Chapter 228: A God-Like Man

A long motorcade sped down the highway toward Las Vegas. The patrol officers along the road were so stunned by the grand formation that none dared to intercept them. At the same time, every vehicle maintained a speed exceeding 120 miles per hour.

Lin Jian, Thomas, Emily, and Dachun sat in the most spacious stretch Cadillac in the middle of the convoy. Dachun continued to relay the intel provided by the three men. How did gang members make their money? It was nothing more than prostitution, gambling, and drugs. The gang those three belonged to only had a branch in San Francisco—it was merely a transit station. Their true headquarters was in Las Vegas, and rumor had it that several massive casinos operated under their umbrella.

The only reason they were able to track this down today was due to the bounty posted by the Black Gloves. One of the three men, a Black guy, had approached the Black Gloves on his own accord. He claimed to know the whereabouts of the Chinese girl but demanded a payout in USD upfront before he spilled anything!

When Thomas and Laine heard this, they scoffed at the idea of paying him a dime. They immediately apprehended the man and extracted a confession through severe torture. He soon gave up his two accomplices and revealed the location of the Chinese girl. Of course, whether this information was accurate, Thomas and his men couldn’t guarantee. But this lead was too crucial. The Chinese girl who had temporarily joined them in the latter half of the night was highly likely to be Ye.

San Francisco was over nine hundred kilometers away from Las Vegas, a journey that normally took about ten hours! However, desperate to save her, Lin Jian ordered the convoy to speed the entire way, allowing them to roll into Las Vegas in just seven and a half hours, right before dawn. Since the three gang members had been to the base before, they led the way. The motorcade slowly came to a halt near a castle on the outskirts of Las Vegas.

Las Vegas—the Desert City, the Gobi City, and famously known as Sin City—was one of the four major gambling capitals of the world! Driven primarily by the gambling industry, it also boasted a highly developed tourism sector and served as the largest city in Nevada. The crime rate here was extraordinarily high, as any place with gambling was inevitably linked to drugs and the sex trade. It was a dark, interconnected supply chain. Consequently, various Influences were entrenched here.

However, neither Lin Jian nor the Black Gloves took the local gangs seriously.

When the convoy parked outside the suburban castle, everyone’s attention was drawn to the electrified high walls. The walls stood a full five meters tall, topped with an electric grid. The large iron gates were massive, and surveillance cameras were installed at intervals of almost every ten meters.

"Boss, this is the place. Should we storm it?" Laine asked excitedly, eager to breach the gates and start a massacre.

At that moment, Lin Jian extended his Thought into the castle to investigate. After scanning for merely a dozen seconds, his brows furrowed tightly. Ye Ziqiu was nowhere to be found within his Thought’s range!

He wondered, "Did we make a mistake?"

But then he took another deep breath as his Thought captured an infuriating scene. Seven or eight burly men were brutalizing an Asian girl!

"They all deserve to die!" he spat.

Witnessing the Asian girl’s heart-rending cries immediately reminded Lin Jian of Ye Ziqiu. If Ye Ziqiu had also been subjected to...

He didn’t dare think any further. He suddenly waved his hand at Sha Shun, and the Ancient Sword Sha Shun was holding instantly flew into his grasp! Sha Shun had scavenged this weapon from an antique shop in Chinatown. Lin Jian knew the sword had to be quite old, and it was incredibly sharp.

Then, as the car door opened, the Ancient Sword suddenly flew out on its own!

HUMMM!

The Ancient Sword transformed into a streak of sword light, disappearing into the hazy twilight of dawn!

At the same time, Lin Jian stepped out of the car. Seeing him exit, all the members of the Black Gloves followed suit. Everyone drew their guns, adopting a posture ready to storm the premises.

However, right at that moment, sporadic gunshots rang out from inside the castle. Just scattered, isolated shots. Everyone was utterly bewildered.

Lin Jian waited in silence. It was only after a full seven or eight minutes had passed that he finally walked toward the large iron gates.

Just as he reached the gates, Sha Shun suddenly stepped ahead of him. Exhaling sharply with a shout, Sha Shun slammed both palms against the iron gates with a thunderous impact!

BOOM!

The latch on the inside of the iron gates bent instantly. However, it didn’t break, nor did the gates fly open.

Sha Shun scratched his head, feeling that his attempt to show off had failed miserably. Fortunately, after he followed up with two more heavy palm strikes, he finally managed to smash the heavy iron gates open!

The members of the Black Gloves all grimaced. Was the guy next to the boss a Vajra? That was way too fierce!

However, as the gates swung open, the inside resembled a ghost town. It was terrifyingly quiet! Scattered corpses littered the courtyard; a few of the bodies had even been decapitated!

As everyone stepped inside, a chilling sensation crept up from the soles of their feet. Even Sha Shun was breaking a sweat!

He understood now! He finally knew! Jian was an Immortal—a true Immortal!

He had used his Ancient Sword to take the heads of everyone here from a thousand miles away... No, wait, a thousand meters away! It was too terrifying, too brutal!

Naturally, Sha Shun wasn’t the only one feeling the chill; everyone else felt it too. The ordinary members of the Black Gloves had no idea what had happened, but Thomas and Emily, who had ridden in the same car as Lin Jian, knew exactly what had transpired. It was that big, goofy guy’s sword. The boss had made that sword fly out on its own to slaughter everyone here!

What kind of Superpower was this? This... this was the work of a god!

At this moment, Thomas only wanted to kneel and worship Lin Jian. As for Emily, she just wanted to use her most prized body to serve this god-like man!