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ACSP: chapter 40: Everyone is dead!
Jinghai City.
When City Lord Li Hongfei returned here with his remaining subordinates, Li Yanran had also awakened from her coma.
"Dad, why are we back? Where is Jiang Chen?"
Li Yanran rubbed the back of her head, which was aching slightly, and looked up at her father to ask.
City Lord Li Hongfei did not speak, only sighing heavily.
Seeing this, Li Yanran immediately understood everything in her heart.
In an instant.
An inexplicable sense of sorrow welled up, causing Li Yanran's eyes to involuntarily turn red.
Seeing this, City Lord Li Hongfei could only sigh helplessly: "Girl, don't blame me. In that situation, if I hadn't made a choice in time, we would all have died..."
Li Yanran sobbed softly: "I know, I don't blame you. I'm just a bit unwilling to accept it; why did things turn out like this?"
City Lord Li Hongfei clenched his fists, a trace of melancholy flashing in his eyes: "I didn't expect that guy Chen Zhentian to have colluded with so many family factions in Jinghai City in secret. Although Jiang Chen blocked a disaster for us this time, our days in Jinghai City might not be easy from now on."
As soon as these words were spoken.
The other managers of the City Lord's mansion following behind him also revealed expressions of worry.
Jiang Chen possessed the [Power of the Nine-Tails] and the S-rank space Ninjutsu, the [Flying Thunder God Technique].
If Chen Zhentian obtained these two things, the Chen family's strength would definitely rise to a higher level.
By then, in this Jinghai City, everything would likely be decided by the Chen family.
And as the mortal enemies of the Chen family, one could imagine what their future would be like.
After returning to the City Lord's mansion.
City Lord Li Hongfei worried that Chen Zhentian would come looking for trouble after he returned, so he immediately ordered people to sell off the shops and properties in various streets of the city at low prices, contracting their sphere of influence.
At the same time, he activated the defensive barrier within the City Lord's mansion, putting everyone on high alert.
He did this to show weakness to the Chen family, so that the people of the Chen family would understand that from today on, the City Lord's mansion voluntarily withdrew from the management rights of Jinghai City.
Although doing so was somewhat humiliating.
But in order to protect himself, he could only resort to this desperate measure now.
Now he only hoped that Chen Zhentian would not drive them to extinction.
If the other party wanted to drive them to extinction.
Then they would have no choice but to leave Jinghai City.
Of course.
If it really came to that point.
Safely evacuating from Jinghai City would probably be a pipe dream.
After all, in this special era, things like wiping out the entire family were already common occurrences.
Night soon fell.
Because so many stewards had left the City Lord's Mansion, it was no longer as heavily guarded as before.
In the dead silence of the courtyard, a graceful figure suddenly flashed over the wall and jumped outside without a sound.
Li Yanran looked around, and finding no one nearby, she immediately dashed toward the garage.
However, just as she arrived at the garage, three figures carefully emerged from behind some obstacles nearby.
"Yanran, I knew you would come too."
The people who appeared were none other than Wang Shanshan, Lin Ye, and Yuan Danqing.
Li Yanran looked at the three of them in surprise: "Why are you all here too?"
Wang Shanshan's expression was bitter: "Jiang Chen is our friend. Our strength is low, and we can't help him with much, but at least we can bring his body back so he doesn't end up exposed in the wilderness."
Lin Ye and Yuan Danqing nodded in agreement, clearly sharing the same sentiment.
"Fine, then let's go together. Lin Ye, your driving skills are good, you drive..."
Li Yanran did not hesitate and tossed the garage keys directly to Lin Ye.
After catching the keys, Lin Ye immediately ran into the garage and drove out an old, fully fueled bus.
Once Li Yanran and the others climbed aboard, Lin Ye immediately slammed on the gas, pushed the engine to its maximum power, and sped toward Jiang Chen's location as fast as possible.
Four hours later, Li Yanran and the others finally arrived safely at the location from earlier that day.
They were lucky this time and didn't encounter any powerful exotic beasts on the road.
However, just as they got out of the car and prepared to enter the forest, a thick scent of blood suddenly drifted out from the woods ahead.
"Wait a minute, something seems wrong here..."
Yuan Danqing, who had contracted with Inuzuka Kiba, was the first to notice the problem.
He immediately stopped, quickly formed hand seals, and entered the [Four-Legged Technique] state.
"What is it, Danqing?"
Li Yanran turned around and asked, frowning.
Yuan Danqing twitched his nose, stared ahead, and said with an extremely grave expression: "There is a very strong smell of blood 700 meters straight ahead."
Upon hearing this, Li Yanran's heart sank: "It seems that must be Jiang Chen's body."
Yuan Danqing shook his head: "No, the concentration of this blood scent is equivalent to the accumulation of at least several hundred corpses..."
What? Several hundred corpses? How is that possible?
Everyone looked at each other, their eyes flashing with disbelief.
"Let's go over and take a look first. Danqing, you lead the way. Everyone, be careful."
Li Yanran said after taking a deep breath.
"Okay."
Yuan Danqing replied, then immediately followed the direction the smell of blood was coming from, moving forward cautiously.
Li Yanran and Wang Shanshan's group followed behind him, remaining vigilant at all times.
A few minutes later, Li Yanran and the others passed through a dense forest and arrived at an area where the terrain had been completely devastated.
They remembered this place very clearly; it was where they had been intercepted by the Chen family earlier that day.
But now, the place was littered with corpses, and blood flowed like a river.
Blood-soaked remains were everywhere, and mangled limbs and body parts could be seen all around.
Staring at the devastated scene before them, Li Yanran and the others were all stunned.
"What on earth happened here? How did it become like this?"
Lin Ye swallowed hard, his voice trembling involuntarily.
Wang Shanshan frowned and analyzed: "Could it be that this place was previously attacked by exotic beasts? It is said that high-level exotic beasts with strength comparable to Kage-level Ninja sometimes appear in restricted areas in the wild."
Yuan Danqing said with a grave expression: "These seem to be the people who besieged us earlier."
Li Yanran looked around, preparing to say something, but just then, she suddenly saw a corpse with only the upper body in front of her, and her pupils instantly constricted.
"Look, is that Chen Zhentian, the head of the Chen family?"
Li Yanran shouted, pointing at the corpse.
Wang Shanshan and the others immediately crowded around.
"It really is him."
"How did this guy die too? He was an over level 80 Jonin Contractor."
"Could it be that an exotic beast with Kage-level strength really appeared here before?"