A Chase on Financial Street - Thanks to the Generous Reader Beast Sorrow, Bird Scattered for Becoming an Alliance Master

The securities building was noisy as law enforcement officers continued sealing it off. In the server room, where no one else was present, Fang Ran suddenly sensed the aura of a participant nearby.

Fang Ran raised his dark eyes, surprise scattering his thoughts in an instant!

A participant!?

Someone from the Covenant? What was he doing here?

Guarding it? Watching them? Or...

Had the clues in the server room been destroyed in advance before he came in?

After countless guesses flashed through his mind, he made a decision in an instant. No matter which possibility it was, with the investigation of the brokerage's server room yielding nothing, there was only one thing he could do.

Chase him!

"There's a participant nearby. Hold onto this. I'll be right back."

Sensing the other person's aura moving away as though he was preparing to retreat, Fang Ran spoke calmly, his eyes narrowing. Then, under Veronica's slightly strange gaze,

he loosened his suit collar and sprinted out of the server room, vanishing through the doorway!

His dark eyes were steady, his expression serious and stern. Activating the Illusion Card to conceal himself, he leaped directly out of a side window of the building.

As he fell, Fang Ran surveyed the surrounding blocks through Hugin and Munin.

The aura of magical energy was...

Found him!

Comparing the direction in his vision with the direction he sensed, he quickly locked onto a man in a beige windbreaker among the crowd. Once he confirmed the target,

he used a burst of buoyancy to cushion his landing, dispelled his ability, and stepped out from an empty corner of the building.

Fang Ran watched the man several hundred meters away with dark eyes and slowly approached him while pretending to be a passerby.

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