Night, like a silent tide, was creeping inch by inch over the streets and alleys of the Magic City.
The brilliant neon lights adorned the entire city, making it seem dreamlike and extravagant.
However, all this beauty and prosperity had nothing to do with Qin Yu at this moment.
He was riding a shared bicycle he had violently 'borrowed,' struggling to move forward.
Damn it!
From early morning, when the sky was just barely lit, he had made his great escape from the detention center.
All the way until now!
It was already dark!
He had traveled from the other side of the city, dusty and tired, enduring the scorching sun, facing the evening breeze, avoiding the omnipresent police cars and surveillance cameras, taking so many detours that his head was spinning.
Finally... he finally found Lu Cheng's old lair, Lu Family Manor!
He casually tossed the shared bicycle, which had completed its mission, into the roadside bushes.
Then, he cautiously began to investigate the huge manor, shrouded in darkness!
He didn't know until he looked, and when he looked, he was shocked!
"Holy crap? Is this a place for people to live? This is practically a palace!"
Qin Yu looked at the luxurious manor before him, unable to help but exclaim in his heart!
But then, his brows furrowed tightly.
Because he discovered... the security of the Lu family was extremely abnormal!
On top of the high walls, not only were there layers of electric fences, but every ten meters or so, there was also a surveillance camera!
At the entrance of the manor, two rows of black-clad bodyguards stood guard.
What shocked him even more was that inside the manor, there were quite a few mysterious soldiers in military uniforms, exuding a chilling killing intent?
These people were even patrolling in pairs, alternating shifts!
Qin Yu naturally didn't know that these so-called "mysterious soldiers" were actually special forces dispatched by Su Yang, who had used his military connections after receiving Lu Cheng's plea for help.
Qin Yu looked at the defense formation before him, which could be called an iron wall, and his mind, which had become somewhat hot with thoughts of revenge, finally calmed down a little.
He knew that in his current state, trying to force his way in, eliminate Lu Cheng, and then retreat unscathed, would probably be extraordinarily difficult.
Just as he was still hesitating, pondering how to infiltrate the manor.
His keen combat intuition suddenly!
Issued an extremely strong warning of danger!
He hadn't even had time to react.
A black figure, like a ghost, had silently appeared behind him!
A large hand, as hard as an iron clamp, heavily pressed down on his shoulder!
"Friend, late at night, not sleeping, sneaking around here, what are you peeking at?"
A chilling, heart-stopping male voice slowly sounded in his ear.
All the hairs on Qin Yu's body stood on end at that instant!
He didn't even think, almost instinctively!
The aura of his peak internal energy exploded!
His body, like a tightly wound top, suddenly spun around, breaking free from the other party's grip!
At the same time, a fierce elbow strike, full of explosive power!
Carrying the whistling, vicious wind of tearing air!
Smashed fiercely towards the chest of the uninvited guest behind him!
However.
Facing his thunderous strike, which was enough to kill an adult brown bear on the spot!
The man behind him simply extended one hand.
And effortlessly blocked his earth-shattering, fatal elbow strike!
"Hm?"
Qin Yu only felt as if his elbow had hit a city wall!
"Can't move it?"
In that flash of lightning, an even more condensed force rebounded from the other party's seemingly ordinary palm!
"Crack!"
A bone-chilling crunch!
Qin Yu let out a painful grunt!
His entire body uncontrollably staggered back several steps!
His right arm, which could easily snap steel bars, was actually shattered so effortlessly by the other party?
Inch force?
This was, using force against force!
He endured the intense pain in his right arm, and with a look of horror, he raised his head to look at the man in front of him... this seemingly ordinary, even somewhat unkempt young man!
It was... the god of war live-in son-in-law, Su Yang, who had just finished a day of diligent work as a househusband and was about to go out to stretch his muscles!
"Your strength... is not bad."
Su Yang looked at the shocked Qin Yu in front of him with an expressionless face, and said lightly, in the tone of a senior evaluating a junior:
"To have reached the peak of internal energy at such a young age, you can be considered a rare genius in the secular martial arts world, seen only once in a hundred years."
"It's just a pity..."
He shook his head, a cold pity flashing in his eyes.
"You shouldn't have come here."
"And even more, you shouldn't have... offended someone you can never, ever afford to offend in this lifetime."
Qin Yu at this moment could no longer afford to ponder the deeper meaning of the other party's words.
He only knew!
The aura emanating from this man was very strong!
At least at the peak of internal energy.
He was definitely the strongest opponent he had encountered since descending the mountain, without a doubt!
A strong sense of excitement and fear of unknown power rose simultaneously in his heart!
"Who are you?"
Qin Yu clutched his right arm, which had completely lost all sensation, gritting his teeth, staring intently at Su Yang.
Su Yang, however, did not answer his question.
He just watched him calmly, slowly speaking, as if pronouncing his ultimate fate.
"You have two choices."
"First, surrender immediately now and come back with me to accept official judgment."
"Second..."
He paused, and the terrifying killing intent honed in mountains of corpses and seas of blood exploded like a tangible force!
"I will personally... send you on your way!"
Although Qin Yu was horrified, he also knew that things could not end well today.
"Enough nonsense!"
He roared, condensing all the power in his body into his left leg!
Carrying his strong desire for survival.
He swept fiercely towards Su Yang's head.
This whip kick was his ultimate life-saving move!
He was confident that even a real tiger or lion, if hit by this kick, would die on the spot.
Facing his all-out, fatal strike, capable of kicking apart a small car!
Su Yang's face still held that calm, unperturbed expression.
As if Qin Yu's earth-shattering kick posed no threat in his eyes.
But this time, he did not casually take the blow head-on as he had before.
After all, as both being at the peak of internal energy, although he had absolute confidence in his own strength and experience.
Taking a desperate strike from an expert of the same level head-on, even if he won, he would inevitably suffer some injuries.
There was no need for that.
Su Yang's figure, like a ghost, lightly drifted back half a step.
It was this seemingly simple half-step!
Yet it avoided the fiercest and most fatal edge of Qin Yu's whip kick.
At the same time, his large hands, like iron clamps, shot out like lightning, one above and one below!
One hand precisely gripped Qin Yu's ankle!
The other hand, with fingers forming a claw, fiercely grabbed at Qin Yu's calf.
"Not good!"
Qin Yu was greatly alarmed; he hadn't expected the other party's combat experience and reaction speed to be so terrifying!
Not only did he effortlessly neutralize his full-power strike.
He even wanted to capture him in return?
Once he was caught, this leg of his!
Would probably be crippled on the spot!
In Qin Yu's mind, he instantly made the wisest, and also the most... humiliating decision!
He roared!
Not only did he not try to retract his left leg, but he instead poured the last bit of strength in his body into that leg without reservation!
Changing the sweep to a kick, he pushed hard, finally kicking Su Yang, making him retreat two steps, and also allowing himself to escape the grappling range.
Then, he suddenly twisted his body and spun around!
Following that momentum, without looking back, he fled into the dark night behind him!
The entire process was smooth and seamless!
This move was something Qin Yu learned from television, the Nine Heavens Thunder Double Kick!
How he kicked was secondary; the key was to run!
After Su Yang stabilized himself, he watched Qin Yu's disheveled figure quickly disappear into the night, his brow slightly raised.
He hadn't expected this guy to run so decisively... "God of War! Should we pursue?"
Just then, several special forces soldiers also hurried over and asked Su Yang for instructions.
However, Su Yang merely waved his hand casually, signaling them not to pursue.
The team leader, somewhat puzzled, asked: "Just let him go? He's a wanted criminal, after all..."
Su Yang turned his head, looked at this old brother who had once fought alongside him through life and death, but whose mind was still a bit slow, and shook his head with a sigh.
"You, why are you still so foolish? So stubborn?"
He paused, looking at the distant night where Qin Yu had disappeared, and slowly said:
"If we deal with him cleanly right now, wouldn't it make our mission seem too simple?"
"Then will others still feel like we helped him a lot?"
"Will they still be so grateful to us? Will they still value this favor so much?"
"You, ah, still have a lot to learn."