Chapter 147: Bad News

"Hurry, those mecha won't be able to hold them off for long." Stepping out from the high-temperature cockpit, Brenna looked at Yun Mu and the others and said.

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Yun Mu had a mind to complain about the cockpit issue, but she opened her mouth, and in the end, she said nothing.

"What's wrong?" Noticing her expression, Brenna asked with some confusion.

"It's nothing."

Now was not the time to discuss such things; Yun Mu shook her head and said, "Let's leave here first."

"Mm." Brenna nodded, not paying much attention to the matter.

The group proceeded along the sword marks cut by Edward; along the way, only a few scattered Bloodline emerged from the alleys on both sides of the street.

There was no need for Edward to act at all; the figures of several Shadow Guard flashed by, and the necks of these low-level Bloodline were severed one after another.

And when the group arrived at that blank area, a strange, thick fog shrouded everyone's vision.

Just as Yun Mu was wondering if Chester had led them the wrong way, the fog before her dissipated rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, she had returned to the beginning, in front of the arch bridge at the edge of the factory complex in the East District of Frostfall City.

And after returning to Xianshi, a pungent smell of blood, mixed with an indescribable stench, surged into her nasal cavity.

"Something happened?"

Yun Mu's heart tightened.

She subconsciously looked in the direction from which the smell of blood was coming.

There, on the opposite side of the arch bridge, two corpses of Night Walkers lay slumped on the ground.

"Hans, Aidier!" The people from the Church immediately recognized the two corpses on the ground, and one of the two Night Walkers who had been acting with them shouted aloud.

"Watch out for traps." Huoerfu immediately stopped the Night Walker who wanted to go over, his expression serious.

"What about Lita and Elena?" Yun Mu thought with a faint sense of unease in her heart.

"There are signs of a battle; judging by the direction, it's over there!" the middle-aged Shadow Guard said while observing the surrounding environment.

"Let's go, we'll follow them first!" Brenna immediately ordered.

She paused, then looked at the people from the Church: "That Scarlet Messenger could catch up at any time; we need to leave here quickly!"

"But..." The Night Walker who had just called out his companion's name looked at the corpses on the ground with some hesitation.

"I'll take them with us," Yun Mu said, seeing the other person's thoughts.

She took two blank cards from her bosom, kept a certain distance from the two corpses, and then injected Spirituality into the cards.

The next moment, the two corpses were sealed into the paintings by her.

"Ugh."

Yun Mu, who had already consumed too much Spirituality, immediately felt a bit dizzy after sealing the two corpses.

"Actually, I could have taken them," Brenna said, looking at her state.

Having just consumed six Steam Mecha, her Storage space had a large amount of free room; carrying two corpses was more than enough.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Yun Mu asked, enduring the headache.

"You agreed too quickly just now, I thought you still had plenty of Spirituality left," Brenna said, feeling a bit embarrassed by Yun Mu's gaze.

She paused, and a look of worry appeared on her face again: "Let's go quickly, I'm a bit worried about Elena and the others' situation."

"I'm a bit worried too," Yun Mu said, nodding upon hearing her words.

The group proceeded along the traces of the battle, and soon, a blood-covered figure appeared before their eyes.

Elena's body was covered in wounds pierced by blood threads; blood flowed from these wounds, staining the ground with a layer of Scarlet liquid.

Besides that, a terrifying hole appeared in front of her left chest; clearly, this was the fatal wound. And after the heart was destroyed, the killer clearly did not relax their vigilance, but instead snapped her neck before leaving.

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Without saying a single word, Edward chased toward the direction of the other traces at the scene without looking back.

Meiyin, at the side, quietly folded her hands over her chest, whispering a prayer.

And Brenna stood with her head bowed in silence, making it impossible to see the expression on her face.

However, everyone present was a Transcendental, and that suppressed, intermittent sobbing was something everyone could hear.

"Brenna..." Yun Mu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know how to comfort her.

"I... I'm fine."

Brenna took a deep breath, her eyes red, and looked at the group: "Retreat for now!"

"The people from the Church must come with us too!"

She paused and added: "Go after Edward first..."

At this time, naturally, no one would contradict the Princess's order.

After Brenna retrieved Elena's corpse into her Storage space, the group chased in the direction of the other traces.

Soon, after running at full speed for about two minutes, the group discovered Edward sitting cross-legged on the ground beside an abandoned factory, with Lita lying in his arms, wrapped in his coat.

Upon noticing that Lita was still breathing, Yun Mu finally let out a quiet sigh of relief.

"How is Lita?" she asked Edward hurriedly.

"There are a large number of Corrosion marks on her body, and besides that, she has been poisoned," Edward said with a very ugly expression.

"I just fed her an Antidote, but I don't know if it will work..."

"Poison?" Hearing Edward's words, Yun Mu thought of something and hurriedly reached out to take off the Legendary Necklace from her neck.

After taking off the necklace, she looked at Brenna.

"Mm." Noticing Yun Mu's gaze, Brenna nodded.

Seeing that the original owner of the necklace agreed, Yun Mu immediately placed the necklace onto Lita's neck.

And while putting on the necklace, Yun Mu noticed that on Lita's right cheek and below her neck, there were large patches of wounds caused by Corrosion.

These scars look as if they had been roasted by fire, which is truly shocking to the eye.

Lita's own breathing is also very rapid; even in her unconscious state, she has kept her brows tightly furrowed.

Fortunately, after Yun Mu placed the Legendary Necklace around her neck, a pale blue light shone from the necklace, and Lita's breathing immediately became much calmer.

Seeing this, the originally fierce expression on Edward's face also became much more Soft.

"Thank you," she said to Yun Mu and Brenna.

"No need to thank me; she was injured because of my incorrect order in the first place," Brenna shook her head and said, looking somewhat dejected.

However, she quickly forced herself to perk up and said, "Let's leave here first; that Scarlet Messenger could catch up at any time."

"No, the Barrier has already disappeared," Lucy said at this moment, looking at the housing area across the arched bridge.

Only then did everyone notice that, at some unknown time, the blood-red mist shrouding the housing area had dissipated.

And Yun Mu's ability to sense blood also returned to Neutral after the mist dissipated.

However, when she extended her Perception into that housing area, she discovered a truly horrifying fact.

The fifty-plus people she had previously sensed in that housing area, including that Second-tier Transcendent who made her feel somewhat familiar.

All their information is now lost! PS: Not in a good state, writing so slowly. (End of chapter)