novelraw Chapter 681: The Great Brawl of the Withered Bone Path Begins!
Chapter 681: The Great Brawl of the Withered Bone Path Begins!
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This scene, as chaos erupted on the Path of Dry Bones pedestrian street, was retrieved by the technical department personnel of White Ridge 749 in the temporary base.
It was projected onto the large screen.
Qian Jin was the first to curse: "Too arrogant, too arrogant, this is a blatant provocation!!!"
"Grand Guardian, please give the order, it's time for us to act!!"
He was all about putting on a show.
And it wasn't just empty talk like before.
This time, he meant it.
Fu Xinghe knew Lu Ding's temper and didn't offer any other comments, only saying one thing: "The Reshaper should be preheated and ready."
Lu Ding, standing at the very front of them, cast his gaze towards the large screen.Calm.
No messy, complicated emotional fluctuations.
Only disdain.
Like to show off?
Then go ahead, just don't let me catch you.
He didn't know what the hell this woman was dancing about.
If it weren't for going with the flow and taking the opportunity to clean up White Ridge 749 as well.
When Lu Ding saw the note she left at All Under Heaven One Family, he had already started planning against her.
But it's not too late now.
Gao Qiuli was following Lu Ding's predicted plan, step by step.
Starting from releasing the White Ridge 749 investigators.
Lu Ding's plan was to pull the battlefield to the Path of Dry Bones.
Killing two birds with one stone, a perfect solution, no reason not to use it.
No need to keep messing up White Ridge.
The Path of Dry Bones had a ready-made location.
Although everything was going exactly as he envisioned, when Lu Ding saw Gao Qiuli actively revealing herself to ignite the chaos on the Path of Dry Bones.
He was still pissed.
Monster spirits, demons, evil cult fanatics, what the hell are you showing off for?
"Since they have extended such a sincere and earnest invitation, how can we refuse."
Lu Ding withdrew his gaze, turned, and looked at Qian Jin: "Go, remember my words, those who fish in troubled waters, kill! Those who break laws and violate discipline, kill!!"
"Only corpses, no prisoners!"
Although the White Ridge investigators who came this time were all criminals with prior records, not yet dealt with, people who deserved to die.
But since he promised them the status of martyrs.
Then Lu Ding wouldn't let them die in frustration, restrained by command limitations.
If today's Path of Dry Bones is a carnival ground for criminals, monsters, and demons.
Then...
It will also be the final indulgence ground for these investigators before death.
If pent-up emotions need venting.
Then these monsters, demons, and criminals will be the best targets for venting!
Qian Jin snapped his heels together and stood at attention: "Yes, sir!!"
Then he strode outwards.
Fu Xinghe followed behind him, silently walking towards the location of the Reshaper.
Finally.
In the room.
Only Lu Ding, Qin Jinghao with his anxious heart, remained.
Along with a group of White Ridge 749 technical department investigators whose fingers danced across their keyboards.
His gaze fell on the split-screen display.
Lu Ding spoke: "Separate out the key areas."
As his words fell, the technical department investigators immediately singled out the currently most chaotic areas on the Path of Dry Bones and projected them onto the large screen.
It was also at this moment.
Lu Ding slightly turned his head, glancing at Qin Jinghao from the corner of his eye: "Pick one."
Qin Jinghao straightened his expression, his eyes sweeping over the areas on the screen.
He hardened his heart.
The chance to carry out a mission alongside Grand Duke Lu doesn't come anytime.
So, I must choose the fiercest one!
I must let Grand Duke Lu see my strength, see my sincerity in wanting to join White Ridge 749.
He raised his hand and pointed at the area glowing red to the point of purple: "Reporting to the Grand Guardian, I choose here!!"
Zhuguang Road!
Usually the most prosperous area of the Path of Dry Bones.
But right now.
Once the riot started, this place became the biggest piece of meat on the Path of Dry Bones.
Everyone wants to take a bite.
That Qin Jinghao would choose this place was actually within Lu Ding's expectations.
"Fine, but I must tell you in advance, when encountering enemies, if they are in a group, I'll give you ten moves. If it's a single enemy, I'll give you three moves."
"If you exceed these limits, I will intervene."
Bringing Qin Jinghao along is important, but swiftly, accurately, and ruthlessly eliminating emerging enemies is the most important priority.
Things are already this chaotic, Lu Ding has no time to watch Qin Jinghao engage in turn-based combat with enemies.
Do you really think this is an anime? A movie? A novel?
The fire is at the eyebrows, and you're still taking it easy.
Lu Ding enjoys eating the 749 Bureau's rice with a clear conscience.
So this is the maximum time he'll give.
Qin Jinghao imitated Qian Jin's earlier posture, snapping his heels together and standing at attention: "Yes, sir!!!"
Without further words, the two directly walked out of the temporary base.
Flying towards the target area.
At the same time.
All over the Path of Dry Bones, the hidden White Ridge investigators received the command forwarded by Qian Jin.
For a moment, investigators formed into groups of three and joined the battlefield.
Under normal circumstances, it's usually an assistant investigator and a main investigator, two-person teams.
But the three-three system is a bandit-suppression treatment, a life-risking formation, belonging to the regular army's dimensional reduction strike.
Regardless of cultivation level, it's just two words: universal.
One main DPS, one secondary DPS, one support.
Fight to the death, main DPS clears the path, support applies buffs, secondary DPS swings to finish off, deliver sneak attacks, coordinate, and must be ready to take over the positions of the other two at any time for rotation.
Like a perpetual motion machine.
Coupled with the special talismans of the 749 three-three system.
Just fight, whoever fights will get their claws numb.
Of course, the old New City 749 didn't have such talismans. These were all obtained after Lu Ding arrived, made achievements, confiscated assets, and used public funds and resources to trade for them.
Consider it giving these investigators some dignity, rather than making them die just for the sake of dying.
Thus, the Path of Dry Bones grand melee officially begins!
On the other side.
Zhuguang Road.
Flames soared into the sky, zero-dollar looting involving burning, killing, and plundering could be seen everywhere, along with explosive sounds from battles.
With a thunderous boom.
A hundred-meter-tall skyscraper exploded violently, billowing black smoke, two figures were sent flying out from within, crashing heavily onto the ground, plowing deep furrows.
In the trench on the ground.
Shen Qixue barely stabilized her posture, looked at her twisted and deformed arm, forcefully suppressed a surge of reverse blood, circulated her qi to restore the arm, and was about to grab her close friend Tang Lian, who had been sent flying out with her, and flee.
But just as she turned around, she saw the young man who had just sent both her and her friend flying with a single move, now blocking the path behind them, cutting off their escape route.
"Shen Qixue, put down Tang Lian, and I can let you leave!"
A voice rang out, a figure descended from the air. It was Jiang Ren, the Benevolent Guardian of Fierce Pursuit Hall, who had brought Xiao Jingbai and others to seize territory.
And the one blocking the path was Xiao Jingbai!
"In your dreams!!"
Shen Qixue retorted almost without a moment's hesitation.
Earlier, not long before the Path of Dry Bones descended into complete chaos, Fu Xinghe found the imprisoned Shen Qixue. His first words were:
"Path of Dry Bones 749 is gone."
Shen Qixue couldn't believe it, even doubting her own ears. How could such a large 749 Bureau be gone?
She was counting on someone from Path of Dry Bones to come rescue her, how could it be gone?
Before she could sort out her thoughts, accept the shock, and voice her confusion.
Fu Xinghe continued: "Right now, White Ridge 749 is short on personnel, and you haven't committed any major mistakes, so you're not on Brother Lu's must-kill red line."
"I'm giving you two choices now. One, join White Ridge 749, become a 749 investigator, starting as an intern."
Shen Qixue felt a flicker of temptation at first, after all, White Ridge 749 was led by Lu Ding, and Lu Ding's strength had made her feel despair, his blows had cleared her vision.
When had a proud daughter of heaven ever suffered such a blow?
After experiencing such a heavy blow, and then learning from Fu Xinghe that Lu Ding didn't seem to intend to kill her, and even acknowledged that she hadn't committed any major wrongs.
This made Shen Qixue feel that working under Lu Ding might be acceptable...
Most importantly, she was somewhat afraid of refusing Lu Ding. Even though Lu Ding wasn't present now, just hearing his name would instinctively trigger fear in her.
This was a lingering aftereffect from nearly having her cultivation heart shattered.
But curiosity made her instinctively ask: "And the second one?"
Fu Xinghe pushed up his glasses: "After serving the local prison sentence, be transferred back to Great Han to face investigation and trial by the Great Han 749 supervisory agency."
Hearing this, although she didn't know how long she'd have to sit in prison, she felt it definitely wouldn't be short.
She was a genius, her time was precious, needed for growth. A long prison sentence was something Shen Qixue couldn't accept.
She immediately agreed to join White Ridge 749, but she had a small request: she wanted to return to the Path of Dry Bones to check on her good friend, Tang Lian.
She knew that if Path of Dry Bones 749 was gone, the Path of Dry Bones would definitely fall into chaos.
And this good friend she met through flower arrangement might get caught up in it.
Actually, their bond wasn't that deep.
There were only two reasons that made Shen Qixue come back to see her and confirm her safety.
First, Shen Qixue didn't have many friends.
Second, she was the only girl who had invited Shen Qixue to be her bridesmaid when she got married.
This was the first time in Shen Qixue's life she had received such an invitation.
Even though she didn't do it, she remembered that gesture.
Jiang Ren, hearing this refusal, took a deep breath: "Investigator Shen, why make things difficult? The Path of Dry Bones 749 is already gone, this department has vanished."
"Your status as an investigator is also in name only."
"So if I kill you now, no one from 749 will investigate how you died."
Hearing this, Shen Qixue tightened her protective hold on the unconscious Tang Lian, while her gaze couldn't help but drift towards Xiao Jingbai's direction.
She was confident that if she wanted to leave, Jiang Ren couldn't stop her, and a dim-witted thing like Big Stupid Elephant certainly couldn't stop her either.
But this young man who came out of nowhere was an insurmountable mountain, a chasm she couldn't cross.
Yet, asking her to abandon Tang Lian was something she couldn't do. Even with Chen Yan back then, before his true nature was revealed, she hadn't planned to abandon him.
Even facing a fierce person like Lu Ding, she dared to stand up.
This was her way of treating friends.
Shen Qixue's gaze gradually grew resolute as she slowly placed Tang Lian in her hands on the ground.
Jiang Ren thought she was compromising.
But the next second, Shen Qixue circulated her qi and assumed a fighting stance: "Her, I am determined to save. Either kill me first, then kill her, or, let both of us leave."
Putting down Tang Lian wasn't a compromise, but to better unleash her full strength.
Anyway, today was a fight to the death, it had to be one of these two outcomes.
Jiang Ren sighed helplessly: "If that's the case, then don't blame me!!!!"