Chapter: Chapter 131
“You were too reckless this time. You know there were quite a few tough characters there today.”
“I had it all under control. See? I came back safe and sound.”
As night fell, some of the rats who disliked operating in daylight came to the surface and began to discuss matters.
Some short, dark figures leaned against a dilapidated wall, saying to the person slightly taller than them, “Besides, wasn’t it to cover for you?”
“I don’t need your cover,” the taller figure said coldly. “Without your ‘help,’ my actions would have been smoother.”
“Look at the way you talk, it really makes me a bit disappointed.” The short figure leaned in front of the taller figure, her tone menacing, “You know, I abandoned my masterpieces from these past few months.”
Yes, masterpieces, masterpieces that didn’t hurt anyone except for a certain unfortunate girl.
And that poison was resolved in less than an hour by a true elven physician.
It couldn’t be said to be completely useless, but it could be said to have achieved nothing.
“So, are you sure? Is that half-elf the one we’re looking for?”
“The elves’ judgment is that the half-elf is not the one they are looking for,” said the taller figure. “But I don’t think so.”
“You mean, that elf is the one we’re looking for?”
“Yes, I think it’s her.” The taller figure nodded, trusting her intuition.
Although it had been officially certified by the elves that the half-elf was not the one they were looking for, the half-elf who stole an important item from the elves.
However, the taller figure didn’t believe it.
She believed that Lin Qingyu was the half-elf who stole the elves’ important treasure.
“Qin’s judgment is correct.” A new voice joined their conversation. “I investigated, and there is only that one half-elf who has appeared in the central city recently.”
“Your Excellency the Divine Emissary is alarmed by this matter?” the short figure said in surprise.
“It concerns a divine artifact,” the Divine Emissary replied concisely. She glanced at the two in front of her and said faintly, “My mission from above is to try to recruit her into our organization.”
“That would be somewhat difficult,” the taller figure immediately said. “Right now, that half-elf is being protected by Miss Bai. That lady’s strength should not be underestimated.”
“Indeed, the defensive strength of that place is almost comparable to the United Council’s venue. We can’t just snatch the person away by ourselves,” the short figure rarely agreed with the taller figure’s statement.
She had personally experienced the defensive strength of that place. To put it bluntly, her every operation was only a small step away from failure. If she made even one mistake, the entire plan would be ruined.
This was just harassing the periphery. If they were to launch a frontal assault, the short figure felt that at least a few S-class heroes would have to team up to barely break through the outer defenses.
As for the internal defenses, she didn’t know.
“The internal defenses are also very strong, a frontal assault is absolutely impossible,” the taller figure added.
Not to mention the hidden sentries that were almost everywhere within the manor, Miss Bai alone was an insurmountable high wall.
Although she had never seen Miss Bai make a move, judging solely from the terrifying aura emanating from her, the taller figure believed she would not be a match for Miss Bai in even one move.
Even the Divine Emissary, if she were to personally go into battle, could probably only hold on for a few moves.
And there was also a role that could not be ignored, that girl named Su Qianqian.
Although that girl looked harmless and felt harmless, the taller figure did not believe that a girl with such a strange relationship with Miss Bai would be an ordinary person.
Given that she could appear there today with Lin Qingyu to meet the elves, the taller figure dared to assert that Su Qianqian was definitely not an ordinary person.
“Miss Bai, does she have any weaknesses?” the Divine Emissary asked.
“She seems to be a sister complex, and she has a crush on a girl named Su Qianqian,” the taller figure revealed everything she knew.
The Divine Emissary pondered for a moment. If a frontal assault was not feasible, was she forced to resort to cunning and indirect methods?
Kidnapping? Or threats? She mused.
Who should she target?
“That Su Qianqian is probably not simple. Miss Bai cares a lot about her but hasn’t had anyone protect her safety,” the taller figure continued.
Bai Ling cared so much about Su Qianqian but didn’t send anyone to protect Su Qianqian, who seemed frail and had no combat power, which was strange, wasn’t it?
Either Su Qianqian was hiding her strength, but this possibility was unlikely. Suppressing her aura so perfectly served no purpose.
Why suppress her aura? To play the tiger while pretending to be a pig?
The taller figure felt that Su Qianqian was not such a boring person.
Moreover, judging from their brief contact, Su Qianqian was a somewhat standard otaku. She was afraid of trouble and disliked socializing with others.
If she had strength, she should have released her aura to make others feel that she was not to be trifled with.
But she did not do so. The taller figure could only guess that Su Qianqian really had no combat power.
Without combat power, but Miss Bai did not send anyone to protect her, was that possible?
Generally speaking, it was impossible. As a powerful ability user, Bai Ling must know the dangers of this world.
She would definitely send someone to protect the people she cherished, such as her sister whose name and appearance she didn’t know.
But Su Qianqian did not. She was not protected by Bai Ling.
Then, the only reasonable guess was that Su Qianqian did not need Bai Ling’s protection.
She had people to protect her, so she didn’t need Bai Ling to protect her, and those people were her confidence in daring to retort to Bai Ling.
“You mean… we can make a move on Su Qianqian?” The Divine Emissary didn’t think that far. She thought the taller figure meant that Su Qianqian’s security was weak, and she was an opening.
“No, I mean…” The taller figure quickly tried to explain, but a dazzling beam of light suddenly appeared in the distance.
The light illuminated the three people in black clothes standing in the alley, and then a strong girl’s voice rang out, “What are you three doing lurking around here!”
The Divine Emissary glanced at the suddenly appearing gray-haired girl. It turned out to be an A-class hero. Although it was not unsolvable, the effort spent was not proportional to the gains, and it would attract the attention of the Hero Association.
“Don’t get entangled with her, let’s go!” The Divine Emissary flicked her robe and disappeared in a puff of black smoke.
The taller figure and the short figure exchanged a glance. They didn’t have the Divine Emissary’s elusive means, so they had to run.
…
“Ha, these two can really run.” Leaning against the roadside railings, the long-unseen leader looked out of breath.
She had been chasing for almost an hour, and yet those two suspicious people had escaped.
During this hour, she had chased from one end of the central city to the other, but she still lost track of those two guys who obviously weren’t good people.
“Xia Xia, you run so fast.” After resting for a while, Miss Lu Siyu, the leader’s partner and a wind-element ability user, finally arrived at the scene.
“Lu Siyu! Why are you so slow!” the leader questioned her with feigned anger, “You’re an esper with wind abilities, how can you not even keep up with me, a precognitive esper?”
Lu Siyu poked the leader’s forehead grumpily, “Who ran out in the middle of their meal? Don’t I need to pay the bill and report this matter to the association?”
After she finished dealing with that pile of things, the leader had already run off somewhere.
Fortunately, she had installed a tracking device on the leader’s phone, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to find the leader now.
“Tch, where’s Huang Mao? Is he still training at the association?”
“He’s close to S-class. Don’t disturb him for now. Let him focus on his breakthrough,” Lu Siyu nodded. Huang Mao’s progress was faster than theirs. During the devilish training these days, Huang Mao’s potential was fully unleashed, and he was now on the verge of breaking through to S-class hero.
As for the two of them, although they could see that threshold, it would take some time for them to cross it.
“This place seems…” The leader looked around and suddenly felt that this place seemed somewhat familiar. “It seems to be near Qianqian’s house.”
They chased all the way here?
“Siyu, why don’t we go to Qianqian’s house for a visit?” the leader said to her friend.
“Ah, isn’t she a demon? It’s not very good for two heroes like us to visit a demon’s house,” Lu Siyu was a little worried.
But the leader had already taken her hand and walked in the direction of her memory. “It’s okay. Even Xiao Bai is friends with Qianqian, so who can say anything if we become friends with Qianqian?”
If Sword Saint didn’t care about Qianqian’s demonic identity, what’s the point of them caring?
People should be more open-minded; that’s how life becomes better, isn’t it?
However, when the leader and Lu Siyu knocked on Leticia’s door, they felt that they had come at the wrong time.
In the living room, Leticia was holding a black stick and hitting the white-haired girl’s head. The white-haired girl held her head with a wronged expression, but she had no intention of dodging.
Why did it feel like a wife scolding her husband who had made a mistake?
Was it an illusion?
“Miss Xue’er, what’s wrong?” the leader asked softly.
Xue’er shrugged, indicating that this was just the daily routine between Leticia and Bai Ling. This time, it seemed that Bai Ling accidentally stepped on Leticia’s hair while she was lying on the ground looking at a map.
Then Leticia got angry.
“Leader, and Xiao Lu, sorry for making you see a joke.” Because of the arrival of the two guests, Leticia reluctantly put away her magic sword. “Why did you come to visit me today?”
“It should be said that it was on the way. We were chasing two bad guys and ended up nearby, so we thought we’d come and see you,” the leader explained. “We’re both on vacation today.”
“Oh, I didn’t expect you, Leader, to be so dedicated. Even though you’re on vacation, you’re still actively chasing bad guys,” Leticia praised her sincerely. Unlike her, she wouldn’t work hard if she could be lazy.
“Actually, I still don’t understand how Xia Xia you found those two people,” Lu Siyu interjected.
The leader ran out in the middle of her meal, saying that she sensed the aura of conspiracy.
“Because my superpower activated! I foresaw that if the conversation between those three people wasn’t interrupted, the central city, and even our entire world, would be in great danger.” The leader replied righteously, she was now a great hero who saved the world.
“Uh, that white guy, do you believe it?”
Bai Ling shook her head, “No.”
After all, there weren’t many heroes with precognitive abilities like this on the human side, but the precognitive abilities of these few heroes were notoriously bad in the association. None of the things they predicted were correct.
The “correct” here was very broad, for example, if they predicted you would be hit by a cement truck today, then even if you were hit by a bicycle, it would count as them being correct.
But even with such relaxed conditions, the accuracy of these guys’ predictions was still quite worrying.
Oh, no, when it came to predicting today’s meals, they were quite good.
“Hey, I’m the only A-class precognitive, give me some confidence, okay!”
“Mhm, I believe the leader just saved the world,” Leticia chuckled. “By the way, can you describe what the people you were chasing look like? I might have clues about them.”
Actually, Leticia wanted to know if the leader was chasing her people. After all, two heavenly kings had brought many demons into the central city, and the central city was bound to be a little chaotic recently.
It was possible that her subordinates were discovered by the leader while whispering.
“I feel like Qianqian, you’re just placating me,” the leader mumbled, then told the people present about her recent experience.
“One turned into black mist and escaped, the other two were short and tall, wearing black clothes, their faces were unclear, and their movements were very agile. I kept taking shortcuts using precognition, but I still couldn’t catch up with them.”
“Wait, Leader, can you draw that shorter person in black?” Leticia looked up and asked somewhat seriously.
During the day, a short person in black threw a bomb at the entrance of the manor where Lin Qingyu lived. Leticia was now very sensitive to the words “short person in black.”
Perhaps it was that person?
The leader nodded. Although she had noticed the three people immediately turn and flee after being discovered by her, she had still seen the attire of the three people clearly.
Of course, their faces were not visible.
And although the leader’s drawing skills were not particularly good, she was able to draw a simple likeness of a person from memory.
Soon, a sketch was freshly made.
Leticia took a look, then said to Kira, “Kira, you have the recording stone, right?”
“Mm,” Kira, who had been sitting beside her and writing diligently, raised her head in confusion. “It’s with me.”
“Look, does this person, and that person in black in the recording stone, look alike?” Leticia handed the leader’s masterpiece to Kira.
Kira took the portrait drawn by the leader and looked at it, her brow furrowing.
“It seems so, Sister Bai, Miss Xia, Miss Lu, you all come and compare.” Kira took out a black stone from her pocket and infused some magic into it.
A beam of light shot out from the stone, projecting a silhouette onto the white wall.
Several girls gathered around to look and nodded in unison, “Yes, they should be the same person.”
“This is quite a coincidence,” Leticia chuckled. She had just been discussing with Bai Ling how to find that person in black, and unexpectedly found a clue so quickly.
First, the leader’s discovery confirmed that the previous attack was not an individual act but an organized one. That shorter person in black was a member of the organization.
It is currently known that the enemy has at least three people, one of whom launched the attack is agile and seems to be using bombs as a combat method.
Moreover, her bombs were poisonous. The unfortunate Miss Xi Mengyao was a victim. However, since Leticia and the elves had reached a temporary alliance, if the person’s poison was like this, her threat would be significantly reduced.
The strength of the other two people is unclear, but the one who turned into black mist and escaped in front of the leader’s eyes was definitely not weak.
The leader was an A-class hero. Although her direct combat ability was not strong, her perception ability could rival that of an S-class hero.
That person directly escaped in front of the leader, and the leader couldn’t find where he went. This almost proved that the person’s strength was far superior to the leader.
At least an S-class hero level big shot.
Then there was the taller person. Her strength should be comparable to the shorter one, otherwise she and the shorter one would not have run together.
And it took so long to shake off the leader, so her strength couldn’t be that great.
“Leader, do you want to come work for us for a few days?” Leticia asked with a smile.
“We can’t help much, right?” The leader scratched her head. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to help Leticia, but rather that she didn’t think she could help Leticia in any way.
Who were the people around Leticia? Sword Saint! With Sword Saint present, what help could they, who were not even S-class, offer?
Moreover, in terms of combat strength, the leader did not think she could defeat anyone present.
“On the contrary, Leader, you can help in many ways.” Leticia immediately objected to the leader’s self-deprecation. “Just your precognitive ability can be of great use.”
Although precognition, this very mystical ability, could not be fully trusted, it was very useful for early warnings.
Even if the predictions were wrong many times, as long as one was correct, it would not be a loss.
“Mhm, the leader is the highest-ranked precognitive ability user in the Hero Association. Her precognitive ability is definitely trustworthy,” Bai Ling also agreed with Leticia’s view.
She had heard from Senior Sang and other seniors in the association that the leader was the new generation hero they valued the most, even more than Huang Mao, who was about to be promoted to S-class.
There were many combat-type S-class heroes, and one more Huang Mao wouldn’t make a difference.
But an S-class hero with precognitive abilities would be unprecedented.
Even an A-class precognitive ability user, the leader was the first. Before the leader, no one had ever possessed such a high-level precognitive ability.
Compared to those charlatans whose predictions were wrong ten out of ten times, the leader’s prediction accuracy was very high. Either she couldn’t see the future, or she could see the real future.
Although not seeing was the majority of situations, when she could see clearly, she was like having a full map cheat.
The reason she could chase those two people for so long this time was due to her precognitive ability.
She knew how those two people would run, but she couldn’t catch them.
The awkward part was that the leader’s combat power was indeed rather weak. Although it could not be considered frail, it was far inferior to that of a normal A-class hero.
This was why in college, the leader used to team up with Lu Siyu and Huang Mao. She needed teammates who could help her run and block damage for her.
“I’m not that amazing,” the leader said shyly, twisting her hands after being praised by her idol. “But since even小白 said so, it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to refuse anymore.”
She couldn’t refuse Bai Ling, could she?
“Leader, you’ve changed, you don’t love me anymore.”
“Qianqian, stop joking around. Hurry up and tell me if you and小白 need my help.” The leader directly ignored Leticia’s words and asked about the reason for the matter.
Leticia pouted unhappily. “Let the white guy tell you. I’m just an external helper.”
“You’re actively getting involved,” Bai Ling immediately exposed Leticia’s true colors. “So you still haven’t told me what Lin Qingyu’s identity is.”
“Heaven’s will cannot be revealed, and you haven’t given me any benefits, so why should I share my exclusive information with you?” Leticia snorted.
“We are cooperating.”
“As if you would share all information with the elves transparently.”
“Our relationship is different.”
“The same, exactly the same.” Leticia held up three fingers. “At least on this matter, I hope you can put aside your romantic affections first. I am seriously discussing business with you.”
Bai Ling was displeased by Leticia’s words. She glanced at the leader and said to Leticia, “Then I won’t tell you about the leader’s precognition.”
Leticia didn’t want to tell Bai Ling her information, so Bai Ling would do the same and not tell Leticia about the leader’s information.
“The leader was invited by me, so she should be my helper!”
“You ask the leader, who does she want to be with?”
“Leader, hurry up and say who you want to be with!”
Suddenly becoming the center of attention, the leader was completely unprepared. Her gaze shifted back and forth between the two girls, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to do.
Qianqian was her good friend, and indeed Qianqian had invited her first, but Qianqian was a demon.
Bai Ling was Sword Saint. As a hero, it seemed only natural for her to help Sword Saint.
But the leader was afraid that if she said she would stand with Bai Ling now, it would make Leticia angry. After all, in her impression, Qianqian was never a generous girl.
Qianqian got angry easily, but her anger came and went quickly.
But the little girl who got angry was difficult to appease before her anger subsided.
“Me, can I help both?”
