Chapter 113: Night Owl and Joseph

Even though the Special Action Team members were all experts at assassination, once the enemy had discovered them, they had no choice but to regroup in batches and maneuver between the buildings against the Sky Viper personnel.

They were secretly annoyed at being discovered so quickly and had to implement their second operational plan in the shortest possible time: take no prisoners, kill directly.

At the same time, they were also fortunate that there were no elderly, weak, women, or children here, so there was no need to show mercy.

What even Tan Ziyan did not expect was that, besides Yamaguchi Hisashi, there were two other Sky Viper members present who were of a higher rank than him, and he expected even less that one of them possessed a talent skill that was almost a kind of Mutation.

Night Owl was a special existence in the organization...

To others, the environment is only divided into motion and stillness, but the world he sees and feels is fluid.

Just like marine animals living in water, the world he inhabits is also an "ocean" that encompasses him. From a young age, he could keenly capture different information from the various fluctuations formed by this ocean; whether in the mountains and countryside or in the urban crowds, he could always accurately discover people and things that were unfavorable to him.

It was just that these fluctuations also had a certain range, and the interpretation process was quite energy-consuming.

He profited from this, and he also suffered because of it. As a young child, he was sold by his ignorant parents to an organization and lived the life of an intelligence "tool" for ten years. In order to make the tool exert enough utility, those people also made him receive an education that far exceeded his age and that of ordinary people, at the cost of losing his self and freedom.

Until the organization was annexed by Sky Viper, and Joseph discovered him.

"Your ability is about the same as a bat's, but a bat isn't majestic enough. How about... Night Owl? How does that sound?"

This name was casually chosen by that guy when he took him out of the glass cell; at that time, Night Owl was only fourteen years old.

The boy, who had no normal cognition, did not understand freedom, and did not even consider himself a person, followed by Joseph's side and truly began to understand this world.

The grown-up Night Owl already knew how to control his own abilities and had grasped power within Sky Viper that matched this ability.

Nourished by power and supported by technology, Night Owl's ability could now be exerted almost perfectly.

He had to admit that the Special Action Team was very good at hiding; the initial fire had indeed attracted his attention, but when he saw Yamaguchi Hisashi's gruesome way of dying, he keenly discovered that something was wrong with this matter.

This was not a deduction based on logic; if one had to describe it, it was closer to the survival instinct of a beast in a dark forest.

Someone was plotting against this Base, and they were in the same group as the vegetarians from last time; perhaps they had already been exposed to the other party's schemes since then.

Night Owl had his own mission in Huaguo, and he did not care about the situation of this small Base; Yamaguchi Hisashi did not know the identities of him and Joseph. With Yamaguchi Hisashi dead, the remaining people were only willing to believe their words because the two had a high enough rank.

However, Night Owl had no intention of commanding this battle; his mission target would arrive tonight, and it was originally time to leave.

Naturally, his companions had the same thoughts as him.

The reason why the pseudo-believer Joseph was willing to follow by Night Owl's side instead of competing for other positions within the organization was, of course, not because he lacked the ability.

On the contrary, as for the mercenaries who formed the main combat strength of the organization, more than half were found by him all over the world.

The heinous, the wicked, those who insisted on personal justice, those who did it for money or for someone—he had collected almost all the villains in the world. The matter of casually adopting a 14-year-old child was also truly just a coincidence.

And he himself was also a piece of human scum.

He had helped the Black Glutton incite civil wars in other countries, engaged in human trafficking, operated dark web networks, laundered money for casinos, and wiped out disobedient small factions... It could be said that he had appeared in every related industry within the organization and had mastered the key techniques of each.

Such a person, who should have died in the Huaguo roundup in the early years, had mysteriously disappeared at a critical moment.

Whether on the surface or on the dark web, not a trace could be found.

The person who operated for him was precisely Night Owl, who was known as the one in charge of the "Dark Night" within the organization, and this was also the only reason why Joseph remained in this strategic location of Haicheng to this day—let's call him a foster son.

The battle had been entangled for nearly an hour; at first, his side could rely on numbers to occupy an advantage, but this advantage was soon bitten into gaps, and like destroying the immune system of an organism, it was fully invaded.

"Trash is just trash; being slaughtered by professionals is their destiny." Night Owl stood before the burning warehouse, watching the fire from the other side.

The students that Yamaguchi Hisashi had cultivated for years were indeed unqualified; they were no different from a flock of sheep dying on the wilderness—survival of the fittest, they did not have enough ability to contribute to the organization, so death was more reasonable.

"Night Owl, if you want to save this place, you can leave it to me," Joseph also had not expected the Barrier to dispatch a Special Action Team in such a short time, and what he expected even less was that the Black Glutton had actually betrayed them. "The ship will dock in half an hour; the people on the ship are unaware. You should go protect the Red Flower, otherwise all your hard work will be in vain."

The tall white male holding dual pistols blocked Night Owl behind him, a bitter expression appearing on his face that the other party could not see. "Perhaps I am destined to die in a foreign land, even though this is not the Lord's kingdom."

"You misunderstood, Joseph; an exposed Base is as worthless as the trash here," Night Owl walked out slowly, the firelight casting their shadows into the mud.

"We walk in the dark but our hearts yearn for the light. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. —Still from 'Assassin's Creed'."

Night Owl recited piously, his hand slowly reaching into the inner pocket of his suit jacket, pulling out a fountain pen clipped to a notebook. "Joseph, the dark night is the source of everything; I am the night, and I am the one in control."

Joseph frowned. "Which part is this last sentence from?"

"From my autobiography ten years from now," Night Owl answered solemnly, simultaneously pressing the gemstone on the pen cap.

Boom—

Explosions suddenly triggered continuously throughout the entire camp.