HBWnovel Chapter 102 Yanjing's Rise: Life and Death Upon Landing
Chapter 102 Yanjing's Rise: Life and Death Upon Landing
10:00 AM. Beijing Daxing International Airport.
Runway 3 has been completely cleared. The area is filled with airport fire trucks and security vehicles with flashing red and blue lights.
But in the most central area, thirty black all-terrain armored vehicles formed a semi-circle, completely surrounding the designated parking spot.
More than two hundred Skywatch agents, dressed in black tactical vests and fully armed, were holding specially made psionic rifles, all pointing their guns at the end of the runway.
The air was filled with a pungent smell of aviation kerosene.
In front of a command vehicle.
Chen Tie, deputy director of the Beijing branch of the National Astronomical Observatory, wearing a large overcoat, glanced anxiously at his watch while chewing on an unlit cigarette.
"Didn't the explosives in the cargo hold detonate?" Chen Tie asked the technician standing next to him.
"Director Chen, Black Wolf's heartbeat signal was cut off twenty minutes ago, and the detonation signal was also sent out, but... the explosives somehow failed." The technician stared at the computer screen, sweating profusely.
Chen Tie spat the cigarette onto the ground and crushed it violently.
"Damn it, I knew the Lu family's plan was unreliable! What kind of ambush at 10,000 meters? To deal with a monster who's just touched the threshold of the divine realm, you have to crush him with the machinery of the state!"
He grabbed the vehicle's loudspeaker and yelled at the surrounding agents.
"Everyone, put the safety on! Load the psionic bullets! If the target resists, fire without asking orders! Turn him into a sieve!"
"Rumble..."
The roar of a huge engine came from the sky.
The massive fuselage of flight MU5188 tore through the clouds, its tires leaving thick white smoke trails on the runway as it landed smoothly.
The plane, guided by the lead vehicle, slowly came to a stop in the very center of the encirclement.
The gangway vehicle pulled up.
The cabin door opened.
The first to emerge were several flight attendants, their faces pale with fright. They were followed by ordinary passengers, their expressions blank.
They were all stunned by the sight below, and some even collapsed to their knees on the gangway.
"Evacuate the crowd! The target is in first class!"
Chen Tie shouted through a megaphone.
The agents quickly moved forward and herded the passengers to a safe area like sheep.
A full five minutes passed.
A tall, slender figure finally appeared at the cabin door.
Lu Yuan, carrying the sports backpack and with one hand in the pocket of his windbreaker, slowly walked down the gangway.
He looked down at the dozens of armored vehicles and the dark muzzles of guns, his face showing not a trace of emotion.
"Lu Yuan!"
Chen Tie raised the megaphone, and the sound echoed across the empty tarmac.
"You are suspected of murdering a high-ranking official of the Celestial Bureau in Jiangnan, as well as multiple premeditated murders! Yanjing is not a place for you to run wild! Immediately put your hands on your head, squat down, and surrender!"
Lu Yuan stepped down the last step and onto the asphalt road.
He looked up and glanced at Chen Tie.
"You're the deputy director of the Astronomical Bureau?"
The sound wasn't loud, and there wasn't even any amplification equipment. But it felt like it exploded right next to everyone's ears, making the eardrums of the gun-wielding agents ache.
Chen Tie's heart skipped a beat.
He's using internal energy to transmit his voice! This kid is definitely strange!
"Enough nonsense!" Chen Tieqiang suppressed his panic and sneered, "I know you can fight. But look around! These thirty armored vehicles are equipped with the latest armor-piercing machine guns! Every rifle is loaded with spirit energy bullets capable of piercing the protective aura of an Inner Strength Grandmaster!"
He pointed in the direction of the city center.
"Not to mention, your father, Lu Changfeng, is currently being hung from the flagpole in the Lu family's courtyard! Old Master Lu has ordered that a bowl of his blood be drained every half hour. Every minute you linger here brings your father one step closer to death!"
"If you dare to move an inch, I guarantee you won't even be able to leave this Daxing Airport!"
Chen Tie felt he had already accumulated enough chips.
No matter how skilled you are in martial arts, you're still afraid of artillery.
What's more, they're holding a hostage. Even if this kid were made of iron, he'd have to kneel down obediently today.
Lu Yuan listened quietly.
He didn't say a single unnecessary word.
He simply pulled his right hand out of his pocket.
Then, I took a step forward.
"Fire! Fire!" Chen Tie's scalp tingled; the deadly sense of being targeted by a ferocious beast made him roar wildly.
"Da da da da da!"
More than two hundred specially made rifles roared at the same time.
The dense hail of bullets, trailing a dark blue hue, resembled a massive metal storm net, instantly and completely covering the location where Lu Yuan stood.
An ordinary Grandmaster at the Transcendent Realm wouldn't last even a second under such firepower before being torn to shreds.
But next second.
Chen Tie's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
All the bullets, when they were still half a meter away from Lu Yuan's body, seemed to hit an invisible and indestructible transparent air wall.
The clanging of metal against metal filled the air.
Those psionic warheads that were said to be able to break through the protective aura were all compressed into iron discs, falling helplessly to the ground and forming a thick layer.
Lu Yuan didn't even stop walking.
Braving the hail of bullets, he walked step by step toward Chen Tie.
"Machine guns! Bombard him with machine guns!" Chen Tie's voice cracked as he frantically pounded on the hood of the command vehicle.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The large-caliber armor-piercing cannon on the armored vehicle opened fire.
These shells, capable of tearing through light tanks, hurtled towards Lu Yuan with a piercing whistling sound.
Lu Yuan finally made a move.
He raised his right hand and made a pressing motion in the air towards the armored vehicle at the very front.
"Bang!"
A deafening roar.
The armored vehicle, weighing over ten tons, was as if it had been smashed down by an invisible giant hand.
The entire front of the vehicle instantly caved in, the thick armor plates twisting and tearing like paper. The car, propelled by the immense impact, tumbled and flew off, crashing into the two vehicles behind it and exploding into a towering fireball.
The agents who fired the shots were all terrified.
What the hell is that monster?!
Overturning an armored vehicle with bare hands? Is this even human?!
The gunfire stopped abruptly. Everyone held their guns, their legs trembling uncontrollably, too afraid to pull the trigger again.
Lu Yuan walked to the command vehicle.
Chen Tie was already slumped on the ground, his trench coat covered in mud. He stared at Lu Yuan, who was so close to him, his teeth chattering wildly.
"You...you stay away...I represent the Astronomical Bureau...If you dare kill me, the country will not let you get away with it..."
"I'm in a hurry."
Lu Yuan grabbed Chen Tie by the neck and lifted him up.
"Which direction was my dad hung from?"
Chen Tie kicked his legs wildly, his face turning red and his neck bulging, and with difficulty raised his hand, pointing in the direction of the Second Ring Road.
"The Lu family's old residence... Taiping Hutong, Second Ring Road..."
"Bang!"
Lu Yuan casually tossed Chen Tie aside, and Chen Tie was smashed against the bulletproof glass of the command vehicle like a broken sack. The glass shattered, and Chen Tie coughed up a mouthful of blood, immediately losing consciousness.
Lu Yuan turned his head and looked towards the city center.
Daxing Airport is nearly 40 kilometers away from the old Lu family residence on the Second Ring Road.
If you drive, even with all green lights, it will still take forty minutes.
Forty minutes.
How many bowls of blood can be drawn?
Lu Yuan took a deep breath.
The spiritual energy at the peak of the Golden Core stage erupted within him like a volcano that had been suppressed for millions of years.
The asphalt road beneath his feet instantly cracked extensively, collapsing into a huge pit half a meter deep.
"Bang!"
A terrifying explosion that broke the sound barrier resounded across the tarmac.
A visible white shockwave rippled outwards in a ring, blasting all the agents within a radius of several dozen meters away.
When everyone got up, Lu Yuan was nowhere to be seen.
Only in the sky, a white shockwave that seemed capable of cleaving through the clouds was hurtling toward the center of Yanjing at a terrifying speed that Earth-based spacecraft could not comprehend.
One minute later.
The air defense early warning radars throughout the entire city of Yanjing were alarming frantically.
The piercing air raid siren wailed mournfully over Beijing!