Chapter 648: Too Late for a Goodbye Handshake

Book Chapter 648: Too Late for a Goodbye Handshake (Update 1)

A quiet night. Lin.

Gentle lights and shifting tree shadows draped over the ancient city’s streets.

A colossal building emerged into Xiao Yu’s sight.

It was a bizarre complex.

Each building stood nine stories high, and four of them formed a square.

It looked as if the towers had been assembled into a ‘square pool.’

This was the Bremen Branch of the Country D Security Bureau.

Speaking of the Country D Security Bureau, it is renowned worldwide.

Established in 1950 with its headquarters in Cologne.

It is also the world’s most famous counter-espionage organization.

Primarily responsible for Country D’s security and for cracking espionage, sabotage, and assassination plots on home soil.

They even help draft various confidentiality protocols and measures…

Hiding behind a robust tree, Xiao Yu melted into the shadows, his eyes locked on the bureau’s entrance.

Every thirty seconds, two armed guards strolled past the door on patrol.

A detailed floor plan of the bureau floated through Xiao Yu’s mind.

He marked guard numbers, patrol locations, camera counts, office areas, detention zones, interrogation rooms… countless details etched themselves onto his mental blueprints.

Xiao Yu’s mind was running at maximum speed.

There was no room for error in the rescue.

A single mistake would not only pit him against the bureau’s agents and guards,

but might even trigger a full-scale siege by the city’s police and military.

The longer it took, the more likely the entire Country D would join the hunt.

Sounds exaggerated?

Not at all.

Imagine if a spy got caught in the Dragon Kingdom.

How do you think the Dragon Kingdom would treat such a spy?

Shifting his gaze, Xiao Yu scanned 22 hidden spots equipped with external surveillance.

For an ordinary person, evading 20 cameras and four teams of patrolling guards to infiltrate the bureau would be nearly impossible.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yu slowly crouched.

Out of the 22 cameras, 20 were fixed on the lower angles surrounding the building.

Only two watched from an anti-air perspective.

Similarly, the four guard teams only patrolled at ground level.

If he could slip past those 20 cameras and the roaming teams without being caught by the other two, he’d be in the clear.

How to manage that?

Xiao Yu decided… to fly in!

Boom!

A soft, dull thud resounded beneath his feet.

In an instant,

Xiao Yu shot high into the air like a cannonball—like a ghostly shadow soaring into the sky.

Skill: Flea Bullet!

Channeling every ounce of strength, he leaped over 200 meters in a graceful arc, landing squarely on the bureau’s rooftop.

His chosen entry point was the sky itself—he had landed on the rooftop.

Not only did this help him dodge the guards and cameras, it also spared him additional complications.

What sounded thrilling was, in reality, rather mundane.

No worries about system exposure—he could hack as freely as he pleased.

What was the challenge?

Plop… Xiao Yu landed lightly on the rooftop, half-crouched as he surveyed the area.

Then, instead of rushing into the building, he strode over to a signal base station box on the roof.

Lockpicking Expert… unlocking the base station power box.

Xiao Yu scanned the circuitry, wires, and control devices.

He lifted his hand and extracted a palm-sized mini electronic device.

Next, he retrieved a bundle of wires, bridging connections between the station equipment and the device.

As he unfolded the device, it transformed into a mini computer.

With one hand, his fingers danced across the keys, sending command after command in swift succession…

Ability: Red Hacker Expert!

In under five minutes, Xiao Yu had seized control of the base station.

Then, utilizing the wireless signal, he infiltrated the bureau’s internal network.

He hacked his way through the external network to gain entry.

And through that, he breached the internal network…

Twenty minutes later,

Xiao Yu’s lips curled into a sly smile as he clenched his fist.

Snap!

The electronic device in his hand shattered into pieces.

He pulled out the processor and hard drive, meticulously crushing them into fragments.

Leaving not a single trace behind.

What had he just done?

Three things.

First, he broke through the bureau’s surveillance system, planting a time-triggered virus designed to shut it down.

Second, he sabotaged the bureau’s external power grid with a remote timer to cut the electricity.

Third, he implanted a virus into the bureau’s central mainframe. Even if power was restored… ha!

Rising to his feet, Xiao Yu made his way toward the rooftop entrance into the building…

Inside the bureau, beneath the rooftop access.

Two towering White Guards puffed on cigarettes, exuding an air of leisure.

Their sole task was simply to watch over the rooftop entrance.

After all, who would really be climbing in from the roof?

What nonsense—unless that person could fly.

Which was nearly impossible!

“Batti, I took a day off yesterday and hit up the Galerie Bar—the girls there are smoking hot. You really should check it out sometime. It’s like a slice of heaven!”

“Hmph, Clemens, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Keep this up, and you’ll end up dead from a woman’s embrace…”

While the two guards chatted and smoked, they failed to notice that the rooftop entrance above them had quietly swung open.

In the blink of an eye,

a figure appeared beside them.

Plop!

A gleaming ten-centimeter silver projectile materialized at one guard’s chest, piercing into his torso.

Before the other guard could even react, a pair of hands landed on his chin and the top of his head, twisting him.

Snap!

The guard’s head contorted into a grotesque shape.

Both guards were effortlessly seized by those hands and gently set down on the ground.

Staring at the convulsing bodies on the floor, Xiao Yu’s expression was layered with complexity.

But in an instant, his demeanor turned ice-cold once more.

“Too late for a handshake. In your next life, keep your distance!”

Since crossing over into this parallel world (The King’s Good) and becoming a member of the Dragon Kingdom…

Once Xiao Yu embraced the Dragon Kingdom as his homeland, his one true nation,

nothing existed in his eyes except for the Dragon Kingdom and its people.

Other nations and their citizens were no longer his concern.

Cold-blooded?

No, it was just the mindset of national loyalty.

Spare me that talk of borderlessness.

Ever since the day the term ‘national boundaries’ was coined, it’s been crystal clear.

Looking up at a hidden surveillance camera overhead, Xiao Yu grinned broadly.

He stretched out his hand, flashing a ‘Y’ gesture.

At that very moment, the building’s surveillance system was hacked.

Right after, the entire building plunged into darkness.

Crackle, crackle, pop.

Every emergency light inside flickered on.

Xiao Yu stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

A sinister smile spread across his face, as if he were a demon.

“Little Brother, don’t you dare die—I’m here to save you!”

Wen.

Xue.