Chapter 1105: Chapter 869: Lock the Door and Strike

Before the meeting began…

After a round of bargaining and exchanging enough intelligence, Ling Mo left the rooftop. Throughout this process, the secretary glared at him angrily until he left. She then rushed eagerly to Qi Tianyi, “Captain, are you alright?”

While her back was to the door, she heard a soft “click,” and couldn’t help but curse under her breath, “What good is locking the door! Even if you got the intelligence, so what? You still can’t escape! Tonight, I’ll make sure you die here!”

Despite her cursing, she grabbed Qi Tianyi and shook him vigorously. On closer observation, she noticed several unusual things… First, Qi Tianyi wasn’t severely injured. Although he was covered in blood, most of it wasn’t his. Yet, where did the convulsions come from? If it weren’t for his incessant twitching, the secretary wouldn’t have been so eager to help him… Who knows if he might just stop breathing from all that convulsing?

But now, it appears the secretary’s assumptions might have been misguided…

Moreover, Qi Tianyi wasn’t just showing physical anomalies; his mental state seemed equally dire. He seemed to be in a state of disoriented consciousness. When the secretary shook him, he suddenly sniffed and opened his eyes wide.

“Ah!”

Unprepared, the secretary let out a piercing scream.

Those eyes… They were blood-red!n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Not just the whites, but the entire irises had turned blood-red! His gaze revealed no trace of humanity, exuding a chilling aura. The way he looked at her was as if she were merely an ant…

And as his eyes opened, Qi Tianyi’s face began to twist violently. His mouth opened, emitting a series of raspy “ha ha” sounds. Although his limbs were still twitching, his muscles bulged and tensed. He resembled an insect, his body moving in segments, an unsettling and disjointed sight.

“You… you’re…” The secretary finally grasped the situation, letting go of Qi Tianyi and stepping back.

She now understood Ling Mo’s strange expression as he left… and the purpose of locking the door had become all too clear…

“He’s trying to trap me here, and the captain is his weapon to do that!”

Although Qi Tianyi seemed to have difficulty moving, as soon as the secretary made her move, he immediately grabbed her wrist with his hand turned backward.

The grip was so firm that in an instant, the secretary felt as though her wrist might break.

Reflexively, she inflated her arm and forcefully freed herself from Qi Tianyi’s grasp. She then leapt backward and quickly dashed toward the door.

“Bang bang…”

The secretary grabbed the door handle and shook it forcefully, then gritted her teeth and kicked the door twice.

“Damn it!”

It wouldn’t open!

Something clearly blocked the door from behind. Although she managed to create a small gap, it wasn’t enough for someone to pass through.

By this time, Qi Tianyi had already staggered to his feet, drooling from his mouth, his eyes locked onto the secretary’s back…

…

While there was a commotion on the rooftop, a shadow had already slipped near the meeting room and quickly ducked into a corner…

Meanwhile, several figures were continuously entering the small meeting room…

Less than fifty meters from the meeting room, several guards were patrolling. Guards were positioned thirty meters behind, ten meters behind, and at the entrance as well. Each guard was armed and alert, maintaining distances that allowed for mutual support.

In such a setup, sneaking close was incredibly difficult for outsiders…

However, at that moment, one of the outermost guards suddenly halted.

He turned back to peer into the dim corridor, cautiously raised his gun, and then took a couple of steps forward, as if trying to capture something…

“What’s wrong?” Another guard immediately noticed his behavior and asked.

“Did you hear something?” the guard hesitantly questioned.

“Did I?”

The inquiring guard replied suspiciously, also straining his ears.

“It sounds like… someone calling for help?”

The voice was somewhat indistinct, which only piqued the curiosity of the two guards even more.

“Let’s check it out.”

They cautiously approached the corner, holding their guns nervously. But when they turned the corner, both were momentarily stunned.

There lay a communicator in the corner, emitting a persistent voice, “Help…”

As soon as the guards appeared, the voice abruptly stopped, replaced by a sudden “Bang!”

It was an onomatopoeic sound, but shocking enough to scare them.

Both already-nervous guards yelped in alarm and immediately retreated. Their reaction drew the attention of the other guards.

In that brief moment, a blood-covered dark shadow leapt down from above, slipped through the window directly into the corridor, and landed quietly behind the guards.

By the time anyone turned around, the figure had vanished…

“Sometimes, using a simple method can yield unexpectedly good results,” Ling Mo thought smugly as he slipped into the meeting room. However, his satisfaction was short-lived, as two voices suddenly emerged from the narrow passage ahead.

This meeting room was essentially divided into an inner and outer room, connected by a corridor. The outer room, without its lights on, was quite dim, but at least the door to the inner room was visible. This setup was clearly because Falcon’s meetings here were somewhat shady. Even though the Second Camp tacitly agreed, they couldn’t openly let it be too obvious. That’s why not only the time was set for night, but the location was also rather secluded.

Ling Mo’s successful infiltration was possible because… this place wasn’t under surveillance.

That was good news, indicating that monitoring was not only in Falcon’s hands but also in the hands of the Second Camp. However, the fact that security measures were forced to be shared underscored a rather troublesome situation.

When Ling Mo heard the two people talking, he silently melted into the shadows, moving as soundlessly as a bat.

“Is that so… Though I’ve heard that this time, there’s a good chance we can force Yuwen Xuan to comply,” one of them said.

“Ahem, whether or not that’s true, it’s better to be prepared, right? Honestly, being stationed here feels too dangerous…”

“You idiot. Once we take over the Second Camp, they’ll give you some cushy little post. Wouldn’t it be nice to sit back and enjoy an easy life? And you know how things are these days… surviving one more day is all that matters.”

“Anyway, we’ll know once Captain Qi arrives. Speaking of which, doesn’t Captain Qi seem unusually irritable these past few days?”

“Who knows…”

The two continued chatting as they made their way into the inner room, disappearing behind the door.

Ling Mo, still concealed in the shadows, blinked and muttered inwardly, “How exactly do they plan to force Yuwen Xuan to comply?”

Suddenly, the door to the outer room was pulled shut. A voice rang out, “Are we almost ready?”

“Looks like not everyone’s here yet.”

“Doesn’t matter, we’ll start once they arrive. Past a certain time, no one’s allowed in or out anyway. Those two idiots outside were scared half to death by a communicator. It’s probably just some prank by the Second Camp.”

“Still, better sweep the place just in case…”

Bang!

The door slammed shut, and the voices outside were abruptly cut off.

Once the people in the outer room had all entered the inner room, Ling Mo slowly twisted his neck and then gently closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, his gaze had transformed, his eyes now blazing a blood-red hue.

His entire demeanor shifted, becoming sinister and bloodthirsty, oozing an otherworldly menace.

“Time’s up.”

…

“Huh? Who are you?”

“What the-?”

“Ahhh!”

Faint light seeped out from behind the closed door. In that dim glow, shadows scrambled in every direction, desperate to flee, while a massive, beast-like figure loomed, swelling with terrifying intensity.

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