Lieutenant Li's gaze immediately locked onto the book, unable to look away.
That look in his eyes revealed greed, fanaticism, and excitement... completely different from the image of Lieutenant Li before!
"boom!"
Lieutenant Li didn't wait any longer and launched a sneak attack!
"Um?"
The masked man in the black robe suddenly realized what was happening.
As a level 25 superhuman, his reaction was naturally very quick.
When Lieutenant Li struck out with his palm, he immediately conjured a barrier of soul power!
The man in the black robe and mask recognized the attacker.
"Li Chang'en??"
"You are actually...?"
"Level 29?!"
Lieutenant Li sneered: "What do you think?"
"You..." The masked man in black robes said in disbelief, "You've been hiding your strength?"
"I didn't intend to be exposed so soon..." Lieutenant Li said grimly, "It's all your fault for showing up and ruining my plans!"
The masked man in black robes: "...Who exactly are you?"
Lieutenant Li sneered again, without answering his question.
He struck again with his palm, slamming it heavily onto the black-robed, masked man's soul power barrier.
The black-robed, masked man's soul power barrier immediately cracked, and then shattered bit by bit...
"boom!"
The barrier has finally been completely destroyed!
Lieutenant Li's eyes sharpened as he pressed his advantage.
He suddenly dodged to the other side of the black-robed masked man and unleashed his martial arts skills.
"Martial skill—Sen Po Palm!"
At level 29 against level 25, a 4-level advantage, and with Lieutenant Li being a martial artist, he clearly had the upper hand in such a close-quarters ambush.
The masked man in black robes was quickly defeated.
He took a heavy blow to the chest from Lieutenant Li and spat out a mouthful of blood.
His body flew backward and crashed heavily into the dungeon wall, creating a large, spiderweb-like crater in the wall.
And the Record of Destruction fell to the ground.
Lieutenant Li's eyes lit up, and with trembling hands, he picked up the Book of Destruction from the ground.
"Cough cough cough cough..."
The masked man in black robes clutched his chest, knowing he was no match for Lieutenant Li.
He gritted his teeth, immediately threw a smoke grenade at his feet, and then escaped using the smoke.
Soon, Lieutenant Li heard an alarm sounding in the dungeon.
Lieutenant Li had no intention of wasting time here. He put away the Record of Annihilation, picked up the still unconscious Linnai, and quickly left the dungeon.
They escaped the dungeon, but it was still late at night outside.
The wilderness was pitch black.
After escaping some distance from the dungeon, Lieutenant Li discovered that his system had regained signal.
He downloaded a small SUV from the system space, threw Linnai into the passenger seat, and then drove away quickly.
......
The journey was bumpy.
Linna woke up groggily when she heard the rumbling of the car.
"Lieutenant Li?"
Lin Nai glanced at Lieutenant Li, who was focused on driving, and then at the desolate scenery rushing past the car window: "Where are we?"
Lieutenant Li gave a gentle smile: "Of course I rescued you, you're safe now." At this moment, he seemed to have reverted to being the kind-hearted Lieutenant Li he always was.
"What about the others?"
"The situation was urgent, and I couldn't save everyone else, so I could only save you first."
"Is that so?" Lin Nai glanced at the ropes binding her and said leisurely, "Now that you've rescued me, why won't you untie me?"
"..." Lieutenant Li did not speak and drove silently.
The wilderness was filled with yellow sand, like a sandstorm. The wind blew in through the car window, constantly brushing against Lin Nai and Lieutenant Li's faces and ruffling their hair.
"You should have retrieved the Record of Annihilation by now, shouldn't you?" Linna said calmly. "Aren't you going to return it to me?"
Lieutenant Li: "......"
"Hehe." Lin Nai then smiled faintly: "I didn't expect that Lieutenant Li had been hiding his true strength all along, and was actually a level 29 expert."
"If you had shown this level of strength earlier, how could we have been captured by those Five Elements Society members yesterday?"
"..." Lieutenant Li chuckled: "Heh... I knew it. You were pretending to be asleep in the dungeon just now."
“It’s not that I’m pretending to be asleep,” Linna said. “I’m just too lazy to wake up.”
Is there a difference?
"There is still a little bit."
"..." Lieutenant Li glanced at the unfathomable young man sitting next to him: "I know you're a smart man, and now I know I can't hide it from you anymore."
"You knew you couldn't hide it, so you didn't untie me?"
"right."
Linnaeus sniffed: "It seems that sometimes being too smart isn't a good thing... Well, so where are you planning to take me now?"
Lieutenant Li said, "We can have a good talk once we get to a safe place."
......
The SUV drove on and ended up back near Ancheng, a place it had passed through before.
Lin Nai casually glanced out the car window. This place seemed to be the former city center of Ancheng, with ruins of high-rise buildings everywhere. Various high-rise buildings had been eroded by demonic energy, leaving only skeletons. A few mutated black plants grew among the steel ruins. Yellow sand filled the sky, making it extremely desolate and lifeless, like a lost city after the apocalypse.
The SUV stopped.
Lieutenant Li led Lin Nai into an underground air-raid shelter with practiced ease.
This place is clearly a modified underground secret base.
As Linnai walked further in, he gradually saw a variety of messy scientific research instruments and alchemical equipment, somewhat like the instruments in a laboratory at night.
However, the equipment and instruments here are far inferior to those used at night. The parts are old, and the alchemy tools are even covered with thick grime, making them look more like they were salvaged from a garbage dump and assembled by the user.
A gaunt old man was fiddling with something next to the alchemical tools.
Hearing someone enter, he turned around and saw Lieutenant Li and Lin Nai. Lin Nai then noticed that the old man's arm was a mechanical hand.
"You've arrived." The old man's voice was exaggeratedly hoarse. "Who is this kid?"
“Linnaeus.” Lieutenant Li smiled. “God serial number 0, the apostle of Lord Carlos, the White Death God.”
"Oh?" The old man's eyes lit up immediately.
He approached Linnaeus with a burning gaze, circling her with great interest, scrutinizing her from head to toe as if she were a very rare giant panda.
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