In the Northwest Gobi, the blazing sun burned like fire.
Lin Jin stood on a barren stretch of ground eroded by wind and sand. There were no birds or beasts here, not even a sign of life.
Mind's Eye of the Kagura!
He closed his eyes and began sensing his surroundings.
His perception spread outward in every direction like an invisible tide, with him at its center.
Ten meters, a hundred meters, a thousand meters, five kilometers... every energy fluctuation within dozens of kilometers appeared in his mind, with nothing concealed.
Aboveground, everything was calm and ordinary, with nothing amiss. But deep underground, he sensed an energy fluctuation that was extremely faint yet unusually eerie.
Found it. That should be the place.
Lin Jin opened his eyes and activated the Body Flicker Technique. His figure flashed as he sped southeast.
About fifteen minutes later, he stopped on a seemingly unremarkable stretch of Gobi desert.
The wind and sand were fiercer here than elsewhere, reducing visibility to less than a hundred meters. But through the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, he sensed that eerie energy fluctuation directly beneath his feet, roughly forty meters down.
He looked around and soon noticed something unusual.
In a sheltered spot beneath a boulder, there were several obvious traces of human activity.
He walked over and crouched to examine them. Several compressed biscuit wrappers lay scattered across the sand. Judging by their weathered condition, they had probably been discarded a month ago.
Beside the wrappers was a military canteen half-buried in the sand. He picked it up to inspect it and found a line of small lettering engraved on it: Demon Suppression Bureau · Zhou Heng.
Zhou Heng.
He had seen that name in the historical records for this S-Rank mission.
This was the captain of