My happy life in a courtyard house with triplets.

Chapter 561: Bombarding the Li Family Villa

Li Mingjie smashed a whole set of purple clay teapots beside him, shards of porcelain flying everywhere. He trembled with rage, cursing, "A country bumpkin dares to threaten me? Die! All of you, die!"

Seeing his manic state, the butler quickly stepped forward and cautiously suggested, "Second Young Master, shouldn't we immediately strengthen security at the villa?"

Li Mingjie gradually calmed down, his eyes filled with malice. He said in a deep voice, "Go, get me the best bodyguards in Shanghai. Surround the villa inside and out! I want to see what he can do to break in!"

The butler didn't dare delay and immediately took out his communication equipment to contact people. Before long, the area around the Li family villa was filled with burly, imposing professional bodyguards. The Li family villa was built on a mountaintop, the only one of its kind for miles around. There was only one winding mountain road leading up and down the mountain. As long as this main road was firmly controlled, ordinary people would not be able to get even a step closer to the villa.

On the other side, after bidding farewell to Xuan Yangzi, Zhang Lei handed over a check for ten million US dollars. Xuan Yangzi initially wanted to refuse, but Zhang Lei was adamant, stating that he owed Zhang Lei a great debt of gratitude for his help and that this reward was only rightfully his. Unable to refuse, Xuan Yangzi eventually accepted the check. After Xuan Yangzi left, Zhang Lei immediately dialed an encrypted number, his tone icy: "Get the precise location of that number."

A moment later, a satellite image with coordinates was sent to Zhang Lei's phone, clearly showing the imposing Li family villa on the mountaintop. Zhang Lei looked at the coordinates, a cold smile playing on his lips, and then drove to a secluded open space two kilometers away from the Li family's residence.

With a thought, he waved his hand, and thirty jet-black combat robots, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen, appeared in perfect unison on the open ground. Immediately afterward, ten heavy trucks loaded with cannon barrels materialized out of thin air—the Katyusha rocket launchers, long since obsolete but still incredibly powerful.

Looking at the "army of equipment" before him, Zhang Lei nodded in satisfaction and ordered the robots, "I'll send you the coordinates. Carpet bomb this location, leaving no blind spots."

Thirty robots simultaneously raised their hands in salute and replied in unison, "Understood, boss!"

Zhang Lei then opened his private satellite communication channel and said, "Satellite, block all signals within a ten-mile radius of the target location for one hour. No information or communication is allowed to leak out."

A response immediately came from the communicator: "Understood, boss. The blocking order has been issued."

With everything ready, Zhang Lei gave the order, and the Katyusha rocket launcher instantly roared to life, as dense shells rained down on the sky and hurtled toward the Li family villa on the mountaintop.

At that moment, Li Mingjie was enjoying himself with a beautiful woman beside him when he suddenly heard a deafening explosion. He was instantly terrified and almost wet himself. The butler rushed into the room, covered in dust and grime, barely able to speak: "Second...Second Young Master, something terrible has happened! A shell...a shell!" Before he could finish speaking, his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.

Before Li Mingjie could even react to what was happening, a shell exploded precisely above the villa, sending flames soaring into the sky. Staring at the carnage before him, his eyes wide with rage, he roared, "Are you fucking crazy?!"

But before he could finish his angry curse, two shells exploded around him in quick succession, and the violent shockwaves instantly crushed Li Mingjie into dust.

After fifteen minutes of bombing, the entire Li family villa, along with the buildings on the hilltop, was razed to the ground, and most of the hilltop was flattened. With a wave of his hand, Zhang Lei stored all the robots and Katyusha rocket launchers into his personal space, then boarded a pre-prepared flying car and quickly left the scene.

Shortly after Zhang Lei left, a logistics team of over a hundred people appeared out of nowhere in the open space. Some pitched tents to camp, some set up grills for barbecues, and others sat around playing, all relaxed and carefree, as if the heavy equipment and the deafening bombing had never happened. This was Zhang Lei's personal trace erasure unit, specifically responsible for cleaning up all traces of his actions to avoid leaving any hidden dangers.

At the same time, Li Zhenghong, who was negotiating a business partnership, suddenly received an emergency red pop-up on his phone. When he opened it, the content struck him like a thunderbolt, and he froze on the spot—his mountaintop villa had been razed to the ground by unidentified artillery fire.

He could hardly believe his eyes. After repeatedly confirming the information, he abruptly pushed aside his business partner and drove like a madman to the mountaintop. When he saw the once magnificent and luxurious villa reduced to ashes, and the mountaintop leveled, Li Zhenghong could no longer control himself. His eyes red, he roared, "Who did this? Who the hell did this?!"

All he could hear were the piercing sirens of police cars and ambulances. The surroundings were a mess, and no one answered his questions. Li Zhenghong's hands trembled as he took out his phone and dialed his wife Shen Peiyun's number, his voice hoarse and sorrowful: "Come back, Mingjie... he's gone."

A sharp scream erupted from the other end of the phone, Shen Peiyun's voice filled with despair and rage: "Li Zhenghong! I entrusted my son to you, and this is how you take care of him?!"

"I don't know what happened either. The villa was completely razed to the ground. I have no idea who the attacker was." Li Zhenghong was filled with bitterness and unable to explain.

Shen Peiyun remained silent for a long time on the other end of the phone before her cold voice came through the receiver: "I will return to China as soon as possible. Before I return, you must give me an explanation, otherwise, I will never forgive you."

After speaking, Shen Peiyun hung up the phone. Li Zhenghong gripped his phone, his heart pounding with anxiety. His current wealth and status were entirely due to the Shen family's support. Shen Peiyun was now the head of the family, and she was grooming her second son, Li Mingzhe, to be the family's future successor. That's why he felt comfortable letting Shen Peiyun stay in the United States with Li Mingzhe, while his third son, Li Mingxuan, studied in Europe. He only kept Li Mingjie with him, and now this catastrophic disaster had befallen him. If he couldn't provide a reasonable explanation, his fate would likely be incredibly tragic.

Meanwhile, Zhang Lei returned home and nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the thirteen-figure sum displayed in his account. Ye Shuqin quickly walked to his side and said softly, "Honey, time is too tight. We've only managed to scrape together this much money so far. If we need more, we'll work overtime tonight."

Zhang Lei shook his head and smiled, "No need, this is enough."

As soon as he finished speaking, he flashed into his personal space. Looking at the space he had meticulously prepared for so long, he silently said in his mind, "System, deduct one trillion US dollars and request a system upgrade."

[Ding! Host account balance detected: 1.35 trillion US dollars, sufficient funds.]

[Ding! One trillion US dollars deducted. System upgrade officially initiated. Please wait patiently for twelve hours.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Zhang Lei instantly returned to reality and informed the three sisters, Ye Shuqin, Ye Shuqi, and Ye Shuhua, that the system was about to be upgraded. The three women were all utterly shocked.

With a hint of anticipation in her eyes, Ye Shuqin asked, "Master, do you mean that now that the world's spiritual energy is beginning to recover, your system is about to become a cultivation system?"

"That's one way to understand it," Zhang Lei nodded.

Ye Shuqi calmly pressed further, "Is it like in the novels, with corresponding cultivation techniques and realm divisions?"

Zhang Lei helplessly spread his hands: "I don't know the specific cultivation rules either. I'll have to wait until the system upgrade is complete to find out."