Chapter 84
Dragon Guard Imperial Army
Yang Ding used his headlamp to follow the sound and saw a person in a suit wearing a black mask, standing on a rock, suspended high in the air.
"Who are you, and why are you saving the Ghost King?"
"I'm not going to explain to ants like you. Just go to hell."
"Take off your mask if you dare!" Fang Dalong shouted. "We're from the Jiangling Law Enforcement Team. If you dare touch us, aren't you afraid Governor Zhou will drag you out?"
Mao Jian jumped up and cursed, "You traitor! You actually helped the Others kill your own kind!"
"How ridiculous, ants always think they're human."
The masked man didn't bother to say anything more. He reached out and grabbed the cave wall, pulling out hundreds of cone-shaped stones, which he then slammed onto the ground.
Just when everyone thought they were doomed, an arc of true energy swept through the air, and the stone and the masked man were swept away almost simultaneously.
The masked man quickly regained his balance, but the cone-shaped rock pierced the White Walkers on the cave wall.
More than a hundred White Walkers fell down, nearly hitting people.
"Holy crap, which martial arts master has arrived this time?"
"Who?" The masked man was also completely bewildered.
He quickly turned on his powerful headlamp and shone it in the direction from which the true energy was sweeping.
A man wearing a golden mask stood at the entrance to the cave where Class C2 had come out, holding a short sword.
The masked man recognized the mask immediately and exclaimed in shock, "Dragon Guard Imperial Guard? What are you doing in my Jiangling City instead of the royal capital?"
"Of course, we're keeping an eye on you outlaws."
"You have to have that ability."
"With my sixth-grade upper realm martial arts cultivation, dealing with you shouldn't be a problem, right? The problem is there are thousands of students in this cave, and the enforcement team is coming soon. With our strength, the entire Ghost Cave would collapse, causing so many casualties. Do you think Her Majesty the Queen will let you off?"
The masked man was clearly intimidated. His punch, delivered with a force of nearly 40,000 tons, was enough to collapse the cave ceiling with a single blow.
"Did you come for the White Walkers, or for Yang Ding?"
The masked man looked down at Yang Ding at the bottom of the cave. "Young brother, your sword-sweeping technique is indeed impressive. Go and kill the Ghost Queen to completely eliminate the scourge of Jiangling City. I'll help you hold off this earth-elemental expert."
"With your abilities, you two should fight outside. There are night vision devices from the law enforcement bureau everywhere in here, and Governor Zhou is overseeing things right there. You can't escape."
The masked man pointed his short sword at the man wearing a face mask. "If you don't move, I won't move. Think it through before you make a move."
Yang Ding knew this was a good opportunity. He leaped ten meters into the air and landed in the nest. With two more leaps, he approached the Ghost Queen.
The masked man was clearly getting impatient and fired dozens of stone spikes, all of which were easily neutralized by the golden-masked man's sword energy.
The wounded Ghost King hid behind the Ghost Queen, too afraid to come out and fight.
Suddenly, the obese ghost queen spread her legs, squeezed her big belly with both hands, and began to frantically shoot eggs at Yang Ding.
"Spit it out..."
Hundreds of stinky ghost eggs shot towards Yang's head, but they didn't cause much damage.
"Holy crap, these are all your little devils."
Yang Ding's sweeping sword technique was specifically designed to deal with this, easily shattering all the eggs.
After giving birth prematurely, the Ghost Queen's round belly was reduced to a white, smooth skin hanging on the ground. Feeling relaxed, she stood up and scratched Yang's head with her meter-long claws.
"She's quite protective of her husband."
Yang Ding dodged the first attack by flipping over, then leaped ten meters high again, slashing his sword at the Ghost Queen's head.
"Eh... eh... eh eh eh!"
When the wounded Ghost King saw his wife's head split in two, he suddenly lost the will to live and used his last strength to lunge at Yang Ding.
Yang Ding granted its wish, splitting the Blue-Eyed Ghost King's head in two.
"Hey Yang, I'll settle this score with you slowly."
"Come here!"
Yang Ding raised his sword in a provocative gesture, hoping the masked man would kill the man wearing a face mask quickly, or he would have a hard time in the future.
With both the Ghost Queen and Ghost King killed, the masked man had no further reason to fight and vanished in a flash.
In this underground environment, even a grandmaster wouldn't be able to capture an earth-elemental expert, as they can use earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique that allows one to escape through the earth).
They wanted to call the man in the golden mask down to help kill the White Walkers, but he wasn't interested at all and suddenly disappeared.
The other fifty-nine teams slowly approached the nest, suffering extremely heavy casualties.
Fang Dalong pointed to a beam of intense light that suddenly appeared in the sky.
"The law enforcement team has arrived."
The intense light tore open wider and wider, forming a square portal to space.
Law enforcement officers, dressed in black leather jackets and carrying standard-issue knives, jumped out of the door, drew their swords, and began to wipe out the White Walkers.
General Zhou Zhengyao, carrying a sword case on his back, flew down on his sword.
As a metal-type ability user, although he has never studied martial arts, he can use his powerful mental strength to control his sword and attack.
After seeing the ghost, its head was chopped in two, and it asked, "Who killed this person?"
Fang Dalong rushed over and said, "General, it was Yang Ding, the captain of Squad 2, who killed them. He killed both the Ghost King and the Ghost Queen."
Zhou Zhengyao looked at Yang Ding with some doubt, "Didn't you encounter any obstacles when you killed this thing?"
"There are no obstacles from the White Walkers, but there are obstacles from humans."
Yang Ding then gave a brief account of what had just happened. Zhou Zhengyao, of course, knew the inside story. He didn't press the earth-type ability user, but instead inquired about the identity of the Dragon Guard.
Do you know him?
"Does the General think I, Yang Dingpei, know anything about the Imperial Guards?"
Zhou Zhengyao shook his head. "Not worthy."
With the addition of five thousand law enforcement officers, the White Walkers were utterly defeated.
The other two ghost kings were killed by unknown individuals, leaving the group leaderless and being relentlessly attacked by humans.
"Don't leave a single one alive, kill them all!" Zhou Zhengyao shouted.
"Yes."
Yang Ding's classmates were too exhausted to fight and collapsed on the ground, all of them utterly weary.
This battle resulted in the loss of another twenty-six students, leaving only fifty-four.
"General Zhou, these six students were killed by that masked man. Doesn't the law enforcement team intend to pursue the matter?"
Zhou Zhengyao replied dismissively, "Of course we need to investigate, but where to investigate, how to investigate, and when to find the culprit are all unknowns."
"Colluding with the White Walkers and killing one's own kind should be considered a crime against humanity, right?"
"Yes, of course it counts. Come on, I'll give you scores, and I guarantee you'll be number one."
Zhou Zhengyao changed the subject, took out his tablet, and directly gave Class C2 1000 points.
Fang Dalong tugged at Yang Ding, "Forget it, the Dragon Guards have already taken action on this matter, it's not something we small fry can interfere with."
Yang Ding nodded helplessly, looking at the six classmates' corpses lying on the ground.
"You can only blame your bad luck."
Three hours later, after all the White Walkers had been killed, the Class C and Class D members gathered at the lair.
2400 casualties, 3600 remaining.
Many people squandered their parents' savings, thinking that entering the martial arts academy would guarantee them a stable job in the law enforcement bureau, but they never expected to die on their first mission.
And there are many more trials to come.
"All students will rest here for the night and can leave the cave on their own tomorrow."
"General, can't we go back through the portal? It will take at least a day to get out of the cave the way we came."
Zhou Zhengyao sneered, "Do you know how expensive the high-level cultivation resources are at the spatial gate?"