Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

As Lu Jingyan pressed the red "All-Out Attack" button, the air on the entire government affairs street seemed to be sucked out instantly.

There were no piercing sirens, nor any noisy shouts.

An oppressive silence, so profound it was almost unbearable, hung heavily over the Provincial Public Security Bureau.

"It's 7:15 in the morning now."

Lu Jingyan slowly tucked the walkie-talkie back into his waistband and raised the high-powered megaphone again.

His cold voice easily pierced through the commotion of the hundreds of ancient martial artists opposite him.

"I'm giving you three last minutes."

"Within three minutes, everyone put down the controlled knives you are holding, put your hands behind your heads, and squat down on the spot!"

"Anyone who refuses to obey will be punished on the spot for violently storming a state organ!"

To Lin Zhentian and Xiao Wanli, this resounding ultimatum sounded like a huge joke.

"Suppress? With just these few dozen security guards with broken shields at your gate?"

Lin Zhentian, enraged, laughed, his calloused hand suddenly raising the pure copper dragon-head cane, pointing it directly at Lu Jingyan's nose.

"You little brat, don't try to scare me with those bluffing tricks!"

"Our Lin and Xiao families have been rooted in the provincial capital for over two hundred years, and we've seen countless ups and downs. Who do you think you are!"

Xiao Wanli also joined in, fanning the flames, shaking his white Tang suit, his eyes filled with malice.

"All disciples, heed my command!"

"Today we will act on behalf of Heaven and teach this arrogant brat a lesson in the rules of the martial arts world!"

"Charge in! Bring our men out! Anyone who tries to stop us, cripple them!"

"kill--!"

Under the instigation of the two family heads, the hundreds of inner disciples instantly became excited, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

They all drew their weapons.

The Eight Trigrams Linked Blade, the Nine-Section Whip, the Three-Edged Military Dagger... all gleamed with a bright, cold light in the rising morning sun.

This group of people were used to being high and mighty, relying on their internal energy to protect them, and they didn't take these ordinary police officers in uniform seriously at all.

In their view, it was just a slightly larger street brawl.

In the official live broadcast room of the provincial department, the aerial view from the drone captured everything.

As the two distinct black and white formations surged toward the provincial government building like a tide, the live chat exploded.

"Holy crap! They actually dared to charge in? Have these martial arts practitioners lost their minds?"

"Team Leader Lu, you're in danger! Hundreds of trained fighters attacking at once, the riot shields simply can't hold them off!"

"Call for backup! Hurry!"

Just when the entire online audience was on tenterhooks, Lu Jingyan didn't even flinch.

He glanced down at his watch.

"One minute left."

His tone was as calm as if he were waiting for a pot of water to boil, and he didn't even look at the martial arts masters who were charging at him with their claws outstretched.

Just then.

A series of powerful, clanging sounds of combat boots came from the shadows of the provincial government building.

A fully armed special forces squadron leader wearing a black tactical helmet strode up to Lu Jingyan's side.

The two bars and two stars on his epaulettes gleamed in the sunlight.

"Snapped!"

The company commander stood at attention and gave a perfectly standard military salute, his voice loud and clear.

"Reporting to Team Leader Lu!"

"The Armed Police Mobile Brigade has completed its fan-shaped encirclement, three sniper positions are ready, and the armored vehicle mobile formation has locked onto the target!"

"Please give instructions!"

Lu Jingyan turned his head, looked at the commander whose eyes were filled with excitement, and asked a question in a low voice.

"You didn't bring any live ammunition, did you?"

"Report! All personnel have been equipped with riot control rubber bullets and tear gas!"

The squadron leader grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth. "Both high-pressure water cannons are also at their highest pressure, ready to give these 'heroes' a cold shower at any time!"

"very good."

Lu Jingyan turned his head and looked at the group of ancient martial arts practitioners who were less than thirty meters away from the gate.

"Ten, nine, eight..."

He softly uttered the final countdown.

Lin Zhentian, sitting opposite Lu Jingyan, was so angry that his beard was trembling as he watched Lu Jingyan still putting on an act.

"Playing tricks! Take him down!"

"Three, two, one."

Lu Jingyan suddenly swung his right hand down, his eyes becoming as sharp as a knife at that moment.

"Clear the area."

The voice just fell.

"Bang bang bang bang—!"

The ear-piercing sound of grenade launchers shattered the tranquility of the early morning!

Dozens of tear gas canisters rose into the air from behind the high walls on both sides of the provincial hall, tracing parabolic arcs in mid-air before landing precisely in the densely packed crowd of ancient martial arts practitioners.

"laugh--"

Thick, pungent white smoke burst open instantly, engulfing the group of "heroes" who were preparing to use their lightness skills to leap over the retractable gate at an extremely terrifying speed.

"Cough cough cough! My eyes!"

"What kind of hidden weapon?! Everyone hold your breath!"

"Use your inner energy to protect yourself! Force the poisonous smoke out!"

Lin Zhentian coughed violently amidst the thick smoke, still trying to direct his disciples to form a defensive formation.

However, he clearly overestimated the lung capacity of his disciples and underestimated the achievements of modern chemical industry.

That military-grade tear gas was so strong that even special forces soldiers couldn't withstand it without gas masks. After inhaling it a few times, these martial arts masters were instantly covered in tears and snot, lying on the ground gagging, unable to even hold their knives.

But this is just an appetizer.

"Boom!"

A chilling sound of tire tracks crushing each other suddenly rang out from both ends of Zhengwu Street.

Lin Zhentian and Xiao Wanli struggled to open their swollen, red eyes.

Two black armed police riot control vehicles, like two charging steel behemoths, smashed through the guardrail at the street corner and launched a pincer attack to surround the area!

"Water cannons, prepare! Fire!"

The two high-pressure water cannons on top of the armored vehicle, like two angry silver dragons, roared and sprayed out thick jets of water.

The terrifying water pressure of tens of megapascals!

What does this mean? This force is enough to flip a small car over!

"ah--!"

The dozen or so Xiao family disciples at the forefront were the first to be attacked.

Their supposedly invincible shields and iron shirts proved as fragile as paper in the face of such an absolute physical impact.

They couldn't even hold on for a second; more than a dozen people were thrown into the air by the huge column of water.

Then, like a broken sack, it crashed heavily onto the asphalt road more than ten meters away, and the nine-section whip in its hand was washed into the sewer by the water flow.

"Scatter! Scatter now!"

Xiao Wanli was terrified. This wasn't a fight; it was a mine-clearing operation!

However, before they could even recover from the water cannon attack...

An even more terrifying blow followed.

"Da da da da da da—!"

The heavy machine gun on the top of the armored vehicle opened fire.

The deafening gunfire echoed through the sky.

Although all the bullets fired were riot control rubber bullets, the visual impact of the heavy machine gun's insane barrage of fire was enough to shatter anyone's psychological defenses.

A dense hail of rubber bullets rained down on the feet of these ancient martial artists.

The immense kinetic energy struck the concrete, sending up countless fragments of stone and sparks that bounced off and hit their calves, knees, and backs.

"Ouch! My leg is broken!"

"Stop hitting me! Help! I surrender! I surrender!"

The martial arts masters who had been so aggressive just moments before, shouting that they would raze the provincial government to the ground, were now completely devastated.

What kind of martial arts showdown is this?

This is clearly a one-sided, inhumane massacre!

All those supposed light-footed skills and water-skimming abilities became sitting ducks amidst the dense hail of bullets.

What kind of Bagua Chain Blade was that? It couldn't even touch the edge of the armored vehicle before being swept away by the water jet.

In less than a minute.

Hundreds of arrogant ancient martial arts disciples were driven to despair and fled in terror under the triple onslaught of tear gas, high-pressure water cannons, and rubber bullets.

They rolled around on the ground, scrambling and crawling as they tried to escape, only to find that the surrounding intersections were already completely blocked by fully armed police.

despair.

A deep sense of despair.

Lu Jingyan stood on the steps, looking at the "rabble" groaning all over the ground, and reached out to pat the dust off his shoulder.

He picked up the megaphone, and his voice pierced through the screams filling the arena, clearly reaching everyone's ears.

"Since you believe that secular laws cannot govern you."

"Then I'll have to let the modern war machine explain things to you."

His cold gaze swept across the crowd, fixing on the two elderly men who were shivering and looking disheveled amidst the water jets and thick smoke.

Those were none other than the arrogant Lin Zhentian and Xiao Wanli from just now.