Contaminated Zone 27.
The outer perimeter.
A golden light flashed past, and a white-clad figure appeared nearby.
It was Marshall, Special Envoy of the Fighting Association.
At this moment, however, Marshall's brows were tightly furrowed, his expression cold.
His gaze swept across the barren Gobi Desert around him. With a flash of golden light, he surveyed everything within several thousand meters.
Soon, as though noticing something, he flickered out of sight and appeared a thousand meters away.
He raised his hand like a blade and chopped downward. Powerful astral energy surged out, instantly cleaving the sand below in two and exposing the wreckage of an off-road vehicle buried deep beneath it.
"Infernal aura!!"
Looking at the charred vehicle, he murmured those words, then turned his gaze toward the depths of Zone 27. His body transformed into a streak of light and shot away.
Before long, after only a few minutes, he appeared in the core of Zone 27.
He immediately detected traces of powerful, pure infernal aura nearby.
"Are they all dead..."
Sensing the surrounding infernal aura and surveying the desolate Gobi Desert, Marshall knitted his brows.
"To think one would appear here. Was the intelligence wrong? Or..."
Thoughts flashed through his mind, but he seemed unable to make sense of it.
"To kill Wan Shan and Su Mingquan in such a short time, it must have been a first limit break expert... Never mind. This must be reported at once, and an investigation launched immediately!"
Having reached that conclusion, he turned to leave. The successive appearances of experts aligned with Inferno gave him a vague sense that something was wrong, that this was not as simple as cultists from the Crimson Prison Society.
Yet just as he was about to leave, he suddenly stopped. As though sensing something, he