Chapter 190
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Chapter 190: Patience Showdown
At this moment, Fulan had lost her perception of the outside world; her biological instincts taught her to approach everything with caution.
Five minutes passed.
Ten minutes passed.
Fifteen minutes passed.
In the next second, a face with a peculiar smile peeked around the corner of the alley.
It was the face of a handsome young male, with slightly curled bangs that exuded a calmness unique to inner city residents.
The eight teeth revealed in his smile made it difficult for anyone to find fault.
Yet, if an ordinary person witnessed this scene, they would surely scoff at how overly theatrical he appeared.
Dummy "Vine" had indeed not left!
He scanned the entire alley with a smile that induced a chilling dread, like a beast toying with its prey after cornering it.
At that moment, though Fulan couldn’t control her eyes, she instinctively felt a brief twitch in her brain.
The fear was almost tangible, as if it had tainted her very spirit.
In that instant, Fulan was deeply grateful for her caution; she was relieved she hadn’t used her ability to transform into something inconspicuous but had instead remained still, playing the part of a Cat’s Corpse.
She also felt justified in her decision not to repair her nerves and spine, as some reflexes were impossible to conceal.
Given the suddenness of his appearance, the usual Fulan would have reacted noticeably—even if only her eyes, her pupils would have dilated or constricted visibly.
Dummy "Vine" stared intently in her direction for nearly three minutes.
Finally, he muttered, as if to himself or perhaps deceitfully:
“It seems it’s just an ordinary beast that mistakenly consumed the flesh and blood of extraordinary beasts.”
After speaking, he glanced up at the sky, his face showing a common human expression of anxiety, before turning and hastily exiting the alley.
This time, Fulan did not move again.
Her caution and carefulness had granted her a new opportunity, but a second chance would be hard to come by.
She lay quietly on the ground until the sky darkened and the first lights began to twinkle on the street.
Under the veil of darkness and shadows, Fulan slowly mended the wounds scattered across her body.
The blood left by Lin Qingliu acted like the finest physician, repairing the bones that had been crushed into fragments.
Eventually, as the moon ascended into the night sky, Fulan’s light green vertical pupils finally regained their focus.
She slowly rose from the ground, limping out of the alley like a child who had been wronged.
Meanwhile, on the rooftop behind her, Nian was fixated on Fulan’s retreating figure.
His murky eyes seemed to emit a faint glow, and his expressionless face twitched slightly, eventually settling into a bizarre smile that revealed eight teeth.
“How could I have been mistaken?”
—
Fulan walked through four blocks and, with the aid of familiar buildings, skillfully used her Three Legs to leap onto the second-floor windowsill of Lin Qingliu’s new home.
Afterward, her claws nudged, swiftly opening the unlocked window.
As she slipped inside, Lin Qingliu had already been waiting in the chair for some time.
Fulan appeared as though she had been wronged, her limp more pronounced than when she was outside.
She quickly made her way to Lin Qingliu, leaping onto his lap.
“Why didn’t you use the thing I gave you?”
“Fulan always felt it would attract unnecessary attention…”
“……”
Lin Qingliu tilted his head slightly in surprise; in some ways, this little one had guessed quite accurately…
Many hours earlier, before Fulan had died, Lin Qingliu had already sensed something as the blood he left inside her began to awaken from its dormant state.
He silently approved that sensation, akin to a permission request, granting Fulan the right to manipulate the blood to heal her body.
After that, he began to wait.
Lin Qingliu understood that, with Fulan’s own intelligence, her abilities, and the components Luke had generously provided, it would be difficult for her to sustain such severe injuries.
Yet, it had happened, indicating that she had encountered an enemy she couldn’t fight against.
Thus, Lin Qingliu had been fully prepared, ready for the worst-case scenario.
Given his current abilities, even when facing a blockade from the top five teams, escaping without harming innocents wouldn’t be difficult.
But the situation was far better than he had expected.
After hearing Fulan’s recount of the entire process, Lin Qingliu was able to confirm two things.
First, the force targeting Fulan came from outside Hope City, likely the will of the mycelium he had previously faced in this arena.
Second, since no ordinary humans or superpowered individuals were currently tracking Fulan, Lin Qingliu could assume that Luke had not yet been classified as missing.
At this thought, Lin Qingliu couldn’t help but sigh slightly; if these two groups could focus on Fulan simultaneously, he would truly enjoy being a spectator, watching the superpowered individuals of both forces play a game of who is the undercover in Hope City.
Unfortunately, reality was not as beautiful as imagination; Lin Qingliu couldn’t be sure if Fulan had any followers when she returned.
However, his mindset was quite peculiar; he felt a bit worried about those monstrous beings coming, yet also a bit eager.
After all, he hadn’t had a good fight since he gained an enhancement of his abilities.
Perhaps this was one of the troubles of being behind the scenes.
—
“Beep~ Signal unclear, beep~ signal unclear.”
In Hope City, at the central spire.
After handling many matters, Nia was dozing off; her energy was far more abundant than that of an ordinary human, and now resting was entirely to better observe the situation in the recent black market at night.
Recently, many good things had happened; the heir she had her eyes on successfully passed the test and became a member of the exploration team.
She personally approved that document.
As for the rest, the last assassination attempt had been roughly figured out, with the suspects basically narrowed down to the two old scoundrels, Kande and Vaughn.
Meanwhile, Luke seemed to…
Just then, the beeping alarm pulled Nia awake; she quickly glanced at the display screen, a puzzled expression appearing on her face.
The signal source was surprisingly Luke.
Why was the signal poor?
Nia couldn’t understand at all; after all, the components within Luke were genuinely high-end goods, something the research institutes couldn’t even crack or replicate.
Such items wouldn’t have problems as long as they stayed within the city.
Yet now, Luke’s signal began to flicker faintly from Fourth Commercial Street.
Nia couldn’t figure it out, but she quickly recalled something.
During the event when the followers first appeared, the incident at the research institute, all the surveillance on site had shown signs of interference.
This…
He really found something!
Nia picked up the communicator beside her and sent a high-level directive from the council to the General Staff Headquarters:
“[Followers] potentially appeared, immediately dispatch three teams ranked in the top fifteen to Fourth Commercial Street.”
