WHOOSH—

In the Nanshan Villa district, Shen Fei used the Attribute Enhancement Tower, which had new uses available, to directly increase the Tracking Tower’s range to 50 kilometers. Then, he switched his perspective to the Tracking Tower and began to track his sister’s best friend, Li Xiaohong, who was clearly in trouble.

He had originally thought his sister was exaggerating when she said her friend had gone missing, but judging by the state of her home, she really had disappeared.

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Of course, Shen Fei had ways to deal with this situation. Fully equipped with all sorts of Defense Towers, he easily deployed one for finding people. As long as the target was within range, anything was possible.

"Found it!"

A few minutes later, the Pursuit Tower, scanning like a radar, finally followed the fading trail of Li Xiaohong’s presence to a specific location. It was a small, hidden building. From the outside, it looked like a simple two- or three-story structure a few hundred square meters in area. After the game abilities were inherited, there were many such abandoned buildings.

Just outside the five-kilometer range. They picked this spot quite skillfully!

Sensing the distance between the small building and his villa, Shen Fei couldn’t help but mutter to himself. This distance was just beyond the five-kilometer range of most Tenth Tier Defense Towers.

WHOOSH—

As he thought this, Shen Fei’s perspective followed the Pursuit Tower and poured directly into the small building. The building had three stories above ground and three stories below. Shen Fei saw that the third floor was a hotel, the second was a bar, and the first and first basement floors were a card and chess room.

Through the Pursuit Tower’s vision, Shen Fei quickly searched the upper four floors. He discovered that there were five or six hundred people on those four floors. Among them, over two hundred had clearly inherited game abilities, and that didn’t even count those who couldn’t be identified at a glance...

Is this the temporary headquarters of some special organization? Or something else? Did they discover the ability Xiaohong inherited and then kidnap her?

After his vision swept through the building’s upper four floors without finding Xiaohong, Shen Fei began to speculate.

WHOOSH—

Since she wasn’t on the upper four floors, Shen Fei’s vision moved down another level. His perspective entered the second basement level of the small building...

"Hm?"

When he saw that the second basement was a Taekwondo-style underground training ground, where many people were sparring using what were clearly inherited game abilities, Shen Fei was slightly taken aback. He was once again certain: this was the temporary headquarters of some secret organization. Something like the Magic Alliance, the Martial Arts Alliance, or the Gunpowder Alliance...

Regarding these sorts of alliances, Shen Fei had no particular feelings. As long as they didn’t affect him, he couldn’t care less.

"Hm?"

As his vision swept across the second basement, Shen Fei spotted a luxurious conference room in a corner. At the conference room’s round table, five or six middle-aged men in sharp suits were currently seated.

He had only intended to see if Li Xiaohong was there, but Shen Fei hadn’t expected that as his vision passed over the middle-aged men, he found some of them looked very familiar. Clearly, he had seen these people before! Although he’d forgotten where, the sense of familiarity meant he had definitely met them...

"Shen Ziqiang and Sun Jianguo are definitely the breakthrough point!"

"We’ve already tested it on that young man from Qing City Polytechnic University. As long as we get close and prevent him from controlling his Defense Towers, we can just grab him!"

"What we need to do now is figure out how to get close! How to capture him in one fell swoop!"

Although he saw familiar faces, Shen Fei had no intention of observing them closely. His top priority at the moment was to find and rescue Li Xiaohong. But what Shen Fei didn’t expect was that as his vision swept past, he overheard the group’s conversation. Hearing the content of their discussion, Shen Fei’s attention snapped into focus instantly.

Shen Ziqiang and Sun Jianguo—those were his father’s and Uncle Sun’s names. Hearing his father and Uncle Sun’s names, Shen Fei immediately focused his full attention on them. He had only intended to find Li Xiaohong, but he never expected to track down his enemies instead...

"I’ll say it again. We must first confirm whether Sun Jianguo’s son, Sun Yu, is the person responsible for that scene at the airport last night!"

"Only if we can confirm it can we begin to execute our plan!" someone drawled out their opinion.

"What’s there to be afraid of? Fortune favors the bold! Whether it’s him or not, let’s just grab them all in one go. As long as we have them under control, we’ll definitely remain at the top of the food chain!"

As his focus returned, Shen Fei listened to the men continue their chat. He soon heard that their even bigger targets included himself and Yu. Moreover, the men in black who had launched a surprise attack on Yu’s home last night—the ones he had killed with his controlled vines—had also been sent by these people as a probe.

"I still think we need to confirm Sun Yu’s identity!"

"I’ve had our spy at the Tourism Management Office try to make Sun Jianguo his godfather. If he succeeds and our man can get close to Sun Yu through Sun Jianguo, we can definitely take him in one move!"

The five or six middle-aged men continued their discussion. Shen Fei even heard that these men had arrangements within the Tourism Management Office.

"It doesn’t have to be that complicated! The Shen Family owes us money, and it’s in black and white!"

"The Shen Family’s son sold Shen Ziqiang’s shares to us. There’s no problem with us going to collect the debt, right?"

"As long as we get close under the guise of collecting a debt, we can definitely take them down in one go. You have to trust the ability I inherited!" a middle-aged man with a gold watch on his wrist replied.

"Don’t act rashly! The chess piece ability Shen Ziqiang inherited is quite strong!"

"Besides, that Yi Shangtian sent us a message earlier, saying that Shen Ziqiang’s wife and daughter have abilities too!"

"What we need to do is land a decisive blow, not alert the enemy!"

"Let’s hear the intel that’s been gathered first!"

The middle-aged men chattered amongst themselves. Even in the chaotic world following the inheritance of game abilities, it had only taken them two days to establish a powerful organization. Even more, they had already formulated a "Hunt God" plan.

The target of this Hunt God plan was the person who had displayed godly might at the Qing City airport last night, the one many called the "Cyan God," who had effortlessly annihilated the Undead Calamity. The reason they dared to hunt a God was because they had confirmed this person had inherited Defense Towers. And during the first week after inheriting their abilities, players who got Defense Towers were themselves extremely weak.

Among them, some had inherited special game abilities. As long as they could get within three seconds of a Tower Master’s physical body, they could completely control the Tower Master themselves.

From the moment they received the news to the present, after all sorts of consolidation and analysis, they had already made a preliminary judgment. There were two possibilities for the "Cyan God": one was Sun Jianguo’s son, Sun Yu, and the other was Shen Ziqiang’s son, Shen Fei. Moreover, they had also created five or six backup plans for this.

They had tried sending the men in black last night, but the fog-shrouded apartment building was not easily entered. The group’s current top-priority plan was to use Shen Ziqiang and Sun Jianguo from the Tourism Management Office as a breakthrough point. As long as they could find a way to get close, anything was possible...

Holy crap, what a coincidence! Did I just hit the jackpot?

Shen Fei had heard every single detail of the group of middle-aged men’s conversation. After hearing all this, Shen Fei couldn’t help but exclaim at the sheer coincidence. It was just as Yu had said: someone was actually planning to move against him. And with Yu taking the heat for him, someone had really set their sights on Yu.

What Shen Fei expected even less was that this group of people was the very same group that had purchased his family’s shares a month ago. These old men, who had lorded over the second-tier city of Qing City, had managed to build a team of five to six hundred people so quickly after the game abilities were inherited. And what’s more, they themselves had also inherited game abilities.

Through their conversation, Shen Fei also learned that the Uncle Yi he had killed earlier had reported information about his family to these people. It was also because of Uncle Yi that after targeting Yu, they hadn’t forgotten about controlling him, their "number two target."

This is just too much of a coincidence!

He had only wanted to come find Li Xiaohong, but Shen Fei never expected to stir up a hornet’s nest. He had stumbled upon so many conspirators all at once.

Although he wasn’t worried about their claim of being able to control a Tower Master by getting close for three seconds, there’s a saying: it’s not the thief you fear, but being targeted by one. Now that he had run into them, Shen Fei would, of course, wipe them all out in one go. He would directly eliminate anyone with hostile intentions!

Could the Traveling Frog have a hidden Attribute?

Shen Fei remembered that the reason he’d found this place was because of his sister’s reminder. And the reason for her reminder was, on one hand, that Li Xiaohong had truly gone missing, and on the other, that his sister had received feedback from the Traveling Frog that something was seriously wrong.

I’ll have to study it when I get back!

Thinking about the Traveling Frog’s special "Treasure Hunting" ability, Shen Fei controlled the Tracking Tower and prepared to look at the next level down in the small building. Having already guessed from their conversation that they had kidnapped Xiaohong to get more information about his family from her, Shen Fei prepared to rescue Xiaohong first before dealing with anything else.

"Hm?"

A membrane? I can’t get in?

He was preparing to probe the building’s final level, the third basement, and then rescue the hostage and kill his enemies. Shen Fei never expected that his Pursuit Tower couldn’t enter this final floor. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

He knew instantly. The final floor of this small building had something like a Barrier, a Seal, or a Domain. Furthermore, this Barrier-like object was of a very high level—it was a super item.

There’s treasure here!

With his vision blocked, a thought instantly flashed through Shen Fei’s mind. The last time his Defense Towers had been rendered ineffective was after he went to the airport, when that man holding the Black Spade A card disrupted his towers’ automatic alert. And that "Black Spade A," in hindsight, was indeed a super item. Now, his game abilities had been inherited twice, and with the Version 4.2 update, that spectral card was still inside his villa.

And now, a max-level, Tenth Tier Defense Tower was being blocked again. Shen Fei understood that this place involved something with "Uniqueness" or an equivalent level of power.

What should I do?

With his vision blocked and knowing there was a great treasure in the building, Shen Fei’s brows furrowed instantly. Now, it was no longer as simple as just rescuing Li Xiaohong. This involved the people who bought his family’s shares, the conspirators behind the scenes, a mysterious great treasure, and these powerful businessmen who threw their weight around, still acting high and mighty even in this chaotic new world.

This place... he had to get in