Chapter 19: Detection
At dusk, across the vast fields of Ulster, a steam train not far from the station was slowly accelerating forward.
In the first-class carriage, in a compartment that was swaying slightly as the train moved, a pale-skinned arm stretched out from the solid wall of the compartment and reached for the coded briefcase that was quietly placed on the sofa.
Just as the arm was about to touch the suitcase, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded in the aisle outside the private room, and then the door of the private room was slammed open.
“Who is it!”
Sodod appeared at the door, pointing a pistol into the room and shouting, but everything in the room was normal, without any human figures or abnormalities. Seeing this scene, Sodod frowned slightly.
"No one... is this really an illusion?"
Frowning, Sodod walked forward, picked up the coded briefcase on the sofa, then walked out of the private room and headed towards the dining car.
And when his figure disappeared at the end of the aisle of the carriage, a pair of eyes on the iron roof of the carriage opened silently, looking coldly at the direction where Sodod disappeared.
After finishing his meal in the dining car, Thordod did not stay for a moment. He carried his suitcase back to his private room, then sat on a separate chair, put the suitcase on the table in front of him, and then just sat there quietly, watching the suitcase and the figures passing by quickly outside the window.
Gradually, the dusk and the sunset disappeared, the night slowly came, and the light both outside and inside the car windows gradually dimmed.
As the light dimmed, Sodod turned on the gas lamp on the table in the private room, took out a book from his pocket, and read quietly in the light of the gas lamp.
As the night gradually deepened, Thordod seemed to feel a little sleepy. He began to close the book and the suitcase, squinted his eyes, and began to doze off in the chair.
Not long after he began to doze off, a shadow suddenly appeared from the floor behind him. From the shadow, a figure dressed in black and wearing a black mask slowly rose and stood behind Sodod.
Then, the human-shaped figure stretched out his hand, grabbing the suitcase on the table, and wanted to remove the closed book on it so as to take the suitcase away. When he was about to pick up the book, a small bell pressed by the bottom cover of the book rolled to the side and fell to the ground, making a crisp tinkling sound.
Then, Sodod suddenly opened his eyes, stood up from his seat immediately, and pointed his gun behind him.
"Don't move!"
Looking behind him, Sodod said loudly, but his originally alert expression turned into astonishment, because there was no one behind him at this time, and at his feet, the suitcase that had just been picked up was dropped.
"It's a special person... a special person with some kind of concealment ability!"
After seeing this scene, Sodod realized that he had been targeted by other extraordinary people, and the other party possessed the extraordinary ability to enable him to hide quickly!
Realizing this, Sodod began to concentrate, and gradually, a halo began to appear at the edge of his pupils. The scene in the private room became extremely clear, and his mind was greatly concentrated.
Sodod is an apprentice-level "Light" Extraordinary Person and a very senior Mingyin Person. Therefore, he knows clearly that the current situation must be caused by other Extraordinary Persons, and it is very likely a shadow, so he wants to use the "Light"'s Extraordinary Detection Vision to find the other party!
The "lamp" at the apprentice level has excellent eyesight and can always maintain a state of high mental concentration. After consuming spiritual energy, it can open extraordinary vision and can see the scenery one mile away clearly. It can also see extraordinary traces of people or objects within a close distance of eight meters, and can distinguish whether a person is an ordinary person or an extraordinary person.
After concentrating his mind and starting his extraordinary vision, Sodod began to look around the private room, trying to find the hidden extraordinary person. However, he looked around for a long time but could not find any trace.
At this moment, behind Sodod, a shadow emerged on the wall of the box, and then a figure in black emerged from the wall, holding a dagger and stabbing Sodod. Because Sodod was highly concentrated on the "light", he felt the movement behind him, and hurriedly pointed his gun at the direction where the black figure was attacking.
However, the speed of the black-clad figure was obviously much faster than that of Sodod. Facing the gun pointed at him, the sharp dagger quickly cut off the fingers of the right hand holding the gun. The pistol fell to the ground before it was fired, and Sodod cried out in pain.
Qian!!:xun";:free!;novel;"skirt,.!2!.!;5::5??:5;;?9,?."5;,";3;?00 "Originally I didn't intend to kill anyone and cause trouble, but you asked for it."
Muttering, the figure in black clenched the dagger in his hand again and stabbed Sodod at the vital point. Sodod widened his eyes, then he wiped a ring on his left index finger with his left thumb.
In the ring, a delicate little mechanism was triggered, which contained a spiritual storage object in the shape of a "cup" and a small piece of condensed micro-written seal of the Soul Eater. After the mechanism was triggered, the storage object and the seal were printed on Sodod's finger together, and Sodod activated the Soul Eater.
After activating the Soul Eater, Thordod's physical strength increased several times at once. He quickly dodged the dagger that was stabbing his vitals. Although he successfully avoided being hit in the vitals, a cut was made in his chest and abdomen, and blood gushed out immediately.
“Hmm!”
Covering his wound with his injured hand, Thordod wanted to wave his other hand to hit the black-clothed figure to fight back, but the opponent's speed was too fast. After a successful attack, the opponent disappeared into another wall along with the shadow.
The space in this train car is small, and the distance between the walls is not wide. For this extraordinary person who can escape in the wall, this is an extremely favorable terrain. Under this terrain, Sodod has no chance of winning.
After the counterattack failed and witnessing the opponent's ability with his own eyes, Thordod realized that danger could come from all directions. Then he quickly took out something from his waist and threw it on the ground.
This is not some extraordinary item, but a smoke bomb.
With a loud bang, thick white smoke immediately spread throughout the space and spread onto the aisle outside. The private room was filled with thick smoke and it was impossible to see anything clearly.
Sodod knew that the only way to escape was to block the opponent's vision and make it impossible for the opponent to find the target when he went out of the wall.
Taking advantage of the thick smoke and covering his wound, Thordod immediately escaped from his private room, then used his remaining strength to run wildly along the corridor filled with white smoke, and finally hid in the bathroom in the car.
“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”
After closing the bathroom door, Thordod leaned against the wall, covering his wound, and looked at the mirror in front of the sink. In the mirror, his face began to turn purple, and he began to feel dizzy. He tore off his clothes and took out the external injury medicine and bandages he carried with him to stop the bleeding, but found that his blood was a little black.
"The knife is... poisonous..."
After realizing his situation, Sodod immediately felt a sense of despair. He knew that he might not survive.
Now he can still move instead of falling to the ground and waiting to die, basically all relying on the "cup" of the 峓彈 to strengthen his body and keep him alive.
His hunger is specially made, and can last longer than ordinary ones, but not for long. Once the hunger's effect wears off, he will probably be gone.
"Damn it... this thing... I can't just leave it to that guy like this... I have to bite off a piece of his flesh even if I die!"
At this moment, Sodod's heart was filled with resentment. Now, he wanted to make a final gamble with the extraordinary person who was obviously higher-level than himself.
If you want to fight him to the death, you must find his location!
With his weak strength, Sodod pulled out a straw paper talisman from his clothes. On this talisman was drawn the symbol of "lamp".
After sticking the talisman on his body, Sodod activated it with his spiritual power. Suddenly, his sensing ability spread beyond physical barriers!
The area is clearly visible in the seal, which is the name of this seal. It can ignore physical isolation and forcibly detect all extraordinary traces within a radius of ten meters, whether it is a person or an object!
Sodod closed his eyes, consumed his "light" and began to detect, but he did not detect anything. Sodod knew that this was normal. The extraordinary people of "Shadow" could consume the accumulated "Shadow" spirituality to resist extraordinary detection. This was an ability shared by all the extraordinary people who were the main "Shadow". If you want to detect them, you must force out their spirituality.
So, Thordod, who was already a dying man, began to throw more of his own "lights" desperately, intending to break the opponent's concealment. However, it seemed to be completely useless. Thordod still could not detect anything, and the opponent's spirituality seemed to be even richer.
However, Thordod did not give up. He threw more lights into detection, and finally... after consuming an unknown number of "lights", he finally detected an extraordinary trace within the perception range.
However, to his surprise, this trace... did not seem to be a "shadow".
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