Encirclement and Heavy Injuries
"Hello?!" Hearing the other party's voice, Chen Ling responded immediately.
"Who is this?"
"I am a friend of Senior Xiao Chunping... She said if I encountered difficulties I couldn't resolve, I could call this number for help." Chen Ling spoke in a lowered voice.
"... Oh?"
The person on the other end of the phone seemingly didn't expect Chen Ling to give this answer. After pondering for a long time, he slowly asked:
"What difficulties have you encountered?"
"I am currently being hunted down by the 'White Hand' of Bureau 749. Their people are everywhere."
"Bureau 749?" That person spoke in surprise. "That 'ghost mock' who heaven and earth jointly execute... is you?"
Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat.
He suddenly thought that those who could be recorded in the register by Xiao Chunping were mostly 'White Hand' who attended the intangible cultural heritage forum. Moreover, the other party also lived in Shanghai... In other words, there was a considerable possibility that this person also participated in the encirclement and suppression operation against him!
Going around in circles for half a day, and making a distress call to the person trying to catch him??
"The people from Bureau 749 asked me to make a move, but I didn't go." The voice on the other side of the phone paused for a moment. "However, your situation... I somewhat know a little."
"Sorry, for bothering you!" Just as Chen Ling was about to hang up the phone, that voice rang out again.
"By right, since this matter involves Bureau 749, I shouldn't help you... But since it's a request from Elder Xiao, I can't sit back and ignore it either."
Chen Ling was taken aback. He didn't expect the other party, as a 'White Hand' under the jurisdiction of Bureau 749, would still intervene to help him... Moreover, judging from the tone of voice, he was also quite respectful towards Xiao Chunping.
That voice didn't hesitate much, and spoke again:
"What's your location?"
"I am currently at Tangjing Street..."
"Understood, hold on for a little longer, I'll arrive in about fifteen minutes."
After speaking, that person hung up the phone.
Fifteen minutes...
Chen Ling glanced at the time on his phone screen. Until the action time of this Timeline Save File ended, there were only the last fourteen minutes and thirty-two seconds left;
In the end, he could still only rely on himself...
The uneasiness in his heart grew increasingly intense. Chen Ling could feel that in this turbulent crowd, there was danger getting closer and closer to him. Hardening his heart, Chen Ling closed the flip phone, and a flash of aurora passed through his eyes!
Bang—!
The next moment, the power supply of the entire Commercial Street was instantly cut off. Other than a few safety indicator lights still emitting light, whether it was the streetlights on both sides of the street, or the dazzling neon signboards, they all plunged into darkness!
Bursts of exclamations rang out from the crowd. Everyone who was still shopping froze, looking around blankly.
Borrowing the dim environment, Chen Ling changed his face again in the crowd, and then quickly shuttled among the pedestrians... Not long after darkness descended, the pedestrians autonomously turned on their phone flashlights. Rays of radiance like stars interweaved into a sea.
The radiance of these phone flashlights constantly swayed, and chaotic light and shadow wandered among the crowd. Among them, a figure wearing a black bowler hat saw this scene, his brows furrowing tightly...
"Have you noticed me..."
The lights abruptly dimmed, coupled with Chen Ling instantly changing his face to escape, making him unable to lock onto the target for a time. He simply no longer disguised himself, slowly taking off the black bowler hat on his head.
"[Mob of Harlots]." He faintly spat out two words.
An invisible Domain instantly spread out in all directions!
At the same time,
The thousands of tourist figures walking on Tangjing Road simultaneously froze on the spot!
This wasn't time pausing, nor was it any other spatial means, but rather directly freezing all human bodies... In this instant, all the humans on Tangjing Road stiffened on the spot like marionettes. Only one person was an exception.
That was a stooped old man. He shuttled slowly and inconspicuously through the crowd, and as everyone around him was frozen, his figure became particularly eye-catching and prominent.
"Found you." The figure holding the black bowler hat smiled slightly.
The stooped old man originally still in the crowd frowned tightly, seemingly not expecting this kind of unforeseen event around him. A sense of crisis locked onto his figure. He immediately stepped on the void with vigorous feet, rising to the sky!
"Where are you going?"
Just as the figure holding the black bowler hat was about to raise his hand, from the building opposite, a roaring gunshot cut through like a streak of lightning!
Bang—!!
A purple gun pattern suddenly flashed in the void. A bullet howled, piercing through tens of kilometers, rapidly enlarging in Chen Ling's pupils...
The speed of this bullet was too fast, and the distance was extremely far. Even Chen Ling had no way to foresee its appearance in advance. When he discovered it, it was already too late to make any resisting movements, and he could only watch helplessly as that bullet pierced through his chest!
Boom—!
Dripping bloody light spurted into the air. A large hole was instantly opened in Chen Ling's chest. He staggered and swayed in the air, but didn't die. Instead, at a faster speed, he plunged headlong into the pitch-black commercial building beside him!
On a signal tower tens of kilometers away from here, a woman in leather clothing mounting a Sniper Rifle saw this scene, her pupils full of astonishment!
"He didn't die even with his heart blown away?" She found it hard to believe.
After brief astonishment, she still quickly calmed her mood, pressing her eye back onto the sniper scope. A Domain as slender as a rope instantly extended out tens of kilometers along the direction of the sniper scope. After passing through all obstacles, it began attempting to lock onto Chen Ling again!
Chen Ling with a mutilated chest dragged out streaks of afterimages inside the commercial building, deliberately avoiding all glass curtain walls that light could pass through.
Are there two people hidden in the dark... One capable of controlling human bodies, and one capable of ultra-long-range sniping?
Chen Ling rapidly analyzed the intelligence in his mind. Before he could make a response, behind the glass curtain wall opposite, a figure holding a black bowler hat slowly floated up...
He raised his hand and pointed at Chen Ling through the air. Chen Ling felt as if his body no longer belonged to him. His limbs were fiercely stretched open, as if nailed to an invisible cross, unable to move a single bit!
Almost at the same time, that Sniper Rifle tens of kilometers away also locked onto Chen Ling who was forcibly controlled inside the commercial building!
This time, the Domain extending from the muzzle pointed directly at the center of Chen Ling's brows.
"I want to see... if your head is blown off, can you still live?" The woman in leather clothes murmured to herself. The next moment, she forcefully pulled the trigger!
Bang—!!
The second bullet cut through the sky. Drawing several arcs in the city full of reinforced concrete, it shattered a curtain wall with a boom, and shot towards the center of Chen Ling's brows!
Chen Ling roared angrily. The [Blood Raiment] was rapidly pushed to the limit. A steady stream of power surged to his whole body from his shattered chest. He unexpectedly forcibly seized back a portion of the control over his body, turning his head and twisting his body!
Boom—!!
The bullet didn't hit Chen's head, but was misaligned and shot towards his left shoulder. The entire arm along with the shoulder was completely blasted into fragments, splashing onto the commercial building's curtain wall!