Chapter 957: Sniping

Lu Xun took off the receiver and pressed a string of numbers one after another, and a melodious music sound rang slowly.

Yang Xiao didn't stop him again, nor did he leave, but squeezed into the telephone booth with him quietly, his consciousness already starting to follow the communication signal to search for Director Sun's location...

The ringtone rang for a full dozen seconds. Just when the two thought they couldn't get through, a voice sounded from the other side of the phone:

"...Hello?"

……

Two figures fell toward a moving freight train in the night.

Before Chen Ling could stand firm on the train, the hurricane under his feet suddenly dissipated. Fortunately, his own balance was extremely strong, and his feet still stepped firmly on the plastic tarpaulin used to cover the goods.

Chen Ling looked up and saw the masked man on the freight car in front of him stumble and almost fall down.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Ling walked up against the wind and asked.

"...Nothing, just a bit tired."

The masked man's voice was slightly tired.

A flash of doubt flashed in Chen Ling's eyes. It stands to reason that from the time the masked man intervened in the battlefield until now, although a long time had passed, his frequency of taking action was not high, and most of the time he was talking and flying with the wind... Could it be that flying consumed so much mental power?

"Then you should take a break quickly."

"No time." The masked man turned to look at a certain direction. "They are chasing us again..."

In the vast night, several helicopters were whistling toward here. At the same time, one could see figures jumping directly from the cabin and flying straight toward this place!

"Why are they like ghosts that won't go away??" Chen Ling couldn't help but speak.

"As far as I know, the two Divination God Paths in the 749 Bureau need a certain interval for each remote positioning, but now their tracking speed is too fast, which means it is not calculated by divination, but that some kind of tracking technique has been placed on you."

"Tracking technique..." Chen Ling looked down at his body and didn't find anything unusual.

"Their tracking methods are not so easy to see." The masked man shook his head. "If you can't lift the tracking, you can only rely on distance to get rid of them... The ranks of those people are not that high, and the skill range is just Shanghai. If we can escape the Shanghai area, I guess they won't be able to chase us anymore."

"Then why don't we just fly away with the wind?"

“……”

The masked man gave a wry smile, raised his hand to grab the edge of the mask, and took it off slowly.

In the hazy moonlight, the ferocious ghost face detached from his body, and a slightly pale young face was exposed to the air, his eyes full of helplessness...

Almost at the same time, Chen Ling clearly felt that all the mental power on the masked man disappeared the moment he took off the mask... It was as if the God Path had detached from him in an instant, making him completely an ordinary person.

"You..."

Chen Ling had never seen anyone whose rank and mental power would suddenly disappear, and for a moment, he was extremely surprised.

"My power comes from the 'mask' and 'prayer'... but this process cannot be sustained for long. The power granted by the ritual weakens over time." The masked man lowered his head and glanced at the mask in his hand.

"Once I take off the mask, I am just a mortal... Right now, I can't ride the wind to fly, let alone take you away."

Chen Ling had never heard of this way of obtaining power. He had previously assumed the mask was an extremely unique ritual vessel and that the masked man's power came entirely from it... but now it seemed this was the unique nature of the other party's Divine Path.

"...That’s certainly complicated enough." Chen Ling couldn't help but ask, "Does that mean you can't fight at all for the time being?"

The masked man held it in for a long time before finally squeezing out a sentence:

"Give me a moment to recover; there's still a chance."

"That probably won't be in ti—"

Before Chen Ling could finish his sentence, he suddenly seemed like a different person. Without hesitation, he kicked the masked man in the chest, sending him flying several meters across the truck bed, where he tumbled onto the ground in a sorry state.

Just as he had said, after removing the mask, he was a completely ordinary person with no resistance against Chen Ling's kick. Had Chen Ling not held back his strength, he would have been killed instantly.

Almost simultaneously, a sniper bullet whistled past right in front of Chen Ling!!

If Chen Ling hadn't kicked him just now, the masked man would have been shot through the head and left without a burial place. This wasn't mere speculation; it was something that had truly happened in the previous script...

Scarlet blood flowed from Chen Ling's seven orifices, making him look incredibly ferocious.

"...Hmm?"

Several kilometers away from the freight train, a woman carrying a sniper rifle was bewildered. "Impossible... how could he have sensed it from so far away..."

Chen Ling didn't have such keen senses, nor was he clairvoyant. He had witnessed the masked man's head explode a second ago and had instantly activated [Card].

He had modified the last line of the script, rewriting the fate of the masked man being killed, and the price was that his entire body felt as exhausted as if it had been overdrawn.

"Last time you crippled one of my hands, and this time you almost shot my head off... Do you really think I can't do anything to you just because you're hiding so far away!?"

Chen Ling's eyes were bloodshot. He let out a low roar, leaped into the air from the freight train using the Cloud Step, and charged toward the sniper, carrying monstrous killing intent!

The female sniper was startled, but she didn't panic. Instead, she immediately looked through her scope, the pitch-black muzzle tracking the high-speed movement of Chen Ling...

Chen Ling, using the Cloud Step, moved extremely fast. Within a few seconds, he had covered two-thirds of the distance between them, and his bright red opera robe rapidly magnified in the sniper scope!

This was a contest of speed and accuracy, and the female sniper was extremely confident in her marksmanship.

"Courting death." The sniper gritted her teeth and spoke.

Bang—!!

The radiance of the Soldier Divine Path flashed behind the sniper. The next moment, a bullet imbued with several skills whistled across the sky!

But she never expected that Chen Ling would have no intention of dodging at all, letting the bullet shatter his right ribs and lung lobe, scarlet blood blooming like fireworks!

The sniper scope magnified every detail of Chen Ling's face. Bleeding from his seven orifices, he now looked like an enraged beast, his gaze like a cold, shimmering blade that made the sniper's heart tremble.

When the bright red opera robe disappeared from the scope, she instinctively looked up. Under the hazy moonlight, a red-clad phantom had already flashed right in front of her!

"You..."

Before the sniper could finish, a boning knife instantly traced an arc, and a shocked head was tossed high into the darkness...

Chen Ling, covered in blood, stood steady beside the sniper's fallen corpse, scarlet blood dripping from the blade of the boning knife onto the ground... Almost simultaneously, the intense, pale beams of helicopter searchlights locked onto his figure...

As if standing under the spotlight of everyone's attention.