A hazy, pure moonlight-like glow suddenly enveloped Wang Lan. Then, the light morphed into a beam, connecting to the wounded Tianjian Bureau agent like a lifeline.
Almost instantly, the agent felt a change in his body. He stared at Wang Lan with a shocked expression, "You... you’re a dical Attribute Star Martial Warrior?"
"Quick, over here!"
SWOOSH, SWOOSH, SWOOSH— Several figures flashed and landed beside Wang Lan and Cai Jianjun.
"Old Cai, are you okay?"
"Director Ming, quickly, get to Dock Seventeen! Soone is smuggling a large number of Space Stones."
"How are you?" Cai Jianjun asked.
"I’m fine. This brother’s dical skill is very strong; my injuries are no longer serious."
Ming Baiye turned his head to look at Wang Lan as the light around Wang Lan dissipated. Seeing Ming Baiye’s colonel rank, Wang Lan imdiately stood at attention and saluted, "Wang Lan, Senior Special Agent of the Suzhou City Tianjian Bureau Intelligence Departnt, reporting to the commanding officer!"
"Oh? So you’re that mascot from Suzhou City, huh? I’ve heard of you," Ming Baiye said. "There’s no ti to delay. We’re heading to Dock Seventeen imdiately. Young man, you co with us."
"Yes, sir!"
The group sped towards their destination. Since they had arrived in a hurry, few had vehicles, so most were running on foot. But one shouldn’t underestimate the legs of a Star Martial Warrior; at full speed, they were no slower than a car.
In less than ten minutes, they arrived at the silent Dock Seventeen.
Dock Seventeen was still under construction. Construction began in 2016 and was expected to be completed in 2026. Temporary warehouses were available for rent outside the dock. Dock Seventeen was enormous. Without Cai Jianjun’s guidance, finding the Space Stone smugglers would have been quite difficult.
Dozens of Tianjian Bureau agents cautiously approached the target warehouse. The black warehouse subtly distorted in the moonlit night, its silence pierced only by the noise from a distant construction site.
Cai Jianjun explained, "I had just investigated this place when they discovered . Then, I was chased by four squads of experts. I killed three along the way but was also seriously injured. If Brother Wang Lan hadn’t arrived and scared them off, I might have been done for. But I’ve been exposed. They might be alert by now and could have already moved the goods."
"No!" Ming Baiye suddenly halted and shouted, "The distortion of the warehouse ahead is a bit too severe."
The mont Ming Baiye spoke, Wang Lan also realized it. The warehouse, shrouded in the moonlit mist, seed unnaturally twisted, like chopsticks refracted on the water’s surface.
Just as Ming Baiye finished speaking, the space before them suddenly rippled. The warehouse contorted as though violently twisted by soone into a bizarre shape.
"Damn it!" Ming Baiye cursed. "Those bastards! They’ve activated the Space Stone and opened a Different Dinsional Space!"
HUM, HUM, HUM—
ROAR—
A savage beast with a head like a Winged Dragon protruded from the shimring ripples and let out a piercing roar at Wang Lan and the others.
BOOM—
Ming Baiye extended a finger, and a bolt of lightning instantly exploded the beast’s head. "Roar at your mother! Go! Close this Different Dinsional Space!"
Wang Lan had never seen a Different Dinsional Space opened so abruptly. When Ming Baiye gave the order, he charged towards the Different Dinsional Space along with dozens of others.
It felt like passing through a curtain of water or jumping into water itself. One mont they were in the outside world, and the next, they had entered the Different Dinsional Space.
Inside was a mountainous spatial world. The sky was gray-white, without a sun, yet it was illuminated. In the distance, dense swarms of Exotic Beasts were converging towards the entrance.
"Good, they’re all Star Shine Stage Exotic Beasts," Ming Baiye said, sighing with relief when he saw these beasts with leopard-like bodies and Winged Dragon-like heads. "Engage in team combat! Close the Different Dinsional Space as quickly as possible!"
"Yes, sir!"
The Modu City Tianjian Bureau agents were all battle-hardened warriors. They needed only the command for team combat to coordinate flawlessly. But Wang Lan, a newcor, suddenly found himself awkwardly alone.
"Wang Lan, I’ve heard about your dical abilities. You take care of support and healing," Ming Baiye said, imdiately noticing Wang Lan’s predicant.
"Yes, sir!"
The battle began. Instantly, the Modu City Tianjian Bureau agents unleashed their powerful offensive capabilities. In five areas, terrifying area-of-effect Star Martial Skills wreaked havoc, engulfing thousands of densely packed Exotic Beasts in a mont.
Such magnificent scenes of combat, rarely seen in one-on-one battles, roused Wang Lan’s fighting spirit.
After thirty seconds of continuous damage output, the distant Exotic Beasts halted their charge, roaring as they gathered just beyond the range of the Tianjian Bureau’s Star Martial Skills. As the dust from the Tianjian Bureau’s Star Martial Skills began to settle, the Exotic Beasts suddenly opened their mouths. Countless, densely packed wind blades rained down on the Tianjian Bureau agents like a storm of bullets.
Individual wind blades wouldn’t have been very powerful, nor would the spectacle be as striking. But thousands of wind blades descending like a deluge was terrifying to witness firsthand.
"Extre Wall of Water!" Ming Baiye roared. Instantly, five Star Martial Warriors lined up with him and summoned a water wall before them, blocking the dense onslaught of wind blades.
ROAR—
With another roar, so of the Exotic Beasts in front charged at them again, while those behind provided cover with wind blade attacks. This classic human-devised tactic was being executed instinctively by the beasts.
"Kill—!" Facing the Exotic Beasts, the Tianjian Bureau agents fearlessly charged forward.
"Everyone, spread out—!" Wang Lan roared. After finding a solid position, he instantly squatted and slapped the ground with one palm. "Earth Surge Fire Sea!"
BOOM—
Even on the ground that had just been doused with water, intense flas burst forth in an instant. This ti, Wang Lan held nothing back, unleashing his ultimate move. The surging fire was not like a wildfire spreading across a prairie but like a roiling sea of flas. Before their eyes, a ten-ter-high wave of fire rolled forward.
The rapidly charging Exotic Beasts crashed headlong into the sea of fire, their flesh visibly disintegrating into charred remains within the flas.
"Nice—!"
The Tianjian Bureau agents cried out in unison. With this single move, Wang Lan had directly annihilated hundreds of the charging Exotic Beasts. The results were so substantial that even Ming Baiye wore an incredulous expression.
"Who would’ve thought Brother Wang Lan wasn’t just a dical Attribute Star Martial Warrior?" Cai Jianjun exclaid, his face a mask of astonishnt. "Damn it, when did dical types start hitting harder than us?"
"Impressive! An S-class Star Martial Skill, just like that?" another agent remarked. "With this kind of skill, we have nothing to worry about. Brother Wang Lan, you lead the way! Let’s head straight to the space node!"
In a Different Dinsional Space, mana was probably the one thing they wouldn’t run out of. An S-class Star Martial Skill had emptied Wang Lan’s mana bar, but killing several hundred Exotic Beasts yielded enough Soul Beads to refill his mana seven or eight tis over.
With everyone’s help, Wang Lan quickly collected the Soul Beads. As his mana bar refilled, he also gained several hundred skill points. How delightful!
The Exotic Beasts in this space were all wind-attributed, which Wang Lan perfectly countered. Coupled with his own considerable strength, Wang Lan, frankly, felt no danger in this Different Dinsional Space.
With Wang Lan clearing the path, Ming Baiye slaying the more powerful individual Exotic Beasts, and dozens of people forming a spearhead formation to charge forward, it took less than an hour for the group to reach the space node.
It was Wang Lan’s first ti seeing a space node. It looked like a cluster of crystal vines emitting a blue glow. Starlight-like dust occasionally drifted down from the vines.
"Director Ming, is this the space node? What exactly is it?" Wang Lan asked.
"I don’t know what it actually is either. All we need to know is that it’s a space node," Ming Baiye replied. "Many scientists are researching what space nodes really are, but we just need to know that shattering the space node will cause the Different Dinsional Space to collapse."
As he spoke, his Star Power flared, and he struck the space node with a thunderous punch.
CRACK—
With a crisp sound, the blue gemstone at the center of the space node instantly fractured like shattered glass.
"Why not use a Star Martial Skill?" Wang Lan asked.
"Space nodes are very peculiar. No Star Martial Skill can destroy them, yet they are inherently fragile. A force of over five tons is enough to shatter it."
Saying this, Ming Baiye threw another punch.
BOOM—
With this punch, the entire space seed to tremble violently. The space node before them suddenly spiderwebbed with cracks. Fragnts broke off, only to dissipate in mid-air.
A hazy white light spilled out from the space node, instantly sweeping over Wang Lan’s body.
"System Alert: Compulsory loadable energy detected. Load now?"
Huh? Wang Lan’s heart skipped a beat. What was that compulsory load last ti? Phoenix Form, right?
"Yes!"
"System: Scanning compulsory load container. Loadable energy: Phoenix Form. Expend skill points to load?"
What a pointless question!
Instantly, the skill points on his system interface began to decrease rapidly, as if being devoured, at a rate of ten per second. Wang Lan couldn’t have stopped it even if he’d wanted to.
"System: Load complete—"
In less than three seconds, over forty skill points were gone. But... wasn’t that a bit too fast?
As the loading finished, the space node before them completely vanished. Then, the entire space began to distort, gradually becoming hazy.
"Retreat, quickly! The space is about to collapse!" Ming Baiye shouted. The Tianjian Bureau agents instantly rushed towards the exit.
At the exit, they t up with the agents who had been guarding the entrance to the Different Dinsional Space. The group stread out of the Different Dinsional Space in single file. Looking back at the warehouse, they saw it gradually wink out like a twisting fla as it distorted.
In this battle, they had killed nearly five thousand Exotic Beasts. Wang Lan had received 20,000 experience points and 700 skill points. These experience points were only a tenth of the 200,000 needed to level up. However, the rewards were proportional to the effort. The Star Power he had consud was replenished by the Soul Beads, and the fight hadn’t taken much ti.
"Allow to formally introduce myself again," Ming Baiye said. "I am Ming Baiye, Director of the Action Departnt of the Modu City Tianjian Bureau. Wang Lan, you’re affiliated with the Suzhou City Tianjian Bureau, right? Now that you’re here in Modu City and will be studying here for four years, why not affiliate with the Modu City Tianjian Bureau?"
"So... am I switching sides?" Wang Lan asked.
"Not exactly. It’s just a temporary affiliation. Your official post will remain with the Suzhou City Bureau."
I don’t even have an official post in Suzhou City yet, Wang Lan grumbled inwardly. Then, showing a polite expression to Ming Baiye, he said, "Director Ming, perhaps you shouldn’t call ’young brother’ anymore. Ming Guodong and I are roommates."
"Oh? What a coincidence!" Ming Baiye exclaid. "Then just call Mr. Ming, or Uncle Ye if you like. Co on, let’s head back to the Bureau."
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