“Is she really still in Dawn City?”
“She's actually quite famous. It seems everyone in Dawn City has heard of her, but no one can find where she is.”
As her voice fell, a drop of water seeped from the water screen before her and flowed toward her ear.
Contracting and expanding, it formed the shape of an earbud.
A voice rang out from this water earbud:
“According to the information from Aries and the others, too many things have happened around Dawn City.”
“Although that City Lord is a cripple, he is by no means a simple character. I keep feeling like something is going to go wrong with this grand ceremony.”
“So, I don't believe the people from that organization really just left. Bai Feifei must still be there!”
The voice from the earbud was none other than Aquarius Yue Rugou, who had previously contacted Hong Jiu.
Yes, even though Aries and Capricorn were still lying in the red soil, the Rangers—those global troublemakers—had still sent new personnel!
They were truly ubiquitous.
After Yue Rugou finished speaking, she said in a highly dramatic tone:
“Sister Kong Man, have you already sneaked in?”
“Then you must hide your identity well. We Rangers are universally despised, so be careful!”
Hearing this, Kong Man couldn't help but laugh.
“Didn't you beg me to come? Cut the nonsense!”
She looked up, her gaze passing over the layers of festive ribbons to look toward the front rows below the speaker's platform.
She narrowed her eyes. “The Scavenger Headquarters did send someone over, but they're just a Prophet.”
“Liu Yun isn't here, but the remnants of her aura are. I can feel it.”
Kong Man stood in the crowd with her arms crossed. She didn't look like an agent at all, but rather like a casual tourist.
“Even if they discover me, what can they do to me?”
There was a half-second of silence in the earbud, and then Yue Rugou burst out with a shout, “You're so badass, Sister Man!”
Kong Man hung up immediately.
The earbud turned back into a drop of water, sliding down her neck.
Actually, with her mysterious sixth sense, she also felt that something was bound to happen today.
At the Prophet level, a vague perception of the future was already a concrete premonition.
Yes, Scorpio Kong Man, one of the twelve executives of the Rangers, with a Scavenger rank of Prophet!
At this moment, the corners of her mouth curved slightly. Before she came, terms like Bai Feifei, the Masked Hermit Society, and Sinking Black had been repeated by Yue Rugou so many times they had almost formed calluses on her ears.
Now, she was actually looking forward to it a little.
With a sway of her body, she melted into the shadows of the festive crowd.
...
Meanwhile, around the house where Bai Feifei lived.
Over a dozen hidden sentries were scattered like nails in different rooms, every single eye still locked onto that room.
As the ceremony began, their expressions grew even tighter.
They were all Rank 5 Scavengers, and the one leading them was an Edgerunner!
But today, starting from the morning, their condition felt a bit off.
Sleepy!
The drowsiness grew more and more severe. At its worst, they even felt slightly blurry-eyed, their minds wandering heavily.
It was true they hadn't slept, but as Rank 5 Scavengers, they should have been able to handle this. This was highly unusual.
But bound by their duties, they couldn't speak up, only thinking about pushing through until the ceremony was over.
So each of them assumed that they were the only one who was sleepy, unaware that this drowsiness had already entangled all of them.
“It's very quiet. It seems she hasn't come out at all, right?”
One of the hidden sentries couldn't help but fall asleep for a few seconds. Suddenly snapping awake, he quickly used his walkie-talkie to communicate with his teammates.
“Yeah... probably. Haven't seen her come out.”
“Yes, haven't seen her. Maybe she and the City Lord have some sort of understanding, so she won't show up.”
“Yeah, there are so many people today...”
Everyone's replies were somewhat vague, and without prior agreement, they began chatting in the channel.
They wanted to keep themselves awake and distract their minds.
The leading Edgerunner suddenly felt something was off.
Why was the team suddenly so lazy? And... he felt a bit sleepy too.
To be safe, he picked up his walkie-talkie and ordered:
“Number Six, pretend to be a passerby and check the door. Look directly through the window!”
“...Copy that.”
Two seconds later, a hidden sentry staggered over to the front of the room and pressed himself against the window, motionless.
The leader was completely dumbfounded. What the hell was this guy doing? This was practically an open provocation!
But he quickly noticed something wrong. It had been too long.
“Number Six? Number Six!”
He immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie, but received no response.
And in the channel, the sentries who had been talking earlier were now terrifyingly silent.
Thud!
Dozens of meters away, a hidden sentry lying in the shadows of a roof rolled straight off and fell to the ground!
The hair on the leader's back stood on end instantly.
Even an idiot could see there was a problem now!
No alarms, no calls for help. These team members had lost contact in an instant, looking like they... fell asleep?
No, why did he feel a bit sleepy too?
“Fuck!?” the leader cursed. He ripped off his communicator and leaped out of the window.
His brain was a bit sluggish now, but instinct told him he needed to rush over and check what was happening in that room!
The Edgerunner's Escape Art exploded beneath his feet. Captain Zhao transformed into a blue-grey afterimage, crossing the dozen-meter distance in the blink of an eye.
He couldn't care less about offending anyone now. He kicked open the door, his short sword unsheathing at the same instant.
A pale green wind blade buzzed to life along the edge of the blade.
The room was completely empty.
That woman, who had never left the room and hadn't budged an inch right under the noses of over a dozen people, had just vanished into thin air?!
How was that possible!
The most certain piece of intelligence regarding that woman was that, although she was exceptionally strong, she was not an Edgerunner!
Without an Escape Art, how could this be...
“This is bad!” Captain Zhao's lips trembled.
Even though his reflexes were dull and his mind wasn't entirely clear, he still realized that something terrible was about to happen.
The other party had specifically avoided their gaze; it couldn't possibly be just to take a stroll outside the city!
But at this moment, what he failed to notice was that ever since he entered, something had been continuously seeping out from the cracks of the room.
It was blood.
A profusion of colorful blood!
The blood flowing from the cracks condensed and stretched behind him, rising section by section, outlining a humanoid silhouette.
The leader spun around, wanting to rush out.
He needed to tell the people at the ceremony that something might go wrong.
Thud!
The moment he turned, he slammed hard into something. Looking up, he saw a hideous set of dark purple armor, swirling with a bloody aura!
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