thenovelthief Chapter 111 : Chapter 111
Chapter 111 : Chapter 111
Chapter 111: Not a Single One of Them Will Get Away!
When Li Mu appeared, many of the students from Blackwater High School could not help sighing inwardly. He really should not have come.
The school leadership had already given them orders not to clash with this group. They would disperse on their own before long.
Now that Li Mu had come, the conflict was probably going to escalate today.
The brave, flat-headed, acne-scarred boy was the first to speak.
Pointing at Li Mu through gritted teeth, he shouted, “That’s right! We came for you! You hurt my Yan-baby!”
There was an old saying: lust made cowards bold as lions. Right now, with the power of his love for Yan-baby coursing through him, he felt like a war god descending to the world—his voice thunderous, his brain utterly broken...
“Oh? Your Yan-baby?”
“You’re all Song Yan’s fans, right?”
Li Mu asked the marchers with a smile.
“Yes!”
“Damn you, Li Mu! You injured Yan-baby. You have to apologize to her!”
“You don’t deserve to be champion! Give the championship back to Yan-baby!”
The marchers instantly rallied together, raising their arms and shouting, regaining the momentum they had before.
But just as they had only begun shouting again, Li Mu’s expression suddenly turned cold.
He pointed toward the crowd and barked, “Heavenly Might!”
All the students of Blackwater High School turned pale in shock!
Li Mu had gone mad!!
In broad daylight—one use of Heavenly Might had been too much even for Song Yan to endure. How many of these people would die if he brought it down on them?
Had Li Mu lost his mind?
Unfortunately, there was no stopping him.
A crushing pressure like Mount Tai descended from midair and instantly covered the entire marching crowd!
The range was ten times larger than when he had used it against Song Yan before!
It covered the whole scene!
But the power also seemed to have been diluted enormously.
When Heavenly Might came down, the marchers cried out in pain. Some were crushed face-down to the ground, unable to rise.
Others injured their legs and rolled around clutching them.
The worst of it was only broken bones.
Since Li Mu had dared to act, he naturally had the confidence to do so.
First, before coming here, he had spent 500 Triumph Points to unlock an enhancement for Heavenly Might.
[The range of A Trace of Heavenly Might may be expanded, but its power will be diluted in proportion to the increase in range. The minimum range is the original range.]
Second, Li Mu had already spoken with Wang Longcheng.
Wang Longcheng’s reply had been only one sentence:
“Beat them half to death for me! I’ll handle the rest!”
The instant the marchers were crushed down, countless plainclothes officers around them surged forward and pinned down everyone who could still move.
Shrill police sirens rang out across both sides of the street.
Countless Law Enforcement Department vehicles drove in from both ends, and in the blink of an eye, endless personnel leaped out of them, completely surrounding all the marchers!
Fully armed, imposing, and overwhelming.
A military airship emerged from behind a massive building and flew straight above the marching crowd.
A stern voice rang out from the airship, resounding across the sky.
“All marchers are to remain where they are. Anyone who resists will have their charges increased!”
Boom!
The onlooking crowd immediately scattered in all directions, afraid of being dragged into it.
The students of Blackwater High School also instantly backed away, wearing expressions that said none of this had anything to do with them.
The marching fans were all terrified out of their minds.
Facing countless law enforcement officers, they began shouting at the wounded companions beside them.
What was going on?
Wasn’t the whole point that the law could not punish the crowd?
Weren’t there media livestreams?
Why had the Law Enforcement Department made such a massive move and come straight at them anyway?
They were arresting so many people at once. Whose order was this? Were they not afraid of public outrage?
The law enforcement officers paid them no attention whatsoever. Anyone still standing got kicked without hesitation, hard in the backs of the knees.
If they would not squat, then they could kneel.
In an instant, the marchers were beaten into screams all across the ground!
Every one of them was pinned down and dragged across the pavement.
One of the officers shouted to the people at Blackwater High School, “Open the gates! Lock them inside your school first. Another batch of vehicles will come later to haul them away!”
There were simply too many people. The Law Enforcement Department vehicles and army trucks they had brought could only take half of them at first.
The people of Blackwater High School immediately threw open the gates as if they were rebels opening a city to the army.
Standing at attention, they saluted and shouted, “Please rest assured, officers! Our school will cooperate fully with holding them. We guarantee that not a single one of them will get away!”
Many of the tabloid media livestreamers had been arrested as well.
But unlike these troublemaking students, they were not such cowards.
No matter how small they were, they still had a voice.
Inside the headquarters of one media company whose people had been arrested on the scene,
the general manager watched what was happening and immediately became both furious and delighted.
Someone ran over anxiously to report, “General Manager, our people have been arrested. Should we first find someone to get them out?”
“Get them out? My ass! This is an opportunity!!”
the general manager shouted, his eyes turning several times as thoughts raced through his head.
Zhao Yi had paid him to stir this matter up, but he had never expected this Li Mu to be so vicious.
In broad daylight, he had dared lay hands on more than a thousand people.
And he had certainly never expected that someone behind Li Mu would dare commit such an outrage against public opinion!
They had arrested more than a thousand people in one stroke!
What crime had these people even committed? They were just fans standing up for an injured female classmate!
And yet they actually dared arrest every last one of them for Li Mu’s sake?
What enraged him was that these people had not treated his company’s staff seriously at all. They had even dared arrest media personnel with a public voice.
What delighted him was that he could already see the tremendous profit in all this.
There was no way this livestreamed incident could be suppressed. The topic had exploded, and the traffic would be enormous. That was one source of profit.
As long as he pursued the matter to the bitter end, someone would absolutely come and pay a huge price to silence him.
This was exactly how they made their money. That was the second source of profit.
So he made his decision on the spot and waved his hand decisively.
“Publish an article immediately. Question exactly who is serving as Li Mu’s protector!”
“Who gave him such monstrous courage that he dares beat fans, beat media reporters, and even arrest people!”
“This is outrageous!”
The other two tabloid media companies reacted in much the same way.
They all began publishing accusations.
Alongside footage of Li Mu arrogantly crushing the marching crowd under Heavenly Might, alongside footage of the Law Enforcement Department carrying out mass arrests at the scene, their headlines grew sharper and harsher one after another.
《In Broad Daylight, Innocent Marchers Beaten and Arrested—Who Exactly Is Serving as the Protector!?》
《It Is a Fact That the City Champion Seriously Injured a Prodigy. Now Even the Fans Are Arrested for Marching? Where Is Justice?》
《Such Adorable Fans, Merely Seeking Justice for Their Classmate, Beaten and Arrested! Is There Still Any Law? Any Justice at All!?》
In an instant, the direction of public opinion was completely misled.
Li Mu was made to look like a tyrannical second-generation official with powerful backing behind him.
Lawless and capable of any evil.
Ironhand City’s one and only official, most authoritative military media outlet was called 《Voice of the Abyss-Suppression Army》.
At this moment, inside the Voice of the Abyss-Suppression Army media building, within the Multimedia Hall, the chief station director, Tu Hua, stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the information summary on the multimedia central control console before him.
All of Ironhand City’s media was under the supervision of their central console.
The Voice of the Abyss-Suppression Army rarely spoke under normal circumstances. It only issued military announcements.
Whenever it did speak, it was always over a major matter.
In terms of authority, this place was the ancestor of every media outlet in Ironhand City.
Someone walked over holding a tablet and said, “Chief Station Director, three media outlets have already emerged to question the matter, and the direction of public opinion is sinking deeper and deeper...”
Someone beside him said bitterly, “These shameless media really do not care whether they live or die as long as they get traffic! They have not investigated anything, they do not understand the facts, and yet they dare openly challenge the law enforcement authorities!”
“They really think they can cover the sky with one hand just by manipulating public opinion.”
But Tu Hua spoke only in a calm voice.
“Wait one more hour. Let every last parasite crawl out together.”
“Then I’ll wipe them out in one net.”