Cheng Yu watched the motionless Dark Man on the ground without letting his guard down.
Just moments earlier, the system had told him it had failed to capture any fragments of the big shot's authority fragment.
Had he escaped? It didn't look like it...
Just as Cheng Yu was about to finish the Dark Man off for good, the sound of high heels striking the ground rang out.
Click, click, click, click.
Everyone gathered around the screen sprang to their feet, exclaiming that it was impossible.
Yun Tian clenched his fists even tighter.
Through gritted teeth, he spat out that name.
"Veiled! Lady!"
Anyone with any sense knew that the Veiled Lady, who never showed herself or left the basement of the Special Affairs Bureau, had absolutely not appeared on the battlefield between Yuri Constantine and the Weird King to help the invincible Chairman Yuri.
That made her purpose quite clear: she had come to help that unknown Weird King.
Cheng Yu studied the eerie woman, her graceful figure clad in an exceptionally elegant long dress, a black veil hanging from the brim of her large ladies' hat.
He grinned.
"Well, well! If it isn't whatshername! Uh... that little whatsherface from old whatshisname's family?"
The Veiled Lady ignored Cheng Yu's clowning.
Instead, she took out a lace-trimmed folding fan and snapped it open to hide her face.
At the sight, Cheng Yu spoke to the system in some surprise.
(I think I know who this woman is.)
The system offered only a brief reply.
"With features that obvious, it would be hard not to know." ┐(─__─)┌
Cheng Yu nodded, then asked anyway.
(The usual. Gimme the details.) 一 一✧
The system knew this was no time to get even and answered directly.
"The Bloated Daughter, one of Nyarlathotep's