Chapter 193

"Flame City Cannon?"

Qi Hengyu raised his brows; this callsign is a bit overbearing.

"That's a dangerous violent individual, with a bounty as high as 750,000." Min Tianyou said in a low voice.

"He caused massive destruction in an underground auction together with the 'Shepherd' when he first appeared; if he's also here... we must avoid direct confrontation, his destructive power would cause catastrophic consequences."

A string of bad news made the atmosphere in the room even heavier.

Faced with such a group of dangerous enemies, their team seemed so fragile.

And beside him, the Flame City Cannon himself: "........"

Under modification, do not cue.

Yang Yixie was wholeheartedly immersed in revising the blueprints and manufacturing, basically having no leisure to watch what these NPCs were chatting about.

"Then we just hide here?"

Luo Jinyou couldn't help but ask, the oppressive underground environment made him very uncomfortable; even though they had done much disguise along the way, who could guarantee those cultists hadn't found a way to locate them?

"Hiding isn't a solution." Shen Zexi had already calmed down, began analyzing the situation.

"The safe house can only provide us temporary shelter; we need to actively seek an exit, or...... seek reinforcements."

And the Supervision Bureau is naturally their best option for seeking aid.

After all, Min Tianyou said, their Supervision Bureau team itself is searching the caves nearby; since he could sneak in, he should also have a way out, right?

Min Tianyou also followed up: "Indeed, our best option is to find a way to join the main force of the Supervision Bureau."

He sighed while pulling out from his pocket the device that Ying Duo had been utterly obsessed with.

Fortunately, Ying Duo is now wholly focused on researching something over there, completely unaware of what's happening here.

"Too bad, my communicator was damaged during earlier exploration; near the Old World base there's also some kind of energy interference, otherwise we might have tried to send the message out."

No communication, can't locate, outside strong enemies surround, inside the exit is unclear.......

The predicament still seems unsolvable.

Hmm?

How did the plot suddenly stop?

Yang Yixie almost treated the occasional pop-up dialogue boxes as part of the background; he put the just-revised blueprint back into production, then turned to advancing the plot that requires player interaction.

A faint Ying Guang Lu like an incorporeal ghost silently slid to Min Tianyou's side.

His hand suddenly reached out from the side; Min Tianyou didn't even notice someone approaching, and felt his pocket lighten—the communicator he had deemed "damaged" vanished without a trace.

Min Tianyou jerked his head back, just in time to meet Ying Duo's face inches away, expressionless, especially those golden eyes fixed on the communicator in his hand.

"You...... Ying Duo classmate?" Min Tianyou instinctively frowned, trying to snatch the item back from Ying Duo's hand.

But since it's in the player's hands, how could it be easily taken back by an NPC?

Ying Duo had already taken Min Tianyou's communicator and stepped back two steps, just avoiding Min Tianyou's hand, temporarily setting aside the small robot's blueprint to study this communicator.

Hmm......

It's just that the durability consumption is a bit high, only a layer left.

But it's fine, the player can repair it.

Ying Duo's fingertips already glowed with the familiar Ying Guang Lu, quickly probing into the communicator's interior, activating its surface runes.......

"Ying Duo, don't mess with others' stuff." Shen Zexi frowned and spoke, but it was already too late.

"Ziz...... click."

With a steady energy flow sound, the previously unresponsive communicator actually flickered twice, then lit up with a steady Ying Guang Lu energy reflux.

"Fixed."

Ying Duo lifted the communicator to submit it as a quest item; his mind isn't here now, he just wants to get through the plot quickly.

Min Tianyou: "!!!"

Shen Zexi et al: "!!!"

Before everyone could recover from Ying Duo's "stroke of genius," the communicator activated by his energy suddenly flashed, and the screen popped up a newly received encrypted message.

Min Tianyou's face instantly turned spectacular; his eye twitched, and he could only silently curse himself for not smashing it thoroughly when he snuck away.

"Give it to me, I'll contact them."

Ying Duo, however, nimbly sidestepped; since the durability is now repaired, why not let him work on a blueprint first?

Anyway, if the drafting fails, it just costs a little durability.

"Ying Duo, quickly return the item to Mr. Min, don't delay the matter."

Shen Zexi shouted sternly, at the same time giving Qi Hengyu a look.

Qi Hengyu immediately understood and started acting.

Our "Flame City Cannon" was sanctioned by teammates working together.

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Lu Mu crouched, his fingertips brushing over a patch of ground where footprints had been re-covered with dust, hard to detect by ordinary means.

His dark brown eyes glinted with a cold light in the dim light, the corners of his mouth curled in a smile.

"The little mice are still pretty good at hiding."

Those mutant ravens that should have been his eyes and ears were also interfered with by the small tricks left by a few people, forcing him to slowly investigate together with Bai Mu Yun.

"What are you rushing about? Calm down."

Bai Mu Yun stood a few steps behind him, still in that immaculate black windbreaker.

He held no lamp in his hand, but his golden slit pupils slowly narrowed, as if he had discovered something interesting.

"Rushing?"

Lu Mu stood up, patted the non-existent dust off his hands, his smile tinged with a hint of malice.

"I'm not in a hurry; since they want to play hide‑and‑seek, I'll just play along with them."

He raised his hand, and a small Raven whose feather edges glimmered with dark‑purple metallic sheen silently landed on his arm.

"Don't take the game too far."

Bai Mu Yun said coldly that Lu Mu, due to "playfulness," had missed the proper business and had made similar mistakes many times.

Gold Horizontal Pupil narrowed slightly, focusing on the Mutation factors in the air that ordinary people cannot see.

Ordinary people can only use instruments to check the concentration of Mutation factors, but they have long left the realm of humanity and can naturally see more.

That kind of Mutation factor was very special, a Ying Guang Lu hue he was extremely familiar with yet hard to put into words.

It was faint, yet like fireflies in the night, it stubbornly marked the path its master had once taken.

Tsk, why is it this kid........

Bai Mu Yun squinted, and upon seeing that eye‑burning color, he seemed to have already guessed which participants were in this hide‑and‑seek.

"Found the main direction; they're over there," Bai Mu Yun said, pointing to the road the few had chosen, and didn't forget to warn Lu Mu as well.

"By the way, don't go killing people at random."