Chapter 281: At This Very Moment, the Ritual Was Activated

Some people boldly went to inspect the melted window, and some even took photographs as souvenirs.

However, no matter what, those were things one could only do while remaining calm.

Yet at this moment, the astonishment on Uncle An’s face as he stood at the restaurant entrance showed no sign of fading.

Mr. Lin Guang…

He was actually a first-grade sorcerer at this age?!

This was not just empty talk. He truly possessed such strength! He was absolutely no weakling even among first-grade sorcerers!

As a new-style superhuman, Uncle An considered himself no weaker than a standard first-grade sorcerer. His curse power perception had also just caught the burst of curse power that erupted nearly a hundred meters away downstairs, an early second Energy Level reaction.

But even if he completed his transformation using his unique Skull Memory Device, he estimated that eliminating the opponent would take roughly half a minute.

Yet after Lin Guang casually charged up for a few seconds and threw the dinner fork, that reaction had immediately vanished.

The amount of curse power contained in that attack did not surprise him. It was not particularly great.

But this limited amount of curse power not only contained such terrifying destructive power, it was also precise to the absolute limit. Even across such a great distance, it had still killed that monster in a single strike.

And this was merely a casual attack!

What level of curse power manipulation and curse power efficiency was this…

No wonder he had been unable to sense anything at all over the past year or so.

Looking at the young man who had returned to his seat in front of his young lady and begun eating cake again, Uncle An felt a trace of cold sweat seep from his forehead.

That incident at the Abandoned Factory had let him know that the other party was a superhuman, but he had never imagined that Lin Guang would be this powerful.

After all, he had come into close contact with this young man many times before and had never noticed a thing. In the past, he had even thought that he had hidden himself perfectly, always presenting himself to Lin Guang as an ordinary person.

But the truth was that he had been a powerful sorcerer watching him wander back and forth right in front of him?!

What exactly was Mr. Lin Guang’s background?

Fortunately, he had always maintained proper etiquette and had never offended him in any way… This truly was the greatest blessing amid misfortune.

At the same time.

Xia Yao stared at Lin Guang, who continued eating the cake in front of her as if he had done nothing at all. The astonishment on her pretty oval face was completely impossible to conceal.

“You, you, you, you, you!”

“?”

Lin Guang glanced at the black-haired girl, whose chest was heaving violently but still failed to shake anything loose.

“You are not going to eat?”

“Eat… eat what, exactly?!”

She had originally wanted to shout, but then she suddenly noticed that the restaurant seemed to have fallen silent again. Everyone was merely sneaking glances at their table with astonishment and admiration. She immediately felt too embarrassed to raise her voice and could only speak softly. “How can you still be this calm?!”

“…”

Lin Guang studied her seemingly confused face, looking thoughtful.

It seemed that the hypnotic and calming effect carried by the first-grade sorcerer certification did not work on her.

Could she not be an ordinary person?

Xia Yao looked at him, her tone filled with indescribable conflict. “Lin Guang, you have actually always been…”

She did not finish the sentence, but her pretty face suddenly changed, making her look almost angry. “So you and Uncle An have been deceiving me this whole time?”

Lin Guang blinked. “?”

What did she mean?

When had he ever deceived her? Had he not told her the truth every time?

Women were truly impossible to understand.

The black-haired girl puffed out her cheeks slightly as she glared at Lin Guang. “After I went through all that trouble to think of ways to help you!”

Heaven knew how shocked she had been three days ago, after chasing Uncle An around and interrogating him for so long about the so-called superhuman world…

Then she had immediately thought of the young man in front of her.

Had he not been searching for superhumans in this world all along? Her first reaction had even been to tell him about it! She had wanted to help him make contact with that world!

Yet it turned out that this fellow already knew everything and was actually an incredible expert who had kept his abilities hidden!

Then what had she been doing these past few days, tossing and turning sleeplessly while letting her imagination run wild over all sorts of things?!

Wasting her emotions?!

Then.

Under her gaze, the expression on the black-haired young man’s face also began to change slowly. It was as if he had finally understood what she meant after thinking it over for a long time, and the sternness on his face seemed to melt slightly.

Lin Guang looked at Xia Yao and said seriously, “Thank you.”

There was not even the slightest trace of perfunctory politeness in his voice.

“…”

Looking into his sincere eyes, Xia Yao finally could not maintain her puffed-up expression. She sighed and revealed a helpless smile.

“Sigh, you really are an idiot… Forget it.”

At least this fellow had probably never changed from beginning to end.

The next moment, obvious curiosity rose in the black-haired girl’s eyes. “Speaking of which, you are actually this powerful? Then normally, you…”

At this very moment.

Lin Guang turned his head and suddenly looked out the window beside him, frowning slightly.

“What is it this time?”

Xia Yao froze for a moment before looking over as well.

“…”

At this moment.

It was not only the two of them.

The civilians on the ground, who were still shaken from the incident.

The members of the D6 Action Squad who had finally arrived at the scene and begun handling what had just happened.

Everyone looked at the new anomaly with varying degrees of surprise and confusion.

On the giant LED screen mounted on the exterior wall of another building, the perfume advertisement that had originally been playing was instantly replaced by another image. It appeared to be a live feed filmed from high above.

Within the image.

Two blurry figures were continuously colliding and crossing paths in the sky. Every exchange seemed to carry endless slashes and ominous green radiance.

It was like a natural disaster.

Everyone stared blankly at the image, still unable to understand what it meant.

…

At the same time.

A slender and beautiful figure stood atop a residential building. Her long sakura-red hair danced in the night wind, while her beautiful eyes, the same color as her hair tips, held a thoughtful look.

The ritual?

In the next instant.

Her figure abruptly vanished into the night.

…

Wind Capital Sixth Division Headquarters.

“N-No, this is bad, Section Chief!!”

An agent wearing a Sixth Division uniform, who looked like an intern, suddenly rushed into the office.

He was gasping for breath as he spoke hurriedly. “The television… the television channels have been hijacked!”

“From Wind Capital One through Wind Capital Nine, they have all…”

“I have already seen it,” Qin Shengshi’s voice rang out from before the computer.

At this moment, the live broadcast on the computer screen was reflected in her one open eye, and her face carried a solemn expression.

The signal of Wind Capital Television had been hijacked.

This meant that everyone throughout Wind Capital who had turned on their televisions and was watching programs on these channels had probably seen this live broadcast before their eyes.

“…”

This viewing angle…

The next moment, the eyeball above Yan Jing’s head, as he fought his opponent on the battlefield, suddenly moved and turned toward the direction from which that viewpoint originated, beneath the turbulent, cloud-covered night sky.

“…!!”

Across a distance of more than a thousand meters, the Siren’s Eye seemed to vaguely see something.

That was…

The shadow of a pitch-black crow.

It was said that, in the myths and legends of a certain country across the sea, there were two crows. They were the most important eyes and ears of the supreme deity, helping it observe the movements of all things in the mortal world.