After sending the email, Pei Yue shredded the document labeled No. 4, which belonged to Fang Jianxin.
Document No. 1, for Jiang Cifei, was marked as "status unknown."
Pei Yue then opened a bottle of juice and took a small sip.
To Yue Shi's shock, Pei Yue extended his tongue as he drank. It was thick and long, covered with several small, sucker-like mouths!
This grotesque tongue squeezed into the mouth of the bottle and submerged into the juice, with the tiny mouths greedily gulping it down.
Watching this, Yue Shi's eyes flickered. Was Pei Yue... also a transcendent?
However, seeing his bizarre and deformed state, he seemed more like someone who had been contaminated by something supernatural.
Just then, a new message arrived in Pei Yue's inbox. He immediately clicked to view it.
Yue Shi stood right behind him, looking down at the computer screen along with him.
"The Investigation Bureau has become suspicious. Capture No. 2 and No. 3 as quickly as possible before their people intervene. The association urgently needs experimental subjects with multiple supernatural powers. Afterward, please prepare for evacuation."
Seeing the contents of the email, Pei Yue put down his juice and sighed, his fingers flying across the keyboard to reply:
「Target No. 2, Zhong Mo, is very difficult to deal with. There are suspicions that someone is protecting him from the shadows. With my current strength, I'm not confident I can take him down.」
「I can try for Target No. 3, but his individual strength is quite high. I might need backup.」
At that moment, a venomous and ruthless glint appeared in Pei Yue's eyes as he thought of something. A reply arrived shortly after the email was sent:
"I will send someone to assist you. You must strike by tomorrow at the latest. If the operation fails, evacuate immediately."
Pei Yue's body relaxed as he leaned back in his chair, his expression turning solemn. The higher-ups seemed to be in a great hurry this time. Had something happened that he didn't know about? Would it affect his safety?
After pondering for a moment, he slowly typed on the keyboard and sent out Yue Shi's home address.
The other party did not reply again.
Pei Yue thought for a bit, took out his phone, and dialed a number.
Once the call connected, Pei Yue said, "There's a change of plans. Don't provoke Zhong Mo for now. We strike Yue Shi tomorrow night!"
"No problem." After a brief silence, Bai Qingyu's slightly dissatisfied voice came through from the other end. After all, she was personally more interested in Zhong Mo.
After hanging up, Pei Yue tiredly pinched the bridge of his nose.
"No. 3..." he murmured under his breath, looking deeply troubled as he dragged the mouse and clicked on the folder for No. 3.
Standing to the side, Yue Shi glared at Pei Yue with a sinister look. He could now confirm the true nature of the Tulip Security Company.
They were nothing more than the lackeys of the Glory Association!
As for Bai Qingyu, she didn't seem to be part of the same group as Pei Yue, but they had reached some kind of cooperative agreement.
Although he didn't know their specific operational plan, Yue Shi now knew their timing and intentions. He could make preparations in advance.
Even though Yue Shi strongly desired to carve Pei Yue into a limbless stump on the spot and force him to choke to death on his own severed limbs, he suppressed his killing intent to avoid tipping his hand.
When Pei Yue was sending and receiving emails earlier, the other party's email address had been encrypted, and Yue Shi had only seen a string of asterisks.
Those people were hiding very deep. Tomorrow, they were only sending someone to assist Pei Yue; the cautious mastermind behind the scenes would never show their face personally.
Yue Shi needed a way to draw them out. Ideally, he wanted to stir up the high-ranking members of the Glory Association, or even the true mastermind—the Su family!
After lingering in Pei Yue's home for a while longer and failing to obtain any more useful intelligence, Yue Shi slipped away silently.
He had more important things to do next.
He swiped a pen and paper from a stationery store, activated his Demon Feather Barrier, and wrote three tip-off letters without leaving any fingerprints or making direct contact through the barrier.
He was reporting "Boss Pi."
A being that could be either a supernatural creature or a transcendent, capable of seizing sources and creating human-skin clothes to allow supernatural beings to assume human identities.
Of these three tip-off letters, Yue Shi placed one on Pei Yue's desk at the Tulip Security Company, sent another to Dawn Technology, and the last one...
"Ow! Who's throwing trash!"
At the entrance of the Investigation Bureau, an investigator was hit in the face by a piece of paper falling from the sky. Just as he was about to complain more, his gaze accidentally caught the contents on the paper, and his expression instantly changed.
Clutching the paper, he hurriedly ran toward a certain office.
Seeing that his goal was accomplished, Yue Shi, hiding in the shadows, turned and went home.
He had been on the move all day. Even while invisible, he was still afraid of leaving traces that could be traced back to him. He hadn't brought his phone or used any transportation, relying entirely on his own two legs.
Fortunately, the physical constitution of a transcendent far exceeded that of an ordinary person.
By the time he returned home, Yue Shi was both hungry and exhausted, but it wasn't over yet. There was still a tough battle ahead.
After hastily filling his stomach and resting for a brief moment, Yue Shi adjusted his state and picked up his phone. As expected, he saw several more messages and missed calls from Ling Xun.
Carefully constructing a lie, Yue Shi replied, "I was attacked yesterday and only just escaped danger. I don't feel safe at home right now. I want to talk to you in person."
"Get to the Investigation Bureau immediately!" Ling Xun responded almost instantly.
Yue Shi stood up, chose a set of dirty clothes from the closet, tore two holes in them, and messed up his hair to look haggard.
Once his disguise was complete, he left the house with an air of excessive caution, hailed a taxi on the road, and headed straight for the Investigation Bureau.
This time, Yue Shi didn't use the special entrance. Instead, he entered through the main gates openly, identifying himself as a transcendent from the Tulip Security Company who was looking for Ling Xun.
When Yue Shi walked into the Section Chief's office of the Special Operations Section, he saw Ling Xun sitting in his chair with a miserable look, blowing out a thick cloud of smoke while staring intently at a piece of paper in his hand.
Seeing Yue Shi, Ling Xun greeted him, "You're here. Have a seat."
Yue Shi sat on the sofa to the side and remarked weakly, "You look even more troubled than I do right now."
Ling Xun snorted. "You're right. I am very troubled."
Yue Shi asked, "What happened?"
Ling Xun replied, "Let's talk about your situation first."
Yue Shi said with a look of exhaustion, "There's not much to say. I was attacked yesterday. I couldn't beat the attacker, but luckily my reactions were fast. Although I took some injuries, I managed to escape and hide. It wasn't until today, after confirming several times that no one was lying in wait at my house, that I returned home and contacted you."
Ling Xun frowned. "What were the characteristics of the person who attacked you?"
Yue Shi shook his head. "There were two attackers. It happened suddenly, and they were disguised. I could only tell that they should both be transcendents. One of them had a supernatural power that manifested in his tongue..."
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