fynovel Chapter 240 Instant Karma
Chapter 240 Instant Karma
The entire Sai Wan Pier was completely sealed off by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. On one side, they were inspecting and removing the workers and cargo owners living at the pier. On the other side, they were cleaning up the battle site. Corpses were put into black body bags, and zombie dogs with blown heads were cut into pieces and put into oversized glass jars. With the experience of dealing with the first virus attack, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police did not seem to be caught off guard. However, the staff were silent, and the atmosphere at the scene was very somber.
Bai Lin used the "Shadow Dissipation" spell to conceal his figure and observed from a distance. He quickly spotted the execution team mage mixed among the staff. Sure enough, Li Kang, wearing thick-rimmed glasses, was clearly the commander-in-chief on site. He probably had received high-level authorization from the Royal Police Headquarters.
Bai Lin snorted coldly, pointed his finger, and a faint magical mark flew out, silently leaping hundreds of meters and attaching itself to the hem of Li Kang's clothes. With this thing, even if Li Kang hid on the tenth floor underground, Bai Lin could still sense his location.
Apart from Li Kang, most of the mages in the execution team were sent out to conduct "ideological counseling" for the citizens who witnessed the incident. To put it bluntly, they were erasing the memories of each citizen. Bai Lin scoffed at this kind of cleanup behavior. In this day and age, when we are facing the terrifying existence of the zombie virus that could destroy human civilization, the mages still prioritize "hiding their identities."
After the staff packed all the corpses and controlled zombies into boxes and loaded them onto the vehicle, Li Kang used Apparition to leave the scene.
Bai Lin hesitated for a moment and did not choose to pursue Li Kang. He was more curious about where Li Kang was going to send these bodies. Logically speaking, after the staff took virus samples, most of the bodies should be sent to the crematorium for incineration as soon as possible. But when Bai Lin saw the trucks transporting the bodies, he felt a different kind of feeling.
Three trucks loaded with body bags and glass jars drove straight out of the Sai Wan Pier. Bai Lin saw that some Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers wanted to follow the trucks, but their captain stopped them.
Bai Lin flew high into the sky, hanging far behind the trucks. The three trucks drove into the city in such a blatant manner. Bai Lin couldn't help but feel a little worried for the ordinary citizens. If it were a T-virus, it would spread through the air just by passing through the city. However, it also fully demonstrated that these people did not care about the lives of ordinary people at all. From some perspectives, these people were much more vicious than Voldemort.
The truck drove through the city and into a tunnel. Bai Lin flew to the other end of the tunnel and waited for a long time before the truck finally came out. Bai Lin frowned because the truck had obviously lingered in the tunnel for several minutes, and there was no traffic jam in the tunnel in the middle of the night.
As the saying goes, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Bai Lin swooped down and looked at the tires of the moving truck. He was immediately shocked. The tires showed that the truck was almost empty. Without even looking, he knew that all the zombies and the bodies of the dead civilians on the truck had been moved.
Bai Lin cursed inwardly and quickly turned around, rushing straight into the dark tunnel like an arrow. It turned out that in the middle of the tunnel, there was a temporary parking space between the two lanes, connecting the two lanes. At this time, several mages had used levitation magic, under the dim light of a few emergency lights, to transfer dozens of black body bags and glass jars to a car in the opposite lane.
"Be careful," a deep male voice said. Bai Lin pressed himself against the corner of the tunnel wall and looked closely. It was Li Kang. It turned out that he hadn't gone back with the execution team, but had taken a detour and come here directly.
Bai Lin sneered in the darkness. It was past 2 a.m., and no ordinary vehicles were coming or going in the tunnel anymore. It was a perfect place for Li Kang and his men to scheme and plot, but at this moment, it was convenient for Bai Lin to carry out his plan.
He concealed his presence and slowly approached. He had confirmed that there were four people in total. Apart from Li Kang, whose magic power was as high as 75, the other three were only around 50, which meant they were just small fry and posed no threat to Bai Lin. However, to prevent them from escaping, Bai Lin needed to defeat them in one blow.
As Li Kang directed his men to load all the corpses onto the vehicle and was quietly instructing them on precautions, Bai Lin had already reached the entrance of the passageway. Taking advantage of the fact that the four were not far away, he directly released a "Frost Nova" at their location.
Li Kang never dreamed that retribution would come so quickly. By the time he saw the azure magical light illuminating his surroundings, it was already too late. A large amount of ice elements gathered around them and then suddenly exploded like a thunderclap. The extremely cold icy aura swept across an area of more than ten meters, enveloping all four of them and rendering them unable to move for a moment.
"Damn it!" Li Kang cursed. He knew that his plan had been exposed and that staying meant certain death, so he desperately tried to use his wand in his right hand to Apparition. But Bai Lin wouldn't give him that chance. He directly cast a disarming spell on him, knocking his wand away.
Bai Lin, his head and face covered, slowly walked out of the dark tunnel and picked up Li Kang's magic wand.
The situation of magic organizations in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia is currently unclear, and there may be many traitors lurking in the Ministries of Magic or the Spell Enforcement Departments of various countries. Bai Lin has decided to follow Edogawa Hiroyuki's advice and, starting today, completely conceal his identity until the truth comes out.
The first step in concealing his identity is to resume casting spells with a wand, since there are very few wizards in the world who can cast spells without a wand, making him easy to track down. He also needs to avoid using summoned creatures as much as possible, unless he is prepared to kill the other party to silence them.
"Who are you!?" Li Kang didn't recognize Bai Lin, let alone in the current environment. However, Bai Lin exuded an extremely strong magical aura, the kind of feeling one gets when facing mountains, tsunamis, or typhoons. Li Kang's proud magical power was as insignificant as an insect in front of this power, which gave Li Kang a sense of fear from the bottom of his heart.
Bai Lin didn't answer him. He waved Li Kang's wand, first binding him completely with Shadow Chains, then casting a Stunning Spell on him. The three henchmen were terrified when they saw their boss was powerless to resist. They begged and pleaded, saying they had elderly mothers and wives and children to support, their cries filled with tears. However, from their appearance to their accents, they all looked like black wizards who had smuggled themselves into Hong Kong, and their pleas were not convincing at all.
They were facing Bai Lin, not a soft-hearted, easygoing person, nor a law enforcement officer who strictly adhered to official procedures. Bai Lin silenced them immediately, then summoned the Longhorn Dragon and the Sphinx, who probably hadn't tasted fresh meat in a long time.
Meanwhile, three trucks were already parked on the opposite side of the road, with the bodies neatly stacked in their cargo boxes. These three trucks were the kind you often see on the roadside—dirty and dilapidated. If you drove out of the tunnel, you would never find them again.
Bai Lin used levitation to retrieve a glass jar containing the head of a zombie dog. Looking at the body bags of the victimized civilians, he sighed deeply and cast an enhanced version of the Fire Spell on the three trucks. Behind him, the satisfied groans of the longhorn dragon and the sphinx could be heard.