The instant Lin Qi showed his face, he felt no fewer than twenty distant gazes settle on him.
He ducked back behind cover, and most of those gazes vanished.
He'd guessed right!
The decrease in those gazes meant the orb really had been used to test his identity. Whoever was behind it had confirmed that Lin Qi wasn't the Liu heir.
"Stay hidden. Don't show yourself!"
The Liu Group bodyguards had much higher-grade cybernetics than Lin Qi, so they naturally hadn't been injured.
The moment they saw Lin Qi at the hole in the wall, they hurriedly pulled him into cover.
Lin Qi went along with it and hid in the corner.
"If my guess is right, there won't be any more action tonight."
"As for the ones still keeping an eye on this place, they're just here to watch the show."
Lin Qi kept Psychic Vision active and continued observing the area.
The S-Minus Rank Flying Vehicle on the roof had already left. It seemed its crew had realized their unlucky teammates had been wiped out.
Apart from that, Lin Qi couldn't see any other mercenaries through Psychic Vision.
Far away, on the roof of a high-rise covered in neon lights,
a bleached-blond man with an afro and a fat man were watching Liu Heavy Industries' senior employee apartments.
They were the two members of the T0-level Mercenary Group, the Holy Corpse Legion, whose communications equipment Lin Qi and Arthur had stolen. Their codenames were Lion and Fatty.
Both men had high-grade cybernetic eyes and had clearly seen Lin Qi show his face.
"The corporate alliance over in the European Political Zone really went all out. They even brought the Holy Light."
"Too bad their intel was wrong. That researcher isn't the Liu heir."
"That's only to be