As soon as he appeared in the secret room, Chen Feng immediately found something wrong. Because everything in his room had been moved. He remembered the location of everything in his room by heart.
As long as it was moved, he could tell at a glance .
Chen Feng immediately took out a pistol from his bag, then slowed down his movements and slowly walked towards the door of the secret room.
The lock of the secret room door was broken, and it was obvious that someone had forced their way in.
Before he left the secret room, Chen Feng heard faint conversation coming from the entrance of the abandoned mine in the distance.
"Is such a small sect like the Xingfeng Sect really worth sending so many of us out? I wonder what the boss is thinking."
"Shh! Keep your voice down. If the boss hears you, you're doomed."
"I heard the Xingfeng Sect's leader is quite powerful. The second-in-command died at his hands. That's why the boss summoned all of us. We should be careful."
"If he truly is an innate master, would he need to establish a sect in our Black Wind Village?"
"I don't think Chen Feng is an innate master at all. He's probably already fled. How could he possibly come back?"
Overhearing the conversation outside, Chen Feng's face darkened. He hadn't expected the Black Wind Village to act so quickly.
His plan to stall for time hadn't lasted long.
And judging by the current situation, the entire Xingfeng Sect might have already been captured by the Black Wind Village.
He hadn't expected He Sandao's decisiveness, which clearly showed how difficult this man was to deal with.
Chen Feng began donning his bulletproof vest in the room. He didn't dare be careless against an innate master.
Furthermore, with so many bandits in Black Wind Village this time, he would be in danger if surrounded.
After donning his body armor, Chen Feng strapped his sniper rifle to his back and slowly opened the stone door.
Through the crack in the stone door, he saw six Black Wind Village bandits guarding the abandoned mine's exit in the distance.
He glanced at the pistol in his hand—a Taran with an extended magazine, holding twenty-one rounds.
Chen Feng mentally calculated his firing sequence.
Chen Feng's marksmanship was decent; he'd occasionally practice at the Eagle Sauce shooting range when he bought a gun.
After mentally calculating his actions, Chen Feng pushed open the stone door and slowly groped his way toward the mine's exit.
He chose not to fire from a distance because he feared detection.
If they shouted, it would be troublesome.
The secret room was less than a hundred meters from the mine's entrance, and soon Chen Feng had reached it.
The bandits hadn't considered the danger within the mine; their attention was focused on the outside.
Their leader had been inside the mine before, and they subconsciously assumed it was empty.
Chen Feng crouched, taking advantage of the darkness within the mine to quickly close in on the bandits.
He was now only about five meters away. This was already incredibly close, so he didn't move any closer.
While these warriors weren't at a high level, they were incredibly sharp and would likely be detected if he got too close.
Chen Feng aimed his pistol at the nearest bandit and pulled the trigger.
He was using burst mode, which allowed for an extremely rapid rate of fire, and the silencer made the sound muffled.
Chen Feng's firing was so rapid that in mere seconds, three bandits were shot and fell to the ground.
The remaining three didn't react until their companions collapsed, but they were already dead.
Almost as soon as Chen Feng had finished off the three closest to him, he turned his gun and pulled the trigger on the others.
Gunfire rang out again, killing two of the bandits instantly with bullets to the chest. Another, struck in both legs, fell to his knees.
Chen Feng immediately stepped forward, pressing his gun to the head of the bandit, who had been shot in both legs, while covering his mouth with his hand.
"Don't talk, don't move!"
The man Chen Feng had left behind was the weakest of the group.
He estimated he was only at the second level of the Acquired Realm.
He kept him alive because he wanted to question him.
With Chen Feng's gun pressed against his head, the bandit was terrified. Although he didn't know what was pressing against his head, he didn't dare to move.
He had just been chatting with his companions, but in just a dozen seconds, they were all lying in a pool of blood. He didn't even know what method the man who suddenly appeared in front of him used to kill people.
Thinking of the previous rumors about the leader of the Xingfeng Sect being an innate master, and the inexplicable deaths of his companions, he immediately thought that the other party should be Chen Feng, the leader of the Xingfeng Sect.
But he couldn't figure out why Chen Feng appeared behind them.
After controlling the bandit in front of him, Chen Feng looked around and found that there were no other bandits near the entrance of the abandoned mine.
But there was no guarantee that someone would come to check, so he had to hurry.
"I ask, you answer. If you dare to shout, I guarantee that you will not live to see the moment you make a sound!"
Chen Feng's eyes were cold. After more than a year of experience in the scroll world, Chen Feng, who was not a warrior, also had a murderous aura.
The bandit immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Chen Feng released his hand and asked,
"How many people have come from Black Wind Village? What's the situation at Xingfeng Sect now?"
The bandit gasped for air, then quickly replied,
"All the brothers from the village are here. The leader has even called in a friend who is a Xiantian master to help. They're currently at the Xingfeng Sect headquarters."
The bandit quickly revealed everything.
For a small-time bandit like him, loyalty was almost nonexistent.
Chen Feng frowned slightly. He Sandao alone was already difficult to deal with, and now another Xiantian had appeared.
At this moment, Chen Feng was tempted to abandon Xingfeng Sect.
Self-preservation and caution had always been his motto. But if he abandoned this place, he would have to return in secret.
Having arrived in this world through the scroll, he could only appear in the secret room of an abandoned mine.
Furthermore, he had just collaborated with the government, and if he couldn't produce the ore, he would be in trouble.
After a moment of deep thought, Chen Feng decided to give it a try.
If he couldn't defeat He Sandao and the other Xiantian, he would return to the modern world and find another way.
The bandit's underling begged Chen Feng for mercy,
"Master Chen, please spare me! I was forced to join the Black Wind Village, and I have an eighty-year-old mother at home."
Without waiting for the man to finish his words, Chen Feng pulled the trigger. The bandit's underling fell silent.
Chen Feng didn't believe a single word he said.
He knew countless lives had been taken by bandits who had made it to the Black Wind Village; none of them were good.
As for the eighty-year-old mother, what did that have to do with him?
Chen Feng showed no mercy to his enemies. He reloaded his pistol and left the mine.
At the entrance to the Xingfeng Sect headquarters, Wang Hu was being forced to kneel before He Sandao by several men. He had been captured by the Black Wind Village bandits.
Wang Hu had been helping his mother chop firewood when the Black Wind Village bandits arrived.
To avoid implicate his mother, Wang Hu offered no resistance.
He now glared angrily at a nearby Xingfeng Sect warrior.
It was this man who had led the Black Wind Village bandits to his home.
Only a handful of people knew his home address, and most of them were his brothers who had been through thick and thin with him.
Now that he'd been betrayed, one can imagine his fury.
Stared at by Wang Hu's furious gaze, the Xingfeng Sect warrior lowered his head and dared not speak.
He Sandao sized Wang Hu up and down, then said with a smile, "Are you Wang Hu? At thirty years old, you've reached the seventh level of acquired talent, which is quite impressive."
Wang Hu remained silent. He knew why the Black Wind Village was looking for him, and the current situation within the Xingfeng Sect explained everything.
(End of this chapter)