Three days passed in a blur amidst trivial matters and cultivation.
On this day, Su Wan was sitting cross-legged in Room 102, consolidating her Level 4 Mid Stage realm.
Suddenly, an abrupt and intense pulling sensation erupted from the depths of her consciousness, as if an invisible hand had seized her soul and yanked it backward!
Su Wan’s entire body jolted, and she immediately realized that this was a life-and-death warning from the Blue Star Host Puppet!
Her expression changed abruptly, and she sprang up from the bed.
Doing the math, she had been in the apocalypse for over a month this time, during which she hadn’t received any bad news regarding Blue Star.
Following her instructions, the puppet had kept a low profile, living in seclusion and never taking the initiative to involve itself with the outside world.
The renovation of Jinxiu Garden had also been completed.
The perimeter walls were built, the anti-theft electric fence was installed, the concrete ground was paved, the landscaping was done, and the exterior walls of the unfinished building had been repainted.
The current Jinxiu Garden was no longer the desolate and dilapidated unfinished building it once was, but a private estate with a serene environment.
Following her orders, the puppet had hired security guards and cleaners to be responsible for the estate’s security and hygiene.
She herself had remained in Room 102, basically never stepping foot outside.
Gu Huaiyu would contact her every few days, sending messages and making calls to ask her out.
Following her preset instructions, the puppet had declined all of them with the excuse that “I haven’t been feeling well lately and need quiet rest.”
What could possibly happen over on the Blue Star side?
But the warning wouldn’t be fake.
The puppet must have encountered some kind of sudden situation and lost its ability to communicate before it could even send a complete message!
Su Wan did not hesitate. With a thought, her consciousness sank into the system panel.
【Travel cooldown has returned to zero. Travel immediately?】
“Travel immediately!”
【Travel beginning.】
The familiar feeling of weightlessness rushed in like a tide. Su Wan’s gaze was fixed on the indicator icon representing the “Puppet Status” on the system panel.
That icon was flashing with an abnormal urgency.
【Host Puppet Status: Emergency—】
Before the words following that could be displayed, the travel had already begun.
The entire world shattered into countless points of light before her eyes.
...
Blue Star.
Western suburbs, Jinxiu Garden.
The once-grey unfinished building had now taken on a completely new look.
The exterior walls had been repainted a warm white. The originally exposed rebar on the roof had been cut clean, and a decorative parapet wall had been added around the edge, making it look like a newly completed high-end residential building from a distance.
The originally uneven muddy ground in front of the building had been paved with smooth concrete, forming a wide plaza.
Camphor trees transplanted from a nursery were planted on both sides of the plaza, with several benches placed beneath them.
A three-meter-high brick wall enclosed the entire area tightly, with a black anti-theft electric fence mounted along the top. Surveillance cameras were installed every few meters.
At this moment, the door to the security room was wide open, and three security guards in uniform were slumped on the ground, their lives uncertain.
In the middle of the main entrance, a black sedan was parked.
The car body was pitch black with no license plate. The windows were covered in dark explosion-proof film, making it impossible to see the situation inside from the outside.
Two men wearing dark grey work clothes were dragging a woman and stuffing her into the car.
The woman was wearing a dark blue tracksuit with her hair tied in a simple ponytail. Her face was fair, and her eyes were tightly closed. She was being flanked by the two men, showing no reaction at all.
It was Su Wan’s Host Puppet.
At this moment, its consciousness had been completely shut down, like a machine with its power cut off, possessing no perception of the outside world.
Liu Junnan watched his subordinates drag Su Wan, his brow furrowed tightly. He felt that something was incredibly eerie.
This woman had no ability to resist at all, and there were no energy fluctuations on her body. Could she really be the mysterious person he was looking for?
Complex emotions swirled in the depths of Liu Junnan’s eyes.
For this past month, he had lived like a mad dog.
Ever since that night at Jade Manor, he hadn’t had a full night’s sleep. He had practically turned Jiangcheng upside down.
He went to Jade Manor and interrogated Bai Chengye and Zhao Mengting countless times, trying to find even the slightest clue about that mysterious person.
He went to the hospital where Xu Tianlin had stayed, to the ward where Bai Ruochu had been, and to every place where that mysterious person might have left a trace.
But there was nothing.
Anxiety was like a worm gnawing at his marrow, having taken root in his body since that night at Jade Manor.
He was unwilling to accept it, and he wouldn't allow himself to lose.
So he pursued relentlessly, using every resource he could mobilize, checking every lead he could find, and going to every place he could reach.
But that mysterious person seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving behind not a single trace.
Until Gu Mingshan died.
Liu Junnan himself had no interest in Gu Mingshan’s death.
But the organization had ordered Qin Zhong’an to make a trip to the Gu residence as a matter of routine.
According to the rules, when someone like Gu Mingshan, who had been in contact with the organization, passed away, the organization would send someone to confirm if there were any matters that needed handling.
Dealing with the mundane world was always Qin Zhong’an’s responsibility; Liu Junnan never touched it.
But Qin Zhong’an was locked in the basement by him and couldn’t go at all.
So he could only go himself.
When he saw Gu Mingshan’s corpse, he was stunned.
What followed was wild joy!
Because he discovered that Gu Mingshan’s brain had been invaded!
If it weren't for his extreme familiarity with the traces of Mental-type Ability Users, he wouldn't have been able to discover this tiny abnormality at all!
It was that mysterious person!
He had been here; he had invaded Gu Mingshan’s memory!
After a series of investigations, he finally locked onto Su Wan.
She had been on their suspect list from the very beginning.
She had intersections with the Bai family, the Xu family, and the Gu family, and she was inextricably linked to that project and that piece of land.
The only reason they had ruled out her suspicion was that there were no ability fluctuations on her body.
But what if that reason was invalid?
What if the “cleanliness” of her body was the greatest anomaly itself?
He swore he wouldn’t be deceived by appearances again!
But at this moment, seeing Su Wan being dragged unconsciously by his subordinates, he lost his confidence again.
Liu Junnan was very frustrated, but things had already come to this. He could only take it one step at a time and take Su Wan back first.
Just then, Liu Junnan suddenly felt something.
It was a deeper, more instinctive sense of crisis.
Like a beast locked in a cage suddenly sensing the presence of a natural predator.
The hairs on the back of his neck stood up one by one, and his spine felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured down it, chilling him from his tailbone all the way to the back of his head.
Liu Junnan snapped his head up.
His gaze fell upon the first floor of the warm white residential building.
Then, he saw, behind the window of Room 102...
Standing there was a person.
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