Heng was the one who did what happened here, but it didn't matter anymore.

With the coming of the abyss, there are more and more organizations of people with super powers. Many times, it is impossible to solve the case without extraordinary means.

He answered the phone and asked, "It's a bit harsh, hold back a little."

Lu Heng ignored him and said directly: "Look for a man named Christopher. He should be an agent of a transnational force in our country. Find this person and send me his identity information and address. If you want to solve the case, you'd better do it quickly."

Chen Linian knew very well that such a serious thing had happened here. If the Golden Leopard's superiors received the news, they would definitely withdraw, so they had to act quickly.

He immediately called the headquarters and asked them to investigate this man named Christopher, and then sent his identity information to Lu Heng.

(End of this chapter)