Two Municipal Department personnel stayed on the bus, while Lan Qingya and five other Intelligence agents got off, exchanging glances with the Nanqing Guard Team.
On one side, there were only seven Awakeners, looking disheveled and wearing mismatched clothing.
On the other, there was a fully equipped force of dozens.
The Captain of the Guard Team finally let a smile creep at the corner of his mouth, "Everyone off the bus for inspection, rest assured, we'll not let any cult members slip by, but we won't wrong a good person either."
He truly had no intentions of framing these people as cult members, he simply used this excuse to detain the survivors on the bus.
Although they were all useless survivors without any special skills, since they had caught the attention of Green Shadow's people, it was necessary to intervene.
The Captain believed that among this group, there must be something they hadn't yet discovered.
The atmosphere was tense,
Lan Qingya snorted coldly, and the terrifying aura of an Eighth Layer Awakener burst forth in an instant, like a gust of wind slapping the faces of the Guard Team members.
Her pinned-up hair fluttered, and as her gaze swept over, the Guard Team members stepped back repeatedly.
The Captain cursed inwardly but was also intimidated by that aura—he himself was only an Awakener at the Seventh Layer!
Yet his own momentum was no weaker, "What do you think you're doing! Don't you believe that with one command, I could summon three hundred strong individuals from over the wall!"
", leave the survivors on the bus, and you all can go," he thought he had given face to the other side.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
The survivors on the bus shivered uncontrollably.
Hai Honghui also released the aura of a Seventh Layer Awakener, while the rest of the Intelligence agents had their hands pressed on their weapons.
Lan Qingya knew in her heart that the secret recruitment had ultimately been discovered by Nanqing.
But it was within expectations.
She had already obtained authorization from her director.
The talent they had secured couldn't possibly be handed over without a fight; the secret recruitment was meant to avoid conflict with Nanqing, but that did not mean they were afraid.
"Fine, you can take the people, but..."
"From today onwards, Green Shadow will no longer sell any food or rune Equipment to Nanqing."
The Captain's face hadn't even begun to show delight when it seized up as if constipated.
Without Green Shadow's Equipment and food, could Nanqing survive? The answer was yes. However, it was like a person who had lived a life of luxury being suddenly forced back into poverty—unbearable to anyone.
Nanqing was not a solid bloc, and if they were cut off from supply because of today's incident, then...
He persisted stubbornly, "Even if we don't buy directly from you, there are mercantile guilds that bring lots of Equipment at regular intervals."
"Do you think we, Green Shadow, have the ability to cut off the guild's supply?"
Lan Qingya still smiled lightly, no longer speaking.
The Captain's face twisted with conflict.
To release or not was a difficult choice.
Not to release, and in the event of trouble, he would most likely become the scapegoat; to release would mean that after all the bluster in surrounding the bus, leaving with their tails between their legs would feel...
...like letting out a fart, with nothing to show for it.
His face twisted with such struggle that he was almost sick with tension.
a roar-like rumble came from a distance.
One after another, trees that reached twenty to thirty meters high were knocked over at the trunk.
A war vehicle as high as a two-story building, its silver and black body glinted in the light like an iron fortress, came into view.
The tracks of the war vehicle rolled, pressing marks nearly twenty centimeters deep into the ground, as they continued directly towards them and stopped.
Several large cannons aimed in all directions, chilling to the beholder.
Awakeners dressed in the black Standard Combat Uniforms got out, jumping down from the vehicle.
Carrying high-class rune weapons, backed by rune guns, and that unnamed terrifying war vehicle.
The runes etched on it, he recognized.
It was Green Shadow's Guardian Team.
The Captain couldn't help but gulp down his saliva.