My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 200 Racing Against Time

Xu Wanshou never expected that Chen Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Gang, would complete the transaction and transfer of the Golden Skull Armor in such a short time.

That's why he felt he had miscalculated, especially since there was an extra person, Thin Serpent, from the mysterious assassin organization, present at the scene.

Li Jiuhe has developed a "dead knot" because he killed the thin snake.

To date, Xu Wanshou still doesn't know how to remove Li Jiuhe's "deadlock".

Now, while the discovery that Chen Hu possesses an even more valuable back brace is gratifying, the ensuing consequences cannot be ignored.

Since Chen Hu knew he needed to get rid of the arm guards quickly, he would definitely deal with the back guards as soon as possible.

Therefore, it is highly likely that while arranging the sale of the arm brace, he had already arranged the next back brace deal as well.

Most importantly, Xu Wanshou had just helped Gao Shu and Cheng Feng quickly deal with two Black Tiger Generals, while the two of them were simultaneously attacking one of the Black Tiger Generals. They only moved on to the second one after taking down the first one, so the process should have gone very smoothly.

Logically, the two should have killed the two Black Tiger Generals long ago and rushed to join them, but now there is no sign of them.

Although Chen Hu, whose body had been pierced, was not far from death, he still had a breath left.

Li Jiuhe used the chains to place him on the ground.

Xu Wanshou quickly stepped forward and asked, "After selling this arm guard to the slender snake, do you have a second transaction, like selling this back guard?"

Chen Hu stared at him coldly, then a sneer appeared on his lips. He moved his throat and managed to make a sound.

"That's right, judging by the timeline, I should have already traded the arm guards. They're coming soon."

"Them? Who are they? Tell me!" Xu Wanshou stared intently into Chen Hu's eyes.

Blood was gushing from Chen Hu's mouth. He opened his mouth and uttered two indistinct words: "Thunder—bird—".

"Hey! Thunderbird Party, you're fucking trying to sell this arm guard to the Thunderbird Party?"

Xu Wanshou looked horrified, instinctively took two steps back, and looked up at the window again.

The view outside the window was quiet; there was no one in sight, and nothing seemed amiss.

But it is precisely this situation that gives people a creepy and eerie feeling.

The Thunderbird Party is one of the largest organized groups in the entire Dan City, with immense power that is incomparable to organizations like the Black Tiger Gang.

The Thunderbirds naturally have many skilled players in their sequence.

"Who? Who is the Thunderbird Gang member who came to make a deal with you?" Xu Wanshou asked, his voice trembling with fear.

Chen Hu's cold smile gradually froze on his face, his breath disappeared, and he remained motionless.

"Oh no, oh no!"

Xu Wanshou clutched the back protector and arm guards tightly. "Let's go, we have to go! Gao Shu and Cheng Feng must be in trouble!"

At this point, he suddenly made a decision and shoved everything he was holding into Li Jiuhe's arms.

"You go from the back first, don't go back to where we parked. I'm going to check on Gao Shu, he can't be hurt, he absolutely can't be hurt!"

Li Jiuhe held the arm and back protectors but did not move, instead looking at Xu Wanshou.

It was clear that Xu Wanshou was genuinely worried about Gao Shu's safety. At this moment, in order to go back and check on them, he even gave up the golden skull armor that he had been most concerned about.

Despite the fact that this old man is always criticizing Gao Shu and Gao Shu often contradicts him, the two actually have a very deep relationship.

Li Jiuhe hugged the arm and back protectors and tried to use his copying ability.

But he soon discovered that they could not be copied at all, since both items were part of the Golden Skull Armor and were themselves serial items.

Based on his experience, he had never successfully replicated a sequence before.

After all, serial items are not on the same level as ordinary items; they can be classified as living beings.

At the same time, he felt the chewing gum that he had been chewing in his mouth.

This chewing gum has a limited shelf life of half an hour, and at this moment there are at least twenty minutes left.

Li Jiuhe had just reset the mission more than ten times in order to find out where Chen Hu was hiding.

Although he worked very hard, it seemed effortless to others, which greatly shocked everyone. After all, in Xu Wanshou's view, this was their first time experiencing this, and Li Jiuhe was able to accurately locate Chen Hu and successfully hit him.

At the same time, Li Jiuhe also realized that the expiration time of the chewing gum in his mouth would be reset along with his own.

This is different from the original Qinglian Boy.

After all, the Azure Lotus Child is a special sequence object that transcends cause and effect, and its passage of time is not affected by the spacetime transformation of Li Jiuhe's task definition ability.

Even though chewing gum is a sequenced item, it can still be affected and reset, just like the sequencer.

In this way, he doesn't have to worry about the chewing gum becoming ineffective as his mission resets more often.

"Why should I leave first? We can go together." He quickly said, rolling the chewing gum under his tongue.

Xu Wanshou's heart skipped a beat. He looked up at him, seemingly lost in thought.

However, he didn't say anything more and immediately rushed out.

Li Jiuhe followed behind him and asked, "Who do you think the Thunderbird Gang member who came to make the deal is?"

Xu Wanshou said without turning his head, "It's very likely to be the second or third leader. No matter who comes, it won't be good for us."

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"How can you be so sure?" Li Jiuhe asked, puzzled.

Xu Wanshou said, "The back guard of this Golden Skull Armor is much more valuable than the arm guards, and its defensive area is much larger. If someone in the Thunderbird Party has a sequence ability that matches this thing and can slowly evolve, it will naturally be of great help to them. Therefore, they probably value it very much, and the people who come to trade are at least strong, and they might even put pressure on Chen Hu, making him afraid to ask for a high price or even directly snatch it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Wanshou, who was running ahead, suddenly stopped.

Li Jiuhe stopped at almost the same time.

The two looked ahead and saw a middle-aged man with a short buzz cut, wearing a double-breasted outfit typical of Dancheng, standing in the pavilion in the garden, looking them up and down with his hands behind his back.

This person has a reserved demeanor and looks like an ordinary person.

But Li Jiuhe could sense that he looked no different from an ordinary person because he was very strong and good at concealing his abilities.

Behind the middle-aged man stood two other men with sinister expressions, who also seemed to be ruthless characters.

"Lei Kuo, it's Lei Kuo, the second-in-command of the Thunderbird Gang!" Xu Wanshou said in a low voice, his face pale.

"What level of strength?" Li Jiuhe asked.

"Mid-tier Gold Rank," Xu Wanshou said. "The entire Thunderbird Gang only has two Gold Rank members, the leader and the second leader, and both are mid-tier. If we use the ranking system you know in China, their actual damage output exceeds that of a regional level, and is roughly equivalent to half a city-annihilation level."

Li Jiuhe roughly understood; in other words, these two were among the top-tier Sequencers in Dan City.

Of course, compared to Tongcheng back then, it's still not good enough.

Even before Tong Cheng absorbed Xu Huaiyuan's strength and reached the Purple Gold level, he could still easily defeat Lei Kuo.

After all, not just anyone can be a top-level investigator at the General Administration.

At this point, Xu Wanshou clasped his hands in greeting to Lei Kuo, pretending not to recognize him: "Brother, have you seen my two friends?"

"Are you talking about them?" Lei Kuo replied.

His two henchmen simultaneously stretched their hands out from behind their backs, each holding a head in their hand.

One head belongs to Gao Shu, and the other to Cheng Feng.

Both men had clean, straight necks, the wounds were smooth, and blood was still dripping from them.

Xu Wanshou's body trembled violently, his whole body tensed, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He stepped forward, spitting out the words through gritted teeth: "I'll kill you! I'll make the Thunderbirds pay with their lives!"

At this moment, Xu Wanshou flew into a rage, disregarding everything else. He didn't even bother to speak in his hoarse voice anymore.

"That's fine."

Li Jiuhe thought to himself.

He now knows the general direction of the whole affair and is certainly not going to sit idly by and watch Gao Shu and Cheng Feng be killed.

He then activated the mission reset and skipped the previously set reset points, returning to the moment when the four of them were sitting in the car and had arrived at the street.

However, the scene of Xu Wanshou's anger just now lingered in Li Jiuhe's mind.

He could tell that the old man was truly enraged and wanted to fight Lei Kuo and the others to the death.

At the same time, Lei Kuo's expression also changed slightly. He had not expected that Xu Wanshou, who looked like an ordinary stranger, would burst out with such anger and momentum at that moment, without the slightest fear.

Instead, a terrifying power seemed about to burst forth.

Li Jiuhe felt the same way just now.

Sitting in the car, he turned his head and glanced at Xu Wanshou.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Did Investigator Li remember everything I just said?" Xu Wanshou asked.

Li Jiuhe nodded.

Just as Old Xu was reminding everyone to start taking action, he stopped them.

While chewing the gum he put back in his mouth, Li Jiuhe said, "Before we begin, I think it's necessary for me to reveal my sequence ability to you."

Everyone was stunned and turned to look at him.

Li Jiuhe continued, "My ability has a predictive function to some extent, and just now, my prediction told me that there would be an unexpected event in this mission."

"An accident? What accident?" Xu Wanshou looked at him in surprise.

"A man named Thin Snake is trading those arm guards with the Black Tiger Gang leader—"

"what!"

"What?"

"Are you sure it's a thin snake?!"

Li Jiuhe hadn't finished speaking when he added, "Besides that, Chen Hu also has the back guard of the Golden Skull Armor hidden there, and his next trading partner is Lei Kuo from the Thunderbird Party, who is currently on his way."

Everyone was stunned when these words were spoken.

Li Jiuhe then said, "Let me tell you the predictions first, and you can decide whether or not to proceed with today's operation."

Xu Wanshou paused for a moment, then reacted and asked, "Under normal circumstances, what is your prediction success rate—"

"Ninety-nine percent."

"Then let's not do it," Gao Shu said.

Cheng Feng nodded in agreement: "I also agree with Gao Shu's opinion. Since Investigator Li's prediction is so reliable, I suggest we don't take the risk."

Xu Wanshou, unwilling to accept this, looked at Li Jiuhe and asked, "Then what's your opinion—"

"Yes, of course we'll do it."

He had already set up tasks and used reset points for these arm and back protectors; he couldn't just waste them.

Li Jiuhe's answer surprised everyone.

The other three stared at him with wide eyes.

"Investigator Li, are you telling the truth?"

"Are you confident you can handle 'Red God' and 'Razer'?"

Li Jiuhe was also taken aback: "What is Red God?"

"The assassin organization that the Slender Serpent belongs to," Gao Shu hurriedly said. "So you didn't even know about the Crimson God!"

"It seems you really can make predictions in real time, but the range of your predictions is probably not very wide." Cheng Feng had no choice but to believe it.

"Are you confident you can handle them?" Xu Wanshou quickly asked Li Jiuhe.

Li Jiuhe nodded, then turned to Gao Shu and Cheng Feng and said, "You don't need to get out of the car later. Just drive to the road behind the manor, and we'll meet there."

He then looked at Xu Wanshou: "Old Xu, you come down with me. You take out everyone along the way as quickly as possible. Remember, everyone, including the four generals of the Black Tiger Gang. I'll deal with Xi She and Chen Hu."

Xu Wanshou immediately waved his hand and laughed, "Investigator Li, you overestimate me! How could an old man like me possibly kill all four of Black Tiger's generals in such a short time—"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Li Jiuhe looking at him with a smile, without saying anything more.

Just before the mission reset, Li Jiuhe discovered that his sequence ability was very strange; he killed people almost without leaving any trace, and at an extremely fast speed.

Most importantly, not long after I got rid of the Black Tigers and went to the transaction site between Chen Hu and Xi She, Xu Wanshou had already arrived, but he didn't show himself.

Xu Wanshou thought Li Jiuhe didn't know, but in fact Li Jiuhe knew right away that the old man had followed them.

The fact that he managed to take down two Black Tiger Gang leaders in such a short time and followed them without making a sound shows that this old guy must have been hiding his true strength all along.

So at this moment, Li Jiuhe didn't give him a chance to hide anything.

Seeing Li Jiuhe's ambiguous smile, Xu Wanshou's heart skipped a beat, and his face froze slightly.

After a moment, he couldn't hold back any longer and nodded: "I—I'll do my best."

A soft "pfft" sound came from Gao Shu's place.

"What are you laughing at, you brat!" Xu Wanshou seized the opportunity to immediately burst into a tirade.

"We've already wasted time talking, everyone hurry up!"

Li Jiuhe had roughly calculated the time. If he moved fast enough, he could catch up with the time he had just taken, and might even finish the plan ahead of schedule.

He opened the car door and he and Xu Wanshou quickly got out.

Shortly after they got out of the car, Gao Shu immediately started the car, turned around, and drove towards the street directly behind the Black Tiger Gang's manor.

Li Jiuhe and Xu Wanshou quickly approached the outer perimeter of the manor. This time, without waiting for Li Jiuhe's reminder, Xu Wanshou had already stepped forward and glared at the four guards who happened to be looking over.

The four men immediately struggled to breathe, instinctively releasing their grip on the guns and instead frantically clawing at their own necks.

But this was of no use; the four people collapsed one after another and soon stopped breathing.

Li Jiuhe leaped over the nearly three-meter-high wall and landed in the manor.

Xu Wanshou followed immediately, moving nimbly.

Upon landing, he immediately spotted one of the Black Tiger Gang's top lieutenants nearby, who seemed to have noticed the unusual situation.

Before Li Jiuhe could give any instructions, Xu Wanshou lightly pressed his right palm into the air. The Sequencer, who was standing in the courtyard more than ten meters away from him, trembled violently. Then, his neck twisted at an odd angle, and he fell down before he could even make a sound.

Li Jiuhe gave Xu Wanshou a meaningful look: "What is your ability?"

Xu Wanshou coughed lightly and replied, "Spatial lock."

Recalling his series of attack methods, Li Jiuhe seemed to be deep in thought, but he didn't stop walking and soon led the way into the garden.

Because they acted in time, they didn't alert the other guards this time. They didn't encounter the two Black Tiger generals who were together until they were almost out of the garden.

This time, Xu Wanshou also showed no mercy, striking with extreme speed. He locked the space around their heads in the same way, then twisted the space and snapped their necks in one fell swoop.

Li Jiuhe pointed to a road running parallel to the garden outside: "Watch out over there, the fourth Black Tiger General will appear!"

Xu Wanshou was no longer surprised by his uncanny foresight, but rather felt admiration and even a little fear.

"This Investigator Li's sequence abilities are definitely prophetic! He's incredibly prescient and his plans are flawless—it's terrifying! Most importantly, his physical skills seem to be exceptional as well."

Despite his chaotic thoughts, Xu Wanshou acted without hesitation, rushing out of the garden as Li Jiuhe had instructed, heading towards the parallel path.

Then Li Jiuhe's voice came from behind: "Hurry up and come over. We'll meet at the Blue Building."

The last time someone said that was Xu Wanshou himself.

He nodded, and without lingering, he quickly spotted the fourth Black Tiger Gang leader on the road. After swiftly killing him, he headed towards the small blue building.

Upon arriving on the second floor and entering the training hall, he saw a mangled body and tattered clothes on the ground. He didn't even know who the person was.

But he guessed it was the assassin, Thin Serpent.

Li Jiuhe was dodging quickly by himself, and with each dodge, a faint light could be seen flashing beside him.

This scene immediately made Xu Wanshou realize that Li Jiuhe was fighting against Chen Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Gang, who had already entered a "hidden" state.

"He—he actually knew Chen Hu's whereabouts!?" Xu Wanshou's eyes widened in disbelief.

Li Jiuhe's every dodge was able to avoid Chen Hu's attacks after he had blended into the environment.

Xu Wanshou knew that Chen Hu's stealth state was extraordinary, even more so than invisibility, leaving no trace whatsoever. He never expected that Li Jiuhe could still accurately identify the other party's location.

Immediately, Li Jiuhe began to switch from defense to offense, launching a series of attacks on the empty air.

The scene was the same as before. Li Jiuhe quickly knocked off Chen Hu's armor and arm guards, then put chains on him, exposing his back guards as well.

Chen Hu could no longer maintain his stealth. He was exposed, his body pierced by chains, and he was suspended in the air.

Without wasting any time, Li Jiuhe slammed the guy to the ground, shattering his head, and then retrieved the chains.

Xu Wanshou rushed forward, excitedly grabbing the two arm guards and then hugging the back guard.

Li Jiuhe glanced at Chen Hu's corpse, had an idea, quickly squatted down and searched it, then grabbed something and stuffed it into his pocket.

Xu Wanshou witnessed this scene, but he was so excited by what he had gained that he said nothing.

"Walk!"

The two took an unconventional route, jumping directly from the second-floor window and quickly entering the backyard, making their way through.

They didn't encounter anyone else on the way. When they reached the wall, they climbed over it one after another.

Because there were no delays and the actions were swift, Li Jiuhe knew at this moment that the mission had actually been completed ahead of the previous one.

Gao Shu and Cheng Feng's car was parked not far from the road behind the manor. Several back gate guards had collapsed in the alley next to it, obviously the work of the two of them.

Li Jiuhe and Xu Wanshou quickly approached and jumped into the car.

The car hadn't gone far when a powerful-looking SUV slowly approached from the opposite side of the road, turned at the intersection, and headed towards the main gate of the Black Tiger Gang's manor.

The SUV has colorful patterns printed on both sides of its body, depicting a large bird with outstretched wings and lightning bolt patterns on its body.

Upon seeing the car, the people inside, who were waiting for the green light, silently reached out and closed all the car windows.

Soon the SUV disappeared around the corner. The traffic light turned green, and Gao Shu stepped on the gas, driving the old sedan away at a leisurely pace.

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