"How far is it from us?" This instructor should be the team leader of this team. When he heard the team member's report, he couldn't help but frown.
"Less than a kilometer," the teacher who was searching replied.
"Xiao Lai, be careful and pay attention to your surroundings. Don't let the other instructors discover our tracks," the captain instructed decisively.
"Yes, Captain!" The search instructor, Xiao Lai, accepted the order.
The captain waved his hand, and with a few whooshing sounds, the five figures disappeared.
In the south, Ling Lan was running as fast as she could while instructing Little Four to help her find the most suitable hunting ground in her mindscape.
"Little Four, is this the place?" Ling Lan suddenly stopped and asked Little Four.
"Yes, there isn't a single scout within a thousand meters of this place." Although Little Four did not know why Ling Lan was so concerned about the existence of the scouts, the little brother's responsibility was to fulfill his boss's needs.
"Alright, then let's wait for the prey to enter!" The hunting ground that Ling Lan had chosen was the dense forest in the depths of the academy. This place was already very far from the main school buildings. Most people would not choose to come to such a dark and uninhabited place, unless they were opportunistic students who wanted to hide for 24 hours.
Ling Lan made a few light leaps in the forest and disappeared without a sound.
In less than a minute, the five-man team appeared at the place where Ling Lan had disappeared.
"It's right here. A minute ago, the surveillance system detected his figure. He entered the dense forest and then disappeared here." Xiao Lai pointed in the direction Ling Lan had disappeared.
"Can't you get the exact location where he's hiding?" The captain looked at the silent forest and asked again.
"There's no way to find them. There's almost no surveillance equipment in this place unless we use the satellite system that the mainframe is in charge of." Xiao Lai said regretfully, "I still have no way of hacking into the Central Scout Academy's mainframe to gain control over it. Its level is no lower than our military mainframe."
The captain said, "It's only been a minute. He can't have gone far. Let's chase after him!" After saying that, he was the first to jump into the forest. The other team members did not hesitate and followed him into the forest. They were only dealing with a 13-year-old child, so they did not have any concerns about entering the forest.
Everyone walked quickly for a while before the captain suddenly stopped. He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the surroundings.
"The other party's aura actually disappeared. How did he do it?" The captain's expression was very ugly. If the target escaped this time, it would be very difficult for them to explain themselves when they returned. Mind you, the chances of getting rid of the other silently were extremely rare. Thus, the leader had long given the death order that the brat must die in this grand armed melee.
"Did we go overboard?" one of the team members asked. They absolutely did not believe that a 13-year-old child could walk faster than them.
"Of course not!" The captain snorted coldly. He could sense the commotion at the place where they had just entered. Of course, this was not possible.
However, he also believed that with their speed, it was impossible for them to be unable to catch up to the other party. The biggest possibility was that the other party had some kind of miraculous concealment method and was hiding in the side without him noticing.
"He should be around here! Let's split up and check. We have to check carefully, don't miss any suspicious places. "The captain immediately made his decision." Also, don't forget what we're here for … "
The captain swept a cold gaze over the team members. "Kill him, don't be soft-hearted! That's our mission! "
"Yes, Captain!" The four of them obeyed, and their initially somewhat relaxed expressions instantly vanished. They each chose a direction and slowly searched in that direction.
"As expected, they're here to kill us …" Little Four dutifully presented the movements of the five people one by one in Ling Lan's mind.
"Aiya, how is that fellow so accurate in his walking? He's about to find us! "Little Four jumped up in surprise in her mindspace.
"Don't panic!" Ling Lan comforted Little Four. She stared at an instructor who was already very close to her. Let's just call him an instructor for now … she needed to find a chance to kill him in one blow.
As these people approached, Ling Lan knew that ever since the assassination attempt when she was six years old, she was now facing the second great crisis of her life. These five people were all combat experts in the mid to late stages of the Qi-Jin stage, especially the captain, who had reached the peak of Qi-Jin. Just like her, he was only waiting for an opportunity to gain some insight and enter a new domain.
As the other party got closer and closer to her hiding spot, Ling Lan's heart became even calmer. Her heartbeat became extremely slow, as if she had entered a state of hibernation. She lay there motionless.
One step, two steps, three steps … the other party was already right in front of her. The shoe on his foot almost stepped on her finger, but even so, Ling Lan's heart was still as cold as ice. She would not be alarmed even if the sky collapsed, and she did not move an inch.
Just as the other party was about to take another step closer, the bushes one metre away from them suddenly moved slightly. That person instantly turned around, his expression guarded, ready to go over to check out the situation. At this moment, Ling Lan suddenly moved!
Ling Lan's right hand was holding a cone-shaped weapon. It was transparent and emitted a trace of cold air. It was an icicle condensed from Ice Affinity. This was the largest weapon Ling Lan could condense at present. Say, wasn't Ling Lan's right hand broken? Why could she still use a weapon?
It turned out that when she had clashed with Zhang Jing-an's fist earlier, Ling Lan's right arm was completely fine. She had just purposely acted weak. As for who would fall for her trick because of this … that was not something that Ling Lan needed to consider.
However, the icicle in her right hand was not the weapon that Ling Lan relied on the most. Her true killing move was her spiritual attack.
In this era, spiritual attacks were an ability that only Domain stage combat masters or ace operators could possess. Looking closely, this was just a possibility. Indeed, both of these types of people required a large amount of spiritual power to advance, but possessing spiritual power did not mean that they could use spiritual power to attack. Unless they had awakened an innate talent in this area, only then would they possess such an ability. For example, the spectre power of a spiritual mutation was a type of spiritual attack.
However, Ling Lan was an oddball. She had not awakened any offensive innate talent, but because of the teachings of the learning space, she had used a masochistic method to train up this formless yet extraordinarily powerful killing move. This was also why Ling Lan had dared to single-handedly hunt down five Qi-Jin stage masters whose abilities were on par with hers.
In truth, the movement in the bushes that had attracted the other's attention had also been caused by Ling Lan using her spiritual power to discreetly tug at it. Without question, this time, Ling Lan had planned it very well. All of the other's reactions had been within her calculations.
A vicious spiritual attack had caused the other's head to be abruptly struck by a force. Zhang Jing-an, who had just stepped into the early stage of Qi-Jin, had been knocked unconscious without any resistance. However, this instructor who had already reached the intermediate stage of Qi-Jin had only been knocked unconscious for two seconds before regaining consciousness.
However, these two seconds were enough for Ling Lan to kill the other several times. The icicle made from Ice Affinity stabbed decisively into the other's chest. Ling Lan did not hesitate after her move had succeeded. She instantly retreated, fleeing without even looking at the other's outcome!
That attack just now had already revealed her killing intent. As long as she had paused for even a moment, she would have been surrounded by the other four. At that time, she would have been doomed.
The moment Ling Lan left, the icicle that had pierced through the other's chest suddenly shattered, turning into countless sparkling specks of light that instantly disappeared into the air. Without the support of Ling Lan's Ice Affinity, the icicle would not have been able to maintain its original form. This was also why Ling Lan had chosen to use Ice Affinity as a weapon. In the end, the other five would know what her killing weapon was.
"Xiao Lai!" The team leader who had rushed over exclaimed. It turned out that the first team member to be killed by Ling Lan had been that Xiao Lai who had awakened the innate talent of hacking, able to hack into surveillance equipment to search for targets. Because the innate talent of hacking was a spiritual-type awakened talent, it had great resistance against Ling Lan's spiritual attacks. However, he was still not completely immune to Ling Lan's spiritual attacks, so in the end, he had still died under Ling Lan's sneak attack.
Xiao Lai pressed down on the blood spurting from his chest in terror, mumbling, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die..." He had originally thought that this would be an extremely easy mission, just killing a 13 year old scout. They were all elites of that school...
"Xiao Lai, hang in there!" The team leader took out some medicine and poured it down the other's throat, but he also knew that it was useless. Unless they could replenish the other's blood within 3 minutes to maintain the other's minimum blood volume, and then get a new heart within 2 hours, even the gods would not be able to save him.
But now, they were in the Central Scout Academy, and they were impersonating instructors to assassinate academy students. They had no way of requesting emergency aid, so there was no way for them to receive such aid. In other words, they had no way of bringing Xiao Lai back to their own territory within 3 minutes.
Hiding to one side, Ling Lan bit down hard on her palm, hoping that the pain would lessen the discomfort in her heart. The person she had just killed was not a human from the learning space, nor was he an enemy who had died at her hands in a mecha battle on planet Demonbeast, nor was he a traitor who had betrayed her.
It was very likely that he was a soldier, an honest soldier who did not know the truth, purely accepting the mission... but she could not be soft-hearted because of this. She could not die, she definitely could not die. She had sworn long ago that she would live peacefully in this life, live freely. If anyone wanted to obstruct this goal, she would not hesitate even if she had to become a demon...
"Team leader! Is this mission really right? "Xiao Lai's eyes were wide with doubt as he breathed his last.
"Xiao Lai!" The team leader roared in a low voice, tears flowing silently from the corners of his eyes. It was just as Xiao Lai had said — was this mission really right? Why did they have to kill a half-grown child? Could it be that because the father had betrayed them, the child would also betray them? Why did they have to nip this problem in the bud?
The team leader slowly wiped away Xiao Lai's widened eyes, and then raised his head once more, his gaze cold and fierce. "Xiao Lai, even now, you still don't understand. We don't need to know what's right or wrong. Once you've entered the organisation, the mission is number one! Don't worry, I will kill him to avenge you. The blood of a comrade will not be shed in vain. " The team leader's killing intent thickened, and his entire aura gradually became unstable, even showing signs of going berserk.
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