After entering the secret door, Huoshan saw an interlayer space barely a meter high and a little over ten centimeters wide.

This was a small hidden room Huoshan had specially prepared for himself after moving into this apartment.

Since its completion, Huoshan had never used the small hidden room even once.

The space in this hidden room was extremely small, only enough to hide a single teddy bear like him.

But precisely because of this, this small hidden room was very difficult to discover. After entering it now, Huoshan felt a slight sense of relief and was immensely grateful for his decision to build this small hidden room in the first place.

Huoshan then opened his phone, quickly sent a message to Song Xu, urging his followers to come and protect him quickly.

“Damn it, if they were usually in the city, they’d be here in no time.”

“But this time, they’re all in the suburbs…”

Just then, Huoshan’s body stiffened slightly; he heard some movement inside the apartment.

“Did someone come in?”

Then it sounded like someone was rummaging through things in the room.

Huoshan quickly peered out through a crack in the interlayer and saw a stranger rummaging through things in the room.

“A neighbor taking advantage of the chaos?”

“Or is someone… looking for me?”

After sending the message to Song Xu, Huoshan quickly muted his phone and then dared not make any unnecessary movements. Like a real doll, he lay quietly in the interlayer space, not making a sound.

Meanwhile, inside Huoshan’s apartment.

Zhang Yu, disguised as a stranger and wearing a hood, quickly searched the room.

But the room was so cluttered and full of things that Zhang Yu felt it would be impossible to finish searching without several hours.

Fu Ji said, “He must be hiding in this room.”

“But every evil god can manifest in different forms. It could be a toy, stationery, a pen, a glove, a necklace…”

“There’s definitely no time to search for them one by one now.”

“Smash it! Smash everything in the room as fast as you can; you’ll definitely find him!”

Layers of Formless Cloud Aura suddenly surged around Zhang Yu.

However, to conceal the characteristics of his attack, before activating the Formless Cloud Aura, he had already activated the Great Sun Qi Sea.

With the absorption of light, the Formless Cloud Aura spewing from Zhang Yu appeared pitch black, like rolling dark clouds, striking everything in front of it.

A series of smashing sounds echoed one after another.

However, this amount of noise was fairly common in this old apartment building with its many residents; mixed with the sounds of arguments, music, and videos from other floors, it didn’t attract much attention.

Inside the interlayer, Huoshan looked through the crack, watching things constantly being smashed outside, and his heart tightened.

He knew that if it were a neighbor taking advantage of the chaos, they wouldn’t come to his home just to smash things indiscriminately.

This act of smashing things sent a chill down his spine: “They really are looking for me, aren’t they?”

And thinking about all the electronic products, game consoles, computers, figures, models he had bought, all being constantly smashed, Huoshan felt his heart bleeding.

“Damn it… smashing up my home?”

“Are you bullying evil gods because they dare not call the police?!”

“Just you wait!”

Huoshan quickly pressed his phone, once again urging Song Xu and his group to come quickly to his rescue.

A short while ago.

Inside the abandoned building in the suburbs.

After a thorough investigation with flying swords revealed no abnormalities.

Song Xu and five other followers entered the abandoned building from various different points.

“Nothing here.”

A follower frowned and said, “Is the information correct? Or is the timing wrong?”

Song Xu frowned and said, “Something feels off; let’s pull back first.”

Just as the six of them, including Song Xu, were leaving the abandoned building, a beam of light suddenly shone on them.

Two security guards looked at them and said, “You six! What are you doing? Stealing things late at night, are you?”

“Do you know this is company property?”

Song Xu glanced at the Ten Thousand Miles Group uniform worn by the security guards and thought to himself, “Is this building owned by Ten Thousand Miles Group? An abandoned building also has guards? This response is too fast, isn’t it?”

Thinking this, the bad premonition in Song Xu’s heart grew stronger.

As for assaulting the security guards in front of them? Or rushing out directly?

The six of them, including Song Xu, dared not do that. After all, these security guards represented the company behind them, and they wore cameras that were constantly connected to the network.

In the eyes of the six evil god followers, these two security guards were far more dangerous and troublesome than other evil gods.

After all, when fighting another evil god, even if they fought until they were covered in blood, neither side dared to call the police; they would just fight in silence.

But if they hit the security guards in front of them, they feared they wouldn’t be able to escape the company’s lawsuit, no matter where they ran.

Especially among the six, including Song Xu, there were two food delivery followers and one courier follower. The moment they saw the security guards, they immediately felt weak. Let alone fighting, they bowed their heads, not even daring to talk back.

Song Xu sighed inwardly, knowing they were suffering from an occupational hazard. He could only step forward and say, “We didn’t steal anything. If you don’t believe us, you can check.”

The security guard, holding an electric baton, said, “We received a report that someone was stealing construction materials here. All of you, come with me first to register your information.”

The construction worker follower pulled out a “Dao Heart Buffer” and smilingly handed it over, saying, “Brothers, we just accidentally ran in here while night jogging. We really didn’t take anything…”

The security guard slapped his hand away and angrily rebuked, “Who are your ‘brothers’? Come with me to register!”

The six evil god followers were angry but dared not speak, and could only patiently keep explaining.

The lead security guard became increasingly arrogant. Even though there were six of them, he had the entire company behind him. How could these six people, who clearly looked like paupers, possibly contend with that?

Especially with his decades of experience as a security guard, these guys clearly exuded the aura of couriers, food delivery riders, and construction workers. It was only right that he suppress them.

As the two sides were entangled, Song Xu touched his phone, which had vibrated several times, finally took it out to check, and his expression suddenly changed. He thought to himself, “Huoshan was reported?”

“Pirated cultivation methods?”

“Someone is looking for Huoshan?”

Recalling the day’s events, it was as if a bolt of lightning exploded in Song Xu’s mind, followed by a flash of intense anger in his heart.

“Evil gods fighting among themselves, and they’re even resorting to reporting? And calling the constables?!”

“The opposing evil god has no respect for the rules!”

Song Xu suddenly glared at the two security guards in front of him, knowing he couldn’t afford to be delayed here any longer.

The other five followers nearby sensed a change in Song Xu’s demeanor, and all turned to look at him.

The six exchanged glances, and their demeanor suddenly changed.

If they had been timid and subservient just moments ago when facing the security guards, now they suddenly straightened up.

“No more delays. Then there’s only one option…”

Song Xu’s figure suddenly flashed. With one hand, he blocked the security guard’s camera, and with the other, he extended it in front of the security guard, saying, “Brother, the company’s well-being isn’t your well-being. How about a little flexibility?”

The security guard looked at the several thousand yuan tucked into his hand, and his attitude instantly softened.

Song Xu sneered inwardly, “Hmph, just two company security guards. I was just reluctant to spend money earlier, which is why I tried to explain nicely.”

“Now I’m in a hurry, no time for explanations!”

While Song Xu and his group were entangled with the security guards.

Bai Zhenzhen was watching the footage streamed from the surveillance software on her phone.

Ever since Song Xu and his five followers entered the abandoned building, Bai Zhenzhen had been continuously watching the surveillance footage.

She thought to herself, “Good thing the surveillance cameras I placed yesterday are working. They weren’t cheap, though.”

Considering power, network connectivity, and clarity, the surveillance cameras, batteries, and network cards Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu had hidden in the abandoned building had cost them several thousand yuan in total.

But it was indeed worth the money. Bai Zhenzhen looked at Song Xu’s appearance and immediately recognized his identity.

“It’s him!”

Over half a year ago, when Bai Zhenzhen tried to investigate the leader of the Pauper Alliance, she had screened out several suspected individuals from White Dragon High School.

And Song Xu was one of them. Bai Zhenzhen still had his photos and information saved on her phone.

“Are they leaving?”

Bai Zhenzhen saw the security guards confronting the six, including Song Xu, and she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

“Ten Thousand Miles Group’s response is quite swift. They came so quickly?”

It was Bai Zhenzhen who made the call, reporting suspected steel rebar theft in the abandoned building, which attracted the Ten Thousand Miles Group’s security guards.

However, Bai Zhenzhen knew that these two security guards could be dealt with for a few thousand or ten thousand yuan at most, so she immediately sent a message to Zhang Yu to warn him.

Bai Zhenzhen: They’re about to leave the abandoned building. Speed up.

Bai Zhenzhen: I recognized one of them as Song Xu. I’m sending you his information.

A moment later, when Bai Zhenzhen looked at the surveillance footage again, Song Xu and his five followers had successfully escaped the security guards and left the abandoned building.

However, Bai Zhenzhen wasn’t too worried.

She opened her navigation software and looked at the route from the abandoned building to the evil god’s apartment, seeing that the roads were already marked red.

“Heh heh,” she thought, “this timing and location weren’t chosen randomly by me and Zhang Yu.”

“It’s currently the midnight rush hour, and the roads leading here are congested.”

“That should delay them a bit longer, right?”

Inside the apartment.

Zhang Yu looked at the message from Bai Zhenzhen and thought to himself, “Are they coming back?”

He glanced at Song Xu’s information, then looked up at the various furniture pieces he had already smashed, his brows furrowing.

“Why are there so many things in this dump?”

Zhang Yu looked at the chaotic mess of various items: clothes possibly for pets, massage pillows, rows of sneakers, detergents, figures, models…

“It’s practically a landfill.”

Meanwhile, in the interlayer, after watching Zhang Yu continue smashing for another ten minutes or so through the crack, Huoshan felt a pang of heartache, but also immense relief, thinking, “Who the hell said I bought too much junk? If I hadn’t bought so many things, how could I have delayed them for so long?”

Fu Ji, seeing Zhang Yu smash so many things without finding the evil god, reminded him, “Something doesn’t feel right.”

“Could there be a secret room in this dilapidated apartment? Or an interlayer or something?”

Zhang Yu frowned and said, “Do I have to smash the walls?”

Fu Ji said, “Smashing walls would draw too much attention. Neighbors might call the property management.”

Just then, Zhang Yu’s phone vibrated, with a message from Bai Zhenzhen.

Zhang Yu knew that Bai Zhenzhen had been keeping watch for him in the alley downstairs while monitoring the abandoned building. The message she sent must be important, so he immediately picked up his phone to read it.

Bai Zhenzhen: They’re here!

Bai Zhenzhen: Retreat quickly!

Zhang Yu’s eyes narrowed. “That fast?!”

Bai Zhenzhen: Hurry! They’re too fast! If you don’t leave now, it’ll be too late.

Looking at the pile of junk in front of him, Zhang Yu scoffed, seemingly with a strong sense of unwillingness, and left the room.