Chapter 180: Intercepting Six Great Experts

Chapter 180: Blocking the Six Powerhouses

After entering the hidden door, what met Huoshan's eyes was a narrow space barely over ten centimeters wide and less than a meter tall.

This was a small secret room he had specially prepared for himself after moving into this apartment.

Since its completion, Huoshan had never once used this little hidden chamber.

The space was so tiny it could only accommodate his bear plushie.

But precisely because of that, this secret room was hard to discover. Once inside, Huoshan felt a slight sense of relief and was immensely grateful for his decision to build it back then.

Then he pulled out his phone and quickly sent a message to Song Xu, urging his followers to come protect him immediately.

"Damn it, if they were in the city as usual, they'd be here soon."

"But this time they're all in the suburbs..."

Just then, Huoshan's body stiffened slightly as he heard some noise in the apartment.

"Did someone come in?"

Then it sounded like someone was rummaging through the room.

Huoshan quickly peered through a gap left in the partition and saw a stranger searching through the room.

"A neighbor taking advantage of the chaos to loot?"

"Or is someone... looking for me?"

After sending the message to Song Xu, Huoshan immediately silenced his phone and dared not make any extra movements. Like a real plushie, he lay quietly in the cramped space, not making a sound.

Meanwhile, in Huoshan's apartment room.

Zhang Yu, disguised as a stranger in a hoodie, was swiftly searching the room.

But the room was cluttered with so many things that Zhang Yu felt it would take hours to finish searching.

Fuji said, "He must be hiding in this room."

"But every evil god can manifest in different forms—maybe a toy, a stationery item, a pen, a glove, a necklace..."

"We don't have time to search one by one."

"Smash it! Use your fastest speed to destroy everything in the room, and you'll find him!"

Zhang Yu suddenly erupted with layers of Formless Cloud Vajra.

But to conceal his attack signature, he activated the Great Sun Qi Sea before unleashing the Formless Cloud Vajra.

As light was absorbed, the Formless Cloud Vajra he released turned pitch black, rolling like dark clouds, smashing into everything in sight.

A series of crashing sounds followed.

But in this old apartment complex with its mix of tenants, such noise was ordinary—blending with the sounds of arguments, music, and videos from other floors, not drawing much attention.

Inside the partition, Huoshan watched through the gap as things were destroyed one after another, his heart tightening.

He knew a neighbor taking advantage of the chaos wouldn't come to his home just to smash things.

This wrecking spree sent a chill through him: "So they really are looking for me?"

Thinking of all his electronics, game consoles, computers, figurines, models—all being smashed—Huoshan felt his heart bleed.

"Damn... they're trashing my home?"

"Bullying an evil god who can't call the cops, huh?!"

"Just wait!"

Huoshan quickly tapped his phone again, urging Song Xu and the others to come rescue him faster.

...

Not long before.

In the suburban unfinished building.

After using flying swords to probe and finding nothing unusual,

Song Xu and the other five followers entered the building from different spots.

"Nothing here."

One follower frowned. "Is the intel wrong? Or is the timing off?"

Song Xu furrowed his brow. "Something feels off. Let's pull out."

Just as the six of them were leaving the unfinished building, a beam of light suddenly shone on them.

Two security guards stared at them. "You six! What are you doing? Out here stealing stuff at night, huh?"

"This is company property, you know?"

Song Xu glanced at the Wanli Group uniform on the guards and thought to himself, "Is this building owned by Wanli Group? They have guards for an unfinished building? And they showed up this fast?"

With that thought, the bad feeling in Song Xu's gut grew stronger.

As for beating up the guards? Just charging out?

Song Xu and his group dared not do that—these guards represented the company behind them and wore cameras that were always online.

In the eyes of these six evil god followers, these two guards were far more dangerous and troublesome than any other evil god.

After all, when fighting another evil god, even if they ended up covered in blood, neither side would call the cops—they'd just fight it out in silence.

But if they hit these guards, they'd never escape the company's lawsuit, no matter where they fled.

Especially since among Song Xu's six, two were delivery drivers and one was a courier. The moment they saw the guards, they felt deflated, not even daring to talk back, let alone fight.

Song Xu sighed inwardly, knowing their occupational habits had kicked in. He stepped forward and said, "We didn't steal anything. If you don't believe us, you can search us."

The guard raised his electric baton. "We got a report that someone's stealing construction materials here. You're all coming with us to register your info."

The construction worker follower pulled out a vial of Dao Heart Buffer and handed it over with a smile. "Brothers, we just wandered in during a night run. We really didn't take anything..."

The guard slapped his hand away. "Who's your brother? Come register!"

The six followers were furious but dared not speak up, only explaining themselves politely.

The lead guard grew even more arrogant. Sure, they were six, but he had the whole company behind him—not something these obvious paupers could challenge.

Especially with his decades of security experience, he could tell these guys reeked of delivery, courier, and construction work. They deserved to be put in their place.

As the two sides argued, Song Xu felt his phone vibrate several times. He finally pulled it out and looked, his expression changing instantly. "Huoshan got reported?"

"Pirated cultivation techniques?"

"Someone's looking for Huoshan?"

Recalling the day's events, a lightning bolt seemed to strike his mind, followed by a surge of anger.

"Evil god infighting, and they resort to reporting? Calling the cops?!"

"That other evil god has no rules!"

Song Xu glared at the two guards, knowing he couldn't afford to be delayed here.

The other five followers sensed the shift in his demeanor and looked at him.

The six exchanged glances, and their auras suddenly changed.

If just moments ago they had been cowering before the security guards, now they suddenly stood tall and straight.

"We can't delay any longer, so there's only..."

Song Xu's figure flashed, one hand blocking the guard's camera, the other thrust out before him: "Brother, the company's doing well doesn't mean you are—cut me some slack, yeah?"

The guard looked at the few thousand yuan shoved into his hand, and his attitude instantly softened.

Song Xu sneered inwardly: "Hmph, just a couple of company guards. Earlier I was only being polite because I didn't want to spend the money."

"Now I'm in a hurry—why bother explaining!"

...

While Song Xu and the others were tangled up with the guards,

Bai Zhenzhen was watching the feed from the surveillance app on her phone.

Ever since Song Xu and his five companions entered the abandoned building, Bai Zhenzhen had been constantly monitoring the footage.

She thought to herself: "Good thing the camera I set up yesterday works—though it wasn't cheap."

Considering battery life, internet connection, and clarity, the hidden cameras, batteries, and network cards that Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu had stashed in the abandoned building had cost them several thousand yuan in total.

But it was worth it—Bai Zhenzhen recognized Song Xu's face at once.

"It's him!"

Over half a year ago, when Bai Zhenzhen tried to investigate the leader of the Poor People's Alliance, she had screened several suspects from Bailong High School.

Song Xu was one of them; Bai Zhenzhen still had his photo and info saved on her phone.

"Are they leaving?"

Bai Zhenzhen saw the guards approaching Song Xu's group and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Wanli Group responded fast—they're here already?"

It was Bai Zhenzhen who had called to report suspected theft of rebar in the abandoned building, which had brought the Wanli Group's security.

But Bai Zhenzhen knew these two guards could be bought off for a few thousand or ten thousand at most, so she immediately messaged Zhang Yu.

Bai Zhenzhen: They're about to leave the abandoned building—hurry up.

Bai Zhenzhen: I recognized one of them as Song Xu. I'm sending you his info.

A moment later, when Bai Zhenzhen looked back at the surveillance feed, Song Xu and his group had already smoothly gotten past the guards and left the abandoned building.

Still, Bai Zhenzhen wasn't too worried.

She opened a navigation app and checked the route from the abandoned building to the Evil God Apartment—the roads were already a deep red.

"Heh, the timing and location weren't chosen randomly by me and Yu."

"It's midnight rush hour now—the roads here are jammed."

"That should buy us a bit more time, right?"

...

Inside the apartment room,

Zhang Yu looked at the message from Bai Zhenzhen and thought: "They're coming back?"

He glanced at Song Xu's info, then raised his head to survey the furniture he had already smashed, frowning.

"How does this dump have so much stuff?"

Zhang Yu stared at the chaotic mess—clothes that looked like pet outfits, a massage pillow, rows of sneakers, detergent, figurines, models...

"It's a damn landfill."

In the hidden compartment, watching through the crack as Zhang Yu kept smashing for another ten-plus minutes, Huoshan felt a pang of heartache but also immense relief: "Who said I was wasting money buying all this? If I hadn't bought so much, how could we have stalled this long?"

Fuji, seeing Zhang Yu destroy so much without finding the Evil God, warned: "Something feels off."

"Could this crappy apartment have a secret room or a hidden compartment?"

Zhang Yu frowned: "Do I have to break the walls?"

Fuji said: "Breaking walls would draw too much attention—neighbors might call the property management."

Just then, Zhang Yu's phone vibrated with a message from Bai Zhenzhen.

Knowing that Bai Zhenzhen had been keeping watch in the alley downstairs while monitoring the abandoned building, Zhang Yu knew her message must be important, so he immediately picked up his phone.

Bai Zhenzhen: They're coming!

Bai Zhenzhen: Get out now!

Zhang Yu's eyes narrowed: "That fast?!"

Bai Zhenzhen: Hurry! They're too fast! If you don't leave now, it'll be too late.

Looking at the pile of junk before him, Zhang Yu let out a cold snort, as if carrying a fierce reluctance, and left the room.

(The end of this chapter)