I created a foundation

Target, abnormal.

Everything before was just a disguise.

The so-called jealousy and school bullying are nothing but a stage play carefully designed by this "abnormal" in order to get close to Kasumigaoka Utaha, or in other words, to get close to those people who are related to the "other world".

Ying Lili's heart sank instantly.

This is not a personal vendetta.

This is a long-planned infiltration of the Foundation, or a hunt that is about to begin.

She quietly took out the Foundation's special terminal from her pocket, her fingertips hovering over the emergency contact button, but she hesitated to press it.

Report directly? Request support?

No.

Now is not the time.

The other party's purpose is still unclear, and it is unknown whether there is a larger organization hidden behind it.

If we alert the enemy now, this clue, which has finally come to us, will only sink back into deep water.

She needed more intelligence.

At the very least, we need to first figure out what this "thing" disguised as a high school girl is.

Eriri put away the terminal.

She took a deep breath and restrained her breath, heartbeat, and sense of existence to the extreme.

This is a technique that combines [Life Return] with [Observation Haki], and is also a required course for senior field personnel of the Foundation.

At this moment, the resentment and distortion on the face of Maika Iwasaki in the distance receded like the tide, and she returned to the timid and pale appearance of an ordinary high school girl.

She straightened her messy clothes and put on her schoolbag, as if nothing had happened.

She stood up and walked towards the stairs.

Eriri held her breath and blended into the shadow behind the door like a statue.

The sound of footsteps came from far away.

Then, he passed by the door of the classroom where she was hiding and slowly walked away.

Until the footsteps completely disappeared at the bottom of the stairs.

Ying Lili slowly walked out from the shadows. There was no expression on her face and her eyes were as cold as a piece of ice that had not melted for thousands of years.

Without the slightest hesitation, she took a step forward, following silently like a top-tier hunter.

Chapter 143: Tracking on a rainy night, "breathing" underwater

The gate of Feng Zhiqi Academy slowly closed behind him, blocking out the remaining noise on campus.

Eriri pulled the collar of her school uniform a little higher, and her golden twintails lost their usual dazzling luster in the slightly gloomy sky.

She looked like an ordinary student preparing to go home, blending in with the crowd in twos and threes, walking at a leisurely pace.

However, all her attention was fixed on a thin figure fifty meters ahead through the invisible network of [Observation Haki].

Iwasaki Maika.

The girl still looked timid, with her head down, holding her schoolbag, and taking every step carefully, as if she was afraid of disturbing the dust on the roadside.

She perfectly plays the vulnerable victim who has just suffered a great shock and humiliation.

If she hadn't personally felt the tangible hatred erupting from her, Eriri would have almost thought that all her previous judgments were just illusions.

Fine raindrops floated from the sky, hitting my face coldly and covering the city with a layer of gray gauze.

The crowd gradually thinned out.

Iwasaki Maika's footsteps paused for half a second in front of a narrow and dark alley without any surveillance cameras.

It's this half second.

Ying Lili's pupils suddenly shrank.

In her perception, Iwasaki Maika's entire "aura" had completely changed.

That glimmer of humanity, tinged with timidity and cowardice, was extinguished in an instant like a snuffed candle. In its place was a cold, inhuman silence, as dead as precision machinery.

The next moment, Iwasaki Maika's figure flashed and turned into the alley.

Eriri followed without hesitation.

When she also turned the corner, the sight before her made her breath hitch.

This is no longer a high school girl with a faltering pace.

Iwasaki Maika's figure, like a cheetah awakening in the darkness, darted through the narrow, cluttered alleyway. Her movements were eerily smooth, her feet shifting across the slippery ground without making a single sound.

Her speed was constantly increasing. She easily jumped over the fallen trash can. 14 used the vertical wall between the two buildings to gain leverage, and her body drew an arc in the air that went beyond the common sense of physics, landing silently on another street.

The whole process was so fast that only a shadow was left.

This is definitely not a physical ability that humans can possess.

"really……"

Eriri's eyes turned completely cold, without any trace of the tsundere look of "Sawamura Spencer Eriri" anymore, only the absolute calmness of a foundation investigator remained.

Her mind moved slightly.

The [Mechanical Exoskeleton Stealth Type 7] covering her school uniform was silently activated.

An extremely thin bio-force field, as if blending in with the ambient light, covered her entire body, absorbing her footsteps, heartbeat, and even body temperature fluctuations.

The exoskeleton's power-assisting system began to operate, and a sense of lightness and powerful strength spread throughout the limbs.

Eriri's figure became blurred in an instant, like a ghost in a rainy night, hanging silently behind Iwasaki Maika, allowing the other party to move around in front of her like a ghost, but always maintaining an absolutely safe distance.

A silent hunt and pursuit unfolds in the shadows of the city as the rain becomes increasingly dense.

Iwasaki Maika's goal seems very clear.

She chose remote and deserted paths, flexibly avoiding any areas where people might be present. Her speed was getting faster and faster, as if she was being pulled by some invisible force, rushing towards a predetermined destination.

Eriri followed closely behind. The Foundation's specially made tactical eyepiece had automatically slid down, and the thermal imaging signal of Iwasaki Maika was firmly locked on the lens. At the same time, the surrounding environmental data was being rapidly analyzed and modeled.

About twenty minutes later, the hustle and bustle of the city was completely left behind.

A disgusting stench of rust and rotting aquatic plants began to fill the air.

Iwasaki Maika finally slowed down.

She finally stopped in front of an area surrounded by a tall barbed wire fence. A rusty warning sign—"Danger! Keep Out!"—was hung on the fence, but a huge gap had already been cut at the bottom.

This is an industrial area on the edge of the city that has been abandoned for many years.

And in the center of the ruins is an extremely large circular reservoir.

The water in the pond was an ominous, almost inky green, and its surface was as calm as a piece of polished obsidian, without a single ripple. Against the backdrop of the gloomy sky, it looked like a lifeless giant eye of the earth staring at the sky.

Ying Lili hid in the shadow of an abandoned factory building a hundred meters away, restraining her presence to the extreme.

She saw that Iwasaki Maika familiarly crawled through the gap in the barbed wire and walked step by step to the edge of the reservoir.

The rain had completely soaked her hair and clothes, sticking tightly to her body, making her already thin body look even thinner.

She stood by the pond, motionless, like a statue.

Just when Eriri thought she was about to make some preparations, Iwasaki Maika suddenly moved.

She slowly took off her wet school uniform jacket and threw it on the ground, revealing the thin white shirt underneath.

Then she raised her head and looked at the dead silent pool of water.

Eriri could clearly see the expression on Iwasaki Maika's face through the high-magnification zoom function of the tactical eyepiece.

It is not fear, not determination, and even less sadness.

It was a kind of... fanaticism and piety that was almost like a pilgrimage.

The corners of her mouth rose slightly, forming a satisfied and strange arc, and her eyes flashed with an extreme desire and joy of returning to the mother's body.

Under Eriri's gaze, she was so shocked that she almost stopped thinking.

Iwasaki Maika opened her thin arms and leaned forward as if she wanted to hug something.

Without any hesitation or struggle.

She jumped.

"Puff-"

There was a slight, almost negligible sound of something entering the water.

Iwasaki Maika's figure was instantly completely swallowed up by the bottomless, cold and dark pool of water.

A circle of small ripples appeared on the water surface, then quickly spread and disappeared.

Everything returned to the deathly silence.

No bubbles.

There was no sign of a struggle.

It was as if the person who just jumped in was not a living person, but a stone thrown into the deep sea, without even leaving the slightest echo.

Eriri stood quietly in the shadows, her body tense with extreme concentration.

The dark green pool of water was so calm that it was disturbing, as if nothing had happened.

The cold rain slid down the ends of her golden hair and dripped onto the ground.

She slowly raised her hand, and the screen of the Foundation's special terminal lit up, displaying a complex environmental monitoring interface.

Eriri's fingertips hovered over the red virtual button labeled "High Energy Reaction Deep Scan."

The rain had become dense without me noticing when.

The cold raindrops hit the rusty iron sheets of the abandoned factory building, making a series of monotonous and depressing "tap, tap" sounds, like funeral music played for this strange sacrificial ceremony.