Chapter 1376
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Chapter 1376 Memory Retrieval
Black Pupil, can you find it?
Lin Qiye stood at the public phone, a red-eyed black pupil silently opening in his palm, its gaze locking onto the phone’s surface as a faint light flickered.
In his field of vision, everything around quickly rewound. The sequence of pressed phone buttons reappeared, and after tracing back about two sets of numbers, the sequence that Whisper had dialed appeared in the black pupil’s eye.
After the receiver was put down, a series of footprints extended from beside the phone toward the other side of the road.
“I can.” Black Pupil’s voice sounded beside Lin Qiye’s ear. “I’ve found his trail.”
Under Black Pupil’s guidance, Lin Qiye transformed into a shadow of night, moving at extreme speed between roads. With little time left before the disaster would break out, he had to give his all.
Fortunately, the sky was gradually darkening, with amber sunlight reflecting on the roads, stretching the shadows of buildings and pedestrians. Even with this shadow of night frantically moving through the city, few people noticed anything unusual.
Soon, following Black Pupil’s directions, Lin Qiye caught up with the figure who had made the phone call.
The figure was mingling with the crowd, carrying a black briefcase, rapidly approaching the direction of the Huangpu River.
“He’s walking among ordinary civilians, making it difficult to take action…” Black Pupil’s voice sounded grave.
In this busy, bustling street, the figure was surrounded by ordinary people coming and going. Making a move here could easily alert the target and harm innocent bystanders.
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes and calmly said, “Not a big problem.”
Trailing behind the crowd, Lin Qiye forcefully stepped on the ground, and a shadow of night instantly flashed past the people in front of him. Except for the central figure carrying the briefcase, the eyes of all nearby ordinary people were covered by a veil of darkness.
They only felt a moment of darkness, as if invisible hands had covered their vision.
Almost simultaneously, a crisp sound of a sword being drawn rang out!
Clang—!
[Slash White] unsheathed, Lin Qiye gripped the handle, his form ghostlike as he passed through the crowd. A flash of blade light, ignoring space itself, instantly reached the back of the figure’s neck!
The figure felt his hair stand on end as an unprecedented sense of mortal danger enveloped him.
His reaction speed wasn’t slow. He immediately mobilized all his spiritual power, attempting to activate his Divine Void, but just as the Divine Void was being activated, another invisible domain covered him, forcibly suppressing his Divine Void!
Under Lin Qiye’s Divine Void counter, this brief pause became the moment of death for his opponent.
A flash of blade light crossed his neck. The head, with eyes wide in terror, was thrown high, and before the gushing blood could spray out, the body was dragged into the void by [Slash White], disappearing from the spot.
The surrounding pedestrians only felt a brief flicker before their eyes as the darkness covering their vision vanished, and their sight returned to normal.
From the night shadow covering their eyes, to drawing the sword, countering the Divine Void, killing, and removing the corpse… this process seemed complex but actually took less than two seconds. For the ordinary people around, it was just a moment of darkness before everything returned to normal.
They didn’t notice that in the crowd, a figure had vanished into thin air.
In a deserted alley two streets away, Lin Qiye emerged from the void with the Ancient God Church member’s corpse, blood spilling onto the ground.
Lin Qiye expressionlessly put away [Slash White], picked up the briefcase, and retrieved a glass tube identical to the one in Whisper’s possession. A light red liquid swirled inside, emitting an eerie glow.
“Director, your strength is truly becoming more and more formidable,” Black Pupil’s admiring voice echoed in Lin Qiye’s ears.
When Black Pupil first met Lin Qiye, he was just a “Sea” level Night Watcher rookie. In such a short time, he had already become capable of silently taking the head of a “Boundless” level opponent in the midst of a crowd.
“Put the flattery aside and continue finding the next person’s location,” Lin Qiye said calmly as he put away the glass tube.
“Happy to serve you…”
Under Black Pupil’s guidance, Lin Qiye transformed into a ghost, silently harvesting the lives of Ancient God Church members in this busy, bustling city.
In just over ten minutes, Lin Qiye had already killed three Ancient God Church members in succession, without anyone being able to clearly see what he looked like.
Of course, this was related to the fact that most of the enemies Lin Qiye encountered were at the “Sea” or “Boundless” level. During this period, the Ancient God Church had just emerged, and its members generally had lower cultivation levels and varying strengths.
Among the three people Lin Qiye had killed, Whisper was already the strongest.
Just as Lin Qiye finished dealing with one Ancient God Church member and was about to search for the next, the radio at his waist suddenly sounded:
“Qiye, how’s it going on your end?”
“I’ve already killed three and am on my way to pursue the fourth,” Lin Qiye replied.
“…We don’t have much time left. Many Ancient God Church members have already reached the banks of the Huangpu River. Fatty just dealt with one, and if he hadn’t been able to disarm them, the river water would likely already be contaminated.”
A grave expression appeared on Lin Qiye’s face. After thinking for a moment, he said:
“In that case, I’ll go directly to the riverbank and wait. No matter how these Ancient God Church rats run, they’ll eventually gather there.”
“I was thinking the same thing,” An Qingyu paused, then spoke again. “By the way, Fatty says there’s something at the bottom of the Huangpu River.”
“Something? What?”
“Don’t know, but he says it’s definitely related to this disaster.”
Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow. “I understand… Although Fatty’s intuition isn’t always reliable, to be cautious, I’ll go down and take a look later.”
“Good, you go to the riverbank first. Jiang Er and I will be there shortly.”
…
007 Squad Headquarters.
An Qingyu turned off the radio and slowly stood up from the chair at the desk, looking at the five members of Squad 007 who were tightly bound together before him, his expression somewhat complex.
“I told you, I’m really not a bad person…”
“Mmmmph…”
An Qingyu silently peeled off the tape from one person’s mouth.
To prevent them from shouting and disturbing his communication with Lin Qiye, he had to take some simple measures to silence them… although these measures made him look even less like a good person.
“Fuck your Ancient God Church! Even if we die today, you won’t get any information from us!” the burly man shouted defiantly.
Seeing this, An Qingyu sighed helplessly.
“Then don’t blame me… It might hurt a bit, try to endure it.”
In An Qingyu’s eyes, a strange purple light flickered. He suddenly extended his hand and pressed it on the burly man’s head. The next moment, the man’s fierce expression gradually became blank.
He was directly using his ability to read the other’s memories.
After some time, An Qingyu suddenly opened his eyes, the purple light receding like a tide…
“This is bad…” he murmured.
