Chapter 98
Cece stood in the center of the room, the expression on her beautiful face finally showing a crack - there was rage and fear.
"Qiu Yuan, how dare you!!" Her scream echoed in the room.
At this moment, Ceci didn't realize that her opponents were no longer limited to the Fanyue Group. She also faced the inactive Sangria and the MAA, both of which had been quiet for six months. She only knew that she was traveling on a road that should have been safe, but for some reason, she was ambushed by her defeated opponents, causing her men to disappear in an instant.
At this moment, after a loud "bang", a golden-red whip appeared in the room. The whip tore through the steam and lashed at Ceci fiercely.
Unable to dodge in time, Ceci let out a scream. She stepped back, attempting to avoid the whip's next attack, but the unfavorable surroundings drastically reduced her speed, strength, and mobility. Lin Yaoxin, on the other hand, thrived in the high temperatures, multiplying the power of the flames. Ceci couldn't even discern the direction of the attack, and each time she dodged it, she barely managed to avoid it.
At the same time, Ace appeared on the other side. He tore through the heat wave like a flash of lightning. He covered his palm with the decomposition force and accurately split Ceci's extreme cold field, causing a crack in her defense again.
Cece roared, instantly unleashing countless icy projectiles in all directions. These projectiles, originally incredibly powerful, were weakened by the high temperature. By the time they reached Lin Yaoxin and Ace, they were significantly weakened, easily blocked or avoided. Meanwhile, Cece needed to constantly consolidate and repair her crumbling domain. For her, this battle had become a war of attrition, with a seemingly foreseeable outcome.
Ceci was miserable, but Ace and Lin Yaoxin were doing it with ease.
The situation half a year ago was reversed in an instant. The three people who were like ants in front of Ceci set a trap for her today, but she had no way to stop them.
"Miss Ceci, there is a big gift waiting for you to sign for." Qiu Yuan's voice came from the radio again. Ceci gritted her teeth. She knew that nothing good would happen next, but she had no power to fight back.
At this moment, the alloy door made a heavy sound - Ceci looked out and saw a thick glass behind the door. Sangria was standing behind the glass, with the "Grasp of Plunder" she had used before on her right hand. The metallic light on the glove stung Ceci's eyes.
"It's you—" despair and madness flashed in Ceci's eyes, "That's mine!"
"Then ask it if it listens to you." Ango's voice was cold, piercing through the hissing of steam.
"No, you can't do this..." As if she had thought of something, Ceci suddenly panicked, "No!"
Ango's expression remained unchanged. She raised her right hand, her tracking eye locked onto the opponent, and her glove was aimed at Ceci.
Ceci was about to say something, but her voice was drowned out by a flash of white light—a huge, irresistible force surged from the glove, forcibly pulling out Ceci's extraordinary ability and transferring it to the glove...
The zero-degree field around her began to fluctuate violently, shrinking and collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The surrounding heat waves rushed in like a hungry beast, instantly corroding her body. Her clothes, hair, bones and flesh were burned. At this moment, she was just an ordinary person thrown into a furnace, burning and carbonizing in an instant, turning into a wisp of green smoke.
Everything returned to calm.
Ace was left with only a whisper: "It's over."
Well, it’s over - Ango thought, their mission in Sun Town was also completed.
Ango and the others acted very quickly. They had just finished the battle with Ceci, and at night they had quietly boarded the arms dealer's cargo ship to prevent the Interhead Group from retaliating.
In just a few hours, the town was deserted.
These things happened quite suddenly. From the planned ambush on Ceci to the evacuation, the intelligence had always been limited to the core team. Ango emphasized to everyone that no one should leak the information.
Ever since word of the planned trip to Passarine spread, Ango had a vague feeling something was amiss. Lin Yaoxin wasn't one to share everything, but due to time constraints and a heavy workload, she didn't have time to check with him. She simply repeatedly reminded him during the subsequent planning process not to leak the information. After that, nothing unusual happened, and things went quite smoothly.
That night, the teachers and students of Taiyang Town Middle School set off first as the main group. When the remaining residents in the town heard that the school was preparing to evacuate, most of them did not dare to go to the rebels' territory, so they left overnight and prepared to seek refuge with their relatives and friends. In the end, those who had nowhere else to go, led by Irene, evacuated with the school.
Irene, although she missed the past life in the small town very much, things are changing all the time. Although Ace is willing to stay with Irene, the Fanyue Group will not last long, so Irene chooses to follow the large army to the city occupied by the rebels, Passarine.
Along the way, they went through a difficult journey. They first disguised themselves as delivery workers and dispersed on various ships. Then they waited for land, and Xie Mu's informant came to pick them up. They took many detours through the mountains and forests, and then moved forward through relatively lax checkpoints. Finally, they entered the territory controlled by the rebels through the teleportation array set up by the rebels.
Just as Xie Mu said, the rebels and the Yang Enhui regime of the New White Night Kingdom were engaged in a protracted tug-of-war. They needed help to clean up Yang Enhui's artificial ability users and the lingering Phantom Cult members, so they joined the battle as soon as they arrived.
With the intelligence support of Yang Haixi and Xi Sen, and the experience gained over this period of time, they quickly destroyed several evil sacrificial dens. In return and as a strategic layout, the rebels handed over Chenxi Town, a relatively intact border town that they had captured, to the management of Principal Meng and MAA.
Just when they had settled in, Yang Haixi brought the news - "Garden Town was breached by the Interhead Group, Qiu Yuan evacuated with Mentana and others, and Sun Town was also occupied and burned that night."
Everyone felt sad when they heard this. That was where they grew up, but now it has changed beyond recognition.
After the sadness comes relief, which is the conviction in Ango's decisiveness.
In this way, various forces formed an alliance to fight against the increasingly huge Interheid. The small episode of the news leaking at that time seemed to fade away as things became increasingly busy.
Chenxi Town, in the old warehouse in the northwest of the town.
"This used to be a warehouse for storing mechanical prosthetic limbs, but it's now abandoned, so we can use it." Xie Mu introduced it to Ango and the others as he opened the warehouse door. "We just need a place to store a lot of supplies."
Among these supplies were their spoils of war, as well as various transformation and enhancement reagents produced in the laboratory—these had become essential for everyone's daily battles. In addition, Ango also needed a sufficiently secure place to store the various Beyonder Ability Chips removed from the Grasp of Plunder.
These chips are unclaimed and have become a strategic resource.
Anggo was relatively cautious in handling these chips.
Because if the chip is given to a person with special abilities, then the other person will have two types of extraordinary abilities at the same time, which is something that has never been tried before.
When it comes to being a test subject, Tang Yu, who is curious and adventurous, is the first to volunteer.
However, although she is an experimental subject, since Ango obtained the ability of a candidate for godhood, she can control these chips. If the experiment is not effective, she can just take back the chip power.
So Tang Yu obtained a small chip related to plant manipulation.
When designing the trap, Tang Yu took a fancy to this chip because it was very suitable for Tang Yu to ambush and design traps, allowing the enemy to step into her portal without knowing it.
Lin Yaoxin and Ace also selected two chips that they thought were suitable for them. However, they believed that they needed to adapt to these abilities, and if they were not suitable, they would ask Ang to exchange them.
In addition to them, core personnel in patrol teams and other combat missions also had the opportunity to try out the chip.
Seeing that Ace and others had gotten the opportunity to enhance their abilities, Huiyun also asked to get one, but was rejected by Ango Tangyu and others.
The reason is very simple. Huiyun is mainly a logistics staff now and is not fighting on the front line. Her hypnosis ability is the same as that of Jas and Chester, and is more suitable for a relatively safe position behind the battlefield. In the case of insufficient resources, it is difficult to allocate them.
Chester comforted her, "Don't be discouraged, we don't have it either. When there are more supplies in the future, it will be our turn."
Huiyun nodded, showing that she understood: "I know, their mission is more important."
Chester felt that there was something wrong with what she said, but he didn't know how to refute it, so he scratched the back of his head: "The main reason is that they are closest to danger all day long, so they always need more ways to save their lives."
He turned to look at Huiyun, but the little girl had already run to Ace.
"Ace, I want to see your new ability." Huiyun's eyes were full of envy.
Ace was a little embarrassed: "Oh, I haven't studied it yet. Don't worry, wait for Tang Yu and I to study it carefully, and then come back to show you."
After saying that, Ace waved to Tang Yu and Lin Yaoxin: "Let's go, it's time to go to work!"
Seeing Ace's gaze fixed on Tang Yu, the three of them regaining their closeness and leaving together, Huiyun felt a flicker of jealousy and resentment. Why? Why did all the good things go to others, and I couldn't be the lucky one? Why did the moment Ace recovered, the three of them returned to their original state? Why would she be abandoned once she was no longer useful?
That’s right…
Huiyun clenched the laptop in her hand. An email that had not been sent was in the draft box. The evil and crazy thoughts that she had already thrown away began to grow.
She was not an ordinary girl who was kidnapped.
She had long known that she was a person with special abilities.
She was a chess piece that had been planted long ago, but because of her admiration for Ace, she gave up the teachings of the Phantom God.
"Help us keep an eye on these children." Inside the temple on Whale Island, the gray-robed figure's tone was filled with allure. "No one will be wary of children... Report any movement to us immediately."
At first, she just wanted to hide her pagan identity, but was purged... so she disguised herself as an ignorant girl and came back with them.
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