Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 67: Keep Your Word

Pei Yan watched Liu Yu, who was lying in a pile of rubble, howling and cursing endlessly, and He Yue, who turned and ran wildly, momentarily stunned and standing still.

The reason he managed to turn the situation around instantly from the boulder was due to several boxes of gifts sent by Engineer Li before the festival, and he was genuinely grateful and admired the researchers at the institute.

After they went back, they didn’t stop their research efforts. In just over a month, they custom-built an entire electromagnetic weapon system model and corresponding bullet types for him, which was the confidence Pei Yan had to tell Shangxing he wanted to try it out.

Actually, for Pei Yan, who switched to Gatling guns for a wild barrage, the bullet supply was not a problem. Bullets were being refined and produced within his body at every moment, constantly supplying the machine gun with its barrage. Even if the steel reserves in his body were truly insufficient, he could reabsorb the bullets he shot out from the surroundings back into his body for reconversion.

The reason he stopped shooting was merely to try out another piece of equipment prepared for him by Engineer Li, the power of a large-caliber electromagnetic sniper rifle. For this, he especially retreated a hundred meters and set up the sniper in a pile of rubble, aiming at the movement within the stone wall.

Pei Yan had to admit he was still quite inexperienced in combat, caught in traditional combat thinking. When Liu Yu and He Yue blasted open the stone wall and controlled the boulder to rush out and smash toward him, it indeed left him momentarily flustered, as he had been focused on the wallsides.

But it was only for an instant. Once Pei Yan calmed down, he aimed at He Yue and decisively pulled the trigger, the crisp sound of the gunshot echoed.

"Ah!" A heart-rending scream, but it didn’t come from He Yue. He Yue was indeed quick-reacting, as when he noticed Pei Yan aiming at him, he directly used a net to pull Liu Yu before him as a shield, while he rolled aside to dodge. The shot hit Liu Yu’s lower leg firmly.

Liu Yu’s lower leg, which was left without stone armor and relied solely on a thinning internal shield, was instantly pierced by the powerful bullet, leaving a bowl-sized wound, and the strong impact force sent him crashing to the ground, his right lower leg twisted and deformed. The rubble he controlled also scattered to the sides due to the loss of support.

Pei Yan quickly adjusted the gun’s aim to prepare for He Yue’s net attack, but to his surprise, the opponent abandoned the fallen Liu Yu directly and ran.

When Pei Yan came to his senses again, Liu Yu, already clutching his wound, started cursing loudly, even ignoring Pei Yan, the culprit of his injury, gritting his teeth, and using the scarce remaining power to desperately control stones to smash them at He Yue, who was fleeing.

He Yue, dodging left and right, also occasionally turned around to throw nets to intercept the stones being smashed from above, seeing this scene, Pei Yan couldn’t help but laugh. He retracted the sniper, condensed a revolver, summoned the confinement rings, and approached Liu Yu with the gun raised: "I order you to surrender now!"

"Why the hell are you aiming at me? Go chase that bastard! That damn coward!" Liu Yu, tormented by pain and hatred, yelled at Pei Yan.

"My final order to you is to surrender now! Raise your hands!" Pei Yan said, raising the gun’s position, aiming at Liu Yu’s head.

"Heh, alright, I surrender! Don’t shoot, but don’t let him get away either!" Liu Yu said, raising his hands, glancing at Pei Yan with unwilling eyes, and viciously looking at He Yue running farther.

After forming two confinement rings to handcuff Liu Yu’s hands, Pei Yan put away his gun and teased, "Don’t worry. Although we don’t know each other, it’s the New Year today, so I’ll fulfill your small wish."

Finishing, Pei Yan looked coldly into the distance toward He Yue, twisting his neck and bending his body. Amid the roaring sounds of an engine, Pei Yan transformed into a blur, disappearing from Liu Yu’s side.

Hearing the approaching roar of an engine behind him, He Yue knew something was wrong and turned back, seeing Pei Yan closing in at an alarming speed. With panic and unease, He Yue mobilized all his power, turning and throwing ten-plus nets from all sides.

At this moment, Pei Yan faced the approaching nets without dodging, his body abruptly halting, spreading his arms wide. Five rubber-coated umbrellas with steel plates underneath opened from all directions, tightly enclosing him. The nets covered them all.

Without waiting for Yang Yue’s control ability to make the nets close, the five umbrellas, sizzling as their surface got eroded by the nets, bounced open forcefully, and Pei Yan, taking advantage, charged forward, reaching He Yue in an instant.

Facing close-quarter attacks, He Yue didn’t have time to use his abilities to counter, and in haste, had no choice but to throw punches to fend off.

Pei Yan, who had suffered the punches from instructors Miao, Zhao, and Xia one after another, facing such elementary counterattacks, deftly extended his left hand to grasp the opponent’s right fist, then twisted and shifted his right punch, hitting hard on his right elbow.

"Ah ah ah!" Following the sound of bone cracking was He Yue’s pig-like scream, but it wasn’t over. Pei Yan, inheriting Xia Yu’s ruthless combat style, lightly lifted his right foot and kicked hard at He Yue’s lower right leg.

"Ah ah ah ah!" With excruciating pain, He Yue, in convulsions, screamed with reddened eyes, swinging his left fist upward, only to have Pei Yan grab it, turn it behind him, and violently wrench it upward, accompanied by another series of bone-breaking and tendon-tearing sounds.

At this moment, He Yue fell to the ground, completely losing his previous gentlemanly demeanor, drenched in sweat, his body convulsing uncontrollably due to severe pain. His fractured shin bone had already pierced through muscle and skin, the entire leg swelled and kept oozing clotted blood.

Pei Yan coldly flipped He Yue’s body over, pointing a large shotgun directly at his mouth, and sternly asked, one word at a time: "Can you still yap now? What were you planning to do to my family, to my sister? Now say it again! Louder, I, can’t, hear, you!"

"You, you, you can’t kill me! Aren’t you afraid your family will face retaliation?" He Yue, stammering, looked at Pei Yan in terror and said.

Pei Yan frowned looking at He Yue and retorted, "What did you say?" Then lifted the gun’s butt and smashed it heavily against his face, "God damn New Year’s and you won’t let me have peace, threatening me, threatening my friend’s family, my family, causing me to break an arm, forcing me to kill, retaliation! Retaliation! Retaliation! I’ll show you retaliation!"

With one smash after another until the gun butt was lifted again, covered in blood, He Yue’s once poised face was now battered beyond recognition, his eye sockets swollen and bruised by shattered glasses, a crooked bleeding nose, a mouth smashed open, and with each breath kept exhaling broken teeth.

"If you guys really had the ability to kidnap my family, you would have already done it to threaten me, then you wouldn’t be afraid I’d obediently follow you, would you still be talking so much to me? Seriously think I’m a fool!" Pei Yan finished, undoing his mouth guard, and spat on He Yue’s face.

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