Before the operation, Yan Luo had Sasa help him take a photo of his arm to reassure Wang Lingyu and asked Wang Lingyu to forward this photo to Guo Xu, otherwise they would surely worry.

When the night was deep and silent, Yan Luo opened the window of Sasa's room and climbed down from the eleventh floor.

For him now, even jumping directly down wouldn't hurt him at all, but doing so would make too much noise and he would be discovered.

After landing, Yan Luo recalled the camera marker map in his memory, and after multiple confirmations, he started walking towards the villa.

Although Crimson No.2 is a town, it has more than one hundred thousand residents, plus facilities like parks and the Agricultural Building, making this town quite large in area.

Sasa's dormitory is far from Yan Luo's home. Normally, it takes her dozens of minutes by taxi, not to mention that Yan Luo now has to conceal his trail and cannot walk too fast.

However, Yan Luo's pace was actually not slow, and after sneaking around for three hours, he finally reached the vicinity of the villa.

At this moment, Yan Luo pressed a transmitter in his pocket. Sasa, who was lying in bed but hadn't fallen asleep, immediately received the signal and then contacted the hacker found by Wu Zechuan for them.

The hacker quickly took control of the cameras around the street. The indicator light on the simple transmitter in Yan Luo's hand turned from yellow to green, which slightly reassured him.

Since the cameras were compromised, Yan Luo no longer needed to be cautious. He strode boldly towards the villa, pried open a window, and slipped inside.

After all, this was the home he had lived in for several months, and Yan Luo was very familiar with the layout inside the villa.

Most things in the villa were sealed, and as soon as they were unsealed, an alarm would immediately sound.

Fortunately, Yan Luo had a hacker's help on his side to cut off the signals sent to the police station by these seals. As for the sound alarms, Yan Luo actually needed them.

Yan Luo usually kept the Space Box in the garage alongside the motorcycle. When he arrived at the garage, he happened to see the Space Box hanging on the wall.

The Space Box's handle and hook were sealed; trying to take it down would certainly trigger the seal alarm.

Seeing this, Yan Luo couldn't help but shake his head.

This kind of thing couldn't stop him at all. If he wanted, he could poke a circle of holes around the hook with his fingers, directly detach the hook from the wall, and then find a hidden place to activate the signal jammer, and take away the Space Box.

However, Yan Luo now needed those people to know he had appeared in Crimson No.2, so he directly picked up the Space Box.

BEEP——!

A piercing alarm immediately rang out. Yan Luo then smashed his fist down, destroying the alarm device of the seal.

The alarm abruptly stopped, but it was enough to alert the officers on stakeout around Yanluo Villa.

Yan Luo promptly retraced his steps, once again climbing out through the window.

As he passed the third streetlight to the left outside the villa, the camera installed on it slightly turned, capturing the hand Yan Luo was holding the Space Box with.

Naturally, this was also maneuvered by the hacker in control of the camera.

The plan was quite successful; the awakened officers didn't catch up to Yan Luo. When they tried to access the surveillance, they found that the cameras had captured no sight of the intruder at Yanluo Villa, so they immediately called the station for backup, only to be declined with the reason of 'not receiving an alarm'.

Nonsense, Yan Luo was so formidable that after killing She Wuyou, his escape was more thrilling than an action movie. With their salary, why should they risk confronting Yan Luo?

Besides, the residents of Crimson No.2 already owed a favor to Yan Luo, and the one Yan Luo killed was a rich person unrelated to these common folks. In all fairness, they should turn a blind eye.

With the hacker's aid, Yan Luo quickly rushed back to Sasa's dormitory building, swiftly climbed to the eleventh floor like running on the wall, pulled open the slightly ajar window, and slipped back into the room.

Sasa, who had never fallen asleep, jumped out of bed, opened the drawer under the bed, and placed the Space Box inside with Yan Luo.

Before this, Sasa had already had the hacker confirm that there was no tracking device installed on the Space Box, so they could safely hide it.

After doing these things, it was almost dawn, and Sasa hurried to sleep to ensure she had energy for research the next day.

Yan Luo, on the other hand, went to take a shower to prevent dirtying Sasa's room.

......

The next day, Sasa left the room yawning and activated her personal terminal.

She met Zhang Xiaofang in the hallway, as Zhang Xiaofang lived next door to her.

"Didn't sleep well last night?" Zhang Xiaofang asked.

Indeed, she hadn't slept well...

Sasa nodded, "I dreamed about some unpleasant things and woke up several times."

In reality, it's because she only slept for a little over three hours.

Sasa and Zhang Xiaofang had breakfast in the canteen, then headed to the laboratory.

However, on the way, they received a message from Li Jiongming.

[Everyone, please come to the conference room.]

With a hint of confusion, Sasa and Zhang Xiaofang headed to the conference room.

When they arrived, they found that nearly the entire team was there.

The last time such a situation occurred was when they were going to the Abyss in person to conduct research.

Could it be...

Even Sasa felt her spirits lift.

Li Jiongming stepped onto the podium and looked around, "Everyone, I think you can guess why I've gathered all of you here, right? Yes, we are about to enter the Abyss for the second time to conduct multiple studies there."

Upon hearing this, people didn't show much excitement or enthusiasm. Compared to the excitement of their first research mission, this reaction was rather flat.

Having experienced the firsthand exploration of the Abyss last time, many realized they were not cut out to be a Hunter. Before entering the Abyss, they had no idea that demons were much more terrifying than they imagined.

Even ordinary demons can easily kill them as long as they don't wear exoskeletons.

Entering the Abyss for research requires enormous courage and financial support. Even though this team has been in Crimson No.2 for so long, they are only now preparing for their second trip into the Abyss.

Li Jiongming could see that their interest was low, but he wouldn't soften because of this, directly assigning tasks to those present.

When Li Jiongming mentioned Sasa, he smiled mysteriously, "As for Sasa... you are free to move."

Everyone's eyes turned to Sasa. It took her a few seconds to realize what was happening.

"... Eh?"

What did it mean that she could move freely?

Thinking for a moment, Sasa realized that the professor might have discovered what had happened to her.

Sasa closed her mouth and nodded.

Soon, someone picked up on the implication of Li Jiongming's words.

Li Jiongming was not letting Sasa act freely; he believed that allowing her to do so would enable Sasa to better complete her research tasks.

How could a scholar like Sasa, incapable of catching a chicken, move freely in the Abyss? It's really hard to guess.

......

As an angler, Wu Zechuan was very patient.

He knew that the Abyssal Believers hidden within the Crimson No.2 police were circling around the bait he had cast. Even knowing the risk of being caught, for capturing Yan Luo, that person would be willing to take the risk.

On the day after Yan Luo's whereabouts were 'exposed', the officers finally mobilized under someone's push, searching everywhere for traces left by Yan Luo, trying to use this to locate Yan Luo's current hiding place.

Wu Zechuan did not expect the person behind this move to be the captain of the Crimson No.2 detective squad.

He had an impression of the captain as upright; previously, when the Hunter from Crimson No.1 stirred up trouble in Crimson No.2, it was this captain who drove the action against the three Hunters that committed the assault.

Given that, was the captain's previous demeanor merely a façade, or is he genuinely motivated by public duty to capture Yan Luo?

Wu Zechuan found this puzzling, but it didn't prevent him from making a move against the captain.

As an officer, Wu Zechuan couldn't use force to make the captain comply, so he teamed up with city government officials to report the captain for trivial matters, temporarily suspending his duty.

Whether this captain is indeed an Abyssal Believer will depend on what he does during his suspension.

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