Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

As soon as Long Xiaotian finished speaking, the hundreds of gangsters carrying machetes and steel pipes stepped forward in unison. Their leather shoes crunched on the broken glass, making a teeth-grinding sound. The violent aura of those who had been licking blood from the edge of a knife for years instantly filled the entire coffee shop.

Normally, if the Green Dragon Society put on this kind of show, even the biggest bosses in the provincial capital would have to kneel down and kowtow. Long Xiaoyun, suspended in mid-air, instantly regained her color in her previously deathly pale face. She struggled triumphantly for a moment, then yelled at Lu Jingyan, "Did you hear that! My dad's here! You can still beg for mercy now, put me down right now, or I'll chop you up and feed you to the dogs!"

"Begging for mercy?" Lu Jingyan not only didn't let go, but instead chuckled softly as if he had heard an extremely funny joke.

His eyes, hidden behind his gold-rimmed glasses, bypassed Long Xiaoyun and met Long Xiaotian's sinister gaze directly. Faced with the overwhelming rage of this underworld tycoon, Lu Jingyan remained as calm as a stagnant pool.

"Boss Long, have you been watching too many gangster movies? Do you really think you can control everything?" Lu Jingyan casually tossed Long Xiaoyun onto the sofa like a sack of potatoes, even disdainfully wiping his hands with a wet wipe. "You brought so many people, so many controlled knives, and surrounded government officials in broad daylight. What? You don't have enough crimes on your record, so you're rushing to give me performance targets?"

Enraged, Long Xiaotian laughed coldly. He held the jade gall in his hand, gritting his teeth as he approached, "Boy, you dare to be stubborn even when you're about to die! Let me tell you, even if the King of Heaven himself came today, he couldn't save you!"

"Even the Emperor himself can't protect me." Lu Jingyan precisely tossed the wet wipe he'd used to dry his hands into the trash can, then slowly pulled out a walkie-talkie from his waist and pressed the red call button. "But I think the state apparatus might be able to."

"Close the net. Don't let a single one escape."

Eight simple words, written lightly, yet they tolled like a death knell for hell.

Before Long Xiaotian could even react to the meaning of those four words, a sudden change occurred on the street outside the coffee shop!

"Waaaaah—waaaaah—!!!"

The deafening sirens and alarms suddenly erupted from all directions! This wasn't just the sound of a few police cars; it was the roar of a torrent of steel, powerful enough to shatter eardrums!

Long Xiaotian turned around abruptly, his pupils instantly shrinking to the size of pinpoints.

At both ends of the street, the Mercedes convoy that had been so arrogant just moments before was being mercilessly smashed by several huge black wheeled armored riot control vehicles! Those luxury cars worth millions were as brittle as soda cans in front of the military armor, and were directly crushed into scrap metal.

"Don't move! Everyone, cover your heads and crouch down! Throw your weapons on the ground!"

Accompanied by the synchronized thud of combat boots, hundreds of fully armed special police officers, armed with riot shields and Type 95 automatic rifles, surged into the street like a black tide. In mid-air, the searchlights of two police helicopters were locked onto every exit of the café, and the roar of their massive propellers whipped up a whirlwind.

The red dots of the infrared laser sights landed densely on the chests and foreheads of each Green Dragon Society thug.

"Clang..."

Someone's hand trembled, and a machete fell to the ground. Then, like dominoes falling, a series of crisp metallic thuds echoed. Those gangsters who had been so menacing just moments before, faced with the dark muzzles of guns and modern armed suppression, felt a surge of fear and immediately knelt on the ground.

Are you kidding me? Using steel pipes to smash armored vehicles? Using machetes to block automatic rifles? They're gangsters, not suicide squads!

The jade gall in Long Xiaotian's hand fell to the ground with a "thud" and shattered into pieces. He stood there stiffly, his usually gloomy face now ashen white, cold sweat pouring down his forehead like a waterfall.

"You...you had it all planned out in advance?!" Long Xiaotian turned his head and stared intently at Lu Jingyan, his voice filled with endless despair.

"Your daughter is too stupid, shouting and yelling at the provincial government building entrance, as if she wants everyone to know what she's up to." Lu Jingyan strode over the broken glass and stood before Long Xiaotian, a cold, mocking smile playing on his lips. "Since your Azure Dragon Society likes the whole family to be together so much, how can I not do you a favor and set you up?"

He took out two pairs of handcuffs and skillfully twisted Long Xiaotian's hands behind his back. Then he walked to the sofa, pulled up Long Xiaoyun, who was completely terrified and had even forgotten to cry, and handcuffed the father and daughter together.

"Click."

The crisp sound of metal latches signaled the complete demise of the local tyrant of the provincial capital's underworld.

"Buy one get one free, Boss Long, are you surprised?" Lu Jingyan looked at the father and daughter handcuffed together, his tone full of dark humor. "Suspected of organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-style organization, illegal possession of weapons, and provoking trouble. Now we have all the evidence, saving us the trouble of interrogation."

He patted Long Xiaotian's stiff shoulder, his eyes extremely cold: "From now on, the Green Dragon Society will no longer exist in the provincial capital's underworld. I suggest that after you go in, you rename yourselves the 'Iron Bars Society.' The labor reformers inside, working on the sewing machine assembly line, are just missing a fresh force like you who are organized and disciplined."

Half an hour later, the area was cleared. Dozens of police buses carrying the remnants of the Green Dragon Society drove in a grand procession towards the city detention center.

The biggest gangster problem that had plagued the provincial capital for years was completely eradicated by Lu Jingyan with swift and decisive measures during this absurd farce of "forcibly abducting a civilian man."

Late at night, on the rooftop of the Provincial Public Security Bureau building.

The night wind was biting, making Lu Jingyan's black casual clothes flutter loudly. He stood alone on the edge of the rooftop, looking down at the vast city below, which had finally been thoroughly cleaned up and restored to peace and order. Without the tyranny of the wealthy and powerful, without the filth and chaos of the underworld, everything seemed so orderly.

"Captain Lu, all the key members of the Green Dragon Society have been detained, and their confessions have been obtained." Zhao Tiezhu pushed open the iron door to the rooftop and walked over, his face beaming with the excitement of a major victory. "This time, we turned the provincial capital upside down! Now, anyone outside who hears the name of our supervisory team will have their legs trembling!"

Lu Jingyan did not turn around, but simply gazed quietly at the distant horizon.

Logically, he should have felt relieved. But the heavy sense of oppression in his heart not only did not disappear, but became even stronger as the night deepened.

At the edge of his vision, the night sky, which should have been a deep, dark black, was now tinged with an eerie and profound purple glow. The light was like the breath of some ancient behemoth, carrying a high-dimensional pressure that sent shivers down one's spine.

Just now, the "crime radar" in his mind underwent an unprecedented mutation. The red dots that originally represented the intensity of the crime have disappeared, and in their place, golden dots radiating terrifying energy fluctuations are lighting up one after another in various hidden corners of the provincial capital.

That is a power far beyond the limits of mortals, an existence that completely disregards the laws of physics.

"Tiezhu, notify everyone to cancel all upcoming leave." Lu Jingyan slowly turned around, his glasses reflecting the eerie purple light on the horizon, his eyes becoming sharper than ever before.

"Captain Lu, is... is this some kind of big case?" Zhao Tiezhu's heart tightened as he looked at his expression.

"A major case? No, it's that our understanding is about to be overturned." Lu Jingyan stared at the sky, a cold and bloodthirsty smile curling at the corner of his lips, and slowly uttered the last few words: "Tell the brothers to polish their guns. Those monsters that live in legends are finally going to come out and cause trouble."