As time ticked away, the wedding commenced on the surveillance screen. The host stood on the stage, delivering a speech to officiate the wedding ceremony. Under the stage, the guests gathered around tables of food and drink, all smiling and filled with joy.
Bai Mo received a message every few minutes.
[Everything's normal around the hotel]
[Everything's normal in the banquet hall]
[Everything's normal in the hotel kitchen]
...
No one noticed that Black Hide and a dozen of his brothers had already slipped in, dressed in decent clothes. They sat at a table near the stage, joyfully watching the host and ceremony, cheering and clapping at times, as if they were genuinely friends and family of the hosts, with no anomalies.
Someone came over and asked, "Is this table with the groom's family?"
"Oh no, we're with the bride's family."
Another person came over and asked, "Is this table with the bride's family?"
"Oh no, we're with the groom's family."
Black Hide sat by the banquet, vaguely sensing something was off... He couldn't pinpoint what, just feeling uneasy and anxious internally.
"Why should I be uneasy? Why should I be scared?
"It shouldn't be like this.
"The operation plan is also protected by master's prohibition, the intel couldn't possibly leak.
"The Immortal Technique Committee couldn't possibly know we're here!"
He lifted his wrist to check his watch; it was already 7:29.
"It's time."
He took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket. The medicine inside was purchased from a Sequence Eight [Soup Man], at a high price! After all, there are scarcely any [Soup Men] in this world.
He looked up one last time, seeing the banquet hall filled with joy. On the stage, the groom held a microphone, tears of joy falling, "…Marrying her is the luck of my life. I am willing to protect her with all my heart and soul..."
Below the stage, friends and relatives applauded thunderously.
Black Hide chuckled quietly, secretly pulling out the stopper of the porcelain bottle and poured the liquid inside onto the cheap carpet of the hotel banquet hall.
The liquid was oily, even drawing threads from the bottle mouth. It had a terrifying volatility, able to evaporate entirely within seconds, turning into gas that filled the entire banquet hall!
However…
Black Hide was aghast to see an additional yellow talisman on the cheap red hotel carpet, which somehow appeared unnoticed.
The talisman seemed to come to life, sliding along the carpet toward the spilled liquid, twitching slightly, like a damn sanitary pad, absorbing all the oily liquid he poured out!
This is... Talisman Master?
Talisman Dao Path, Sequence Eight, [Talisman Person]?
Black Hide was suddenly alarmed, preparing to flee, when another yellow talisman slid across the carpet, almost alive, crawling onto his shoe, burrowing into his pant leg, sticking to his skin!
"Ah…"
Black Hide exclaimed, but the sound stuck in his throat, unable to come out.
His body was immobilized!
His body became stiff and numb, even completely numb!
Black Hide's eyes moved, noticing a fellow brother at the same table, frozen mid-reach for food, motionless.
His eyes shifted again, seeing a fellow sister at another table, frozen clapping, motionless.
His heart sank to the bottom…
Sequence Eight Talisman People, only the Immortal Committee Chairman in West State City, Chen Shu!
How did the plan get leaked? How could Chen Shu be here?
Didn't master say everything's as usual, that he would arrange it all?
Could even the Ancient Immortal talk nonsense?
Could even the Ancient Immortal make mistakes?
It's all over!
...
[Group Channel]
[The twelve wanted criminals in the banquet hall have been controlled by the Chairman]
[Each team prepares to capture]
[Minimize the impact]
"Hahaha!"
"Great!"
"The chairman rocks!"
In the business car hidden in an alley, a group of Immortal Technique Committee members cheered excitedly!
The next consideration was merely how to capture them without affecting the wedding too much.
Bai Mo sat in the business car, also quite amazed.
Just now, through the camera, he saw a flash of yellow light over the carpet, supposedly a talisman? So these things move by sliding on the ground?
Things reached this point, indicating today's work was over. The ensuing tasks were unrelated to him anymore.
Suddenly…
[Group Channel]
[Sixty-three Immortal Martial Path Immortal-Related Personnel missing!]
[About an hour ago, the dormitory administrator was attacked, the stationed Immortal Technique Committee member was attacked, all Immortal-Related Personnel escaped, current whereabouts unknown!]
[Image]
[Image]
What?
Bai Mo clicked the picture, opened the larger image.
It showed at the entrance of the building managing the Immortal-Related Personnel, the stationed Immortal Technique Committee member lying in a pool of blood!
He opened the second larger image.
It showed inside the building, two dormitory administrators both lying in blood!
"How did this happen?"
"The stationed Immortal Technique Committee members are all Sequence Nine, how could they be killed by a bunch of unranked kids?"
"No, no way!
"That's over sixty kids, sixty kids who have cultivated in dreams, strengthened, ready to advance at any moment through the Immortal Martial Path's kids!"
"The wanted criminals are controlled; there shouldn't be a major issue, right?"
"Quickly check the surveillance, bring those kids back!"
...
Swoosh!
On the road, a bus ran a red light!
Amidst the furious honking of several drivers nearly hit, it sped recklessly, swaying, charging forward indiscriminately!
The bus was filled with high school students, exactly those over sixty Immortal-Related Personnel!
The driver was Lu Yang.
He didn't know how to drive, let alone drive a bus... but at this moment, his eyes were bloodshot, turning them entirely red! The whole person resembled a puppet, like a marionette, only driving the bus, fiercely stepping on the accelerator, madly heading toward the outskirts of West State City!
Swoosh!
The bus whipped into a sharp turn, tilting harshly, almost overturning!
But none of the sixty people on the bus spoke, no one complained. Their eyes were all bloodshot, fully red! All like puppets, like marionettes, as if their minds were bewitched, solely focused on getting to the destination!
Finally, the bus stormed into the suburbs, stopping abruptly in front of a brightly lit hotel, crashing several private cars.
The students on the bus, like lunatics, rushed off the bus, charging into Fuqing Hotel, heading for the banquet hall!
...
In the banquet hall, Vice President Chen Shu, frowned, stood up, and walked toward the banquet hall entrance with a few Immortal Technique Committee members.
The wanted criminals were already controlled; although unsure why the sixty students acted crazy, the problem shouldn't be significant, right?
On the stage in the banquet hall, the groom continued his speech with the microphone, already teary-eyed.
"…The love of my life is my bride.
"If there's one thing I'd say to her, I'd say...
"I'd say...
"Why do you think you can defeat the immortals?"