"Tap tap tap tap..."
Urgent running sounds ca from Yelanka's feet. After escaping through the back door, she sprinted towards the nearest wall while analyzing the current situation.
For Lijeka to set this trap for her, their grandmother's silent approval wasn't enough.
Because normally, her father would also attend this birthday banquet, but he hadn't co. Was he tricked and sent away by Lijeka's sche, or did he also silently approve of this trap?
...That shouldn't be the case.
Yelanka didn't believe her father would allow Lijeka to do this.
If her father had truly decided on the successor candidate internally, he would directly announce it; he wouldn't resort to such despicable ans.
Just as their grandmother said, their father was a very proud man. Even if ti had made him more steady, it wouldn't change his true nature.
She believed her father was jointly tricked and sent away by their grandmother and Lijeka, the two wanting to create a fait accompli by exploiting a ti gap.
They probably thought that as long as she lost her inheritance capability, even if their father would be furious and dissatisfied afterward, for the sake of the country, he couldn't severely punish Lijeka.
So what she should do now...
Swish!
Just as she reached the wall, soone flipped over from the outside.
Yelanka was about to defend herself when she discovered the newcor was her guard, Sigaochin.
"Your Highness, are you injured?"
"No, you... your shoulder!"
Yelanka noticed a large tear in the clothes on Sigaochin's left shoulder; the wound underneath must be quite deep.
"Just a minor injury," Sigaochin said.
To rush to support her as quickly as possible, she had used life-exchanging tactics to swiftly eliminate Gaeljin and his dozen n, but she was also injured and had expended a great deal of Mind Power.
"Listen to ," Sigaochin said rapidly. "Lijeka is extrely determined this ti. Military personnel are already active outside, sealing off this area."
"He actually dares to collude with military generals. It seems to eliminate , he's completely disregarding everything."
"Yes. And I just tried—teleportation-type items cannot be used. He must have used special items or abilities to interfere within the estate and nearby areas. He's really gone all out."
Items that can interfere with teleportation or render teleportation items ineffective are extrely rare and expensive. Lijeka's willingness to pay such a high price ant he couldn't afford the consequences of failure.
"Your Highness, I believe your father, the Administrator, must have already received the news and is bringing people here. What we need to do now is hold out until then."
As the two spoke, they could still hear shouts coming from not far outside the wall. The voices were chaotic and mixed, indicating at least several dozen people.
Yelanka frowned. "If we had enough Mind Power, we wouldn't need to run at all."
She believed that with her own abilities and the learned Mind Power Flow technique, combined with joining forces with Sigaochin, they wouldn't fear other Ascendants at all.
The problem was, they didn't have enough Mind Power.
This was also a major limitation for powerful individuals. Even if your abilities/items are very strong, you can still face situations where you're outnumbered.
Others can use nurical superiority to trap you, then use lives to exhaust your Mind Power. At that point, an Ascendant without Mind Power is like a martial arts master who has lost their protective internal energy—completely at the rcy of others.
And this was also the tactic Sakura Prayer Country wanted to use against Shadow, except they didn't realize that for Shadow, who could store reserve Mind Power, this tactic was completely useless.
"Your Highness, run in the opposite direction. I will try my best to delay the enemy and buy ti for you," Sigaochin said solemnly, already resolved to die if necessary.
However, Yelanka did not accept this proposal.
She would not allow Sigaochin to die fighting for her here.
In that split second, she thought of the item Guan Tong had given her before she left Beixing.
She imdiately took it out from her Storage Box.
Seeing that energy-bar-like object, Sigaochin recalled. "That's the [Passerby Transformation Device] your teacher gave you? But even if you can turn into a stranger, you'll definitely be intercepted if you run outside. The other side won't let any suspicious person pass!"
Yelanka blinked. "Who said I'm going to run outside? The darkness under the lamp."
Hearing this, Sigaochin imdiately understood Yelanka's aning. "I see. I understand. Then I'll break through alone, making the enemy misjudge the situation."
"Mm. Be careful."
"Don't worry, they won't focus their main efforts on . Then without delay."
Sigaochin imdiately flipped over the wall and ran outward. Yelanka, anwhile, used the item, and her body and appearance instantly randomly transford into a woman in her thirties.
She quickly circled back to the previous building. Lijeka's people were all searching the periphery; no one expected she would actually run back.
After returning to the room through the back door, she imdiately saw the several assassin corpses she had killed lying on the ground.
"Just as I thought..."
She guessed that soone like her brother would be solely focused on finding her right now and wouldn't bother with the bodies of his dead subordinates.
Yelanka made a decisive decision and went over to lie face down on the ground herself, pretending to be one of the corpses.
At this ti, the search teams on the periphery couldn't find Yelanka anywhere, only discovering Sigaochin who had jumped over the wall and was fleeing outward from the encirclent.
"Report, we've discovered Sigaochin fleeing northward. Should we intercept her?" a subordinate contacted Lijeka to report.
Lijeka asked, "Is Yelanka not with her?"
"No, she's alone."
"Idiot! Then why intercept her? What's important is Yelanka! Sigaochin must be trying to lure us away... Yelanka must have gone in the opposite direction!"
"Yes, we'll go search imdiately!"
Lijeka's subordinates, plus the military personnel he secretly colluded with—over a hundred people—conducted a thorough search, yet couldn't find any trace of Yelanka.
Clearly, the periphery was completely sealed off, helicopters were deployed in the air, and teleportation interference devices were deployed in the surrounding areas. Yelanka couldn't possibly have escaped. So why couldn't they find her?
Several minutes later, General Pully, who was in cahoots with Lijeka, called.
Seeing the number, the overwheld Lijeka felt a surge of joy, thinking Pully had achieved results. As soon as he answered, he loudly asked, "Have you caught her?"
However, what ca from the receiver was a voice that filled him with despair.
"Lijeka, you have committed a serious cri." His father's icy voice ca through. "I now order you, in my capacity as Administrator of Xisiya, to abandon all resistance, otherwise you will be imdiately annihilated."
The mont Lijeka heard his father's voice, he knew he was finished.
His plan was to resolve his sister Yelanka before his father returned. But now his father had already taken down General Pully, while he couldn't even find Yelanka.
"Father, I..."
"Beep beep beep."
The call had been hung up.
Lijeka let out a bitter laugh. At that mont, his trusted subordinate Gaeljin ran over.
He had previously been responsible for leading n to block Sigaochin. After being overpowered, he quickly fled. Sigaochin, because she was worried about Yelanka, didn't pursue, allowing him to keep his life.
"Lord Lijeka, your father's people are here! Your sister hasn't—"
Before Gaeljin could finish speaking, he saw Lijeka plop down onto the ground, holding his head with both hands, his eyes empty. "It's over, it's all over... Gaeljin, it was all your terrible ideas. You're going to get
killed..."
"...You absolutely must not admit to anything!"
"You bastard! What ti is this, and you're still—"
"Shift the bla onto the alien spores from that rule!" Gaeljin loudly interrupted the furious Lijeka. "Afterward, you must tell the Administrator that because you wanted to win too much, the spores took advantage of your weakness and manipulated your thoughts! Only then do you have a sliver of hope!"
Hearing this, Lijeka was stunned.
At that mont, a large number of personnel entered the estate to seal it off, controlling everyone inside.
Lijeka and Yelanka's father, Xisiya Administrator Gutman Konya, arrived shortly after.
Seeing his father, Lijeka imdiately begged for rcy as Gaeljin had taught him. "Father, I didn't an to do this... it was all because of the spores. The spores manipulated my thou..."
"Where is your sister?" Gutman interrupted and asked.
"She... I..."
"Father."
At that mont, Yelanka walked out from the mansion. She had already removed her disguise.
Seeing that she had been hiding in the mansion the whole ti, Lijeka couldn't believe it.
How was this possible! He had clearly seen Yelanka run out the back door with his own eyes. Even if she secretly returned afterward, how did she evade everyone's sight? After all, there had been people constantly coming and going around the mansion!
"It's good that you're unhard."
Seeing his daughter safe and sound, Gutman didn't ask how she had evaded capture.
"Father, I need an explanation for this matter," Yelanka said with cold eyes, not mincing words.
As the final victor in this heir competition, she made it clear she wouldn't let anyone involved in this matter off, including her brother and grandmother—these two relatives.
"You will get one."
...
Antu City Peace Officer Departnt.
In the explosion case investigation team, the investigators were all quite surprised upon hearing Yoshino announce the martial law order.
"The order was issued by the highest authority," Yoshino said. "Starting today, Sakura Prayer Country is under comprehensive martial law. Ordinary people are not allowed to go out and move about freely. Peace Officers must patrol the streets 24 hours a day."
The investigators were all puzzled.
"This... why?"
"Did Bandzhen discover so explosive devices?"
"No, it should be unrelated to our explosion case, right..."
"Chief Yoshino, what exactly is going on?"
Yoshino shook his head. He also didn't know why martial law was suddenly declared.
However, he guessed it might be related to the administrative building infiltration case.
Because of that case, Headquarters had kept his subordinate Suzuki there to assist with the investigation. Now Suzuki hadn't returned yet, and the higher-ups suddenly announced nationwide martial law... Did sothing go wrong?
Unfortunately, with his clearance level, he wasn't qualified to inquire.
"Alright, we just need to follow orders and do our jobs," Yoshino said, then asked one of them, "Regarding the information on Wu Wang, has it been sent over from Beixing?"
That investigator said, "Beixing sent over so materials, but you called the eting before we could organize them."
"Let's just project and take a look."
"Okay."
That person projected the materials onto the large screen in the office. Many videos appeared in list form.
"Beixing said these materials were recently sent to them by an anonymous person. The 'main character' in them is precisely the Wu Wang we're investigating."
Subsequently, the videos were opened one by one.
After seeing the contents, all personnel in the investigation team fell silent.
After quite a while, soone finally managed to utter a sentence: "This bastard... is just an inhuman bombing maniac!"
As the supervisor, Yoshino couldn't help but get a headache.
Holding his forehead with one hand, he understood the aning behind Beixing sending these videos.
This Wu Wang had been involved in so many explosion cases, with countless victims. Every victim's relatives and friends might seek revenge against him.
Under these circumstances, trying to clearly investigate this Wu Wang's social connections was like a fool's dream—almost impossible.
"Chief Yoshino, how are we supposed to investigate this..."
Not only was Yoshino getting a headache, but everyone in the investigation team was also dumbfounded.
"...I need to make a call."
Yoshino took a deep breath, walked out of the room, took out his phone, and dialed the Director's number at Headquarters.
He absolutely had to request Suzuki's transfer back. Without her ability assisting, this case was really difficult to continue investigating.
After the call connected, he carefully explained the situation and made his request: "...If there's progress on that case over there, I'd like Suzuki to return to the Antu Peace Officer Departnt as soon as possible. She..."
"She can't co back!" The Director sowhat manically shouted, and the call imdiately ended.
Yoshino was montarily stunned, not knowing what had happened at Headquarters to make the usually well-composed Director lose his composure like that.
And what did the Director an by saying Suzuki couldn't co back? Could it be that sothing really went wrong with that case...
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