After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

Chapter 198 : Eagle Eyes

334 Dragon Cave Street, White Light City.

The sudden hydraulic noise made the already chaotic scene even more uncontrollable.

The vibrations from the excavator's tracks crushing gravel clearly reverberated beneath everyone's feet.

For humans of flesh and blood, that massive and heavy machinery was a true steel beast.

Even the toughest Alpha would become as fragile as paper when facing such a monster, crumbling at a single touch.

Seeing the excavator raise its bucket and charge towards the mansion, Shen Han's face immediately darkened completely.

Earlier, when the uninvited group chose to attack, she was angry but not truly enraged.

But now, the nature of the entire situation had changed.

Knowing that people were still living in that old mansion, yet daring to openly conduct violent demolition, this behavior had already constituted a crime!

Shen Han ignored the van charging towards her.

She threw aside the enemy she was holding, suddenly exerted force in her legs, and ran straight towards the advancing excavator.

At the same time, the van driven by the scarred man suddenly accelerated.

The engine's roar was particularly grating, and the tires continuously sprayed fine gravel backwards.

The van, stained with mottled mud, was like a derailed train about to crash into unarmed civilians on the platform.

Seeing this scene, Yan Lin felt as if thunder had exploded in her mind.

She ran forward, shouting in alarm: "Little Shen! Come back quickly!"

After running just two or three meters, she was pulled back by Sun Yu who came rushing over: "Mom! Don't go over there!"

"It's chaotic enough over there. You going won't help, and you'll only get yourself hurt."

Just as Sun Yu finished speaking, the van had already crashed towards Shen Han's position.

Shen Han naturally hadn't ignored this "beast" that had been locked onto her.

Therefore, this attack wasn't exactly unexpected for her.

Moreover, the van's speed hadn't reached a terrifying level yet.

Before it could hit Shen Han, she had already leapt to an empty space, rolled on the ground briefly, and successfully avoided this collision.

With the situation having evolved to this point, the scarred man could no longer contain his inner rage and frenzied behavior.

Missing the first strike, he immediately slammed on the brakes.

After turning around, he drove the van madly towards Shen Han's position again.

Shen Han multitasked, calculating the speed and distance of the van behind her while closely watching the excavator's movements.

Seeing that the huge bucket was about to fall on a corner of the house, her heart instantly became extremely anxious.

At this moment, the excavator had stopped moving.

Shen Han jumped onto the tracks, used the momentum to grab the painted railing outside the cab, and climbed into the operating compartment through the open side window.

The scarred man hadn't expected his target to have such strong physical abilities.

If he hadn't braked in time, he would have nearly performed a public demonstration of crashing a van into an excavator.

Inside the machine's cab.

The already cramped operating compartment felt even more crowded with Shen Han's arrival.

"Stop immediately! Otherwise, I'll throw you out of here!"

The Alpha's cold voice came from above, and the driver felt his whole body go limp, unable to muster any courage to resist.

His back pressed tightly against the seat behind him, his arm groping around on the left rear.

The master power switch, usually so familiar, now took several seconds to finally turn off.

At this time, the sound of a vehicle collision came from outside.

Shen Han looked towards the sound and saw that the van that had been attacking her earlier had been flipped over onto the gravel ground by another car.

Without much thought, that car must have been controlled by Fang Yue.

That girl was excellent at throwing people, but who knew she could even flip a car?

Knowing it was Fang Yue who had acted, Shen Han felt relieved.

She didn't want to let things get out of hand.

After all, she still had a more important mission to carry out and needed to avoid getting entangled in such a whirlpool of conflict as much as possible.

Shen Han picked up the weak-limbed driver and carried him out of the cab.

"Get lost!"

Hearing the terrifying Alpha's voice devoid of any warmth, the driver felt as if he had been granted a great pardon.

His calves trembling, not caring whether his side still had the ability to confront the other party, he fled the area shakily.

He didn't know how his scarred companion could continue to be vicious when facing such an Alpha.

In any case, the moment he was targeted by the other party, he truly felt the shadow of death looming over him.

After coming out of the excavator's cab, Shen Han immediately went around to the front of the two cars in "intimate contact."

Fang Yue was naturally unharmed and had already jumped out of the driver's seat.

In the overturned van, the scarred man was shouting in panic, but he also didn't appear to have suffered any fatal injuries.

"Captain Shen, you're bleeding from your temple," Fang Yue said, looking closely at her captain's head, in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"It's nothing, just a small scratch."

Shen Han lightly shook her bangs, trying to conceal the wound.

This was accidentally bumped when she was avoiding the van's collision earlier, and she could feel it herself.

But since the problem wasn't serious, she didn't pay much attention to treating it.

Squinting as she looked around, Shen Han successfully found the middle-aged man in a suit carrying a briefcase among a small group of panicking thugs.

Without any unnecessary words, she stepped towards where the middle-aged man was.

The hiding suit-wearing man was almost scared out of his wits.

Not even caring that one of his own was still in the van, he immediately got into the business car they had arrived in with several others, stepped on the gas, and drove away from the scene in reverse.

With the leader fleeing, how could the remaining lackeys dare to stay and bare their teeth?

In just a moment, the dozens of people who had been surrounding them and more than a dozen cars disappeared from the spot one after another.

The speed of their rout was so fast, as if they would be torn apart by hand by that fierce Alpha if they ran even a little slower.

Shen Han didn't pursue them. After seeing off the troublemakers, she immediately turned and walked towards the gate where Yan Lin was.

"Little Shen, how are you? Where are you hurt?"

Before she could get close, Yan Lin had already hurriedly come to meet her.

Her expression was no longer as calm as when Shen Han first met her, but full of genuine concern and anxiety.

Warmth welled up in Shen Han's heart.

Although she had only known Aunt Lin for a few short days, she could feel a kind of care and protection from an elder towards a junior from her.

She knew the other was taking extra care of her because of Teacher Tang.

But this didn't prevent her from wanting to repay the other with her utmost kindness as well.

"Aunt Lin, I'm fine. Let's go check the courtyard first. I was a bit slow earlier, and the excavator's bucket still hit the eaves."

As she spoke, she skillfully avoided the other's attempt to examine her wound and took the lead in stepping through the gate.

She had many things to do today and didn't want to waste time on these minor injuries that were insignificant to her.

After entering the gate, a pile of rubble in the corner immediately caught everyone's eye.

That was where Tang Yucai had planted medicinal herbs years ago.

The plants inside were no longer the ones Teacher Tang had planted by hand, but the herb garden had been completely preserved by Yan Lin and carefully tended to.

After a few seconds of silence, Shen Han immediately walked over, bent down, and began clearing the broken bricks and tiles from the herb garden.

"Fang Yue, come help!"

Hearing her captain's call, Fang Yue responded and quickly walked towards the damaged corner of the courtyard.

"Enough!"

Yan Lin grabbed Fang Yue's arm, her pretty face cold, and called out to where Shen Han was.

Her strength seemed to have burst out from nowhere.

Even an Alpha like Fang Yue, who maintained regular training, was caught off guard and nearly twisted her ankle from being pulled.

The area around Yan Lin's eyes was completely red. She walked to the corner of the herb garden and pulled up Shen Han, who was crouching on the ground picking out broken tiles.

"You child, why are you so disobedient? Don't you know how dangerous it was just now?"

Yan Lin shouted at her, her voice already carrying a sob: "Are things more important or people?"

"If something had happened to you, how would Aunt Lin feel?"

"Are you both the same, doing things without considering the feelings of those around you?"

The "she" in the last sentence naturally referred to Tang Yucai.

Shen Han looked at her somewhat uneasily: "Aunt Lin, I'm sorry. I won't do this again next time."

The earlier fierce incident, which had come on so strong, ended up concluding quickly with an outcome that most people hadn't expected.

From Shen Han giving Sun Yu study materials to her being scolded by Yan Lin out of concern, only a little over half an hour had passed.

In the time that followed, Yan Lin adjusted her emotions and took Shen Han out as originally planned to visit an important staff member of the auction house.

Of course, they went out after Shen Han had treated the wound on her temple.

The two Alphas had gotten into a fight earlier and were covered in dust, so Yan Lin bought each of them a new set of clothes.

After finishing their business, on the way back to the hotel in the evening.

Shen Han lightly touched the still aching wound on her temple, coughed softly, and greeted her team member beside her.

"Don't mention much about what happened this morning to others."

"Mm, later, take a look at my work daily report. If anyone asks, just say what I've written."

Hearing what her captain said, Fang Yue was stunned at first.

But soon, she figured out the key point.

'Is Captain Shen worried about getting another scolding from Empress?'

'I knew those rumors were all true!'

'Last night when Captain Shen mysteriously ran to the guest room to take a video call, it must have been from Empress, right?'

'Otherwise, why would there be any need to hide these things?'

Though Fang Yue's mind was active, her face remained serious and proper: "Don't worry, Captain Shen. I'll definitely execute according to your orders."

Shen Han was quite satisfied with her teammate's attitude.

After returning to the hotel room, she first took a shower, then carefully arranged her bangs in front of the mirror.

Only after confirming that the small transparent band-aid on her temple couldn't be seen from the outside did she take out her encrypted phone to message Gu Junwan.

After chatting for a few sentences, they began a video call.

Shen Han cradled the phone and ran into the separate reception room, locked the door, then leaned on the sofa and began recounting the details of today's visit to the auction house staff.

However, before she could get to the key part, Gu Junwan on the screen had already narrowed her phoenix eyes.

The next second, her clear voice, like a gentle stream, sounded: "What happened to your head? Brush your left bangs aside and let me take a look."