Clang!
With a heavy, dull thud, the somewhat rusty door lock was smashed apart by Bai Yu and fell to the ground with a crisp clatter.
Back when she was playing the game, not being able to just smash the door open had really frustrated Bai Yu.
Now, she could finally resort to brute force.
Bai Yu weighed the steel pipe in her hand with some satisfaction.
That strike just now had felt incredibly cathartic.
However, the noise from smashing the lock had been quite loud.
She hoped it hadn’t attracted anything.
Thinking this, Bai Yu gently pushed open the rust-stained door before her.
The light inside the room was still rather dim.
Bai Yu raised her phone to illuminate the interior.
Dust covered the windows on the walls, blocking the sunlight trying to filter into the room.
No wonder it was so dark inside.
But after standing outside and observing for a moment, Bai Yu felt something was off.
The areas near the walls were quite dusty.
However, the area near the entrance, especially the wooden table in the middle of the room, seemed to have significantly less accumulated dust, as if someone had been there not long ago.
‘Maybe the Star Eclipse Society members came to this room earlier?’
Her heart stirred.
Perhaps there was something very important here, which was why she had suddenly had a precognition of this room.
No time to waste.
Why wait?
She should go in and search right away.
She might discover an important clue.
After entering the room, Bai Yu went straight to the wooden table that was slightly less dusty.
A few documents were placed on it.
The paper didn’t show signs of yellowing; these were probably left by the Star Eclipse Society.
Bai Yu stepped forward and picked up the documents.
Besides the papers, a map was also spread out on the wooden table, with several locations marked with red circles.
“This map… seems to be of Red Maple City?”
Bai Yu stared at the map for a long moment before confirming it was indeed a map of Red Maple City.
As for the areas marked with red circles on the map, the easternmost mark was probably the industrial park they were currently investigating.
Besides the east, marks were also made in the other three directions and in the central area of Red Maple City.
‘What exactly is the Star Eclipse Society planning to do?’
‘Could the circled places represent where Loweia might appear?
But this place is just wasteland.
How could Loweia possibly appear here?
Unless the brains of those Star Eclipse Society guys have been eaten by wolves, they wouldn’t possibly connect this wasteland with Loweia.’
‘If it’s not about finding Loweia, then what are they planning?’
‘Whatever it is, it’s certainly nothing good.’
Bai Yu took out her phone, preparing to send what she saw to the group chat and inform Jiang Qianxun, when she suddenly felt dizzy.
The scene before her shattered like a mirror, and then those fragmented images began to reassemble, forming a new picture.
She saw a sea of fire.
Although the buildings were severely collapsed, Bai Yu could still make out that this was probably in Central City.
Bai Yu’s gaze continued to search the image.
She saw herself slumped on the ground.
In front of her were Su Keke and Jiang Qianxun, looking equally disheveled.
But compared to Bai Yu, who was slumped on the ground, their condition was slightly better.
At least they were still forcing themselves to stand, not falling.
The faces of these two female protagonists looked terrifyingly pale, as if completely drained, and they were gasping for breath heavily.
Clearly, they had likely just experienced a fierce battle.
As for the outcome, Bai Yu wasn’t sure.
But what made Bai Yu’s scalp tingle more than the sorry state of the three of them was the figure standing before them.
Silver-white hair danced wildly in the fierce wind.
Pale flames swirled around the white-haired girl, and a fierce, ruthless light shone in those crimson eyes.
‘That’s… Loweia?’
‘She… she regained her abilities? And…’
Just as Bai Yu was about to continue watching to see what exactly had happened, the image before her shattered again.
Bai Yu felt her vision go dark.
As her body was about to fall, she quickly grabbed the wooden table in front of her, preventing herself from collapsing to the floor.
‘What in the world is going on?’
She leaned on the table for a good while before her vision cleared again.
She was back in the dusty, dimly lit room.
No… she hadn’t returned; the precognition had simply ended.
Bai Yu used one hand to hold her forehead.
The only relief was that there was no sign of a headache, just a slight dizziness.
After resting against the table for a while, the dizziness gradually subsided until it completely disappeared.
Bai Yu shook her head lightly.
She seemed to have seen something quite extraordinary.
‘Could it be that Loweia’s memories were restored ahead of time?’
‘And then, Su Keke and Jiang Qianxun fought Loweia and lost?’
Bai Yu carefully recalled the scene.
At that time, Loweia’s clothing didn’t seem damaged in the slightest.
‘Could it be that even with the two female protagonists joining forces, they couldn’t harm her at all?’
‘But if that’s the case, my own expression at the time was a bit off. After all, if the two female protagonists from the original Star Song were defeated, Loweia should have been about to settle accounts with me next. Yet, at that time, my face showed no trace of fear.’
‘Instead, I looked somewhat surprised.’
‘Was I surprised that Loweia had regained her abilities? Or surprised that Loweia was there?’
It wasn’t clear yet.
After all, Bai Yu had only seen a single image and didn’t know the full story.
In any case, Bai Yu looked at the map on the table and the documents in her hand.
‘Things turning out that way probably has something to do with the Star Eclipse Society. Regardless of what they’re planning, we have to stop them.’
Bai Yu picked up her phone, opened the group chat, and sent the photos she had taken.
She also sent the specific address and location.
The moment she finished doing this, before Bai Yu could even sigh in relief, she suddenly heard a series of heavy footsteps.
She turned around, shining her phone light in that direction.
A massive Abnormal Entity had appeared in the shadows not far outside the door.
‘Damn it…’
—
“Done.”
Su Keke looked at the tied-up figures and nodded with satisfaction.
Beside her, Jiang Qianxun was adjusting her glasses, staring intently at the captured Star Eclipse Society members.
“Sister Qianxun, how was my performance?”
The blonde girl stood with her hands on her hips, looking like she was waiting for praise.
Jiang Qianxun nodded in response.
“Coco did very well indeed.”
And she really had.
After she and Su Keke discovered a hideout, the exposed Star Eclipse Society members immediately injected themselves with a drug.
By disrupting the balance of Star Mark energy within their bodies, they achieved an imbalance effect, triggering a mutation in their Star Mark energy, ultimately causing them to degenerate into Abnormal Entities.
But under Su Keke’s ability, those who had just completed their degeneration were directly reverted.
Afterward, Jiang Qianxun used her ability to control them all.
It was unclear if any had slipped through the net, but with these people captured, they should be able to extract a lot of information.
Jiang Qianxun took out her phone, preparing to send a message to Bai Yu to come over, when she saw the pictures and location information Bai Yu had sent.
“Little Bai Yu has made a discovery too.”
Whether it was luck or her precognition ability at work, she had found something.
“Coco, go check on Bai Yu’s side. She might have made an important discovery there. As for here, I’ll handle the interrogation work.”
“Got it.”