Chapter 492: Chapter 492: Assassinating the Divine Calculator
"No, staying in this place is one thing, but can we eat something other than rice? Bread with meat pie is fine occasionally, but eating it every day is unbearable."
Li Rui was starting to lose his cool.
Ling Zixiao was a bit surprised: "I didn’t expect you to care about this."
"Well, since we’re idle now, why not pursue a better quality of life?" Li Rui said.
"Makes sense."
Ling Zixiao said with a smile, "Let’s go to the supermarket and see if there’s hot pot ingredients. We can make our own hot pot."
"Nice!"
Li Rui jumped up from the sofa.
According to the higher-ups’ instructions, the two could only operate in this district of the city. No one knew their identities because the fewer people knew, the less likely they were to be deduced by indirect means from the Prophet.
Technically, they weren’t required to stay indoors, since people from the Western Kingdom wouldn’t recognize them. But to be safe, they wouldn’t go out unless necessary.
Li Rui changed his clothes, put on a jacket over his administrator coat, donned a mask, and was about to go out when Ling Zixiao’s phone rang.
"....."
He didn’t need to look to know it was the phone dedicated to contacting the Western Anomaly Bureau.
A few minutes later.
"Sorry, dinner plans are canceled. We must head to the Western Anomaly Bureau HQ immediately," Ling Zixiao shrugged.
"Good news." Li Rui smiled.
On the rooftop, a two-hundred-pound Black lady was humming Bruce while hanging clothes. She heard some noise behind her, like someone running up the stairs.
But she didn’t look back. People often came to this balcony; she just hoped they weren’t the ones who came up to smoke.
When she pinned the last clip on the blanket, she decided to turn around and see who had come up. But when she turned, a gust of wind blew in her face, forcing her to shield herself with her hand. When she regained her composure and looked again, there was no one on the rooftop, only a faint glow seemed to float through the sky.
.....
The Western Anomaly Bureau HQ was heavily guarded. When Li Rui brought Ling Zixiao over using the Escape Technique, they were stopped even before getting within a five-kilometer range.
A bald, intimidating-looking man confirmed their identity, and then grinned: "Follow me, starting from here, you can’t use the Escape Technique to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings."
He took them to a car and entered the main door of the Anomaly Bureau.
"Hello, Ling, how are you? Was the journey tiring? You can rest now, but young man, you cannot."
Jilei Eng approached warmly, considerably more so than when he faced Simon.
Li Rui and Ling Zixiao met with the Western Anomaly Bureau’s executives. The Prophets were certainly stationed at the rear to provide support to the front lines at all times, but Li Rui, Simon, who arrived later, and other consultant-level experts present received combat missions.
"The current situation is."
Jilei Eng spoke in the combat meeting room, "Based on statistics, we have identified the distribution of the enemy at the border of the Chaos Zone, namely the main battlefield conditions. Given the current situation, we believe there is an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the enemy."
"So now, issuing the latest confidential mission, from this moment, you eighteen cannot contact anyone and must proceed to the target location."
He tapped a whiteboard with his hand, where a place name was written.
Holy Judgment High Court, Holy Mountain.
Simon involuntarily cracked a sinister smile: "What’s the mission content?"
"Assassinate the Prophet."
Jilei Eng said.
"...."
The crowd looked at each other: "But we don’t know who the Prophet is?"
Ling Zixiao said: "When I was making a prophecy before, I met him face-to-face. He roughly looks like this."
After speaking, he pressed a button on the PPT, which displayed a very abstract stick figure: a circle with several lines connected to it.
"....."
The crowd was even more perplexed.
Ling Zixiao chuckled: "The Prophet isn’t a person; its true form is a blob of flesh, or perhaps a heart or something. It has a diameter of at least two meters and is in a symbiotic relationship with a human, making it very conspicuous."
"Moreover, this guy has mobility issues. It’s hiding somewhere on the Holy Mountain. Once you find it, you’ll definitely recognize it."
The crowd finally felt reassured at this point.
Jilei Eng said: "The mission begins now. At any cost, you must kill the Prophet. If we complete this mission, we are confident we can eliminate the invaders."
"The most important thing is, from now on, each of you will be acting alone, devising your own action strategy without reporting to anyone. The only requirement is to arrive at the Holy Mountain within forty-eight hours."
The crowd felt a chill inwardly.
This separate action would significantly reduce the chance of being caught by a prophecy, but the cost was a significant increase in each person’s risk.
Jilei Eng also stated, at any cost.
Although these people were the most important in the hearts of their countries, it was clear that the decision-makers, weighing the pros and cons thereafter, had made a choice.
"Copy the war situation around the globe yourselves, quickly plan, and depart within three hours."
.....
After leaving the meeting room, Li Rui never saw those who participated in the mission, including Simon.
He opened the map and saw the war situation; sure enough, battles were taking place all over the world, even along the Dragon Country’s East Sea coast.
He quickly devised a relatively safe route to the Holy Judgment High Court.
Of course, this was not for his own safety but to minimize the chance of being detected early.
If a high-intensity battle broke out before reaching the Holy Mountain, it would be easier to be caught by the potentially non-human Prophet, resulting in mission failure.
"Be careful on the way."
Ling Zixiao patted Li Rui’s shoulder, "Adapt as you go, and try to ensure safety."
Li Rui smiled: "I need to stay alive to ask Zuo Qiutian some things."
Whoosh.
Li Rui’s figure disappeared from the spot, in the blink of an eye, escaping a distance of several miles, and quickly crossed the border into the Chaos Zone.
From this direction, the distance to the Holy Judgment High Court was not too far; if disregarding all other factors, he could arrive within half a day.
However, Li Rui chose not to rush directly because among the eighteen people, not everyone had the Escape Technique. Charging in first might result in having to face all the Hidden Sect members left behind alone. He decided to control his speed, anyway, the specified time frame was forty-eight hours.
So he stopped in a deserted city in ruins, marked clearly in the data as a buffer zone.
To cover their assassination group, various countries increased their attacks in other directions, trying to attract more enemies over.
Li Rui hid in a relatively intact apartment unit, took out a high-energy protein bar to replenish his stamina, and as soon as he took off his glove, he was stunned.
The inscription had changed.
[!@￥!# all. ]
The place where the Secret Realm’s name should appear was a bunch of garbled text.
"What the hell?"
Li Rui was glad he decided to stop. If he had entered the Holy Judgment High Court and suddenly fainted, it would have been a disaster.
"Must report to the rear."
Since the Secret Realm’s revision, one could enter it at any time. In principle, he couldn’t continue executing the mission.
While preparing to use the emergency contact method, he glanced sideways and cursed.
"Screw this!"
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