Chapter 203 Ordinary People
On July 7th, at 30 o’clock in the morning, Ning Zhe was still sleeping in the hotel.

A huge airship quietly landed on the roof of Genting Highlands.

The term “airship” is a bit sci-fi, but it also has a more popular name – hot air balloon. In the 1940s and 1950s, mature large passenger aircraft technology had not yet been developed, and airships were one of the most mainstream aviation methods for humans.

Airships have many advantages as a means of transportation: cheap lift, large load, stable sailing, almost unlimited range, can stay in the air continuously without consuming fuel, and no strong demand for power…

The disadvantages of airships are also obvious: insufficient safety.

Early airships relied on hydrogen for buoyancy, a very unstable and dangerous gas that could easily explode if bumped into, causing tragedy.

The Hindenburg, the world’s largest and most famous airship, was destroyed in a fire that killed at least 35 people on board.

After this incident, countries around the world were terrified of airships and tried to avoid them as much as possible. The development direction of the aviation technology tree also shifted from airships to large passenger aircraft, which eventually led to the current aviation transportation situation with large passenger aircraft as the absolute main force.

Even though with the development of technology, the new airships that switched to helium have completely solved the flammability and explosion problems of the old hydrogen airships, the explosion of the Hindenburg, the world’s largest airship, completely shattered people’s trust in this means of transportation. Even the famous Empire State Building in the United States gave up the plan to use the top floor of the building for parking airships.

To this day, airships are still extremely rare in air traffic, but at this moment, there is an airship parked in the sky above Yundu.

Genting Highlands is the second tallest building in Genting Highlands, the tallest being the Patra Shopping Mall, which is known as the Cornucopia by the locals.

The airship parked on the top of the building is very large. The elliptical airbag, about 200 meters long, is placed flat on the top of the building. It looks like a brown olive placed on a silver iron rod with a huge ‘Δ’ logo on it.

Liu Lixian, holding her son in her left hand and her daughter in her right hand, hurriedly walked into the elevator leading to the top floor of the building with her husband.

“We have to leave quickly. All flights in Yundu are controlled by Lan Shiwen’s spies. That madman is said to be able to predict the future. He may already know that we plan to escape by airship…” Liu Lixian looked anxious and her legs could not help but tremble.

She is a person who loves beauty very much. She likes to wear gorgeously decorated brand-name high-heeled shoes no matter she is outside or at home. However, today, she put on the cheap sneakers that her bodyguard bought for her on the spur of the moment for the first time, just to run as fast as possible, even if it’s just a little bit.

Just last night, her cousin Liu Zaixi and his family of eight died neatly in his villa by the Yunmengze Lake.

Lan Shiwen’s technique was neat and precise, without involving any unnecessary people. Neither the nanny, the gardener, nor even the pet crow in the cage shed a single hair. Only her cousin Liu Zaixi and his family of eight sat neatly on the long sofa in the living room on the first floor of the villa, sitting in a neat row, as if they were happily watching TV.

Their already cold bodies were not discovered until 6 o’clock this morning when the nanny got up and started preparing breakfast.

There were no signs of damage to the doors and windows, the surveillance did not capture any suspicious persons, and the deceased did not have any additional wounds on their bodies. There was only a tiny hole that went through the left eye socket of each of them, turning the brain in the cranial cavity into a mess.

Liu Lixian’s shoulders trembled slightly, and her bloodshot eyes stared at the constantly changing number of floors on the display. She gritted her teeth and prayed that it could go up faster and faster…

“My dear, I really don’t understand why we have to leave in such a hurry.”

A man’s voice came from behind her. It was her husband, an Australian with flaxen hair and green eyes. His family had originally settled abroad, but they recently received the news that their grandfather was critically ill, so they hurried back home.

I didn’t expect that this time after returning home, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to go out again.

“Because there’s a madman chasing us!” Liu Lixian gnashed her teeth and said, “We have to leave, we have to leave quickly, the farther the better, to Australia… No, go somewhere even further, the farther away from this damn city the better! I will never come back here again in my life…”

Having lived in Australia for a long time, she unconsciously adopted some of the locals’ habits in her speech. “Is it a serial killer? A perverted murderer?” Her husband didn’t understand what she meant: “If that’s the case, you don’t have to panic, dear. We pay those bodyguards, and they should protect our safety.”

“No, you don’t understand anything… That man, that man is not an ordinary killer, he is… he is…”

Liu Lixian’s lips turned pale, and her eyes were full of fear: “He is… God.”

Even though she was born in the Liu family, her knowledge of the strange world and the Ascenders was very limited. The real core information would not be revealed to her, a non-core member who married overseas. Liu Lixian had some understanding of the horror of the Ascenders, but not much.

Ding–

The elevator door opened. After getting out of the elevator and walking up one floor, you can reach the top floor where the airship is parked. Fully armed professional bodyguards have blocked every floor of the Genting Highlands, and the people who are going to pick them up have been waiting on the roof for a long time.

“Hurry up! We don’t have time!” Liu Lixian hugged her young daughter in her arms and climbed up the carpeted stairs in a panic.

After walking a distance, I no longer heard the footsteps of my husband and son following behind me.

“No, no, don’t…”

Liu Lixian turned around with tears in her eyes and saw two bodies collapsed on the ground. Bright red blood flowed from their left eye sockets, staining half of their faces bright red.

“Let me go, let me go… I’m sorry, I’m sorry. If I’ve done anything to let you down, I’m really sorry. I apologize, I can apologize, I can compensate you… Let me go…”

Liu Lixian sobbed and sobbed. The daughter in her arms looked at her mother in tears, at a loss. When she turned her head, her dead father and brother came into view.

Then the daughter started crying too.

“You haven’t done anything to offend me.”

Lan Shiwen said: “I don’t know you either.”

He appeared here like a ghost, passing through the armed blockade that controlled every floor of Genting Highlands.

“Let…let me go…” Liu Lixian hugged her daughter tightly and pleaded in a low voice: “I haven’t done anything to let you down, right? I went abroad to study after graduating from high school. I have nothing to do with domestic affairs or strange things. I am just an ordinary person…”

“Yes, you are an ordinary person, an ordinary person who has not committed any serious crime.” Lan Shiwen raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a gentle and elegant smile: “But your last name is Liu.”

If the emperor commits a crime, all nine clans will be punished.

If an official commits a crime, his five generations of relatives will be slaughtered.

This is Lan Shiwen’s life creed, and it is also the philosophy of life he has always adhered to. He is an extreme and radical person who values ​​persistence more than his own life. If he cannot practice his philosophy within his ability, he cannot imagine how he will live the rest of his life.

“So, let’s get going.” Lan Shiwen said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)