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Chapter 303. The Lord of the Wanderings
"boom----"

A deep rumble rolled in from the horizon as several Rose Transport bombers swept across the low sky like vultures, raining down shells that instantly turned the entire neighborhood into a raging inferno.

The explosions continued, rattling the window frames, and thick smoke rose in the distance, engulfing the gloomy sky.

Yuan Ziqi pushed open the window, and a strong, pungent smell of gunpowder immediately rushed into his nostrils, almost suffocating him.

He gazed at the flames exploding in the distance, the firelight dancing in his pupils, reflecting the chaos and destruction.

The huge blast wave even caused the ground beneath our feet to tremble slightly.

After that bizarre encounter, the first thought that came to his mind was that this mysterious person was helping him.

His underhanded methods couldn't blow up the subway station, let alone attract the attention of higher-ups.

This uninvited guest, though ruthless, did achieve his goal in an extreme way.

—The taut string between Rose Transportation and Black Eye Pharmaceuticals has finally snapped.

His original plan was simply to blow up a subway station, thereby hinting to the Rose Group at the undercurrents surging beneath Xia Yang City, making them aware of Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals' overstepping of boundaries, and thus exposing those shady crimes to the public.

Now, the massive explosion that detonated across the entire network has triggered far more than just simple attention; it has unleashed the Rose Group's overwhelming fury, and a full-scale war against Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals has suddenly begun.

The cunning schemer Xu Huan will surely hold this blood debt against him now, believing it to be a carefully planned fatal blow, and is determined to put him to death.

But he, Yuan Ziqi, was merely a scapegoat pushed to the forefront, swept along in a greater storm.

The real mastermind behind this incident remains hidden deep within the mystery, effortlessly clearing all suspicions.

Sweat beaded on Yuan Ziqi's forehead as he tried to decipher the true intentions of the person behind the scenes, when suddenly he heard a deafening roar nearby—

"Wow--"

Large swathes of quicksand rushed toward the glass windows, and the entire building began to shake violently.

The walls continued to crack, and mud and sand poured down like a waterfall.

Yuan Ziqi turned around frantically in the rapidly collapsing room, desperately searching for a way to escape.

As a strategist branch of the Light faction, he possesses extraordinary wisdom, but his physical abilities are no different from those of ordinary people.

"Crack-!"

With another loud crash, he jerked to the left, narrowly avoiding the falling roof beam.

Just then, the wall on the right suddenly cracked open—a pitch-black asphalt road burst through the wall, precisely extending to his feet, carrying him away from the building.

Outside the window, countless dark, suspended paths crisscrossed. Orange stood at the center of all the intersections, those paths extending and growing from beneath her feet.

"Strategist, the Rose Group is bombing this area. I'll take you to a safe place first!"

"Orange shouted loudly."

The dark roads crisscrossed and led one veteran after another out of the fog to a safe place.

About ten meters behind Orange, a slightly casual female voice rang out:

"A pitch-black road? Interesting. Could this be the ability of that girl who goes to school all the time?"

Orange turned around at the sound and saw a girl wearing a black tracksuit, cropped leggings, and loafers—she was dangling in mid-air, legs crossed, looking relaxed and carefree.

Her bangs were neatly cut in the front, tied in a high ponytail at the back of her head with a bright red hairband, and her eyeliner was thick and sharp, giving her an overall flamboyant and energetic vibe, like a spirited young girl from the school gate.

Orange didn't respond. The girl wasn't annoyed; instead, she smiled wryly and continued:

"I've heard you're good at copying other people's abilities, and seeing you today, the accuracy is quite impressive."

She spoke in a relaxed, even slightly humorous tone, and then added:
"By the way, that fisherman's hat you're wearing—it's quite nice."

There was no malice in her voice; it was as natural as a casual compliment she made while passing by.

Orange immediately recognized the other person's identity.

During the period when the Furong Army was heading north, Black Eye Pharmaceutical sent a large number of people to support them, most of whom were medical personnel, and occasionally their combat personnel would lend a helping hand along the way.

The girl in front of them was Chi Piao, one of the most famous henchmen of Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals, known as the "Lord of the Wanderings".

Orange didn't know why she suddenly appeared here, but she guessed it was related to the airstrikes being launched by the Rose Group.

After greeting everyone, Chi Piao didn't say anything more. He raised his hand, pressed the communicator in his ear, and said:

"Hey, schemer—I'm at the front lines. What do you say? Wait a bit longer, or go straight to war?"

There was no immediate response from the other end of the communicator.

Xu Huan was also thinking rapidly.

At this moment, in the office of the strategist at Black Eye Pharmaceuticals, he held a communicator in one hand and was quickly flipping through the rebuttal statement just released by Rose Transportation with the other.

He had already studied the aerial remote sensing images of Xiayang City in detail, and he had also compared and verified the monitoring images from different time periods one by one.

He knew perfectly well that the outer barriers of the Rose Traffic were extremely strong—and the player clearly understood this as well, which is why he chose to launch an attack from the inside, breaking through in one fell swoop.

Judging from the ruthlessness of the demolition methods and the cleanliness of the entire operation, Xu Huan almost immediately ruled out the possibility that Yuan Ziqi had orchestrated this.

Rose Transportation not only has exceptionally strong external barriers, but also an extremely tight internal security system.

While using human bombs to detonate from the inside sounds simple, in practice, it is extremely difficult to silently deliver explosives into the core area while precisely controlling all detonation points to detonate at the same instant.

If an ordinary strategist were to plan such an operation, he would likely be completely exposed at the very first security checkpoint.

The ability to execute this explosion so perfectly could never have been achieved by a strategist of Yuan Ziqi's caliber.

Xu Huan is more inclined to believe that this was the work of one of his old rivals.

From precise bombing, finding a scapegoat, imitating the method to frame him, to perfectly concealing his tracks afterwards... this series of smooth operations clearly came from a high-level chess player whose strategic skills were in no way inferior to his.

Is he a perfectly timed prophet?
Or is it a complete and meticulous parallelist approach?

Xu Huan was also unable to make a decision for the time being.

As he had previously analyzed, the other party was hiding too perfectly; the whole situation was seamless and without any flaws.

Even he, at this moment, can only be pushed along by the situation and find it difficult to regain the initiative.

In the end, Xu Huan could only say to the communicator with a hint of regret:
"Let's start the war."

On the other end of the communicator, Chi Piao received the instruction, a playful smile curving his lips.

She lowered her crossed legs, stretched out her posture, faced the airspace above the clouds where the bombers were located, gently clenched her fingers, and smiled:
"Two hundred times the force of gravity—domain expansion..."

"Plummeting!"

(End of this chapter)