Chapter 548 - Brothers-in-cauldrons (1/2)

When a steam locomotive suddenly came to a stop while traveling at high speed, if the inertia couldn’t be precisely predicted beforehand to adjust for one’s center of gravity, then there would definitely be a huge loss of balance.

Balance was one of the most important things for every combatant.

Not to mention a battle between supernatural beings, even if it were just a battle between normal people, a combatant who had lost their balance was as good as a fish on the chopping board.

The Pyro Company members had extremely good physical fitness, and normal supernatural beings could not compare to them. Therefore, at the moment of imbalance, they quickly used their feet to adjust their center of gravity so they would not end up in a particularly sorry state and bump into the shadow clone’s blade.

But as long as they were thrown off even a little, they would definitely expose an opening.

The shadow clone zipped past the three of them with the black saber in hand while the Pyro Company members tried their best to slash at its body. But to their surprise, they discovered that there was no sound at all when their sabers struck the shadow clone’s body. It was as though the three of them were not brandishing swords but pieces of paper instead!

The shadow clone’s black saber was already closing in towards them. One of the Pyro Company members instinctively raised his arm in hopes of slowing down the black saber’s attack. However, when the black saber slashed across his arm, it did not feel like it had slowed down at all.

“Such sharpness…” That Pyro Company member was shocked. “It’s you! Just who on earth are you? Why are you always going against our Pyro Company!”

But just as he finished speaking, he lost consciousness.

Ren Xiaosu had already clashed with the Pyro Company on more than one occasion. The Pyro Company had long known there was someone capable of using a sharp weapon to cut a human in half.

While the storyteller’s incredible tales sounded quite believable sometimes, there were not many swords in reality that were capable of that. Therefore, slashing a human in half across the waist was usually due to great strength by the wielder and not because the blade was really sharp.

As for the Pyro Company, they had discovered during the recovery of their dead that the skeletal structures were cleanly cut across at the waist. This was all down to the might of the saber itself!

When the three Pyro Company members died, Ren Xiaosu gave a wave of his hand and the steam locomotive disappeared with a poof. He stuffed all 13 boxes of the laboratory data into his storage space and left before the Zhou Consortium’s troops could arrive at Liberation Park.

Furthermore, Ren Xiaosu took the corpses of the three Pyro Company members away with him.

The other party had recognized who he was just now. Although they still had not figured out his identity, if the Pyro Company found their corpses, they would surely know it was not Wang Congyang’s doing.

That wouldn’t do. He had to blame him entirely!

Not long after Ren Xiaosu left, the six members of the Pyro Company who were in charge of taking out the patrol team also fled. They still did not know what happened over here and thought the mission was a success.

When they returned to the safe house, they contacted their headquarters and reported the situation on their side. In the end, the P3 commander who oversaw the operation told them the steam locomotive did not leave the stronghold at all. In fact, it did not even leave the park.

Only then did the Pyro Company realize that something had happened! It had all gone wrong!

The commander on the other end of the satellite call asked coldly, “The superhuman responsible for escorting them is called Wang Congyang, right?”

The six members of the Pyro Company answered in panic, “Yes, it’s Wang Congyang. His power allows him to conjure a steam locomotive. We all saw him do so with our own eyes.”

“OK, I’ll send out an internal memo for his arrest.” The commander hung up. Then he said to the person next to him, “The deposit of one million yuan has already been paid. Follow up and investigate the recipient’s account.”

…

At this moment, the girl with the canine teeth who was in the residence stared at the screen in front of her. She was stunned because a deposit of one million yuan suddenly appeared in one of the accounts on the surveillance monitors.

Strange, wasn’t this one of their Anjing House’s anonymous accounts that they were monitoring? The account holder did not accept any new missions, so where did the money come from?

She made a call to find out the source of the funds. But upon checking, she realized the one million yuan was paid out from the Pyro Company’s account.