Chapter: Chapter 345
Discovered.
The silver-blue eyes hidden beneath the black hood rippled for a moment. The instant she stepped foot here, she sensed the spiritual energy permeating the area. This spiritual energy was omnipresent, making it impossible for her to conceal her presence.
As expected, the watcher soon discovered her existence and turned their gaze towards her.
After meeting the gaze of those pure black eyes with a hint of color for a moment, the silver-haired girl saw the person withdraw their gaze. She didn’t linger and turned away from the fully monitored area, leaving without a backward glance.
She confirmed one thing: operating here was not feasible.
“She’s gone.” Leticia knew the mysterious individual had left as the strange aura in her senses vanished at the edge of the monitoring zone. To be honest, she had already prepared for a fight here.
The person in black gave her a very bad feeling, a very bad one. If a fight had broken out here, Leticia was confident she could protect herself, but she couldn’t guarantee what would happen afterward.
Fortunately, the other party retreated, likely not wanting to cause a conflict with her here.
“Xiao Lu, I just discovered a very mysterious person…” Leticia would never hide such news.
Considering what day it was, she felt the mysterious person’s appearance here was definitely related to the precision equipment being transported by the convoy.
Reporting to superiors at this time was the best course of action. At least for now, Leticia and the Hero Association were on the same side. Even for the sake of that cute little money, she wouldn’t betray them by withholding information.
“Mhm, okay, I understand. I’ll report it immediately,” Xiao Lu’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
After the brief phone call, Leticia leaned back into the rattan chair and continued her surveillance. However, unlike her previous lazyness, her body was now slightly tense, ready for combat at any moment.
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“Action cannot be taken in this place.” The silver-haired girl pointed to a red-marked area on the map and said in a low voice.
Standing beside her were a dozen people in black, including the blonde man.
Seeing the emphasized area, the blonde man didn’t need much time to think before asking directly, “Why?”
“There’s someone very strong guarding it,” the girl stated concisely.
If she evaluated someone as very strong, then they were truly powerful.
“Is that so? I understand,” the blonde man nodded. “However, is that thing really that important? We have very little power left. Any loss, even of one person, would be an unacceptable loss.”
A sharp glint flashed in the girl’s silver eyes, and she nodded forcefully, her tone exceptionally grave. “Our objective is not to steal, but to destroy. As long as that thing is destroyed, we will have succeeded.”
Furthermore, they were not the main force in this matter.
Someone else was responsible for the frontal assault.
Those arrogant blasphemers, upon learning of that thing’s existence, must have been unable to control their inner desires.
“We just need to wait until the situation is most chaotic, then stab into the heart of that transport team like a sharp knife, completely destroy that thing, and then use spatial transfer to leave the battlefield,” the silver-haired girl’s voice was calm, but the look in her eyes was incredibly firm, as if she would go alone even if these people weren’t on her side.
However, in reality, she didn’t even know what that thing was.
She just had a strong feeling, a premonition, that if she didn’t do something, she would definitely regret it in the future.
She wasn’t the only one with this feeling. Those mad blasphemers seemed to have also received some news and were gathering their strength. The secret searches had consequently relaxed considerably, giving the silver-haired girl a chance to breathe.
“If both sides can end up in a stalemate, that would be for the best…” she murmured softly, closing her eyes. Her chest rose and fell slightly, as if she had fallen asleep.
In fact, she was indeed resting. This body could not support her for much longer. After this action, it would likely be her limit. Therefore, she needed to conserve strength for the upcoming operation, as even a little bit of strength could have a decisive impact in the ensuing melee.
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“Still no reply?” Leticia scratched her head speechlessly as she watched the gradually setting sun. Her shift was supposed to end at 5:30 PM, and it was now almost 6 PM.
In other words, her mission for the day was successfully completed, and she could go home, have dinner, take a hot bath, and enjoy a wonderful nightlife.
But where was the promised transport convoy? There wasn’t even a shadow of it. The mysterious person in black hadn’t reappeared either, as if she had been overly anxious.
“Sister Su? You’re still here?” A familiar voice sounded from behind Leticia.
Leticia turned around, and the petite green figure had already appeared behind her. Xiao Lu’s face showed a hint of confusion, seemingly puzzled that Leticia was still here.
“The mission is over. The replacement hero team is already patrolling below,” Xiao Lu walked up to Leticia and said to the black-haired girl.
She had come to inspect the work and found Leticia still standing there.
“I’m just a bit curious, where is that transport convoy?” Leticia didn’t hide her question, directly stating her biggest puzzle. It was promised that a convoy would pass by, and she waited for a long time, but the convoy stood her up. It was truly annoying!
She had prepared to have her eyes opened, but where was the convoy?
Upon hearing Leticia’s question, Xiao Lu’s expression became a little awkward. She had also been on edge all day, but nothing had happened, which caused a sense of anticlimax.
“Perhaps that item has already been secretly transported to its intended destination,” Xiao Lu coiled her hair with her finger and said uncertainly, “Are we probably a diversion?”
Feigning an attack while secretly advancing, deploying so many heroes to guard the route, but actually having the convoy act secretly to deliver the item silently to its destination. This seemed like a highly likely scenario.
“Let’s assume that’s the case. Since the mission is over, I’ll head home… It’s getting late.” Leticia glanced at the sky and estimated the time it would take to get home, deciding it would be better to have dinner outside tonight.
“Xiao Lu, how about we grab a bite outside?”
“Ah, since there’s no mission, Sister Su, you’re treating,” Xiao Lu agreed after a moment’s thought, mischievously demanding Leticia pay.
“Xiao Lu, you rich lady, you need me, a poor girl, to treat you? That’s too cruel!” Leticia reprimanded Xiao Lu with righteous indignation. “Alright, I’ll treat you to fried chicken, how’s that?”
Upon hearing the word “fried chicken,” Xiao Lu’s eyes lit up, and she immediately nodded, “Of course.”
Most heroes live relatively simple lives, very different from the wealthy. Take Xiao Lu, for example. She could be considered wealthy, but the majority of her daily expenses went into maintaining her garden.
As for food and clothing, her expenses were always very low. She drank inexpensive wine and ate common food that everyone liked. She always politely declined dishes whose fame exceeded their substance.
This led to Leticia sighing helplessly as she watched the girl gnawing on a drumstick.
She somehow felt like she was the rich and well-bred one.
“This fried chicken place still tastes the same. It’s really good,” Xiao Lu said contentedly, drinking a gulp of her happy water after gnawing off the last bit of meat from the chicken bone, showing a super satisfied expression.
See? A meal of fried chicken and hamburgers costing a few dozen yuan completely won over this girl. The difficulty level was ridiculously low.
Leticia, taking a bite of the still half-eaten hamburger, had her thoughts drift far away. Normally, if she weren’t home by now, Miss Bai would have sent a message asking what she was doing.
But today, Bai Ling hadn’t sent any messages.
This was not normal. Unless Bai Ling couldn’t use her phone right now.
Situations where one couldn’t use a phone typically involved being in danger or being in a specific setting… Coupled with what Bai Ling had said that morning, Leticia gradually formed a vague suspicion.
Perhaps Bai Ling was part of the protective force for that convoy? If that item was truly that important, it wouldn’t be unimaginable for Sang Zhitong to temporarily call Bai Ling to work.
“Huh? That girl… isn’t she the one who can foresee the future?” Xiao Lu’s voice, filled with a hint of surprise, interrupted Leticia’s thoughts.
The girl who could foresee the future immediately made Leticia think of her team leader. When she looked up, the gray-haired girl standing at the entrance of the fried chicken shop, grinning foolishly at them, was none other than her.
“Team Leader, did you come specifically to find us?” Leticia stepped out of the fried chicken shop and asked her question with a hint of confusion. She didn’t believe the team leader’s appearance here was a coincidence. If it were a coincidence, it would be too coincidental.
This place was tens of thousands of miles away from her home. The fact that she and Xiao Lu chose to have dinner here was also a spur-of-the-moment decision. To encounter each other like this could only be attributed to fate, worthy of Leticia treating the team leader to a cup of bubble tea to celebrate.
“Actually, I came specifically to find Sister Xiao Lu…” The team leader scratched her head, looking embarrassed. “Ahem, Qianqian, could you move a little further away?”
As she said this, the team leader’s face was full of embarrassment. Her relationship with Leticia was actually closer than with Xiao Lu, but at this moment, she wanted to send Leticia away to whisper with Xiao Lu. It felt very wrong.
A sharp glint flashed in Leticia’s eyes, and she didn’t fuss. She nodded and pointed to a milk tea shop a hundred meters away, saying to them, “Then I’ll go buy you two cups of bubble tea.”
“Oh, you shouldn’t trouble yourself!” The team leader quickly waved her hand, but Leticia had already ignored her and dashed off.
After Leticia entered the milk tea shop, Xiao Lu withdrew her gaze. Her expression turned serious. “What happened?”
“Well, it’s like this…”
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In the milk tea shop, as she waited in line, Leticia began to ponder. The team leader’s sudden arrival gave her a clearer understanding of some matters: that item was perhaps truly important, at least in the eyes of humans.
To have an S-class hero with prophetic abilities convey a message verbally – the level of secrecy involved seemed outrageous.
“But why didn’t they just have Xiao Lu go to the Hero Association? That would have been much safer.” Leticia touched her chin, still not understanding the thoughts of the Hero Association’s higher-ups. In the end, there were simply too few clues.
She was currently in a state of a blind person touching an elephant, having some information, but who knew if the most crucial information was being deliberately hidden?
Soon, her bubble tea was ready. When she returned to the spot where she had just left, holding three cups of bubble tea, Leticia found that Xiao Lu had already disappeared. Only the team leader remained in her place.
“Where’s Xiao Lu?” Leticia asked, puzzled.
The team leader shook her head. She didn’t know what orders Xiao Lu had received. She was just a messenger and had no idea about the content of the orders.
“I just happened to be at the association, and then I was conscripted. All I delivered was a letter,” the team leader then clearly explained her reason. “That letter was quite strange, very hard. It didn’t seem like paper, but more like a steel plate or something.”
“After I gave the letter to Sister Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu’s expression changed, and then she left. I don’t know where she went.”
“Why not predict it?” Leticia’s eyes rolled. She suddenly realized she had a cheat sitting next to her who could see the script. It would be a waste of the team leader’s talent not to use her full-map cheat to assess the situation.
But the team leader immediately shook her head. She wouldn’t use prophecy for such things. “This kind of matter is definitely classified. If I were to look, I would definitely be punished later. No, no.”
“Eh, but aren’t you curious, Team Leader?”
“Not curious, not curious at all!” the team leader said very, very seriously. She was a very smart girl and knew what she should and shouldn’t know.
The current matter was something she shouldn’t know.
