Chapter 670: The Stalking Predator
Liao Honglei had used a clever tactic to get up close to Shinguuji Seiichiro.
He thought he had it in the bag—one punch away from blowing the guy’s head off.
But right then, Shinguuji Seiichiro took a terrifying turn.
He grabbed hold of Liao Honglei’s arm, and his body began to crack apart. In just an instant, he had completely lost all traces of human form.
Cracks split across his body, and from within them, an eerie white light poured out, sending a chill through anyone watching.
A voice suddenly echoed from a distance.
The white light around "Shinguuji Seiichiro" flared violently!
It was so loud, it could be heard clearly across the other battlefronts as well.
Due to the intense light, those in the Operations Command Center couldn’t immediately tell what had happened.
But the overwhelming energy surge from that area instantly drew everyone’s attention.
Everyone stared anxiously at the area glowing white.
Only after more than ten seconds did the blinding brightness begin to fade, allowing them to see again.
What came into view made Zhu Zheng’s pupils shrink—and nearly sent him bolting from the command platform.
They saw Liao Honglei lying bloodied and broken on the ground, his body wrecked, his most resilient combat uniform now in tatters.
But in that spot—Shinguuji Seiichiro’s figure had completely vanished.
Kinmaru and Akamaru snarled and pounced, sinking their teeth into the gravely wounded and dying Liao Honglei, tearing into him with bloody, brutal ferocity.
The savage scene twisted the faces of everyone watching in the Operations Command Center.
One female operator couldn’t take it. She covered her face and broke down sobbing.
They were no strangers to life and death. They’d seen their fair share of brutality.
But the man being torn apart by those Shikigami… was the Vice-Captain of the Celestial Squad.
They couldn’t accept it. That someone of his stature could die in such a horrific, miserable way.
In the thick fog, Shinguuji Seiichiro calmly lit a cigarette for himself.
He exhaled slowly and said in a faint voice,
“Who told you an Onmyoji would be stupid enough to show up in the middle of a battlefield?”
The one who appeared before Liao Honglei wasn’t the real Shinguuji Seiichiro at all.
It was a puppet he had crafted using a large number of explosives and talismans.
From the very beginning, it had all been a trap set for Liao Honglei.
Because Shinguuji Seiichiro knew: just those few Shikigami alone weren’t enough to kill the Vice-Captain of the Celestial Squad.
“It’s all thanks to that person’s intel.”
He murmured, as if reflecting aloud.
Without that, if he had faced someone like Liao Honglei head-on, there was a very real chance he would’ve died.
Back at the Operations Command Center, the room was dead silent. No one even dared to breathe too loudly.
Everyone was nervously stealing glances at Zhu Zheng’s expression, feeling as if a heavy, dark cloud was hanging right over him.
Both battlefronts had failed. Two Vice-Captain-level figures from the Celestial Squad had been slain!
Such a disastrous outcome—since the founding of the Jiangnan District—was almost unheard of.
And this mission was being carried out by the Celestial Squad, the team that ranked first on the Points Board, with a 100% mission completion rate!
Zhu Zheng’s face was expressionless, but his eyes churned with violent emotion.
If it weren’t for all his subordinates watching, he probably would’ve flown into a rage on the spot.
Tu Yunlie spoke in a low voice:
“Now we can only pin our hopes on Deng Shentong. If he can secure a win, then we’ll come out of this battle on top.”
But if Deng Shentong lost too, the consequences would be more than the Jiangnan District could afford.
Because not only would it mean the entire operation had failed...
It would also let the situation spiral in the public eye, damaging the Jiangnan District’s credibility on a massive scale.
Zhu Zheng’s personal guard, Sun Luxuan, adjusted his glasses.
Looking at the surveillance feed, a seed of doubt began to form in his mind.
He glanced at Zhu Zheng, then shifted his gaze across the senior Blizzard City officials present.
From Tu Yunlie, to Lan Xincheng, and then to Baili Changqing.
His eyes lingered a little longer on Baili Changqing before moving away.
Now wasn’t the right time to voice his thoughts—after all, the battle still wasn’t over.
But something about the Celestial Squad’s defeats across the board… didn’t sit right.
They no longer held out hope for the other fronts—only that Deng Shentong could deliver a clean decapitation strike!
But right at that moment, someone they hadn’t paid much attention to—Zhang Yi—was already approaching the western front.
Shinguuji Seiichiro emerged slowly from the mist.
Kamiya Gedou and Akutsu Shinichiro were barely clinging to life.
Their internal organs had been blasted to pieces by Liao Honglei’s shockwaves.
If not for their abnormally tough bodies and stronger-than-average vitality, they’d have died on the spot.
Shinguuji Seiichiro walked over and pulled out some healing injections, administering a shot to each of them.
Kamiya Gedou still had blood at the corners of his mouth, and scowled at the comment.
Shinguuji Seiichiro shook his head.
“I’m just thinking… if it weren’t for that person’s help, it really would’ve been impossible for us to stand against the Jiangnan District with just our own strength.”
Akutsu Shinichiro scoffed.
“No matter how strong they are, they still lost to us, didn’t they?”
Shinguuji gave him a sidelong glance.
“Don’t forget—the Jiangnan District has more than just the Celestial Squad in their ranks. If next time we run into another team, it may not be this easy.”
“Still, we got a massive win today, didn’t we?”
He tilted his head up and said with emotion,
“Miss Takeuchi’s divination was spot-on. My fortune today was ‘Small Luck.’ Even if I got a little hurt, I still made it out alive!”
But before the words were fully out of his mouth, Kamiya Gedou suddenly shouted,
Shinguuji Seiichiro’s gaze sharpened, and he instantly summoned his Shikigami to shield himself.
Akutsu also felt a surge of danger approaching.
But his body was in no shape to move. Even though he sensed the threat, he couldn’t dodge the attack at all.
A silver bullet pierced through the center of his forehead—and blew out through the back of his skull!
Akutsu Shinichiro, of the Moon of Corrosion, was dead!
Seeing Akutsu go down, Kamiya Gedou let out a furious roar,
He shouted while rolling to the ground.
But even that couldn’t save him.
Even with his head tucked low, that death-dealing Sacred Silver Bullet still pierced his skull—entering from the top of his head and shattering through his brain.
That was the power of a Spatial-Type [Precision Shot] ability.
To the current Zhang Yi, even with his eyes closed, his bullets wouldn’t miss by a single inch.
And his targets... were just two gravely injured members of the Moon of Corrosion.