“The trail ends here.”
At the dock, a man in a black suit with oiled hair, gold-rimmed glasses, a lean frame, fierce eyes, and about thirty years old looked down at the dark sea.
In such an environment, naturally, he couldn’t see the Treasure Donkey Car below.
He wasn’t confirming through his eyes either.
“The GPS shows it’s nearby… Where the hell did it escape to?”
It turns out that Zhurou Rong’s car still had a loan GPS on it. The other party got the tracking software from the 4S shop.
Yang Liuqing’s information had already been sold out.
Otherwise, there was no way they could have locked onto that Treasure Donkey Car so quickly.
Switching vehicles at the last minute let her dodge this bullet.
That was a sign of good luck.
Three hours had passed since the mini-game began. Various factions had shown their skills and generally locked onto three or four targets.
Among them, Yang Liuqing was the most suspicious.
In this information age, a person’s privacy was both valuable and worthless.
Right now, the Dark Web was constantly refreshing real-time intelligence. Anyone who needed it could buy it through a special account.
Yang Liuqing’s name appeared with extremely high frequency. She was listed as one of the lucky few most likely to possess the Magic Potion.
Now, posts soliciting her information could be seen everywhere.
Some even directly offered sky-high bounties.
Just capture Yang Liuqing alive and bring her in, and you could get the reward.
This kind of commission—people without a certain level of strength wouldn’t dare to accept it.
Even if they actually completed the mission, huge risks awaited them afterward.
Even so, many bounty hunters were itching to act.
The world was starting to change, but that didn’t mean money had lost its power.
On the other side, Yang Liuqing’s rental—the entire building was sealed off.
Many Law Enforcers could be seen standing guard there.
Getting inside to snag useful items was no easy task.
“Someone beat us to it.”
Inside the rental, cordoned off with tape, a clear and beautiful voice rang out.
The corpse fragments and bloodstains on the scene had long been cleaned up. The items in the room were basically kept as they were.
A tall, slender young woman with long white hair and a form-fitting black uniform looked around and muttered to herself.
Her appearance was very delicate. Her black pupils were like deep pools, as if they could suck people in.
The overall impression she gave was just one word: cold.
Cold temperament, cold expression.
Even the surrounding air seemed to freeze and drop ice shards.
This was a true cold beauty.
“A wasted trip… Well, not entirely wasted.”
Suddenly, an extremely faint disturbance came from the ceiling.
Unless someone had very strong perception, they wouldn’t have noticed it.
A white figure leaped down from the ceiling, pouncing at the cold beauty. The nails on all ten fingers shot out long, like sharp blades.
That figure had clearly been almost completely fused with the ceiling just moments ago.
What an incredible disguise technique!
If she hadn’t made a move, it could have fooled everyone… not.
The drop in temperature around her was intentional from the start.
“A B-Class Superhuman, [Chameleon], huh.”
The cold beauty’s tone didn’t change, as cold as ever.
She didn’t even look back at the attacker.
Because there was no need.
As she took a step forward, a crisp sound came from behind her.
That B-Class Superhuman, who had been about to pounce, was frozen into ice, crashed to the ground, and shattered into several pieces!
It seemed the most dangerous place was still the most dangerous.
Good thing Yang Liuqing hadn’t come back; otherwise, she might have escaped the first blow but not the second.
Ordinary people had no strength to resist these far-reaching factions.
She was like a piece of Tang Monk’s flesh. Eating it wouldn’t grant immortality, but it could change one’s fate.
A bunch of people were waiting to enjoy it.
Just as all the major factions were desperately searching, the person in question had just come ashore.
“This salty, humid sea breeze is giving me a headache.”
Yang Liuqing rubbed her temples.
“How come you two aren’t affected at all?”
“Master, we can become incorporeal. We don’t have to endure this hardship.”
Ke Ling’s words made her envious.
“Little Qingqing is too weak! Just some wind—I could take it for another ten hours no problem.”
Ke Li pressed her face close and mocked her.
Yang Liuqing couldn’t help it; she grabbed Ke Li’s cheeks and pulled them apart.
“Wah you! Let go… hurts!”
The little one immediately started squawking.
Ke Ling pretended not to see.
She observed the surroundings. No one in sight.
This place was just as her master had said—sparsely populated.
Even so, in the middle of the night, besides fishermen and smugglers, who would come to the seaside?
“Anyway, let’s find a store and buy some food first.”
Yang Liuqing let go of Ke Li’s face.
The latter tried to take the chance to step on her foot, but she deftly dodged.
“Is Master hungry?”
Ke Ling pulled Ke Li over, a reproachful look in her eyes.
The latter turned her head away, pretending not to notice.
“To be honest, I’m hungry enough to eat a whole cow.”
Yang Liuqing hadn’t been that hungry since junior high.
Back then, at a fast-food restaurant, she’d eaten so much that the boss came out and took the rice cooker back to the kitchen. It was really awkward.
“As expected, you’ve consumed a lot of energy.”
Ke Ling studied her.
She could clearly feel that her aura wasn’t as strong as it had been at the start.
“Buy from a store? Won’t that expose our location?”
Ke Li tilted her head slightly, confused.
“What, should we steal?”
Yang Liuqing didn’t think she had sunk to that level yet, but as Ke Li said, it would expose their whereabouts.
“It’s fine. I’ll go buy it.”
Ke Ling proposed a solution.
“Oh, I almost forgot—we can do that too.”
Ke Li suddenly realized.
It was Yang Liuqing being chased, not them.
“Alright. When we find a store, I’ll wait nearby. You two go buy.”
She felt her pocket. Without even taking it out to count, she knew she only had one hundred and fifty-three dollars.
That was enough for a late-night snack.
As for what to eat tomorrow—she’d worry about tomorrow when it came.
Ke Li used a sword aura to slice the Great Flying Fish in half from the middle. Only after it had fully sunk did they leave the beach.
Returning it to the sea—maybe that counted as giving back.
As expected, Xiaoya Bay lived up to its reputation as a ghost town.
There weren’t many stores open on the streets.
Yang Liuqing hid in an alley and handed the rest of her money to the two sisters, who went to the still-open Meijiayi convenience store to buy food.
No late-night food stalls, which actually saved some money.
Dry rations and canned food weren’t tasty, but they could last two or three days.
Before long, the two little ones came back with their purchases.
“Master, when we were buying things just now, we heard the store owner’s phone playing audio. All of Huaxia’s aviation—domestic and international—has suspended operations for one day.
Not only that, but the sea-land-air passageways have been temporarily closed to the public.”
Ke Ling reported the intelligence she had gathered.
“Really?”
Yang Liuqing was slightly startled.
This was no small matter.
“It’s very likely true.”
Ke Ling couldn’t guarantee the reliability of the source, but she could only judge based on her own inferences.
“Master, the authorities will definitely get involved in this.
If they don’t impose controls, it will cause massive chaos.”
“Makes sense.”
Yang Liuqing was very familiar with her country’s way of doing things.
With a sudden incident like this, they would certainly handle it carefully and cautiously to prevent it from escalating and becoming uncontrollable.
For her, this was definitely good news.
Otherwise, Transcendents from all over the country and even from neighboring nations would be joining the hunt.