Chapter 1498: Landing on the Island

"It is normal to be afraid. Have you encountered these supernatural missions before?" Chen Yu asked.

"I have, but not many. Most of the time, we arrive at the scene first to maintain order, and then we ask the Five Elements Pavilion or the Heaven War Pavilion to step in. After all, we are just an intelligence department; dealing with these things is a bit beyond our capabilities," Su Yan said.

"That is also normal. Even if ordinary people live their whole lives, they might never encounter these things that go beyond their cognition, let alone you," Chen Yu smiled and said, "It is normal to be nervous."

"I am not afraid," Su Yan emphasized, "I am just..."

"I know, you are not afraid, just nervous," Chen Yu said, "I told you that is normal."

Su Yan smiled a little embarrassedly, then followed Chen Yu forward.

"You seem to care a lot about other people's opinions," Chen Yu glanced at her, "to the point of being sensitive. Can you tell me the reason?"

"I just don't want others to think I'm cowardly," Su Yan pondered for a moment and said, "It's been like this since I was a child; there's no special reason."

Chen Yu glanced at her. He knew she was lying, but since she did not want to say, Chen Yu would not get to the bottom of it.

"Why did you stop asking?" Su Yan secretly glanced at Chen Yu and asked, puzzled.

"If you are unwilling to say, why should I force you to answer?" Chen Yu smiled slightly, "Everyone has their own little secrets. Perhaps in the near future, you will tell me yourself."

Su Yan nodded slightly, stopped talking, and followed Chen Yu forward.

The building above the laboratory was a three-story small building. Inside the building was a control system that controlled the elevator leading directly into the seabed.

When they were more than a thousand meters away from the small building, Chen Yu stopped. His brows furrowed slightly: "Trouble. This place has a higher-level Barrier."

"Why can't I see it?" Su Yan looked toward the small building. With her mortal eyes, she naturally could not see it.

"Like this, see if you can see it now." Chen Yu snapped his fingers by her ear.

Su Yan felt a soreness in her eyes. She involuntarily lowered her head to rub them. When she raised her head, the look in her eyes had changed.

She saw that within her line of sight, around the three-story building, a layer of black Qi was condensing. These black Qi were very dense, and inside them, sparks of light were flickering. Faintly, one could even hear a trace of shrill whistling.

"Is this a Barrier?" Su Yan could not help but be startled. It was not that she did not know about this thing, but what she heard in her ears and what she saw before her eyes were truly different.

These shrill whistling sounds seemed to come from Hell. Those wails seemed to want to drill into her ears. Just hearing these few sounds from far away, she felt her eardrums aching.

"Yes, a Barrier. Power from Hell, very dark," Chen Yu said.

"What should we do next?" Encountering this kind of situation, Su Yan had no solution at all; she could only listen to Chen Yu.

"There must be people guarding over there. Let's go over and take a look. If we're lucky, we might catch a few," Chen Yu smiled slightly.

Su Yan nodded and walked forward with Chen Yu.

The two had just moved when they stopped in their tracks, because a black figure was slowly walking over from one side. This was a person dressed as a ninja.

He slowly drew a curved blade, his cold gaze staring coldly at the two.

This guy was wearing black tight-fitting clothes, with only a pair of eyes exposed. He raised the Samurai Sword in his hand and gave it a slight shake.

Six blades were seen extending from behind him. With a flicker of his figure, six more people appeared beside him. The clothing and appearance of these six people were almost exactly the same as his.

"Ninja?" Su Yan stared at the enemies before her and gripped her gun tightly.

"Just small fry," Chen Yu shook his head.

The lead ninja made a slight cutting motion forward with the Samurai Sword in his hand, then issued a 'Hey-yi' command. The seven ninjas attacked Chen Yu in unison.

"Courting death," Chen Yu sneered. No matter how many of these people there were, to him, they were nothing more than cannon fodder.

His figure flickered, he took a step out, and then his figure flashed and disappeared from before their eyes.

These ninjas naturally knew that Chen Yu was the primary target to deal with, but they were a bit dazed after suddenly losing their target.

Before they could react, a powerful Primordial Qi enveloped them all.

The Primordial Qi locked onto everyone, then transformed into streaks of sharp energy, sweeping across these people.

Pfft, pfft, pfft—accompanied by the screams of the group, seven figures were flipped onto the ground.

These ninjas were only at the level of Martial Artists and were simply not on the same level as the current Chen Yu, so Chen Yu solved them in the moment it took to flick his fingers, with almost zero effort.

Fresh blood flowed all over the ground. These people died on the ground with almost no ability to fight back, and each of them had their eyes wide open, dying without even knowing why.

"Why didn't you leave a live one?" Su Yan was startled. Wasn't it agreed that they would catch one to interrogate?

"No point," Chen Yu shook his head and said, "These people are just small fry, and they are ninjas—each one has received professional training, so you can't ask anything out of their mouths. To catch one, you have to at least catch one above the level of an Onmyoji."

"Alright then," Su Yan let out a breath. What Chen Yu said was not without reason. Although these ninjas' abilities were average, they were difficult in one aspect: they were tight-lipped. The training they had undergone since childhood was indeed something ordinary people could not reach, so it was hard to ask anything out of their mouths.

Chen Yu certainly had ways to make them talk, but this time the problem was relatively serious, and it seemed they really couldn't ask anything out of these small fry, so he had to solve them directly.

"Let's go, let's take a look ahead. There must be an Onmyoji controlling this place; the Mind Power of the Barrier is too strong," Chen Yu looked ahead. The three-story building was still shrouded in darkness.

Just at this moment, a strange 'goo-goo' sound came from one side, and immediately after, a cold and chilling aura attacked from behind. Chen Yu grabbed Su Yan's waist and quickly dodged to one side.

At the same time as they dodged to the side, a sharp claw wind came from behind them. *Sshh*—several deep claw marks appeared where the two had just been standing.

Su Yan broke out in a cold sweat. Although she did not turn her head and did not see what the thing behind her was, judging from the opponent's attack, it was definitely not someone to be trifled with.

A figure flashed, and something on all fours quickly dodged to one side, rapidly disappearing into the darkness. The two did not see clearly what the opponent was at all.

And at the place where it had just attacked, a pale green liquid was seeping into the ground.

Furthermore, two rows of footprints extended forward, and these footprints did not seem to be the footprints of a proper human either.