Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Two hours later, near the private club.

"Something's wrong."

Su Qing hid behind some piles of rocks and used the observation device on his energy rifle to observe various locations in the private club. All the guards were still patrolling and guarding, but no one was making any movements. From a distance, they looked like statues.

"This... Is there something interfering with the scanner's signal? Why can't I detect any life response here?"

Zhao Xuan was holding the scanner in his hand. He had just completed a scan in the direction of the private club. He compared the data and energy readings displayed on the scanner with a puzzled look on his face. The number of living beings shown on it was zero.

Zhao Xuan looked at Han Zu beside him blankly, frowned and spread out his hands. Han Zu also felt something was wrong, and expanded his perception ability to cover the entire private club, including the range of the surrounding sentries. What he sensed was similar to the data obtained by Zhao Xuan using the scanner. Within this range, except for Zhao Xuan, Su Qing, and Han Zu, there were no other life fluctuations, not even insects.

There are many traces of wheel tracks on the road leading to the clubhouse. It should be the group of people who were heading to the farm before who came to the clubhouse first. In other words, the abnormality here should have appeared after they left.

"Get a drone and take a look."

Han Zu said something to Zhao Xuan, and Zhao Xuan immediately took out a piece of composite metal from his bag and quickly made it into a small surveillance drone. After installing the detection and scanning equipment on the drone and connecting the drone's image to the handheld terminal, Zhao Xuan controlled the drone and quietly flew into the private club under the cover of darkness.

"What the hell... Boss! Su Qing! Come and take a look!"

The two men surrounded Zhao Xuan and followed the position of his finger to observe the image of the drone on the terminal. According to the display on the screen, the drone was controlled by Zhao Xuan and hovered in a hidden place of a sentry post. There happened to be a guard nearby. Observing through the perspective of the drone, everyone found that the soldier's skin seemed to have shrunk, wrinkled and piled together, and his eyeballs became shriveled, but for some reason, he was still standing there and did not fall down.

"The scan parameters above show that the guard is completely dead. Judging from his physical condition, he died more than two hours ago, which is when we were still in the underground facility on the farm."

"What was the cause of death?"

"Dehydration, and it's not just ordinary dehydration. It's the loss of all the water in the body in a very short period of time."

"What about the other guards in this post? Is it the same?"

"That's right, at least that's what the scanner said. And, Boss, these people didn't show any resistance before they died, which means that either they were killed very quickly, or they were one of their own."

These dead guards all maintained their last movements before death. Some were still patrolling, and some were checking their guns. They probably didn't even realize at the time that they were about to die.

"According to the strictness of the Night Owl organization, it should be unlikely that one of their own would kill the other. As for how fast the killer was, even if he was fast, even if these people didn't notice, the killer should have left some traces. But there are no clues here."

Zhao Xuan spread out his hands and shook his head. He couldn't think of any other possibilities. Han Zu and Su Qing also had no clue, so they could only let Zhao Xuan continue to control the drone to go deeper.

When it arrived outside the private club complex, the drone's transmission signal was suddenly greatly interfered with, and the moment it entered the club building, it lost control and fell to the ground. The transmission signal was also completely cut off. This was a very bad signal, which indicated that there must be something extraordinary in the club complex.

"Everything is ready. We have to go in and take a look. I vaguely feel that this may be related to what we are looking for."

After checking their weapons and equipment, Han Zu, Zhao Xuan and Su Qing immediately entered the private club. When passing by the body of a guard, Han Zu stretched out a tentacle and touched the mummy a few times. The result surprised Han Zu and made him stop.

"What's wrong, boss? Are there any abnormalities in these corpses?"

"Zhao Xuan, bring up the interface for detecting energy transfer readings."

"Okay boss, but this..?"

Following Han Zu's instructions, Zhao Xuan took out the terminal and opened the monitoring interface for detecting energy transmission and transfer. Han Zu asked Zhao Xuan and Su Qing to observe the readings together. The value was now zero.

"Although my information is confidential within the Infinite Company, since you two have become my subordinates, I can reveal a little bit to you. I have an ability that can absorb and draw energy from any living being, whether dead or alive. However, the longer they have been dead, the less energy I can draw. For example, this."

Two tentacles grew out of Han Zu's back, which rested on the exposed skin of Su Qing and Zhao Xuan respectively. Zhao Xuan and Su Qing observed that the energy transfer reading on the terminal was increasing and had reached fifty.

"Depending on the strength of their life forms, the people whose energy I have drained away will only feel the loss of energy when the reading reaches between 15 and 75. Looking at your condition now, you should be able to feel it. What's the reading?"

"Fifty, boss."

Han Zu stopped absorbing energy from the two people, and the reading on the instrument quickly returned to zero, but Han Zu did not retract his tentacles from the two people.

"Although this may have been heard by people within the company, there is another secret. Because of my special characteristics, I can not only absorb energy, but I can also input energy in the opposite direction."

Zhao Xuan and Su Qing instantly felt a violent but pure energy rushing into their bodies, which not only made up for the energy that had been absorbed before, but even caused energy overflow. Before this excess energy was consumed, the two of them could be said to have been strengthened for a long time.

Zhao Xuan looked down at the reading on the terminal and saw that the value displayed on it had reached three digits.

This time, Han Zu retracted the tentacle and grew a new tentacle from his wrist, wrapping around the body of the guard in front of him.

"I just said that I can absorb energy even from dead life forms. Even if I become a skeleton, even if the energy absorbed may be very low, it will definitely not be zero. But now."

Han Zu pointed at the terminal in Zhao Xuan's hand, and the reading on it was still showing zero.

"this...?"

"Dead, he must be dead, but this kind of death and the effects it caused are not only something I have never seen before, I even think it is unlikely."

When Han Zu retracted the tentacles from the guard's body, perhaps he did not control the strength well, and the guard's body fell to the ground due to inertia and ended up turning into a handful of dirt. This abnormal change made the three of them frown, and their eyes turned to the location of the building complex.

Han Zu took out his cell phone and told the person in charge of the base about this matter, but for some reason, this time he did not report what happened here to the Intelligence Department.

Arriving at one of the buildings in the complex, where the drone had failed just now, Zhao Xuan and Su Qing couldn't help but get nervous when they saw the drone falling to the ground inside the door. They tightened their weapons.

Although Han Zu was not nervous, he was not as leisurely as usual this time. His expression was very serious. He stood at the door, took out a cigarette box, took a cigarette himself, and then handed the cigarette box to Zhao Xuan and Su Qing in turn.

Su Qing didn't smoke, so he declined Han Zu's offer. Zhao Xuan took one, and he was so nervous that the cigarette holder was a little deformed. He used Han Zu's burning fingers to light the cigarette, and the three of them stood quietly at the door for a while until Han Zu and Zhao Xuan finished smoking the cigarettes.

Spitting out the cigarette butt, Han Zu looked at Zhao Xuan and Su Qing respectively, and they nodded.

"call...."

Han Zu let out a long sigh, took the brunt of the charge, and walked into the door of the building. Zhao Xuan and Su Qing also raised their weapons and followed Han Zu in.