“Guessed right, but no reward!”
Yang Liuqing appeared on her left, sweeping her sword horizontally to cut that beautiful figure in two.
Lu Xueyuan burst backward once again, narrowly dodging the lethal strike.
Her explosive power was unexpectedly strong.
Even while retreating, she didn’t stop attacking, unleashing countless green needles.
These were the poison needles she excelled at.
A single graze could paralyze a fully grown elephant, leaving it completely immobile.
Without an antidote, its heart would stop from paralysis, and death would follow shortly.
Yang Liuqing activated Hound Body Movement, easily evading the poison needles as she gave chase.
Lu Xueyuan’s hairs stood on end, and she inwardly regretted trying to hog all the spoils.
This opponent simply couldn’t be measured by common sense.
If she wasn’t careful, the hunter would become the hunted.
At this point, she had no choice but to use her ability.
A red flash enveloped her body, and her speed tripled in an instant.
Yang Liuqing had just raised her sword when the woman vanished before her eyes.
“Xiao Qingqing, she ran into the factory!”
Ke Li warned in time.
“After her!”
Yang Liuqing naturally wouldn’t let this insidious woman escape.
Letting her flee would bring endless trouble.
Let’s rewind time a little.
After Dian Jing put the entire urban village under surveillance view, she immediately realized she’d been played.
A familiar figure, a familiar Hongda motorcycle—speeding eastward.
“F*ck!”
She couldn’t help but curse.
She had been clever all her life, yet that greenhorn Yang Liuqing had made a fool of her.
A powerful sense of humiliation surged from her heart and flooded her entire body.
“How… did she even manage this?!”
Dian Jing suppressed her chaotic emotions and forced herself to think calmly.
The intelligence she had obtained was clearly flawless.
So why had she been tricked?
‘Could it be… that everything I saw was deliberately staged by her?’
At that thought, a chill shot up her spine.
This Yang Liuqing was terrifyingly strange.
Nothing she did resembled an 18-year-old.
Her cunning was suffocating.
‘What the hell is going on in that head of hers?
She actually bought intelligence about herself from me.
And even set up a trap to frame me?!’
She covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes widening slightly as a storm raged in her mind.
‘No. If this continues, my credit value will be cut in half.
The cost of repairing it would be too great.
I have to find a solution.
Otherwise, all the money I’ve earned is just mortgaging my future.’
Despite the massive profit, Dian Jing couldn’t feel the slightest bit happy.
Intelligence trade was a long-running stream.
It never ended after a single transaction.
Whether clients would continue to do business with you in the future depended entirely on credit value.
The credit and golden signboard she had painstakingly built might all be destroyed tonight.
After all, everyone who bought intelligence was connected to major powers.
Fool them once, and there would never be a next deal.
Dian Jing gritted her teeth:
“Let it be a loss. People have to look forward.”
With that, she contacted the Dark Web Administrator and activated the forum megaphone.
Then she released Yang Liuqing’s intelligence for free, doing everything possible to salvage her reputation and maintain her credit value.
The forum instantly exploded.
Some cursed in anger, some blamed her, some hurriedly checked the new intelligence.
The hunters on the west side of the urban village received the news, all of them dumbfounded.
So after all that, everyone had been played by Yang Liuqing?!
The senior veterans nearly ground their teeth to powder, hatred and fury written all over their faces.
How dare she?
How dare she?!
“Is Dian Jing one of Yang Liuqing’s people?!”
“We spent a fortune buying that intel, and it turns out the target made it herself.
Dian Jing, do you even hear what you’re saying?!”
“That woman, with her world-class hacker reputation, doesn’t do a single decent thing.”
“I’m about to lose it.
With the little time left, how the hell are we supposed to chase her down?!”
“Based on the latest intel, Yang Liuqing has most likely fled toward the East District.
It’s quite far.
We need to move fast.”
“Damn it.
Dian Jing didn’t even properly verify the intel!”
“Could this intel be fake too?”
Trust was hard to build but all too easy to destroy.
That was exactly what Dian Jing feared.
Even if you’d done good your whole life, one wrong deed could plunge you into irredeemable ruin.
Intelligence work was the same.
One major mistake and your credit could be zeroed out in an instant.
Now she could only do her utmost to win back everyone’s trust.
“Zuozhi, we’re out of time.”
The Puppeteer Luosi held her phone with one hand, her face gloomy.
Even if the pair caught the target, they would still need to smuggle them overseas to complete the mission.
With the remaining time, let alone taking the person out to sea, catching Yang Liuqing alone was already difficult.
“Initiate Plan B?”
War Machine Zuozhi slowly turned his head, lowered his gaze, and spoke flatly.
“It’s the only way.”
Luosi nodded slightly.
“At this point, BOSS’s mission can no longer be completed.
We need to think of ourselves.”
“Indeed.
Even if we catch them, there’s no time to deliver them to Black Fish.”
Zuozhi took off his overcoat, revealing silver exoskeleton armor.
A handheld micro jet thruster hung on each side of his waist.
Luosi leaped high and landed on Zuozhi’s shoulder.
He removed the device’s limiters, gripped one in each hand, fed his own energy in, and activated the thrusters.
Boom!
The two shot skyward at high speed.
“According to Dian Jing’s latest intel, the target has likely fled to the abandoned industrial zone in the east.
Let’s head over there first.”
Luosi manipulated her phone while gazing into the distant night sky.
Zuozhi said nothing, simply pouring massive amounts of energy into the micro jet thrusters, accelerating faster and faster.
“Damn it!”
After reading the intel, Hei Maliu felt an urgency like his eyebrows were about to catch fire.
Because of the false intel, they had wasted far too much time in the urban village.
The end of the mini game was drawing near.
He had to find a way to catch Yang Liuqing before everyone else.
“Oh, the wind has changed, Third Elder.”
On a tall building, Chen Yanran noticed the hunters in the urban village all rushing eastward.
“It seems Xiao Qingqing is in the east.
Time to go find her and play.”
“It seems it won’t be that smooth.”
The moment Third Elder finished speaking, a figure abruptly appeared.
In the moonlight, the figure gradually became clear.
It was an old man with thinning hair, over eighty, tall and burly, wearing a white banner robe with centipede buttons.
“None of you are going anywhere.”
“Na Family… Naba.”
Chen Yanran recognized him at a glance, a gravity on her face that hadn’t been there before.
“Oh, my honorable niece has a good memory.”
Naba looked over, a smile on his face, his narrow eyes gleaming coldly.
“Naba, do you really take Goose City for Pengcheng?”
Third Elder said gravely, a dangerous aura radiating from his body.
“Third Elder, blast him off the rooftop.”
Chen Yanran showed no courtesy whatsoever.
“Miss, don’t make things hard for me.
This man is no pushover.”
Third Elder’s mouth twitched.
An old bag of bones like him didn’t want to fight to the death.
“You two stay put and don’t ruin my good fortune. Alright?”
Naba tilted his head, his attention clearly elsewhere.
Chen Yanran wanted to say something more when a loud roar of engines sounded.
Following the sound, a black helicopter swept past at high speed, kicking up fierce winds.