Chapter 641 – The Signal Leading to Death

After connecting with No.0, Luo Yulong’s search range and intensity instantly increased significantly.

It felt like flipping a switch, bringing the previously hidden connection fully to the fore.

However, to Luo Yulong, it felt more like personally opening the door to invite the neighbor who had been peeping with binoculars from across the street into his home, and then experiencing the sensation of being “peeped at” right under the neighbor’s nose. More crucially, his psychic power consumption began to spike dramatically.

Originally, the superpower Luo Yulong possessed already consumed a great deal of psychic power. Now, with external interference forcibly stimulating his psychic light cluster, he realized that his previous consumption had been in energy-saving mode by comparison.

But now, he was forced to go full throttle, and his ammunition was getting rapidly consumed.

So, even though he was met with sarcasm as soon as he opened his mouth, Luo Yulong, instead of retorting, nodded bitterly and said, “I really can’t hold on for much longer, this place is so big, I…”

“Don’t stop unless you find them,” Ai Feng interrupted him with a blank expression.

At this moment, his Scarface made him look particularly menacing. Luo Yulong opened his mouth but eventually accepted this reality with a resentful look on his face.

“I understand…” If he couldn’t find the person, he would be drained dry and end up as a vegetable…

This realization made Luo Yulong grit his teeth immediately, and his expression became somewhat ferocious.

“Boss, this is…”

“Stop talking.”

Ai Feng’s attitude clearly affected the others as well. They whispered a couple of sentences, and their tone became somewhat unnatural.

It seemed that this matter was indeed a matter of life and death for Ai Feng…

However, if Ai Feng was having a hard time, they wouldn’t have a good ending either. So, they might as well give it their all and try to make a meritorious contribution…

For a while, everyone remained silent, and Luo Yulong hurriedly searched along the route where the corpses had rolled down.

Meanwhile, the search members sent out earlier continued to be killed.

Ai Feng and his group encountered several more corpses on their way. After confirming the situation with a grim look, he coldly declared, “Keep going! Their ambush will only make them reveal their hand faster.”

However, after combing through three floors with his psychic power rapidly depleting and still finding nothing, the immense pressure soon made Luo Yulong anxious.

“Are we being led by the nose by following the trail of bodies?” Luo Yulong cautiously inquired.

Ai Feng realized this too, but the more apparent it became, the angrier he got.

How brazen could these people be, acting so boldly on his turf?

Seeing Ai Feng remain silent, Luo Yulong awkwardly nodded and continued to look around.

Just as he was burning with impatience, a faint anomaly caught his “eye.”

Although it lasted only a moment, Luo Yulong was overjoyed.

He immediately ran a short distance and caught the signal again: “I’ve sensed something!”

Luo Yulong stared straight ahead, his voice lowered in excited exclamation, “The signal is strong, No.0 is reacting strongly! The target—it’s definitely the target!”

If it wasn’t, he would literally go insane…

“They’ve elicited a reaction from No.0?” Ai Feng was momentarily stunned but then nodded, “It must be him! Chase him down, don’t let him escape again!”

To Ai Feng, anyone who could provoke a reaction from No.0 had to be the one who attacked it initially.

As for Mu Chen and the others, even if they were still alive, No.0 hadn’t sensed them since they entered Dongming City.

This could only mean that their psychic link with No.0 no longer existed.

“Not good! They’ve sensed us and are moving!” Luo Yulong’s gaze drifted to the ceiling.

He was frantic; after finally locating them, they were slipping away!

“So perceptive? It’s definitely him then.” Ai Feng asked excitedly, “Are there any others?”

“There is, but the signal is very weak and quite a distance from the target,” Luo Yulong immediately responded, “Should I…?”

As he spoke, Luo Yulong raised his hand and made a slicing gesture.

“Let me think,” Ai Feng frowned, then rejected the suggestion, “Ignore him. We can’t afford to split up. Stay cautious.”

“Boss always thinks things through,” Luo Yulong quickly replied with a smile.

The upper floor was also a mall, spacious, with numerous pieces of furniture on display.

The group silently slipped through the entrance, their eyes warily scanning the various dark shadows that surrounded them.

One member had scarcely taken two steps when he glimpsed a figure out of the corner of his eye. Tensing up, he turned swiftly, only to find it was just a floor lamp.

“Luo Yulong, where exactly is he?” Ai Feng gripped his knife and whispered.

This mall was both vast and eerily silent; even their heartbeats seemed deafening. As soon as Ai Feng spoke, everyone felt as though someone could jump out of the darkness at any moment.

“I can’t pinpoint him. There’s psychic interference here. The other side is prepared… and he’s constantly moving,” Luo Yulong said after sensing for a moment.

Another presence lurked in a different direction, hiding like a scared rat.

Luo Yulong contemplated for a moment but decided to disregard that one. A mere nuisance, probably unaware that they were even here.

“Prepared or not, it doesn’t matter. This place is indeed huge, but the link isn’t completely severed… He’s really overthinking things,” Ai Feng sneered. He left one person at the entrance and signaled to the others.

With hand gestures, he advanced slowly forward with his knife.

The remaining group split into two, approaching from left and right corridors. Although the furniture obstructed their view, it still made them feel somewhat secure.

As long as they spotted the target, even holding out for one second would allow the others to arrive in time.

They had enough confidence to hold for that one crucial second.

Moreover, with Luo Yulong following behind, the enemy couldn’t sneak up on them silently.

“Come out, you can’t hide much longer.”

Ai Feng thought to himself as he cautiously reached out and opened a wardrobe.

Inside was pitch black, empty.

“He’s still ahead,” Luo Yulong nodded immediately when Ai Feng turned to look at him.

“Better be cautious; this guy is definitely cunning…” Ai Feng thought warily, his steps still slow and light as he edged forward.

Luo Yulong, bringing up the rear, looked quite pleased with himself.

This time, he’d certainly earned a major credit.

Not only would Ai Feng reward him, but even headquarters might also commend him.

Who would have thought that among so many, he would be the most useful?

“It might have been difficult, but in the end, I was the one who found him,” Luo Yulong thought smugly, a sly smile creeping onto his face.

However, just as he was distracted, the target’s “signal” suddenly intensified.

“What the…”

Luo Yulong refocused his attention, but suddenly, he clutched his neck with wide eyes and leaned backward sharply, disappearing into the darkness in an instant.

“Have you pinpointed his exact location?”

Frowning, Ai Feng turned back and asked.

But when he turned, he froze: “Where’s Luo Yulong?”

They had only been a few meters apart; when did Luo Yulong vanish?!

Brandishing his knife, Ai Feng looked around in shock.

He couldn’t have run off by himself; could he have been ambushed right under my nose?

Indeed, his attention had been entirely on the search, but Luo Yulong, being a mental ability superhuman, would have sensed if someone approached…

Even a highly skilled enhancement ability user would have been detected the moment they got close. Luo Yulong was in full sensing mode.

Unless the ambusher was also a powerful mental ability user…

But that’s impossible! The only one he was tracking was already locked onto!

“Luo Yulong!”

Ai Feng called out in a hushed tone, but the darkness around him gave no response.

“You think you can mess with me? I refuse to believe you can slip through my fingers!” Ai Feng muttered, turning his gaze to the side.

Perhaps splitting up was a mistake; now they would regroup and flush him out, inch by inch!

But as Ai Feng rushed to another corridor, he stopped dead in his tracks.

One of his team members stood between several cabinets, staring at him with a look of sheer terror.

“He…he’s gone. He was just behind me,” the team member stammered, pointing behind himself.

Less than ten meters away, another member had vanished.

Ai Feng’s expression darkened immediately as he grasped the enemy’s intent.

They weren’t planning to engage him head-on but intended to whittle them down piece by piece.

“Stay calm. Don’t panic. They don’t have our numbers, and the one capable of ambushing us is alone,” Ai Feng took a deep breath and reassured his team.

But before he could finish speaking, a sudden clattering sound echoed from within the mall.

Ai Feng and the team member instantly turned toward the sound and began to chase it.

Two others emerged from another corridor, also heading toward the noise.

“There!”

Ai Feng’s sharp eyes caught a glimpse of a dark shadow, and his face lit up with excitement.

The stalker who had hidden and ambushed them twice was finally slipping up.

A mental ability superhuman, once entangled, would be easy to deal with.

With this thought, Ai Feng quickened his pace.

The other three team members also rushed forward, but one of them lagged behind slightly.

That slight delay proved fatal. As he lunged forward, his eyes suddenly widened, and then his body swayed before vanishing among the furniture.

The moment he disappeared, Ai Feng sensed something off.

He immediately halted and, drenched in cold sweat, slowly turned his head.

Just one glance made a chill shoot up from his feet to his head.