The little cute dog was influenced by her will and started moving forward. Before long, it reached the target location.
"This hideout is really plain and unremarkable."
What entered her sight was actually a watch shop.
A lame man sat inside the shop, seemingly its owner. His appearance was very familiar. Alice recognized his identity after just one glance.
"A member of the Insect Blood Society, disguised as a legitimate shop?"
The dog ran inside and was spotted by the man. He actually bent down and placed it on the table.
"Little thing, how did you end up in my shop?"
After petting the dog's head, the man took out several sausages from nearby and held them up to its mouth.
Just from his appearance, no one would have imagined that this ordinary man had led a vicious group not long ago, slaughtered Min Xingyuan's armed subordinates, and personally subjected him to cruel torture in the end.
Sometimes, appearances really could be deceiving. You could never judge what someone had done by their outward appearance alone.
As he fed the dog a sausage, another man poked his head out from the back door. "Be careful. A dog suddenly wandering in for no reason—don't you find that strange?"
The lame man glanced at him. "It's just a dog. Aren't you being too paranoid?"
"It's better to be careful."
Alice was still sharing the dog's vision. After shifting its gaze several times, she had a rough understanding of the room's layout.
At the same time, Battle Miss No. 1 arrived nearby.
Since she was only LV4, and her overall stats were merely close to those of an average adult, she did not approach immediately.
Not until Ye Xin arrived.
"Should be enough."
Having finished her preparations, Battle Miss No. 1 walked into the shop.
Shop name: Old Craft Watch Shop.
On the surface, everything here looked extremely old-fashioned.
Many of the furnishings were wooden, and quite a few of the mechanical parts carried an antique feel. Wall clocks hung on the walls as well, reminding people of architectural styles from the steam age.
The moment the girl entered, the lame man who had been petting the dog raised his head.
The instant he saw the gorgeous girl with long black-stockinged legs walk in, he unconsciously straightened his posture.
"Little miss, what would you like to buy?" The man smiled.
"I'll look around first."
Battle Miss No. 1 acted like an ordinary customer.
This time, she had not come intending to cripple herself. She had already surveyed the surrounding area before the battle.
This shop was indeed in a remote location. There was a street in front of it, but the area nearby was empty, and few vehicles passed by. That meant that if a fight really broke out, as long as they were not too unlucky, not many outsiders would notice.
Seeing the beautiful black-stockinged girl standing before the counter, the lame man unconsciously swallowed.
There was no need to look closely. Battle Miss No. 1's face alone could easily earn anyone's favor.
Her gaze fell upon the watches inside the display case.
The Assault
The lame man did not notice that invisible Spirit Threads swept past where Battle Miss No. 1's gaze had landed.
"I didn't expect several Explosion Rings to be hidden here."
After killing an Insect Blood Society member for the first time, she had learned how Explosion Rings were made. Naturally, she suspected that the organization possessed more of them.
And now she saw them, placed in the corner of the display case like ordinary little iron rings.
Even if customers saw them, they would mistake them for part of the counter. The disguise was extremely convincing.
The Spirit Threads extending through the interior of the building also discovered two more, both carried by one of the men.
"Three in total."
All of them were bound, meaning only their maker could detonate them using a special mental frequency.
In truth, even a single one of these things exploding would be enough to kill Ye Qian's clone.
"Little miss, you've been looking for so long. Have you made up your mind?" Seeing the beautiful girl standing motionlessly, the man could not help asking.
Battle Miss No. 1 nodded and extended her hand. "Uncle, do you recognize this?"
"This is..."
The moment he saw the ring, a familiar feeling rose in the lame man's heart.
Half a second later, his expression changed slightly. "An Explosion Ring?"
Ding!
With a clear metallic tremble, eight rings flew from the girl's hand, scattering in every direction as they shot toward him, almost sealing off every route.
"Fuck!"
When he saw a faint red glow flash across two of the rings, the lame man's face changed drastically. He instantly understood what was happening and fled backward without hesitation.
Boom—
A violent explosion erupted on the scene.
After using her skill, Battle Miss No. 1 immediately leaped backward. Pulled by six or seven Spirit Threads, her delicate body moved like a puppet and instantly retreated more than ten meters.
Three or four explosions went off in succession, and violent shockwaves rushed straight at her.
She rolled behind the wall beside the entrance. With a thought, the remaining four rings, which had been dragged to the rear of the room by threads, detonated at the same time.
Boom!
Two walls collapsed with a crash, and flames burst from the entrance.
A gust of air mixed with smoke and dust also poured out from the second-floor windows.
Killed LV8 player. Extracting energy... Extraction complete. You obtained 42 Life Energy. Killed LV12 Hidden One. Extracting energy... Extraction complete. You obtained 52 Life Energy.
"Hidden One?"
Before she could continue paying attention to the remaining notifications, it was already clear that this ambush had been extremely successful.
Most terrifying of all, Ye Xin, standing behind the shop, curled her finger and tossed the other three Explosion Rings she carried through the second-floor window.
Boom—
Killed a Level 6 Hidden One.
Extracting energy...
Extraction complete. You obtained 28 Life Energy. ```
The third person was dead!
These several consecutive attacks had happened almost simultaneously, undoubtedly dealing the enemies on site a thunderous blow. Just as Battle Miss No. 1, who had used the wall to block two explosions, was about to rise, someone threw out a piece of iron carrying residual heat.
Ye Xin pulled a thread through the wall, quickly wrapped the iron fragment, and yanked it backward.
A second later, blazing firelight expanded outward.
Battle Miss No. 1 staggered back several steps in fright after being hit by the heat wave. If the thread had not instantly dragged the object more than ten meters away, she would have been burned to a crisp.
"Cough, cough. Did it hit?"
A voice came from above the collapsed staircase, on the second floor.
Beside the speaker stood another man. His clothes were now tattered, his body covered in wounds, and one of his arms had even been blown off.
"It hit the wrong spot. Fuck, could those bastards be from the Shadow Bureau?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a masked man leaped down from upstairs and landed on the ground.
Ye Xin immediately sent out Spirit Threads from the side of the building, through the wall, wrapping them around his neck. Before she could exert force, however, two fat worms spat out from beneath his mask and slapped onto Battle Miss's stomach.
Hiss—
A dagger she had prepared beforehand slashed out at once, cutting one worm in half. But the other had already bitten through her clothes with a pop, trying to burrow into her skin.
Battle Miss punched down, as if striking steel. She had no choice but to control Ye Xin and draw out a thread, cutting the worm into two.
Along with a burst of sticky green fluid, the worm's body split apart. Battle Miss No. 1 grabbed the remaining half of the worm's head, endured the pain, and ripped it out before throwing it to the ground.
On the other side, Ye Xin clasped her hands and pulled backward with all her strength, viciously slamming the bound man against the wall. Under the full force, the tough threads slowly embedded themselves into his skin, blood streaming down from the points of contact.
The man's eyes widened. He desperately clawed at his neck. A thread each around his abdomen and legs pulled with horrifying force, seemingly intending to cut him in half.
"What a tough body."
From the mental strain, Ye Xin's head was beginning to ache.
At that moment, another of her threads swept across the second floor and spotted the final two people.
One was a young man in his twenties, gripping a knife with a tense expression.
The other was much more powerfully built, a staggering one meter ninety-five tall. He was most likely this group's leader. He held a pistol and crouched by the window, preparing to stick his head out and observe.
Ye Xin sensed trouble and immediately rushed several steps to the side, circling to the other side of the building. At nearly the same moment, the man on the second floor looked down toward the first floor.
He saw nothing.
"Whew, good thing he didn't spot me."
The Spirit Threads in her hands continued strangling their target tightly, and more blood spurted from the first-floor man's neck.
"Dong'ao, how are things over there?"
The leader on the second floor pulled his head back and called out.
No one answered. Only faint muffled groans could be heard. Feeling that something was wrong, the leader ran two steps back toward the stairwell and saw his teammate's miserable state at a glance.
"B-Boss, this doesn't look like the Shadow Bureau's work..." the young man said fearfully.
"Bullshit, I know that." The leader's expression was ugly. "The Shadow Bureau couldn't have moved this quickly. The attackers this time are an unfamiliar force."
"Who did we offend? Could it be because of that livestream earlier..."
Someone had framed the Insect Blood Society through the livestream. Looking at it that way, it was possible that the enemy was the mastermind behind the whole thing.
"It's probably that bullshit the Chief pulled last time. We never should've brought him into the organization. Where the hell did he bring these enemies from? We offend them one moment, and the next they come killing us at our door. We've been hiding for so many years, and they still found us."
Ye Qian's terrifying intelligence-gathering ability and bizarre fighting methods both filled the leader with dread.
"I told you this wasn't simple. Yesterday, when we went to attack that little fatty, those people acted like fucking lunatics. They dared to fight us to the death with a few ordinary people. What kind of idiot gets involved in something like that? We can't find out anything, and there isn't even a living person behind it. This is completely abnormal."
The young man was clearly panicking.
There was nothing he could do. Even the captain of their hideout had no idea what to do, let alone a lackey like him.
Destroying a Hideout Alone
Seeing the teammate below struggling endlessly as an unknown force pinned him to the wall, the leader simply leaped down as well, landing on the ground and preparing to check on him.
But the instant he landed, a Spirit Thread had already wrapped around his neck.
Pain shot through him, and he instantly understood what he had encountered.
Without a doubt, the invisible threads in his field of vision were also what had caused that man such agony.
"Hmph!"
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