CH 71.2

What Did You Just Say? Say That Again (2)

Wen Yao turned around and looked at Shi An with an astonished expression on her face.

“… How did you know about it?”

Shi An thought for a moment and said, “The scent isn’t right.”

Honestly, this had nothing to do with the scent.

Rather, it was because…  this abyssal species had one thing in common.

It was that their tongues all looked the same.

After several thousand years, Shi An had grown tired of seeing this little boy’s face.

“!!!”

All the members stood in awe.

They only knew that Chief Mu was a powerful person who was very sensitive to scent, but they never thought they would be lucky enough to see a second person with the same ability today.

No wonder the Chief and Captain Wen looked at him in a different light!

Wen Yao sheathed her sword, looked around the unusually quiet residential area in front of her, narrowed her eyes slightly, and said, “Something is wrong.”

According to reason, the Bureau’s combat team members would not normally be so careless.

However, the abyssal rift had only just been discovered this time and it was logical that the level of spread contamination should not be too deep and the strength of the abyssal species that escaped from it would not all be much stronger.

Moreover, they had only just entered the area and their main objective was to rescue people, so they would never have expected that the first “victim” they encountered would be a demon bait in disguise.

Such a large abyssal species had already appeared in the outer areas…

As she gazed at the quiet residential area in front of her, Wen Yao’s brow furrowed tightly.

“Level one alert status,” she ordered.

“Yes!” the team members looked solemn and said in unison.

On the other side.

Zhuo Fu frowned, gazing at the level report submitted before him. His expression was rare, grave.

Something was wrong. Something definitely was not right.

How could an abyssal rift that had just appeared present such readings?

Only an abyssal rift that had appeared for at least ten days would release such powerful magical fluctuations, so could it have been catalyzed? Or was it…

He held out his hand to his assistant. “Show me the perimeter index report for this area over the last ten days.”

***

Wen Yao’s team continued deeper into the contaminated area.

They cleared the abyssal species that had escaped from within the abyss, freeing the stranded commoners and Abilities from it.

Shi An restrained his aura, preventing the abyssal species from sensing his presence.

He did not show much strength but kept a low profile and burned the demonic creatures.

The ones that were too low-level were left to the Bureau’s people to deal with. The higher-level abyssal species demons were burned to death by Shi An before they could even get close.

The more demons he burned to death, the more magic power he drew from them.

The golden-red flames rose, reflecting in his dark eyes’ depths.

Shi An narrowed his eyes slightly in contentment, a hint of insatiable satisfaction sweeping across the bottom of his eyes.

More and more.

I can still eat more!

Because he was having so much fun killing, when Shi An returned to his senses again, he suddenly realized that he had wandered away from the Bureau’s group.

He blinked and sensed the human’s scent.

…. It was not far, a couple of steps after them and he could catch up.

That put Shi An’s mind at ease.

Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and squinted his eyes slightly, looking in a direction overhead.

Shi An took an unhurried step back.

The next second, the ceiling above his head suddenly collapsed and huge pieces of rubble fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

“Boom!”

A huge claw covered in scales was seen pressing down, stepping heavily on top of the rubble and ruins.

A several-meter-tall demonic creature appeared in front of Shi An. Its body was pitch black, its pupils were thin and narrow, and it carried two wings on its back, looking extraordinarily fierce and terrifying.

The demonic creature opened its mouth and spoke human words. “Human, you shall die daring to look straight at a dragon.”

Shi An: “…”

He squinted his eyes and a ray of red-golden light flashed under them.

To the demonic creature’s surprise, the human before him, who looked as if he could be killed with a single claw, did not seem to have much fear on his face. Instead, he slowly took a step forward and asked nonchalantly, “What did you just say?”

The young man’s face had no other expression, looking almost curiously at the demonic creature several times his size, his lips raised in a real smile, and he repeated in a crisp voice, “Say that again?”

***

Inside the abyssal rift.

A dark, poisonous mist filled the air, reducing visibility to almost nothing.

The silver-haired man stood with his sword, dark blood sliding slowly off its tip and hitting the ground with a dripping sound, the shattered bodies and limbs of the demons of the abyssal species at his feet.

At that moment, one of the subordinates, wearing a gas mask, ran over.

Although an Ability could cover their body with magic to protect them from the poisonous fog, the fog in the rift’s depths was so concentrated that even an ordinary Ability would need to wear a mask for protection.

The only person with the ability to survive in such extreme conditions without the need for other equipment was Mu Heng.

The Bureau member stood in front of Mu Heng, his voice coming from under his mask. “Reporting, sir, we didn’t find any trace of the Eye of the Abyss!”

Mu Heng frowned slightly and said coldly, “Continue searching.”

He raised his eyes and looked around the canyon covered in poisonous mist in front of him and a wisp of doubt swept across his gray-blue eyes.

How could this be?

An abyssal rift without the Eye of the Abyss?