Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 831 Found You

"Tick tock..."

"Boom~~"

Under the gloomy sky, the rain poured down harder and harder.

The occasional rumble of thunder seemed to quicken one's heartbeat.

"Boss, is this stuff... useful?" Tang Zhishang and his teammates stood at the entrance of the hospital building, lit cigarettes in their hands, and asked curiously as they looked at the [joss paper] in Tang Zhishang's hand.

"Is it even useful?" Tang Zhishang raised an eyebrow. "You're really a frog in a well. Putting aside its effects, do you think the mark left on it by that important person is a joke? Even if it's just a piece of toilet paper, this thing is worth a fortune."

Hearing this, the team members' faces lit up with joy. One of the younger members asked, "Boss, does that mean there's a chance for me to advance?"

"Of course!" Tang Zhishang said, then realized it wasn't appropriate and quickly added, "I don't know exactly how much I can get in exchange."

"Boss, it seems like communication was restored yesterday. Isn't your classmate at the provincial company? Why don't you give him a call and ask?" another team member suggested.

"Communications have been restored? How did it get back so quickly?"

Tang Zhishang was surprised to hear this. In the past, restoring communications was always the last priority for them, and the higher-ups should have allocated limited resources to important cities.

"Hehe, we're just benefiting from the connections of a few big shots inside."

Tang Zhishang nodded: "That's true. We've really benefited from this. If it weren't for those two inside, we don't know when we would have been able to recover Copperbeard."

As he spoke, Tang Zhishang took out his phone from his spatial storage. It hadn't been used for a long time and needed to be turned on again.

However, after the phone display was turned back on, Tang Zhishang looked closely and said, "Something's not right, there's no signal."

"That's impossible. I just called my grandparents last night."

"No, really, there isn't any. Do you guys have a cell phone signal?"

The group took out their phones, only to find that there was indeed no signal.

Team member Xiaohu hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "Could it be that the signal has just been restored and is unstable?"

As he said this, he raised his umbrella and walked a few steps outside to see if he could find a signal.

After taking a couple of steps, he tried to hold his phone high above his head. Just as Xiao Hu raised his phone and tried to turn it around, his gaze suddenly sharpened, and he looked down at the hospital gate.

The rain poured down in the distance, as if a curtain of water was blocking the air, and beyond fifty meters, everything was basically just an outline.

But at that moment, there seemed to be a figure in that blurry outline. With the vigilance of a company employee, the team member immediately became alert: "Captain!"

Xiao Hu softly called out to Tang Zhishang.

Instead of calling out "leader," he called out "captain."

Tang Zhishang and the others were gathered together when they heard the shouts behind them. They turned around and saw Xiao Hu standing in the heavy rain, holding an umbrella and remaining motionless.

Seeing this, Tang Zhishang frowned impatiently and asked, "What's wrong? Where do you get a signal?"

However, Xiaohu did not respond.

"Xiao Hu!" Tang Zhishang called out again. At this moment, the other team members also turned around. But after seeing that Xiao Hu still hadn't moved, they exchanged glances, and Tang Zhishang's expression gradually became serious.

He slowly walked towards Xiaohu, and after watching Xiaohu sway in the wind, he took a deep breath and took out his cursed item, a short knife, from his spatial storage.

She walked up to Xiaohu and looked at him sideways, asking, "Xiaohu, are you alright?"

However, the moment his gaze fell upon it, Tang Zhishang's heart tightened, and he screamed, "Enemy attack!!"

The moment the words left his mouth, a figure suddenly flashed out from the rain ahead, moving so fast that Tang Zhishang didn't even have time to think.

All that could be seen was a blade of light tearing through the rain, and in that critical moment, Tang Zhishang instinctively twisted his body!
"puff!!",

Fresh blood mixed with cold rainwater splashed out!

A piercing pain exploded from my left shoulder, and half of my body went numb, followed by an overwhelming force!
"what!!"

Tang Zhishang was struck as if by an invisible giant hammer, flying backward uncontrollably and crashing heavily onto the wet cement steps of the hospital, rolling half a circle before coming to a stop.

Scalding blood gushed out from the huge, gruesome gash in his shoulder like a dam bursting, instantly staining the water beneath him red, the glaring red spreading in the dim light.

He struggled to lift his head from the ground and saw that behind the arm that had been severed at the shoulder, there was another figure.

The other person was standing in the rain, so close to them, yet Tang Zhishang could only vaguely make out an outline. What was even stranger was that the outline was slowly disappearing.

"Hold!!"

In less than a second, the other team members also snapped back to their senses and quickly retrieved their cursed items from their spatial storage.

But the blurry figure in the rain appeared in front of a team member with an even more unbelievable speed. It only flashed by for a moment, and did not attack them. Instead, it slashed at Tang Zhishang with the blade in its hand again.

This was a provocation, meant to make these team members watch as he beheaded Tang Zhishang.

The cold light tore through the air, revealing the exquisite patterns on it. Only then did Tang Zhishang realize that it was a very thin sword, like a fencing sword used by Westerners.

"call!!"

Just as the sword was about to strike, the surrounding space suddenly darkened, and then the blade, which was cleaving in mid-air, seemed to be pulled back by an invisible force, and a figure suddenly appeared behind the opponent.

At that moment, time, space, and even every falling raindrop seemed to be frozen instantly by an invisible force. Tang Zhishang's eyes widened, his pupils throbbing violently, as he witnessed the most unforgettable scene of his life.

Under those cold eyes, the hand slowly rose and gently fell.

"boom!!"

The surrounding void seemed to split open, and it appeared that what fell was not a palm, but a mountain.

At this moment, Tang Zhishang couldn't help but stop breathing, as a sense of despair, as if he were about to be crushed by this power, washed over him.

The blurry silhouette blocking his way twisted and tore apart the instant the hand landed, finally letting out a scream.

With a "pop!", it exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

The large hand continued to fall forward, but when it landed on Tang Zhishang, it brought not destruction, but a gentle warmth like a spring breeze.

With a flick of her wrist, she lifted Tang Zhishang from the ground. Then, with a wave of her hand, she caught the severed arm in her hand. A silver thread flew from Xiao Ran's fingertip and instantly reattached the severed arm to Tang Zhishang.

The whole process was too fast. When Tang Zhishang came to his senses, he found that his arm had been completely healed. He quickly moved it and found that he didn't even feel any pain. There was not a trace on his smooth shoulder.

If it weren't for the blood still on his clothes, Tang Zhishang would have doubted whether what he had just witnessed was a hallucination.

After Tang Zhishang came to his senses, he hurriedly asked Xiao Ran, "That person just now... is he... dead?"

He had witnessed Xiao Ran smash the other person to pieces with a single slap, but now he looked around but couldn't see the other person's body.

"No, the other party is not dead. What we just saw was probably not his real body."

Xiao Ran looked at the rain curtain in front of her.

Judging from the feel of the hand just now, the opponent seems to possess some kind of water-based clone ability.

Moreover, this clone is quite powerful, and can even evade his mental energy. If it weren't for the killing intent it revealed when it attacked, he probably wouldn't have even noticed it.

Ok……

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran's eyes glowed with a fluorescent light. He activated the Eye of Retrospection, and in an instant, the rain in front of him flowed backward. The shattered figure appeared before him. In the shadows, Xiao Ran noticed a wisp of light in the retrospective scene.

East!

Xiao Ran glanced sideways towards the east of the hospital, her mental energy rapidly sweeping eastward.

"Oh!!"

At the same time, on a hill to the east, a blond, blue-eyed youth suddenly coughed up blood.

A sickly pallor appeared on her already fair face.

He looked up and said in English, "The assassination attempt failed. The opponent was very strong; I was no match for him."

Beside him were three other people, all of whom were covered by large black raincoats, making it impossible to tell whether they were men or women.

Upon hearing the young man's words, the three turned to look at him. The figure on the left, wearing a raincoat, coldly reprimanded him, "Mars, I told you long ago, stop with your little tricks. The other party is also a professional. Before you advance to a B-level Faith Assassin, you simply cannot unleash your true power."

"Humph!"

The young man called Mars pursed his lips but did not refute. Although he spoke nicely, he was still nervous inside.

The overwhelming sense of oppression still sent chills down his spine when he thought about it, and he couldn't help but curse inwardly, "Damn it, wasn't that guy supposed to be only a C-rank?"

Just as Mars was pondering whether he should withdraw from the mission, a frenzied mental force suddenly tore through the bushes in front of him and locked onto Mars. The frenzied force caused the surrounding trees to bend to the sides.

At the same time, Xiao Ran's icy voice rang in their ears: "Found you!"

"Baka!!" The man in the middle drew his sword and slashed at the void. The blade emitted a terrifying wind pressure in the air, instantly tearing apart the spiritual energy surrounding them.

"Mars, you idiot!"

The other two looked at Mars, who was sitting on the ground, and shouted angrily, "You actually exposed us!"

Mars was stunned and screamed, "It wasn't me! My Water Shadow Technique is impossible for anyone to track, especially in this heavy rain. It must be someone else!"

"There are only four of us here. Who else could it be but you?"

A woman's questioning voice came from under the large raincoat.

Mars's expression changed drastically, and he shouted loudly, "It's definitely not my fault! Yes, it must be that yellow monkey who plays the erhu! He must have leaked our tracks!"

Mars's explanation was clearly not convincing enough for the three of them, but no one cared about it at the moment because Xiao Ran had already arrived.

The woman took off her large raincoat, revealing long golden hair, but her eyes were covered by a white cloth. Her mental energy spread out and instantly locked onto the figure rushing towards them.

"He arrived at the foot of the mountain very quickly."

As the woman spoke, she took out a long staff from her spatial storage and pointed it forward.

Faint golden runes and the staff intersected, and a golden light slowly gathered at the tip of the magnificent staff.

The woman pointed her long staff in Xiao Ran's direction and murmured, "Privilege 1 - Divine Judgment!"

The instant the woman uttered the incantation, a beam of intense light burst forth from the tip of the staff, instantly turning the entire world into daylight.

(End of this chapter)