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Bi Lanxing gripped the steering wheel, drove the car out of Bai Chunian’s apartment complex, and headed back to the IOA.
“Are we really going back just like that?” Lu Yan sat in the co-pilot seat and held his phone. The screen was still on the messaging app with just a short message, “Are you guys safe?” It was sent to Bai Chunian, but there hasn’t been a reply yet.
Xiao Xun sat in the back, his hands reaching over the co-pilot seat, and patted Lu Yan on the shoulder. “Chu-ge usually has his phone turned off whenever he’s on a mission. Just because he didn’t reply doesn’t mean he’s in some sort of trouble. Moreover, they probably haven’t arrived at their destination yet at this time.”
“Ok…” Lu Yan still drooped his ears dejectedly.
The flow of people and traffic outside the car window suddenly seemed to be out of order. When the traffic light ahead turned red, a row of police cars from the Alliance Police Department rushed out of the center of the lane with their red and blue lights flashing. All the civilians on the street were running in the opposite direction.
Lu Yan suddenly sat straight. “What’s going on? Let’s go look.”
Bi Lanxing pursed his lips and calmly changed direction. He took out the spare siren in the car, put it on the roof of the car, and followed the line of police cars against the hectic traffic flow.
Xiao Xun took out his communicator, used his J1 ability, Universal Dashboard, and connected with the channel of the police car ahead. “This is the agent Xiao Xun from the IOA Search Division, serial number 8349297. What’s the current situation?”
Ten seconds later, the other party answered hastily, “A gray undead summoning has shown up at the seaside plaza. We are performing an emergency evacuation mission. A large number of seaside residents have been affected. The officers responsible for the evacuation had been attacked and sustained heavy casualties and had requested backup from the headquarters.
Xiao Xun, “Describe the characteristics of the undead summoning.”
The officer responded, “According to intel, the target is a half-mimetic rattlesnake alpha. His eyes could float in the air, and all officers that met his gaze were petrified.”
As soon as the features were described, the three of them tensed up. Lu Yan turned around and looked at Xiao Xun in shock. “Isn’t that Medusa’s Eyes?”
The final boss they went against during the ATWL exam was Experimental Subject 1513, Medusa’s Eyes. As long as you look at him, your whole body would slowly freeze and turn to stone. He was an extremely dangerous experimental subject.
“What do we do? There will definitely be some serious casualties.” Lu Yan was anxious. He held the phone, not knowing who to call. Bai Chunian and Rimbaud had most likely left the city already, while his dads were on a flight back from England.
Bi Lanxing’s hands holding the steering wheels were getting sweaty, and his breathing picked up, but he had yet to reach the point of panic. He pulled up the car map and glanced at the location of the seaside plaza, made a rough estimate, and then said calmly, “The equipment is in the trunk—two Uzi with gunstocks, two 9mm bullet belts, a M24 sniper case, and back-up communicators.”
“We are the only ones with experience dealing with Medusa’s Eyes right now. Both of you get out of the car and go to the seaside plaza to aid the police station. I’ll go back to the IOA and talk to the new Search Division chief.” Bi Lanxing hit the accelerator, instantly speeding up and ignoring the speed limit. It flexibly passed by the surrounding traffic.
“The undead-summoned entities can only support 70% of the original strength; it shouldn’t be an issue.” The car accelerated and drove under the overpass. Bi Lanxing turned the steering wheel hard to slow down but didn’t stop. “Get off now.”
Xiao Xun and Lu Yan had long been accustomed to Bai Chunian’s sudden orders. Bi Lanxing completely inherited Bai Chunian’s style of doing things. He made quick decisions and never hesitated after formulating the plan. After the order was issued, the two of them showed no signs of being at a loss. They each unbuckled their seat belts, put on the Search Division’s Freebird badges, and obeyed his orders.
Xiao Xun jumped out of the car, rolled on the floor, and then stood back up. Lu Yan climbed out of the window and took the equipment out of the car trunk. He put on the bullet belt and tossed the sniper case to Xiao Xun. The two of them climbed up along the piers of the overpass and jumped over the railing. The subway coming out of the tunnel was within the time frame. Lu Yan flipped over and got on it, his figure flashing forward several times. Driven by the speed of the subway, he used his associated ability, Supersonic Speed, leaving only a string of afterimages behind him in the air.
“For freedom.” When the two left, they habitually said this to test if the communicator was working properly.
“for freedom。”毕揽星回答。
“For freedom,” Bi Lanxing responded.
The car only slowed down momentarily. After dropping off the two, he sped up again, and with the siren on, he went back to the IOA headquarters against the flow of traffic.
The atmosphere in the headquarters building was more intense than Bi Lanxing had imagined. The division members and agents were coming and going in the corridors in a rush. Some people were so anxious that they couldn’t wait for the elevator and ran up the stairs.
Bi Lanxing also ran up the stairs, rushing to the Search Division office as soon as possible. He used the key to open the door, pressed his fingerprint, and then opened the door.
But it was empty inside.
He licked his dried lips, took out his phone, and called the team leader’s secretary. The line was busy, so then he called the team leader directly.
It took a long time before Cang Xiao’er answered the call. He sounded hoarse, probably already dealing with many difficult issues.
“Team leader, where’s the new division chief? I’m in a hurry; the seaside plaza is being attacked by the Medusa’ Eyes summon.”
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“What? Another one…” Cang Xiao’er pinched the bridge of his nose. “The new Search Division chief was transferred from the Armament Division. However, a sudden undead terrorist attack broke out in Greenfly City, and their division got busier, so I told him to go back to the Armament Division first.”
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He didn’t feel helpless; rather, a set of different tactics popped into his head. When under stress, the brain worked faster than normal.
While studying at the Greenfly Island special training base, Bai Chunian first arranged for him to learn combat in Instructor Dai Ning’s class. After gaining sufficient combat experience to defend himself, Instructor Hong Xie of the tactics class snatched him away. During this period, Instructor Hong Xie would often push him to the profiling class to attend Instructor Zheng Yue’s class. Every time Bi Lanxing would talk to Bai Chunian about his achievements in various courses, Bai Chunian would always have a look that he already knew everything. It was basically impossible to say that all of this was without Bai Chunian’s instruction.
He could feel that Bai Chunian was not only teaching him attentively; he also knew the strengths and weaknesses of almost all the students. His training methods were extremely ruthless, but those highly targeted hell trainings indeed brought the greatest improvement to each of them.
Bai Chunian could easily control the situation and even calculated his own fate clearly. He pretty much knew that he had to leave sooner or later, and when he did, he wouldn’t irresponsibly leave everything behind but would leave a sustainable future for the Search Division.
He tore the note apart, sending the paper’s corner tumbling to the floor. Bi Lanxing then discovered a line of small, almost invisible words written in the corner on the back of the note, “A good and obedient student can’t be a commander. I never make mistakes, but I don’t have evidence. Do you admit you are?”
Bi Lanxing was silent for a moment; his palm oozed poison, and the note melted and disappeared. He then cleaned his hands, sat in Bai Chunian’s seat, opened the computer, and looked for the encryption program to start up.
He did everything smoothly; even if a new Search Division chief took office, he wouldn’t be more skilled than him. This was because when Bai Chunian was on the verge of deterioration, he had to use dissociative agents to maintain his sanity. It was Bi Lanxing who did all his work in his place. He was forced to become familiar with the things that the Search Division chief had to deal with every day.
Is even this within his calculation?
After the encryption program started, requests and inquiry bubbles sent by event agents filled the screen. Bi Lanxing skillfully read the information of agents in Greenfly City first and arranged them vertically according to district. The occurrences happening in each district would be clear at a glance.
From the temporary report sent by the agent, they learned that three undead summons had appeared from the border of the city and were rushing to the center of the city. The one that was causing the most destruction was the Medusa’s Eyes undead summon that showed up in the seaside plaza.
Bi Lanxing connected to the communications of the seaside plaza and pulled up the surveillance of the same location in all directions. He also sent a drone application to the Technology Department, requesting them to launch drones to provide visual support in the seaside plaza area.
When the Technology Department received the Search Division application, they thought it was the new chief who sent it and permitted it without hesitation, sending out two drones to the seaside plaza.
With the drones’ transmitted real-time aerial footage, the situation suddenly became a lot clearer.
Medusa’s Eyes was perched on the building spire in the seaside plaza with hollow eye sockets. His two temporary gray eyes were floating in the air, chasing the fleeing seaside residents. Some people looked back in horror and made eye contact with the gray eyes; they hardened and fell to the ground on the spot. They screamed and howled before gradually turning to stone. The eyeballs came out of the petrified corpses’ sockets, flew into the air, and became a pair of new floating eyes, then chased after the next person.
Some residents used their intelligence to deal with Medusa’s Eyes, taking out the compact mirror they carried around to try to reflect it and run, but they were still petrified nonetheless.
The number of floating eyes in the sky increased exponentially, and like dense wasps in the air, they chased after the crowd in deadly pursuit.
The officers responsible for the evacuation had no choice but to cover their eyes and open fire, but the floating eyes were not large in size and were able to freely move in the air, making it difficult for the bullets to hit them. Even if they hit an eye by chance, the speed of their destruction wouldn’t be as fast as the increase in number of floating eyeballs.
The Medical Association had set up a temporary aid station outside the seaside plaza. The interns wearing white coats with an IOA red cross and white dove armbands were busy breaking ampoules, mixing medicines, giving injections for pain relief to the residents who were partly petrified, and patiently comforting the scared residents—all under Dr. Han’s leadership.
Medusa’s Eyes was attracted by the residents wailing and screaming, wriggling his tail toward the ambulance; however, it was intercepted by Lu Yan.
Lu Yan used the sports headband sold at the store as a blindfold to cover his sight. He used his M2 ability, Fourth-Dimension Split, and sixty Lu Yans from the time axis appeared beside him. One of them took off the blindfold and exchanged its own petrification to report their location to the other rabbits.
Medusa’s Eyes was dazzled by the sixty fast-moving Lu Yan, who was shuttling through the Cunning Rabbit’s Cave. He was constantly being fired at, and the pain forced him to change direction, giving up on preying on the wailing humans. He turned around and fled to the new second district.
The ambulance regained safety.
Han Xingqian’s A3 ability, Wings of the Divine Rider, could dispel one’s own negative status but was only able to dispel the resident’s petrified state. The already hardened and damaged limbs were just that—damaged. Even if the hardened state was dispelled, the pain would only increase.
The petrified residents and police officers increased in number, and the consumption of Han Xingqian’s ability gradually sped up as well. Just as he turned back inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of a flash of light on top of the church in the distance from the peripheral of his eyes. It was like there was a sniper lying on top of the church’s roof.
At this moment, several floating eyeballs broke through the police’s line of defense and penetrated the vicinity of the ambulance. Han Xingqian avoided their line of sight and took out a pistol. However, shooting without relying on any reflection would make it almost impossible to hit.
A sniper round passed close to the hem of Han Xingqian’s coat and accurately penetrated the floating eyeball. A puff of gray mist erupted from the eyeball and then dissipated. Several more sniper rounds were fired without missing a beat, destroying the floating eyeballs near the ambulance, and the eyes were cleared out.
Han Xingqian seemed to have a premonition; he took out his phone and looked. The first message was sent by Xiao Xun.
“Please rest assured and concentrate on your work; nothing will disturb you.”
Han Xingqian furrowed his brows lightly and took his time to reply. “Looking at the floating eyeballs from a distance will also cause you to be petrified.”
Xiao Xun replied, “I covered my eyes.”
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Xiao Xun ripped off the hem of his T-shirt and covered his eyes with it. He relied on his M2 ability, Hunt Back Lock On, to search for his targets. He then used his J1 ability, Universal Dashboard, to accurately measure range, speed, aim, and snipe.
The church’s main door was closed from the inside. The people were hiding under the benches and trembling. Even so, some people still accidentally raised their heads and looked into the floating eyes outside of the stained glass. The injured screamed heartbreakingly, holding their petrified bodies and rolling on the ground. The other people were trembling with fear, not daring to move from under the benches.
Satan calmly sat on the bench, holding the Bible in one hand. He slowly got up from his seat and walked in front of the person moaning in pain due to the petrification. He bent down, raised a hand, and the golden pocket watch hanging between his fingers dangled down. The hands turned back a notch.
The traces of petrification on the man’s body quickly receded. Time went back to the moment when he raised his head. When he was going to look out the window again, Satan covered his eyes with his pale and thin hands, blocking him from the floating eyeball.
“Child, you must repent for your ill-timed curiosity.” Satan lightly sighed, raised his head, and looked through the stained glass at the dome top of the church. He saw the young sniper with a resolute and calm expression on top, with the golden Freebird badge on his chest.
For a sniper, not only was sniping blindfolded difficult but it also meant staking their own life on the mission. Without a close-combat team member around them to assist, safety couldn’t be guaranteed.
The communicator in his ear sounded, “Xiao Xun, change location, change location! You’ve been discovered. Medusa’s Eyes is already within a hundred meters of you. The floating eyeballs are approaching. Get up and don’t take off the blindfold. Oh right, run in the direction you’re facing; after ten meters, there will be a steep slope of 85 degrees. Jump when the time comes!”
Xiao Xun knew in his heart that he was running on the towering church dome without visual aid. At the moment, he had nothing to rely on. He could only listen to Bi Lanxing’s instructions in the communicator with rapt attention and followed them without hesitation.
Bi Lanxing, “The slope will appear in three seconds; use the strength of your entire body and jump forward.”
He jumped in response, and his body quickly fell. Just when he was about to lose balance and about to actually fall, a small platform appeared under his feet to carry him, enabling him to build up his strength again to leap and land safely on a larger platform.
After the successful shift, Xiao Xun took off the blindfold and looked under his feet. Under his feet was a dozen-meter-high platform, and the thing that he had just stepped on turned out to be the IOA’s missile drone. He ignored his fear and ran toward the next hidden vantage point with the sniper rifle on his back.
There were a total of sixteen agents in Greenfly City at this moment, including Xiao Xun and Lu Yan, a total of eighteen. The red fox omega, Feng Yue, was also among them.
Hearing an unfamiliar, even somewhat young and inexperienced alpha’s voice through the communicator, Feng Yue was a bit worried.
In the past, when large-scale terrorist attacks occurred, the Secret Service would basically assign two or three agents to provide support. Bai Chunian coordinated and directed their actions while monitoring the overall situation. Agents were used to fighting alone, and each one had his or her own unique set of response methods. If there was no suitable command to unite them, tactical conflicts would inevitably occur.
This time, sixteen agents were operating in every corner of the city at the same time, which was enough to show what kind of crisis they had fallen into. And at such an unprecedented critical moment, the person in command was actually not Bai Chunian.
The voices coming from the communicator were all over the place. Apparently, more than one agent wasn’t happy about the change in commander. A leopard cat omega with a radical personality even questioned it on the spot, “Who the hell are you, you even dare sit in this position? Switch out with Chu-ge.”
The leopard girl’s voice was filled with arrogance and hostility. She originally wasn’t accepting of alphas. When Xiao Bai took office, he had given her a lot of trouble. Now she was even less patient with a kid who she could tell from his voice that he had no qualifications.
In another communication channel, a white tiger omega smiled lightly and said, “I know him. It’s the student Chu-ge promoted, 19 years old, and an M2-grade Upas tree alpha. Hong Xie personally taught him, and his results are not bad, haha.”
The female agents were still willing to speak with Bi Lanxing, while the rest of them didn’t even bother to say anything.
Feng Yue and Bai Chunian had a pretty good relationship, so she was willing to help Bi Lanxing out of this predicament. “Kid, can you handle it? If not, we’ll form groups at our own discretion.”
Bi Lanxing didn’t answer. He didn’t know if he was just guilty or if he was just blushing. The sneers and ridicule gradually died down, and everyone began to prepare and fight without command.
Feng Yue’s current location was near the church closest to the seaside plaza. She watched the whole process of Xiao Xun moving from the church dome. She saw the child blindfolded and leaping into the air without hesitation. The missile drone flying from a distance was precisely controlled and flew under the lowest landing point, giving him a foothold and allowing Xiao Xun to successfully jump a second time. He landed on the rooftop of the tall building opposite and escaped.
Even while blindfolded, he was able to complete a smooth escape operation. This kind of judgment also surprised Feng Yue, who was a veteran agent. Are the kiddos in the Greyhound Family that amazing?
A calm command came through the communicator, “Feng Yue, put on a blindfold.”
Feng Yue was stunned. “Stop joking.”
Bi Lanxing repeated composedly, “Feng Yue, put on a blindfold. Medusa’s Eyes, as well as a hundred eyeballs in the air, are approaching you.”
Feng Yue lowered her head and saw the shadow gradually covering her feet. She had no other choice but to follow his order and put on a blindfold.
She didn’t dare raise her head, but she could feel some elastic eyeballs touching her body.
Bi Lanxing, “You’ve been surrounded by the eyes, but they are not melee aggressive. Switch your submachine gun with a rifle now. Can you hear the sounds of the drone?”
“Yes.”
“Follow it. Right now, Medusa’s Eyes can’t see, so stick to his back. The drone will fly in a straight line in front of you at just the right time. Follow after its sound. I’m controlling it, so you won’t get hit by debris.”
Feng Yue subconsciously obeyed his order, closed her eyes, and followed the buzzing sound. The drone was accurately guiding her line of movement from the city’s highway, weaving between crashed cars and toppled billboards.
Although the voice of the commander in the communicator was still a newbie, after listening for a long time, it seemed as if Bai Chunian from three years ago was speaking. At the time, Chu-ge wasn’t as carefree as he was now. He did his best to cover up his nervousness with calmness. It was like a new reincarnation, with the young man in the command position taking over.
Bi Lanxing, “Leopard girl, your location is closest to Feng Yue; drive the car to the intersection I marked, then get out of the car blindfolded. Get close to Feng Yue by following the drone. Both of your drones buzz at different frequencies, don’t get confused.”
“Hmph, commanding without a license is punishable by death. Kid, death awaits you.” Leopard Girl was wearing a short leather vest and hip-covering shorts, leaning on a sports car on the side of the road, and with her hair in dreadlocks. The eyelashes under the heavy, smokey makeup were curled up and long. After listening to the order, she made a soft hmph sound and spit out her gum. She strapped on the light machine gun, got into the sports car, and kicked the accelerator towards the red dot displayed on the car map.
Bi Lanxing, “Medusa’s Eyes have two hearts; one is in his upper body, the other in the middle of his body. If only one of his hearts is destroyed, he will instantly regenerate.”
Feng Yue and Leopard Girl were guided to the best location by the two drones, but the floating eyeballs had caught up to them. Two of the eyeballs flew back into Medusa’s Eyes’ sockets, and he temporarily regained his vision.
Bi Lanxing, “Take note that his M2 ability is Swamp; it will soften the ground. When I count to one, get away from the ground. Three…”
Medusa’s Eyes regained his sight, and discovered Feng Yue and Leopard Girl were getting close to him. He raised his hands in rage, releasing his M2 ability, Swamp.
“Two.”
The ground quickly softened. The vehicles on the asphalt path were swallowed up by the swamp, the buildings cracked and collapsed, and the broken load-bearing walls and columns made an ear-splitting noise.
“One!”
Feng Yue and Leopard Girl jumped up at the same time, and two missile drones hovered precisely at their feet, lifting them. They were sent up into the air and behind Medusa’s Eyes.
Bi Lanxing, “You guys are behind him and can’t see his eyes right now.”
The missile was located at the glands on Medusa’s Eyes nape, and it launched with a bang. Leopard Girl raised the machine gun and shot wildly at Medusa’s Eyes’ upper body
Feng Yue took out a tactical dagger, gripped it in her hand, took off the blindfold, and flew to the ground—the dagger penetrated his second heart.
Both hearts and his glands were destroyed at the same time. A black mist exploded from Medusa’s Eyes’ body, gradually dissipated, and flew into the sea.
The main body died and dissipated, so the floating eye also immediately exploded into a black mist and flowed to the seaside with the strong current.
Feng Yue breathed a sigh of relief. She was originally going to praise him, but it seemed that the call ended on the other side. She could only hear Bi Lanxing saying in the public channel, “The Medusa’s Eyes undead summon has been cleared. The new second district is confirmed to be safe. The medical equipment is undamaged and can accommodate injured people.”
Leopard Girl turned her head and looked around. There was indeed a large hospital. During the battle, Bi Lanxing had been consciously asking them to direct the Snake Girl’s eyes in the opposite direction. It turned out that while he was directing the killing of the target, he also had the energy to protect the hospital from attack.
“Hmph.” Leopard Girl chewed a piece of gum again, and she gestured to the drone with the machine gun.
The drone flew in the direction of the seaside plaza.
Dozens of identical Lu Yans on the four-dimensional timeline took off their blindfolds and guarded the coastline. The sky was cloudy at this moment. As if being churned by a hurricane, the remaining clouds were getting darker and darker, and the sea was also getting increasingly turbid.
He heard a distant, altered whale tune; it was both strange and ethereal.
The seawater rushed forward, and a white figure broke through the surface. The sky erupted with purple lightning, and it meandered down from the layers of clouds. Purple lightning ruptured from the sky, illuminating the snow-white killer whale’s skeleton as it leapt out of the sea.
A pod of killer whales jumped out of the sea; they were all apparitions made up of snow-white skeletons and crying melancholy among the purple lightning.
A young merman with a white fishtail sat on the skeleton head of one of the killer whales. The slightly curly white hair was covered with the Undead Cloak. The boy’s expressionless blue eyes stared at the people on the shore, as if running his eyes over a group of corpses.
However, his body had a lot of wounds, covering his entire fishtail. The pale pink siren scale was dull.
Eternal Undead was laid beside him, his only remaining left hand holding his own chin and swinging his legs. He spotted the Rimbaud statue wishing fountain in the center of the plaza at a glance.
“Hehe, Big Bubble, go and tear down that statue. I’ll tear apart that little rabbit.”
Pearl furrowed his brows and shook his head. “He has the smell of the big rabbit on him.” The suppressed shadow of the S4-grade glands was firmly engraved in his memory, and he didn’t want to be associated with such an opponent at all.
Eternal Undead’s smiling expression suddenly turned upset. “His dad beat us badly; I want his son to also die just as badly.”
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