Since the night Guan Tong assassinated the Divine Child, the entire Yingqi Nation had remained under martial law.
The streets had once been patrolled by Security Department vehicles, but now they had all been replaced with armed military vehicles, accompanied by thermal-sensing drones conducting round-the-clock aerial patrols.
According to information leaked online by certain insiders, Yingqi's upper ranks had purchased a batch of advanced weapons and equipment from the Solloma Empire, as well as importing numerous intelligent robots.
Yingqi's officials claimed this was to counter threats posed by ascendants like Shadow, but anyone with eyes could tell it was an excuse.
If they truly wanted to deal with Shadow, hiring a group of individually powerful ascendants would probably have been more useful than all this military hardware.
Still, other nations were not in a position to criticize them. Yingqi's officials were currently claiming that the Divine Child had been assassinated and were pushing hard for the UHC to issue a full-scale warrant for Shadow's arrest. Every nation was still hesitating over the matter, making it inconvenient to say anything about Yingqi's weapons imports.
Yet no one had expected Shadow to still be within Yingqi's borders.
At that moment, he was controlling Shadow Line as he secretly headed for the Falling Cherry Official Residence of the Divine Child, Yuze Chun, to investigate.
The residence had been sealed off after the night of the assassination, while the other members of the Yuze Family had all moved to a new residence.
By all logic, no important materials should have been left behind here.
But adhering to the principle of doing the opposite of what was expected, Guan Tong still intended to investigate.
The barrier artifact that had once protected the residence had already been removed, and Shadow infiltrated it without difficulty.
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