In the silent surveillance room, several corpses lay sprawled across the floor and chairs.
Drip, drip...
Blood trickled from the chairs onto the floor, pooling into a spreading puddle.
The suited man with an Antenna stuck in his neck stood quietly in the pool of blood beside the corpses.
"Carrying Others' Fate."
This was Shalnark's Manipulator Nen Ability.
Using this ability to control the suited man and infiltrate the surveillance room meant that the Phantom Troupe had never intended to launch a direct assault from the start.
That was also the Phantom Troupe's usual style.
Once they set their sights on a target, they would not rush in recklessly. Instead, they would formulate at least one strategy.
After killing his colleagues, the puppet controlled by the Antenna proceeded to shut down the security equipment in several areas.
At the same time.
Led by Chrollo, the members of the Phantom Troupe scaled the high wall and entered the Snow Palace courtyard.
Buzz, buzz—
Pakunoda took out her vibrating phone and glanced at it. It was a simple route map sent by Shalnark.
"This way."
She then put away her phone and took on the role of guide.
Before the infiltration operation began, she had used "Memory Exploration" to read some information about the Snow Palace.
Shalnark's ability to silently control a puppet and infiltrate the surveillance room was also closely tied to the "intelligence" she had provided.
"Memory Exploration."
This was Pakunoda's Specialist Nen Ability. By questioning and touching someone, she could read memories buried deep within their mind.
She could even extract memories from a target and load them into a conjured revolver. By shooting someone with it, the person struck would immediately gain the memories contained within the bullet.
This ability made it easy to obtain intelligence, greatly reducing