Chapter 282: Excuse Me, Coming Through

At this moment, the signal being broadcast throughout Wind Capital was, without a doubt, the spell of some sorcerer with an effect similar to the Siren's Eye.

The caster had remained hidden, had not participated in any combat, and killing that crow would likely be of no avail.

Moreover, this live broadcast signal was brazenly routing through the main trunk network of Wind Capital Television.

This meant the caster had long ago planted moles within the television station, and had even prepared in advance to expose this battle to the public eye.

Why would they do this?

How long ago had this trap been laid?

What benefit was there to them in tearing open the supernatural world that had always remained hidden in the shadows and exposing it to the view of ordinary people?

The mastermind currently locked in battle with Wu Nuo, that powerful demon whose true name had yet to be revealed, what exactly was it trying to accomplish?!

Qin Shengshi kept one eye open, while her closed eye continued to monitor the movements of all operatives.

Her thoughts raced at lightning speed, various clues colliding and interweaving in her mind, curse power flowing rapidly through her spell circuits within her body.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Until she once again could not suppress the coughing of blood, intense pain radiating from her lungs, yet at that moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly seized upon something critically important.

A chilling thought crossed her mind.

The mastermind was a demon.

And demons were born from, and derived their curse power from, fear and negative emotions.

Judging by the emotions currently transmitted through the clone of the Divination Demon, the demon locked in fierce combat with Wu Nuo was by no means a newborn demon, but rather a powerful existence comparable to the ancient sorcerers of old, having persisted through the ages from antiquity to the present day.

Could the purpose of the P-Series incidents actually be...?!

"...!!"

In the next instant, Qin Shengshi seemed to have figured out something critically important, fine beads of sweat seeping from her forehead.

—It's a ritual! A ritual whose effects target the entirety of Wind Capital!

She issued a stern command: "Contact the television station immediately! Cut off all broadcast signals! Pull the main power supply!"

"Section Chief! It's no use! There's no response from the television station!"

An operative from the information team shouted in desperation.

"..."

Qin Shengshi stared at the live broadcast feed on the computer screen before her, her gaze growing completely solemn.

Two figures continued to clash.

Torrential waves of slashes enveloped that green humanoid figure, occasionally shredding it apart only for it to reform, glowing green curse power leaking out in overwhelming amounts, yet utterly failing to breach Wu Nuo's impermeable defense. The creature seemed to be barely holding on.

Judging by this display, Wu Nuo clearly had the upper hand, pressing his opponent down hard.

As long as he could kill that ancient demon within a short span of time, this matter could still be handled.

However, at this very moment, an extremely ominous premonition rose from Qin Shengshi's spiritual senses, seemingly carrying with it the sound of the Divination Demon's gleeful, spectators-wanting-to-see-the-world-burn laughter transmitted from the other end of the contract.

—Would it really be that simple?

The opponent had spent who knows how long laying out this plan, enduring in silence for so long, erupting explosively within the span of a little over a month, and even proactively inviting Wu Nuo to challenge them...

Could that ancient demon, whose true body far exceeded the limits that current reality could sustain, really have miscalculated Wu Nuo's strength, allowing this ritual of unknown effect to end anticlimactically like some comedic work?

But at this moment, there seemed to be no other way.

The Sixth Division's personnel had all been deployed, yet other factions had eerily remained silent the entire time.

All they could do was place their hopes on that youth hailed as the Contemporary Strongest.

And yet.

At that very moment.

A string of incredulous exclamations suddenly rang out through the Sixth Division's internal communications channel.

"Report!! D3 squad has encountered an unexpected situation!"

"The evil sorcerer was knocked unconscious by an unknown person in an instant and has lost all ability to resist!"

"A5 squad's interception point crisis resolved! The mutated animals were instantly burned to ashes!"

"C3 squad..."

"B2..."

In another compartment of the Sixth Division, at the intelligence team's virtual sand table.

Red dots representing high-risk curse power reactions continued to blink out one patch after another at a speed that defied the laws of physics.

Everyone stared at the straight red trajectory advancing across the sand table, expressions of shock on their faces.

"Section Chief, this..."

Qin Shengshi was startled, but immediately snapped back to reality.

In the next instant, she directly closed both eyes, using the perspective provided by the Siren's Eye as her primary viewpoint.

In that abstract overview composed of chaotic, fragmented perspectives belonging to different individuals.

She abruptly caught sight of a flash of crimson light.

That crimson light traversed at an inconceivable speed through the various locations where Sixth Division personnel were spread across the city.

Starting from the Western Suburbs.

West District, North District, Northern Suburbs...

Over a dozen stalled battlefields suddenly came to an end one after another.

The interval between each did not exceed ten seconds.

At every battlefield, everyone suddenly heard a sweet yet indifferent girl's voice.

"Excuse me, coming through."

The Sixth Division operatives locked in desperate struggle didn't even catch a glimpse of the newcomer's appearance. They only felt a slender figure carrying blazing crimson flames brush past them, and the opponents they had been fighting tooth and nail either instantly turned to ashes or were knocked unconscious, losing all ability to resist.

"Huh?!"

"What?"

"Is that reinforcements?"

"Th-thanks!!"

Their flustered voices rose one after another, yet carried with them a sense of overwhelming relief.

Only Qin Shengshi, piecing together countless bird's-eye perspectives, managed to barely make out that figure streaking through the night of Wind Capital.

It was a young girl whose face could not be clearly discerned, with long sakura-red hair, a slender and elegant figure. Her black velvet dress fluttered with her movements, its flat chest area featuring slight cutouts, a gemstone blazing with intense crimson light.

Her speed surpassed what the human imagination could conceive, like a bolt of lightning racing through the city, yet so utterly silent. No inertia, no hurricane-force winds, no sonic booms.

It was as if an invisible, tranquil force field firmly sealed away all sound and fury, rendering the girl's movements utterly noiseless, without a trace of worldly disturbance, like something out of a dream.

And those unstable curse power reactions extinguished one by one as she passed by.

Qin Shengshi was dumbfounded.

Helping to resolve their opponents... So she's on our side?

And so strong...

So incredibly strong!

Among all the known first-grade sorcerers of various sects and schools, very few could accomplish what she was currently doing, let alone doing it while looking so relaxed and at ease, strolling as if through a garden.

Even just based on what she had displayed so far, she was already absolutely at the peak of the second Energy Level, and unquestionably one of the strongest within it.

Qin Shengshi suddenly remembered something.

Wait, she's...

That mysterious girl with formidable strength from when Yan Jing encountered the Explosive Combustion Demon!

The pink-haired woman parted her lips slightly: "!!"

Luo Xi's words suddenly flashed through her mind—

[Well, Brother Lin Guang said he's busy tonight.]

[But he also said he called a friend over...]