Chapter 48: We Are Professionally Trained...

Holding his delivery box with both hands, Lu Xingzhou wore a resolute expression, looking as if he was daring anyone to doubt him.

Faced with this unwavering look, the drug lord began to harbor doubts of his own. Could the bomb he had purchased actually be a fake? Had he been scammed by the bomb maker?

Standing nearby, pockmark lowered his voice and whispered to the drug lord, "Boss, this punk is just bluffing you! If the bomb in his bag were fake, he would have bolted long ago! Why would he stick around to face off against you?"

The drug lord suddenly saw the light. "Right, the brat is trying to psych me out!"

"Do you really think a couple of words from you can fool me?" Lu Xingzhou sneered.

"Then press it! Go ahead and push the button!"

The drug lord gritted his teeth. "You think I don't dare?"

Lu Xingzhou put his hands on his hips. "Press it!"

"I'm pressing it!"

"Press it then!"

"Press!"

*Click!*

Taking two steps back, the drug lord quickly ducked behind Pockmark and triggered the detonator.

However, absolutely nothing happened!

No explosion rang out.

The hallway remained entirely intact.

Lu Xingzhou still stood in the corridor against the backlight, making him look like a descending deity.

Staring blankly at the detonator in his hand, the drug lord slapped it frantically a few times, nearly smashing it to pieces, yet still no blast echoed.

Inside, Lu Xingzhou let out a long breath of relief. This proved the experiment was a success.

As long as an item was placed inside the delivery backpack, its state would never change no matter how much time passed.

At that moment, Lu Xingzhou felt that this was no longer merely a matter of Nobel personally presenting him with an award.

It should be Nobel getting up so that Lu himself could lie down in his place.

Lu Xingzhou curved the corners of his lips upward. "Well, how about that? Can't go boom, can it? I told you that you bought counterfeit goods! You should download the National Anti-Fraud app when you have time so you don't get scammed like this."

Drawing his handgun, the drug lord barked, "Bastard, if I can't blow you up, I'll shoot you dead!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Lifting his pistol, the drug lord fired toward Lu Xingzhou.

Lu Xingzhou lunged aside toward the stairwell, dust and debris flying as bullets struck the wall.

"After him!"

With a wave of his hand, the drug lord led Pockmark in pursuit down the stairway where Lu Xingzhou had fled.

"Eat bomb!"

The drug lord never expected Lu Xingzhou to pull a turnaround ambush.

Hearing the word "bomb" and seeing a dark, heavy object hurtling toward him, the drug lord dove to the ground in a reflex of muscle memory.

*Clang!*

The sound of an object hitting the floor echoed, with no explosion whatsoever.

Looking back, the drug lord stared at the item Lu Xingzhou had thrown...

***

Wasn't this simply the bundle of explosives he had given to Lu Xingzhou in the first place?

Since it hadn't detonated in Lu Xingzhou's hands, it certainly wasn't going to blow up here either.

Having been cheated once by the shady dealer who sold him fake explosives, and now twice by Lu Xingzhou, the drug lord felt his lungs were about to burst with fury!

"Damn your ancestors! You tricked me again!"

The drug lord's roar reverberated through the entire small white building.

"Oh my mother, I'd better run! If they catch up in a minute, it's going to be trouble!"

Moving with lightning speed, Lu Xingzhou seemed to dance along the stair banister, reaching the ground floor in a mere six steps and three seconds.

＜Three seconds down three floors, I swear the streamer must have some actual martial arts lightness skill in him!＞

＜I just want to know how the streamer knew the bomb was fake?＞

＜God-tier telling the drug dealer to download the National Anti-Fraud app, I'm crying from laughing so hard.＞

＜You can tell from that hysterical roar that the drug lord is dying of anger!＞

＜If it were me, I'd die of anger too! Not only did he mistake the drug-manufacturing expert, but four of his lackies died, the explosives he bought were fake, he raided a chemical plant, and yet the drug raw materials were nowhere to be found!＞

＜Hahaha! Reality is truly much more interesting than the movies. These robbers act like geniuses over nothing, but turn into a bumbling amateur troupe when it actually counts. If robbers this stupid appeared in a movie, the audience would boo them to death.＞

＜Some do, bro! Some do! I don't know if you've ever seen an old movie called Crazy Stone.＞

＜Just think about it, if these guys were capable of accomplishing anything, they wouldn't have ended up accomplishing nothing at all.＞

From initial anxiety over Lu Xingzhou's safety, the live stream chat room's mindset had completely shifted to watching a "bumbling thief comedy."

With every ounce of strength he had, the drug lord hurled the remote control used for detonating the bomb straight down at the ground!

The detonation button made intimate contact with the floor.

An abrupt *boom!* rang out.

The drug lord saw the bomb discarded in the corner emit a blinding flash of light.

A single sentence kept spinning through his brain—*Damn your ancestors, you tricked me yet again!*

Before the terror could travel from his brain to his facial expressions, his consciousness was entirely erased from the world.

The sudden explosion shook the entire building violently, as if a mud dragon were thrashing beneath the earth.

Lu Xingzhou paused his steps as wall plaster rained down all around and monitors tumbled from desks one after another.

"The drug lord didn't actually blow up the explosives, did he?!"

He hurried out of the small white building.

Sure enough, a massive hole had been blasted into the wall, and a smoking fingertip lay severed on the ground not far away.

Lu Xingzhou stared in utter astonishment—these robbers were exceptionally unlucky!

*Wew-woah ~ wew-woah ~*

Accompanied by wailing police sirens, the absurd chemical plant robbery came to a close.

***

Police Station, Reception Room.

Lu Jiangying and Xu Hui sat with their elbows on the table, supporting their foreheads as they struggled desperately to hold back their laughter.

Looking helpless, Lu Xingzhou said, "If you want to laugh, just laugh."

Xu Hui rubbed her cheeks with her hands. "We've received professional training. No matter how funny something is, we never... Hahaha..."

Once Xu Hui's laughter broke through, both she and Lu Jiangying abandoned all restraint and burst into roaring laughter.

Leaning back against the sofa with a deadpan expression, Lu Xingzhou muttered, "This shouldn't even be blamed on me!

The organizers told me that if I took the wrong route, a navigator would guide me back onto the correct track.

That drug dealer riding the blue motorcycle came right up to me and told me I was on the wrong path!

I'd only raced on that track once, so I had no choice but to follow him away!"

Stopping her laughter, Xu Hui asked, "Setting that aside for a moment, can you tell me how the real drug-manufacturing expert died?"

Lu Xingzhou replied quietly, "He couldn't out-boast me..."

***

Police Station, Chief's Office.

Lin Tianzong placed the report on his desk.

"This chemical plant robbery resulted in two deaths, two critical injuries, and two minor injuries.

The two with minor injuries have already regained consciousness. Their names are Liu Gui and Chen Dabao.

This gang of drug traffickers who came to spread drugs in Shanhe City were neither long-term residents nor professional dealers.

They are all from Yuezhou. Their original objective was to travel to the Golden Triangle with their boss, Yang Huarong—who was blown up in the explosion—to trade for counterfeit currency.

Unexpectedly, the warlords of the Golden Triangle didn't give them money; instead, they shoved 1,000 kilograms of 'Double Lion Earth' narcotics into their hands as payment.

They dared not refuse. Facing the gaping barrels of the warlords' AKs, the tiny handguns in their own hands were clearly suicide weapons, leaving them no choice but to swallow this bitter pill.

However, Yang Huarong dared neither take the drugs back to their stronghold to report for duty nor peddle the merchandise locally.

Because the drug trade is essentially a turf-based business, whoever is boss in a given area is the only one permitted to sell!

According to the local warlords, as long as they brought this batch of goods to Europe, they would earn one million dollars, enough to cover the cost of the counterfeit cash.

Yet, Yang Huarong had a different idea at that point.

Europe has loose drug regulations, with narcotics even legalized in many places, meaning drugs don't command a high price there.

Holding such a vast quantity of drugs in his hands, he felt it was a terrible loss to only sell enough to pay off the syndicate bosses.

Yang Huarong decided to seek wealth through peril and sell these drugs domestically!

To fetch a high price, he came to the interior of China, which is far from the border and lacks a steady drug supply.

Not only is the unit price extremely high here, but because the goods are smuggled in from elsewhere, nobody cares whose turf it is—anyone and everyone wants them as long as there are drugs.

According to Yang Huarong's plan, he intended to offload the goods as quickly as possible, hand over one million US dollars to the syndicate leadership, and keep all the remaining money for himself!

Yet, before even half of the drugs could be sold, Lu Xingzhou discovered the underground cave where the Double Lion Earth was hidden, and we confiscated the entire stash.

Having lost the drugs and failing to gather enough money to pay off the syndicate, Yang Huarong knew the bosses would have him killed if he returned empty-handed, so he decided to rob the chemical plant.

To pull this off, he even recruited a drug-manufacturing expert from the dark web.

According to the plan, this drug-manufacturing expert was supposed to wear a delivery uniform and rendezvous with them in the wilderness.

Who could have guessed that Lu Xingzhou would also be wearing a delivery uniform while participating in the motocross race that day?

One person wore a delivery outfit, and another wore a delivery outfit. The drug dealer named Du Changchun likely mistook Lu Xingzhou for the drug-manufacturing expert and brought him back.

Little did Du Changchun know, Yang Huarong had already found the real drug-manufacturing expert.

With no other choice, Yang Huarong had the two men bid against each other. When Lu Xingzhou drove the price of 'ice' down to 100,000 per kilogram, the real drug-manufacturing expert tried to flee and was shot dead by Yang Huarong.

We all know the rest of the story."