Chapter 792: Violently Quelling the Riot

The battle was still raging.

The people who had followed behind Boss Qian and the other two were so shocked by what they saw that they didn't know what to say.

No matter how you looked at it, Boss Qian was a formidable Sequence 3 Superhuman.

Even here in Shun'an Residential Community, he was one of the most renowned experts.

And yet a fighter like him was being treated this way.

Everyone looked at one another, and in an instant, they saw fear in each other's eyes.

Just as the people who had been watching from the rooftop said earlier,

this was only the Deputy Captain, and only the Deputy Captain!!!

Just how strong was that legendary Chief Seat?

Even the thought of it sent a chill down their spines.

While Iron Lion was treating Boss Qian like a toy, his other two teammates weren't idle either.

The woman in the windproof jacket, its collar pulled up to cover nearly half her face, made her move.

Countless pitch-black insects spilled from beneath her jacket. They were tiny and black, each about the size of a grain of rice.

The insects surged toward Iron Lion like a tide.

Scoundrel Third gritted his teeth. Iron Lion's appearance had not only disrupted Boss Qian's attack, but had also blocked Scoundrel Third's offensive.

He was now hiding in the darkness, where no one noticed him. He was waiting for an opening.

An opening to kill with a single strike.

The sword in his hand trembled faintly. Every so often, a tiny insect's head poked out from one of the many holes covering the blade.

So his sword was connected to insects too.

In a certain sense, the three Superhumans of the Living Dead Convoy were all geniuses.

Raising their sequence ranks was far too difficult, so the three had come up with some unusual abilities that let them work together.

Take the sword in Scoundrel Third's hand, for example. It was called the Insect Nest.

It was both a sword and a nest for insects.

When Scoundrel Third fought a human or an Anomaly, all he had to do was inflict the slightest wound. The insects in the Insect Nest would then crawl through the wound and burrow into their opponent's body.

With this sword, Scoundrel Third had killed quite a few Superhumans and Anomalies.

Then there was Boss Qian's ability. By combining the powers of a witch doctor and insects, he had gained formidable close-combat skills. Even ordinary close-combat Superhumans of the same Sequence were no match for him.

The three usually fought with Boss Qian leading the attack, Scoundrel Third hiding behind him to land a sword strike, and the Insect Breeder providing support from the rear.

Even when facing four or five Superhumans, the three of them had nothing to fear.

But today, after running into this blockheaded Titan Sequence, everything seemed to have fallen apart.

“Bang!~~~”

When Iron Lion slammed Boss Qian into the ground again, Boss Qian had lost all ability to move.

The blasting, rhythm-heavy music was still playing in Iron Lion's headphones.

“Pah!~~~”

Lying in the crater his own body had smashed into the ground, Boss Qian spat out a mouthful of blood.

Iron Lion said awkwardly and guiltily, “Sorry~~~”

He didn't care what the other man thought. He simply wanted to apologize.

Heaven knows, Iron Lion absolutely hadn't meant to provoke him.

“Pah~~~”

Boss Qian spat out another mouthful of blood, provoked all over again.

This time, it was from anger.

At some point, a sword had appeared right in front of Iron Lion.

Scoundrel Third had struck.

The attack came incredibly fast and completely out of the blue...

But when the tip of the sword was still three centimeters from Iron Lion's eyelid, it could go no farther.

A layer of transparent protective energy had appeared over Iron Lion's body.

It was like an invisible bell-shaped shield, protecting him from harm.

“You...”

Iron Lion reached out and grabbed the sword called “Insect Nest.”

The tiny black insects on its blade immediately went into a frenzy, as if they had encountered something utterly terrifying.

Scoundrel Third was horrified. Since the sword had come into his possession, nothing like this had ever happened.

“Let go...”

Scoundrel Third frantically urged the long sword to shake Iron Lion's hand loose.

Looking at Scoundrel Third's sword, Iron Lion said with absolute sincerity, “I've met a Superhuman from the Sword Immortal Sequence, but her sword was very different from yours.”

“Your way of the sword has gone astray!”

Scoundrel Third's face flushed red, as if he had suffered the greatest humiliation. “What kind of bullshit are you spouting?!”

Then Iron Lion kicked him unconscious.

Seeing Boss Qian and Scoundrel Third subdued in an instant, Cunning Second was completely at a loss.

He turned and tried to run.

But just as he was about to escape, Cunning Second felt something tighten around his neck.

The tower-like man from earlier had appeared behind him without him noticing.

He was so fast, faster than Boss Qian and Scoundrel Third.

Iron Lion simply held Cunning Second by the neck, gazing at everyone around him with those kind, innocent eyes.

Everyone he looked at backed away several steps.

He wanted to say, “I really didn't want everyone to come here, but Yezi told me to beat you all down, so I had no choice.”

The words reached Iron Lion's lips, but in the end, he swallowed them.

Countless insects crawled out from beneath the woman's windproof jacket.

They tried to climb up Iron Lion's arm, but in the end, they were all pulverized by the protective energy around him.

The insect corpses fell in heaps, soon forming a layer beneath the woman's feet.

“Let me go... Please... I'm begging you...”

The woman struggled to get the words out.

Unfortunately, all she could hear was the blasting music in Iron Lion's ears, so he couldn't make out what she was saying.

Without hesitation, Iron Lion slammed Cunning Second into the ground.

Cunning Second immediately passed out.

Whether he was really unconscious or just pretending, no one could tell.

When the others saw Iron Lion, he looked to them like a ferocious beast.

Even though Iron Lion did his best to make his gaze seem innocent and harmless, it made no difference.

And so, a riot that had begun with such tremendous fanfare was violently put down by the Deputy Captain of Guard Team One.

Iron Lion, the Deputy Captain who had kept such a low profile, now stood before everyone.

At the same time, the riot in the neighboring Sunshine Garden residential community was also violently put down by the captain of Guard Team Thirteen.

The rioters had thought their actions would force the Xi City Council to back down and tolerate their demands.

But no one had expected Guard Team Thirteen to end the riot in such a direct manner.

After this, everyone came to hold the Chief Seat, who had barely shown his face, in even greater awe.

It was as if a hideous face hung over Xi City.

There were even rumors that the entire city was shrouded in the Chief Seat's shadow.

The image of Chen Ye as a villainous final boss had become even more firmly established.

“How can you do this? They're human too! They're our fellow countrymen!”

Iron Lion wasn't the only one with a sense of justice.

When Chen Ye ordered the riot to be violently suppressed, some people were still swayed by the rioters' words.

People could barely get enough to eat, and Xi City was still demanding taxes.

Everyone had gone through untold hardships to make it here, simply hoping to find shelter, and now this was how they were being treated.

There were already so few humans left. Shouldn't everyone stand together and help one another?

Was Xi City going to become what it used to be again, with one group oppressing another?

These words spread like a virus.

Some members of Guard Team Thirteen even thought they made sense.

As a result, many people chose to leave Guard Team Thirteen.

Several captains who had only recently joined Guard Team Thirteen left as well.