CHAPTER 575: CHAPTER 539: TEN MOVES

Pacific Ocean, near the Melanesian Islands.

On a small island that you absolutely couldn’t find on a satellite map, there was a modernized military base.

Inside the base, besides the elite mercenaries stationed there year round, there was also a group of authoritative experts in the fields of biopharmaceuticals, human kinetics, human biology, and medicine conducting experiments.

This was the rear experimental base of the Le Yuan Biopharmaceutical Group, as well as the headquarters of the underground organization "Le Yuan"!

Underground laboratory, tenth level.

Victor, who had covertly observed Wu Li at the Combat World Cup and even ordered an ambush on him, stepped out of the elevator and stopped in front of the massive steel doors ahead to undergo facial recognition and iris scanning.

Soon, the door opened.

After passing through a corridor, Victor arrived at a second door and began to input a password.

Passing through the second door, not far ahead was the third door, where Victor pressed a button outside.

Quickly, a voice came through:

"Victor, what’s the matter?"

Victor looked up at the camera ahead and succinctly said, "Boss, Paul is dead."

There was silence on the other side of the door for a moment, then with a ’buzz’, the door in front of Victor slowly opened.

Inside was a vast space with a pristine floor, bright incandescent lights, and various large experimental equipment.

Victor walked in silently. As he passed a cylindrical glass vessel, he saw the naked body of a man immersed within it with dark skin and strong muscles. It was Siti, the man who had led the Thailand Team in the Combat World Cup and had injured Zhao Lixin!

Clearly, this was not Victor’s first time here, nor was it his first time seeing this, so he passed by without expression and continued forward.

And ahead, there were many glass vessels containing people, many of whom were famous powerhouses in the Martial Arts World!

Victor walked for about three minutes, and a figure appeared ahead of him.

Dressed in a white lab coat with short, silver-white hair, his back to Victor, he was sitting in front of a computer looking at data.

After hearing footsteps, the person turned around. It was a man wearing glasses who looked very much like a scientific researcher, only much younger, around twenty-five at most.

He was the leader of Le Yuan.

"How did Paul die?" the boss asked.

Victor replied, "In Tokyo, someone lured out Wu Li. They shot from a kilometer away, missed, Wu Li chased them down, and was ultimately killed by Wu Li in an underground parking lot. Here’s the surveillance footage."

After speaking, he passed over a USB drive.

The boss took the USB drive and turned to plug it into the computer port.

There was only one video in the USB drive, which the boss clicked to play:

On the empty street, Wu Li moved quickly and nimbly.

The surveillance equipment along the way was clearly pre-installed; the image was very clear and from multiple angles.

The video was short, less than two minutes, and the boss played it several times, carefully reviewing each angle.

"Nearly perfect!"

"We must bring him to the laboratory!"

The boss watched Wu Li on the screen with a fanatic gleam in his eyes.

Upon hearing these words, the always cold-faced Victor’s expression subtly changed, and he said with some difficulty, "Boss, even Paul has died at his hands. Unless we use a large-scale force to encircle him, we likely can’t handle him."

After a pause, Victor continued, "But with the support of Hua Country’s intelligence system behind him, it’s unlikely we can mobilize a large number of people without alerting him."

The boss turned to look at Victor, "No need to act for now, let everyone maintain silence."

Victor: "Boss, Wu Li has now declared war on us on behalf of the majority of the Chinese community. If we don’t act against him, we can’t continue with our plans."

The boss said without hesitation, "The plan is on hold."

Victor’s eyes widened with surprise.

To think that for the previous plan, "Le Yuan" had already invested too much manpower and resources, and they were supposed to just stop like that?

The leader turned to look at the screen, staring at the image of Wu Li, "He alone is more useful than all the Martial Artists of the Chinese organizations put together!"

Victor remained silent. Wu Li was indeed the key to the problem, but he didn’t know how to deal with Wu Li now.

"The results of the Seventh Rank experiment will be out soon," the leader suddenly proclaimed.

Victor was first startled, then overjoyed, "That’s wonderful! Congratulations, leader!"

He suddenly realized a problem and tentatively asked, "Are you going to take action personally?"

A smile appeared on the leader’s face, "Of course, I will personally invite him to join my plan!"

...

December 20, South Africa.

East Cape, Hua Jian Security’s training facility.

Zhang Daolong stood expressionlessly in the training ground, watching the students in front of him train.

Half a year ago, his resolve had been shaken by Wu Li right here. In order to affirm his conviction to win and to restore his Fist Intent to its peak state, he had left South Africa and went into seclusion back in Hua Country.

During the six months, Zhang Daolong cut off all outside information, focusing solely on adjusting his mindset and Fist Intent, and had people collect all of Wu Li’s past data and footage of his fights, studying them intently until he recently came out of seclusion.

This time, he was confident that he had an absolute assurance of defeating Wu Li. So with this belief of certain victory, he came to South Africa, not to find Wu Li, but to learn about Wu Li’s actions over the past six months:

He participated in the Hongmen Family Reunion, easily defeating Hongmen’s top fighter Bai Tao in the face of a group of Hongmen heavyweights!

He was targeted for assassination by three top ten Assassins from the Underworld Killer List, along with a Dark Clown, yet ended up single-handedly annihilating them all!

He openly challenged "Le Yuan", visited organizations like the Green Gang and Hua Qing, and subdued the top fighters of various organizations!

He accepted the challenge of the Island Country’s Sword Saint and slew the Sword Saint in battle!

He subdued a whole nation on his own, conquering the Island Country Martial Arts World!

And finally, he killed the God of Guns, Paul!

Each of these events, taken on their own, would be a tale to delight people for more than a decade. Zhang Daolong was secretly shocked, not to mention that all these were done by the same person.

"World’s No.1?"

Zhang Daolong looked ahead, lost in thought. He still couldn’t accept it. Was it possible that in just six months, Wu Li had really become the World’s No.1 fighter?!

He was known as the "Grandmaster of the Inner Circle," and had always prided himself on it, but "Grandmaster of the Inner Circle" was utterly unworthy of pride in front of the "World’s No.1".

"Should I have chosen to directly challenge him back then, instead of choosing to seclude myself in my home country?"

Zhang Daolong couldn’t help but ask himself over and over again, his feelings were indescribable.

"Hmm?"

He suddenly turned his head, seeing a silver-haired, bespectacled white man slowly approaching.

The man was dressed in a white lab coat, hands tucked into the pockets on either side, looking every bit like he had just stepped out of a laboratory.

"Who are you?"

Zhang Daolong asked with a frown, since this training facility was surrounded by numerous security personnel, with several visible and hidden sentry posts. However, this man had managed to approach him without alerting anyone, indicating that he was far from ordinary. Yet, Zhang Daolong couldn’t fathom his depth.

Knowing Zhang Daolong’s Grandmaster Level skills and discernment, it was extremely rare for him to not see someone’s depth. Even Wu Li, who he had faced in the past, had given him some clues, but this man in front of him seemed like just an ordinary science researcher.

The newcomer was the leader of "Le Yuan", who watched Zhang Daolong with a smile.

"Ten moves—if you’re still alive after ten moves, you’ll be worthy to know my name."

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