Chapter 438: Bad Luck Constitution

"You want to get off?" The driver was stunned and asked cautiously,

"Is there somewhere else you need to go? You can tell me, and I'll be responsible for taking you there..."

"No need," Chen Ling said faintly. "I want to walk around this city."

"...Yes, sir. Then I will have your belongings delivered to your room later. Please rest assured."

The car drove through a street and finally stopped slowly at an intersection. Chen Ling got out and watched the convoy loaded with banknotes drive away.

It was late at night, and the street was deserted, with only flickering streetlights casting dim yellow shadows on the road. Chen Ling, hands in his trench coat pockets, walked step by step toward the narrow alley behind him, treading on thin air.

……

"Damn it, they're catching up!!"

Jian Changsheng looked back and saw several black shadows sweeping across the deserted street, gritting his teeth.

Both he and Heart 9 had their skills sealed and could only rely on pure physical fitness to escape, but the few behind them were clearly Divine Path possessors. At this rate, getting caught was almost inevitable!

"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!!"

"Can you stop laughing for a second?!" Jian Changsheng backhanded Heart 9, suddenly feeling a bit of pain in his hand.

This guy... is his face that hard?

Heart 9 finally stopped his maniacal laughter. Not only was there no fear in his eyes, but he became even more excited. "They're chasing, so we run! If we get caught, we'll just take them down with us!"

"Both of our Divine Paths are sealed, what are we going to take them down with?!"

Jian Changsheng quickly scanned his surroundings, locked onto a complex maze of old alleys, and grabbed Heart 9. "Follow me!"

The two dived into the alleyway.

Five figures arrived at the entrance of the alley one after another. They were bodyguards from the Dinglu and Beidou consortiums. Meeting face-to-face, they sized each other up coldly, seemingly hesitating whether to take the other out.

There was constant friction between the five major consortiums. As Divine Path possessors trained for years by their respective consortiums, they had all had run-ins before. Some had been defeated by the person opposite them, while others had seen their companions secretly taken out by them... Even though they were temporarily free from the control of their consortiums, they could never easily join forces, nor would they be willing to share the bounty.

"Whoever kills them first gets the credit," a senior bodyguard said coldly, breaking the stalemate.

"Hmph, then let's see who's better."

As the words fell, the five immediately split into a group of two and a group of three, entering the alley from two different directions, tracking the direction Jian Changsheng and his companion had fled.

This seemed to be a nearly abandoned slum. The gaps between the walls were very narrow, basically allowing only one person to pass through each path. The roads were complex, and more than half of the streetlights were broken. Under the pitch-black night sky, it looked like a massive labyrinth.

After everyone had dived into this district, no one noticed that under the pitch-black night sky, a black trench coat was standing silently in the void.

Chen Ling stood above the district, his entire being seemingly merged with the night. Even if someone deliberately looked in this direction, it would be extremely difficult to distinguish his existence... And from his angle, he could clearly overlook everything happening in this district.

A faint blue hue bloomed from his pupils. Driven by the [Secret Pupil], Chen Ling locked onto the frantically fleeing Jian Changsheng and Heart 9, as well as the bodyguards gradually approaching them.

"...They really know how to cause trouble." Chen Ling sighed.

He took a stack of sticky notes from his pocket, took out a fountain pen he carried with him, and gently removed the cap...

The tip of the pen touched the surface of the sticky note, and the ink, as deep as the night, spread silently along the paper fibers. With a thought, a line of small text was written on the note in a flowing manner.

【At dawn, a light mist rises】

……

"Fog?"

Jian Changsheng, who was speeding through the narrow district, felt the light mist rising before his eyes, and a look of joy appeared in his eyes.

Fog meant obstructed vision, and combined with the dim light, it would be even harder for that group to track them. It seemed his luck wasn't so bad that it couldn't be saved; at least heaven was still helping him.

As the two went deeper, a tall, gray-black wall stood before them, like the outer wall of an abandoned steel mill, completely blocking their path, leaving only two narrow paths to the left and right.

"A fork in the road?" Jian Changsheng was stunned and subconsciously pointed to the left. "Let's go left?"

"Fine! Then we go right!" Heart 9 firmly grabbed Jian Changsheng and dived into the narrow path on the right without a word.

"Why???"

"I've figured it out. Your luck is truly terrible. Just being near you makes one unfortunate." Heart 9 grumbled. "Anyway, whatever you say, doing the opposite is the right thing to do!"

Jian Changsheng: ...

Although helpless, Jian Changsheng couldn't seem to refute it. His luck had always been rotten to the core.

The two had been gone for only a dozen seconds when a group of people followed them to this fork. It was the three from the Beidou Consortium. They looked left and right, seemingly hesitant:

"How did these two run so fast..."

"They don't seem to have Divine Paths, just ordinary people. As long as we catch up, we can easily take them down."

"But none of us have a Divine Path good at tracking... This time we can only rely on intuition."

"Which way do we go?"

"Let's go right. I don't like the look of that side."

"Fine, then right."

Just as the three were about to go right, a black shadow in the sky gently tore off a sticky note.

【△An old bolt falls off the decaying equipment. The equipment, with unbalanced stress, gradually crushes the support, and finally falls from mid-air, making a crisp sound on the ground, immediately attracting the attention of the pursuers】

Bang—!

A loud noise suddenly came from the street on the left.

"No, it's over there!" One of the bodyguards turned around immediately and rushed straight to the street on the left, and the other two followed quickly.

Seeing these three attracted in the opposite direction, Chen Ling in mid-air was calm, as if he had expected all of this. He crumpled the waste paper into a ball and his gaze fell in another direction.

Between the dilapidated buildings, two figures were nimbly leaping on the tops of the buildings, approaching Jian Changsheng and his companion at an astonishing speed...

"They're going to be caught..." Chen Ling’s eyes narrowed, and the pen tip began to write on the sticky note again.