Heroes Return

Similarly, this seemingly ordinary person was actually Zhao Lei, the leader of the Salvation Army.

That's right, the Salvation Army member who had never shown his face in the world was this seemingly ordinary man. He was approachable, without any imposing aura, just like the boy next door.

Taking the bottle, Zhao Lei's face revealed an undisguised excitement. You see, Zhao Lei had been constantly investigating in order to obtain this bottle, and the Salvation Army's overall operations over the years had all been aimed at finding this bottle. Now, he had finally found it.

“It’s time to meet the professor,” Zhao Lei said excitedly. “It seems that the professor’s life’s work is about to come true.”

"We know, we'll contact them now."

"Also, how's Romanor doing? Any news?" Zhao Lei asked the other person with some doubt. "We've already asked, but it seems something's happened to Romanor. It seems breaking the seal is proving quite difficult."

"I understand. Don't worry, I will take people to Romanoer this time."

"Do you really need to go, Chief? Romanor is no longer of any use to us." Another Salvation Army member asked Zhao Lei with a question in his mind.

"I'm just going to see the Great Wall and maybe see if I can spot the legendary Xuanyuan Sword. Don't worry, I'll be fine," Zhao Lei said with a smile to everyone present. "Don't worry, Zhuge Nan's intelligence this time is quite accurate."

"But those families came along too. Isn't that a bit too dangerous?"

“I told you, I’ll be fine. My gut feeling tells me that not only will I be safe this time, but I might even get some unexpected gains. Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Great Wall, hasn’t it?” Zhao Lei was completely uninterested in his subordinates’ attempts to persuade him.

“Alright, we’ll send our best people with you. The Salvation Army can’t be without a leader like you! After all, it seems the other powerful families have already mobilized.” A man said with a hint of helplessness.

"A family? So they've got their eyes on the Xuanyuan Sword too? But more than the Xuanyuan Sword, I'd rather go up the Great Wall and take a look." Zhao Lei thought for a moment and replied, "Tell everyone it's time to prepare for the next phase. Also, notify all the Salvation Army members nearby to delay as much as possible those experts heading towards the Xuanyuan Sword. Try to buy Romanor some time. I'm very curious about what kind of Xuanyuan Sword Romanor can actually produce, after all, the Xuanyuan Sword itself is a King of Men's Sword. But does he truly possess the personality of a King of Men?"

“I understand.” The subordinate nodded solemnly. “Don’t worry, boss! I will mobilize the most elite men to protect you.”

“I understand. Also, there’s something I need to remind you of. I’m not a leader! My real identity is just an acting leader. The real leader of our Salvation Army is Zero.”

……

On the other side of the Great Wall, somewhere at its foot, a cave stood out conspicuously. From within the cave, Romanor's cold voice rang out: "I order you to commit suicide!"

As Romanor's voice rang out, several loud gunshots rang out from the cave, and then everything returned to silence. A short while later, Romanor emerged from the cave.

Romano, who hadn't appeared for a long time, didn't seem very happy at this moment: "Did those greedy families find them again? It seems I have to speed things up."

With these words, Romanor stepped into the cave once more. Once inside, the scene was completely different from the outside. The enormous interior space was disproportionate to the small hole beneath the Great Wall. Before Romanor lay numerous corpses, and after a short while, the bodies underwent a bizarre transformation. Almost directly in front of Romanor, the corpses slowly rose to their feet and began to walk towards her.

Without any hesitation, Romanor unleashed her energy weapon, and with the torrent of energy bullets, the corpses that had just stood up were instantly turned back into corpses.

"Damn it! What on earth is going on?" Romanor stared angrily at the corpses he had just knocked down. Something was wrong here. Something was definitely wrong! This was the conclusion Romanor had reached after spending several days here. The reason for his conclusion was simple: strange creatures and bizarre supernatural events had been occurring one after another in the past few days. Just now, all the members of the eight great families that Romanor had killed had turned into zombies. If he didn't have an energy weapon, he would probably be in big trouble this time.

However, Romanor wasn't faring any better, as the array on the ground was still glowing. Xuanyuan Sword floated in the very center of the magic circle, but to Romanor's bewilderment, she couldn't touch it no matter what she tried. Every time she attempted to grab it, her arm would simply pass right through it.

On the ground, the original magic circle remained lit. It wasn't that Romanor didn't want to stop it, but during this time, no matter what methods she used, the magic circle with the strange symbols simply wouldn't be worn away. Romanor had been trying to destroy the magic circle throughout this period.

It was precisely because of the magic array that Romanor was delayed for many days. However, what Romanor didn't know was that even without the magic array, he couldn't touch the Xuanyuan Sword. The reason was simple: even now, the Xuanyuan Sword still hadn't acknowledged Romanor.

Just as Romanoer was instructing her men to prepare to try other methods, Lin Jie and his group, quite a distance away, were gathered around a campfire, leaning against sweet potatoes.

The meteor shower had just passed through the sky, and everything around seemed very peaceful and tranquil.

"Peace and tranquility my ass! What on earth is going on here?! Can someone explain this to me?! There's something wrong with this place, right? There's definitely something wrong with this place no matter how you look at it, right?" After a strange barbecue atmosphere, the guy with glasses finally showed an expression of unbearable frustration.

"Why is there one more person than usual among us eating roasted sweet potatoes?!" The bespectacled man pointed at everyone present with a disgruntled expression.

"Calm down, it's just a ghost that snuck in and is eating roasted sweet potatoes with us. Can't you just calm down?" Lin Jie said, patting the air next to him. Right next to him, a roasted sweet potato was floating in mid-air.

"Are you sure we just have an extra ghost? Isn't this the dragon you clawed this afternoon? Why is it sitting here eating roasted sweet potatoes with us?" On the other side of Lin Jie, a dragon sat down next to the group with a strange movement, eating roasted sweet potatoes with them.

"Calm down, it's just a dragon that snuck in, I don't think there's any problem," Xiao Zhan said nonchalantly to the man with glasses. Right next to him, a comical-looking guy was calmly sitting in front of everyone, eating roasted sweet potatoes.

"There's definitely something wrong with this place! There's definitely something wrong with this place! Ghost Dragon is ridiculous! This place has everything, it can't possibly be normal!"

"I told you to calm down. This is the foot of the Great Wall, so it's normal to have these things here, right?" Lin Jie said nonchalantly again, then took a roasted sweet potato from an alien next to him...

chapter eight

What kind of intense sparks will fly when these three groups come together? No one knows. After all, this is happening in the wild.

In the darkness of night, a brutal battle is taking place in the woods.

"The Salvation Army? Romanore and her men should be here!" The scene unfolded before their eyes. From within the forest, numerous elite warriors launched attacks on the crowd with their weapons. Naturally, Bai Yu, standing at the forefront, was the first to be attacked. Almost as Bai Yu prepared to strike, a beam of red and blue energy shot straight towards him. Accompanied by the eruption of this red and blue energy storm, Bai Yu was swept away by the energy.

"How interesting! I didn't expect that we'd already be under attack before we even reached our destination?" Wang Sicheng looked at the scene before him, but his face didn't show much fear. He still smiled politely at the beautiful Salvation Army woman who had appeared before him: "I didn't expect there to be such a beautiful person in the Salvation Army. I really feel a little reluctant to lay a hand on her!"

Standing at the very front of everyone was Lin Qian, the leader of the Salvation Army.

"Please leave." Lin Qian's voice was icy, completely ignoring Wang Sicheng's smile.

"You were the one who shot down our plane, weren't you? You're the one who brought us here, and now you're telling us to leave? This young lady is being rather unreasonable." The Li family head glared at Lin Qian with a dark expression. It's no wonder the Li family head was so angry; if your plane was shot down while you were using the restroom, you'd probably explode with rage too, right? Almost simultaneously, all the Li family's experts had locked onto Lin Qian.

Just minutes ago, Lin Qian's attack had directly shot down the hovercrafts flying towards them from all sides. In fact, Lin Qian's attack caught them completely off guard; after all, no one expected the Salvation Army to attack them so decisively. No one expected the Salvation Army to have so accurately ambush them along their flight paths.

And it's still in this desolate wilderness. Either the Salvation Army had gathered everyone from the beginning and deployed spies and informants all around the Wall, or there was a traitor among them. But now, there's no doubt that the Salvation Army is more difficult to deal with.

……

A few minutes earlier, Kuror had been watching the spaceship crashing in the distant sky.

"Those popular ships look like they've crashed, right?" Kuror asked Lin Jie with some confusion.

"It should be a small meteor! After all, it's the Great Wall, it's quite common." Lin Jie said to Kuror with a smile, as he pulled his fishing rod back from the stream beside him, and caught a fish with a chicken leg on his line.

"This fish has chicken legs? What kind of animal is this? I've never seen one before!" Kuror exclaimed excitedly to Lin Jie upon seeing this.

"This is my first time seeing this either, but I seem to know a little about the prototype of this thing." Looking at the scene in front of her, Dong Xue'er helplessly accepted the tea and cooked dragon beard noodles handed to her by a dragon: "Are you sure there's really nothing wrong here? These creatures are too strange."

"The Great Wall, it's nothing special," Lin Jie replied calmly. "You're really lucky, you get a chicken leg as a bonus when you eat fish."

"Wait! Are you sure this thing is really edible?" The bespectacled man, who was eating dragon beard noodles, finally had a chance to speak after swallowing his food: "And that was the scene at the end of the spaceship, right? And there was more than one spacecraft that crashed! Shouldn't we go and take a look?"

"Calm down, it's the Great Wall, these kinds of things happen around here." Xiao Zhan calmly said to the man with glasses, "Those are just tumbleweeds. If they were really crashed spaceships, heroes would be there immediately. Now we should enjoy our holiday."

After Xiao Zhan finished speaking, he lay down on the prepared recliner with a comical figure and a three-legged alien.

"Your adaptability is amazing! And aren't we heroes?"

"Calm down." Lin Jie also lay down on the recliner, seemingly having no intention of going over. Finally, the bespectacled guy also gave up on that idea. He lay down on the recliner with Lin Jie and the others. Looking at the harmonious scene before him, the bespectacled guy stopped thinking. Then he calmly stared at a snake with a beautiful woman's head standing to the side.

……

Meanwhile, the battle between the Salvation Army and the eight great families also erupted at this moment. Undoubtedly, the Salvation Army had deployed almost entirely elite warriors this time. These men were actually able to hold their own against the heads of the families. In an instant, the entire forest was filled with the aura of explosions and energy fluctuations; energy grenades and rocket launchers were exploding everywhere.

Bai Yu slowly stood up from the ground, and standing in front of him was none other than Lin Qian. Not far from Bai Yu, Wang Sicheng and all the Wang family members had clashed with a group of Salvation Army members. Originally, Wang Sicheng was going to deal with Lin Qian, but he was stopped before he could make a move.

Lin Qian has only ever had one hero from the beginning: the SS-rank hero Bai Yu. As the only SS-rank hero present, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call Bai Yu the strongest among the eight families, provided that Dong Yang isn't included. After all, Dong Yang's abilities are rather unique.

"Are you the leader of the Salvation Army this time?" Bai Yu looked coldly at Lin Qian. "Did someone leak our plans to you?"

"You don't need to know," Lin Qian replied calmly. Almost simultaneously, a red and blue energy storm swept towards Bai Yu once more. Seeing this energy storm, Bai Yu's figure vanished instantly. But almost at the same time, a massive energy storm was formed around Lin Qian. The enormous energy storm enveloped Lin Qian, and Bai Yu's figure was trapped and stopped in front of it. Looking at the scene before him, Bai Yu frowned, tapping his leg. Almost instantly, the muscles in his body clashed.

"Bajiquan - Fist Power!" Taking a deep breath, Bai Yu assumed a fighting stance and then unleashed a punch at Lin Qian's defense. The moment the punch was thrown, a gust of wind shot out in all directions from him, blowing away a large number of trees. However, the true power was not dispersed but was entirely contained at the tip of Bai Yu's fist.

Instantly, an invisible energy storm shot directly towards Lin Qian, but the red and blue wings on Lin Qian's back blocked it. Before Bai Yu could unleash his second attack, Lin Qian's energy storm swept towards Bai Yu once again.

Without any hesitation, Bai Yu jumped to the side. When Bai Yu left, the surrounding energy storm dissipated, but similarly, one of Bai Yu's arms was twisted into a strange pretzel shape.

"I never imagined that my enhanced fist would be twisted like this." Without any hesitation, several needles were inserted into his arm. Then, Bai Yu grabbed his arm tightly and twisted it several times, restoring the broken arm to its original state. Of course, this was not the end. As the broken arm was restored, his fractured bones began to heal rapidly under his own power.

And almost all of these actions were completed in one go while he was dodging the energy storm.

When Bai Yu stood a short distance away again, all his injuries had healed. Lin Qian, seeing this, showed no surprise; she simply placed her hand on the backpack behind her. With a slight shift in the backpack's shape, a mechanical glove appeared in Lin Qian's hand.

With her wings unfurled, Lin Qian appeared directly beside Bai Yu, throwing a punch at him with such speed that even Bai Yu himself didn't have time to react. However, Bai Yu's body instinctively dodged to the side, and at the same time, his inner energy surged throughout his body.

With a loud bang, Bai Yu was blasted away.

……

On the other side, Lin Jie's snake-woman with glasses was sent flying by Dong Xiaoye's ice hammer: "Glasses, you pervert! You don't even spare snakes when you're training them? Are you trying to be like Xu Xian?"

"Huh? What just happened to me?" The bespectacled guy, who had given up thinking, finally came to his senses: "Hey hey hey? What just happened? When I came to my senses, I was lying here?"

"I almost kissed a snake just now," Xiao Zhan joked from the side. As he spoke, he and the three-legged alien both laughed.

"Speaking of which, where did that ghost go?" Tian Xiaoshu, who had returned from not far away, asked Lin Jie, who was looking at the stars, with some doubt. "His story was really interesting!"

"Huh? Did that ghost tell any stories? Wasn't it just wailing and howling?" the bespectacled man asked, somewhat puzzled. In his memory, the ghost had only been making mournful howls by the fire.

"That story was really interesting!" Xiao Zhan said excitedly at this moment, "Especially the part at the end, it was just too silly."

"Pfft." Kuroru couldn't help but laugh. "That story is really interesting."

"Hey! You guys actually understood that?"

“Speaking of which, the person in the story also has the surname Dong! I wonder if he is our ancestor? That person’s style and demeanor are really cool! Is he Xue’er?” Dong Xiaoye said excitedly to Dong Xue’er beside her.

"Really?! Wasn't that screaming? How did you figure it was a story?!"

"Yes, it was scary at first, but I didn't expect it to be such a delicate ghost." Dong Xue'er couldn't help but say, "Where did that Mr. Ghost go? I want to hear the rest."

"After eating a sweet potato, I became a Buddha and was reincarnated," Lin Jie replied.

"Hey, hey, hey? Can sweet potatoes make ghosts become Buddhas?"

"His last wish was apparently to eat a roasted sweet potato. Because he never succeeded, his resentment accumulated and he eventually became a vengeful ghost who had been around for a thousand years."

"Isn't this kind of dying wish a bit too tragic? And just how strong must one's obsession be to turn oneself into a vengeful ghost with such a wish? Why do I suddenly feel sorry for that ghost?" the bespectacled man couldn't help but say.

Watching everyone laughing and discussing, Lin Jie couldn't help but sigh, "A peaceful day, how wonderful."

Chapter nine

In the sky, a one-legged bird flew by, igniting a raging inferno. Just as the fire began to burn, a red and blue energy storm swept past the flames. As the storm subsided, Lin Qian appeared within it, and Bai Yu's figure finally came into view.

"Bagua - Crushing Fist!" In the blink of an eye, Bai Yu appeared in front of Lin Qian, and his fist slammed out at Lin Qian's abdomen with incredible speed. The punch struck Lin Qian directly, and the powerful force not only pierced through the girl's abdomen but also completely cleared away a straight line of trees behind her.

But when Bai Yu looked up, he was met with Lin Qian's expressionless eyes. Red and blue patterns covered Lin Qian's entire body, but Bai Yu's penetrating attack did not have much of an effect on her.

Although Bai Yu sensed the terrifying regenerative power within Lin Qian's body, he was not afraid, because his superpower could be activated the moment his fist touched Lin Qian.

Bai Yu, possessing the ability to regulate human hormones, could, if he so desired, bring a girl to a state of arousal simply by touching her. If he were even more ruthless, he could even bring her to a climax directly…

The above descriptions of some abilities are too intense, so they will not be explained in detail here.

Of course, adjusting these things can not only give girls pleasure, but also change many physiological states of the body.

At least with Bai Yu's abilities, he believed Lin Qian should no longer have the strength to attack him. Not only that, Bai Yu also used his abilities to try and fatigue Lin Qian's regenerative abilities.

However, to Bai Yu's shock, his ability failed against Lin Qian this time.

As one of Xiao Zhan's parents' top research projects, Lin Qian is undoubtedly the prototype of an evolved human. The reason she is unaffected by Bai Yu's abilities is actually quite simple: most of Lin Qian's body has been replaced by that ability, so she is almost unaffected by her original hormones or similar substances.