Chapter 127: You Are the Prey

Chu Fei dodged the kick, then looked at Zheng Zhi curiously.

“So your target is Wen Nuan?”

“You mongrel, how dare you dodge!”

Zheng Zhi flew into a rage and launched several more kicks in succession, but Chu Fei evaded every one of them.

Everyone present was bewildered.

Wasn’t this man wearing Spirit-Sealing Handcuffs?

By all rights, a martial artist wearing those handcuffs should be unable to use spiritual power, leaving him no different from an ordinary person.

“Answer my question.”

After putting some distance between himself and Zheng Zhi, Chu Fei said, “Your target is Wen Nuan, right?”

“In other words, she was in your hands the entire time before the Du family captured her?”

Chu Fei had already analyzed Wen Nuan’s situation with Meng Ziyi.

She had vanished for ten years, yet even the Meng family had been unable to find any trace of her.

That meant a greater power had been keeping an eye on her. And judging from the current situation, that power was the Martial Prohibition Bureau.

“Have you failed to understand your own situation, you bastard?”

Zheng Zhi snorted coldly. “Right now, you are the prey. Only the hunter has the right to ask questions. The prey has no right to interrogate the hunter!”

As he spoke, Zheng Zhi threw another punch, but Chu Fei dodged it once again.

While evading Zheng Zhi’s attacks, Chu Fei continued analyzing the situation.

“Suppose Wen Nuan was in the hands of your Martial Prohibition Bureau before the Du family took her. Then the fact that her appearance hasn’t changed at all in the past ten years must also be your doing. What did you do to her?”

Chu Fei stopped moving and fixed Zheng Zhi with a sharp gaze.

“Human experimentation?”

He practically forced the four words through clenched teeth.

The thought that Wen Nuan might have suffered such inhuman treatment made him unable to suppress his murderous intent.

“So what if we did?” Zheng Zhi sneered. “You and that little slut are both my prey now. You were doomed never to escape my grasp!”

“Then I’ll take that as an admission.”

Chu Fei’s tone was neither sorrowful nor angry, yet a chilling aura began to emanate from his body.

The icy presence swept across the entire scene, making Mia and the others feel a chill run down their spines.

Fatty Wang was the first to sense that something was wrong. He shouted toward Zheng Zhi, “Zheng Zhi, stay away from him!”

Zheng Zhi did not understand what he meant and continued mocking Chu Fei. “Director Wang, don’t make such a fuss. This bastard is wearing Spirit-Sealing Handcuffs. Could he possibly kill me?”

Crack!

Chu Fei moved like lightning and seized Zheng Zhi by the throat.

Zheng Zhi’s expression changed. He grabbed Chu Fei’s arm with both hands and struggled desperately.

It was useless. Chu Fei lifted him into the air with one hand.

“This is impossible! How can he still use spiritual power?”

“And he’s completely overpowering Deputy Director Zheng with just one hand!”

“Captain Mia, could those handcuffs be fake?”

Little Feng and the others stared at Mia in shock.

Mia frowned. “The handcuffs aren’t fake. It can only mean that they have no effect on him…”

“This is absurd! Forget about Martial Venerables—even a Martial Emperor or Martial God would be rendered powerless the moment those handcuffs were put on!”

Little Feng was still reeling in shock when Fatty Wang hurriedly shouted, “Stop wasting time! Rescue him!”

The moment Fatty Wang made a move, Chu Fei freed his other hand and aimed it at him.

The next instant, an enormous surge of spiritual power poured from his palm, forcing Fatty Wang and the others back more than thirty feet.

Mia stared at Chu Fei in astonishment.

Only then did she realize that Chu Fei had merely been playing with her earlier.

Otherwise, with spiritual pressure this terrifying, she would never even have had the chance to attack.

“Don’t move.”

Chu Fei looked at them coldly. “Whether the Martial Prohibition Bureau survives will depend on how cooperative you are from this point onward.”

If the Martial Prohibition Bureau had truly done that to Wen Nuan, then to Chu Fei, it was an existence that had to be erased.

Not only did its members have to die—the entire Martial Prohibition Bureau had to be uprooted.

“You bastard, let me go!” Zheng Zhi glared furiously. “Do you know what kind of existence you’re challenging?”

“Defying the Martial Prohibition Bureau is the same as defying this country. I refuse to believe you’d dare kill me!”

“That suits me perfectly.”

“What?”

Crack!

Chu Fei snapped Zheng Zhi’s neck.

He then threw the body before Fatty Wang and the others.

With both hands, he pulled the Spirit-Sealing Handcuffs apart. They shattered instantly, turning to dust that scattered in the wind.

Looking at Zheng Zhi’s corpse, eyes still wide with resentment, and at Chu Fei’s murderous profile, everyone felt as though they were no longer facing a man, but a god of death.

Once Mia recovered from her shock, she immediately prepared for battle.

She urged the others to pull themselves together. With so many of them attacking at once, they might still have a chance of winning.

But Fatty Wang spoke at that moment.

“No one move. Do not attack him!”

“Why not?” Mia said angrily. “You’re the director of the bureau, Fatty Wang. Do you not even have that much backbone?”

“Shut up!”

It was the first time Fatty Wang had ever spoken to Mia in such a tone, and she was startled.

“Maybe the others couldn’t tell, but you’re a Martial Venerable! Couldn’t you feel how terrifying his control over spiritual power was in that palm strike just now?”

Mia froze.

The power behind that strike had been enough to kill them all, yet Chu Fei had merely forced them back.

That meant his control over spiritual power had reached an almost obsessive level.

“Then what do we do now?”

“Should we call headquarters for help?”

“Are you stupid? Leaving aside whether that man will even give us the chance to call for reinforcements, the moment you make such a move, you’ll end up just like Zheng Zhi!”

The people from the Martial Prohibition Bureau began to panic.

They could only turn to Fatty Wang.

Without the slightest hesitation, Fatty Wang shouted, “You can’t kill us! Before we came here, I already sent people to capture Wen Nuan and Zhou Mi!”

The implication was obvious.

They had hostages, so Chu Fei could not act recklessly.

It was despicable, but Fatty Wang could think of no other way.

“What did you say you captured?”

A voice came from behind Fatty Wang.

Everyone turned toward it and saw Zhou Mi holding Wen Nuan’s hand with one hand while dragging along a Martial Prohibition Bureau member who appeared to be unconscious with the other.

She was completely different from her usual helpless, delicate self.

“This…”

Fatty Wang was dumbfounded.

He had sent at least ten people there, and every one of them was highly capable.

Yet they had all been taken down by a minor celebrity?

“The plan worked perfectly, Junior Brother.”

Zhou Mi tossed the man in her hand before Fatty Wang and the others, then smiled.

“Everyone should be here now, right?”

Plan?

What plan?

Fatty Wang’s mind raced before he suddenly understood.

“You deliberately leaked your whereabouts to us!”

That was it.

The two of them had planned everything from the very beginning.

Bringing Wen Nuan out had not merely been an outing to the mall. Their true purpose had been to lure the enemy into the open.

When Zhou Mi posted the short video of Chu Fei playing the piano, she had deliberately included Wen Nuan in the shot as well.

They had intended to use her celebrity status to quickly draw out everyone harboring ulterior motives toward Wen Nuan.

And while the enemy was tracking them, Chu Fei had deliberately refrained from acting so that he could wait until everyone had gathered and take them all down in one stroke.

Even Chu Fei allowing Mia to subdue him had been part of the plan. Otherwise, they would never have managed to force the truth out of Zheng Zhi.

“We had no choice. Your investigation was progressing far too slowly.”

Zhou Mi sighed. “Junior Brother and I discussed it, and decided it would be better to use ourselves as bait.”

“Or did you really think we were careless enough to bring Little Wen Nuan out in public under these circumstances?”

Fatty Wang was rendered speechless.

The other members of the Martial Prohibition Bureau were equally dumbstruck.

Even Mia had never imagined they would use such a method. In the end, the two of them had surrounded everyone else.

“That idiot kept going on about hunters and prey.”

Chu Fei mocked him. “But he got the most important thing wrong.”

“You’re the prey.”