This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 98 - 0 Assassin

Chapter 98: Chapter 098 Assassin

The phone in Chen Ke’s pocket suddenly vibrated, and when he took it out, it was Pihom.

It was already 7 pm, the evening sky growing darker as the last flames of the setting sun scorched the clouds on the horizon, leaving a final blood-red before darkness devoured the sky.

Chen Ke hadn’t expected to have stayed at Golden Arthur for so long; he hastily answered the call.

“Chen Ke, good news, we’ve found some clues in those schedules you guys obtained,” Pihom said, sounding very satisfied on the other end of the line.

“What about those schedules? What’s hidden inside?” Chen Ke asked, puzzled.

“Those aren’t schedules at all but operation records disguised as schedules. The names on them are actually code names for each operation! Chen Ke, whatever these people are doing, they haven’t rested for a moment,” Pihom explained.

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Chen Ke was stunned; he had seen those scheduling plans—an Excel spreadsheet with thousands of entries. If each one represented an operation…

“No matter who these people are or what they’re up to, Hainerd had definitely been in persistent contact with them. I don’t know how to say this, Chen Ke, but Hainerd has indeed betrayed us,” Pihom said with a note of regret in his voice.

“Alright, whatever the case, they’re targeting us now, and it’s very likely they’re from the corporation! Do you think Hainerd has been in touch with the corporate people?” Chen Ke inquired.

“It’s still unclear for the moment, but we have a way to find out some things tonight… Bain told me that our intelligence spy who had contact with Hainerd last time seems to be a ’25er,’ not clear if he has betrayed Hainerd, but what’s certain is, he’s decided not to work as a courier anymore,” Pihom said grimly.

“Where is he now?” Chen Ke understood Pihom’s implication.

“My spy tells me that he will be going to enjoy himself at Holy Angel Nightclub tonight. His new employer seems to have given him a sizable sum…” Pihom said with a laugh.

“Then we’ll go meet him and ask him some questions,” Chen Ke said.

“That’s what I was thinking. 9 o’clock, Hall will meet you at the nightclub. I’ll send you the address; it’s in the Deep Anchor District. Remember, don’t cause a big commotion,” Pihom instructed.

Chen Ke hung up the phone and soon received a text message with the nightclub’s address from Pihom.

He pocketed his phone,

Took a look at the still hot burger in his hand, and felt it a shame to toss it; he couldn’t help but take a bite.

Instantly, his tongue was enveloped in greasy juice, the taste of chicken flooding his mouth.

He managed to swallow down half, but ultimately couldn’t help but spit the rest into a trash bin by the street.

“Disgustingly salty…” Chen Ke muttered, ready to toss the burger into the bin.

“Aw…” Out of nowhere, a stray dog squatted behind Chen Ke, matted with dirt-infused brown fur clumped together, revealing a pair of watery, pitiful eyes through the filthy fur, looking longingly at the burger in Chen Ke’s hand.

“You’re pretty lucky, running into me,” Chen Ke said with a smile, squatting down to throw the burger in front of the dog.

Chen Ke wanted to pet the dog, but it was too dirty, obviously having been a stray for a long time, with a dirty collar around its neck—it seemed like it had once had an owner but was either lost or abandoned.

The stray dog sniffed the burger on the ground, then looked up at Chen Ke as if to smile, then grabbed the burger and hobbled into the crowd.

[Mutation Level: Common]

Watching the stray dog leave, an information box appeared beside the dog in Chen Ke’s view.

Chen Ke raised his eyebrows, took a deep breath, and thought, what the hell, this dog is a mutated being! The world had gone mad indeed; anything seemed possible…

With more pressing matters to attend to, Chen Ke stood up and looked around for an available taxi.

Chen Ke didn’t dwell on Hainerd’s betrayal of the couriers, as he felt no sense of belonging with them. What truly concerned him were the corporation’s thousands of operations.

The “corporation” was a secret society formed by numerous Spiritual Ability Enterprises. According to what the tortured man had revealed before his death, this organization was attempting to create gods… It sounded utterly fantastical, but if Si’s Consortium was involved…

That is to say, they obtained the Holy Relics in secret, not to smuggle them for money… but to arm their own team for the exploration of the Great Void.

Combining what Chen Ke had seen and heard in the world of the Fan Hede Kingdom within the Great Void, in that kind of place, to enter the next area one must first replicate the “cycle” of the current area…

Hmm…

What is the most valuable thing in the Great Void, after all?

Whatever it is, it is definitely something indispensable for “creating gods”!

Chen Ke still remembered the deep claw marks on the left side of the “Horror Whip Mark” vessel. Could it be that some doors to the Great Void are opened under the deep sea? Or is there something else in the sea…

Was Si’s consortium’s action to explore the Fan Hede Kingdom also one of the “company’s” thousands of missions?

Things were starting to get interesting.

Originally, Chen Ke thought that the Spiritual Ability Enterprise’s hoarding of Holy Relics and stockpiling land for the Spirit Explosion Effect were purely due to capitalist will, but now it seemed their thinking was really dangerous…

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Hmm??!

While Chen Ke was waiting for a taxi and pondering, the life countdown timer at the corner of his eye suddenly started to jump.

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Chen Ke frowned. Why was his life increasing?? Was someone trying to kill me?! Where?!

His entire body tensed, and he looked around nervously. The bustling crowd on the streets passed by with unfamiliar faces, their expressions indifferent as they moved by Chen Ke.

The Killing Aura Radar could tag enemies with a murderous intent in red, but throughout the entire street, Chen Ke saw no red outlines.

There was no need to think about it, it had to be an assassin from Si’s consortium! It seemed they had finally found him, and it wasn’t easy.

Chen Ke started to move, looking around while trying to blend into the crowd. It seemed that his opponents had come prepared, and this time he was at a disadvantage.

But Chen Ke still had some advantages.

The assassins probably didn’t know he was aware, let alone that he had a Killing Aura Detector that could quickly locate them in the vast sea of people…

The assassin was definitely outside the range of the Killing Aura Radar. When dealing with the incident at Li Bo Restaurant, Chen Ke had used this ability to tag a mutated diner in red, which showed that the maximum marking range of the Killing Aura Radar was only about fifty or sixty meters…

Unfortunately, the Killing Aura Radar wouldn’t tell Chen Ke the direction of the assassins; now he could only rely on his instincts and move forward with the flow of people, hoping he might bump into the assassin by luck.

They dared to make a move on this busy street; they really had guts. It seemed Pankia truly wanted him dead.

The killing intent continued to increase, and soon Chen Ke’s life had returned to full value, a faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

He was never short on killing intent, and sometimes, having a few more enemies wasn’t such a bad thing.

As evening approached, the lights from shops and billboards turned the entire avenue as bright as daylight. Pop music filled the streets, and Chen Ke followed the crowd across the road, where, in a music store, he spotted the tagged figure of a white man wearing a baseball cap and loose sports attire.

“Found you,” Chen Ke said with a smile.