Xero had always felt that Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal, the owner of the group, was a mystical person. There were two impressions which the old members had of this person.
First, Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal, who travelled all year round, was not only acknowledgeable, but also a funny advocate. As long as it was cultivation gossip, he knew all the details. Whose furnace exploded, whose beast got f**ked, whose kid fell into a cave and found an ancient magic weapon... Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal could turn these into idle conversation.
Second, Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal loved to court disaster. He was a very nosy person and Xero felt that he gave a sense of brotherhood; no matter how big or small a matter was, as long as someone asked for help and could pay a corresponding fee, Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal would help no doubt. Xero knew him to be a man of justice. The incident that left the deepest impression on him was when Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal had once accepted one HNY from whose whole family was murdered to ensure their silence — without hesitating to think twice, he had shown up to the underground bunker and killed all of the people involved in the murder with his bare hands.
The reason why Xero was looking for Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal, was to ask if he knew anything about the spirit mask. If he wanted to get information, he was the best bet.
While the group was engaged in a lovely chat, Qinlian Zhenren suddenly said, "It's rare for Zhang Zhizhen to be online. Too bad that the owner isn't present at the moment."
Xero was shocked. "..." Based on his understanding of this chatterbox who liked to post trivial questions and matters whenever he had the time, even if they switched to a new group, for him to not show up for a few days was really worrying.
Had he encountered something bad?
While Xero pondered in his heart, Nine Stars sighed. "For real! Group owner hasn't been online for a long time! It's been about three to six days!"
Xero was very clear on how strong Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal truly was; he was much stronger than Old Yu, hence how he was able to travel where he pleases. Aside, he also had his ancestral weapon, "Cloudburst Launcher," it's effect was way more powerful than a missile and also had a stun effect. Even if his immortal strength was flagging, he would still be able to use his "rocket launcher" to ensure that he would escape easily.
"Has anyone gotten any info?" Qinlian Zhenren asked.
She clearly knew that Zhang Zhizhen wouldn't have shown up if it wasn't urgent. But it had almost been a week that the whereabouts about the owner Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal was unknown for and she was understandably worried.
Immortal Tianya pondered for a moment before asking, "Does anyone remember the last message Sage Immortal sent in this group?"
Xuelang Sword Immortal: "Senior Sage Immortal said that one of his brothers-in-arms had a lab which was suddenly destroyed and he had also lost his memory, so he didn't know who the hell did it. So, Senior Sage Immortal said that he wanted to get justice and find whoever did it. We haven't heard from him since."
"..." Hmm... Xero felt as if that situation was a lot more familiar.
Before he could digest the information, Xuelang Sword Immortal sent another message, "This is actually pretty embarrassing. His brother specialises in cyberintelligence."
"So, hacker then?" asked Storm Sovereign.
Storm Sovereign had always been someone who had unusual interest in other people's habits. Over the years, he had used his own storm energy to cure degenerate youngsters who had been addicted to certain types of video games. Moreover, every one of them ended up being promoted to worthless idiot to Foundation Establishment. It was said that this was the result of Storm Sovereign electrocuting them into it.
"Yup." Xuelang Sword Immortal nodded. "From what I've heard, Senior Sage Immortal 's brother was investigating some old senior. Then that person single handedly destroyed the entire lab... there was also remnants of a ray gun apparently called, The inconspicuous toxic ray gun jet of the Angstrom Head...?"
Looking at the chat window, Xero facepalmed and sighed in his heart.
Xuelang Sword Immortal seemed to have special knowledge about the situation. "The ray gun was amazing, it's said that Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal had made parts of it and gave it to his brother to finish. He had made it in order to destroy the headquarters of the crime milk gang."
"Crime milk gang?" Just then, Qinlian Zhenren also remembered something. "I had heard from Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal that there was a gang that specialised in selling milk powder disguised as cocaine. The group scams those in the general population that can't cultivate by saying that after babies inhale the powder, they'll be promoted to Foundation Establishment."
The full name of this fake milk powder gang was Seraph Marrow and its members were called the Seraph Milk Powder Gang. Xero had recently heard about it on his way to school.
Although Seraph Marrow wasn't that strong overall, what was frightening about them was their milk powder pyramid scam scheme; they had only appeared for five months, but their crime rate and member count was rising up the ranks than most criminal organisations and was soaring like crazy. Apart from the Shadow Emblem Terrorist Organisation, they were the only gang in which the cultivation police had felt compelled to issue an arrest warrant for, which showed how serious the country was concerning this matter.
Moreover, many people believed that if their capabilities weren't effectively suppressed, the yellow order would most definitely upgrade into a red order, the same for Shadow Emblem.
It should be pointed out that people who were cheated into buying the fake milk powder… had been f**ked over the Earth twice over!
Listening to the group conversation, Xero was lost deep in thought. He admitted that he went a little overboard; Uncle Crisis had only been doing the Akira family a favour in return for what they had done for him and had no malicious intent. Instead, Xero had destroyed his lab and made way for criminals to wreak havoc…
He sighed in his heart. Later on, he would have to think of a way to make it up to Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal and that Little Crisis.
Apologise face to face? Hell no…
Given the current buzz about the milk powder scandal, all of them were worried about Sage Immortal considering he had not been online for a few days.
"Do you think… that the owner had been kidnapped by this Seraph Marrow gang?! Pyramid schemes are crazy these days!"
"If so, the situation is very dangerous."
Immortal Tianya said, "I suggest we should wait a little longer. If by tommorow, he hasn't come online, we'll dial 110!"
Qinlian Zhenren agreed. "Yes! If there is a problem we will help him, not sit around!"
As the group was discussing this, the chat window suddenly shook. "Group Owner: Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal has come online!"
"What the hell! I didn't misread… Sage Immortal is alive?!" Nine Stars sent a surprised Ali emoji.
"It really is him!"
"Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal, you've been offline for almost a week! The group was discussing whether you were kidnapped." Said Xuelang Sword Immortal.
Everyone quietly waited for Sage Immortal's reply.
Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal is recording a voice message…
A moment later, the group exploded with a foul-mouthed voice message which Rocket Launcher Sage Immortal had recorded. "F**king shit! You don't know how badly battered my brother's lab is! This isn't even the most irritating thing! It was bad enough that the dickhead who did it destroyed the equipment! Even the WI-FI Router wasn't spared, there was no signal over there! No f**king WI-FI! Bloody hell!"
Xero: "…"