Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 728 It really is a ghost!
Shang Xia followed the clues all the way here. In terms of investigation skills, her time in the Pure White Society's investigation team during the investigation of Zheng Fan had honed this ability beforehand.

However, Shang Xia didn't consider herself very efficient. Most of the time, after locking onto a clue or target, she would follow behind others with a very low profile.

If you keep up with them for a while, they will naturally slip up.

Although doing so might seem like an invasion of privacy, Shang Xia was too clueless to understand such things. Anyway, both Professor Liu and Lin Yilin told her to just focus on using her strengths at work.

She doesn't need to worry about other things; she can do whatever she wants.

She was quite lucky this time. She managed to pinpoint the relationships of the person who was killed during the parade for using a fantasy item. Those cronies didn't even have the patience to wait until dark; they sneaked into the casino whenever there was a gap in the patrol.

As they talked animatedly along the way, Shang Xia stood beside them, nodding and taking notes with a voice recorder.

Then we came to this casino.

As soon as she arrived, she sensed the deep darkness hidden inside the casino, so without saying a word, she grabbed an axe and started fighting.

At this moment, the people in the innermost private room were completely terrified.

The incident happened suddenly. Normally, this casino has a fairly robust surveillance and alarm system around it, which would usually alert them to prepare to leave when signs of danger appear. But this time, when they discovered it, the white-haired girl was already standing inside the casino.

This is why, in their haste, those who were negotiating experienced an unusually crowded situation. Naturally, a casino with such rudimentary conditions couldn't expect the escape tunnels to be very well-designed, as it simply couldn't accommodate so many people.

boom!
Shang Xia's face tried to squeeze in for a while but couldn't. Feeling that the opening was still too small, he added another blow with his axe, finally smashing the alloy door open completely.

The moment she stepped inside, the bodyguards inside attacked, and others chased after her from behind, surrounding Shang Xia.

Shang Xia remained silent, only continuing to swing his axe and spin it.

The sounds of axes piercing flesh and crushing bones blended together, because Shang Xia was spinning so fast that it was hard to tell who was first and who was last. But by the time Shang Xia stupidly stopped spinning and almost lost his footing, everyone in front of and behind him had already fallen.

Seeing some people who had no time to escape and had already squatted down with their hands on their heads to indicate their surrender, Shang Xia began a meeting to discuss how to deal with such prisoners, under the guidance of Lin Yilin and Zheng Fan.

"First of all, the credibility of such a person surrendering first is extremely low. It can only make you see that he seems to have no weapons, but in this supernatural city, the difference between being empty-handed and being safe is too great."

"How do you determine if they are harmless? No, no, no, that's too slow. If you have important matters to attend to but don't want to let some accomplices slip through your fingers due to your negligence, then what you need to do is not to make a judgment, but to manually render them harmless."

"Huh? You need to teach this? If it's going to be handed over to the authorities, then as long as it's not dead, it's fine."

No wonder he's called the anti-brother.

After reminiscing, Shang Xia stepped forward directly.

"Oh, miss, there might be some misunderstanding between us. I know where those people who just escaped might go... Wait, are you trying to attack me? Fuck! I've already surrendered! You just killed all my bodyguards! Holy crap! No! Ah!"

Brother Fan's teachings were very useful. It took them the shortest amount of time to confirm that these casino criminals were harmless. Not only that, they also proactively provided more intelligence.

It was definitely the right thing to learn from Lin Yilin and Fan Ge; she hadn't learned these things when she was in the Chunbai Society's investigation team.

With that in mind, Shang Xia continued toward the secret passage that had been triggered and closed again.

Bang!
If an organization is exposed, it can hardly be called an organization anymore. The flow of traffic between Shang and Xia was unimpeded.

When a team of police officers stormed into the casino, they were stunned by the scene of devastation. Upon reaching a private room deep inside, they were met with a cacophony of wailing and howling.

"Waaaaah... It's the police! It's the police station! Thank goodness, we're saved!"

Hearing the voices of these gang representatives, whom they had been following for some time, they were even more dumbfounded.

How have they been adjusted?
Lin Yilin once said that when tracking multiple targets, one must learn to make choices and start judging the value of the target and its scope of ability during the tracking process.

Shang Xia ran through the secret passage, continuing to recall what he had learned over the past few months.

Within the scope of my capabilities... is that right?
Swing the axe with force, accumulating power in a simple and unpretentious way, and expanding your horizons forward—

On the other side, the secret passage was not long to begin with, and the group soon emerged from the exit into the open.

"Phew, this is really weird. There was no warning at all, and a master has already attacked." "He must be a ruthless person. I was running behind him just now, and the screams coming from the people at the back of the private room were absolutely horrific."

"That person might be catching up. We'd better scatter quickly."

"Don't panic and lose your composure. This secret passage was designed with the problem of pursuers in mind. It has multiple interconnected passages and multiple exits. According to the previous signals, only one person has broken in, so it won't be easy for them to find us."

"Good good..."

Rumble…

"What is that sound...?"

Before the people at the back could finish speaking, the secret passage exit behind them, which had just been closed and hidden again, suddenly cracked open, revealing a blinding white light. Then, a fierce explosion occurred, engulfing the group.

Although the main structure is not large, it is full of cleverly designed hidden passages, which are now suddenly revealed.

At a glance, you can clearly see where those people are.

It's unclear, but they probably didn't have time to escape and were buried under the ruins of the secret passage.

Shang Xia quickly spotted the person who had miraculously dodged her axe blow and was now desperately fleeing. A surge of excitement filled her. Sure enough, if she just tried this, this valuable target would appear on its own.

She neutralized most of the others as well, so after confirming the situation, she focused on the last escapee and followed him.

The one who wasn't killed by Shang Xia with a single axe blow was a member of the Black Cult.

Others still thought Shang Xia was just an ordinary supernatural expert, but the members of the Black Cult were terrified. They had never seen such a blinding white light.

Recently, they have seen many lamplighters, whose power and might have made the remaining believers fearful and even left them with a shadow. But the white figure that appeared behind them was far beyond what any of the lamplighters they had seen before could compare to.

They are not the same kind of things at all.

They couldn't even be sure if the person behind them was human.

If they get too close, these people who have been marinated by illusions and dark power will probably melt away like popsicles on a hot summer day!
The last survivor, while marveling at his speed, became extremely cautious, concealing his whereabouts and using his superb counter-surveillance techniques without reservation.

Even though the lantern bearers outside were attracting attention and gathering, he remained calm and patiently disguised himself as he wandered around the city of Jiyun for a long time, even taking a ride on the subway.

After confirming that no one was tracking him, he returned to an old, dilapidated neighborhood in Jiyun City as dusk gradually fell.

He sent out a signal in advance, did not return rashly, and even notified other followers to search the surroundings and remotely check whether he was under an illusion or marked with any symbols they did not know.

The whole process took another hour, and by then it was completely dark.

The cautious and suspicious member of the Black Cult finally returned to his stronghold.

"Now, apart from the unpredictable ritual tracking, I should be able to rest easy. And the ritual tracking will be blocked by the Holy Maiden within the stronghold. Oh well, never mind, I won't think about it anymore." The believer breathed a sigh of relief, then thought for a moment and found other believers to report the day's events.

The supervising cultist asked him to wait a moment before going deeper into the area. He returned after a long while and said, "Her Majesty the Holy Maiden wishes to see you in person."

Unsurprisingly, Eliadodic's death has been confirmed, and the information that a super expert could mysteriously emerge after the death of the immortal beacon is of great importance.

The believer straightened his clothes, though the black robes didn't seem to warrant any tidying up.

He stepped deeper into the area.

The journey was longer than he had anticipated, but he soon saw a figure appearing ahead like a ghost, also draped in a black robe whose face was obscured.

"The Saintess Pavilion..."

"Who is the person behind you?" the saintess asked in a stern voice.

The believer, who was halfway through the prayer, was suddenly horrified.

(End of this chapter)