When Li Nanfeng heard these words, he was immediately overjoyed.
"Xiao Fan, so your old man is here. As long as I catch your old man, let's see how you can still fight against me. You will have to obediently surrender to me!"
He immediately led people to rush to the second floor, but when he got to the stairs, he found it blocked.
"What's going on?"
"We had some disagreements today. Xiao Zhenyuan led a group of people to live on the second floor and blocked it off here. But you can go up via the outdoor stairs."
"Damn! Why didn't you say so earlier."
Li Nanfeng immediately led people to go outside. In the process, he had some bad premonitions.
Sure enough, when he went upstairs to the second floor from the outdoor stairs, he found that no one was there anymore.
"This is bad, they must have all gone to the police station."
Li Nanfeng looked at the police station and pondered what to do next.
Before he could think through one, two, three steps, he saw a fleet of vehicles heading towards Yanshan Town in the distance.
Startled, he immediately took out his binoculars to take a look.
"One, two, three, four, five....a total of twelve cars!"
Among them were three military vehicles, three SUV jeeps, a long bus, and the rest were all large trucks.
He didn't care about the trucks and jeeps, but seeing those three military vehicles made him tremble a little.
Because some of those military vehicles even had machine guns mounted on them.
For example, that all-terrain vehicle had eight fully armed soldiers, with a machine gun mounted high up. Even from such a long distance, Li Nanfeng could feel the power of that thing.
"This is not good. The intelligence was wrong. I don't know how many people are in this convoy, but it looks very formidable."
A subordinate next to him anxiously said, "Brother Li, what should we do now?"
"Don't panic. What's there to panic about? We have hostages here."
"That's right, we have hostages. They wouldn't dare do anything to us."
Li Nanfeng turned his head and ordered his men, "Go, lock the doors on the first floor, all of you keep an eye on the hostages downstairs. I'll stay on the second floor to negotiate with them."
"Okay, be careful Brother Li."
After Li Nanfeng bandaged the wound on his arm again, he waved for everyone to leave.
However, what no one knew was that after people left, Li Nanfeng secretly parked a motorcycle in the nearby bushes. As long as he jumped out of the second floor window, he could quickly get to the motorcycle and zip up a small path to get away.
Without further ado about Li Nanfeng's preparations, Xiao Fan and the others finally returned to Yanshan Town.
On the way back, Xu Qiang had already contacted Xiao Fan and explained the situation here.
So Xiao Fan didn't go back to the Grand Hotel, but directly brought the convoy to the police station.
"Get off, it's safe for now that we've arrived here."
The students he had rescued all got off the vehicles one after another.
"Xiao Tian!"
"Dad!"
Xiao Tian and her father Xiao Zhenyuan met and immediately cried out in excitement. Xiao Zhenyuan also had tears welling up in his eyes. In this world, he was blessed that his children could still return to his side.
"Alright, let's all go in. It's a bit crowded with so many people, but it doesn't matter. Once things are settled here, Dad, you should go back to the second floor of the Grand Hotel. Let the students stay at the police station."
"Okay, okay. But be careful Xiao Fan, those people are very vicious."
"Don't worry, with so many of us, what do we have to fear from them?"
Now the total number of Xiao Fan's troops had reached 63 people, not including the military dogs.
There were only a dozen or so assailants left at the Grand Hotel. In Xiao Fan's eyes, they were nothing but chickens and dogs, not worth mentioning.
The soldiers began unloading, carrying large pieces of butchered mutant beast meat into the canteen behind the police station.
After Xu Qiang came back, he had specially gone out to collect many freezer cabinets. Now in the canteen behind the police station, several empty freezer cabinets were already lined up, specifically for storing beast meat.
Xiao Fan took a look around and said to Xu Qiang, "Once we've dealt with the Grand Hotel, we'll need to start gathering supplies. Get more of these refrigerators and freezers. When we establish our base, we won't lack for these either."
"Commander, are we going to build a base?"
"There's the intention. Although we don't have the base vehicles yet, we should start scouting for locations. We need to go out once during the process of gathering supplies."
"Understood!"
People began busying themselves. Xiao Fan was now always surrounded by several people.
They included communications officer Guo Wei, medic Sun Feifei, reconnaissance soldier Xu Qiang, infantrymen Wang Zhan and Li Long, and military dog Haotian.
These were people ready to carry out Xiao Fan's orders at any time, while also protecting him.
"Commander, what about the Grand Hotel side?"
Xiao Fan felt a bit annoyed just thinking about Wang Dajiang and the others. When you have a lot of people, there are always some who arrogantly overstep their bounds. Xiao Fan really disliked these kind of people.
Rather than painstakingly negotiating with the other side, it was better to just stomp them flat. As for the hostages, if some of them became sacrificial victims, then consider it them dedicating their lives for the greater cause.
So he decisively waved his hand: "Have Shen Guangming lead three platoons to forcibly take it down!"
"Yes sir!"
Recon soldier Shen Guangming immediately summoned three platoons of soldiers and began advancing towards the Grand Hotel.
The other side could see everything happening here clearly. Li Nanfeng felt a chill in his heart when he saw soldiers being dispatched here directly.
Did they not care about the safety of the hostages?
He immediately had the people downstairs bring the hostages to the windows, threatening the approaching side not to come over.
His men also followed his orders. When the Red Alert soldiers approached, two men seized two hostages and frantically screamed from the windows.
"Soldiers! Don't come over, or I'll kill these common people. Aren't you soldiers supposed to protect the common people? You can't just ignore their life and death!"
"Bang!"
A muffled gunshot rang out, and the man who was shouting fell dead in a pool of blood.
The sniper behind had fired.
Shen Guangming waved his hand: "Disregard the hostages. Platoons, forcibly attack the main door and left and right windows!"
The Red Alert soldiers swiftly moved into action. Each platoon had fighters charging ahead and others covering. The moment anyone popped their head out, they would be immediately shot dead.
The main door was quickly breached. Shen Guangming was the first to rush in. With his excellent military skills, he pulled out a silenced pistol, rolled in, and continuously shot down three stubborn resisters.
The subsequent battle became one-sided. The various combat teams rushed in and quickly gained control of the situation.
Shen Guangming thought the battle was about to end like this. But unexpectedly, a motorcycle suddenly started up outside.
"Someone's escaping!"
Shen Guangming took a look and knew it wouldn't be easy to catch up.
However, there was still a sniper, Lu Ping, by his side.
He was a two-star sniper with extremely formidable capabilities.
"Lu Ping, can you take him out?"
"With so much overgrown grass on the path he took, I don't have absolute confidence. But I can try."
Lu Ping swiftly came up to the second floor and set up his sniper rifle.
Soon, Shen Guangming heard a muffled gunshot!
There was an explosion in the distance - the motorcycle had exploded!
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
