Free Web NovelChapter 234: Chapter 202: The Thespian and the Demolition Office (Part 2)
Han Feng asked in a deep voice, forcing a calm tone. He was the very picture of a hot-headed rookie—powerful, but inexperienced.
Sun Bin was inwardly delighted.
’It’s in the bag!’
’This kid has a strong aura, but he doesn’t seem too bright. He took the bait so easily.’
"I’m a Trial Taker from the Sun Family..."
Sun Bin panted heavily, his voice trembling as he pointed toward the gloomy depths of the ruins behind him.
"We had set up a temporary camp over there, but then... then a swarm of transparent monsters suddenly rushed out! Everyone... they were all captured!"
At this, he swallowed hard and dropped the bombshell he had prepared.
"Even Young Master Lu and Miss Su are trapped inside! They were captured while covering our escape!"
Sun Bin was confident that no one from East Sea Martial Arts University would remain indifferent after hearing those two names.
They were top-tier scions from the Inner City. Rescuing them would mean earning an enormous favor.
Han Feng was indeed "moved."
He grabbed Sun Bin by the collar, lifting him up like a helpless chick, and roared with a "frantic" look on his face:
"What? Even they’re trapped? What are you waiting for?! Take me there, now!"
Sun Bin was nearly choked breathless, his feet kicking wildly, but inwardly he was ecstatic.
’What good is strength if you’re an idiot? He’s just a brute!’
"It’s over there! There’s an entrance to an underground palace beneath that altar. They were all dragged inside! Hurry, or it’ll be too late!"
Sun Bin pointed in the direction surrounded by numerous arrays.
That was the core area of the "God-Catching Net."
The moment Han Feng stepped inside, a terrifying Force Field, powerful enough to restrain a Tier Three Energy Body, would activate and crush him into a pulp.
"Right! Saving them is what matters! Stick close to me!"
With that, Han Feng threw Sun Bin aside and took the lead, rushing toward the "trap."
He was so fast that Sun Bin barely had time to react.
"You don’t have to be in such a hurry to die..."
Sun Bin muttered, quickly scrambling up from the ground to follow.
As he ran, he reached into his pocket and secretly pressed a button on his communicator.
It was the prearranged signal:
[The fish has taken the bait. Prepare to reel in the net.]
...
「In the main control room of the underground base.」
On a massive holographic screen, footage from the surface was being broadcast in real-time.
Watching the completely unguarded figure plunge headfirst into the encirclement, Mo Sen and Sun Changhe exchanged a glance, both revealing disdainful smiles.
"So this is the so-called ’hidden expert’?"
Mo Sen shook his head and gently pushed up the rimless glasses on his nose, his tone dripping with ridicule.
"All brawn and no brains, nothing but a brute. It seems that idiot Zhao Hai overestimated him."
"A Spiritual Strength of 500 is certainly not weak; you could even call him a genius. A pity he’s not very bright."
Sun Changhe picked up his teacup, gently blew on the surface, and said unhurriedly,
"Activate the ’God-Catching Net.’ Go easy on him. Don’t kill him outright. The lab needs a live specimen."
"Understood."
The operator’s fingers flew across the keyboard, lines of commands scrolling down like a waterfall.
"Energy charging complete!"
"Force Field Generator synchronization rate at 100%!"
"Target has fully entered the designated area!"
"Activate!"
VMMMM—!
Above Island G-01, the air suddenly seemed to be squeezed hard by an invisible giant hand, emitting a grating, twisting sound that set one’s teeth on edge.
A pale blue screen of light, visible to the naked eye and shaped like an overturned bowl, instantly enveloped a five-hundred-meter radius around the core of the ruins.
Countless complex runes flowed across the screen of light, emanating a suffocating pressure.
It was a cage that could imprison even a High-dimensional Energy Body, one of Star Sea Technology’s ultimate Black Technologies.
"Success."
Mo Sen put down his tablet, the corner of his mouth curling into a smile that screamed of assured victory.
However, in the next second, a piercing alarm suddenly blared through the command center. Red warning lights flashed frantically, bathing the entire control room in a hellish, blood-red glow.
"Warning! Warning! Abnormal Energy backflow!"
"Force Field core experiencing unknown interference!"
"Someone is reverse-engineering the Array nodes!"
"What?!"
Sun Changhe’s hand trembled, spilling scalding tea all over it, but he couldn’t be bothered to wipe it off. He snapped his head up to look at the large screen.
On the surveillance feed, Han Feng—who should have been swatted against the light screen like a fly, unable to move—was now standing right in the center of the trap.
He wasn’t panicking, nor was he running around like a headless chicken.
He just stood there, hands in his pockets, and slowly raised his head.
His gaze seemed to pierce through countless layers of camouflage and obstruction, staring directly at the Spiritual Energy Image Transmission Crystal hidden in a crack in the rocks.
His gaze was a mixture of mockery and amusement.
It was like watching a troop of performing monkeys at the zoo.
Then, Han Feng raised his right hand and made a light grasping motion in the air.
In his vision, the world had already transformed into an ocean of data.
[All Things Identification] activated at full power.
A massive stream of information scrolled past his eyes like a waterfall:
[Target]: Composite Spirit Trapping Field (Star Sea-Sun Family Joint Magical Modification).
[Energy Level]: Tier Three Peak.
[Structure]: Core utilizes a "Star Sea-IV" type Force Field Generator, supplemented by the Sun Family’s "God-Trapping Lock" Array logic.
[Weaknesses]:
1. Conflicting logic between the two systems results in an Energy conversion efficiency of only 78%.
2. Currently in the Early Stage of activation. The Array node interface with the ley line at the thirty-five-degree angle to the left is loose (due to cutting corners during construction).
3. Severing this node will cause the entire Force Field to collapse due to backflow overload.
[Solution]: Execute a single-point breach. Inject high-frequency Energy to induce resonance.
The corner of Han Feng’s mouth curled up as his fingers traced several profound patterns in the air.
He wasn’t just making random gestures.
It was... the deconstruction art of Ancient Runes!
"This is impossible!"
Mo Sen screamed in terror, his eyes looking as if they would pop out of their sockets.
"Those are Tier Four dynamic encrypted Runes! How could a student possibly understand them?! This is unscientific!"
Unfortunately, Han Feng couldn’t hear his screams.
And even if he could, he would have just retorted, ’Even a dog would shake its head at this garbage code full of bugs.’
The next moment, Sword Essence pulsed from Han Feng’s fingertip.
It was a silver-white Sword Essence of extremely high purity, refined through the Foundation Establishment Empowerment, sharp enough to slice through steel.
With no flashy moves, he simply tapped lightly on the weakest node in the empty air.
"Break... for me!"
PFFT.
A soft sound. It was immediately followed by a deafening crash, like shattering glass, that echoed across the entire island.
BOOM!
The "God-Catching Net," which they claimed could trap even gods, was like a fragile soap bubble before Han Feng. It instantly burst into a sky full of shimmering motes of light.
A terrifying Energy backlash surged back through the circuits into the command center.
Several precision Array control instruments instantly spewed black smoke as sparks flew everywhere.
"PFFT!"
The technicians in charge of the Array all spat out a mouthful of blood, as if they’d been struck in the chest with a sledgehammer, and collapsed limply to the ground.
Back on the surface, amidst the gray fog, the violent airflow blew away the surrounding dust.
Han Feng dusted off his hands, though there was nothing on them, and slowly turned around.
His gaze fell upon Sun Bin, his guide, who was completely dumbfounded.
In that moment, the poison needle in Sun Bin’s hand, which he hadn’t even had a chance to use, seemed utterly laughable and ridiculous.
His mouth hung agape as he stared at the shattered remnants of the light screen, his mind completely blank.
’It... It broke just like that?’
’The grand Array the family spent hundreds of millions on... was popped just like that?’
Han Feng strode over until his shadow completely enveloped Sun Bin.
He grinned, revealing a set of white teeth that looked particularly sinister in the dim light.
"Why have you stopped walking?"
Han Feng’s voice was as gentle as if he were greeting an old friend.
"Weren’t we... going to save people?"
"Lead the way, Junior Brother Sun."
"I’m a very helpful person, you know. Since I promised to save them, I have to see it through to the end. Don’t you agree?"
Sun Bin looked into Han Feng’s mirthless eyes and felt a chill shoot up from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
His legs went weak.
THUD.
This time, he truly knelt.
It wasn’t an act.
His legs had genuinely given out.
