Lu Yao was efficient in her work, managing to send Mu You the information he needed for his investigation before the afternoon.
There were three ’Sayakas’ matching the criteria. After sieving through the data, Mu You quickly identified the questionable one.
This Sayaka took a month off from school a year ago, citing that her parents’ jobs required her to stay with her elderly relatives in the countryside.
This ’country elder’, however, happened to pass away abruptly on the day Sayaka returned to school, meaning no one could confirm if Sayaka actually spent that month in the countryside.
Once confirmed that the girl was the one they were looking for, Mu You immediately teleported back to the country, brought Lin Xue over, and they quickly located the girl and started their surveillance.
They monitored her until the wee hours of the day, and sure enough, she started to act.
The two of them tail-followed her and eventually came across a Space Fissure in this dry well.
Mu You estimated that this Sayaka was probably the backup plan prepared by the bespectacled young man, replaced by one of the Shadow Men from the Undead Society a year ago. However, she had lived a perfectly normal life and went to school without ever revealing her identity.
It wasn’t until now when the mastermind was injured and planning to escape Earth that this backup plan was activated. After the bespectacled young man returned to Japan on Tuesday, he came to replace the original Shadow Man with a girl’s body hidden here, waiting for the opening of the Space Fissure.
"I’ve already made concessions and deliberately avoided confronting you, so why are you relentlessly pressing?"
The girl stared at Mu You ahead, her childish voice contrasting harshly with her weak exterior.
"Unfortunately, some disgruntlements are irreconcilable. Your existence and powers pose a serious threat to our race, and there is no possibility of peaceful coexistence between us. Additionally, on a personal level, I’m only fulfilling a promise I made to someone," said Mu You.
His original reason for coming to the Cook Islands was to help a little girl by finding the fragments of a map and promising to save her sister. He didn’t expect the hole to get deeper and deeper to reveal an otherworldly power that had been lurking on Earth for a long time.
Upon hearing this, the girl stopped arguing and turned to look behind her.
Mu You blocked her in the front, and behind her was a woman with a scythe, also blocking her escape route.
Seeing the girl’s stare, Lin Xue raised her scythe, ready for battle.
The girl lingered between the two of them and then suddenly lunged at Mu You with lightning speed.
As the sharp claws approached, Mu You dodged sideways. However, the girl’s attack was just a feint and she rushed towards the entrance of the fissure.
Unfortunately for her, Mu You was already prepared. An ice-wall promptly appeared at the entrance of the fissure, and the next moment, the girl crashed into it, rebounding with a swollen and bruised nose.
The girl stood up, clutching her nose. Seeing the exit being completely blocked by the ice wall, her face turned ferocious. Thick black energy surged from her, causing her hair to float in the air.
Her eyes glowing bright red, the girl swung her claws and lunged at Mu You.
Without fear, Mu You fought her with the Vampire Claws. The dark energy claw didn’t possess the super strength he had anticipated.
Compared to the muscle man he fought earlier, this girl Shadow Ghost clearly didn’t surpass him in close-quarters combat. When Mu You was combating the muscle man, it was around eight o’clock at night, and the enhancement from the vampire skin wasn’t that significant. Now, in contrast, it was midnight—when the vampire enhancements were at their peak.
Given these circumstances, both his strength and agility outmatched the little girl. Naturally, he didn’t fall behind in a one-on-one melee.
Mu You, raising his right arm, easily parried her with the damage reduction provided by his War God armlet. Then, he instantly threw his arms forward and grabbed the girl by her claws.
Without any hesitation, he lifted the girl clean off the ground and threw her onto the floor head-first; his claws struck her swiftly as she landed.
Despite getting punctured, the girl hastily rolled up and back-flipped onto a rock face behind.
However, before she could fully land, Lin Xue had already swung her scythe at her. The girl instinctively dodged sideways, only to realize that the scythe was pointed at the shadow below her rather than her.
Both the girl and her shadow let out a horrifying scream. The girl was catapulted back, but the shadow impaled by the scythe tip wasn’t so lucky. The shadow extended as if it were a fish out of water, desperately struggling onshore but unable to escape the scythe.
The very next second, as the girl got up and lunged at Lin Xue again, Lin Xue had no choice but to block with the raised scythe, and the shadow finally regained its freedom.
The girl landed herself on the blade of the scythe, allowing it to slice deeper into her body. Tit for tat, she grabbed the hilt of her scythe, effectively immobilizing Lin Xue.
In the meantime, taking advantage of Lin Xue’s inaction, a shadow quietly detached itself from the girl’s feet, bypassed Lin Xue, and started heading towards her exit on the back, intending to escape the scene and find another way to leave.
Fortunately, before it could get far, it felt its vision alter.
The next moment it opened its eyes, it found itself back at the starting point, ensnared by a wall made of liquid.