Chapter 1157: Rearview Mirror, Red-Clad Ghost

In the chaotic laboratory, several figures moved rapidly.

Lu Xun's gaze swept over the walls scorched by lava, his expression grim. He strode past several fallen bodies and pushed open the broken doors nearby, as if searching carefully for something.

"Lu Xun, how is it on your end?" Yang Xiao ran over from the other side.

"...Nothing."

"Nothing on my side either."

"Over here!"

Su Zhiwei's shout came from ahead, and the two immediately followed. They saw red warning lights flashing in the observation room, and amidst the blood on the floor, corpses lay scattered across the glass shards.

Lu Xun saw the beheaded supervisor in the pool of blood, his gaze fixed, and then he looked ahead...

Instruments were scattered everywhere, and behind the open door, a dim, narrow tunnel stretched into the darkness.

Lu Xun took out his phone and immediately dialed Chen Ling's number:

"Director Chen, they've taken Chu Changqing and run!"

"I know."

The voice on the other end of the phone was very calm.

Faintly, one could hear the howling wind rushing past the receiver, as if he were traveling at high speed.

"I have already locked onto them..."

"They won't get away."

……

On the rugged, dim mountain road, the roar of vehicle engines sounded like the growl of beasts. Blinding headlights lit up one after another, slicing through the deep night like swords.

Ying Fu closed the car door casually, his deep gaze sweeping outside the dim window. The laboratory hidden in the mountain was billowing black smoke, and Fu Kun, Zheng Zhiqing, and the others were quickly rushing into the vehicles behind, the doors closing with a dull *thud*.

"Go." Ying Fu ordered indifferently.

"From now on, cut off all communicator signals. Do not respond to any information transmitted via electronic communication."

"Yes."

All personnel removed the communication devices from their ears, and the wireless signals between the vehicles were shut down. As the engine of Ying Fu's lead car roared, the entire convoy sped out of the winding mountain road in the darkness.

The convoy consisted of four vehicles. The lead car, where Ying Fu was, was an extended black business vehicle. In the middle was a closed, extra-long white box truck, and the last two agile sedans trailed on the left and right rear flanks, protecting the box truck in the center.

The mountain road in the night retreated rapidly outside the window, and the neon streetscape of the city flickered in the distance like a torrent.

"Who exactly are you people?"

Chu Changqing sat beside Ying Fu and asked with a frown, "You actually dare to openly confront Bureau 749 in the country... Are you a Black Hand organization that has been lurking for a long time? Or overseas agents?"

"I am the one who saves you."

"I?" Chu Changqing's brow furrowed even tighter. "I wanted to ask just now... are you guys playing cosplay?"

"I don't understand your foreign language... I saved you because you are special."

Ying Fu slowly turned his head, his sharp phoenix eyes staring at Chu Changqing in the darkness, like a superior examining his spoils of war. He slowly raised his hand and reached toward the top of Chu Changqing's head...

"'He' has already gathered many Nine Lords, and by my side, I also need a special existence."

[Palace Examination], initiated.

As the power of the Imperial Divine Path was activated, Chu Changqing lost his focus for a moment, but the next instant, those cyan-tinted pupils lit up again like ripples, as if some power within his body was resisting stubbornly.

*Crack—*

Ying Fu frowned, his palm repelled by an invisible force. He glanced behind him and saw that the windshield had been cracked into fine lines by some force.

His Palace Examination had been forcibly interrupted. Chu Changqing's pale cyan eyes didn't seem to understand what had happened, but he was already looking at Ying Fu with hostility... The crystallization of modern science would not bow to an ancient emperor.

"Failed, then..."

Ying Fu looked at his palm, his expression still calm.

"Never mind, even if you cannot be taken as a subject, you can still be of other use."

Chu Changqing's expression was very ugly. Just as he was about to say something, Ying Fu suddenly sensed something and glanced into the rearview mirror...

He said to the driver in a deep voice:

"Drive faster."

"Your Majesty, we are already at the fastest speed, and we are about to enter the city ahead, the road is not easy to drive..." the driver said bitterly.

"What are you nervous about?"

Chu Changqing keenly captured Ying Fu's subtle change and suddenly spoke:

"Since leaving the laboratory, you seem to have been in a hurry... But you aren't even afraid of Bureau 749, and now that you've run halfway out, who else could make you this nervous?"

Ying Fu didn't seem to intend to respond to Chu Changqing's question at all. His eyes remained fixed on the rearview mirror, and a chill rose in his eyes...

At the same time,

In the sedan on the left rear flank, Zheng Zhiqing was driving while glancing at the rearview mirror, and she suddenly froze.

She rubbed her eyes and stared at the rearview mirror for a while, wearing a look of disbelief... She suddenly rolled down the window on the other side and shouted at the sedan next to her:

"Fu Kun!! I think I'm seeing things!!"

The burly man in the fur coat, who was also driving, heard the woman's voice outside the window and rolled down his window impatiently.

"What did you say??"

"Damn it, look at the rearview mirror, is there a male ghost in red clothes or what, damn it!!"

“？？？”

Fu Kun looked at the rearview mirror in a daze. At the end of the dim road retreating at high speed, a figure wearing a bright red opera robe stood in the void like a ghost... And no matter how fast they drove or how many turns they made, the red ghost shadow could follow silently.

The red taillights shone faintly on the bright red opera robe, tinged with a faint blood light, making one's scalp tingle!

Almost simultaneously, a faint sound of electric current came from the car audio,

Like someone sighing softly in everyone's ears,

"We meet again..."

Fu Kun cursed, turned his head to look back, and at the end of the dim road, the red-clad figure had grown countless scarlet tentacles, flying toward the convoy like lightning!

Ying Fu, who also heard Chen Ling's voice in the car, frowned tightly. Without hesitation, he reached one hand out of the window and slammed it onto the car door!

*Sizzle—!*

The next moment, dense electric currents covered the car body, spreading along the contours into the road surface, wrapping the extra-long box truck and the two sedans behind. The original iron car bodies suddenly began to thicken crazily, even pressing deep hub marks into the road!

[Reshape]!

Under Ying Fu's power, the convoy turned into steel chariots on the road. The heavy pressure brought by the extreme defense exceeded a hundred tons. Almost simultaneously, a red light exploded from under the road!

*Boom—!!!*

Dense red paper soared into the sky, directly scattering the hundred-ton steel convoy. Zheng Zhiqing exclaimed, and a strong sense of weightlessness came. With the world spinning, the heavy car body rolled to one side with a crash!