Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 397: Senyang Aquatic Tribe
Wang Xiyi quickened her pace.

The inner cover of the watch gradually became hot, as if there was a hot pack on the wrist.

"The strange device has sensed it." Wang Xiyi whispered in the communication channel, "I am approaching the target."

"Do you need support?" Ye Xuan asked.

"No need." Wang Xiyi refused immediately, "If even I can't handle it, it's the same if you send two tactical teams over."

At present, in the entire Tianfu City, Sun Hang is probably the only one whose combat power is higher than Wang Xiyi, but the problem is that Sun Hang needs to guard the headquarters of the research institute and cannot act rashly.

Wang Xiyi soon came to a crossroads. She took a few steps in each of three directions, and then walked straight forward - whether she turned left or right, the temperature of the strange watch would drop. Only if she continued to move forward would the temperature of the watch continue to rise.

Although the temperature change during these few steps was so subtle that it was almost negligible, with the Black Dragon's keen senses, Wang Xiyi was still able to tell which side was the correct direction.

"We are heading along Victory Avenue." Wang Xiyi looked at the houses on both sides. "I am now at No. 514 Victory Avenue... I am very close to No. 591 you mentioned."

All the shops on both sides of the street had their doors closed. Those with roller shutters had them pulled down, and those without roller shutters had heavy chains on their door handles.

Most of the things in these shops have not been emptied... The Disaster Countermeasures Committee originally gave the residents of Jinlu County only three days to evacuate, and assured everyone that once the eternal night was over, they would immediately start the plan to revitalize Jinlu County.

Therefore, many people who leave their hometowns believe that they will return here and rebuild their homes in the near future.

Those who left only took away things that were easy to carry, such as heavy objects like furniture, machinery and equipment in the factory, heavy engineering equipment in the suburban mines, etc. These difficult-to-carry things were left behind.

Through the transparent glass doors, Wang Xiyi saw that many shops were still piled with boxes of goods that had not been shipped away in time. A few fat rats crawled out of the sewer, passed through a hole in the glass window of a restaurant with ease, and swaggered into the restaurant.

There were two bags of flour piled up in the corner of the restaurant against the wall. One corner of the bag had been bitten by rats, and the white flour leaked out from the hole and spilled onto the ground.

There were already several mice feasting on the meal, and the few that came in later soon joined them - they were soon not satisfied with the little flour that leaked out of their pockets, and they tore several larger holes in the flour bag.

Flour rolled out of the gap like a mudslide.

Wang Xiyi was not in the mood to watch the mice eat, so she quickly walked past the restaurant entrance and continued forward.

The restaurant's address is No. 570, Shengli Avenue. Crossing the intersection in front is the street where "Senyang Aquarium" is located.

The watch was getting hotter and hotter, and it was even starting to get scalding.

Wang Xiyi did not walk forward along the street, but nimbly climbed over the building on the left side of the street, crouched down, stepped on the roof, and moved forward silently and quickly.

"Just like a ninja." Wang Xiyi said in her mind, "Or, an assassin is also good."

She quite likes works of this kind, especially the video game in which the protagonist will be unharmed no matter how high he jumps from as long as there is a haystack below.

It's a pity that the company that produced this game has completely disappeared in the long river of history with the fall of Europe... Wang Xiyi vaguely remembered that Ye Jiu, the heavy game enthusiast, mentioned to her that the company's last work seemed to be a hodgepodge of various elements such as assassins, ninjas and samurai. However, before this work was officially released, the European United Government announced an order for a large-scale retreat. All Europeans began to retreat to the south and east, completely abandoning the land with the most densely populated countries on the earth.

Wang Xiyi suddenly had the illusion that she had traveled into a game.

"The target location has come into view. I repeat, the target location has come into view." Wang Xiyi reported on the communication channel, "I saw... a signboard with the words Senyang Aquarium printed on it."

Wang Xiyi stopped on the roof of a three-story building. She squatted down the slope and used the roof ridge to hide her body.

Moriyo Aquarium is just across the street.

Unlike other shops with locked doors and windows, the door of Senyang Aquatic Clan was wide open. There were no lights on inside the shop and it was pitch black... From a distance, it looked like a black hole that was ready to devour people.

"There is indeed something wrong... Among all the shops on the whole street, only the door of this Moriyang Aquatic Clan is open. It seems that after the entire city of Jinlu County was evacuated, the members of the cult organization continued to use this place as a contact base..."

"Is there anyone inside?" Yang Qi immediately asked in the communication channel.

"No heat source was found, and no strange aura was sensed for the time being...it might be because the distance is too far." Wang Xiyi replied.

Black Dragon's eyes have extremely strong night vision capabilities. In addition, they also have functions equivalent to infrared night vision goggles. If there is a heat source in the house, Wang Xiyi can find it at a glance... But now, in her thermal sensing field of vision, the interior of the house is almost all blocks of color of the same hue, and there is no particularly prominent heat source.

"Try to put your own safety first and act carefully." Yang Qi warned in the communication channel.

"I know."

Wang Xiyi looked down at the strange watch on her wrist and realized a problem.

The "heat" emitted by the spooky watch is, to be precise, a feeling that only exists in perception. In layman's terms, this "heat" does not exist. It is more like sending a false signal to the temperature-sensing nerve center in the wearer's brain. In fact, the temperature around the spooky watch has not changed at all.

At least in Wang Xiyi's thermal vision, the watch and her wrist are the same color.

In other words, there is no hope of finding the strange object of the same origin that is nearby by using the heat source.

"It's not all bad." Wang Xiyi comforted herself in her heart, "At least the other party can't locate my position through this method..."

The black dragon is a cold-blooded animal, and so is Wang Xiyi. She hibernates on the roof, wrapping her body with black wings to lower her body temperature to the same as the environment. The scales on her wing membranes begin to change at the same time—the metallic luster disappears, replaced by a matte black that absorbs all the light reflected on the scales... In just a few seconds, Wang Xiyi has merged with the shadow. "This is the assassin..." Wang Xiyi whispered, "How does that phrase go... Walking in the darkness, serving the light... Tsk, so second-year."

Wang Xiyi began to move slowly.

For some reason, when she talked about light, she would always think of Ultraman... She had given Sun Hang several sets of pirated Ultraman discs, but she didn't know whether that guy had finished watching them.

Wait...something's not right. If Ultraman is light, then serving the light...isn't that the same as serving Ultraman?
Then she would rather choose to serve Sun Hang...

Ultraman's size doesn't match hers, so it's easy for personal injury to happen... Oh no, it's a dragon body injury accident.

While thinking about all these messy things in her mind, Wang Xiyi moved along the roof for another ten meters... Soon, she determined the location of the strange object of the same origin.

The thing was not in the Senyang Aquarium store, but in a van parked not far from the store entrance.

The words "Senyang Aquatic" and the phone number were written on the van, and the windows were covered with a layer of black window film, making it difficult to see what was going on inside the car.

But one thing is certain: there is no heat source inside the car either.

The van's engine was also cold, which meant that the vehicle had not been started by anyone, at least in the short period of time.

The dust on the car body and the ground also illustrates this point well.

"Am I a step too late? Is this place deserted?" Wang Xiyi muttered to herself, "But since they had time to evacuate, there's no reason for them to leave the strange equipment here, right? One kilometer is not far, how could it be so easy to be sensed... Could it be that this set of strange equipment was specially customized for this plan, and the plan has been exposed, so the strange equipment as a tool has also been abandoned?"

"That's not right..." Wang Xiyi quickly rejected this idea in her heart.

Even if this strange device is not used as a communication tool, its breath shielding and anti-mind spying capabilities are still useful. There is no reason for the people in the cult to leave it here.

Wang Xiyi was less than twenty meters away from the van, but at this distance, she still could not sense any strange aura emanating from the car.

"I'm ready to act." Wang Xiyi said in the communication channel, "It's not a good idea to continue squatting. Maybe the other party has already left here."

"What are you going to do?" Yang Qi asked, her tone slightly nervous.

"Take the initiative!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Wang Xiyi stood up and jumped out. Her huge wing membrane opened instantly and flapped vigorously in the air, causing her body to suddenly accelerate and slam down next to the van!

The moment she fell, Wang Xiyi's arms had already pierced through the side of the van. Her sharp dragon claws pulled towards both sides, and the iron door was torn into two pieces like cardboard.

There was nothing in the van except a tattered briefcase thrown on the back seat.

The sharp dragon claws retracted into the palm of her hand, and Wang Xiyi picked up the briefcase.

The leather surface of the briefcase was as hot as an iron plate that had been roasted over fire, exactly the same as the strange watch on Wang Xiyi's wrist at this moment.

"We have found similar strange objects, but no suspicious targets. I repeat, we have found similar strange objects, but no... Shit! There is something hidden in the store!!!"

A strong sense of crisis came over Wang Xiyi, and she didn't even have time to turn her head to look. She wrapped herself up with her wings, crossed her arms in front of her, and her skin was quickly covered with layers of scales. She faced the direction of the dangerous aura!
“Bang!!!”

With a loud bang and a huge force coming from that direction, Wang Xiyi felt as if she was flying up, and then she crashed through several buildings in succession until she hit a thick reinforced concrete wall and stopped.

"Damn... Damn it..." Wang Xiyi spat out a mouthful of blood and pulled her body out from the wall. The next second, the entire wall collapsed behind her.

Looking at the several large holes that were created by her body, Wang Xiyi realized that she seemed to have crossed several streets... Hundreds of meters away, at the open door of the Senyang Aquarium, a huge tentacle was slowly retracting into the shadows.

"An octopus... a cold-blooded animal like me... no wonder I can't see the heat source... Hey, Yang Qi?" Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment. She found that the earphones hanging on her earlobe had fallen to somewhere in the collision just now.

Looking at the ruins in front of her, Wang Xiyi knew very well that the monster hiding in the aquarium shop would not give her the opportunity to slowly look for the headphones.

"Since it's an octopus, then I will fly to the sky... Ugh!" Wang Xiyi had just spread her wings when a sharp pain came from her wings, causing her to stagger and almost fall to the ground. She couldn't help but let out a groan from her throat.

She turned her head to look at the wings, and saw that the scales that had just come into direct contact with the tentacles were covered with a layer of transparent mucus. The mucus was seeping in through the gaps in the scales. The unbearable pain was coming from these parts.

"Neurotoxin?!" Wang Xiyi's heart trembled.

She believed that she had a very strong ability to withstand pain - whether it was the Black Dragon meme fusion experiment when she was young, or the large number of high-intensity battles after becoming a monster hunter, she had endured a lot of inhuman pain.

The pain had far exceeded the medical definition of level 10 pain. For ordinary people, it was definitely a level that could instantly trigger a self-protection mechanism that would cause them to faint... But now, Wang Xiyi, who was able to endure that kind of pain, was hurt by the mucus on the tentacle and could hardly stand.

She could clearly sense the condition of her body. The tissues of her wings were not damaged, whether scales, flesh or bones... The neurotoxins carried in the mucus would not cause direct damage to the body. Their only effect was to make Wang Xiyi feel pain... pain that far exceeded the limit of her physical endurance.

She even suspected that this thing might be a rule-based weird thing called "pain". Even if her pain perception center was removed, she could still feel the maddening pain.

"Hiss..." Wang Xiyi took a breath of cold air, then gritted her teeth and cut off her two wings with her sharp claws!

(End of this chapter)