The night was very quiet.
Aside from the occasional patrolling hunters from the Ping Liang Security Bureau, there was almost no one else on the street.
The street lamps installed on both sides of the road were not source power street lamps, but ordinary electric street lamps. The Ping Liang Power Supply Bureau increased the power supply voltage, making the electric street lamps barely usable. But at a glance, eight of the ten street lamps were still dim, and the remaining one or two were flickering dim, as if they could be extinguished at any time.
Such street lamps had to be changed every two to three days on every stretch of the road.
Only the source power street lamps could last.
The full moon hanging high in the sky gradually disappeared behind the clouds. The bright moonlight was covered, and the night became darker.
A few streets away from the orphanage where the incident took place.
Sun Yu, Cai Jiajia, and the others had changed into the props prepared by Nian Chengwei.
The uniform black cloak covered their figure, and it was impossible to see their gender. Everyone wore a mask on their face, but the masks were different, and they were all very fancy …
"Why do I have to wear a pig mask?!"
A female apprentice touched the big pig nose on the mask. Her voice was deep with melancholy.
Nian Chengwei touched the monk mask he was wearing and coughed, "I didn't find the props. I'm also very tired."
Looking at the other apprentices, there was a monkey face, a sand monk face, and a horse face …
It was a set of Journey to the West masks. In order to make up for five people, they deliberately added a horse face. Several funny masks made him want to laugh.
However, as a liaison and examiner, and the head of the Ping Liang Intelligence Department, Nian Chengwei couldn't laugh. He had to maintain a serious look.
"It's just a prop to hide our identity. Anyway, no one knows who is under the mask … In short, hurry up and act!"
The action route map had already been drawn up. Straight from the side of the orphanage … Sneak in.
Sun Yu and the others floated down from the high-rise building, stepping on the outer edge of the building to move forward quickly in mid-air, like a black fish flashing between the buildings.
From afar, they could see the teaching building on the side of the orphanage. There was a bright light inside, and the Security Bureau hunters were patrolling.
The surrounding area was empty, and there was a gap of more than 30 meters between the teaching block and the nearest building.
Sun Yu held onto the window's anti-theft net with one hand while her body was suspended in midair. Her other hand took out a hook rope that she had prepared earlier. With a flick of her wrist, the hook and rope flew out steadily. Accompanied by a soft sound, the hook grabbed onto the roof of the teaching building.
On the other side of the hook rope, Sun Yu quickly tossed it to her companion, who swiftly tied it to the anti-theft net.
At this time, Sun Yu was already stepping on the swaying rope, like a ghost, heading straight for the rooftop of the teaching building opposite.
Nian Chengwei, who was wearing the mask of Tripitaka, nodded slightly.
He seemed immature when it came to formulating a plan, but his actions were swift and decisive. He was worthy of being the focus of the martial arts club.
…
The rooftop of the teaching building was an important position overlooking the entire field. There were three hunters from the Security Bureau stationed on the rooftop.
One of them yawned, "I don't know how many days I'll have to stand guard. I'm not on night duty. Staying up late is a man's natural enemy!"
On the side, the hunter holding the flashlight gave him a 'Oh, you're a transvestite' look. Suddenly, he paused and looked at the other two, "Did you hear anything?"
"The field is still busy. I can hear the voices clearly."
"No, the sound seems to come from the other side … Forget it, I'll go and see. Standing for a long time is not good for blood circulation. Let's walk."
He held the flashlight and slowly walked to the other side of the rooftop.
His sleepiness made his brain a little slow.
The flashlight's flickering light illuminated the distance, and a shadow flashed in his sight.
As if a basin of water was poured on his head, his sleepiness instantly dissipated.
The Awakened from the Security Bureau stared at the rooftop, but there was no shadow. There was only an empty rope, swaying under the light of the flashlight.
"Shit!"
He thought, opening his mouth and was about to shout, but his throat was locked, and his back was hit hard. He fainted.
… …
Putting down the limp hunter in his hand, Sun Yu looked at the other side of the rooftop. The other two hunters stationed there were back to him, facing the direction of the field, whispering.
They didn't notice the situation here.
He shook his head, walked behind the two, and clenched his fingers into a knife. Bang! Bang!
Ten seconds later.
The three unconscious members of the Ping Liang Security Bureau were dragged to the side of the rooftop and leaned against the corner.
Cai Jiajia and the others also followed the rope to the rooftop. The last person untied the rope buckle tied to the anti-theft net. With the help of his companions on the rooftop of the teaching building, he flew to the rooftop and rolled silently on the ground.
"The first step of infiltration is complete." Sun Yu walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down, "Most of the battles happened in the field, which is also the focus of our investigation. There are currently six people on the field, but that's not the key. The field is empty and there's no shelter. It's easy to be discovered by the hunters on the teaching building."
"That's why I knocked them all out."
Cai Jiajia waved her pink fist. Seeing that Sun Yu had knocked out three people, she couldn't wait.
Sneaking in like this had already made her excited.
An assassin who can't use Wushuang is not a good mage!
… …
There were two teaching buildings, both with six floors. Not every floor was guarded by hunters, but there were a lot of them, a total of twenty or thirty people.
With so many people, if they gathered together or were relatively close, it was almost impossible for Sun Yu and Cai Jiajia to quietly solve the problem. The hunters of the Ping Liang Security Bureau were not weak.
But now, these twenty or thirty people were divided into several teams. The small team had two or three people, and the large team had four or five people, scattered in various directions on each floor. Not to mention they had five or four people, even if there was only one person, they could easily solve it.
There was no pressure to sneak in.
Just after a minute, they solved all the awakened ones stationed in the school building. Several people on the playground were also under their sneak attack … Under the violent sneak attack, they were knocked unconscious without any resistance. Even the masks of the Western Sky's five people couldn't be seen clearly.
Sun Yu and the others were relieved.
Looking around, some of the corpses had been taken away, but the traces were not cleaned up. There were several cracks on the ground on the field, and the dried blood dyed the weeds brown red.
They could vaguely recognize what happened on the night of the cult's attack.
"It seems … it was a one-sided battle." Cai Jiajia said.
Nian Chengwei nodded, "It's because the cult has overwhelming power that there were no traces left that night, which brought great difficulty to the investigation. Modern technology can hardly find any clues."
"What about the ability? Ping Liang's tens of thousands of hunters must have special abilities that are good at tracking or investigation. "
"There is indeed … Ping Liang found someone with the ability to go back in time and recreate the scene of that night."
Nian Chengwei stared at the dark red bloodstains on the ground, sweeping from one end of the field to the other. After a while, he shook his head, "There is no difference between the scene and the analysis. A group of black-robed cultists took less than a minute to solve the orphanage's guards and instructors, and didn't make a big movement. By the time the Security Bureau members found out, they had already gone far away."
"Backtracking is not omnipotent. It consumes a lot of energy, and it's difficult to find the cultists' powerful strength … After three days, I'm afraid the cultists have returned to their lair."
Nian Chengwei shook his head and looked at the apprentices, "So, do you have any opinions?"
The apprentices shook their heads neatly.
After a while, Cai Jiajia walked to the field near the teaching building, next to a body that hadn't been taken away.
The body was surrounded by a warning line. Cai Jiajia didn't blindly approach it, but stood nearby to observe.
The body was riddled with holes, as if it had been pierced by needles. The original face was no longer visible, and the state of death was very gruesome. Perhaps that was why the body was preserved. The Security Bureau wanted to determine the identity of the killer through the dead. If the cultists were hiding in the shelter, they would have a clear identity, an advanced awakened, and a special ability, and it would be easy to lock onto them.
However, three days passed.
There was no news at all … Either the Ping Liang Security Bureau hid the news too well, or the ability user who did it was a hidden master, an unknown master.
"Can you communicate with them?" Sun Yu came over and asked.
Cai Jiajia shook her head, "They're dead. If the spirits hadn't completely dissipated within a few hours, I could still communicate with them, but now …"
She walked around the entire field, stopping beside all the bodies that hadn't been taken away.
"Three days have passed, and all the bodies have lost their spirits … But this is also expected."
Cai Jiajia wasn't depressed.
Her ability was to communicate with spirits, which was very special and extremely rare.
She could communicate with "spirits", obtain information, and even control "spirits" for her own use.
Humans have spirits.
Plants have spirits.
All things have spirits.
However, in the early days of the doomsday, spirits would dissipate within a few minutes after a person died. The spirits of plants, mountains, and rivers were so weak that they couldn't be seen. At that time, communicating with spirits was just a useless ability.
With the increase in the concentration of Genesis Qi between heaven and earth, Cai Jiajia was surprised to find that the "spirits" of all things had strengthened a lot.
The ability to communicate with "spirits" could finally play a role.
Cai Jiajia looked around, and finally her eyes fell on a huge banyan tree near the flag-raising platform.
The trunk of the banyan tree was thick, and it would take two or three people holding hands to encircle it. The entire banyan tree was almost as tall as the school building, and its dense branches and leaves covered half of the field.
There was no doubt that the banyan tree could grow so lush after the doomsday due to hormones.
Cai Jiajia walked closer and put her hand on the tree trunk.
She closed her eyes, and her eyelashes gently trembled.
After a few minutes, when the others began to panic, Cai Jiajia opened her eyes, and the bright light in her eyes was enough to illuminate the surroundings.
"The cultists left in this direction."
Spirit communication completed.
On the other side, Nian Chengwei took out a lot of detection crystals and recording crystals to record the situation at the scene.
Seeing that there were no more clues in the orphanage, the few of them left in the direction that Cai Jiajia had communicated with the "banyan tree spirit."
Only the members of the Security Bureau were left lying on the ground.
Some were hugging each other, one on top of the other.
A few minutes later, another team of Security Bureau members who came to change shifts walked into the orphanage and saw the scene of hugging each other …
Their faces were full of shock.
…
"Public morals are degenerating."
"People are not what they used to be."
"No one is taking care of the flowers and plants."
Along the way, Cai Jiajia looked for aged trees, flowers, or historical buildings and stones. Relying on spirit communication, she slowly determined the direction that the cultists had left.
Cai Jiajia frowned in front of a thick tree that had been brutally chopped down. "The cultists split up here and left in three different directions. The 'spirit' wasn't very clear, but there were orphans who were taken away from each of the directions they left in."
"Then what should we do?"
"We can only slowly search in a few directions."
This was a big project. Fortunately, the few of them had perseverance … To be more precise, Cai Jiajia was able to persist and continue to spirit communication.
Spirit communication did not consume a lot of source power, but it took time.
The few of them avoided the night patrols while looking for a target for spirit communication.
Cai Jiajia communicated with the "spirit."
Sun Yu and the others were on lookout.
Nian Chengwei was bored, thinking about the purpose of the cultists and Ping Liang's response.
Ping Liang had the ability to backtrack, so he must have tried the method of interception and searching.
However, the cultists' anti-ability tracking method was very advanced. More than a dozen people separated and reunited, increasing the difficulty of backtracking.
"Backtracking" was different from "spirit communication." It consumed a lot of source power, and it was impossible to use it continuously … According to Nian Chengwei's estimation, the cultists with peak ninth tier masters would consume at least two-thirds of the ability user's source power every time they backtracked. The intelligence department had a backtracking ability user, and he was very clear about the characteristics and durability of the ability.
On the other hand, the cultists did not take the usual route. They might leap from the rooftops or travel through alleys. The limited backtracking range also increased the difficulty of tracking.
Scent, aura, and other tracking methods might not work either … The Cult of Termination was really professional.
Two to three hours passed while Nian Chengwei was deep in thought.
Cai Jiajia was exhausted. Spirit communication did not consume a lot of source power, but after hundreds of times, the source power bar had emptied three times.
If it was Ping Liang's shelter, the cultists with "spirit communication" could only do it three times. Each time, they would recover source power a few seconds apart, and then slowly track.
But the investigation team had already made plans to use Yao Recklessly.
Cai Jiajia took out a small bottle of source power recovery medicine filled with blue liquid, twisted the cap, and gulped it down.
The medicine melted in her mouth, and the rich medicinal power burst forth, turning into surging source energy that flowed through her meridians and gathered three inches below her lower abdomen, forming a bulging source energy ball.
The source power in her body quickly filled up.
It would be restored to full in three minutes.
Cai Jiajia was full of energy again. She pointed. "They passed by this courtyard. Come, let's continue to chase them. Even if we chase them out of the shelter and into the wilderness, I won't let them go."
She tapped her toes on the ground and leapt up lightly, landing on the wall of the courtyard.
The courtyard was dark, and did not seem to be inhabited. Cai Jiajia did not care. She stepped on the eaves on the side of the courtyard and flew to the opposite side. There happened to be a four-story tree behind the courtyard.
She lightly stepped on the rubble of the eaves. Suddenly, her expression changed, and she leaped up.
At that moment.
The old roof exploded with a bang. The roof tiles shot out in all directions, and a bright blade light shot out, as if to illuminate the dark night.
Sun Yu, who was a step behind, jumped from the courtyard wall to the eaves. She was in midair, and could not borrow any strength.
The figure in the house saw this and changed the blade. The blade light was like a bright waterfall, whipping towards Sun Yu.
The sharp aura was so piercing that it hurt people's faces!
Sun Yu could not avoid it and threw a punch.
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