I write obituaries for the gods

Wu Hao rushed straight at him, pressing a submachine gun against his forehead:

"Fuck your mother, are you going to listen to me or not? Are you going to listen to me or not?"

"Holy shit, holy shit, I'll obey! I'll obey!" the hardened criminal shouted.

"Who the hell wants to cause trouble!" Wu Hao waved his gun like a madman.

"I won't do it again! I won't do it again!"

Seeing that the serious offenders had all submitted, Wu Hao turned around and returned to Jiang Zhengge's side.

"You little rascal, you actually know how to talk to these people quite well." Jiang Zhengge found it somewhat amusing.

“After all these years in the black market, you should have learned something,” Wu Hao muttered. “When you try to negotiate with these people, they’ll just look for opportunities to mess with you. But as soon as you show that you can kill them at any time, they immediately become timid and subservient.”

"Not bad, keep up the good work in the black market after you get out," Jiang Zhengge said calmly.

Leading a group of serious criminals, the group walked through the prison corridors, recruiting prisoners along the way.

Wu Hao repeated this trick several times and soon received a legion of prisoners.

To be honest, Jiang Zhengge felt that his act of pretending to be tough was actually quite convincing; he had enough presence and looked genuinely authentic.

It's so real... no, this is probably his true nature now.

Jiang Zhengge felt somewhat dazed for a moment.

He recalled when tide Leina was still in the First Division of the Anti-Corruption Bureau. At that time, Wu Hao was just a naive young man, a little rebellious, and defiant, but overall he was a very obedient and good investigator who would do whatever he was told.

Back then, Wu Hao's problem was always that he was "domineering internally and weak externally," and only a good girl like Xiao Fang could tolerate his bad temper.

For a long time, Jiang Zhengge treated Wu Hao as a child who hadn't grown up yet.

Looking at Wu Hao, who was fiercely glaring at the prisoners, Jiang Zhengge suddenly felt a real sense of Wu Hao's change.

His years on the black market have changed him, completely washing away his past shyness.

"What are you daydreaming about! The guards are coming!"

"Oh!"

A burst of bullets grazed his face. Jiang Zhengge looked closely and saw that Wu Hao was firing at a group of shield soldiers.

He immediately focused the deep blue light in his eyes, and suddenly waved his hand—

"boom!"

The gust of wind instantly tore a large hole in the shield-bearers' formation, and Lucy seized the opportunity to conjure a fireball and hurled it inside—

"boom!!!!"

The intense fireball overturned all the shield bearers, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Hao led a group of serious criminals into the fire and disappeared into the fighting crowd.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

"Da da da da!"

Jiang Zhengge flung open the magazine and loaded the 12.7x55mm bullets one by one.

He raised his gun and pulled the trigger on the guards who were crossing the crowd, taking them down one by one.

When Jiang Zhengge stepped into the warden's office, the imposing warden had already been dealt with by the prisoners according to the laws of Shang Yang, and was now scattered in pieces.

Oswald took an access card from inside the warden's coat and handed it to Jiang Zhengge:

"We've got the access card."

"It looks like things are going more smoothly than we expected," Jiang Zhengge said.

"No, it didn't go smoothly."

Oswald, expressionless, picked up the warden's notebook and handed it to Jiang Zhengge:

"When we started attacking the warden's floor, this reckless guy initiated the prison purification program to destroy the warp bomb hidden in the prison."

Subspace dirty bomb...

Upon hearing this word, Jiang Zhengge's brows furrowed slightly.

He knew exactly what it was—it was an emergency measure for the Bureau of Investigation's prisons, prepared for a scenario like today's prison riot.

The moment this dirty bomb is activated, everything within the entire prison area—whether living beings or anomalous entities—will be instantly eroded and destroyed by the subspace, turning into nothingness.

“This guy is quite conscientious,” Jiang Zhengge said, looking at the warden’s corpse. “It seems we don’t have much time left.”

He waved his hand, signaling everyone to follow him:

"Let's go! Let's get to the exit!"

......

"Chief, the prison riot is out of control, and the warden has initiated emergency pacification measures."

Standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the report that Storm had delivered, Louis's brow furrowed slightly.

“Judging from their description, it seems that Jiang Zhengge led the operation,” Louis murmured. “Jiang Zhengge wouldn’t be so foolish as to instigate a riot without preparation. He could guess my connection with the Foundation, and naturally, he could guess the existence of demigods…”

"Could he just be stupid?" Stormy Charm said.

“No, absolutely not,” Louis shook his head in refusal. “The only reason he would dare to make a move at this time is that he is confident he can handle us.”

"Really? Your Section Chief Jiang... is going to deal with seven demigods?" Storm covered his mouth and smiled.

“He really can’t do it…” Louis murmured, “but Lin Chen can.”

Louis walked quickly to the edge of the floor-to-ceiling window and looked towards the Westview District in the night.

“Their goal is to shut down the W weapon,” Louis said in a low voice. “Once they shut down the W weapon, Lin Chen will have a chance to break in…”

As he watched Louis's retreating figure, Storm's eyes flickered a few times.

Her hands climbed onto Louis's shoulders once more, whispering in his ear like a venomous snake:

"But...even Lin Chen...can't deal with seven demigods..."

“So they must have accomplices,” Louis said in a low voice. “Remember the blind communications we received before? The ones written with special encryption code.”

“I remember, wasn’t it impossible to decipher it?” Storm shrugged.

“It seems we’re the ones who can’t crack it,” Louis said. “Jiang Zhengge has clearly succeeded, and the others haven’t even heard of this encryption method. This means that this encryption method must be something that only Director Hua Molan and the heads of the various sections of the operations department know…”

“The frequency of that blind communication was not like that of a two-way communication, which means that there was a third party involved.”

"Among the cargo stolen during the raid on Rain City Star, the 'high-powered subspace transmitter' was the most valuable and was only found there."

"So, the third party they're trying to contact is trapped deep in the subspace..."

Louis gently exhaled a breath of stale air:

"...Armed Section One"

Upon hearing these four words, the storm fell silent.

"You mean...he's going to release...the martial arts fanatic?"

"You know about the martial arts fanatic?"

"Of course I know! My brother Lightning died in that battle at the Pearl Beach district headquarters!" Storm clenched his fist. "Martial Arts Maniac tore him into pieces right in front of me... piece after piece..."

“I’ve never met a martial arts fanatic,” Louis said in a low voice, “but this guy does have a record of single-handedly killing a Beta-level anomalous entity, so dealing with a Gamma-level demigod would be more than enough for him…”

“We can’t defeat that thing!” the storm cried. “We must stop them!”

“Calm down, take it one step at a time,” Louis said, extending his hand. “First, have Prince Yan break down the prison gates and seal Jiang Zhengge inside. As long as they can’t get out, any effort will be in vain.”

“Send Firefist, Karnes, and Beard to guard the W Weapons Center, just in case. Oswald’s stealth abilities are beyond your imagination; we can’t give him any chance.”

"Next, let Ironfeather patrol the airspace. Even if the W weapon fails, he can still deliver a devastating blow to any ground forces that attempt to attack us."

"Finally, you and Shadowless Sword will stay with me. If anything goes wrong, we'll evacuate immediately to the Rain City Star TV Tower, then detonate the entire building, leaving them nothing behind."

After calmly issuing the order, Louis's stormy expression visibly calmed down.

“I’ll go and do it right away…” she said. “As expected of you, I’m starting to lose my composure at times like this…”

“Do a good job,” Louis said. “Don’t worry, no one will die tonight.”

He turned his head and looked out the window at the western part of the city, only to find that a torrential downpour had started at some point.

Louis reached out and touched the glass, his hot breath exhaling onto it and turning into a puff of white vapor.

He walked to his desk, opened a drawer, took out a pistol, and holstered it.

.......

"drop!"

"drop!"

Before the prison gates, as heavy as a bank vault, Jiang Zhengge swiped his card repeatedly, but no matter what he did, he couldn't open the gate.

“Damn it… the door’s structure is broken,” Jiang Zhengge turned around. “That noise just now must have been from a demigod.”

"They just smashed the door down? Are they not planning to keep this prison?" Lucy was stunned.

“That kid Louis is planning to blow us up here,” Jiang Zhengge chuckled. “Good lad, he’s ruthless.”

"He's dreaming! That beast..."

Lucy grumbled and pushed her way past the prisoners to the prison door lock.

She took a deep breath, and a deep blue light flickered in her eyes—

"boom----"

Flames shot from her fingertips, scorching the door as she tried to cut a mark on it.

"Can you hold on, Lucy!" Jiang Zhengge shouted.

"We have to hold on, even if we can't! We'll die if we don't!" Lucy shouted. "But I estimate it will take at least... twenty minutes!"

“There’s not enough time,” Jiang Zhengge shook his head. “The countdown for the subspace dirty bomb is fifteen minutes. Considering the travel time, we have at most thirteen minutes left.”

He turned his head and met Wu Hao's eyes.

"We have to defuse the bomb," Wu Hao said in a low voice.

"Do you still remember the training?" Jiang Zhengge's lips curled slightly.

“I haven’t forgotten a single one.” Wu Hao nodded.

Jiang Zhengge looked at Oswald and Marcus and said softly:

"Protect Lucy well, and don't let anything go wrong."

“Leave it to me,” Oswald said.

"Don't worry," Marcus nodded.

"You lot, come with us!" Wu Hao pointed at several hardened criminals. "Don't fucking hold back. If this bomb explodes, you're all dead, understand?"

"Understood, boss!"

"Let's go," Wu Hao said to Jiang Zhengge.

The group charged toward the lower levels of the prison, fighting their way through.

The number of prison guards was dwindling. After learning that the warp bomb had been activated, most of them lost their will to fight, and many surrendered without even firing a shot.

Many prison guards, facing certain death, decided to take a gamble and joined Jiang Zhengge's camp, beginning to guide them.

Led by the guards, the group soon arrived at the heavy punishment area at the bottom of the prison.

Jiang Zhengge stopped in front of the door at the end of the heavy prison area and quickly entered the key onto it.

"drop!"

The door opened, and Jiang Zhengge entered the room, quickly walking to the subspace dirty bomb in the center of the room.

He quickly scanned the dirty bomb's control panel, his brow gradually furrowing:

"The detonator has been replaced... This is not the RBAI version..."

"let me see."

Wu Hao squatted down in front of the dirty bomb, reached out and wiped the dust off the bomb, revealing the markings that had been covered by dust.

“Craigson Industries…” Wu Hao’s lips curled into a slight smile. “Interesting…”