301: Chapter 99: Let’s Not Sleep Tonight 301: Chapter 99: Let’s Not Sleep Tonight The Yang Family, to sum it up in one sentence, would be — a thousand-year noble family, a prominent clan.
Just how formidable they were cannot be easily conveyed in a few words.
Sister Veronica merely told Wang Yunxiao that the Yang Family had once been annihilated by the former dynasty, with all direct lineages exterminated.
However, just a few decades later, this noble family re-emerged into the public eye with strength and prestige undiminished from before.
“Do you know Yang Qiming of the Northern Fleet?”
“I’ve heard of him.”
“He is the direct bloodline of the Yang Family who was fortunately able to escape the catastrophe of the family’s extermination and now holds a position of high power and influence.”
“So why was their family wiped out back then?”
“It is said that when the Foreigners invaded Guangdong Province, the Yang Family, as the local indigenous power, refused to compromise and insisted on resisting, which enraged the former Emperor, who then ordered the extermination of nine generations.”
Hmm…
Huh?
At first, Wang Yunxiao didn’t see anything wrong with it, but after careful thought, “Just because of this reason, a thousand-year noble family was exterminated to the ninth degree?”
“That’s the story that’s being passed around nowadays.”
“And before that?”
“How would I know about the past?”
Sister Veronica spread her hands, “Sis, I’m only a few years older than you, how could I know the old affairs of the former dynasty so clearly.
Why don’t you ask Old Master He?”
So, Wang Yunxiao went to ask Old Master He and got a two-word response — “Hehe.”
“What does ‘hehe’ mean?”
“You’re still too young, my boy.
Since you’ve found leads to the People of the Yang Family, don’t take matters into your own hands.
Go back and report to your superiors.
How to investigate specifically, you can listen to the leaders’ arrangements later; why muddle yourself and attract trouble unnecessarily?”
Wang Yunxiao felt that Old Master He spoke very reasonably, and made a prompt decision to end the investigation there.
Capturing these people was already enough to satisfy Director Qin, as for the rest of the matters…
As he was deliberating in his mind, the anomaly in the sky changed once again.
The bloody tendrils that filled the sky suddenly burst forth with a bizarre and brilliant radiance, and then, part of the tendrils intertwined, consolidating into a gigantic branch spanning the sky, pointing towards a certain place far in the East.
“They’re starting to build the Magpie Bridge already?”
Sister Veronica murmured to herself, “This is bad, a major event is about to happen…”
Wang Yunxiao also looked up at the sky with her, completely unaware of what was happening when suddenly someone slapped him on the back.
Turning around, it was Old Master He.
This was the first time he saw such a serious and solemn expression on Old Master He’s face.
“Let’s go back to the police station first, then you will come with me.”
“Where are we going?”
“Less nonsense, do you still recognize me as your master?”
“Of course!”
Not knowing what Old Master He intended, but seeing the genuine urgency on his face, Wang Yunxiao wasted no more time, and with the suspects in tow, headed straight back to the police station.
The car had only gotten halfway when Zhou Qing’s whole body began to tremble.
Strings shot out from beneath her armor, looping around the necks of those nearby, instantly tightening.
“What are you going mad for?”
Wang Yunxiao hurriedly held down Veronica, afraid the sister would pull out some holy object and exorcise his little ghost girl, then he reached out to grab Zhou Qing.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Qing zipped through the compartment and flew outside.
“Stop the car!
Stop the car!”
The scene was absolute chaos.
Zhou Qing flew out of the car, but did not let go of the rope in her hands, causing Dumpling, Loach, and Little Gourd, whom she had looped by the neck, to clang against the compartment wall.
If the soldier driving had not braked decisively, their necks might have been violently snapped.
The first thing Wang Yunxiao did was to look toward the suspect inside the vehicle, thinking they had done something secretly, but they were all behaving, with innocent and frightened looks on their faces, seemingly unrelated to what had happened.
“Brother!
Look outside!”
Youtiao’s shout shifted Wang Yunxiao’s attention to the outside of the car.
He jumped down and saw Zhou Qing floating in mid-air, all her equipment left in the vehicle, only the ghost body’s nightgown remaining, barefoot with hair disheveled like a ghost…
well, she was actually a ghost, but she looked like she was on a completely different level from before.
At the same time, Wang Yunxiao saw the blood-red full moon suspended right above her head.
No, it shouldn’t be a full moon tonight…
The moment this thought flashed through Wang Yunxiao’s mind, having just experienced a full moon night, a terrifying roar swept in from afar.
Boom—!
The heavens and the earth split apart!
Zhou Qing had no power to resist and was blown away on the spot, but at this time, Wang Yunxiao could no longer afford to worry about her.
A giant mushroom cloud rose slowly in the distant darkness, with flames so fierce they almost turned the night into day.
What the heck?
Are you starting to drop little boys now?
Wang Yunxiao’s first thought was—damn, that concrete Underground Civil Air Defense facility really does have a purpose!
But we can’t go back now, we are still a long way from the school.
It was too late to think about hiding; the shockwave had already swept down the street.
Not just the female ghost, but even the wires on the telephone poles were flung out.
Who knows how many residential windows shattered on the spot.
However, thankfully, after feeling the strength of the shockwave and tasting the air, Wang Yunxiao realized it was not a nuclear bomb, nor was it some chemical plant explosion.
“The foreigners are attacking again?”
Sister Veronica pulled out her Big Spear, jumped down from the truck, and stood next to Wang Yunxiao.
Squinting towards the direction of the fire and explosion, she said, “It doesn’t look like an aerial bomb…
That direction…
Isn’t that where the Red Lantern Society was setting up the Magpie Bridge?”
Wang Yunxiao thought to himself, I don’t even understand the principle behind that Magpie Bridge, but if you say so.
But can setting up a Magpie Bridge really cause such a huge commotion?
It was then that he suddenly remembered the abnormal behavior exhibited by Zhou Qing just a moment ago.
Red moon, fierce ghosts, Magpie Bridge, an explosion…
What exactly had happened in that instant?
Or rather, is such a high-level event really something our small team should be considering or capable of handling?
After weighing his options for a moment, Wang Yunxiao decided to find Zhou Qing first and then report back to the police station.
He wasn’t some superhero of justice; the first thing to do now was not to rush to the scene of the incident to join the excitement but to return to the station to await further instructions from his leaders.
This evening’s explosion would likely result in many innocent bystanders becoming collateral damage.
After a struggle to dig Zhou Qing, who remained unconscious, out of a pile of rubbish, they continued the journey by car.
As they neared the police station entrance, Sister Veronica, who had been communicating with her telegraph machine, looked up and whispered to Wang Yunxiao, “The main force of the Red Lantern Society marched against the Longevity Sect and was completely wiped out.”