Cave Refuge-Chapter 202 - 201: Li Minghao Goes Offline_1

After tidying up the scene, Dong Tianyu returned to his cave mansion, immediately entering the Hall of Longevity to start his training for the day.

However, when he finished his cultivation and left the Hall of Longevity, he made a spontaneous decision to visit his parents at the Refuge Center.

Feeling the growing temperature outside, Dong Tianyu considered his options and ultimately decided to abandon the bus route, instead going by black car.

As he passed a certain spot, Dong Tianyu began to ponder whether to bring Walker Violet or Jasmine Anderson along. Letting his parents know that he has company should ease their worries for him.

Though he had just picked the two of them up yesterday and although he has a deep understanding of their abilities, he was not yet familiar with their temperaments. After some thought, he adjudged it best not to involve them now but to inform his parents of their existence.

When the black car arrived at People’s Square, Dong Tianyu didn’t immediately get out. First, he used Divine Sense to pinpoint the location of Lee Minhao, then extracted a transparent ice needle, which he had painstakingly frozen from Spiritual Spring water, from his Shadow Space.

Don’t assume that Dong Tianyu has forgotten yesterday’s attack. Although he made the first move last night and effortlessly wiped out the opposition, he was not going to let the matter slide so easily.

While the Art of Controlling Objects couldn’t let him fly on Flying Swords, controlling an ice needle within the range of his Divine Sense was a breeze.

Even though a cultivator at the Foundation Building Stage could be killed by a regular person with a firearm, that only occurs when the cultivator is caught off guard. In normal circumstances, this would never happen.

On the other hand, it is strikingly easy for a cultivator at the Foundation Building Stage to kill an ordinary person, even without seeing them. As long as the target is within the scope of the cultivator’s Divine Sense, a simple use of the Art of Controlling Objects can kill instantly.

Regarding yesterday’s incident, the assailant’s equipment made it clear that the intent was to kill Dong Tianyu. Therefore, he wasn’t going to foolishly confront the attacker to ascertain whether the assault was orchestrated or not.

Dong Tianyu might not know the other members of the special forces team, but he recognized Captain Wu who was in charge of the mission last night. He once tailed Dong Tianyu under Lee Minhao’s direction.

Thus, Dong Tianyu had no intention nor the inclination to conduct further investigation. He immediately pinned Lee Minhao as the mastermind behind the scenes.

The next steps were simple. Using the Art of Controlling Objects, he maneuvered the ice needle into Lee Minhao’s location, piercing the needle smoothly from the temple, straight to his brain.

To ensure a one-hit kill, the ice needle burst into countless fragments under the control of the Art of Controlling Objects, turning the man’s brain into pulp.

At that moment, Lee Minhao was sitting alone in his office. As his head filled with the pulp-like mixture, his body went limp, collapsing onto the table.

Under normal circumstances, the Art of Controlling Objects couldn’t control living beings, even if the target was just a small bug.

The "things" in the Art of Controlling Objects refers to lifeless items that cannot resist being controlled, such as Magical Weapons handled by other people, which also could not be forcibly controlled using the Art of Controlling Objects.

However, when the target is already dead, the Art of Controlling Objects can easily manipulate it. It’s no wonder the Art of Corpse Control is considered one of the numerous branches advanced from the Art of Controlling Objects.

Lee Minhao’s body, manipulated by the Art of Controlling Objects, looked like he was just slumped on the table, sleeping.

Actually, there was no need to do this. After all, Dong Tianyu hadn’t entered the Refuge Center, providing him with an alibi. And except for a red wound at his temple, there was not a single mark on Lee Minhao’s body, no signs of a brutal fight.

The ice needles Dong Tianyu created were transparent and not large in size. Thus, after piercing the temple, the only visible sign was some redness and swelling as the skin had already begun to heal itself.

Without the manipulation of the Art of Controlling Objects, the ice fragments in the brain quickly melted into a liquid, mingling with the pulp inside.

Having deftly disposed of the nuisance, Dong Tianyu got out of the car and entered the Refuge Center via the ground entrance to the War Reserve Warehouse.

Due to the constantly rising outside temperature, the original guard booth set inside the garden pit had been removed. Although the big door of the passage had been closed, it was not locked from the inside. Others could simply pull the door to get in or out.

The security here didn’t worry at all that other survivors might try to enter the Refuge Center through this route.

Despite their bountiful facilities, the scorching outside temperature made it almost impossible for ordinary survivors to even step out into the open, let alone move around outside.

So at this time, the only individuals passing through the ground entrance to the Refuge Center were martial artists. Although the center isn’t welcoming to ordinary survivors, they were quite receptive to the arrival of martial artists.

After all, no one is foolish at this point. Despite the food consumption of an extra martial artist, they would be taken care of even if food was scarce. Having a martial artist’s presence certainly makes a world of difference when emergencies arise.

The removal of the guard booth in the garden pit doesn’t mean they had given up the surveillance here.

When Dong Tianyu walked to the end of the passage to enter the first basement level, he found an elderly person napping on a table.

After finding that almost no one was using the ground passage to the Refuge Center, even among the martial artists, they switched the guards here to the elderly inhabitants of the center to take turns for duty, which essentially was just changing the location of their sleep.

If not for the fact that it was slightly warmer here than in the rest of the basement, this spot might have been turned into a leisure area.

Seeing the elderly person sleeping so comfortably, Dong Tianyu didn’t have the heart to disturb him. After all, getting a good sleep in such a hot spot wasn’t easy.

Dong Tianyu, familiar with the path, entered the second basement level. First, he went to his parents’ tent, inspected the supplies in the box, and seeing there was hardly any movement, didn’t put in any additional items.