97. Incredible

A cold snort escaped him.

At that moment, the more than one hundred people behind the estate witnessed an unbelievable scene. After Chen Fengyun was fired upon by the police and by the men under Qin Tianxiong, he gave a contemptuous snort and swept out a hand. In an instant, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, together with the power of the earth veins, surged toward him and formed a wall of force around his body.

What left everyone stunned was that the bullets fired at Chen Fengyun all came to a dead stop once they reached within a meter of him, pinned in place by that invisible wall.

At the sight of that spectacular mass of bullets suspended in midair, everyone, including the three grandmasters of martial arts, stared wide-eyed in disbelief. They could not trust what they were seeing.

Though a grandmaster possessed formidable strength and astonishing speed and reflexes, at best such a person could evade some bullets from a distance, and only when the number of shooters was limited. To make every bullet stop like this was simply impossible.

“My God, what is going on? The bullets actually stopped?” one of the police officers muttered in shock.

“Is he even human? How could a person possess such terrifying power?” some of the officers hesitated and stopped firing.

“Aah...”

From all around, however, cries of agony continued to rise. These came from some of the business owners who had been staying at the estate, people from various places who had come out to watch the excitement and had learned a bit of what was going on, only to be attacked by Qin Tianxiong’s men.

Not only them, but also some martial artists with impressive skills, though able to dart about and evade, were being surrounded by dozens of attackers. Many were wounded in the chaos, and some, like the Thai boxing king Gan Cha and the Korean Jeet Kune Do expert, were riddled like sieves.

“Go!”

At that instant, a thunderous blast rang out in the sky. Chen Fengyun saw Qin Tianxiong’s men treating human lives like grass and was instantly consumed by rage. With a sweep of his large hand, all the bullets around him flew backward at once, shooting in every direction.

“Aah...”

Yet with his powerful divine sense, Chen Fengyun could control the bullets with pinpoint precision, fixing each target in advance. As the bullets reversed course, shrieks of misery immediately echoed through the woods.

Then the gunfire abruptly ceased, because every shooter, police included, had either been killed or wounded. Even those who were not dead no longer had a gun in their hands.

Chen Fengyun still exercised some restraint. All of Qin Tianxiong’s ordinary gunmen were struck between the eyebrows by a single bullet and died on the spot. As for Qin Tianxiong and the important men under him, their shoulders, knees, palms, and feet were each pierced, and their meridians were severed, leaving them unable to use their strength again.

As for the police, Chen Fengyun did not kill them. After all, they were merely carrying out orders, and killing police would be tantamount to opposing the machinery of the state, which would only work against him.

He merely caused their guns to blow apart in their hands. Though some were injured when the weapons exploded, none of the wounds were fatal; most were only cuts or injuries to the fingers and wrists.

As for the commander, Gu Changlin, he was not so lucky. Chen Fengyun was almost certain that Gu Changlin and Qin Tianxiong were in league, so he likewise crippled both of Gu Changlin’s shoulders and hands, ensuring that he would never again be able to use a firearm.

“Freeze! Police!”

“All personnel cease fire immediately, or we will regard this as a violation of public order and respond accordingly!”

At that moment, footsteps suddenly sounded outside. Then someone shouted through a loudspeaker, and squads of special police carrying riot shields rushed in, followed by over a hundred fully armed armed police officers and criminal investigators.

Yet after storming in as if facing a great enemy, they discovered no resistance inside at all. There was only a floor strewn with corpses and dozens of injured people writhing and screaming in agony. No one was firing at them.

Apart from the dozen or so police officers led by Gu Changlin, there were still seven or eight of Qin Tianxiong’s men who had not died. Chen Fengyun had left them alive for interrogation so that Qin Tianxiong’s crimes could be investigated.

As for the wealthy merchants and bosses from all over the place, along with their bodyguards, they were almost all dead. Only a very few had survived by luck despite their injuries. Most of the martial artists, however, had lived, though nearly all were wounded.

“Director Zhu, what should we do now?” the criminal investigation team captain and the others asked Zhu Danfeng.

“Immediately inspect the scene, call the ambulances in, and tally the casualties,” Zhu Danfeng said, suppressing the shock in his heart as he arranged matters and at once reported the situation to Ou Renzhong.

“Director Zhu, I heard Han Zhiwu has already arrived. You must keep him under control. I’m coming over right away, and the provincial department leadership will be coming too. We cannot allow Han Zhiwu to ruin the scene,” Ou Renzhong instructed immediately after hearing the report.

Zhu Danfeng promptly had the wounded police officers taken away first, both to receive treatment and to be questioned about what had happened earlier, so that Gu Changlin would have no chance to coordinate their stories.

“Well, well, if it isn’t Director Gu. What happened to you?” Zhu Danfeng then walked up to Gu Changlin and, looking at his agony, deliberately exclaimed in feigned surprise.

“Director Zhu, that man is the culprit. He killed so many people and attacked the police. Why haven’t you ordered men to arrest him yet? It would even be fine to shoot him dead on the spot,” Gu Changlin said, pointing toward Chen Fengyun on the treetop in the distance.

Yet deep in his eyes lay a chilling, bitter light. He felt that this time he was truly finished. Not only had he offended a formidable opponent who feared no bullets, but his involvement in some of Qin Tianxiong’s affairs would also be exposed.

Still, he clung to the hope that Zhu Danfeng did not know the situation and might, in a fit of impulsive anger over all those dead and wounded officers, send men to attack the other side and drag them down with him.

“Director Gu, that doesn’t seem right. From what I can see, all the dead around here were shot, and your wounds are also gunshot wounds. That man doesn’t appear to have a firearm on him at all. How could he possibly be the culprit?

“I had thought perhaps you discovered an armed criminal and exchanged gunfire with him. In that case, you must have shot down all the criminals, though most of our brothers were wounded as well?” Zhu Danfeng was not fooled in the least; instead, he mocked him in return.

“Director Zhu, a total of one hundred eighty-three bodies were found at the scene. Of those, one hundred twenty-six were killed by a single shot to the head, while the others were gunned down in indiscriminate fire. According to our on-site investigation, all those who were shot through the head were Qin Tianxiong’s men, while those killed in the spray of bullets were the out-of-town guests staying here,” someone came over to report to Zhu Danfeng.

“Good. Secure the scene and collect the evidence. Also, take Director Gu away for treatment and to record his statement. Remember, Director Gu was specifically named by the provincial department leadership for special care. Without my order, he is not to be handed over to anyone. Do you understand?” Zhu Danfeng called over several officers and had them take Gu Changlin away. The latter’s face was ashen with despair.