Chapter 1277: It Was a Decoy

A few minutes later.

With a sharp “clang,” the Sniper immediately shifted his aim with keen alertness. But soon, he released the trigger, pressed a hand to his headset, then nodded and said, “I got it.” As he spoke, a look of disbelief appeared on his face, and he peered through the scope at the street below once more.

The street was still empty…

At the other end of the Corridor, another Sniper reacted in exactly the same way at the same moment as his companion… Their gazes were both fixed outside, but they saw nothing…

Before long, a Falcon Member crept along the wall. His whole body appeared almost entirely black, with not a patch of skin exposed except for his eyes. Even from a distance, if he stayed still, it was hard to distinguish him from the surroundings.

As this person moved to the door of that room, the door slowly opened a crack. Almost the instant he slipped sideways through the door, a blurry shadow followed him, darting in over his head.

“Huff… huff…”

As soon as it entered, Ling Mo’s Zombie Puppet clung tightly to the Ceiling. It breathed calmly, slowly and lightly, while all its muscles gradually relaxed, its whole body becoming more and more like a dead thing.

One, two, three… seven, plus the one who just entered-there were exactly seven people in this not-so-spacious room. And he was hanging right above their heads. Any slight movement could expose his whereabouts. Most importantly, the moment he came in, he was actually very likely to be discovered… There was also psychic sensing here, but when that noise sounded, the Sensing clearly fluctuated. And when the Black Man entered, it reached its peak.

Ling Mo seized that very instant to slip in. He was betting that the other party’s Sensing range was around the room, not inside it.

In fact, the moment he followed in, he was prepared to retreat and protect himself within 0.1 seconds. But now it seemed he had won the bet… The other party really hadn’t wasted psychic energy inside the room. Even so, the atmosphere inside was still quite oppressive and tense.

But in this state, Ling Mo was actually quite excited inside. And not just the Zombie Puppet-even his main body had become calm, his breathing much steadier than before.

At this time, Xia Na and the others were patrolling the area near the hospital, with only Ye Lian quietly sitting beside him. This Zombie, who was dazed most of the time, was now imitating Ling Mo’s posture, propping her chin with both hands, curiously staring into Ling Mo’s eyes.

Ling Mo’s eyes seemed to be gazing aimlessly outside, but his gaze was as if he was watching something else… And what Ye Lian was looking at was her own reflection in Ling Mo’s eyes…

“They’re in…” Ling Mo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He glanced at the Black Man who had entered with him… At this moment, the man was straightening up. Even at such close range, Ling Mo still couldn’t spot any other color on him. And the texture didn’t look like clothing, but more like a non-reflective black membrane grown from his own skin.

“Seems like, besides those Snipers, the only one moving in the Corridor is him. But just now, even I didn’t notice him… Wang doesn’t want this place to attract attention, but also wants to set it up as a trap, so he made all these arrangements… Truly impossible to guard against,” Ling Mo thought with some apprehension.

At this moment, the man was already heading toward the Inner Room, and Ling Mo silently followed along the Ceiling. He moved very slowly, but as he moved, he also observed the room.

This appeared to be a faculty office. Most of the items had been cleared out, the desks and chairs piled to one side, and the door to the Inner Room bore a sign reading “archive room”… The scent of the other six people all came from inside.

“Wang… could he be inside?” Ling Mo wondered.

But when the door was pulled open, Ling Mo’s pupils instantly contracted.

Several dark gun barrels appeared before him, and all the gunslingers were poised to shoot at any moment… In less than a fraction of a second, Ling Mo followed the Black Man and darted above the gunslingers’ heads.

One gunslinger looked up in confusion, then returned to his previous state.

That was close… If he hadn’t stayed highly alert, in that instant of facing the gunslingers, even the slightest hesitation would have gotten him discovered. 𝐑ΆΝŎβƐṦ

“This is a trap.” Ling Mo understood at once. Chief of Staff Wang had gone to great lengths to conceal this place, but had also prepared for the possibility of being discovered. If Ling Mo’s group really treated this as their lair and invaded, the result would be ugly.

“What a hassle…” Ling Mo secretly despised Chief of Staff Wang, then entered the Inner Room.

Five of the scents all came from the gunslingers, so the last scent is very likely…

“Someone just threw this over here…” The Black Man walked past the gunslingers and entered the Inner Room. He opened his hand, revealing a small package he was holding.

At that moment, Ling Mo happened to crawl past the doorframe…

Behind the desk, someone was sitting.

“Is it Chief of Staff Wang?”

Judging by the scent, it was very likely…

Judging by the position, it was also very likely…

The most heavily guarded central location-no matter how you looked at it, this had to be the enemy’s headquarters.

For a moment, Ling Mo’s fingers slowly curled inward.

Should he make a move?

If he could kill this person right now…

“Creak…”

Just then, the chair the person was sitting on suddenly made a soft noise, then slowly turned around…

“Did you see anyone?” The speaker was, surprisingly, a woman!

Ling Mo instantly withdrew his outstretched hand… This was definitely not Chief of Staff Wang!

But what was going on? Could it be that even this woman was part of the trap?

Ling Mo turned his head to look, and suddenly his scalp tingled.

No, this wasn’t a trap… it was a decoy!

This woman was the final link in the decoy…

What shocked Ling Mo most was that the woman looked expressionless, extremely calm, and her tone and attitude sounded like someone long accustomed to being in charge. Someone like this was actually being used as a decoy…

“Is it for authenticity? This is a decoy, but at the same time, it really is the command center for this group…” Ling Mo suddenly felt a chill… Chief of Staff Wang was not only deeply scheming, but also cold-blooded. Judging by the traps encountered so far, in Chief of Staff Wang’s plan, anyone could be used as a Pawn…

“I didn’t see anyone, only heard a sound,” the Black Man replied.

The woman nodded, but showed no intention of taking the package.

At that moment, the man consciously stepped back, silently opening the package.

Judging by its size and the commotion just now, it definitely wasn’t a bomb. But just to be sure, the Black Man still used himself as a human test subject.

“It’s a ring, and a note.” The Black Man glanced at the contents and added, “No tampering.”

“A ring?” The woman took the ring first and examined it, then frowned and said, “It’s Chen Wen’s.” She then unfolded the note and read aloud, “The person is in my hands…”

A few seconds later, she looked up and said, “The ring only proves Chen Wen’s identity, but the information mentioned in the note… can’t be faked. Only Chen Wen himself could have disclosed it. Also, the person who delivered the token and note managed to get them to us without being detected, so they must be a tricky individual, since Chen Wen couldn’t possibly have told them our detailed arrangements. And it says here, they want a reply within five minutes.”

“What should we do?” the Black Man asked.

“Chen Wen holds the identity information of that group… and after this incident, Ling Mo is definitely prepared, so we can’t risk a second test. Besides, some of the conditions and deals proposed by this person are quite interesting to me. But what intrigues me most…” For the first time, a strange expression appeared on the woman’s otherwise unchanged face, “He wrote here that as long as we reply within five minutes, he’ll know. And this will serve as proof that he’s capable of cooperating with us. But… how will he do it?”

The Black Man was also stunned… No restriction on how they reply? How would he see it?

Only Ling Mo, stuck to the Ceiling, smiled slightly… That’s right, he didn’t need to wait, he just needed to watch…

The woman thought for a moment, then took out a Communicator.

Ling Mo instantly held his breath… On the other end of the Communicator, it should be Chief of Staff Wang…

“There’s a situation at the school…” The woman briefly recounted the events.

As soon as she spoke, Ling Mo was taken aback…

To use that phrasing meant… Chief of Staff Wang definitely wasn’t here!

Otherwise, even if he was hiding and didn’t want people to report directly to him, he would still be able to hear, and the woman wouldn’t use that wording.

At the same time, this phrasing could also indicate another situation: Chief of Staff Wang wasn’t here, but he was somewhere in this town… Otherwise, the woman could have just said: here, without specifically mentioning “school.” For someone too far away, such a specific place name would be meaningless.

So here’s the key… Where is that guy?

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