Chapter 641 - A brewing storm (1/2)

Translator: Legge

There were also a few other Riders facing the same situation as Wu Dingyuan.

Wen Meng was also stopped on the way back. However, he was caught in a dilemma before he could even see the other party.

While they were returning to the stronghold, a large number of paper cranes suddenly descended from the sky. When the Qinghe University students behind him saw the paper cranes, their first reaction was to cheer. They did not know why there were so many of these strange paper cranes flying towards them.

Only Wen Meng’s expression changed. He did not expect the head of the Anjing House would actually come here personally.

He asked aloud, “Is the Anjing House also trying to seize our Qinghe’s satellites?”

But no one answered him. The paper cranes landed on the shoulders of the students and even occasionally used their “beaks” to preen their wings like they were really feathered.

Wen Meng said to the students in a low voice, “Don’t touch them!”

But it was too late. One of the students was already reaching out towards the paper crane on his shoulder out of curiosity. When his finger came into contact with it, he let out a cry of pain and retracted his hand.

His finger was bleeding profusely after getting cut by the sharp edge of the paper crane.

Wen Meng went over to have a look. Fortunately, it was just a shallow cut. The person controlling the paper cranes was warning him not to act rashly but had unintentionally hurt someone in the process.

To this day, the head of the Anjing House was still an extremely mysterious person. No one knew what kind of person he was, and they only knew that his superpower was controlling paper cranes.

Wen Meng frowned. He understood the other Riders who were out traveling were probably facing the same situation as him now.

Abandon the students and head straight for Luoyang City? Wen Meng was caught in a dilemma. He was unsure if the other party would really kill the students.

He took out his satellite phone and called Li Yingyun. “I’ve been intercepted by the Anjing House at my position. There’s more than 20 students here with me.”

Old Li replied, “Stall them right there then. Actually, it’s a good thing they’re not coming to Luoyang City. At least that way, some of the battles won’t have to happen in the stronghold.”

Outsiders might not care about the rise and fall of Luoyang City, but Old Li and the others had grown up here, so of course they hoped Luoyang City would not get destroyed.

Therefore, if everyone were to start fighting their battles in the stronghold, who knew what kind of destruction the stronghold would suffer? Since the other party had chosen to hold back the Riders in the wilderness, and upon considering the bigger picture, it might be better to get caught in a deadlock with the enemy outside. The rest would have to depend on Old Li and the others.

The ongoing situation at Luoyang City was originally hushed up, and not many people knew Luoyang City was currently at the center of a whirlpool of events.

But gradually, more and more people started paying attention to this place.

As a result, no one noticed that a group of the Pyro Company’s elites had suddenly set off for the Northern Plains.

The Pyro Company’s elites were extremely cautious in their actions. They did not even bring along any supplies or support personnel with them. The soldiers in the group were all at least T3-level combatants, with there being ten commanders whose combat strength was ranked at T4.

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Due to the events at the orphanage, Ren Xiaosu skipped his classes for the day. But to him, this was actually not considered skipping classes at all. After all, Jiang Xu did not give any lectures today.

However, Zheng Hang was going to get in trouble for sure. Their class had a full schedule today. There were four periods in total, and all four teachers marked attendance at the end of each lecture. Zheng Hang seemed to have vanished into thin air for all of them.

Zheng Hang’s classmates wanted to tell him the bad news, but they could not get through to his phone at all.

It was not that Zheng Hang had gone into hiding, but that Qin Sheng had cut off his cousin’s phone line so that his happiness could be prolonged a few more days…

After all, Ren Xiaosu was still using his cousin’s student pass for now. It would not be good if Zheng Hang accidentally let slip the arrangement.