One of the three members of Graven!
Although the face was distorted, Qin Ran was confident he could not have mistaken it.
He lowered his head to look at the head that had suddenly appeared, then turned his gaze toward the corner of the corridor.
Three corpses appeared before Qin Ran just like that.
One lay sprawled on the floor, headless.
The other two had been torn apart, their bloody flesh and scattered organs making for a nauseating sight.
Qin Ran, however, surveyed the three corpses calmly.
Even when all three stood up a moment later.
Even when the head flew straight up and lunged at him, his expression did not change.
He simply kicked.
Thud!
The flying head was kicked back and slammed into the corridor wall. With a series of cracking sounds, its bones shattered, leaving the head smashed to pieces.
At the same time, a grenade landed among the three standing corpses.
Boom!
The explosion blasted the three Graven members' corpses to pieces.
Qin Ran passed through the smoke and raced toward a room in the building, following the footprints other than those of the three men revealed by [Tracking].
He did not care in the slightest about the deaths of the three Graven members.
But the books and documents concerning [Dean's Stone] mattered a great deal to him.
After promising to bring him Harrodt's research materials and notes, the three Graven members had been silently killed in the corridor on their way to their destination.
Nothing could convince Qin Ran that these events were unrelated.
And the facts proved his suspicions correct.
The room the additional footprints led into had already been emptied.
Apart from an empty bookshelf and a desk, nothing remained-not even a single sheet of paper.
Keeping [Tracking] active, Qin Ran hoped to