The Terrifying Girl

"A woman with only a shadow?" The man in the coat's expression turned grim.

"Who are you, Your Excellency? Why are you disrupting Yue City?" he asked while preparing to attack.

"Who I am isn't important. What matters is that there's something inside your Investigation Bureau that I need." The woman's voice echoed, and the swaying shadow suddenly vanished from beneath the streetlamp where it had been.

The next second, it appeared in front of another streetlamp.

It was closer to the Investigation Bureau building.

However, everyone present widened their eyes, yet they still couldn't see the woman's body.

"Playing tricks!"

An Awakened covered in wounds seemed to have a rather bad temper. He raised his somewhat withered left hand and suddenly grabbed at the air.

In an instant.

Beside the shadow, a semi-transparent, withered palm appeared.

Calling it a hand would be less accurate than calling it a claw.

The palm was long and incomplete, but its fingers were over ten centimeters long, with black fingernails growing from them.

"Scrape—"

A piercing sound rang out.

The claw grabbed at the ground, and the concrete road immediately fractured like tofu, leaving several deep marks.

However.

That was all.

The shadow wasn't harmed in the slightest.

"Hee-hee..."

"Back away!" The man in the coat's expression changed. He grabbed his colleague and tried to pull him backward.

But it was already too late.

The next second.

The man with the strange palm suddenly stiffened, revealing an eerie smile.

Then his body went limp and collapsed onto the ground.

He was dead.

"All of you, retreat into the building—"

"Quickly!"

The man in the coat roared. He grabbed his own clothes and tore them off.

A moment later, his mutilated body was exposed to the air.

From his chest to his abdomen, there