Chapter 519
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Chapter 519: The Seeker
“Vice Captain, its movements have changed again!”
In mid-air, Qi Xiaoyu, who was racing towards a certain direction, opened her eyes and said with a strange expression.
“Changed again?!” Han Qing exclaimed in surprise, “It hasn’t even been half an hour, and it has already changed its route twice. Where on earth is it trying to go?”
“I don’t know…”
“Vice Captain, I can’t shake the feeling that… it seems to be toying with us?” Yang Letong said uncertainly, “Every time we get close to it, it suddenly runs off in another direction. Does it know we can sense its location?”
Han Qing frowned and fell into thought.
“Any news from Zhao Kun?”
“Not yet, they’re still retrieving the files, but it should be soon,” Yang Letong replied.
Han Qing sighed, “There’s no other way; we’ll continue the chase. With our speed, no matter how it changes direction, it can’t escape right under our noses. Catching up is just a matter of time.”
“Understood!”
……
At the 007 team’s base.
Zhao Kun’s gaze was fixed on the computer, where the progress bar for the search was slowly moving.
The database of the Night Watchmen stored all the “mysterious” files that had appeared across the country over the past century, managed by artificial intelligence. By inputting keywords into the intranet, these files could be searched. The more vague the keywords, the slower the search progress.
Moreover, if it was a “mystery” that had never appeared in a hundred years, even if one spent a lot of time searching the database, the result could still be a blank file.
This time, the 007 team’s understanding of this mystery was limited to its appearance, which made the search take longer.
“Found it!” Chen Linlin suddenly stood up from another computer.
Zhao Kun rushed to her side to read the retrieved file together.
“The Seeker… appeared once in Cangnan City twelve years ago…” Zhao Kun’s eyes scanned the file, finally stopping at its forbidden domain, his gaze sharpening.
“This ability…”
Zhao Kun looked up and exchanged a shocked glance with Chen Linlin before quickly walking out of the building.
As he stepped out the door, Zhao Kun took out his phone and began to call Han Qing.
The phone rang twice before being answered.
“Hello, Vice Captain Han, I found the file on this ‘mystery,’ it…”
Bang—!!
Before he could finish, a crisp snapping sound came from beside him.
In the next moment, the air around them was instantly vacuumed.
In the vacuum, Zhao Kun’s voice abruptly stopped, and he and Chen Linlin’s pupils constricted as they swiftly placed their hands on the knives at their waists.
Enemy attack!
“Chaos of the Universe.”
Outside the vacuum zone, a figure wearing a Zhu Bajie mask slowly extended a hand and pressed it in the void, causing a black-and-white Taiji diagram to unfold instantly.
The straight knives in their hands suddenly trembled violently, and before they could react, they flew out of their hands, heading straight for the figure at the center of the Taiji diagram!
The two stood frozen in place.
Before they could make a move, two high-pressure air hammers suddenly struck the back of their heads, and they felt a darkness before losing consciousness…
As the air resumed circulation, Bai Li Pangpang walked up to the two, his expression somewhat subtle.
“Brother Zhu, do you think this is a bit too much?”
Beside him, Shen Qingzhu casually walked over with a cigarette in his mouth, “What’s wrong with it? This is just a counteraction, and we’re only sharing some intelligence; we won’t actually harm them.”
“What if they wake up and refuse to tell us anything?”
“Who said we need them to tell us?”
Bai Li Pangpang was taken aback, “If they don’t tell us, how will we know the information?”
Shen Qingzhu patted his shoulder, walked aside, picked up the phone that had fallen on the ground, and exhaled a long puff of smoke, the white mist dispersing in the air.
“Learn from this.”
……
In a daze, Zhao Kun opened his eyes.
“Ugh…” He touched the back of his head, which still throbbed slightly, but he was still at the entrance of the building, and judging by the light, he hadn’t been unconscious for long—probably within ten minutes.
“Linlin, wake up.”
He walked over and shook the unconscious Chen Linlin.
Chen Linlin groaned softly and slowly opened her eyes, looking around in confusion, her brows tightly furrowed.
“Did we just… get attacked?”
“Yeah.” Zhao Kun paused, “But the attacker was wearing a mask, so we couldn’t confirm their identity… It might be someone from the Fifth Reserve Team.”
“Why are they still resorting to sneak attacks?!” Chen Linlin pouted angrily.
“What’s strange is that after knocking us out, they didn’t seem to do anything else.” Zhao Kun picked up the knife and phone from the ground, his expression somewhat odd, “What on earth do they want…”
“Let’s report the intelligence to the Vice Captain first… and the fact that we were just ambushed.”
“Okay.”
Zhao Kun dialed a number, and almost instantly, the other side picked up.
“Zzzz… Hello?” Han Qing’s voice came through the phone.
“Vice Captain Han, we found the file on that ‘mystery,’” Zhao Kun said seriously, “A shadow with red eyes, resembling a human, possesses high intelligence, and can attach itself to ordinary people… It is the [Seeker].”
“[Seeker]?” Han Qing’s voice sounded surprised.
“Exactly. Its forbidden domain is Sequence 043, named [Eye of the Seeker]. Its red eye can see through the past, present, and future of any non-living object…
It glanced at the surveillance camera by the stage and already saw the future of that camera; it saw that at some point in the future, we would pull up that footage and see its existence.
It’s a ‘mystery’ that can predict the future to a certain extent!”
“I see…”
“For a century, only one [Seeker] has appeared within the Great Xia territory, which was twelve years ago in Cangnan City. At that time, the 136 team stationed in Cangnan chased it for a full half month but couldn’t catch it. Later, it disappeared for unknown reasons.
The current [Seeker] is very likely the same one that appeared in Cangnan twelve years ago; it didn’t just arrive today… It has been lurking somewhere until now, actively releasing its aura, wanting us to find it!”
“Hmm, is there anything else?”
Zhao Kun pondered for a moment, “The file also mentioned something I’m particularly concerned about… Twelve years ago, when it appeared, it claimed to be a servant of some supreme existence, and its arrival here was by the will of that supreme being.”
“Supreme existence…” The voice on the other end paused, “I understand. Is there anything else?”
“Nothing more.” Zhao Kun seemed to remember something, “Oh, Vice Captain, it seems we were just ambushed by someone from the Fifth Reserve Team.”
“Oh, really?”
“They knocked us out but didn’t do anything else… I’m a bit puzzled.”
“It’s good to be puzzled.”
“…?” Zhao Kun asked in confusion, “Vice Captain, what do you mean?”
On the other end of the line, a faint buzzing sound came through, and Han Qing’s voice suddenly changed to a cool, melodious young girl’s voice.
“I mean, thank you for the intelligence… I’ll treat you to a late-night snack tonight~”
