Chapter 306: Unseen Threats

“I have to admit your ability is quite rare and valuable…”

Just then, the soft voice of the single-eyed man in the courtyard spoke up again.

Since Lu Xin had his back to him, he couldn’t see his expression. A confident smile could be heard in his voice as he spoke, “When you said you’d guard the doorway just now, you really scared my companion and accidentally hit its weakness. And your ability is strange, but clearly, you still made a mistake.”

“By trapping it inside the room, you basically exposed your back to me…”

…

While speaking, he ejected the magazine, replaced the ordinary bullets with a new one, and slowly walked forward, aiming his gun at Lu Xin. He chuckled, “Now, I need to decide whether to kill you or capture you.”

In his view, Lu Xin had already been caught by Hide-and-Seek. His body was rigid, his living presence fading. Based on past experience, his mission was complete. The only thing left was to decide whether to cautiously eliminate this strange Ability User directly or carefully take him back for interrogation.

“Why don’t you consider telling me what you know instead?”

Just as he was pondering this, the eye on his face suddenly constricted as if he’d noticed something startling.

The next moment, his legs didn’t seem to move, but his body shot backward as he raised his hand and fired the gun.

*Click!*

Just as his figure retreated, Lu Xin, who had seemed motionless, suddenly turned his head with a stiff movement.

His body remained still, but his neck twisted a full 180 degrees to smile at the man in the suit.

Immediately after, the head, already turned to that extent, tilted slightly, narrowly dodging the bullet fired at him.

“What’s going on?”

Witnessing this utterly bizarre scene, the man in the suit’s voice wavered.

This was the first time he’d sounded like this since appearing.

“Don’t be impulsive…”

Lu Xin, his neck twisted backward, ignored the man in the suit and looked down at his own shadow, speaking softly.

Then, his head snapped back around with a cracking sound. He whispered, “Sister, you can let go now.”

At that moment, Sister was holding his head with her two little hands.

Otherwise, Lu Xin couldn’t have twisted his head that far on his own.

Of course, even with Sister’s help, his neck still felt a bit sore.

He shook it slightly, producing a crisp cracking sound, and his neck felt much better.

Slowly turning his head, he looked at the short monster with many tentacles growing from it. Recalling the details, he whispered:

“So, your ability is that you can’t be seen?”

“It’s not even invisibility. It’s because you emit some kind of aura that makes people subconsciously avoid looking at you. In a way, that’s even more formidable than invisibility. Even if someone sees you or catches a trace of you, they’ll subconsciously ignore it, even forget you. That’s why no one can find you because everyone subconsciously doesn’t want to.”

“When you ‘catch’ someone, you’re actually polluting them.”

“The conditions for pollution are contact and the target being unnoticed by others.”

“I wonder if someone with your ability has ever lost a game of ghost hunting…”

As he spoke slowly, he looked up at Sister, who was currently squatting on the monster’s head, her little arms crossed, looking quite proud. An appreciative smile spread across Lu Xin’s face as he looked at the monster and said:

“But clearly, this time, you lost.”

…

Feeling Lu Xin’s gentle gaze upon it, the little monster’s body trembled like chaff in the wind.

It kept its head lowered, not daring to look Lu Xin in the eyes.

After glancing at it coolly, Lu Xin’s mood gradually brightened.

Then, he shot a somewhat provocative glance outside at the single-eyed man in the suit.

Clearly, while he was guarding the doorway, preventing the monster from escaping and planning to wear it down, the man in the suit outside was also creating an opportunity. Not only to let his companion escape but also hoping his companion could launch a sneak attack while he was distracted. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t know that while he faced the man in the suit, Sister had been inside the room all along.

She was searching for the unseen monster.

And finally, when the monster launched its sneak attack on Lu Xin, she did indeed find it.

It was precisely because Sister kept hold of it that Lu Xin could continuously see it and no longer ignore it.

“Brother, brother…”

Having received Lu Xin’s praise, Sister became even happier. Look at that proud air, like she could ascend to the heavens.

She happily looked at the monster skilled in hide-and-seek, then looked up at Lu Xin with pleading eyes, like a child asking for a treat.

“You can play, but don’t go overboard!”

Lu Xin reminded her, his eyes watching closely.

An excited expression immediately appeared on Sister’s face. She reached out with her two little hands towards the leader’s head and started twisting.

*Crack crack…*

Her little hands twisted the leader’s head with cracking sounds, nearly snapping its spine.

But at the same time, everyone in the entire team’s heads tilted to the side in unison, their bones cracking loudly.

“Stop.”

Lu Xin shouted.

He had already discovered that those people now seemed to be a single entity.

If Sister snapped the first person’s head, perhaps everyone’s heads would break too.

Meeting Sister’s confused gaze, he thought for a moment and said, “You watch him for now. I’ll play with you later…”

Sister hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

…

“Who are you talking to?”

While Lu Xin was seriously instructing Sister, the tone of the single-eyed man in the suit changed slightly.

He had originally thought everything was progressing smoothly and had relaxed considerably.

The convoy had fallen into their hands, leaving only the final task: capture or eliminate this Ability User of unknown origin. They could even use the people from the convoy to threaten him. But he hadn’t expected such a drastic turn of events.

When Lu Xin looked towards his companion’s location, he had a bad feeling.

Because his companion’s ability was precisely not being seen.

Not only had this person seen his companion, but when he looked at the companion, the companion started twisting its own neck violently, with loud cracking sounds, as if trying to break it.

This gave him an incomprehensible, eerie feeling.

…

“Caught this one. Now it’s your turn…”

Lu Xin turned around with a smile, his gaze fixed on the man in the suit.

The shadow beneath his feet rapidly stretched out, spreading in an instant and lunging towards the man in the suit’s body.

They were both standing in the courtyard now, too far for the light from the room to reach.

The entire courtyard was shrouded in vast darkness.

In this darkness, the shadow was like a fish in water.

It could easily turn every shadow-covered area into extremely dangerous territory.

However, Lu Xin hadn’t expected that even though the man in the suit couldn’t see the shadow, his pupil constricted sharply as it rushed towards him. Then, in an incredibly short time, he leaped three or four meters away and simultaneously raised his gun, firing with a “Bang!”.

Lu Xin’s figure stiffly tilted to the side as a bullet grazed past his body.

The bullet hit the wall behind him, erupting in a burst of blue electrical arcs.

Special bullets.

…

“Something’s strange…”

This time, Lu Xin didn’t rush to counterattack but pondered seriously.

Although he wasn’t hurt, facing this person, it seemed like he could only take hits…

He clearly wasn’t a Spider-type Ability User, and his movements weren’t exceptionally fast. Why could he dodge his own attacks?

The shadow trembled, and Father also started showing resentment.

Given his temper, he naturally couldn’t stand this powerless situation of just taking hits.

“Don’t lose your temper now. Losing your temper won’t solve anything…”

Lu Xin patiently persuaded Father, “Let’s think first. We can definitely find a way to deal with him…”

…

“Just who is this person?”

The man in the suit’s mind was filled with a strange feeling.

He had made thorough preparations before coming, knowing the opponent was a powerful Ability User capable of destroying the experimental base in a short time. However, he hadn’t expected this Ability User, capable of destroying the base, to be someone who talked to himself and seemed abnormal no matter how you looked at him.

Right. Even though his face lacked ears, a nose, and a mouth, having only a single eye.

He still felt that Lu Xin was the abnormal one.

Regarding his own ability, he didn’t much care how strong the opponent was.

But this self-talking vibe made his skin crawl a little.

“Huh? Found it…”

Suddenly, just as he was changing magazines and preparing to go all out, he heard the opponent’s somewhat excited voice. Then he saw Lu Xin looking up at him, saying, “Clearly, your speed isn’t that fast, far slower than a Spider-type, yet you can easily dodge my attacks. Even your bullets target the direction I’m about to dodge towards. It’s like…”

“You anticipated what I would do in advance?”

“So…”

He paused, then said with a smile, “Is your ability precognition? No, wait. Is it mind-reading?”

As he spoke, his eyes suddenly looked in one direction, but the shadow instantly spread out towards the surroundings.

Caught completely off guard, the man in the suit was enveloped by the shadow.

But unexpectedly, the instant the shadow enveloped him, the man in the suit suddenly disappeared.

“Of all the opponents I’ve faced, you’re the latest one to guess my ability…”

His thin voice echoed from all directions: “…And just like everyone else, you guessed wrong.”