After the call ended, Ye Fan immediately received a call from Han Qing'er: "Master, we can't trace the source of the signal; it seems to have been sent using military satellites, and even the communication companies are being interfered with."

"Understood." Ye Fan said with a somber face, "Focus on your own tasks."

Currently, their identities are unknown, only a rough idea that they might be foreigners, with a mission to assassinate Chinese political figures; they are heavily armed... Anything more is unclear. Ye Fan had to personally go to the agreed location to find out more.

When Ye Fan and Lan Jing's car arrived outside the old Hua Hai Road, there wasn't much traffic. Soon a short message came: "Walk to the cross statue and let us see Mr. Ye arriving."

"Lan Jing, come down with me," Ye Fan said.

"Okay." Lan Jing had no doubts about Ye Fan. The two walked step by step to the cross statue, one of the iconic buildings on old Hua Hai Road, like police officers coming to pay a ransom in a kidnapping case. When Ye Fan raised his hand, the phone rang.

"Mr. Ye is very trustworthy, but why did you bring a lady along? Could this lady be your wife Li Zhaojun?"

These people clearly had information on Ye Fan but knew very little about Li Zhaojun, and didn't have her photograph.

Ye Fan scrutinized the surrounding crowd and some buildings in the distance; he knew the person speaking to him was monitoring his movements through cameras.

"That I don't need to explain to you. I can only tell you I haven't alerted the police, so she's not a police officer," Ye Fan replied.

"Haha, of course, we trust Mr. Ye's character because you yourself are a police officer, and if you had reported it, we'd have known." The woman on the other end of the phone was very confident, "Mr. Ye, we know you have some special skills and can even cause great slaughter. Behind you is a bar at No. 17 Old Hua Hai Road, and beneath it is a heavily secured basement, aren't you aware of it?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "I've never been there, how would I know?"

"As a member of the Dragon Group, how could you not have been there? But whether you have or not doesn't matter; what Mr. Ye needs to do now is to go in, kill everyone inside, and bring out a black password-protected suitcase!" The order came from the other side of the phone.

Ye Fan laughed: "Sounds too easy, right? Since you said the place is heavily secured, how on earth could I have the ability to kill everyone in there? You folks seem so capable, why don't you go in yourselves?"

"We could indeed do it ourselves, and perhaps better than Mr. Ye, but we won't get our hands dirty. We want to test Mr. Ye's sincerity! I'm only giving Mr. Ye ten minutes. If you can't return to the cross statue in ten minutes, then Miss Shen Yan will lose a piece of flesh!"

With that, the call ended.

With Ye Fan's current capabilities, storming into a secret intelligence base of the national security system, killing everyone inside, and retrieving a password-protected suitcase was not a difficult task. Even when he only practiced ancient martial arts, it was not a hard thing to do.

But he couldn't do it!

Ye Fan led Lan Jing into the bar. Since it was just approaching noon, the bar had just opened and was pretty empty, with no guests, leaving the bar counter unattended. Ye Fan walked straight in, a young man came out, seemingly the bartender, just about to speak, but with a raise of Ye Fan's hand, the person fell unconscious directly.

Ye Fan sensed his surroundings; there were no spiritual energy entities present, and no cameras were found inside the bar, including the dark and corner areas, indicating the national security people were cautious enough not to set up cameras outside.

There was no way the kidnappers could know his movements inside; he could walk inside openly and take the password-protected suitcase out.

"Lan Jing, conceal your presence, let's walk inside, don't mind seeing people!"

Ye Fan was about to perform an "Invisibility Technique" with Lan Jing, passing through the bar to the area connected to the underground chamber, facing a door with a very high security level. Only Dragon Group members could have the special means to open such a door.

"Hu!" The door opened with Ye Fan's fabricated iris verification.

Ye Fan and Lan Jing stepped inside to find an elevator, with a surveillance camera already within. At this point, the camera captured the images of Ye Fan and Lan Jing, convincing the kidnappers that he indeed entered the underground chamber.

The elevator stopped at the second underground level; this area was transformed from a secret WWII air-raid shelter. To prevent leaks, it was tightly secured underground, full of rooms and passages, but Ye Fan could still use spiritual sense to explore the entire layout below. Shortly, he located the "black password-protected suitcase" mentioned by the kidnappers in the innermost room.

The suitcase wasn't guarded, but it was surrounded by various detection and monitoring devices. Anyone attempting to take it would trigger the alarm system.

It was impossible for Ye Fan to fabricate an identical suitcase on the spot; even with some creation ability, he was not the creator capable of making something rather than illusions. What he needed to do now was disable the surrounding monitoring devices, putting them out of action so that he could take the suitcase away.

This too was not difficult for Ye Fan.

Having not done espionage work for a long time, when he suddenly took it up again, the familiarity came back; even before cultivating immortality, such things were commonplace. Perhaps the kidnappers also relied on some high-level secret channels to know he was part of the Dragon Group, causing them to make him perform this theft. Ye Fan knew the suitcase inside must relate to significant state affairs, its material so unique that he couldn't detect specifics within.

"Unexpectedly, it's a magical artifact." Upon disabling the detectors and picking up the suitcase, Ye Fan couldn't help but exclaim, "No wonder I couldn't detect anything."

The underground chamber was full of people, and according to the kidnappers' demands, he was to kill everyone there, but he would not do so.

Having obtained the suitcase, his task was complete.

"Let's go." Ye Fan communicated with Lan Jing through mental connection, and the two of them walked slowly toward the exit. It wasn't until they were back in the elevator that they revealed their true forms, and by then, Ye Fan already held the suitcase in hand.

Upon returning to the cross statue, the phone rang again, still the woman's voice: "Very well, Mr. Ye indeed possesses extraordinary abilities. Please walk to the street corner; we'll have a vehicle to pick you up shortly and take you to the destination quickly."

Ye Fan and Lan Jing reached the street corner of old Hua Hai Road, where a car indeed pulled over. Two people came out, gesturing for them to proceed.

There was no armed threat; instead, it felt more like an invitation for guests to board the vehicle.

Ye Fan said nothing more and got into the car with Lan Jing, but someone handed over a blindfold, indicating for Ye Fan and Lan Jing to blindfold themselves.

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