All-out: Starting with the Awakening Special Operations Unit, search, attack, and withdrawal.

"Judging from the commotion outside, Wang Guangyi's grandson must have arrived already. He is a Core Condensation Realm expert, and he also has several red-quality collectibles that he can use. Nobody can say for sure."

"I'm all alone, but it's the two of you..."

"Did this guy call the whole gang here to chop people up? Judging by the scene outside today, you guys are probably going to be in jail in the Thousand Insect Village base city..."

Chu Hong smiled faintly, the muzzle of his gun still pressed against Luo Xin's head, who was completely bewildered at the moment.

Jiang Long, who was publicly called out by him, couldn't help but frown. He turned around and glanced at the group of team members behind him. Although the purpose of this operation was to train them.

But... after all, they are all his future core members in the Night Raven Society.

Fewer casualties are always better.

Chu Hong's gaze then turned to Luo Yi, who was standing to the side.

"Hey bro, you're dressed so hot and like cosplay, you must have killed a lot of people with that look, right?" He chuckled and nudged Luo Xin's head with the muzzle of his gun.

"Taking her along, you probably won't be able to escape either. This little girl basically has no fighting ability... I feel like she'd be riddled with bullets the moment she went out. What do you think?"

Chu Hong stared at the other person, and had already vaguely guessed their identity.

Seeing that the other party and the Black Hole Council members appeared at the same time, Chu Hong was still not quite sure.

Is the "injustice" and "slander" that Luo Xin mentioned really true?

Jiang Long heard an alarm from Squad Three in the monitoring control room through his earpiece.

"Instructor, we've spotted Wang Guangyi; he's already downstairs..."

Jiang Long's gaze turned cold, and he finally broke the deadlock.

"Let's cooperate, let's kill Wang Guangyi first!"

Luo Yi glanced at everyone, then looked deeply at his younger sister Luo Xin. His gaze lingered on Chu Hong, especially on the pistol pointed at his sister's head.

Only then did he slowly open his mouth.

His voice was cold.

"I'm fine, but hopefully someone won't hold me back. Second stage of the Energy Gathering Realm..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Chu Hong give a cold smile.

"It's still uncertain who will hold us back in time!"

A chilling surge of energy caused the three of them to instantly turn their gaze toward the hole in the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor that Chu Hong had smashed.

Behind Jiang Long, Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan's first squad, along with another second squad, went downstairs to join the other squads under Jiang Long's orders, preparing to evacuate.

As Jiang Long followed Wang Guangyi's sinister face, he slowly floated out of the window and appeared in their line of sight. He then calmly began to speak about Wang Guangyi's intelligence.

"Wang Guangyi, 47 years old, third stage of Core Condensation Realm. His source core is a red-quality, eerie and supernatural consumable collectible peach called the [Ghost Immortal Peach]. The normal effect of using the collectible is to permanently increase the user's strength by the third stage, or to temporarily increase their strength by the sixth stage."

Chu Hong and Luo Yi both narrowed their eyes slightly.

Just as Jiang Long was recounting all this, Wang Guangyi's cold eyes had already caught sight of He Zhenshan's corpse, which was leaning against the wall with a hole in its head, its eyes wide open in death.

After his gaze swept lightly over Chu Hong and Luo Yi, he...

The final gaze fell upon the only one among the three who was not wearing a mask to conceal his face.

"Huangshan Base City, Jiang Long, the Dragon Crossing the River!"

"I heard from that old bastard Jiang Xingdong the other day that you'd gone missing... Ha, so you've stooped so low as to join that bunch of scum from the Black Hole Council, how interesting..."

A terrifying pressure of primal energy, like a giant tidal wave, crashed against the three people present.

Chu Hong's eyes widened.

This was the first time he had faced a Core Condensation Realm expert, but he never expected that such a being would possess a kind of "pressure" similar to that in the cultivation novels he had read in his previous life.

His feet trembled slightly, and he could clearly feel that the control of the source energy within his body had become sluggish, like a mud ox sinking into the sea, in the face of this pressure.

Jiang Long slammed the Black Bone Spear into the ground, unleashing the aura of a ninth-level Energy Gathering Realm expert.

He instantly became like a spear, piercing through the oppressive aura.

On the other hand, Luo Yi's approach was much simpler and more direct.

With a click, he opened the glass jar containing the "Forbidden Item - Plague Rat" that he was carrying on his back.

He plunged the hormone gun into the dormant crystalline plague rat, extracted a vial of fluid, and then stabbed himself in the arm.

A strange, dark green aura instantly surged out of his body, multiplying in number.

Stage 1 of the Core Condensation Realm!

This temporary promotion made Wang Guangyi raise his cold eyes slightly, and he gave a condescending comment: "You have some ability."

Then, looking at Chu Hong, I saw that the latter was leaning against the wall, taking small steps towards He Zhenshan's private collection room.

Noticing the gazes of the others, Chu Hong gave an awkward smile.

"Well, you guys go first, I need to get ready..."

Jiang Long and Luo Yi's faces both darkened suddenly.

"Heh, it seems that's all the skill you have."

Wang Guangyi sneered, and a flash of red light appeared in his hand, revealing a huge peach that was entirely blackish-purple and covered with ghost face patterns.

This fleshy peach has just appeared.

In Wang Guangyi's other hand, another scroll resembling a calligraphy or painting appeared, which he then unfurled with a sudden shake.

The perceived temperature of the air on the top floor of the entire He Group building, and even on the floors below, seemed to drop dramatically in an instant.

"You stinking rats of the Black Hole Council! May you all die here before this city lord!"

"roar--!"

On the scroll, a bird or beast that looks like it was painted in Chinese ink painting suddenly pounces out, but it has lost the charm of traditional Chinese painting and instead has a kind of ferociousness that is almost demonic.

It had just burst out of the painting.

They immediately rushed towards Jiang Long and Luo Yi.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

The swamp rat Lolo's gas jet took off again, and this time, its speed seemed to have increased dramatically due to the temporary boost in Lolo's strength.

The poison gas instantly formed an ominous and eerie barrier on the entire top floor.

Luo Yi fired a shot from the hormone gun at Jiang Long.

The latter was taken aback, but after realizing that the surrounding poisonous gas no longer affected him, his expression relaxed a bit.

next second.

The spear in his hand moved like a dragon...

"Captain, Captain, what you just did..."

Inside the collection room, Luo Xin watched Chu Hong walk in. She could still hear the sounds of fighting outside, and her face was filled with tension.

But then Chu Hong waved his hand, and suddenly a pot of stew, still steaming hot and covered with octopus tentacles, appeared in his hand.

Under Luo Xin's dumbfounded gaze, he grabbed a tentacle from the pot and tore it off with his mouth.

"No, you..." Luo Xin's eyes widened.

Compared to the life-or-death battle raging outside, what Chu Hong was doing right now seemed far more visually striking...

However, her expression froze on her face immediately after she saw the information about the stew.

[Item Name]: Kraken Stew

[Item Level]: Gold

Value: 900,000

[Type]: Energy-rich cuisine

【Weight】: 4kg

[Occupies backpack slot capacity]: 2×3

[Item Description]: Consuming this item will raise your Source Energy level by one major realm. It has no effect on those at the Core Condensation Realm. The effect lasts for 8 hours. The chef warns that after consumption, you will hear various strange sounds for a period of time; these may be real or not, please use your own judgment.

P.S.: Just kidding! I definitely will add more chapters if I say I will! Come on, have some chicken soup for the soul—codename "Pangolin"