“Just take a stroll?” Qing Chen curiously asked, “The Federation Army here is waiting for your next command. You’re going for a stroll? You wouldn’t have gone back into the building to save me again, would you?”
“No,” Li Changqing said coldly, “I really just went in for a stroll… How did you get down?”
At this moment, even if Li Changqing wanted to pretend he hadn’t saved Qing Chen, he couldn’t help but be curious. How could this young man have come down faster than them?
Wang Bingxu’s hearing couldn’t be wrong!
Qing Chen said calmly, “I took the elevator down.”
Hearing this, Wang Bingxu was clearly stunned.
The young man said he took the elevator down so matter-of-factly.
Yes, taking the elevator straight down 12 floors was indeed faster than him and Li Changqing taking the stairs. Moreover, they had to check each floor when going down the stairs to avoid being ambushed.
But Wang Bingxu felt a little amused. In such a dangerous environment, who would have nothing better to do than take the elevator?
Many people, when making tactical plans, will come up with many wonderful ideas and fantasies.
However, when it comes to execution, everyone still chooses the safest option.
Because life is precious, no one can afford to gamble.
At this time, Li Changqing looked at the injury on Qing Chen’s arm and asked with concern, “What happened?”
Not far away, Little Eagle, who had suffered a gunshot wound but was ignored, silently watched this scene, tears of grievance welling up in his heart.
He decided that when he returned to the Outer World, he would apply to Boss Zheng. He also wanted to find a Conglomerate rich woman and infiltrate the Conglomerate.
If that didn’t work, he would go undercover in Qing Chen and Nangeng Chen’s organization and experience their unique organizational culture.
At this time, Qing Chen proactively explained to Li Changqing, “I was accidentally shot by an assassin while escaping. It just grazed my skin.”
Li Changqing looked at the bandage on his forehead again, “What about your head?”
“After being shot, I fell down the stairs during the chase and hit my head on the wall. I’m feeling dizzy and nauseous now. The doctor said I might have a mild concussion. They’ll count the casualties later and send us to the hospital together,” Qing Chen said.
Since the transmigration incident, he felt he had suffered more injuries than in the previous seventeen years combined.
However, compared to his gains, these minor injuries were nothing.
Now, Marionette’s branches had grown by 1.54 meters and were growing at a visible speed.
Although the branches need to reach 50 meters to control a second person.
But Qing Chen believed that even if he didn’t deliberately meet Marionette’s containment conditions, he would eventually be able to control two puppets at the same time.
On one side, Old Six lay on a stretcher. The blood from the wound on his leg had stained the white stretcher red.
Li Changqing walked to his side and asked, “Is the injury serious?”
“Not serious, not serious. I just got shot three times in my right leg. The first bullet went in one centimeter, and the other two just grazed my skin,” Old Six described his injuries bravely and in detail.
Li Changqing patted him on the shoulder, “Take good care of your injuries. When you’re back, you’ll continue to be in charge of the Special Operations Team and be responsible for my safety. From today on, you won’t be called Old Six anymore, you’ll be called Lao Jiu.”
Qing Chen thought to himself, is this how casually the Conglomerate gives people nicknames? But when he looked at Old Six, the other party clearly looked happy.
He suddenly realized that this might also be a difference in thinking. Old Six…no, Lao Jiu relied on the Conglomerate and truly treated Li Changqing as his master, loyal and devoted.
Qing Chen, an outsider from the Outer World, couldn’t accept someone giving him a name, but Lao Jiu readily accepted it.
He remembered the words his master had said, the emperor never disappears; they just change their clothes.
In this world, wasn’t the Conglomerate like an emperor?
The question is, the nickname is Lao Jiu now. Will it become Lao Thirteen, Lao Twenty-seven, Lao Eighty-one in the future?!
It shouldn’t be that high a number. This old guy probably won’t last that long.
Normal people wouldn’t last that long.
At this moment, a Federation Army officer walked to Li Changqing’s side, “Boss, the blockade is complete. We’re preparing to thoroughly clean the building.”
“I told you to catch someone. Did you catch him?” Li Changqing asked.
“We caught him. He’s in the Gaotian Building, 300 meters away,” the officer said, “When you were carrying out the beheading operation in the building, his communication signal was captured by our information technology vehicle. The person has been apprehended.”
Hearing this, Qing Chen began to think. Earlier, Li Changqing had mentioned that a powerful figure from the Koshima Family, after failing in the struggle in City 1, secretly infiltrated City 18.
The first thing Li Changqing did upon his return was to arrest this person, but he never found him.
Qing Chen thought that the one who had just been knocked down from the building by Li Changqing was him. It turned out that the real culprit was someone else, and Li Changqing had successfully captured the real culprit.
But he heard Li Changqing say calmly, “First, have all his teeth pulled out. Take him to the secret prison and let Yue’er personally interrogate him. Also, Wang Bingxu, go to the black market and spread the news to Su Xingzhi.”
Yue’er? Qing Chen thought that Yue’er, the person by Li Changqing’s side, was just an ordinary secretary. It now seems that she’s also a ruthless person.
Wait a minute, there’s also a Yue’er in the chat group…
Qing Chen fell into thought. It shouldn’t be that coincidental. The key is, who would use their Inner World name as their Outer World ID?
And the name Su Xingzhi, he’s also familiar with it.
Before, Li Shutong asked Qin Cheng to find this person in City 18, and Qing Chen even knew his address.
Earlier, Qing Chen hadn’t paid attention to this name, but now it seems that he’s also a heavyweight figure in the black market.
Looking back now, his master had intentionally or unintentionally left him many clues.
At this time, Li Changqing looked at the Federation officer, “You should wrap things up as soon as possible. End the battle in the building within 20 minutes.”
The Federation officer calmly said, “Boss, judging from the firepower of the assassins, there are still many assassins in the building. Please allow me to be more cautious and give me more time.”
But Li Changqing shook his head, “I know you care about your subordinates and don’t want them to suffer unnecessary casualties in a hurry, and I don’t want that to happen either. I only give you 20 minutes because most of the assassins in the building have already been killed.”
The Federation officer was stunned and then looked at Wang Bingxu, “Did Mr. Wang make the move?”
“No, no,” Wang Bingxu shook his head, “It was Qing Chen who did it. He almost single-handedly killed all the assassins in the building. I and the Boss…”
He wanted to say that he and Li Changqing hadn’t been able to find the other party’s whereabouts, but he realized that this might make the Boss lose Face[-], so he didn’t continue.
Wang Bingxu thought for a moment and said, “When we went in, many assassins were already dead. I almost didn’t even make a move before coming down to meet you.”
The other bodyguards in the Special Operations Team were incredibly surprised.
Earlier, they were still thinking that Qing Chen was just a black market boxer who didn’t know how to use firearms. The reason he could join the Special Operations Team as a bodyguard was entirely because he was…by Li Changqing.
But now the bodyguards realized that the young man was far from as simple as they imagined.
When they were suppressed by firepower on the street, they knew best that there were at least dozens of assassins upstairs. If they had entered the building, it would have been great if they could have come out alive!
Everyone searched the crowd for Qing Chen…
Li Changqing asked strangely, “Eh, where’s Qing Chen?”
Wang Bingxu replied, “He was injured, so he left with the first ambulance.”
“Didn’t you tell him that Ban Shan Mountain Estate has more complete doctors and the best medical equipment?” Li Changqing frowned and said to Wang Bingxu in a low voice.
“He just joined the Special Operations Team today. It’s normal that he doesn’t know,” Wang Bingxu said, “Besides, other injured members of the Special Operations Team also went to regular hospitals for treatment.”
Li Changqing was silent for a moment, “Go to the hospital and take a look to see if he’s receiving proper treatment there.”
“Boss, do you suspect him?” Wang Bingxu felt strange.
“Just to confirm,” Li Changqing said calmly.
At this time, Qing Chen was sitting in the ambulance, calmly watching the ambulance drive further and further away.
From the moment they were ambushed on the street, Qing Chen clearly realized that no matter what happened at Eternal Society tonight, Li Changqing would definitely not intervene again.
Or rather, the other party never intended to intervene in the first place. It was just a show.
Therefore, Qing Chen had to find an excuse to leave the team so that he could go find the Harmony and Victory Society and clear Liu Dezhu’s name.
The injuries on his arm and forehead were self-inflicted.
Just so he could leave now.
When the ambulance arrived at the hospital, Qing Chen didn’t leave immediately. He patiently waited until the comprehensive examination was over and was admitted to the ward with other injured members of the Special Operations Team.
20 minutes later, Wang Bingxu arrived. He quietly glanced into the ward. When he found that Qing Chen was already asleep, he quietly withdrew.
Wang Bingxu didn’t leave the hospital. He hid in a corner and secretly observed everything, wanting to see if Qing Chen would really act as the Boss expected.
However, he waited for more than an hour, and there was no movement in the ward.
Moreover, Wang Bingxu checked the ward several times during this period, and he was very sure that Qing Chen was lying in the bed.
Wang Bingxu called Li Changqing, “Boss, it’s been an hour, and he hasn’t made any moves.”
“It seems there’s no problem. I thought he was planning to escape and participate in Eternal Society’s affairs. It seems not. Eternal Society’s matter has ended,” Li Changqing said calmly, “But to be safe, keep watching at the hospital… This time, you’re not watching Qing Chen; you’re watching the doctor treat his injuries well.”
As soon as the call ended, another batch of injured people were sent to the hospital entrance. Wang Bingxu stopped a doctor and curiously asked, “Who are these people?”
The emergency doctor impatiently said, “There was a gang fight in District 4 just now. These are the injured gang members. Half of them are from the Harmony and Victory Society.”