Chen Shouyi could kill a cultist without a ripple in his heart, but when faced with the pleas of a grieving woman who had lost her husband, he found himself at a loss.
Xiao Changming was definitely dead.
Although they had not found his body, both the barbarians' words back then and the military's search over the past half month proved that the odds of him still being alive were practically zero.
Chen Shouyi offered a few awkward words of comfort and politely refused her request. At last, he managed to get away from Xiao Changming's wife.
When he left the hotel, he saw Qin Liuyuan still waiting outside, squatting on the steps and smoking.
"Why haven't you left yet?" Chen Shouyi asked.
"Let's go together!" Qin Liuyuan pinched out his cigarette with his fingers, then flicked the butt into the nearby trash can.
"Sure!" Chen Shouyi nodded.
Qin Liuyuan was tactful enough not to ask what he and Xiao Changming's wife had discussed. Instead, he brought up something else. "Between this month and last month, I've completed three missions."
Chen Shouyi said nothing, knowing Qin Liuyuan had more to say.
"They were all invasions by Otherworld species!"
"Were they dangerous?" Chen Shouyi asked.
"Not really. We handled them without a hitch," Qin Liuyuan said. "But I feel like something's off. There have been too many Otherworld Creatures lately. They're practically running rampant."
Chen Shouyi's expression turned grave.
Before the mutations, every channel was heavily guarded and booby-trapped everywhere. Combined with efficient communications and transportation, even when a new channel appeared, it could be detected quickly, and action could be taken at once.
But now, with the power out, the efficiency of dealing with these threats had fallen by dozens, even hundreds of times.
"Last time, during a mission to