The night is very quiet.
Except for the awakened members of the Taira Security Bureau who occasionally patrolled by, there were almost no other people on the street.
The additional street lights installed on both sides of the road are not Yuanli street lights, but ordinary electric street lights. The Pingliang Power Supply Bureau has increased the power supply voltage, so that the electric street lights can barely be used, but at a glance, eight of the ten street lights are still dim, and the remaining One or two dim yellow lights flickered brightly and dimly, as if they might go out at any moment.
Such street lights need to be replaced almost every two or three days for each section of the road.
Only Yuanli street lights can last.
The full moon hanging high in the sky gradually disappeared behind the clouds, and the bright moonlight was blocked, making the night darker.
A few streets away from the orphanage where the accident occurred.
Sun Yu, Cai Jiajia and others have already put on the props prepared by Nian Chengwei.
The uniform black cloak covers the figure, and no man or woman can be seen. Everyone wears a mask on their face. The masks are different, but they are all very fancy...
"Why do I have to wear a pig face mask!"
A female apprentice touched the big protruding pig nose on the mask, with deep melancholy in her voice.
Nian Chengwei touched the monk mask he was wearing and coughed dryly, "I didn't find the props. I'm also very tired."
Looking at the other apprentices, there are monkey faces, Sha Seng faces, and horse faces...
This is a set of Journey to the West masks. In order to make it suitable for five people, a horse face was specially added. The funny masks made him want to laugh.
However, as a liaison officer and examiner, as well as the head of the Pingliang Intelligence Department, Nian Chengwei cannot laugh and must maintain a serious look:
"It's just a prop to hide your identity. No one knows who is under the mask anyway... Anyway, hurry up and act!"
The action plan has already been drawn up. We will rush straight through the side of the orphanage... and sneak in.
Sun Yu and the others floated down from the high-rise building, stepped on the outer edge of the building to use their strength, and moved forward rapidly in mid-air, like black fish flashing between the buildings.
From a distance, you can see the teaching building on the side of the orphanage. There is bright light inside, and the patrolling awakened members of the Security Bureau can be seen vaguely.
The surrounding area is empty, and there is still a gap of more than thirty meters between the teaching building and the nearest building.
Sun Yu grabbed the window security net with one hand and hung his body in mid-air. With the other hand, he took out the hook and rope that had been prepared. With a flick of his wrist, the hook flew out steadily with the rope, and with a slight sound, he caught it. On the rooftop of the teaching building.
On the other side of the hook rope, Sun Yu quickly threw it to his companion, who quickly tied it to the anti-theft net.
At this time, Sun Yu was already stepping on the dangling rope, like a ghost, heading straight to the rooftop of the teaching building opposite.
Nian Chengwei, who was wearing the mask of Tang Monk, nodded incomprehensibly.
He seems immature in making plans, but he acts quickly and neatly. He is worthy of being the focus of training in martial arts schools.
…
The rooftop of the teaching building is an important location overlooking the entire playground. There are three awakened members of the Security Bureau stationed on the rooftop.
One of them yawned, "I don't know how many days I have to stay on guard. I obviously don't work the night shift. Staying up late is a man's natural enemy!"
On the side, the awakened person holding a flashlight gave him a look of "ha, shemale". Suddenly he paused and looked at the other two people: "Did you hear any noise?"
"It's still busy over there in the playground, you can hear the voices clearly."
"No, the sound seems to be coming from the other side... Forget it, I'll go take a look. Standing for a long time is not good for blood circulation. It's better to walk."
He held a flashlight and walked slowly to the other side of the rooftop.
Drowsiness made his brain a little sluggish.
The flickering light of the flashlight illuminated the distance, and a black shadow flashed across his sight.
Like a basin of water being poured over your head, your sleepiness instantly dissipates.
The awakened members of the Security Bureau stared outside the rooftop. There was no black shadow... only an empty rope, swaying under the light of the flashlight.
‘I’m going to suffer! ’
He secretly thought, his mouth opened, and he was about to shout, but his throat was locked, he was hit hard on the back, and he fainted.
…
Putting down the limp Awakened Person in his hand, Sun Yu looked to the other side of the rooftop. The other two Awakened Persons stationed there were facing away from him and facing the direction of the playground, talking in low voices.
Not aware of the situation here at all.
He shook his head, walked behind the two of them, put his five fingers together to form a knife, and banged twice...
Ten seconds later,
The three members of the Pingliang Security Bureau who fell unconscious and fell to the ground were dragged to the side of the rooftop and leaned against the corner.
Cai Jiajia and others also followed the rope to the rooftop. The last person untied the rope buckle tied to the anti-theft net, and with the help of their companions on the rooftop of the teaching building pulling the rope, they flew to the rooftop and rolled to the ground silently.
"The first step of infiltration is completed." Sun Yu walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down. "The battles mostly occur in the playground, which is also the key area of our investigation... There are currently six people on the playground, but it is not the key. The playground is empty and has no shelter. , it is easy to be discovered by the awakened ones in the teaching building—"
"So just knock them all out."
Cai Jiajia waved her pink fist and couldn't wait to see that Sun Yu had knocked out three people.
This kind of sneaking in already made her excited.
An assassin who can't use Wushuang is not a good mage!
…
There are two teaching buildings, both with six floors. There are not awakened people stationed on each floor, but there are quite a lot of them, a total of twenty or thirty people.
If so many people get together or are relatively close to each other, it will be almost impossible for Sun Yu and Cai Jiajia to solve the problem quietly - the awakened people of the Pingliang Security Bureau are not weak hands.
But now, these twenty or thirty people are divided into several teams, as few as two or three, as many as four or five, scattered in all directions on each floor. Not to mention there are five...four of them, even if there is only one person, it can be Easy to solve.
Dive in without any stress.
In just one minute, they eliminated all the awakened people stationed in the teaching building. Several people on the playground were also attacked by them... They sneaked in violently and were knocked unconscious without any resistance. Even the five-person group of Xitian I couldn't even see the mask clearly.
Sun Yu and others breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking around again, some of the bodies had been taken away, but the traces had not been cleaned up. There were cracks on the ground in several places on the playground, and dried blood stained the weeds brownish red.
What happened on the night of the cult attack can be vaguely discerned.
"It seems... it's a one-sided battle." Cai Jiajia said.
Nian Chengwei nodded, "It is precisely because of the overwhelming power of the cult that no trace was left behind that night, which made the investigation very difficult. Modern scientific and technological means were almost unable to detect clues."
"What about the ability users? There are tens of thousands of awakened people in Taira. They must have special abilities that are good at tracking or investigating."
"It is true... Pingliang found a person with the ability to look back and recreate the scene that night."
Nian Chengwei stared at the dark red blood on the ground, swept it from one end of the playground to the other, and shook his head after a while, "The scene is no different from what the analysis judged. A group of cultists wearing black robes. In just one minute, the guards and instructors of the orphanage were eliminated without making any big noise. By the time the security bureau members patrolling around the area discovered them afterwards, they had already gone far away."
"Backtracking is not a panacea, it consumes a lot of money, and is interfered by the powerful strength of the cult members, making it difficult to find where to go... Three days have passed, and the cult members may have returned to their home base."
Nian Chengwei shook his head and looked at his apprentice, "So, do you have any insights?"
Several people shook their heads in unison.
After a while, Cai Jiajia walked to the playground near the teaching building and next to a body that had not been taken away.
There was a cordon drawn around the body, but Cai Jiajia did not blindly approach it, but just stood nearby and observed.
The corpse was riddled with holes, as if it had been pierced by dense needle-like objects. The original appearance could no longer be seen clearly, and the state of death was very horrific. Perhaps for this reason, this body was preserved - the Security Bureau wanted to use the deceased to determine the identity of the person with the ability to kill - if the cult member is hiding in the shelter, has an apparent identity, is a high-level awakened person, and has a special ability , it is easy to lock the opponent.
But three days passed.
No news... Either the Taira Security Bureau hid the news too well, or the ability user who took action was an unknown master hiding in the dark.
"Can I channel spirits?" Sun Yu came over and asked.
Cai Jiajia shook her head, "It's completely dead. If the spirit has not completely dissipated within a few hours, I can still communicate and get some information, but now..."
She walked around the entire playground, stopping for a while next to all the bodies that had not been taken away:
"Three days have passed and all the corpses have lost their souls... But this is to be expected."
Cai Jiajia is not depressed.
Her ability is psychic, very special and extremely rare.
You can communicate with "spirits", obtain information, and even use "spirits" for your own use.
People have spirits.
Plants and trees have spirit.
Everything has spirit.
However, in the early days of the apocalypse, within a few minutes after a person's death, the spirit would dissipate, and the spirit of the grass, trees, mountains and rivers would be too weak to be seen. The psychic ability at that time was just useless.
As the concentration of source energy between heaven and earth increased, Cai Jiajia became a queen some time ago. Cai Jiajia was surprised to find that the "spirit" of all things had become much stronger.
The ability to communicate with "spirits" can finally come into play.
Cai Jiajia looked around, and finally her eyes fell on a huge banyan tree near the flag-raising platform.
The trunk of the banyan tree is so thick that it can be hugged by two or three people holding hands. The entire banyan tree is almost as tall as the teaching building, and its dense branches and leaves cover less than half of the playground.
—There is no doubt that banyan trees can grow so lushly after taking hormones after the end of the world.
Cai Jiajia walked in and put her hand on the tree trunk.
Close your eyes tightly, your eyelashes tremble slightly.
Several minutes passed, and when others began to worry, Cai Jiajia opened her eyes, her eyes bright enough to illuminate the surroundings.
"The direction the cult leaves is this way."
Channeling completed.
On the other side, Nian Chengwei took out a lot of detection crystals and photo crystals to record the scene.
Seeing that no clues could be found in the orphanage, the group of people left in the direction of the clues Cai Jiajia had received from the "Spirit of the Banyan Tree".
All that was left was the members of the Security Bureau lying on the ground.
Some two people hugged each other, hugging each other, one up and one down.
A few minutes later, another team of security bureau members who came to change their shift walked into the orphanage gate and saw a scene of cuddling...
His face was full of shock.
…
"The world is in decline."
“People’s hearts are not as old as they used to be.”
"No one has repaired the flowers and plants."
Along the way, Cai Jiajia looked for old trees, grass and flowers, or historical buildings and stones, and relied on psychics to determine the direction in which the cult members were leaving bit by bit.
In front of a thick tree that had been roughly cut down, Cai Jiajia frowned, "The cult members separated here and left in three directions. The "spirit" was not expressed very clearly, but in the several directions they left, people were taken away. Orphans gone. "
"What should we do?"
"We can only look slowly in several directions."
This is a big project, but fortunately several people have perseverance... To be precise, Cai Jiajia was able to persevere and channel continuously.
The source of psychic energy does not consume much, it just consumes time.
A few of them were avoiding people patrolling at night while looking for psychic objects.
Cai Jiajia communicates with "spirit".
Sun Yu and others let off guard.
Nian Chengwei was bored, thinking about the purpose of the cult and Ping Liang's response.
Taira, who has the ability to look back, must have tried the method of intercepting fragments to search.
However, the cult's 'anti-ability tracking' method is very sophisticated, and more than a dozen people are separated and reunited, making it more difficult to trace back.
"Backtracking" is different from "channelling". It consumes a lot of energy and it is impossible to use it continuously... According to Nian Chengwei's estimation, backtracking a cult member who has a ninth-level peak master will consume at least one-third of the ability user each time. The Source of Two - The Intelligence Department has people with retrospective abilities. He is very clear about the characteristics and durability of abilities.
Cult members, however, do not take the usual path. They may leap from the rooftop or walk through alleys - the backtracking range is limited, which also makes tracking more difficult.
Smell, breath and other tracking methods may not work... "The Ultimate Cult" is really very professional.
While Nian Chengwei was thinking, two or three hours passed.
Cai Jiajia was so tired that she channeled the spirit again and again. Although the single consumption was not much, after hundreds of times, the energy bar had been empty three times.
If it were replaced by Taira Sanctuary, those with "psychic" ability could only do it three times, with a few minutes between each time to recover the source power, and then slowly track it.
But the investigation and training team had already made plans to pass on drug abuse.
Cai Jiajia took out a small bottle of source power restoration potion containing blue liquid, unscrewed the cap, and drank it in one gulp.
The medicinal liquid melts immediately in the mouth, and the rich medicinal power bursts out, turning into surging Origin Qi, which travels along the meridians of the body and converges three inches below the lower abdomen, forming a bulging Origin Qi mass.
The energy in the body quickly filled up.
It can be restored to full value in three minutes.
Cai Jiajia became full of energy again and raised her hand, "They passed by this courtyard. Let's continue chasing them. Even if we chase them out of the shelter and into the depths of the wilderness, I will not let them go."
She lightly jumped up on her tiptoes and landed on the courtyard wall.
The courtyard was dark, and it didn't look like anyone was living there. Cai Jiajia didn't pay attention and prepared to step on the eaves on the side of the courtyard and fly to the opposite side - there happened to be a four-story tree behind the courtyard.
She stepped lightly on the rubble of the eaves, her expression suddenly changed, and she jumped up suddenly.
Just at this moment,
The ancient roof exploded with a bang, and the roof tiles were scattered in all directions. The bright sword light shot out from it, seeming to illuminate the dark night where one could not see anything.
Sun Yu, who was one step behind, jumped from the courtyard wall to the eaves. He was in mid-air and could not use his strength.
When the figure in the room saw this, the blade of the knife changed, and the light of the knife was drawn towards Sun Yu like a bright bolt.
The unstoppable momentum makes people's faces hurt!
Sun Yu couldn't avoid it and threw out a punch.
In an instant, the fist stretched out from under the cloak became as crystal clear as white jade!