Chapter 1060: Chapter 69: Counterassault

I don’t know whether the days of turbulent events finally bore fruit, or if it was just pure luck, but Jeanne actually saw a member of the Six Dragons Sect—or, to be more precise, “an individual Xiang Shan believed was most likely a member of the Six Dragons Sect.”

Tumor Xiang Shan possessed extremely strong inner strength, allowing him to read a person’s movements in detail and understand their psyche, completing a personality profile through observation.

All members of the Six Dragons Sect shared similar spiritual characteristics.

This manifestation of spiritual characteristics in movements was not a specific detail or parameter but a “general feeling” abstracted by humans after integrating numerous behavioral habits. It was a differentiation hard for machines to achieve.

Ever since encountering this mysterious force on Mars, Xiang Shan had been honing his observational skills to ensure he could identify members of the Six Dragons Sect more quickly from within a crowd.

It was a very useful skill.

Especially in terms of survival.

During his time on Mars, Tumor Xiang Shan even saw groups of Six Dragons Sect members on the streets.

The density of the Six Dragons Sect in the Neutral City-State was much lower. There were almost no Six Dragons in the City of Ur. If it wasn’t for pursuing Li Zheyuan, at this stage, the Six Dragons Sect only maintained a few liaison points and supply stations as small branches there. Although Chaldea had some, it wasn’t to the extent of randomly encountering them.

Moreover, the Six Dragons Sect had already fully withdrawn. Since The Twelfth Martial God released that message, all parties had focused on it, while the Six Dragons Sect went into hiding again.

That there could still be a Six Dragons here was simply a godsend opportunity.

[This is really strange, why would it show up here?] Tumor Xiang Shan pondered.

This place was a warehouse area with little traffic. Official Chaldea stored many resources mined from the outside world here, while various chambers of commerce also stored some materials for unified management, reducing costs.

This place wasn’t far from the Spaceport, but it had only one access road with many transport workers passing through, and only one officially-managed gate leading to the Spaceport, not open to civilian use.

The Six Dragons Sect has hunkered down, then suddenly counterattacked in such a fierce manner. It’s foreseeable that their goal now is to withdraw.

The assassination techniques of that assassin will certainly provoke the local martial artists. The local martial artists will form alliances, and once they’re prepared, life for the Six Dragons Sect will only get harder. The assassin’s goal was simply to shock them for a few days and to escape within that period.

But this raw materials warehouse area isn’t a good place to withdraw to.

The possibility of the Six Dragons Sect hiding here seems too low.

Jeanne’s magnetic chain weapon hooked onto her, leading her to float in another direction. Numerous containers floated here, chained together, forming a complex road network. Although official Chaldea tried to keep container specifications as uniform as possible, they couldn’t be completely standardized. Along with chain fixation issues, the three-dimensional matrix of containers was somewhat uneven, but it allowed Jeanne to approach quietly.

[Daughter, still be careful.] Tumor Xiang Shan said, [It looks a bit strange.]

[Yeah, I feel the same. But regardless of his intent, we should catch the guy first. Even if it alerts him, we must find a way for him to lead us to the Six Dragons Sect’s hideout.]

[That’s hard to say.] Xiang Shan replied, [Who knows what it’s like on that side and how many people are there.]

[Anyway, surely not better than you.] Jeanne said, [I can handle this level of risk.]

Jeanne didn’t believe anyone with similar prosthetic specifications could surpass Xiang Shan.

The turbid sword light that defended against the extreme move of the magnetic chain weapon was the strongest evidence.

Jeanne had never seen such martial arts. She hadn’t even imagined such martial arts before. Ever since then, she firmly believed that Xiang Shan’s martial arts were invincible.

Besides, that civilian intelligence agency that was attacked, their base’s door couldn’t even let a One Layer Heaven Martial Artist through.

Limited by technology, humans couldn’t make reactors that small. A One Layer Heaven Martial Artist was at least three meters tall and one meter wide. Such a giant body basically couldn’t enter that agency’s base through the door.

The base door showed no signs of damage.

No matter how strong the external strength of that assassin was, when committing that act, he wasn’t using a First Layer Heaven Cyborg.

Without a prosthetic advantage, Jeanne’s Xiang Shan in her mind couldn’t be beaten.

Tumor Xiang Shan was quite pleased with Jeanne’s confidence.

Jeanne simultaneously sent information to Asgard, instructing Asgard to exit through gate C of the warehouse area and intercept the member of the Six Dragons Sect from another direction.

That Six Dragons Sect member, however, seemed to sense something and changed direction, floating away from the warehouse area toward a residential area.

After Asgard came out, he packed the acquired information and sent it to Jeanne via email while quickly following up.

Soon, they encountered other pedestrians. The martial artist of the Six Dragons Sect ignored them and accelerated, continuing to float deeper into the residential area. Jeanne noticed he seemed to be circling.

——This is an attempt to shake us off.

Jeanne immediately solidified her belief and instructed Asgard to follow closely while she took another route.

This route led into a narrow alley, where there was a public server in the middle. Its waste heat and coolant nourished a genetically modified plant growing very slowly.

Under the tree, several workers were surfing the internet.

Jeanne swung past, using her magnetic chain weapon to accelerate.

But at that moment, she felt a “shiver”…

A certain “sense of dread”…

She instinctively looked toward a tall worker in the corner of the crowd. This worker seemed to be using a heavy industrial prosthetic body, looking like someone coming to surf the internet after work. In Jeanne’s mind, an involuntary flashback of the earlier scene forced itself.

In her memory just now, it seemed this guy appeared…

At this moment, the worker also realized he had been noticed.

——What a big fish.

Protector Shi thought.

He came to hunt the so-called “Six Dragons Sect Hunters.”

He was aware of the recent online buzz. The intelligence about the so-called “Six Dragons Sect Hunters” drew his attention. So, he brought a subordinate and began a diligent fishing journey.

He first used various channels to locate people who might be “hunters” to assess whether these searchers were truly familiar with the Six Dragons Sect.

And the standard, of course, was “identifying the Six Dragons Sect through personality profiling.”