The Dragon Took Him Away (1)
The cave was grim and cold, with members of the Bureau registering and rescuing trapped students one by one.
The cave entrance was narrow, wind whistling and snow pouring in, and several frozen corpses lay in the doorway, their blood long frozen and dried, signifying the fierce battles that had occurred here.
The sound of arguing came from inside the cave.
“Hold on! Hold on! The wounds on your body haven’t…”
“You don’t understand! We still have a friend trapped there. His situation is more critical than ours out here!”
Zhao She looked anxious, with blood dripping from his right arm’s laceration. He appeared to be in a bad state, his face pale, his body covered in signs of battle, but he stubbornly broke free of the Bureau’s staff and looked anxiously around.
“Where is your boss? Where is the reinforcement?”
“Hey, don’t be anxious. They will arrive soon, but before that, you have to–”
At that moment, a tall, silver-haired man walked in through the snow and wind, his face pale, his expression cold and sharp, like a sheathed blade, with a strong, hostile aura that no one dared stare directly at.
The cave was silent for a moment under the other man’s powerful aura.
Zhao She took the opportunity to break free from the hands of the Bureau members in his way and stumbled forward, shouting urgently, “Chief Mu! You must help me to save Shi An–”
Upon hearing this familiar name, Wen Yao, who instinctively wanted to stop the person coming, couldn’t help but stop moving.
She subconsciously turned her head toward Mu Heng and looked over.
Mu Heng raised his hand, stopping the subordinate who tried to step forward.
He took a step toward Zhao She.
Looking at the man walking toward him, Zhao She stopped his impulse to step back and stood up straight to meet him.
Mu Heng lowered his eyes, the expression in his eyes devoid of sadness and joy, and he said succinctly, “Speak.”
***
Inside the vault of the auction house.
Shi An gazed at the Ability in front of him, slowly loosened up a little of the air in his fingers, forced his anger down, and squeezed a short syllable out between his teeth. “… Speak.”
The Ability finally had a little room to breathe. He coughed and gasped twice with difficulty. His eyes looked at the monster-like teenager in front of him with horror, stammering, “S-Six hours ago, someone brought a group of people with Chen family’s order… T-They made me divide the treasures into two: the smaller portion and the auction house’s goods were put together in the vault to wait for land transportation while the larger portion was taken away directly using an airship–”
Shi An was stunned.
Taken away?
But the man in the hall had pointed directly to the location of the vault when he had asked where the treasure had gone–it didn’t look like he was lying in a life-and-death situation like that.
So what happened?
At this point, Shi An felt the buzzing in his shirt pocket.
He paused slightly and then remembered that the clothes were not his own.
Then perhaps it was someone else trying to contact the owner of the clothes?
Shi An reached into his buzzing pocket and pulled out a black satellite communicator.
As soon as it was connected, a distraught voice rang out from across the room, intermittently muffled by the rustling of electricity. “Chen Jia! Chen Jia! Have you arrived at the auction house’s warehouse?”
Shi An narrowed his eyes and gave a brief “mm” into the microphone.
“Quickly inspect the goods!”
The man on the other end cursed. “Damn it! Those stinky mercenaries! They suddenly changed sides before the battle and raided Chen’s family’s base six hours ago. Moreover, they cut off communication. Our staff are all outside and have only realized something was wrong. The old man was taken to the emergency unit and every seal disappeared. Fuck! This bunch of dogs has trapped us–”
The young man's slender white fingers tightened slightly.
Crack–
The hard metal casing of the communicator creaked, a few cracks spreading out, and was easily crushed into crumbs that flopped to the ground.
The sound of electricity rattled for a few moments before falling into permanent dead silence.
The Ability stared in horror at the seemingly harmless young man before him, unable to make any sound for a moment.
Shi An turned his head to look over, a fiery hue still lingering under his eyes, and there was an intimidating sense of inhumanity.
“What else do you know?” He shook the Ability in his hand and narrowed his eyes as he pressed the question.
“I-I don’t know anything else!”
Suddenly, he seemed to think of something with a jolt and said, “Oh, right! I remember the airship they drove here. Although it was covered tightly, I still saw a bit… The Aiwen District’s rear turbines are under the metal casing, but this ship’s turbines are on the rear side of the casing. This feature sh-should be a characteristic of the Luosi District’s airship!”
Luosi District.
Located on the eastern side of the entire continent, bordering the Aiwen District.
–Crossing over the highest mountain range in the Aiwen Snowfields, one could enter the eastern canyon of the Luosi District, which was populated by the magical creatures that Shi An knew could make amber resin.
“Luosi District…”
Shi An murmured.
He twisted his head to look at the Ability in his hands and earnestly said, “Thank you. This information is very useful.”
After the words, his knuckles tightened slightly.
“Crack.”
A crisp bone-cracking sound rang out in the large vault, and the Ability's neck was broken into a bizarre angle, falling softly to the floor without a sound.
***
