On the Ark.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I really didn't expect that," Blackback said with a laugh. "You actually have such great strength. If I hadn't reacted quickly enough, I probably would have been roasted alive on the spot."

A cold snort rang out beside Blackback; it was Golden Demon. Like Golden Demon, most of his clothes were burned away, revealing his bronze muscles. He simply ripped his shirt off completely, then looked coldly at Eyjafjalla and slowly said, "Indeed, appearances can be deceiving. This level of fire control is rare even in the military, let alone among scholars. You're quite good, little girl, but that's enough."

Eyjafjalla was surprised that her "Ignite" attack couldn't defeat the two people in front of her, and she couldn't help but take a step back.

"Scared already?" Blackback noticed Eyjafjalla's subtle movements, then cracked his neck, producing a series of crisp sounds. "How should I put it? Although your talent is quite good, your combat skills are still far from adequate. Little girl, that move you just used could probably be used repeatedly, right? So why didn't you use it a few more times? If you had used it a few more times, even we wouldn't have survived... What a pity, what a pity, I really thought I was going to die."

As Blackback spoke, he sighed, looking as if he was very regretful.

Eyjafjalla gripped her staff tightly.

She cannot be taken to Ursus; she must complete her parents' research.

Therefore, she must defeat these people in front of her!

Eyjafjalla took a deep breath, activating the Originium particles within her body. This caused Blackback and Gold Oni to feel an even more frenzied power; they saw Eyjafjalla release her staff, spread her hands, and close her eyes. But the staff didn't fall; instead, it floated up little by little along with her body.

"She actually had such power hidden within her." Jin Gui said softly, "But it's a pity, you've already missed your best opportunity... Silver Blade, finish her off."

No sooner had Jin Gui finished speaking than a sharp blade pierced through Eyjafjalla's body from behind.

Eyjafjalla's eyes widened, and then she fell from the sky.

"I told you, you're not a warrior after all." Jin Gui walked up to Eyjafjalla, who lay in a pool of blood, and couldn't help but shake his head. "What a pity."

Chapter 453 Although I'm not Rhodes Island's ace (3K5)

Fifteen minutes later, after an extremely exaggerated drift, Lin Ye finally arrived at the Originium Building.

When the car was parked across the roadside, Lin Ye's hands trembled slightly, because he had never tried driving so fast before. Although he had gotten his driver's license during his first summer vacation in college in his previous life, he hadn't really driven much after that, or rather, until his sudden death. In the first few years of this world, he was in Chernobog, so he had even less opportunity to drive.

Only after joining Rhodes Island would one or two opportunities arise. In other words, someone like Lin Ye, in his previous life, would be the kind of complete novice who would put a sign on the back of his car saying "Newbie on the road, skilled at emergency braking." Last time he went to Halloween, he carefully drove along the mountain roads. However, this time, he stepped on the gas pedal in the pouring rain. Several times he almost overturned because the road was too slippery, but he didn't care. It wasn't until the car stopped that he realized his hands on the steering wheel were covered in sweat.

Mostima turned to look at him: "Are you alright?"

“No problem.” Lin Ye had already seen the Ranger’s car parked in front of the Originium Building and was about to open the door and get out, but Mostima stopped him. He looked at Mostima with some confusion, but before he could ask a question, Mostima had already pried his hand open and stuffed several cold, strip-shaped objects into his hand.

"This is what I forgot to give you last time," Mostima said with a smile. "Use it well, it's not your ordinary Originium bomb."

After saying that, Mostima got out of the car first, while Lin Ye opened his hand, looking at the five jet-black bullets lying in his palm. Without a doubt, these were the bullets from the competitor's weapon. They were completely different from Vector's bullets; the caliber and size were much larger, and they felt heavy in his hand. Coupled with Mostima's earlier words, Lin Ye roughly understood what was going on, so he put them in his pocket and got out of the car as well.

Mostima had already arrived at the Ranger's vehicle. He glanced inside, then shook his head at Lin Ye, who had just gotten out of the car, and said, "There's no one inside."

Lin Ye had already guessed that the forest ranger wouldn't be in the car, but he still circled the car, hoping to find some clues, and then he actually found it.

"The box is gone," Lin Ye said.

"Ok?"

"The ranger's box contained his bow and arrows," Lin Ye said. "He must have taken it himself, which means he most likely noticed something was wrong, and that's when this happened. Tsk, let's hurry up and check inside the building."

Lin Ye couldn't wait any longer; the unease in his heart was growing stronger. He immediately turned around and ran into the building. Mostima followed him, but before he had run a few steps, he sensed the person lying in the corner. After taking a few steps closer, he saw clearly and his eyes widened in shock.

Because they are forest rangers.

"Old Lin!" Lin Ye immediately ran to the ranger's side and then noticed that his waist was covered in blood. His heart sank, and he immediately reached out and checked the ranger's nostrils. When he felt the faint breathing, he breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness, he's still alive."

Mostima also checked the ranger's condition, then nodded slightly and sighed, "As expected of the Saffra, to survive such injuries is as tenacious as a lizard. However, it seems that the person who attacked him either did not understand the characteristics of the Saffra people, or did not want to kill him... but I am more inclined to believe the former."

Lin Ye looked at Mostima with some confusion: "Why?"

"Can't you smell it yet?" Mostima slowly stood up, looked up at the Originium Tower in front of her, and said softly, "The stench of blood is almost seeping out of here."

Then, Lin Ye led the unconscious ranger into the building, and was speechless at the scene inside.

Because apart from him, Mostima, and the unconscious Ranger, there was no one else alive; the corridor was piled high with the bodies of security personnel. This made Lin Ye think that Eyjafjalla had also been killed, and he almost ground his teeth to powder. It wasn't until he ran into the conference hall and found that there were no scholars' bodies that he was somewhat relieved.

“It seems this wasn’t a massacre, but a kidnapping,” Mostima said. “Their target was very clear: these scholars.”

Lin Ye didn't ask Mostima the pointless question of "What are their goals?" Instead, he took out his phone, intending to call Wei Yanwu directly, but for some reason, he didn't and called Chen instead. Chen answered the phone quickly, and the other end was very noisy.

"Hey, Lin Ye?" Chen asked, somewhat puzzled. "At a time like this, you..."

Lin Ye stated bluntly, "Something happened at the Originium Building; the scholars have all been abducted."

"What?! You're kidding me?!"

"Would I joke about something like this?! You'll see if you bring your men over here; it's all dead bodies!" Lin Ye shouted. "You're a policeman. I want to ask you, if you were a robber, what route would you choose to leave Longmen right now?"

"What do you mean by choosing a path...? What were you just saying...? Damn it, of all times!" The sound of water and Chen's roar came from the other end. "Swire! You stay here with the first team, everyone else grab your weapons and come with me... Lin Ye, Originium Tower, right? Wait for me there..."

“The slums,” Mostima said suddenly.

Lin Ye turned to look at Mostima: "What?"

“To answer your question, if those bandits want to leave Lungmen as soon as possible, then the slums are the best, and only, route.” Mostima took two steps back, then opened the back door of the conference room. A gale-force wind and rain poured in, and in the midst of the storm was a row of dilapidated tile-roofed houses, which looked like a row of silent tombstones from a distance. “This is the slums.”

Chen, whether he heard Mostima's voice or remembered something himself, shouted, "If they want to leave, they can only go to the slums. Don't act rashly; the situation there is complicated. Wait for me..."

Lin Ye took a deep breath and then said to Chen, "Inspector Chen, I'll be waiting for you in the slums."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Mostima laughed and said, "They've been gone for a while now, and the slums are so big, how are you going to chase after them?"

"How else can we chase them?" Lin Ye said, "Chase them by car!"

……

The group moved quickly through the narrow streets of the slum.

Because it was a rainstorm, even the poor in the slums wouldn't go out at this time. So there was only this one group of people in the alley, stepping across the black water and making a series of splashing sounds, but they were instantly drowned out by the sound of the rain.

Some scholars, exhausted, collapsed and were immediately pulled up by the soldiers around them.

"Hurry up!" Jin Gui roared at the scholars. "Stop having any more meaningless thoughts. The sooner you get there, the less suffering you'll endure."

Blackback chuckled and said, "Golden Ghost, what kind of stamina do you expect from these scholars? If they keep rushing like this, what if one or two of them die from exhaustion? Anyway, no one is catching up with us, so it's fine if we go a little slower."

Jin Gui glanced at Hei Bei, snorted coldly, and said nothing more, but he clearly agreed with Hei Bei's statement.

Then Blackback looked at Rowling, who was carrying the unconscious Eyjafjalla behind him, and said, "I say, Miss Rowling, you really have great stamina. But what's the point? Why not just hand this little girl over to me?"

Rowling bit her lip, shook her head, and remained silent.

She could sense that Eyjafjalla was still alive, albeit weakly. Therefore, she was unwilling to hand Eyjafjalla over to Blackback and the others, preferring to carry her herself. This way, if her injuries worsened, she could detect it immediately and address the problem. Entrusting her to these people meant she could die silently without anyone knowing.

Although Rowling knew their future was bleak, and that reaching Ursus would be no different from death, she still didn't want to see Eyjafjalla die. Even if they had different views on Originium, even if they were rivals just an hour ago, none of that mattered. She didn't want to see a girl like that die in a filthy slum.

But she didn't want to die in Ursus, so under Eyjafjalla's cover, she kept trying to throw her belongings at the ground, hoping the Sentinel would find them by following them. Although she knew it was pointless, because in this weather, even blood would be washed away within minutes.

But I still have to give it a try.

However, her attempt was discovered.

A hand suddenly reached out from behind her and grabbed her wrist: "What are you doing?"

The voice was cold.

She looked up and met a pair of cold eyes. She recognized the man; he was the one who had silently stabbed Eyjafjalla, the one the Golden Demon called Silver Blade. Rowling had no idea when Silver Blade had appeared beside her; she couldn't detect a trace of him.

Silver Blade's words also caught the attention of Golden Demon and Blackback.

“Miss Rowling has quite a few ideas,” Blackie said with a smile, “but that’s not very well-behaved.”

Jin Gui snorted and said, "Take that little devil off her body, then tie her up. If she doesn't obey, break her hands and feet."

"Hey, don't be so cruel," the black man said. "Breaking off his arms and legs is too much. Breaking his arms would be fine."

Rowling bit her lip tightly, then watched as Silverblade reached out to her.

However, the next second, a loud engine sound suddenly rang out behind them, accompanied by a scream.

Jin Gui's expression changed slightly: "Who goes there?!"

His answer was a corpse that fell from the sky, already a bloody mess when it landed.

Everyone turned around and looked at the dilapidated SUV that had suddenly appeared behind them.

Blackback's mouth dropped open slightly: "Speeding in a place like this?"

Jin Gui frowned: "Are they from the Guard Bureau?"

Silver Blade silently took a step back, his figure gradually disappearing into the rain.

Lin Ye slowly got out of the car. He didn't need to open the door, as it had been smashed off a minute earlier. It seemed he owed Wei Yanwu's family another car... but he didn't have the energy to worry about that now. He got out of the car, stood in the pouring rain, looked at the soldiers who seemed to be facing a formidable enemy and the dumbfounded scholars in front of him, and took a deep breath.

Fortunately, we made it in time.

Standing before a group of thugs who didn't look like easy targets, Lin Ye felt a sudden urge to light a cigarette. The scene reminded him of a year ago in the hospital corridor of Chernobog, when he too had faced a horde of crazed infected individuals alone. He'd smoked a cigarette to ease the tension, and he wanted one now too, because he was nervous; he'd never been good at handling situations like this.

However, although he didn't know what to say, he still knew what to do.

Clang.

【Maple】 was drawn from its sheath, its fiery red blade seemingly capable of slicing through the black rain curtain.

"I'm telling you..." Lin Ye raised his knife, pointed it at the people present, narrowed his eyes slightly, then suddenly turned around and slashed down, and bright red blood suddenly burst out from the black rain curtain.

"Ahhh!"

The hand holding the knife was cut off and fell to the ground, its blood staining the puddles on either side.

Jin Gui and Hei Bei were shocked: "Silver Blade!"

Just as they were about to step forward, Lin Ye pointed [Maple] at them again.

"I'm telling you, although I'm not Rhodes Island's ace," Lin Ye said slowly, facing Golden Demon and Blackback, without even glancing at Silverblade groaning behind him, "isn't it a bit too much for you to let these small fry blatantly come and stab me in the back?"

……

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Author's note: It seems like I still owe thirteen more chapters.

Chapter 454 I Sent Your Death (3K5)

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind was so fierce that it seemed like it wanted to blow the entire slum over.

Lin Ye squinted slightly, looking at the thugs standing in front of him through the rain. Although visibility was poor, the headlights from the car behind him illuminated half of their bodies, allowing Lin Ye to see their distinctly Yan-style clothing. So, these thugs are all from Yan... Yan?

His first thought was Wei Yanwu.

Could it be that Wei Yanwu orchestrated all of this? Is that why he transferred the Imperial Guard Bureau?