"You look a lot like the guy I fought earlier..."

The man, who had been deep in thought with his eyes closed, pondered for a long while before recalling the name. He opened his eyes and smiled, "I remember now, Chen San's nephew, named Chen Jingtan."

"I don't know why, but you all seem to think I'm a smart guy, harboring complex thoughts, and everything I do is for some far-reaching, convoluted purpose... Do I look like that kind of person?"

Su Cha was taken aback.

He looked at Crow with a complicated expression, thinking, aren't you that kind of person? Feigning weakness to lure the enemy deep inside before attacking, that's not a tactic a simple-minded person could come up with.

Song Ci softly sighed, "So what you say and do is all the same. Either you bring out your own reputation, or you analyze the pros and cons with me. Why can't you just say what you really think?"

Hearing this, a faint sense of foreboding arose in Su Cha's heart.

He took two small steps back, no longer standing so close to this dangerous fellow.

"So, all that talk, you're just afraid of getting beaten up, right?"

The corners of Su Cha's mouth twitched. Who would say something like that?

Unfortunately, Crow was that kind of person.

Song Ci said calmly, "If you're afraid of getting beaten up, just beg for mercy. That's the simplest way. Things wouldn't be so complicated, would they?"

The moment the words fell.

A huge sense of oppression suddenly came from in front of him.

Su Cha's eyes widened as he watched the fist rapidly enlarging before his eyes.

He stomped his foot, and in an instant, countless water droplets swirled around him, colliding to form a solid wall of water just in the nick of time. But the moment it came into contact with the fist, it was smashed to pieces!

"Crack!"

The water wall shattered instantly.

Su Cha was like a kite with a broken string, sent flying by the blow, a string of blood beads scattering in the air. It all happened too fast, so fast that no one could react. By the time they realized Crow had made a move, it was all over.

Song Ci disappeared from where he was and appeared where Su Cha had been standing.

To him, retreating one step or ten steps made no difference.

The attack was instantaneous.

Su Cha lost consciousness, and the sky also shattered. The pale blue arcs of light turned into fireflies dancing in the sky, the frozen ice bridge on the river turned into rustling crumbs, and the previously congealed river mist was blown away by the fierce wind.

The mist dissipated, and the cold river in the long night became clear.

The flames of war that had seemed to be extinguished were rekindled at this moment. However, the heavy motorcycles accompanying the convoy, having lost the support of the ice bridge, slowly fell into the river.

The headlights went out, the light vanished, and those members of the Chengxin Society who still had consciousness belatedly realized... that this long night was so dark.

They thought everything was over, but Song Ci attacked unreasonably.

Was he trying to completely destroy the peace between the north and south branches of the Chengxin Society?

"Let's leave it at that."

Unexpectedly, after defeating Su Cha, Song Ci put both hands back into his pockets.

He no longer had any intention of attacking. He spoke lightly to Qi Lu, the only one in the convoy who still had any say, "Take your brothers back to Nanwan... They're all alive. Find a hospital and lie down for ten days and a half months, and they'll be fine."

Qi Lu stared intently at Crow.

Sweat seeped from his forehead... What was this damned man thinking? He actually dared to attack?

After hitting Su Cha, did he think tonight never happened?

Qi Lu knew that after tonight, his adopted father's anger would be poured out on the Flower Banner, the Zhao family, and this man who used violence to break the rules.

A huge tsunami would be unleashed beneath the capital.

……

……

"Almost there."

Chu Ling reminded him, "I've picked up Crow's location... He's downstream of the Nanwan River, not far from here."

"The riverbank duel... he moved the battlefield."

Gu Shen vaguely guessed Song Ci's intention. He knew he was in Nanwan... so he wanted him to find him faster.

"Perhaps it was because Chen Mei didn't appear on the main battlefield that he made this decision?"

Gu Shen murmured to himself, "Although, from what I know of Crow, he doesn't seem like such a meticulous person... Can you 'monitor' the situation over there?"

"Very difficult." Chu Ling said quickly, "By stealing the Deep Sea authority, I can capture his location, but there are very few cameras along the Nanwan River. I've mobilized several drones that were close to being deactivated, but a field has been deployed over that river, completely blocking the drones' view."

"This is to prevent ordinary people from accidentally entering the battlefield..." Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, somewhat worried. "It seems that the Nan Tang branch of the Chengxin Society is well prepared... Can Crow hold out?"

"His vital signs are normal, doesn't seem to be injured."

Chu Ling said, then suddenly said, "Wait a minute, just now, the field was dispelled..."

Then she fell silent.

Driving towards the river, Gu Shen was curious and uneasy: "What's the situation?"

"It's over..." Chu Ling's tone was a little strange. "Song Ci is unharmed, the Chengxin Society was completely defeated. According to the files, the outcome of this battle wasn't much of a suspense, but the difference in strength shouldn't be so great. Chen San's four adopted sons are not unknown figures, all at least Deep Sea Layer Eight transcendents. Su Cha is a Natural Element Layer Ten transcendent. The moment the field was dispelled, I captured a segment of footage."

"Beep--"

The scene captured by the drone appeared before Gu Shen's glasses.

Pale blue arcs of light flickered in the mist, a field expanding outward like a sky, shattering. A figure was beaten miserably and sent flying.

Deep Sea Layer Ten, blasted nearly a hundred meters with one punch.

Just looking at this footage, putting himself in Su Cha's perspective, Gu Shen felt a faint ache.

He looked complicated and murmured, "Song Ci said he could beat twenty of me with one punch... was he being conservative?"

"Song Ci never connects to the Deep Sea Zone, so his strength has always been a mystery." Chu Ling said, "But from his performance in conquering the North Tang branch of the Chengxin Society, his score in the Deep Sea Zone is probably around Layer Eleven... But that punch just now wasn't something an ordinary Layer Eleven could deliver. Chen San's four adopted sons suffered a big loss, they completely misjudged Song Ci's strength."

The Deep Sea Zone's mental link can only serve as a basic assessment.

It cannot truly measure a person's strength.

The deeper one reaches into the Deep Sea Zone... the more comprehensively one controls their own transcendent power, and theoretically, the stronger their combat power is.

But real combat is another matter entirely.

"He's an unconventional fighting genius, acting on instinct." Chu Ling quickly analyzed, "Many of Song Ci's actions... cannot be guessed using common sense. It's as if... he was born with an incredibly sensitive radar, requiring no further consideration. As long as he follows his heart, he can unleash extremely powerful combat power."

Gu Shen glanced warily behind him, a long straight line in the distance, and at the end of his peripheral vision, he could already spot a vaguely pursuing car.

Chen Mei was right behind him.

The two were gradually closing the distance.

"Then let me boldly ask, can this radar see me?"

"His choice to move the battlefield... should have been due to his intuition." Chu Ling suggested, "We can't worry about that anymore, let's just drive over there."

Gu Shen glanced at the nearly empty gas gauge. This heavy motorcycle was indeed fast, but it was also a gas guzzler. Escaping from the Nanwan Building to the riverbank had already nearly exhausted all its fuel.

He took a deep breath.

He twisted the handle all the way!

"Boom!"

The heavy motorcycle roared towards the riverbank, burning its last reserves of gasoline.

……

……

"Withdraw!"

Qi Lu gave the final order.

In this battle, they had suffered a complete defeat.

The members of the convoy, stepping on the river surface covered with a thin layer of ice slag, supported each other as they approached the riverbank. After the sky shattered, even retreating became a difficult task... requiring Natural Element transcendents to conjure a path of retreat.

Just as the Chengxin Society's transcendents were preparing to leave in disappointment.

A roar.

Pierced the long night.

Someone looked up in astonishment and saw a beam of dazzling light piercing the long night.

It was a heavy motorcycle flying out of the highway guardrail, burning the last boiling blood in its fuel tank. Someone saw the stopwatch image specially engraved on the side of the heavy motorcycle.

"Is this... reinforcement?"

Qi Lu was a little dazed.

Soon he realized that this was not reinforcement.

He had never seen a reinforcement coming alone, nor did he recognize the strange teenager on the heavy motorcycle.

What exactly was... the situation?

Immediately afterwards, a second roar sounded.

The guardrail of the highway was completely shattered, and following closely behind, a second motorcycle crashed through the guardrail and flew out.

"It's reinforcement!"

Someone shouted loudly.

Everyone recognized the driver on the second motorcycle, that curly-haired, gloomy young man.

Qi Lu couldn't open his eyes completely in the bright light, but he still recognized the other party.

Because that young man named Chen Mei was too dazzling.

Qi Lu suddenly realized that his previous idea was wrong... A reinforcement coming alone might not be impossible, as long as the person who came was strong enough.

The highway was built with a height difference of tens of meters from the river, so there were guardrails for protection.

But at this moment, the fragments of the guardrail flew along with the two motorcycles.

The cold wind whistled.

Chen Mei took both hands off the handlebars, and the vehicle flew, crossing in the air. At the moment of weightlessness, he squatted on the body of the motorcycle, as if stepping on a piece of wood, suddenly exerting force--

The entire heavy motorcycle beneath him exploded like fireworks.

With a bang.

This burst of fireworks completely illuminated the long night.

Amid countless flames, he fell like a meteor.

Gu Shen twisted the handle to the extreme in the air, but unfortunately, no matter how he twisted the throttle at this moment, he couldn't accelerate... He could only watch helplessly as, at the moment when the fireworks exploded, Chen Mei crashed into him like a shooting star.

Just at this moment.

Song Ci, standing alone in the cold river, suddenly moved.

Two pairs of flip-flop legs collided like whips.

The fireworks cracked.

The long night was dazzling.