Suspicious Conglomerate, Mysterious Existence

At this moment, Su Ming, who had already left the academy, naturally didn't know that the academy flowers who had come into contact with him one after another had encountered each other and their relationship had become somewhat tense.

At this time, Su Ming was strolling down the streets of Longyao City like an ordinary person, blending into the crowd while stroking his chin and thinking about things.

"Now that I'm already out, I might as well start working on the task Xu Qianqian entrusted to me."

With that thought, Su Ming turned into a small alley, deliberately avoiding the crowds and even the surveillance cameras on the street, entering an uninhabited area.

He repeatedly confirmed that there was no one else around besides himself, and then took an item from his backpack.

It was a device that looked very much like a honeycomb.

Su Ming opened the device as if he were opening a phone case, revealing an input panel.

Immediately afterward, Su Ming placed one of his fingers on the input panel.

In the next second, the input panel lit up.

It was as if it was scanning a fingerprint, displaying some modern technological light, sampling Su Ming's finger, causing the inside of the honeycomb to constantly make "di di" sounds.

While waiting for the scan to finish, Su Ming murmured softly.

"It's been almost a week since then. Although it's a bit of a stretch, I should still be able to detect the spiritual power from that night, right?"

The honeycomb-shaped device in Su Ming's hand was precisely an alchemical tool that he had unboxed from the package.

It could detect residual spiritual power on those who touched it, and track the source of the spiritual energy.

On the night he encountered the suspicious group, Su Ming, while in a state of concealment, had been scanned by the [Ascension Restraint Flow] cast by two Sorcerers from that suspicious group, and his body had been swept by the spiritual power waves of those two Sorcerers several times.

In this situation, Su Ming was very likely to have residual spiritual power from those two Sorcerers remaining on his body. Even if it was very weak, there should still be traces to follow.

Therefore, Su Ming used this alchemical tool that looked like a modern instrument to detect the residual spiritual power on his body, to see if he could find the traces of those two Sorcerers.

Before long, the honeycomb's scan was complete.

The input panel began to sink, as if opening a small door, allowing bees to fly out of it.

"Buzz buzz buzz~~~"

The bees hovered in the air with a slight buzzing sound for a while, and after a few seconds, they dispersed in all directions.

Su Ming watched the swarm of bees leave, standing in place and talking to himself.

"The residual spiritual power has been detected, but whether or not I can track the source is still unknown."

Those bees would slowly spread out in all directions. Once they found a spiritual power fluctuation with the same value as the scanned residual spiritual power, the honeycomb would react.

In other words, if the swarm of bees failed to find a spiritual power fluctuation with the same value, then this search would definitely fail.

"Well, hopefully those two guys weren't so cautious as to always restrain their spiritual power, or eliminate the spiritual power fluctuations left within their range of activity."

That's what Su Ming hoped.

Although Su Ming had more than one type of tool for searching for specific people, some of the other types of search tools were consumables, and some had unstable effects. Only this honeycomb could be used repeatedly, and was hidden and stable enough. If possible, Su Ming hoped to achieve his goal with just this honeycomb.

"Speaking of which, Xu Qianqian sent over her previous investigation records, right?"

Su Ming remembered this and took out his phone.

This morning, Xu Qianqian seemed to have already sent the encrypted file she promised last night to Su Ming's phone.

Unfortunately, because of An Zijin's raid on the male dormitory, Su Ming woke up to Ye Bai's harassment and didn't have time to look at it.

Now, Su Ming finally had the mood and free time to look at these investigation records.

"Let me see, what exactly did the great academy flower Xu investigate after investigating that group for so long."

Su Ming began to check these encrypted files.

The content of the files was not as much as Su Ming had imagined.

It recorded Xu Qianqian's actions every day since she received the investigation task. It looked quite methodical, giving people the feeling of writing an investigation report.

Xu Qianqian wrote a lot of things in the report, but after browsing through it, Su Ming found that there was not much useful information in it.

"According to Xu Qianqian's report, the suspicious group was first discovered to be active forty days ago, and she only received this task ten days ago, so the investigation time is not long."

Before this task fell into Xu Qianqian's hands, the higher-ups of the Base City had been sending people to investigate, but due to the secret protection of the supporters behind the suspicious group, almost none of the investigators were able to come into contact with that suspicious group.

Later, Xu Qianqian received this task. On the surface, she was nonchalantly attending classes and school, but secretly she was investigating everywhere, carefully examining the places where the suspicious group had caused trouble before.

But at the beginning, Xu Qianqian also gained nothing.

So, Xu Qianqian constantly searched around according to the activity range of the suspicious group, and finally discovered that the suspicious group was chasing something.

Having discovered this, Xu Qianqian no longer went to find the suspicious group, but instead turned to look for the thing that was being chased by the suspicious group.

With this search, Xu Qianqian really found some traces of activity of that mysterious existence.

In this way, Xu Qianqian followed the traces of activity of the mysterious existence for several days to investigate and stake out, and finally successfully saw that suspicious group that night.

Unfortunately, just as Xu Qianqian was preparing to investigate this suspicious group in depth, someone targeted her and severely injured her with a sneak attack.

"Judging from Xu Qianqian's appearance, the attacker really doesn't seem to have anything to do with this mission and the suspicious group."

Su Ming was thoughtful.

He guessed that the person who attacked Xu Qianqian might have been an assassin who had been watching the young lady all along. Seeing Xu Qianqian going out late at night and investigating the suspicious group, he took the opportunity to attack Xu Qianqian.

As for why the other party would target Xu Qianqian, there were simply too many reasons.

"It's possible that enemies of the Xu Family are deliberately targeting the family's outstanding younger generation, or it could even be vicious internal competition within the Xu Family."

Only in this way would Xu Qianqian be forced to put aside her current task, not explain the reasons to Su Ming, and face the attacker alone.

One was a suspicious group that couldn't threaten her, and the other was an attacker who threatened her life and even the safety of her family. Xu Qianqian couldn't possibly be unclear about which was more important.

Su Ming didn't want to get involved in the disputes between these major families, and immediately stopped paying attention to the matter after understanding this.

"What I should be focusing on is that suspicious group. Let Xu Qianqian worry about her own affairs."

That's what Su Ming thought.

"The problem is, Xu Qianqian doesn't actually know that much either."

That night, Xu Qianqian was ambushed just as she was about to delve deeper into the investigation.

As a result, the attacker failed in one strike and fled far away. The severely injured Xu Qianqian, due to her own special traits, experienced mental abnormalities, causing her mind to become unclear and irrational. After forcing the attacker away, she actually continued to track down that suspicious group.

Afterward, Xu Qianqian encountered Su Ming, who at the time wanted to avoid her, and a conflict arose.

Once Xu Qianqian had absorbed a bit of Su Ming's blood, her injuries recovered, and her mental state improved, the young miss retreated without saying a word.

It wasn't until yesterday that Xu Qianqian approached Su Ming and formally entrusted the matter to him.

This was the complete record of Xu Qianqian's involvement in the incident.

"Not very useful to me."

Su Ming came to this conclusion after reading the record.

However, Xu Qianqian's actions reminded Su Ming.

"Maybe I should do what Xu Qianqian did and start with that mysterious being who was being hunted down by the suspicious group."

Su Ming recalled what happened that night.

At that time, the suspicious group seemed to have discovered something and eventually caught up with the mysterious being, engaging them in a fierce battle.

"Judging from the commotion at that time, the mysterious being's power should be quite remarkable. Even when facing the siege of twenty or thirty Hunters and Sorcerers, they were able to hold out for a long time. Their background must be significant."

The Hunters and Sorcerers in the suspicious group were all professional-level Hunters and Sorcerers, each one's strength far surpassing that of the students in the Demon Hunter Academy.

Facing such a group, the mysterious being was still able to entangle with them for so long, and hadn't been captured by them for over a month. One could imagine how strong they were.

"Just what kind of being is it?"

Su Ming pondered.

A minute later, Su Ming made a decision.

"I'll go take a look at the place where they fought that night."

After making up his mind, Su Ming turned around and headed towards the outskirts.

The outskirts were in the deserted area behind the Demon Hunter Academy.

Su Ming cautiously passed by the Demon Hunter Academy, entered the outskirts, sprinted through the grass, passed the place where he had intersected with Xu Qianqian that day and where they had made the deal yesterday, and continued upwards.

Su Ming's destination was the location of the explosion that night, which had attracted the suspicious group.

But when Su Ming arrived, he discovered that the area had already been cordoned off.

He saw law enforcement officers from the Base City, as if sealing off a crime scene, had put up yellow tape around a section of the area.

Some were guarding the yellow tape, some were taking pictures as if investigating, some were searching, and some were chatting in low voices, making the atmosphere on the scene seem somewhat serious.

"As expected, the commotion caused by that suspicious group and the mysterious being was considerable."

Su Ming thought to himself, but he didn't retreat. Instead, he took out the beehive again.

"Scan the residual spiritual power here and see if I can find anything."

Su Ming opened the beehive and began scanning the scene.

As soon as he scanned, several bees immediately flew out of the beehive. After a buzzing sound, they flew in one direction.

"This is..."

Su Ming was slightly stunned. After reacting, he immediately chased after them.

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