Sure enough, as soon as Sharon came into view, the three snipers 400 meters away immediately locked onto her and pulled their triggers.

Without even looking out the window, Luo Tian raised his submachine gun and fired three shots at the window, while simultaneously maneuvering Sharon's body to take a small step back.

The three bullets instantly struck the wall next to where Luo Tian had just been standing, creating three deep craters.

If she had been a step slower, Sharon would have already been shot in the head.

"What on earth is going on?" Sharon was completely bewildered.

She knew that appearing by the window would make her a target for snipers, but why did the sniper stop shooting after missing the first shot? Now that she was motionless, she should have been a sitting duck.

Could it be... that man just fired three shots blindly and took out the sniper hundreds of meters away? That's impossible! The effective range of a submachine gun is only about 500 meters. He didn't even look at the target, how could he have hit him?

Sharon couldn't help but ask herself, "How did you do that?"

Luo Tian paused for a moment, then replied calmly, "I feel like I can hit it."

"Rely on intuition? What kind of answer is that!" Sharon was speechless, but Luo Tian stopped explaining and walked straight towards the stairwell.

Meanwhile, in the police station office.

Reports reached Yakushiji Ryoko's ears, and she listened expressionlessly.

"C7 has located the target and is initiating sniping."

"C8 has located the target and is initiating sniping."

"C9 has located the target and is initiating sniping."

Immediately afterwards, three shocked voices came through the communicator: "What?" "How is this possible?" "This is not scientific!"

Maki Shirou looked at Yakushiji Ryoko and quickly asked, "What happened?"

"C7 reports, the target has evaded the sniper fire. Repeat, the target has evaded the sniper fire."

A hint of impatience flashed across Yakushiji Ryoko's face: "Then shoot again. Do I have to teach you that?"

Maki Shiro immediately relayed the order: "Continue sniping the target!"

But there was no response from the sniper on the communicator. Maki Shiro's heart tightened, and he pressed again, "C7, C8, C9, report the situation on the ground immediately!"

"C9 reports, the target is 400 meters away and has hit our sniper rifle with a submachine gun. Repeat, the target has hit our sniper rifle with a submachine gun. We can no longer snipe. Over."

Maki Shiro immediately roared, "Hit a sniper rifle with a submachine gun at 400 meters? The effective range is only 500 meters, are you kidding me?"

"Report, we did not lie." A silent response came from the communicator.

Maki Shirou was in a dilemma. He knew his subordinates wouldn't lie, but Yakushiji Ryoko was right in front of him, and he had to show his attitude.

He looked up at Yakushiji Ryoko, only to find her staring intently at the surveillance footage.

"Where is Sharon now?" Ryoko Yakushiji asked with amusement.

After inquiring about the scene, Maki Shiro immediately replied, "The target is walking up the stairs, seemingly heading to the first floor."

"Interesting, trying to break through head-on?" Yakushiji Ryoko crossed her legs, a smile playing on her lips. "Then let's have some fun with her."

After saying that, she immediately gave the order: "Connect all communications on site. I will personally take command."

"Yes."

As night fell, the streetlights along the roadside lit up with white light, illuminating the roads surrounding the apartment.

In the parking lot, Tachibana Kirigaya resealed the Kusanagi sword back into the freezer, leaned against the truck bed with a cigarette between her fingers, and looked at the apartment building illuminated by searchlights in the distance. She said softly, "There were gunshots again just now. It seems Sharon is still resisting."

"Judging from the situation, that's definitely the case, and the sound just now seemed to be from a sniper rifle," Chizuka Nishiki said, walking up to her.

Chizuka Nishiki held a cup of instant noodles, slurped them down in big gulps, and said, "With all these injuries and without even protective gear, she managed to hold out for so long against an entire action team. This Miss Sharon's resilience is truly amazing."

Inoue Takina immediately corrected her, "That's because Team A, which was launching a frontal assault, has been completely wiped out. Only Team B, responsible for the outer encirclement, and Team C, responsible for long-range sniping, are still operating, which is why she's been able to hold out until now."

Inoue Takina glanced at the support vehicles across the street, looked at the members of Team A who were reorganizing their equipment, and then said, "Team A, which just withdrew, has finished resting. Sharon has lost the information advantage from the first encounter, and she is also injured. She definitely won't last long."

"What you said makes sense." Nishiki Chizuka slurped up another mouthful of noodles.

Inside the truck, Mizuki Nakahara couldn't help but complain, "Chizuka, I told you not to eat such fragrant food at the mission site. The smell is wafting into the truck."

"But I'm really starving!" Chizuka Nishiki immediately cried out in aggrieved voice, "I just came back from the front lines, and I'm extremely exhausted, okay?"

"You can't eat it standing in the wind, the aroma will waft all over here."

Inoue Takina glanced at the two bickering, then leaned closer to Tachibana Kirika and asked, "Chief, are we just going to wait here?"

"Isn't it great that someone else is doing the work for us?"

Tachibana Kirigaya leaned against the side of the truck, speaking casually, completely unlike her previous sharp and confrontational demeanor with Yakushiji Ryoko: "In the end, although Sharon ambushed us first, the core reason why things have escalated to this point is that our SDS lacks sufficient deterrent power. We need to find someone of importance to establish our authority so that other organizations won't dare to provoke us easily."

"If any strange organization dares to obstruct us when we are retrieving Abyss items, we will not be able to carry out our work normally. It was for this reason that I took drastic measures."

At this point, Tachibana Kiri raised her hand, lit a cigarette, and slowly exhaled a smoke ring: "Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Kusanagi Sword was still effective and finish off Sharon directly, but to be honest, facing her desperate counterattack, I can't guarantee that our people won't suffer casualties."

"Since that woman Yakushiji wants to wipe us out, let her do it. As long as our people are safe, that's enough. Even if the action team suffers losses, she will be held responsible."

"As for whether it will have a deterrent effect afterward, although Yakushiji Ryoko acts erratically, she knows she is in the wrong. Her forceful intervention this time is most likely because something happened to her family, and she had no choice but to silence them."

"Heh, that woman is just cleaning up the mess left by her elders. She definitely doesn't want to be branded as someone who ambushed a demon hunter officer. In the end, that deterrent power will still fall on our SDS."

Kaori Tachibana looked at everyone with a playful expression, then said to Takina Inoue, "Takina, did you really think I left you here just to stand by?"

"Once Sharon dies, will Yakushiji Ryoko in the Koban (traditional Japanese military unit) be able to obtain the treasure she possessed, or will we be able to get it first?"

Inoue Takina was stunned for a moment. It turned out that everyone stayed here to intercept the Abyss Items before Yakushiji Ryoko could be dealt with, after Sharon was dealt with.

"Wow! Boss is really amazing, she's got the skills she always has!" Chizuka Nishiki, who was eating noodles and listening nearby, immediately gave Tachibana Kirika a thumbs up.

"Go eat your noodles." Tachibana Kiri rolled her eyes at her, then pressed the button on her earpiece. "Kurumi, did you successfully connect to Yakushiji's communication channel?"

"It's connected. Shall we play now?" Hu Tao's lazy voice came through the earphones.

Upon hearing this, Inoue Takina, Nishiki Chizuka, and Nakahara Mizuki also pressed their earpieces.

"Play." Kijima said calmly, her gaze fixed on the apartment building not far away.

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