Chapter: Chapter 378
“I recall your divine authority is supposed to be of the mental type, why didn’t you just use your ability to question this person?” Silver asked with confusion as she watched Leticia holding a syringe with a mischievous grin, searching for a good spot to administer it on the man.
With Leticia’s abilities, wouldn’t it take only a few seconds to hypnotize this ordinary person? Was there a need to waste precious serum on someone like him?
Money spent on producing serum is still money. How can it be cheaper than naturally regenerating magic?
“Doesn’t this appear more professional? Besides, this is a new product, so I have to find a few test subjects,” Leticia stated conscientiously, that the products she sells cannot be defective, and cannot directly eliminate the target with one injection.
If that were the case, no one would dare to buy her serum in the future.
“Truth serum, it can induce a shallow hypnotic state in the subject, and in this state, they will answer everything we ask without concealment.” After searching for a long time and not finding a suitable place to inject, Leticia finally gave up thinking and directly injected the man in the neck.
This is how it’s always shown on TV, so it shouldn’t be a big problem.
As the drug with colorful light was injected into his body, the fear on the man’s face gradually disappeared. He leaned against the wall limply, his eyes losing focus.
“Name, age, affiliated organization.” Leticia cleared her throat and asked the first question.
The man opened his mouth and spoke the information that Leticia and Silver already knew in a very erratic tone.
It seemed the serum was effective, and her modifications hadn’t had any issues. Leticia nodded, then got straight to the point, “There haven’t been any suspicious individuals worth noting these past few days, they should possess abilities that ordinary people cannot comprehend.”
The man’s eyeballs rolled around, as if searching his memory.
After about a minute, he slowly replied, “Five days ago, a woman completely wrapped in black, with only her eyes showing, came to find me. She wanted to buy some weapons from me, but she left after seeing the actual goods.”
The organization this man belonged to was in the business of selling weapons. Nearly half of the weapons in the western district of Central City flowed out from their hands. They were undoubtedly a good choice for purchasing weapons.
“That’s strange, I remember Shenzuo having pretty high technological capabilities, there’s no need for them to find these people to replenish their weapons, right?” Leticia scratched her head. Shenzuo could even produce unmanned combat machinery, would they even bother with the small guns and cannons in the hands of these dark forces?
It’s worth knowing that the most advanced weapons this man’s organization could supply were about one and a half generations behind the standard weapons of the current active forces in Central City. Forget about cannons and missiles.
“What were the requirements for the weapons she wanted?”
“They needed to have extremely strong explosive power, and the kill radius needed to be large, the larger the better.”
“That’s weird, it’s obvious they’re trying to cause trouble, but why didn’t they bring them themselves?” Unable to get any more information from the man, Leticia raised her hand and hit the man’s neck, knocking him out of his hypnotic state and into unconsciousness. She then turned to Silver, hoping to get some ideas from her good sister.
“Maybe they couldn’t bring them in, or perhaps they brought some in but they were consumed?” Silver mused, stroking her chin and offering her speculation. “This is just the first person, we still have several more to find. By the way, is it okay to just leave him lying here?”
Leticia rolled her eyes. Neither of them were good people, and this man wasn’t a good person either. Even if this guy died here, it wouldn’t cause any ripples. How many people died in this place every day in the western district?
One more man wouldn’t make a difference, nor would one less.
Miss Demon King was by no means a great benevolent person. Her chop with her hand to his neck was essentially a fifty-fifty chance of life or death. This man was lucky to be in a coma right now; if he were unlucky, he would have died on the spot.
“Who cares? We’re bad people, we should do what bad people do. Is dealing with the aftermath our responsibility?” Leticia snorted softly, patted her black robe, indicating that they should head to the next target.
Five minutes later, in a small warehouse in the western district.
Leticia, with an air of invincibility, stood beside a pile of black-clothed men, leaning on her magic sword with both hands, tilting her head and smiling playfully at the sturdy man who was too terrified to speak.
Unlike the greasy man from before, this sturdy man had decent protection around him. A total of twelve people, all equipped with firearms, which would have been difficult for an ordinary person to handle.
Unfortunately, they encountered Leticia. In just half a minute, Leticia dealt with these weaklings who couldn’t even hold their guns steady, piling them up beside her like a mountain of people.
At this time, Silver also appeared behind the sturdy man, to prevent him from doing anything rash and causing additional trouble.
Feeling the cold touch on his neck, the sturdy man, sweating profusely, raised his hands. He realized that these two black-clothed individuals were not people he could afford to offend. Their combat power was such that even an S-class hero from the Hero Association might not be able to defeat them.
“I surrender, don’t kill me!” The man knew anything he said now was futile; only by raising his hands could he save his life.
These two dared to make such a blatant surprise attack. It was clear they weren’t good people. If he revealed the names of the people behind him, he would gain nothing and might even get himself killed to prevent future revenge.
“Do we look like bad people? Do bad people have such pleasant voices?” Leticia shook her head, took out a new truth serum from her waist, and slowly walked up to the man. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, one needle and you’ll be fine.”
The man wasn’t too scared at first, but as soon as Leticia said that, he started to struggle. After all, the serum clearly wasn’t good stuff, and Leticia’s tone was too suggestive.
“Don’t move!” Silver frowned, her right hand on the man’s neck tightening slightly.
Feeling as though his neck was being gripped by a beast, the man instinctively tried to grab the seemingly weak and frail hand, but no matter how hard he tried, the hand remained like steel, clamped onto his throat.
Leticia scratched her head, no longer bothered. She injected the serum into the man’s arm, completing the injection. “I feel like I can try a spray mode later, injecting like this is too troublesome.”
About five minutes later, having obtained the information she wanted, Leticia struck the sturdy man’s neck with a hand chop, knocking the poor fellow unconscious as well.
“Let’s go, next.” Ticking off this man’s name on the list provided by Silver, Leticia looked at the remaining names on the list and revealed a slightly cruel smile.
Indeed, she still preferred doing bad deeds.
On this day, various forces in the western district were raided by two black-clothed individuals of unknown origin. However, it was incredibly odd that not a single person died. The most severely injured person was actually hit in the stomach by friendly fire.
So, it’s best not to use guns in confined spaces.
Putting aside how the dark organizations in the western district would react after this bizarre night, Leticia and Silver were now in a tough spot. Squatting in Silver’s safe house, Leticia looked at the intelligence she had gathered all night and felt that she might have wasted her trip.
“I don’t think the authenticity of these things is higher than twenty percent. How could the people of Shenzuo possibly want to buy so many things? What are they trying to do, launch a frontal assault on the landmark in the central district?” Leticia muttered to herself, pointing at a document on the table. “Although I can basically guess where that thing would be placed, can they really break into a place like that?”
A mysterious person had purchased blueprints for the government building in the central district of Central City. That government building was located at the geographical center of Central City and was very, very tall, arguably the tallest building in the central district. If that thing was to be placed anywhere in Central City, then undoubtedly, the government building would be a good choice.
Leticia had also seen the building from afar. The Hero Association’s headquarters was not far from the building, and once it was attacked, the heroes stationed at the Hero Association would definitely arrive to provide support within a minute.
Not to mention the army that was already stationed near the building. That government building was simply a fortress! A frontal assault would be sending people to their deaths. Unless it was a Demon King like Leticia, or a god like Silver, it would be impossible to breach the building’s defenses in a short amount of time. First, you have to get into that central area.
“Could Shenzuo’s people be carrying divine artifacts? If a god were intervening, they might be able to break through the defenses there?” Leticia said, taking a sip of the black tea that the cat girl had just served, calming down a bit.
“Impossible, even I wouldn’t be able to handle that level of defense,” Silver shook her head. If her spatial teleportation ability were disabled, and she had to charge that building head-on, she would happily declare it a gg. If she were her main body, of course, she could mock these mortals as vulnerable, but she wasn’t her main body now. The most likely person who could act as her main body now was probably Leticia. After all, Leticia’s main body wasn’t locked away; in fact, Central City was her confinement, and Leticia could act as her main body within Central City.
“If I were to transform into a spiritual body… hiss, I might be able to sneak in without alerting anyone, but with that thing there, my infiltration would definitely not succeed.” Leticia said with a toothache, shaking her head. According to Bai Ling, that item had already been placed inside the building, and it was just not fully activated yet. Not fully activated meant it had already been partially activated. So, Leticia reasonably inferred that the entire government building was covered by that kind of weakening field, and there was no problem with that, right? In such a situation, if she went there, wouldn’t she be purely offering herself up to be killed? Revealing her spiritual body in the real world would also be extremely dangerous for her. Look at our Dream God, who was in heaven, who was cut into bloody pieces by Bai Ling’s sword in the real world, and then picked up by Leticia, who was lurking in the spring. Leticia dared not gamble whether someone would be lurking in the spring to pick up the spoils if she got injured. Prudence was key to everything.
“Therefore, I don’t think those blasphemers would use a frontal assault approach. It’s more likely to be infiltration. This intelligence is very likely false intelligence, a smoke bomb to make us go down the wrong path,” Silver nodded. She also thought a frontal assault was suicidal, and Shenzuo’s people wouldn’t do something so suicidal.
“Just infiltration, how exactly are they going to infiltrate?”
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“So, we’ve been directly excluded?” Looking at the letter sent by her subordinate, Shirley, with two big dark circles under her eyes, felt that this complaint of hers wasn’t quite right. She was under immense pressure from her sect, and switching employers didn’t relieve the pressure at all. Now, the headquarters had even dispatched a special team. She, the nominal head of Central City, didn’t even have access to specific information about this team and could only unilaterally accept their orders. Who exactly was in charge! Looking at the perverse conditions on the letter, Shirley really wanted to grab those people by the collar and ask them what they were thinking. With such heavy weaponry, did they want to force their way into the government building? That place was a genuine fortress. Legend had it that it served as the last bastion when it was built. Now, located at the very center of Central City, it was undoubtedly a human landmark. To draw a parallel, it was like the Demon Lord’s Palace for demons, or the Tree of Life for elves! Was that something ordinary people could attack? Even with all of Shenzuo’s might, they might not be able to take down this building, Shirley was certain. As a former enemy of Shenzuo, she understood Shenzuo’s strength. Shenzuo was indeed very strong, but compared to a behemoth like Central City, it was still inferior. Yes, their individual combat power was strong, but their numbers were too few, and they hadn’t reached the point where they could overwhelm numbers with quality. A few S-class heroes ganging up on them could still take down a divine envoy wielding a divine artifact. After all, a divine envoy was just a person, not a god. Their bodies had limitations and could not allow the gods to fully exert their powers. As long as the S-class heroes played dirty and dragged it out, the divine envoy would eventually collapse from exhaustion.
“What exactly do they want to do? Without a specific process, we can’t provide effective support. Don’t blame us for insufficient support if the mission fails.” Recalling her miserable past in that sect, Shirley sighed deeply, tears almost welling up in her eyes. She just wanted to get by, why was it so difficult?
