CHAPTER 618: CHAPTER 342: THE APPROACH OF DARKNESS

Resuming mission status again, she walked alone on the desolate street.

She circled around the nightclubs and bars on Yingchun Road, pacing back and forth several times.

During this time, she even encountered a few drunk men who approached to flirt and ask for prices.

If it weren’t for the mission, she probably would have punched them already.

Cheng Leyi took a deep breath and walked again into the dimly lit side road.

"Leyi, if you’re tired, you can take a break first..."

Xu Fei’s concerned voice came through the earpiece.

"Received..."

Cheng Leyi was just about to reply "I’m fine" when suddenly a burst of ear-piercing static came through the earpiece.

Zzzzz——

All sounds were elongated, becoming intermittent.

Immediately after, complete silence.

"Hello? Fisherman?"

"Lin Xuhao? Chen Lei?"

"Please reply if you receive this."

Cheng Leyi shouted a few times with an increased volume, but the communication channel was deathly quiet, with not a single teammate responding.

What is happening?

An unprecedented sensation of strangeness enveloped her.

She abruptly stopped and looked around.

The surrounding world seemed to be undergoing some strange transformation.

The darkness was like thick ink, devouring the light.

The silence was like the air being sucked away, pressing against her eardrums.

Not to mention the distant lights of tall buildings, even the few streetlights on this road became blurry.

As if viewed through frosted glass distorted by rain, twisted and distorted.

The temperature of the air was dropping rapidly.

An icy aura rushed in from all directions.

At this moment, she heard a sound.

A very faint, restrained breathing sound, as if coming from deep within a throat.

The sound was right next to her ear.

Yet there was no one around.

This was no illusion.

With her Perception Ability, she would never make a mistake in this regard.

Otherwise, in countless past missions, she would have died countless times.

Cheng Leyi felt it.

The sticky gaze from before had appeared once again.

This time, it was no longer following from afar.

Instead, like a snake’s tongue, cold and slick, it seemed to be licking the back of her neck.

Cheng Leyi couldn’t help but raise her hand to touch it.

A cold fear surged from her feet to the top of her head like a tide, freezing all the blood in her body.

Uncontrollably, images of those girls’ tragic death photos from the case file flashed through her mind, her nails almost digging into the leather of her handbag.

"Calm down, stay calm..."

She bit her lip, forcibly soothing her pounding heart.

Her eyes widened, ears slightly perked, amplifying the perception of her senses to the limit.

Her hand reached into the handbag once again.

Suddenly, she detected movement.

A stream of water, almost merged with the darkness, silently spread from behind her along the ground.

It wound around her heel like a living snake, ready to coil around her fair calf.

Now!

A fierce look flashed in Cheng Leyi’s eyes as she swiftly turned and stomped hard on the stream of water.

At the same time, she pulled out a pepper spray from the handbag, and pressed the nozzle fiercely into the air in front of her.

Psshhh——

A large cloud of red smoke gushed out instantly.

"Ah!"

A shrill scream pierced the air.

Within the red smoke, the water rippled violently and a transparent human figure’s outline was forcibly outlined, writhing in agony.

Cheng Leyi strained to keep her eyes wide open, staring intently at the eerie red figure.

"What the hell is this thing?"

A slightly annoyed male voice came from the writhing red figure.

Cheng Leyi furrowed her brows and retorted with full vigor.

"I’d like to ask you what the hell you are, damn it!"