Chapter 198 : Chapter 198
Chapter 198: No One Can Protect Him!
An Xing and the other two did not answer at all.
Chen Chong and Long Jianying had no way to answer, because the two of them were also confused!
All they knew was that An Xing had called for help, and they had come to save An Xing.
Moreover, Zong Hongsheng was definitely guilty. Otherwise, he would not have dared to fight them to this extent, nor would he have tried to flee several times!
As for An Xing, he was acting out of trust in Li Mu.
If Li Mu had made a mistake this time, An Xing would be completely finished.
Zong Hongsheng’s identity was not simple.
Just then, the crowd outside parted to form a narrow path.
Li Mu brought the thirty mute women through the crowd and arrived atop the ruins.
The moment Zong Hongsheng saw the group of mute women, his vision went black.
He truly had not expected that someone would actually be able to find his secret base!
One had to know that Cloud Fragrance Restaurant was not far from his headquarters, and even closer to his home!
This entire area, including Cloud Fragrance Restaurant, was all under his control.
Dozens of his trusted subordinates below Yellow Rank Ninth Grade had all been lying in ambush inside the restaurant.
These female university students were basically all between Yellow Rank Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade. There was not even a single Seventh Grade among them.
They could not even break free from the glass cabinets.
At the slightest sign of trouble, he only needed to send one text message.
In fact, even if someone merely tried to forcibly search Cloud Fragrance Restaurant,
his trusted subordinates would charge into the secret base and dispose of all these girls.
Within three minutes, not even their corpses would be found!
There would have been no chance for them to testify!
Yet someone had actually rescued these girls completely unharmed, while also managing to restrict his movements.
How the hell had that been done?
“Is it him?”
Li Mu pointed at Zong Hongsheng.
All the girls instantly became agitated. One by one, their eyes turned blood-red as they nodded frantically.
Difficult, hoarse sobbing sounds came from their throats!
True Qi surged wildly from them, as if they wished they could personally rush forward and fight Zong Hongsheng to the death.
Li Mu looked at Zong Hongsheng and said loudly:
“Zong Hongsheng, you abused authority for personal gain, raped and murdered at will, and trafficked people. Do you confess?”
As Li Mu spoke, he walked forward.
Tilting his head, he pulled the Ghostface Cudgel out of his ear.
With a light wave, the entire space hummed.
Zong Hongsheng looked at Li Mu with a cold smile.
“You are Tiger Marquis Li, are you not?”
“Do you know that excessive brilliance invites an early death?”
“You are so young, yet you do not know how to restrain your edge. You are a little too arrogant.”
“Ever since you came to Linyuan City, I fully cooperated with you when you dealt with the Lu Family!”
“And now you are actually meddling in my affairs!”
Li Mu gave a derisive laugh.
“What? My Abyss-Suppression Army sheds blood and sacrifices lives in the Abyss to keep humanity safe.”
“Was it so a power-grabbing rat like you could indulge in depraved pleasures?”
“When I see injustice, I will interfere if I want to!”
“Am I not allowed to interfere with you?”
Just then,
“Li Mu!”
“Li Mu!”
A shout came from far outside the crowd.
A person walked through the air and rapidly flew closer.
The newcomer was actually Hong Liangpeng, the Commander-in-Chief of the Wanren Military District!
“Li Mu! Wait!”
As soon as Hong Liangpeng landed, he raised a hand to stop him.
Li Mu frowned.
“What do you want?”
Hong Liangpeng said urgently:
“A document came down from above! It is from the upper-level super military district, the Shenqi Military District. You can see it by opening your Technological Watch.”
When he heard “Shenqi Military District,” Zong Hongsheng let out a long breath of relief.
Hong Liangpeng saw that Li Mu had no intention of opening his watch to look.
Instead, Li Mu was staring at him coldly.
Hong Liangpeng could only state it verbally:
“The higher-ups said that Zong Hongsheng is involved in a serious military-related case.”
“They ordered our Military District to immediately send Zong Hongsheng and all personnel related to all of his cases to the Shenqi Military District in Bloodpool City!”
When they heard that not only Zong Hongsheng was to be transferred, but also all personnel related to the cases, the thirty mute women were instantly furious.
Even a fool would know that transferring the people away at this critical moment was simply an attempt to save Zong Hongsheng!
And they even wanted to take the women away too?
Would that not be sending them back into the tiger’s den?
Li Mu was so angry that he laughed. He opened his Technological Watch and glanced at it.
There really was such a document.
It had been sent by the Shenqi Military District.
The Shenqi Military District was a super military district, with nearly one hundred thousand people in a single military district.
Bloodpool City had only two super military districts.
The Bloodsea Military District and the Shenqi Military District.
In the past, the Wanren Military District had received no small amount of care from the Shenqi Military District.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Wanren Military District, the Shenqi Military District was indeed considered their superior military district.
What made Li Mu laugh in anger was that on the Shenqi Military District’s notice,
the name of the Shenqi Military District’s Commander-in-Chief had also been signed.
Zong Hongyuan!
They were not even bothering to pretend!
Zong Hongsheng, Zong Hongyuan. As long as one did not have filth for brains, one would know what their relationship was.
And the fact that Zong Hongyuan had directly signed his name on the document already made his intention to exert pressure obvious.
Moreover, Zong Hongyuan held the position of Mid Dragon General!
Hong Liangpeng also reminded him at the right time:
“Tiger Marquis Li, the Shenqi Military District has treated us well!”
After saying this, he took a few steps closer to Li Mu and said in a low voice:
“And... Commander Zong is an Earth Rank expert.”
An Earth Rank Mid Dragon General.
He was using a military-related matter to demand that they hand the man over.
Whether publicly or privately, defying this order was absolutely not a wise choice.
At this moment, even An Xing and the others fell silent.
All of them looked at Li Mu.
Li Mu could even see An Xing give him a slight shake of the head.
He was signaling that Li Mu should not be too unyielding.
Those who were too rigid were easily broken!
If Li Mu did not hand over the man, not only would he be disobeying a military order, but once Zong Hongyuan made that “military-related case” truly connected to Zong Hongsheng,
then Li Mu would be suspected of obstructing the investigation of a military-related case.
And most importantly, this was an Earth Rank expert!
Offending an Earth Rank expert was absolutely the act of a broken mind!
At this moment, even those mute women all turned ashen-faced.
Li Mu had rescued them, and they were naturally immensely grateful.
But they did not know what Li Mu’s identity was.
They only knew that Li Mu seemed very powerful.
Even that damned Zong Hongsheng had called Li Mu Tiger Marquis.
Zong Hongsheng had said Li Mu had dealt with the Lu Family, which was a quasi-first-rate family.
But now, Zong Hongsheng’s backer had appeared.
An Earth Rank expert.
The Commander-in-Chief of a major Military District.
A Mid Dragon General!
Every one of those titles was something these female university students normally could not even imagine!
This was truly a matter that reached the heavens.
Li Mu was only a Tiger Marquis. Even if he was young and promising, he should absolutely have no strength to oppose this.
“Hong Liangpeng.”
Li Mu’s expression was icy as he fixed his cold gaze on Hong Liangpeng.
“You could not have been to Zong Hongsheng’s underground base too, could you?”
This question frightened Hong Liangpeng badly.
He truly did not know anything about an underground base.
But Li Mu seemed to want to bind him together with Zong Hongsheng and treat them as the same kind of person.
“What nonsense are you talking about? What underground base?”
Li Mu pointed at the mute women.
“Then I will tell you. Zong Hongsheng killed all of their parents.”
“Then he imprisoned these girls and used them for his amusement every day.”
“I ask you now!”
“If one of them were your daughter, would you still hand Zong Hongsheng over?”
Hong Liangpeng’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
He also had not expected that what Zong Hongsheng had done would actually be something like this.
Everyone looked at Hong Liangpeng at that moment.
After struggling for a moment, Hong Liangpeng could only grit his teeth and squeeze out four words:
“Military orders are absolute!”
“Hahahahahahaha!”
Li Mu immediately burst into wild laughter.
“Good!”
“What a fine military order!”
Li Mu’s expression changed with furious intensity.
He raised his hand and pointed at Hong Liangpeng!
“Zong Hongsheng must die today!”
“No one can protect him!”
“Hong Liangpeng!”
“Stop me!”
As soon as the words fell, Li Mu had already shot violently toward Zong Hongsheng. In the blink of an eye, he was already in front of him!
He swept his cudgel toward Zong Hongsheng’s neck!