Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

Liu Zhen walked over, picked up a vial of medicine, and shook it. The pale blue liquid swirled in the test tube in a nice arc: "This stuff is good. When we fight Yan Tingyao tomorrow, we'll each take one first and catch them off guard."

The group entered the factory and sat down around an old wooden table. Meng Zhaowen spread out the structural diagram of the Five Mountains Society branch building on the table and drew several circles on it with a red pen:

"Yan Tingyao's office is on the top floor, the 25th floor. The Red Wolf Squad's training ground is on the third basement level, and the entire building's power system is on the first basement level. We'll move in at 2 AM tomorrow. Liu Zhen will be responsible for going to the first basement level to disable the power system."

Lin Shen was responsible for disrupting the concentration of the monitors and guards, Shen Qinghou was responsible for clearing the outer security, Xu Suyuan was responsible for clearing the way, and Shen Hanzhou and I went directly to the top floor to arrest Yan Tingyao.

"No problem." The group nodded in unison.

Shen Hanzhou looked at the structural diagram on the table and pointed to the top floor with his fingertip: "There is a secret room in Yan Tingyao's office. It contains all the evidence of the collusion between the Five Mountains Society and the government, as well as Shen Yanhui's experimental records. I need to get that first after I go in."

"Okay," Xu Suyuan nodded. "We'll give you ten minutes to get your things. Once you have them, we'll leave immediately. The Sharp Blade Brigade will definitely be here soon, so we can't linger."

After discussing the plan, the group went to rest and recharge for tomorrow's operation.

Shen Hanzhou walked to the lab bench, picked up Shen Yanhui's photo, and gently stroked her smiling face with his fingertips.

Senior sister, did you see that?

I'm not alone anymore, I have companions now.

We will avenge Yan Tingyao tomorrow.

Moonlight streamed through the gaps in the ivy outside the window, falling on the photograph, making the woman's smile seem to be bathed in a soft glow.

In a corner of the factory, several pale blue vials of medicine were neatly arranged on a shelf, gleaming warmly in the moonlight.

In Lieyang Province, dawn is approaching.

In this battle, the core leadership of the Xiongbei Company's Lieyang branch was completely wiped out, and its twenty-seven strongholds throughout the province were wiped out overnight by the Fire Seed Squad. All its funds were frozen, and its weapons reserves were confiscated.

The remaining members of the lower-level gang scattered like monkeys after the tree fell. Some fled Lieyang Province overnight, while others simply switched to legitimate businesses. The northern gang forces that had dominated Lieyang Province for ten years vanished completely overnight, without even making a ripple.

When the authorities received the news, they only found more than thirty bodies sealed in cement inside the Xiongbei headquarters building, as well as the bodies of Lu Chen and the other two.

All the evidence pointed to the previously vanished superhumans, and the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs urgently issued an arrest warrant, but they couldn't even find a trace of the Fire Seed Squad.

Meanwhile, the Fire Seed Squad was making final preparations in the abandoned biological agent factory, waiting for 2 a.m.

Yan Tingyao's elaborate trap will soon be ready to welcome its guests.

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At 12:30 a.m., the training ground on the third basement floor of the Lieyang Provincial Branch of the Five Mountains Alliance.

The cold searchlights illuminated the entire space as if it were daytime, and twelve men dressed in pure black combat uniforms were sitting around a tactical table.

Each of them had dark green face paint, their exposed arms covered with scars of varying depths, and their eyes were as cold as ice-cold knives.

The leader, codenamed "Lone Wolf," has a scar on his left cheek that runs from his brow bone to his jaw. It was inflicted ten years ago on the African battlefield by a machete used by anti-government forces.

He was repeatedly wiping a modified large-caliber sniper rifle in his hand, the rifle body engraved with twelve scratches—each representing the life of a top opponent he had sniped.

"Boss, Mr. Yan is urging us again, asking how our preparations are going." The team member codenamed "Hyena" put down the walkie-talkie, grinned, revealing a set of teeth stained yellow from smoking:

"Do those bastards really think they can break through? Mr. Yan covered the entire building with polymer materials. Even if Shen Hanzhou can dismantle cement and metal, he can't dismantle plastic, can he?"

Lone Wolf didn't look up, his fingers tracing the scratches on the gun barrel, his voice hoarse like sandpaper: "Yan Tingyao is afraid of death, that's normal. After all, that kid Shen Hanzhou killed nearly two hundred people from the Chiji and Xiongbei families, his hands are stained with no less blood than ours."

"So what?" "Vulture" scoffed, plunging his dagger deep into the solid wood surface of the tactical table.

"That guy in Africa was ten times more arrogant than him, but we still blew him to smithereens with thermobaric weapons. These scum who gained power through crooked means have no idea what war is."

"Don't underestimate them." Lone Wolf finally raised his head and glanced at the eleven team members present. "According to the information provided by headquarters, there are six of them, each with different abilities."

A woman who can control space, a worker who can generate electricity, a teacher who can control plants, a researcher who can create illusions, a pianist who can produce sound waves, and Shen Hanzhou who can disassemble atoms. None of them are easy to deal with.

He threw a stack of photos on the tactical table. The photos showed the heads of the six members of the Fireseed Squad, each with a red X drawn on it.

"Xu Suyuan's abilities are void travel and imprisonment. Prioritize killing her and don't give her a chance to make a move. When you see her, shoot her in the chest with armor-piercing bullets. Her abilities can't stop large-caliber bullets."

Liu Zhen's ability is to control electricity. Use insulating nets and rubber bullets first, and don't give him any chance to come into contact with metal or electrical circuits.

Meng Zhaowen's ability is to control plants. We've already sprayed herbicide all over the building beforehand, and all the vegetation has been cleared away. He can't do anything about it, so we'll use a flamethrower.

Lin Shen's ability is to create illusions. Everyone wears anti-illusion helmets, so he can't interfere with our nerve signals. If he sees us, he'll just blow our heads off.

Shen Qinghou's ability is sound waves. Everyone wears earplugs, but his sound waves can't break our helmets. We can suppress him with long-range firepower.

Shen Hanzhou's ability is molecular reconstruction. He can't dismantle anything made of polymer bullets and ceramic daggers. Surround him and attack; don't give him a chance to get close.

"Don't worry, boss." The hyena patted the thermobaric bomb at his feet, a cruel smile spreading across his face.

"There are twelve of us, with eight thermobaric bombs, twenty neurotoxin sprays, and two shoulder-fired rocket launchers. Let alone six superhumans, even sixty of them, we can blow them to smithereens."

"Mr. Yan said that as long as these six people can be captured or killed, each person will be rewarded with 20 million US dollars and will be able to enter the headquarters as the core security supervisor."

A glint of greed flashed in Lone Wolf's eyes. "After we pull off this job, we can retire. We won't have to do anything for the rest of our lives. We can spend all this money just by lying around."

The eyes of the eleven team members lit up instantly, and they gripped their guns so tightly they clicked.

They fought in Africa for ten years, risking their lives, and earned less than a fraction of what they made this time.