In contrast, taking hostages in a mere game is nothing, really."

...Alright then.

According to Garrosh’s description, this King’s Road team is indeed rather controversial, with an unorthodox style. Those who like them see them as dragons, those who don’t see them as insects.

"Since you put it that way..."

Li Cheng twisted his neck, and his figure suddenly vanished from the spot, appearing at the edge of Round Clam Town.

When he learned someone broke into the Family Guy theater, he released the Shadow Falcon, making it fly over Ji Liang, Ji Ying, and the others.

Now, he used Demon Exchange to swap places with the Shadow Falcon, dropping heavily from the sky and grabbing Kudo Shin-ichi, who was caught off guard while munching on grilled flatbread, by the neck, "Don’t move, or I’ll kill him."

Kudo Shin-ichi clearly didn’t expect to be ambushed and couldn’t hide his accent, "Ah, my friend, fighting is fine, but give me some air."

The remaining three retreated simultaneously while Lulu Xiu shouted at Li Cheng, "Let him go!"

A dreadlocked Ye Shenyue also yelled loudly, "You bastard! What are you doing holding a kid?"

"I don’t speak Cantonese." Knowing the other party was also wearing a hidden earpiece, Li Cheng sneered, "You let him go first!"

"You let go first!"

"You let go first!"

Both sides repeated loudly like school kids, going back and forth over a dozen times, until Yu Meiqin on the other end of the earpiece gritted her teeth, "Countdown three, two, one, whoever doesn’t let go is a dog!"

"Alright, three, two, one."

Li Cheng pretended to let go with his right hand, letting it fall naturally, and immediately raised his left hand, pressing the Eight Diagram Alchemy Demon Cannon against Conan’s nape.

Above the thunderclouds, Yu Meiqin almost made the same move simultaneously.

Both swore in their hearts, "Damn, ran into a dog."

"Buddy, how about this," Yu Meiqin took a deep breath, "The tournament just started two hours ago, there’s plenty of time, and lots of chances to get entry coins.

Let’s both take a step back and not escalate here, how about it?"

"Alright. Exchange the hostages."

With cautious gazes from the other three players, Li Cheng hoisted Kudo Shin-ichi and walked toward the rumbling thunderclouds.

Round Clam Town was full of characters; along the street at the pharmacy, a red-haired, sunglasses-wearing, bucktoothed Jewish merchant saw Li Cheng kidnapping an elementary school kid in broad daylight, and shouted indignantly, "There’s a kidnapping..."

Before he could utter the word, Li Cheng pulled a one US dollar coin from his pocket with his left hand and tossed it along the ground,

The Jewish man’s eyes lit up, he quickly dashed out from behind the pharmacy counter, picked up the coin, pocketed it, and then whistled as he walked back to the pharmacy, pretending not to have witnessed any criminal activity...

The only one on the street who dared to uphold justice was a white-haired elderly man with a metal walking chair,

He rushed over full of righteous indignation, waving the walking chair, shouting in a whistle-like voice due to missing teeth, "As long as I’m here, no minor in Round Clam Town will come to harm!"

Bang.

With two shots from the Ape-man Degeneration Gun, Li Cheng turned the old man into a turtle, who rolled into the roadside sewer.

This old man named Herbert is set as a WWII American soldier, vividly portrayed, especially fond of the Griffins’ eldest son Chris (an extremely overweight, naive big boy),

He constantly fantasizes about pairing up with Chris, having kids together or something. Truly epic among epics.

With old Herbert as a cautionary tale, no more onlookers dared to report to the police along the way.

Li Cheng, holding onto Kudo Shin-ichi, confronted Ji Liang, Ji Ying, and others, arriving underneath the thunderclouds.

’...Doesn’t anyone care about my situation?’

Sunset Melting Gold sighed in his heart, still trapped on the second floor of the Griffin Mansion.

The miraculous mother-daughter duo Louise and Megan were increasingly over the top, getting closer while wearing dresses and rubbing against him.

Louise’s lingering charm was bearable, but Megan’s Ancient God physique was truly intolerable, mere contact caused Sunset Melting Gold’s Sanity Value to plummet.

It’s a pity that no one really cares about his situation, Li Cheng and Yu Meiqin slowly approached, simultaneously exchanging hostages.

"Are you okay?"

Li Cheng casually asked, Lulina shook her head, "I’m fine..."

Before she finished speaking, the metal decorations on Lulina’s clothes, like buttons, necklaces, zippers, etc., simultaneously floated upwards in anti-gravity, flickering with weak electric arcs.

In the next moment, the clouds in the sky uncontrollably struck down with lightning, precisely aiming at Lulina.

"Yu Meiqin, you’re too despicable..."

Li Cheng was furious, raising his hand to shield above Lulina’s head, blocking the lightning strike, while remotely detonating a small IED bomb he had secretly installed on Kudo Shin-ichi, blowing him away.

Both are old foxes who know how to play tricks. But as soon as Li Cheng touched the lightning, he felt something was wrong.

The power was too small, rather than being a billion volts of thunder, it seemed more like an electric shock with mere light and sound effects. It would be barely enough to kill a cow.

"All’s fair in war."

Yu Meiqin sneered and retreated; this electric shock was not meant to kill Lulina, but to awaken the real Demon King of the game world...

Rumble!

The enhanced lightning roared with a huge noise, the shock wave swept through the courtyard, shattering the glass on the side of the Griffin Mansion facing the courtyard, blowing the glass shards into the house.

In the baby’s crib in the children’s bedroom, Dumplings, who had already been repeatedly disturbed by the thunder, was now completely awakened.

A few strands of hair on his oval-shaped head stood on end due to static, his face filled with anger, "Who disturbed my nap?! Louise, Louise?!"

This anger, upon seeing the specifics of the bedroom, turned into rage.

A piece of glass shard had precisely lodged itself into the chest of the brown teddy bear Rupert.

"Ru, Rupert?"

Dumplings trembled as he spoke, and upon seeing stuffing protruding from the teddy bear’s wound, he suddenly pulled out a laser pulse Gatling larger than himself from under the pillow,

and with a body not matching the physique of a baby, jumped off the crib holding the Gatling, and roared, firing towards the ceiling.

Boom boo boom boom boom!

The principle behind the laser pulse Gatling was unclear, but its power was incredibly large, the six gun barrels spinning rapidly, sending energy bullets that directly blew away the wooden ceiling, lifting a cloud of dust and wood chips.

Dumplings was extremely attached to his teddy bear, having killed more than once for it, and the only one who could possibly calm him down was his close friend Brian.

Now with Brian absent, Dumplings was an unchecked demon king, holding the Gatling and firing wildly, among which one energy bullet flew out the window, hitting Gray Rain right in the chest.

The liquid metal, which could easily withstand a tank’s main gun, instantly melted into a big hole, allowing one to see the back through the front chest.

Gray Rain gasped, quickly taking out the Gorging Feast Spoon and uranium fuel snacks, took two big bites, replenishing his body mass.

Even Gray Rain couldn’t stop the laser cannon, much less the magic barrier summoned by players using scrolls.

Carlos and Garrosh scurried with their heads down and jumped off the thundercloud; the next second, the cloud was blown apart, a series of bullets instantly crossing thousands of meters high, hitting the right engine of a Boeing 767 civilian airliner.

Perhaps due to Family Guy’s sea-cow-style joke setup, the players on the ground, whether Yu Meiqin, Li Cheng, or others, hallucinated hearing the calm broadcast sound of the pilot inside the civilian airliner cockpit,

"Passengers, please do not panic; Boeing 767 is a twin-engine wide-body airliner; being hit by a thunderstorm on one side is not fatal; we can still find an airport to land..."

The next second, another two blasts of laser energy shot out, not only blowing up the left engine but also destroying the aircraft’s tail rudder.

The pilot paused for a second, his tone unchanged, remaining calm, "Oh, the left wing is gone too. Please everyone on board still remain calm..."

The broadcast sound grew smaller as the pilot leisurely walked out of the cockpit, carrying a bulging backpack, nonchalantly strolling through the plane aisle, ignoring the terrified questions from passengers along the way, opened the cabin door by himself, and leaped out,

shouting aloud, "Geronimo (paratrooper slogan), wait a sec, why am I wearing a backpack?!"

The vision shifted, in a certain school’s classroom, the pilot’s elementary school son opened a backpack, from which a parachute popped out with a "bang", covering the students underneath completely.

Under Li Cheng’s awkward gaze, that Boeing 767 swooped down, precisely landing in the center of Round Clam Town, breaking into several sections.

The seventy tons of fuel loaded spread evenly over the city streets, then instantaneously ignited into a sea of fire.