Chapter 59: Secret Agent of the Dragon Unit!

He realized that he and his companions were entirely within Duan Lingxiao's control!
Like the Monkey King who could never escape the Buddha's palm.
Endless, eternally unable to escape!

"Clap!"
Duan Lingxiao's figure was only a single step away from the two of them.
He suddenly reached out and grabbed their shoulders.
The two wanted to break free, but their shoulders felt as though they had rusted over.
Firmly clamped down, unmoving.

"Boom!"
Duan Lingxiao applied a slight amount of force, and the two felt as if Mount Tai was pressing down upon their heads, impossible to resist.
Their legs trembled, and they abruptly collapsed straight to the ground.
As for their shoulders, they were already a bloody, mangled mess!

"Speak, which faction are you from?"
Duan Lingxiao looked down from above and asked indifferently.
"We are... assassins from the Underworld Hall."
"The Underworld Hall?"
Duan Lingxiao naturally knew of the Underworld Hall; it was one of the top ten assassin organizations in the Dragon Kingdom.
Its ranking was slightly higher than the Assassin Pavilion.
Yet their overall strength was roughly the same.

"Yes, exactly. We were merely following orders. The Hong Kong He family has issued a bounty, and the assassins coming to assassinate you will surely be endless. We heard that super assassins from both home and abroad have successively taken action."
"Right here in our Dragon Kingdom, assassins of the caliber of Black Dragon, Life Chaser, and the Purple-White Twins have already made their move."
"As long as you don't kill us, your whereabouts will definitely not be exposed. Furthermore, we can pretend to release false information, telling the outside world that you were successfully assassinated by us."
"That way, these super assassins won't come after you for the time being."
The assassin in black spoke in rapid succession.

"Oh, I see."
"However, it is unnecessary."
Duan Lingxiao said faintly.

"Don't be rash! Super assassins of the caliber of Black Dragon, Life Chaser, and the Purple-White Twins possess terrifying strength. I know you are a martial master tier expert, but every single one of them has slain martial master powerhouses with their own hands. If you are careless, you will surely die at their hands."
The assassin in black spoke in a hurry, explaining the gravity of the stakes to Duan Lingxiao.

"That is not something you need to worry about."
With that, Duan Lingxiao moved to finish off the two of them.
Right at that moment, a sharp, fierce gale came hurtling through the air!
It was a bullet!
However, the bullet was not aimed at him!
Nor was it aimed at the assassin in black!
Instead, it whirred past them.

"Stop! Leave them alive, I have questions to ask!"
At that very instant, an icy voice rang out.
Following closely, under the shroud of the night, a nimble and agile figure appeared.

"Crack!"
Duan Lingxiao ignored the voice.
He directly reached out and snapped the necks of the two assassins in black.
What a joke!
They had come to assassinate him, yet someone actually expected him to show mercy.
What kind of ridiculous nonsense was that?

"You have a lot of nerve!"
Just then, the person who spoke arrived within ten meters of Duan Lingxiao. Seeing this scene, her expression instantly turned furious.
"Did you not hear me tell you to stop?!"
"How dare you defy my orders?!"

The speaker directly raised the firearm in her hand, taking direct aim at Duan Lingxiao.
"A woman?"
Duan Lingxiao looked at the newcomer.
It turned out to be a female.
Though she was not wearing tight clothing, it still failed to conceal her exquisite and slender figure, her graceful and alluring curves.
The swell of her chest was like a tsunami in the Pacific, possessing the capital to look down upon everything.
Especially her pair of eyes, which carried a hint of temptation amidst their cold detachment.
Any man who laid eyes upon her would simultaneously feel a sense of inadequacy and a fierce desire for conquest.

"Speak!"
Seeing that Duan Lingxiao remained silent and was instead sizing her up,
the woman's face flashed with anger as she sternly rebuked.

"I don't like people pointing guns at me while they talk."
Duan Lingxiao said indifferently.
As his voice fell,
his figure shifted, and in the next instant, he had already appeared right in front of the woman.
The distance was less than thirty centimeters.

"You!!"
The woman was greatly startled, hurriedly moving to pivot the muzzle of her gun.
Snap!
Duan Lingxiao reached out and grabbed it, directly crushing and kneading her handgun into a pile of scrap metal.
"What?!!"
The woman's face turned pale.
Her standard-issue firearm was standard equipment for the Dragon Team, differing from ordinary guns as heaven differs from earth.
To put it simply, if ordinary guns were made of iron, her firearm was forged from refined steel.
Yet it had been crumpled into a lump of scrap metal just like that.
Incredible!
Just how immense must that strength be?
While she was still engulfed in profound shock, Duan Lingxiao's palm had already clamped onto her jade-white neck.
Lifting her up into the air.

"What are you trying to do?"
The woman's expression changed, and she spoke in a hurried voice.
"You barged into my home holding a gun and even dared to interrogate me. What do you suppose I'm going to do?"
"Even if I kill you right now, it would be considered justifiable self-defense."
Duan Lingxiao said coldly.

"You... actually dare to kill me?"
"I am a member of the Dragon Team! I am a state public servant!"
The woman found it unbelievable.
The status of the Dragon Team within the Dragon Kingdom was exceptionally lofty; it was the core and earliest established special operations force of the nation.
Many critical missions were carried out by the Dragon Team.
Whether domestically or internationally, the Dragon Team wielded immense influence.
Consequently, members of the Dragon Team possessed a vast degree of autonomy while executing missions.
Local administrative departments, police systems, legal institutions, and the like all had to yield and serve them.
Yet Duan Lingxiao had brazenly claimed he would kill her?
Was he out of his mind?!

"Dragon Team? How do you prove it?"
Duan Lingxiao frowned slightly.
Naturally, he was well aware of the Dragon Team. Back when he served in the military, the ultimate aspiration of many soldiers was to join the Dragon Team.
To become a member of the Dragon Team!
He had once shared that ambition himself.
However, he later chose to temper himself within the regular armed forces, rising step by step to earn military honors and titles of nobility.

"How to prove it? This is our internal communication channel. If you know your stuff, you'll recognize it at a glance."
With that, the woman displayed a wristwatch on her wrist.
She tapped rapidly on the watch face a few times.
Swish!
Instantly, the watch illuminated brightly.
A floating window materialized.
An encrypted verification window appeared upon it.
"Facial recognition, iris verification, successful!"
A mechanical voice sounded, and the next moment, a screen appeared.
Rows of information manifested upon it.
"An Ruoqing, female, twenty-four years old, member of Dragon Team Squad A, ID number A101987, active-duty personnel..."
"See that? I am a member of the Dragon Team, genuine and authentic!"
"I came here to investigate!"
"If you kill me, you will be making an enemy of the entire Dragon Team!"
The woman frowned as she spoke, her voice chillingly cold.
Clearly, she had regained a certain measure of confidence.
However, Duan Lingxiao still did not release his grip from her neck.

"Tell me, what is your specific purpose for coming here?"
Duan Lingxiao asked.
"Our Dragon Team received intelligence that numerous assassin organizations both at home and abroad are waiting for an opportunity, preparing a series of assassination missions with you as the target. Therefore, to preserve social stability, we came specially to investigate and mitigate safety risks."
The woman said, answering in a thoroughly bureaucratic manner.

"I'm afraid that apart from dealing with the threat of these assassin organizations, you also wanted to deal with me, didn't you?"
Duan Lingxiao smiled faintly.
Upon hearing Duan Lingxiao's words, An Ruoqing's expression shifted slightly, tinged with a trace of surprise.
For what Duan Lingxiao had spoken was indeed the truth.
Duan Lingxiao had wreaked havoc and slaughtered extensively across Jiangnan and Jiangbei, causing immense upheaval.
Naturally, these circumstances had not escaped the notice of the Dragon Team.
For the very nature of the Dragon Team's work was to monitor social risks and maintain public security.
In particular, they were tasked with safeguarding the stability between ordinary society and the martial arts world.
They could neither allow ordinary people to become overly aware of the martial arts world, nor could they allow the martial arts world to excessively disrupt the lives of ordinary people.
And Duan Lingxiao was entirely a dangerous element.
Killing without restraint, heedless of consequences and utterly reckless.
Naturally, he had drawn the attention of the Dragon Team.

"That's right, this operation was also directed at you!"
An Ruoqing stated aloud.