Reid returned fire. He showed the fundamentals of an excellent soldier: at ten meters, his precision with single shots was nearly perfect. Every bullet struck a guard in the forehead. In less than thirty seconds, every Black Steel operative was dead.
Reid holstered his gun and checked the bodies to make sure none had survived.
"May their souls rest in peace," Abigail said with a soft sigh.
"They really don't hold back, do they?" Honglian was shaken by what she had seen from the shadows. "Aren't those the agency's mercenaries?"
The two sides answered to different chains of command, but they were still on the same side. Yet the moment the guards lost control, Abigail's team had treated them as enemies without hesitation. They had not even considered whether the men could be brought back to their senses.
For Honglian of the Jiangcheng Branch, it was a considerable shock.
"The agency calls the Gospel Society supremacists who put ability users above everyone else, but it doesn't seem to value ordinary people much either," Chen Xuan remarked. "Though something's strange..."
"What's strange?" Honglian asked nervously.
"The number of lights hasn't changed."
Under his Mind Method scan, there were still thirty or forty points of light, with no obvious change from before.
She knew Chen Xuan could sense auras through walls, and her eyes widened. "You mean those people aren't actually dead? I need to warn Abigail!"
"No, that's not it." Chen Xuan stopped her. "The lights have moved. It's as if they detached themselves from those people..."
He had seen something like this before.
But he could not reach a conclusion just yet.
Abigail and Reid had already entered the next room, so he motioned for Honglian to follow. They would watch a little longer.
The room next door was far