Chapter 414 Chapter 411 Don't Chase Me

The Lich Master asked Hill Lee to collect some small things from the Shadow World that did not react to the energy of the Shadow World, most of which looked like jewelry. It specially formulated several patterns, such as a necklace with a "water drop surrounding a skull" emblem engraved on it.

"If I go to the Shadow World to search by myself, it is almost impossible to find these things. The environment there is harsh and full of dangers, and most of it is primitive jungle and ruins. It is simply a hell to find things." Hill Lee untied the trap mechanism, took out the box and opened it by hand, pointing to the things inside and said: "These are basically taken from the scrap warehouse. I don’t know if the Lich Master can be satisfied."

Zhuang Xuteng had a full suitcase of "gadgets" in front of him, half of which were rings, necklaces, and earrings, and the rest were some small cups, small bottles and other crafts, as many as hundreds of pieces. These things were wrapped in soft and thin paper strips that were crumpled into a ball, and they were hidden from each other, so it would be very difficult to search and count them. However, they also got enough buffer, so they could just carry the box and walk away.

"I didn't expect there were so many..." Zhuang Xuteng told the truth: "Did you take them from the company warehouse?"

"Yes, but to be more precise, they were obtained from the temporary storage of waste in the classification storage department of the pioneer team research center." Hill Lee casually scratched a few in the box and said: "These are not valuable and useless. Many people will come to choose souvenirs. I just chose more."

"Are these all gems?" Zhuang Xuteng picked up a necklace casually and pointed to the ruby ​​the size of a fingernail in the middle and said: "Are the company's employees so rich? Can they be taken casually?"

"The environment of the shadow world has a corrosive effect on the items there. The more pure things are needed, the more obvious the erosion effect. These are indeed gems, at least they used to be. But after the erosion of the shadow world, you take them for testing, and they will tell you that they are counterfeits and worthless glass."

"Uh... I don't quite understand. How can gems become glass?"

"Don't say that I don't understand, and those people in the research center don't understand either." Hill Lee leaned against the wall, with his arms folded in front of his chest, not caring at all that his long legs were all exposed outside his pajamas. She secretly paid attention to Zhuang Xuteng's eyes to see if he would be attracted by her long legs. She was very confident in her physical condition, and there were almost no men who could turn a blind eye.

Zhuang Xuteng sighed and took a look reluctantly, showing the level of a "normal man" in Hill Lee's concept. In fact, he kept the Wraith Jelly open, and everything around him was under control. Not to mention peeking, he collected all the tactile information of the surrounding environment. In other words, "I have touched it before", and there would be no surprise at all due to visual changes.

"Put things you don't understand in the scrap library?" Zhuang Xuteng moved his eyes back to the box, and then peeked twice in an inadvertent manner. He used the Wraith Jelly to track Hill Lee's expression changes. Judging from her appearance, she should have let down some of her guard. "Did you not finish what you said?"

"The principle of shadow erosion is still unknown, but there is a way to stop it, that is human activities." Hill Lee shook her upper body, and Zhuang Xuteng just looked away and "didn't see" it at all. She rolled her eyes and said, "The erosion of the shadow world is the same phenomenon as the semi-desertification of the wild environment here. Only by building more and larger settlements can it be stabilized. If we don't develop well here, we may end up like the shadow world."

"Don't tease me. Can semi-desertification and gemstones turning into glass be the same thing?" Zhuang Xuteng shook his head, expressing his disbelief.

"If you are interested in studying this direction, I can recommend you to the research center. If you don't want to go, then I have to say: these are all things that smart people worry about, what can ordinary people like you and me get involved with? It's better to think more about how to serve the lich master well and get more good things from it."

"That's right!" Zhuang Xuteng nodded. He has completed the inspection of the box and confirmed that there is no shadow tracking device inside. "Okay, I'll take the stuff and leave now. Do you have anything else to tell me?"

"Nothing else. Except that I want to dream of the Lich Master as soon as possible and ask him to finish the last part of the common language." Hill Lee took out a pack of cigarettes from her pajamas pocket, took out a thin and long one, snapped her fingers to generate a flame and lit it. She took a slow puff and exhaled forcefully, then used the hand holding the cigarette to brush her hair, and asked Zhuang Xuteng with her face sideways: "Don't you want to stay a little longer?"

"Uh, I don't like the smell of smoke." Zhuang Xuteng forced a perfunctory smile and picked up the box. He pointed to the window and said, "Still want to leave from the fire escape?"

"Yes, let's go!" Hill Lee angrily threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with his slippers. "Hurry up and don't delay running errands for the master!"

"As you wish." Zhuang Xuteng smiled and nodded, holding the box in one hand, stepped over the window and walked to the fire escape outside. Before he started to go downstairs, three gray station wagons and more than ten motorcycles gathered from three different directions and stopped at the bottom of the apartment building. Dozens of armed personnel began to charge into the building, and the same number of people formed a circle around the building.

"You arranged an ambush for me?" Zhuang Xuteng asked back.

Hill Lee also heard the noise downstairs, frowned, leaned out to take a look, and said, "It looks like a local gang. What are they doing here? This apartment has never been harassed by gangs."

"It seems that you have been deceived by the advertisement." Zhuang Xuteng looked and listened, confirming that there were indeed some gang members below. "You are a company employee, how would you deal with such a thing?"

"I should call the security department immediately and they will send an emergency team to take me away." Hill Lee frowned and said, "You must disappear within five minutes, otherwise you will be discovered by the emergency team. I also need to go back upstairs immediately. I only have one registered address here."

"Okay, call up now. See you later." Zhuang Xuteng first opened his coat, hooked the box with the hook on the lining, and fixed it to his belt. Then, he grabbed the railing of the fire escape staircase, pushed the wall with his legs, and jumped out directly. He glided across a six-lane street in the air, and then landed on the wall on the other side like a bat. He climbed into the shadows like a gecko swimming on the wall and soon disappeared.

Hill Lee was stunned. Fortunately, she had followed the pioneer team and had seen the abilities of the implant masters, so she was not scared to scream. She just didn't expect Zhuang Xuteng to have such amazing skills.

"Very impressive..." Hill Lee shook her head and stepped on the fire escape stairs to return to her room. As she walked, she called and asked the security department of Dingxin Mochuang to send someone over. She no longer cared about Zhuang Xuteng lurking at her doorstep and holding a knife to her neck. She thought that people with such abilities were just doing things that corresponded to their abilities, which was normal.

"What kind of people did the Lich Master recruit? I don't know how long I can be used."

Zhuang Xuteng certainly couldn't hear Hill Lee's sigh. He was worried about another thing. Just when he used the levitation technique to leave the besieged apartment, he felt that he was being watched, and the person who was following him all the way. Zhuang Xuteng didn't want to get entangled with him in vain, so he used the levitation technique many times to jump between buildings, twisting and turning to try to shake off the tail. Unfortunately, he only felt that he had shaken off the tail for a few short times. After more than ten seconds, the feeling of being monitored would catch up again.

Strange, how did he do this? Zhuang Xuteng had been trying to get rid of the tracking. The best way was to go into the sewer and pass through the steam pipe well. This would limit the options for tracking. Either give up or follow him down and be discovered directly. But after thinking about it, he gave up this method: first, he was not familiar with the sewer system of Gaofeng City. He only memorized the map and did not know whether they had been repaired or changed; second, the box he carried was considered as extra volume, which affected the passability and was not suitable for drilling holes.

So he could only take the second-best method, which was to enter the tunnel. Zhuang Xuteng jumped down from the wall, landed lightly and accurately on the roof of a truck, and followed it into the mountain tunnel. He turned his head and stared behind him, focusing his eyes on the shadow, and finally found the thing that was following him.

It was a basketball with wings - Zhuang Xuteng's first impression was so strange. Because the opponent was flying at a relatively fast speed and knew to hide in the traffic, in the fleeting observation interval, Zhuang Xuteng only saw a basketball-sized thing, which used a pair of flapping flesh wings to maintain flight. With a whoosh, it swooped down from the air and chased into the tunnel.

"What weird thing? A small tracking aircraft?" Zhuang Xuteng sat cross-legged on the roof of the car and scratched his head. "The gangs in Gaofeng City are so advanced! There is such a thing. They regarded me as a target in the apartment building, right? Tsk tsk, so unlucky, how can I get rid of it later?"

I had tried conventional methods of getting rid of tracking such as stealth and quick turns before, but I didn't expect that thing to catch up. Combined with the phenomenon that it was able to find it again after briefly getting rid of surveillance, Zhuang Xuteng believed that it might have the ability to track by smell in addition to visual, auditory, and shadow energy reactions.

If you want to make the olfactory tracking fail, the best way is to enter an area with strong smells and strong stimulation to cover up the original olfactory information and make the tracker lose the target. Zhuang Xuteng sniffed himself. His senses were enhanced by supercomputing martial arts, and his sense of smell was more sensitive than that of normal people. He smelled a guy who hadn't taken a shower for three days, and he was still covered with all kinds of strange smell information he had picked up while lurking. It was indeed easy to track him.

"Is there any area with a strong smell around?" Zhuang Xuteng thought about it, and he thought of Peihe River. One and a half kilometers south of the tunnel exit is the river where Peihe River leaves the mountains and enters the plains. If you wash in the river and leave from another place, there will be no smell problem. "In addition to this method, you can also..."

Another method is of course to kill the tracker directly! Zhuang Xuteng sat cross-legged to rest for a while, and at the moment the truck drove out of the tunnel, he bounced up and used the levitation technique to make an aerial turn, so as to land on the hillside above the tunnel entrance. He stayed here and waited for the tracker to come out. As long as that thing still hasn't given up tracking, this is its only exit.

Entering, it feels closer and closer. Zhuang Xuteng opened the resentful spirit jelly and secretly locked onto the approaching tracker. At this moment, his brows were furrowed, because he could already "feel" the shape of that thing, and that thing...

Just when the meat-winged basketball flew into the air, Zhuang Xuteng suddenly made a move and grabbed it in mid-air! "How can it really be like this?" Zhuang Xuteng looked at the thing in his hand - it was hard to describe it as a thing, more like a spliced ​​baby.

In general, it looks like a doll that has been taken apart, stuffed with various instruments, and then sewn together. The only problem is that this doll was made by a living person, probably just a baby of about 200 days old. It has a brain with an implant chip inserted, and its eyes, nose, and ears have been replaced by implants, and most of the organs in its body have also been replaced. The muscles in its hands and feet have atrophied, and are replaced by a mechanical hook on the abdomen, like a one-legged bird. When caught by Zhuang Xuteng, it attacks with the hook and flaps its flesh wings.

Zhuang Xuteng tightly grasped its neck, and used his other hand to block the attack. When it attacked, he broke its wings and controlled the hook, making all its attacks ineffective.

"What is this?" Zhuang Xuteng concentrated his magic power on the Shadow Eye to enhance the observation effect. He found that this tracker had the same technical style as the purple man, and the structure on its head like a crown of thorns was a communication control antenna. "Are you also a zombie puppet? Who is commanding you?"

Zhuang Xuteng's question was destined to be unanswered. When it was determined that the struggle was fruitless, the self-destruct device started to activate. Zhuang Xuteng caught the sudden increase in the energy change of the shadow, and also felt the increasing vibration in the little thing through his palm. He immediately threw the aircraft down into the tunnel, and then hid close to the hillside.

"Boom!" The explosion of the aircraft was about the same as that of a grenade. Judging from the dazzling white light it emitted and the smoke and molten state under the continuous burning state, there were also thermite additives that Zhuang Xuteng was very familiar with. Under the high temperature burning, all evidence of its existence was destroyed.

The impact, smoke, heat and flash generated by the explosion were blocked by the tunnel, and Zhuang Xuteng was unharmed. He took a look at the scene, and the image generated in his mind contained enough information. He had no reason to stay here. He immediately ran to Peihe River at the fastest speed, jumped into the water, snorkeled, and exchanged the life of the little white mouse for more survival time, then left the river and cleaned up his equipment.

He believed that there would be investigators to check the tunnel later, and there would definitely be trackers to continue working, and his appearance information would definitely be transmitted to the operator before the self-destruction. However, he had been using a disguised face and voice, and his original appearance and voice information had not been exposed. He removed his disguise, took off his wet clothes, and burned them and the dead white mouse with palm fire.

The second fire was the box he left for Hill Lee. The Lich Master only wanted one of them, and the rest were a burden. After Zhuang Xuteng destroyed these things, he scattered the ashes into the Pei River and quickly left the scene. His activities in Gaofeng City were over, and next he had to figure out why he was targeted.

As for who was targeted, that was not a problem. Only the company had the technical ability to manufacture that kind of tracker, and it could not be a gang, army or other mercenaries. Since Hill Lee worked for Dingxin Group, Dingxin Group temporarily became Zhuang Xuteng's primary suspect.