“Little Qingqing, where are we going?”
In the car, Ke Li asked.
Constantly moving isn’t a good idea. Now that people are awakening abilities everywhere, those with tracking abilities are even more common.
Running around means spreading traces everywhere. It’s easy to be tracked.
“Let’s go to Xiaoya Bay. There are lots of abandoned villas there, and it’s sparsely populated, perfect for hiding.”
Hearing this, the two little ones immediately pictured the map of Goose City in their minds. Xiaoya Bay is a development zone near Pengcheng.
It doesn’t have many people, but there are countless buildings. It’s a deformed product of uncontrolled development.
The permanent population is small and widely distributed, with an unimaginable number of abandoned buildings, especially unsold villas. It really is suitable for hiding.
“Ke Ling, Ke Li, do you know what methods they’ll use to track me?”
Even with a suitable hiding place, Yang Liuqing was still uneasy.
She had just witnessed the power of a Transcendent—a mere pork butcher had such destructive force.
If she had hesitated and not drunk the Magic Potion, she would be dead.
Now she felt immensely grateful. Losing Gil and gaining the power to protect herself might not be a bad thing.
Without power, in this New World, she would just be meat on the chopping block.
Understanding this, she stopped being sentimental.
“Smell is the simplest tracking method. Everyone has a distinct scent; even hunting dogs can easily lock on, let alone Transcendents with related abilities. Next is aura—the longer it lingers, the easier it is for someone to memorize and track. However, auras can be forged or hidden, making it relatively harder.”
Ke Ling thought these two methods were common.
Abilities like Retrospection were extremely rare; if someone with that ability found you, you’d have to accept it.
“That’s bad. I didn’t bring any personal items with me.”
Yang Liuqing frowned slightly. She was more afraid of scent tracking than aura tracking.
The former could be avoided by going far away, but the latter left a lot of traces, making it highly likely to be tracked.
If it were just hunting dogs, she could shake them off, but Transcendents with similar abilities were probably even better than dogs.
“Little Qingqing, there’s actually a simpler way to track you,” Ke Li, sitting in the passenger seat, said without her usual smile.
“What way?” Yang Liuqing’s heart skipped a beat, sensing something bad.
“Your phone,” Ke Li said without beating around the bush.
Hearing this, Yang Liuqing froze and nearly crashed into the guardrail.
Luckily, her driving skills were good, and she swerved back just in time.
“You want to scare me to death!” Ke Li wanted to jump up and punch her two times.
“Be careful driving…” Ke Ling was glad she followed the rule of wearing her seatbelt even in the back seat.
Otherwise, that move might have sent her through the window.
“Sorry, I got distracted.” Yang Liuqing looked apologetic, but she was panicking inside.
She had completely forgotten about her phone.
That thing constantly leaks information.
She pulled the car over, rolled down the window, turned off her phone, and threw it into the river.
Her heart ached. As a 24K poor person, this phone was a cheap buy from the Xianyu second-hand market. It cost 300 yuan and was her first smartphone.
It had sentimental value… Not really.
What really hurt was the money in her mobile payments.
Most of her funds were there, and she only had a little cash on hand. She had no idea how long she would have to run.
Without money, she couldn’t go anywhere.
The villa area in Xiaoya Bay could hide her, but it didn’t mean she could live there.
She closed the window, put the car back in drive, and decided to take things one step at a time.
Just as the Treasure Donkey Car was speeding along the road, a mysterious woman in a black military cap and black uniform appeared in Yang Liuqing’s rental apartment.
The brim of her cap was pulled low, making it hard to see her face. But even the exposed part was stunning.
She had an elegantly shaped oval face, smooth creamy skin, a straight nose, and beautiful red lips.
Together, they were exquisite and moving.
Her wonderful figure was wrapped in a black uniform, but you could still see its explosive curves.
Her black leather boots stepped on the cracked floor, making crunch crunch sounds.
“Hmm… The cuts are so smooth and consistent, like they were made by a machine. This is a master—at least master-level.”
The woman in the military cap observed the body parts on the floor, her voice carrying a mature charm.
“From the damage to the walls and door, it’s clear they were destroyed by tremendous force. This guy was the attacker.As soon as he came in, he was swiftly cut down by a master wielding a blade. He didn’t even react—dead instantly.”
As if she had witnessed it herself, she described the combat scene. Then she took out a tri-fold screen phone, unfolded it, and checked information.
“Yang Liuqing, 18 years old. Hmm, even the ID photo is beautiful. In person, she must be stunning.”
The information displayed was sparse; she scrolled to the bottom in a few seconds.
“Both parents dead, an orphan again. Her life from birth to entering society is very ordinary. Doesn’t seem like someone who could afford martial arts training. If this were a month ago, she could be completely ruled out. But now, hard to say.”
The woman muttered to herself while flipping through the data.
“I see, a pork butcher. That gives her a strong motive. Just got her ability and can’t wait to use it—if not you, then who?”
With a simple analysis, she figured out the cause and effect.
She shifted her gaze to the split dressing table, which had the same smooth cut.
Further down, the concrete floor also had a palm-sized cut.
“Looks like the mark of a greatsword stabbed into the ground. The released sword energy sliced the dressing table in two—pretty impressive.”
After observing the entire room, she basically identified the culprit.
“It’s hard to believe, but an ordinary person gaining master-level ability isn’t strange these days. Yang Liuqing, you shouldn’t have run.”
The woman pushed her cap lower, the corners of her mouth slightly upturned, looking especially seductive. In her other hand, she held an empty test tube.
“I’ll win this game for sure.”
The moment she finished speaking, she set off to hunt, moving as fast as a hurricane.
“Ah!” In a mansion in downtown Goose City that covered over a thousand square meters, a chilling scream rang out.
“Do you really think being chosen allows you to defy fate? Ridiculous.”
In the spacious living room, a middle-aged man with a tall stature, wearing a custom white suit, bald head, and scarred face, sat on a single sofa with his legs crossed.
His clasped hands were stained with blood. Looking closely, you could see abnormal bulges on the back of his hand, with five bloody slits on each side at the front.
There were about a dozen other people in the living room, mostly in their twenties, all pale and trembling.
In front of them, a strong man in his early thirties with long blond hair and a floral shirt lay in a pool of blood.
On his back, ten irregular holes were visible.