Why Were You Following Me?

"Fuck, that's way too freaky!" Jiu De Mai only dared to breathe after Lu Mingfei had left.

"Chip Girl, do you have the location of that whatever-it-is organization? Send it to me. Little White Rabbit's probably going to find their base, and he's moving too fast for me to keep up," Jiu De Mai asked.

Su Enxi sent Jiu De Mai the location.

"Got it!"

Jiu De Mai set down her sniper rifle, strapped two ninja swords against her thighs, covered her face with a black scarf, and tied her long hair into a ponytail. Then her figure vanished from the spot.

At that moment, Bai Yan was fleeing like a stray dog. The moment Lu Mingfei spotted him, he began following at an unhurried pace, curious to see where he would go.

At last, Bai Yan stopped. They had already reached the depths of the mountains. Bai Yan took out an access card and waved it in front of a section of the mountain wall.

The wall suddenly split down the middle, forming a doorway. Only then could one see that it was a camouflaged metal door, with a man-made passage beyond it.

Bai Yan glanced behind him, then dashed inside and shouted at the people within, "Quick, close the door!"

With a sharp clank, the door slammed shut.

Lu Mingfei appeared at the base entrance.

He looked at the mountain wall before him. So this is the place?

Lu Mingfei swung his sword and sliced through the metal door, then walked inside.

A dozen fully armed men rushed toward him, firing submachine guns.

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

Lu Mingfei merely swung his sword, effortlessly deflecting a string of bullets. It seemed as if he could block them with the slightest movement.

"How can a sword stop bullets?!" the fully armed men exclaimed in shock.

Once they had finished firing, they began changing magazines. But when they looked up after reloading, Lu Mingfei was nowhere to be seen.

One of them felt a pain in his chest and looked down. His chest was covered in blood. He had already been cut.

"Thud. Thud, thud."

One after another, they hit the ground as Lu Mingfei walked past them, sword in hand.

Li Yuan, the base director, watched the security footage.

"Is this the terrifying Half-Blood Bai Yan told me about?"

He licked his lips. What a perfect specimen. With his help, I'm sure the Dragon Evolution Drug I'm researching will take far less time to perfect.

"Bzzzt."

The monitor suddenly went black.

Lu Mingfei looked up at the camera in the corridor and cut it down.

Along the way, every attack by the armed personnel was dealt with in a single stroke. He never needed a second.

Jiu De Mai also reached the base entrance. She looked at the severed metal door. It was thirty centimeters thick, yet it had been cut through with ease.

It looked like he hadn't even used the move that had instantly killed the Dead Servant. Jiu De Mai's estimation of how terrifying Lu Mingfei was rose another notch.

Word Spirit: Netherlight.

Jiu De Mai's figure rapidly dispersed, as if she had been erased.

Lu Mingfei walked into an empty laboratory. It was pitch-black inside, without a trace of light.

He found the switch and turned on the lights.

Rows of tanks came into view. Most of the humans inside were covered in scales.

There were men and women, even children. They floated in the liquid, their faces pale—so pale they hardly looked human.

Listening closely, one could hear their labored grunts. They sounded almost like fully transformed humanoid Dead Servants.

Lu Mingfei silently looked at it all. So this was what the Dead Servants really were.

The air trembled faintly.

A wave of pressure descended upon Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei continued forward, though a little faster than before.

Jiu De Mai followed behind Lu Mingfei. As a ninja, she had a way of slowing her heartbeat to a crawl and making it nearly inaudible. But the Spiritual Pressure Lu Mingfei had let slip just now had almost made her lose control of it.

That was dangerous. Jiu De Mai breathed a sigh of relief.

But why did the back of her neck suddenly feel cold?

Lu Mingfei stood behind her, his Zanpakuto pressed to her neck. "Why were you following me?!"

He had sensed something was off earlier, as if someone were watching him. At first, he had thought it was the cameras, but even after he destroyed them, the feeling hadn't gone away.

If she hadn't let out a quiet breath just then, he still wouldn't have known someone was following him.

Underworld Reflection lifted.

Jiu De Mai immediately raised both hands. "Hero, spare me! I'm actually on your side!"

"How am I supposed to trust you?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"You tell me!" Jiu De Mai said with a miserable look.

"Turn around first. If you try anything, you'll end up like the people outside."

Jiu De Mai thought of the people outside. Not one of them had survived. She was afraid this madman would cut her down too.

She was a ninja; even if a mission sent her to certain death, she wouldn't be afraid. But getting into a deadly situation over a job that was supposed to be nothing more than babysitting was ridiculous.

Jiu De Mai had no choice but to obediently turn around.

Lu Mingfei looked at the woman before him. She wore a ponytail and a black scarf over her face, with reddish eyeshadow at the corners of her eyes. Most striking of all were her exceptionally long legs.

It was the kind of figure you wouldn't forget after seeing it once.

"Show me your face," Lu Mingfei said coldly.

Jiu De Mai hesitated, but eventually took off her scarf. Her face was beautiful, with a striking, glamorous look.

"Give me a reason to trust you," Lu Mingfei continued.

"Look at my combat suit." Jiu De Mai pointed to the black suit she was wearing.

Lu Mingfei glanced at it. The skintight suit showed off every curve of her figure. She had a great body, but what did that have to do with his question?

Lu Mingfei looked at her suspiciously.

"Didn't you notice that my combat suit is exactly the same model as the one worn by the girl who helped you earlier?" Jiu De Mai asked, blinking.

After a moment of silence, Lu Mingfei lowered the sword from her neck.

"That young girl helped me. I'll let you off for following me this time, and I won't ask why you were tailing me. Just remember, there won't be a next time," Lu Mingfei warned her.

Jiu De Mai nodded repeatedly, looking obedient.

"You're coming with me," Lu Mingfei told Jiu De Mai.

Daring not to refuse, Jiu De Mai followed beside him with a dejected look.

At that moment, Bai Yan was pounding furiously on a white metal door.

"Let me in! He's almost here!" Bai Yan shouted in despair.

"Dr. Bai, given the situation, we can't let you in. However, we've released the perfect creations made by everyone here. They'll help you deal with that Half-Blood."

Li Yuan's voice rang out over the speakers in the all-white hall.

A group of snake-shaped Dead Servants appeared in the hall. Their draconic bodies were as muscular as rugby players, and long, python-like tails dragged along the ground.

"It's no use! None of it is any use! You have no idea how terrifying he is!" Bai Yan cried.