"Who... who's speaking?!"

The fake employee was at a loss in his nervousness, but was shocked to see Sun Zhoushan, standing behind the desk, wearing a seemingly amused expression, and then he actually holstered his handgun!

What does this mean? Bluffing?

Or is there really something happening around that I don't know about?

With that thought in mind, he couldn't help but raise his thin sword, pointing it at Sun Zhoushan and cursing, "What do you mean! I don't believe you could have anticipated I'd come here! Trying to mislead me that the voice just now was a trap? Bah! If there really was a trap, why not use it from the start?"

Having finished speaking, the disgruntled fake employee glanced at the watch on his wrist.

Seeing that the time was about right, he sneered with more confidence, "Regardless if you are bluffing, the ultimate winner will be me anyway!"

Boom——

The next second, the explosives that the fake employee had planted throughout the Chengyang City official branch detonated, and a massive roar echoed throughout the entire base.

For a moment, the scene was in utter chaos!

He thought of how those places he'd set were areas usually teeming with employees.

This explosion would likely cause significant casualties, leaving the authorities too busy to manage the actions of his companions, and he felt a rush of exhilaration and inner thrill!

Due to the overly stable official and social order, he, originally a fugitive, had been suppressed for so many years and was finally able to unleash today!

"Oh, so the bombs were planted in these places, huh? Thank you for the memories, now you can die."

Suddenly, the voice the fake employee initially thought was fake resounded again.

This time, it wasn't just echoing in his ear but reverberated throughout the entire room, with a mocking tone that was irritating to no end.

Just as he was about to angrily retort, he suddenly felt his whole world shaking violently.

The walls, floor, desk, and even Sun Zhoushan across from him began to collapse, as if everything around him turned into bubbles.

Such falsehood, yet the sensory perceptions—touch, hearing, and everything else—felt so real, like being trapped in a nightmare that one couldn't wake up from, invoking a fear of the unknown.

Crack——

At that moment, a sudden cracking sound emerged.

The sound was clear, like breaking a mirror at home, making one shiver.

Followed by a suffocating feeling as if submerged in a tidal wave, leaving the fake employee bewildered, with extreme terror in his eyes.

He flailed his arms frantically in the air, trying to grasp at some nonexistent lifeline.

Finally, he powerlessly lowered his arms and became motionless, collapsing to the ground as if asleep and unable to get up again.

This was the despair felt by the fake employee.

But in Sun Zhoushan's eyes, it was not the same——

When he put away the gun, the guy started twitching strangely in place and babbling nonsense.

Within a few seconds, he was completely breathless.

No wounds appeared on his body.

He died silently just like that.

There was no explosion at the official base, nor any mocking voices.

Soon after, a layer of mist drifted in from outside the door, unloading the large number of dismantled homemade explosive packages in front of him like pouring beans.

"Heh, if I hadn't come back, the old home would have been blown up, Captain Sun, you're not doing your job well as the person in charge, are you?" Wu Liang's voice came from a nearby sofa.

When Sun Zhoushan turned his head to look, he found Wu Liang already sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, looking leisurely.

However, strangely, he couldn't see Wu Liang's head above his neck; his entire head was shrouded in a layer of mist.

"Kid, why all the mystery when coming home? The bombs won't explode without you dismantling them, our base has real-time scanning, anything unregistered appearing around the buildings or in the ground will be detected and isolated," Sun Zhoushan shrugged helplessly.

He said this, but felt quite relieved to see Wu Liang back.

After all, just because an official base is not prone to incidents doesn't mean they won't happen at all.

Since everything is managed by humans, it is destined not to be perfect, with errors bound to occur.

In addition, the chaos in the city was just too much; with this kid back, perhaps the ill-intentioned Awakened people in Chengyang wouldn't be able to stir up any trouble.

Wu Liang sighed helplessly, "This mist is to protect you guys; I carry a curse that prevents anyone from seeing me in reality, or I'm afraid you might go crazy and hurt yourselves attacking me."

With that, the mist above his head took on a helpless expression, just like an emoticon on an electronic screen.

Hearing this, Sun Zhoushan's expression instantly became serious.

"A curse? Is it serious? Couldn't solve it in the Capital City? You're not planning to come home to die, are you?" Even his speech speed increased significantly.

Wu Liang merely replied cheerfully, "Nothing major, just can't be seen in the light, Capital City has Dragon backing it, and the three major civilian organizations are subdued, nothing much can go wrong."

"Chengyang City is what I'm really worried about, wouldn't want it being overturned while I'm on a trip."

"My spotless ceiling can't have a single stain."

As he said this, the communicator on Sun Zhoushan's waist suddenly sounded.

Upon answering, he heard his teams reporting in confusion——

"Minister Sun, we've found the troublesome Awakened in Chuanhui District, but he's been tossed into a trash can, all tangled up in mist, do we still need to bring him back?"

"Report, the supplies in Huiming District have been reclaimed, the robbers… were stripped and hung on a lamppost by a mist, is this done by one of us?"

"Report, the murdering civilian Awakened has been confirmed captured, his limbs are wrapped by a bizarre mist, should we approach the mist?"

"..."

In an instant, the turbulent problems across the various districts seemed to be resolved by the bizarre and pervasive mist.

The reports on the communicator made Sun Zhoushan turn his head back to look at Wu Liang once more.

He certainly knew whose handiwork the mist was.

Yet he hadn't expected the other to address the citywide issues so swiftly.

This kid's power...just how advanced has it gotten?

"Heh, don't look at me like that, when some power is enough to destroy a city, naturally it can also save one," Wu Liang remarked nonchalantly.

Looking at the disdainful emoticon in the mist on Wu Liang's face, Sun Zhoushan's emotions were exceedingly complex.

The truth isn't as simple as this kid makes it sound; in some sense, many powers can destroy a city, even human-made nuclear weapons can do that.

But to instantaneously grasp all anomalies in the city and solve them is something nuclear weapons cannot achieve, protection is always more challenging than destruction.

Wu Liang's power has already transcended the scope of his understanding!

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