Chapter 798: Chapter 798 Tricked
“What.” Ye Shikai instinctively jerked up, almost sending his phone flying. The escape of the demon exorcist, like a bomb, exploded in his mind. For a full half minute, his mind was a blank slate, deaf to Zhang Ting’s cries and Su Qingyu’s calls, his mind fixated on one thing.
The demon exorcist has escaped.
No wonder he had a bad feeling just now, he never imagined his “nightmare” would actually come true. Ye Shikai even started questioning his life—it really was a case of fearing what might come.
“Hello… Hello… Are you listening?” Zhang Ting repeatedly asked, snapping Ye Shikai out of his reverie.
“Yes… yes, what exactly happened?” Ye Shikai took a deep breath, calming his nerves. Since it had happened, he needed to think of a solution.
“Just come over quickly, you’ll know the specifics once you get here,” Zhang Ting couldn’t quite explain it at the moment, only urging Ye Shikai to hurry.
“Alright, I’m on my way. Don’t panic,” Ye Shikai hurriedly responded, threw off the blankets, grabbed the clothes on the hanger, and hurriedly got dressed.
“Did something happen?” Su Qingyu was no fool, seeing Ye Shikai’s grim expression, she naturally knew something serious had happened, and clearly, it was bad news. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
“Yes, I just received the notice, the demon exorcist has escaped.”
“What, how could this happen?” Su Qingyu, upon hearing this, was equally shocked, “Wasn’t he just captured? How did he escape again?”
“I know, I didn’t expect it either, but the situation doesn’t look good. I need to go check it out now,” Ye Shikai hurriedly finished dressing and prepared to leave.
“Do you have to go now?” Su Qingyu seemed somewhat dissatisfied, just having finished several days of exhausting work, they hadn’t even had time to relax and now this happened. How could anyone be comfortable with that? Su Qingyu was very considerate of Ye Shikai though she really didn’t want him to be busy in the middle of the night, as a sensible woman, she could understand his situation.
“Yes, Zhang Ting sounded really distraught. I think the situation is even worse than imagined, so I must go check it out.”
“Then you better go and come back early.”
“Yes, oh, and if I haven’t returned by morning, don’t bother making breakfast for me. I think it might take all night,” Ye Shikai gave an awkward smile, in reality, he too was feeling uneasy. He had just solved a case and had wanted to spend some quality time with his family. Now, it seemed impossible.
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The address given by Zhang Ting wasn’t the police station nor the National Security Bureau, but an intersection. He sped in his car towards the destination. What normally would be a half-hour drive, he covered in just fifteen minutes.
“Damn, what is going on here.” As soon as Ye Shikai arrived at the street corner, he was shocked by the scene before him. Although there weren’t many people at the intersection, many police officers were there, including SWAT, patrol police, and traffic police maintaining order; not far away, a fire truck was also parked.
“What exactly is going on?” Ye Shikai got out of the car and quickly walked up to the front, where a scorched armored vehicle stood.
“You’re here.” At that time, Zhang Ting quickly ran over from not far.
“Yes, what happened here?” Ye Shikai could still faintly smell the burnt scent in the air.
“We just got the report. The armored vehicle was ambushed mid-way, several officers got injured,” Zhang Ting quickly explained.
“How could this be?” One shocking piece of news after another, someone actually dared attack an armored vehicle, it was audacious.
“Yes, the armored vehicle was also blown up. We immediately rescued the officers, but the demon exorcist is gone,” Zhang Ting stressed on the important detail, becoming visibly agitated and stamping her foot in frustration.
“Let’s just clear up what happened for now,” Ye Shikai also felt frustrated, but finding clues was crucial at the moment.
The exploded transport vehicle had already been doused by the firefighters. According to bystanders, the flames from the explosion reached several meters high, fortunately, a fire truck was passing nearby at the time, otherwise the outcome could have been even worse.
“This is definitely a scheme by the demon exorcist.” Ye Shikai cursed under his breath, it was now obvious that the demon exorcist after being captured hadn’t given up but had momentarily kept a low profile just to escape again.
“Damn, if we had assigned more special police escorts before, this wouldn’t have happened,” Zhang Ting kept blaming herself, though it really wasn’t her fault. Probably the demon exorcist had planned his escape beforehand, but how did he manage to blow up the transport vehicle, Ye Shikai walked into the traffic police’s monitoring room, and there, he encountered Mr. Song.
“Mr. Song, how are things?” Ye Shikai approached and asked, “Is there a surveillance video?”
“Ah, there is surveillance, but the clarity isn’t high,” Mr. Song looked grim, the escape of the demon exorcist was a failure on the part of the police.
“Let me have a look,” Ye Shikai looked at the monitor, as the transport vehicle approached the intersection, suddenly a small car darted out, blocking its path, and without a word, an object was thrown from its window onto the transport vehicle.
In an instant, there was a fire, although the transport vehicle was bullet and fireproof, so the front hood, though on fire, posed no immediate threat. Then two officers got out of the vehicle, trying to intercept the small car, but by the time they got down, the small car had already floored the accelerator, disappearing without a trace…
At that moment, the demon exorcist took advantage of the rear door being open, his body instantly moved, jumping out of the transport vehicle, unlocked his handcuffs, knocked out an officer nearby, and disappeared at the junction.
“How could this be possible.” Ye Shikai felt deeply shocked, he knew that the demon exorcist was a cultivator, but precisely because of that, Tianjing had previously sealed his major acupoint. Without assistance from another cultivator, he should not have been able to break the sealing acupoints, unable to use inner strength, so how could he escape so easily.
Suddenly, the monitoring room door was thrown open, and it was precisely Tianjing who entered.
“You’ve come at the right time, I wanted to ask you something,” Ye Shikai asked with a stern face.
“I just heard that the demon exorcist escaped and rushed here immediately.”
“Didn’t you seal his major acupoint before? Why could he still use inner strength?” Ye Shikai got straight to the point, Tianjing looked stunned at first, then showed a shocked expression.
“How is this possible, I definitely had sealed it, you were there at the time,” Tianjing could hardly believe it.
“Possibly… we were all deceived by him,” Ye Shikai tried to recall the situation at the time. Indeed, when Tianjing sealed his acupoints, maybe somehow, he managed to leave one major acupoint unsealed, using the remaining inner strength to break through other seals one by one, and by the time the vehicle reached the intersection, his inner strength was fully recovered.