Chapter 377: The Trap

"If this keeps up, won't he just finish all seven incidents and leave directly?" Wen Hanfei's driver, Li Qiang, couldn't help but say.

Although they had already formed an alliance, they were still, after all, opposing camps.

The two sides hadn't gathered together; instead, they stayed separate, contacting each other through the Gray Mist when needed.

Everyone originally thought they would spend ten days to half a month finding Tang Luo and dealing with him.

They hadn't expected that in just two days, the other party had already resolved two strange incidents.

With such high efficiency, if this frequency continued, the mission could be completed and they could return in seven days.

Because it was a camp mission, even if the others did nothing, they could easily hug a thigh and complete the mission, then leave.

But that wasn't what Wen Hanfei and his group wanted.

They wanted Tang Luo's death!

"No good. If we let him continue like this, we won't have a chance!" Wen Hanfei said.

The current primary objective was to deal with Tang Luo, so after both sides' forces "searched for Tang Xuanzang," they temporarily ceased hostilities.

They merely investigated the various strange incidents in secret; efficiency was low, but it was steady.

Take things one by one. If they ran around outside chaotically and got targeted by Tang Luo, turning from "enemy hidden, us hidden" into "enemy hidden, us exposed" would be bad.

Six Fourth Order powerhouses were fine; even if targeted by Tang Luo, they might not beat him but should still be able to run.

The others wouldn't be so lucky. If they sold them out in a pinch, how would the "kill the BOSS" plan proceed?

Before killing Tang Xuanzang, they had to be steady.

But now, Tang Luo's extremely high mission efficiency made it impossible for them to stay steady.

They had clearly encountered a powerful fellow traveler, clearly even enemy camps could cooperate.

It should have been double the joy; why had it turned out like this?

The reason was simple: the powerful Tang Xuanzang was their must-kill target.

To tell the truth, in that instant Wen Hanfei had wavered a little, and even the Li Jue couple had a trace of wavering.

But it was too late; they had already allied with Thor and the others, and even used an item to sign a "Treaty Under the City Walls."

Ensuring that during the cooperation, they at least wouldn't backstab each other.

If they went over now and said — "We found Tang Xuanzang completes missions very efficiently, feel this person is a bit formidable, how about we forget it?"

The two sides would likely break into open war on the spot, fighting to the death.

And objectively speaking, Wen Hanfei's group was no match for Thor and the others.

They could only walk a single path to the bitter end, pressing down that trace of wavering in their hearts and thoroughly extinguishing it; Wen Hanfei and the others' killing intent instead grew even more intense.

"Hmph!" Wen Hanfei let out a cold snort and said, "I'll go notify Thor and them. Tang Xuanzang completing missions — they're actually more anxious than us."

That was indeed the case.

Don't forget: once the enemy camp resolves four incidents, their mission fails.

Even if they still have failure allowances, no one wants the mission to fail.

Especially besides the three Fourth Order powerhouses, the other four people basically have no chance of surviving a mission failure.

Three with four mission failures, one with five mission failures.

Once this mission fails, there's a ninety percent probability the whole squad gets wiped.

"What did you say? Tang Xuanzang has already resolved two incidents?" In the Gray Mist, Thor's tone was very hostile.

"That's right, so we need to hurry." Wen Hanfei said.

"How to hurry? Have you found him?"

"No." Wen Hanfei said, "But right now we can't just sit still and wait; we must go search for strange incidents. Only then do we have a certain probability of 'bumping into' him."

"Any leads?"

"Yes." Wen Hanfei nodded; he did indeed have a slight lead.

"Can you be sure?" Thor asked; after all, these past few days they had investigated leisurely and found no leads.

Wen Hanfei suddenly laughed: "Whether it is or not, it has to be. Not only that, we have to make a big commotion."

"What do you want to do?"

"If we say we discovered a strange incident, tried to resolve it but failed, and instead caused a big sensation — that's actually a perfectly reasonable thing, right?"

Thor frowned: "The missing person notice didn't make him bite; you want to put out a bigger bait? Are you that sure he'll bite this time?"

"Tang Xuanzang is an arrogant person, very confident in his own strength. Even if he suspects it's a trap, with the mission right in front of him — do you think he'll give it up?" Wen Hanfei said.

One must admit, Wen Hanfei's grasp of human psychology was quite something. "Besides, the incident might just be 'real.'"

"If it's real, dead people make it most real." Thor said.

"Necessary sacrifices are acceptable." Wen Hanfei said, "You have a four-person squad; they're not from your Gods Alliance, right?"

"Why not sacrifice your people?" Thor said.

"We provided the contract item." Wen Hanfei said, "Tang Xuanzang poses a greater threat to your Gods Alliance; sacrificing a few outsiders is nothing."

Thor didn't speak.

He didn't mind sacrificing Jonathan and the others; honestly, if he was in a bad mood, killing those people to vent was routine.

But that was him wanting to kill, not Wen Hanfei suggesting he sacrifice them.

The two concepts were completely different.

Thor was the type of "my woman, only I can bully" domineering CEO.

"Besides killing Tang Xuanzang, I want none of his everything." Wen Hanfei said.

Interests — only interests are most real.

Why did he and the Li Jue couple have such heavy killing intent toward Tang Luo? Wasn't it because Tang Luo seized the interests belonging to them and would affect their future interests?

"Fine." Thor nodded, "Tell me the lead."

"Our cooperation will be pleasant, believe me," Wen Hanfei said with a smile.

Five days later.

Tang Luo returned to his original "spawn point" city; under normal circumstances, the spawn point of a God-Demon Walker would not be too far from the mission.

Tang Luo had run to another country because he discovered the Feng family, and later he even reaped an unexpected delight.

After exploring for a while, with no further discoveries, he returned to the original place.

Using that as a starting point to explore outward, there would most likely be gains.

And the moment Tang Luo returned, there was a "surprise."

First, there was a missing person notice looking for him; it had no portrait, but the simple description undoubtedly referred to him. Unsurprisingly, it was Wen Hanfei and his lot who cooked it up.

Tang Luo couldn't be bothered with this; he had zero intention of acknowledging it. No matter what these guys wanted to do, it had nothing to do with him.

If they were ungrateful enough to run into him, he would just conveniently ferry them across.

What Tang Luo truly cared about was the bizarre incident causing an uproar in the city — the Suit Man.

The Suit Man referred to a male wearing a black suit, wandering the city, killing everywhere.

At first hearing, it sounded like some kind of urban horror legend.

Moreover, there really was such an urban horror story; parents often used it to scare children into behaving.

Because legend had it that the Suit Man preferred hunting children over adults; he was an effective means to stop children crying at night.

However, a few days ago, the situation suddenly changed.

The Suit Man appeared; he massacred wildly on the pedestrian street, leaving hundreds dead and injured.

According to survivors' descriptions, the Suit Man was the same as in the legend — a full black suit, hands, feet, and face all black, completely unable to make out his features.

Just a simple humanoid shape; facial features couldn't be seen clearly.

His hands could stretch to an extremely exaggerated length, whipping like whips.

On the already sealed-off pedestrian street, there were still the whip marks he left behind; even the ground and walls were whipped to pieces, the strength astonishingly great.

The dead were whipped into fragments by those hands.

Supposedly, there was also a stranger who came from nowhere and fought the Suit Man for a while, lost, and was killed.

Some also said that stranger had been tracking the Suit Man all along, and the monster discovered him and went on a killing spree.

After killing, the Suit Man headed west and left; finally, near Chengshi Port, he killed again, then vanished without a trace.

According to some hearsay, it was said the Suit Man jumped into the sea and committed suicide.

This was undoubtedly a laughable self-consolation, because the second night, the Suit Man appeared again.

However, this time he didn't massacre wildly, but crawled and leaped on the city's many high-rises.

Normal torso, hands still very long, and this time the length of his feet also exceeded two meters, looking exactly like a bizarre spider.

Many people captured blurry videos; one could barely see a long-limbed ghostly shadow crawling across seven or eight stories, even ten-odd stories of high-rises.

Finally vanished without a trace.

The next night, the Suit Man didn't appear, but a full thirty-plus children went missing.

Compared to the violent slaughter of the first appearance, the panic caused by the Suit Man this time was even more severe.

If the first time was visible terror, the second time was standard invisible terror.

Silent and soundless, yet like a dagger pressed against the heart; a light push and it could take a life.

Then came the fourth night; the missing count increased to fifty, including several adults besides children.

The whole city was in a state of panic; by evening it even gave a desolate feeling.

The port where the Suit Man had appeared even temporarily ceased operations — anyway, this small port was originally on the verge of abandonment, crazily testing the waters.

The liveliest place was near the police station; many people directly brought tents, with a "tonight I'll die right here even if I die" momentum.

Tang Luo and Ao Yulie, on such a night, walked toward the port.

Xiaotian Quan didn't follow; she was wandering around the first "crime scene" and those places the Suit Man had appeared, trying to distinguish and confirm the Suit Man's scent.

For Xiaotian Quan, a special existence like the Suit Man definitely had a different aura from ordinary people.

If she could smell and distinguish it, for Xiaotian Quan that basically equaled a lock-on.

The port side was left to Tang Luo and them to try their luck; what if they just ran into him?

In the port's now-unmanned central control room, the Thunder God Thor's complexion wasn't too ugly.

Poseidon was elegant as ever; Deimos was quiet and still, not showing mountains or waters.

The remaining three people stared dead at the seven or eight surveillance screens.

They were searching for the Suit Man here — or rather, these three self-righteously thought they were searching for the Suit Man.

The trap, was already set!