No matter how capable these two people were, they probably wouldn't dare to act in broad daylight within the community. Their best option was to follow Zhou Limin to his doorstep.
Actually, An Chen's first thought was to call Kunpeng, which would be safest for him and wouldn't expose his strength.
But it was too late.
If these two thugs chose to act directly, then Zhou Limin's entire family would suffer.
Besides Zhou Limin, there were also Zhou Xin Xin and Zhao Jing…
An Chen couldn't just watch them all suffer.
An Chen had already used a Stealth Talisman at Su Xiaojiu's home. When the two arrived at the elevator, they found that the elevator had already reached the first floor, and someone was coming up in it.
An Chen grumbled to himself, wondering why Zhou Limin, living on the second floor, still needed to take the elevator.
Did he really have to lead people to his doorstep?
An Chen didn't hesitate, immediately turning and darting into the stairwell.
In this state, he couldn't take the elevator. He couldn't let people see on the surveillance camera that the elevator door opened, no one entered, but the button was still pressed, right?
By the time An Chen ran to the second floor, he heard voices already coming from outside.
“What are you two doing? You don't live on this floor… Ah!”
An Chen heard a scream and immediately rushed out of the stairwell.
The two people he had just seen downstairs now had their faces covered with bandanas. One of them was holding Zhou Limin down on the ground and taking something out of his pocket, while the other was pulling out a rope.
Zhou Limin on the ground had his nose crooked from a punch, bleeding profusely as he lay there. He tried to get up and shout again but was held down firmly. Then, a towel was stuffed into his mouth, almost reaching his throat, and a bag was put over his head.
Some might think that if a towel is stuffed into the mouth, one can just spit it out, but if the tongue is pressed down and the towel is pushed deep enough, it's actually impossible to spit out.
Both heard movement behind them simultaneously. They turned around but saw nothing, only noticing the stairwell door wide open and slowly closing.
“What the hell…”
Before one of them could finish speaking, he was punched hard in the face. This punch was neither too light nor too heavy; it didn't knock him out, but it did make him dizzy.
Just as he was about to retaliate, he realized there was no one in front of him, and he took two steps back in shock.
His companion behind him watched this bizarre scene, equally astonished.
“There’s… there’s something strange!”
The two were vigilant for a few seconds but found no more movement in front of them.
“Take him away first!”
But just as they reached out to grab Zhou Limin on the ground, each of them took a punch to the face.
One of them was even knocked to the ground by a single punch.
They were both Cultivator, knowing that their physical fitness and strength were much higher than ordinary people, and they understood that the punch they received was definitely not from an ordinary person.
“Damn it, someone's protecting this guy, let's go!”
The two no longer bothered with Zhou Limin, running directly towards the window in the stairwell and leaping down from the second floor.
The second floor was only about three meters high. They jumped out and landed steadily on the ground with ease.
“Are you just going to let him go?”
Su Xiaojiu asked in a low voice, leaning close to An Chen's ear.
“No.”
An Chen shook his head, also following them out of the stairwell window.
Of course, he couldn't let them go.
Otherwise, someone else would come next time.
But he also couldn't directly deal with them and leave them in the stairwell now. If people were just lying there in the building, it would eventually get out and wouldn't be good. If it attracted the attention of those criminals' superiors, it would also bring more people.
The best option was to lead them out and then deal with them outside.
An Chen was a bit confused now. Where were all these thugs coming from recently, constantly targeting Transcendents?
More crucially, they were Cultivator, and Cultivator were almost certainly Transcendents.
The Spiritual Qi concentration on Earth was still too low. Even with a Cultivation Technique and a Spiritual Root, one might not be able to Cultivate from scratch.
The first Cultivation required a relatively large amount of Spiritual Qi.
This was enough to show that these two thugs were not ordinary, incomparable to the two who had plotted against Wang Zhaoyang last time.
Since it was still dusk, there were still scattered people downstairs, and elementary school students who had finished school were running wildly at the bottom of the building. When the two jumped out the window, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.
However, the two completely ignored the surprised gazes of the bystanders and quickly ran towards the community gate, knocking over a child who started wailing on the ground.
The child's parent immediately started shouting, mixed with expletives.
The community security guard was stunned for two seconds, then slapped his forehead, picked up a steel fork nearby, and stood ready in a bow stance.
“What are you doing?!”
Both were wearing bandanas; they clearly weren't good people.
But the two didn't even look at him, turning directly and climbing over the fence beside them, leaving him standing alone with the steel fork, bewildered in the wind.
An Chen and Su Xiaojiu then followed the two, climbing out as well.
“Is this… is this what they call a police chase?”
Su Xiaojiu asked beside An Chen.
“It's a chase, but neither of us is a police officer.”
Neither of them used their full strength, almost equivalent to a slow jog. Whether Su Xiaojiu exerted a little effort or An Chen channeled his Qi with Qingyun Step, they could catch up to these two in two seconds.
However, An Chen planned to find a suitable location before making his move.
The two running ahead exited the community and didn't linger on the main road. They clearly knew that running like this would never get them out of surveillance range, so they found a small alley and turned into it.
After running for a while longer, the two finally stopped to catch their breath and rest.
An Chen looked around and found this location to be good.
“Can we act now?”
“Yes.”
An Chen nodded, simultaneously shaking his hands, doing a simple warm-up.
“Still knock them out?”
“No, kill them.”
“You're going to kill them?” Su Xiaojiu was a bit surprised, “You're already ready to kill people?”
An Chen hesitated slightly, but finally said firmly:
“No, we can't let them spread the word that our building has powerful individuals, whether they tell Kunpeng or anyone else.”
This was the safest and most secure method.
Kunpeng probably wouldn't have expected that he and Su Xiaojiu would directly kill people.
When he and Su Xiaojiu came out, they used a Stealth Talisman. Kunpeng's people shouldn't know they came out.
The Stealth Talisman concealed their figures, and the necklace Hong Shan gave him obscured their aura. This way, even if Kunpeng had left people watching, they wouldn't discover them.
After An Chen finished speaking, he immediately darted out.
This time he didn't use a knife. Instead, he flashed behind one of the men and quickly twisted his neck before he could react.
The other man was greatly alarmed.
“What the hell are you, human or ghost?!”
He had thought he was safe after running this far, but he didn't expect this strange thing to follow him!