"I forgot to tell you all, Xiaoyuan's faith ritual was personally conducted by his sister."
Wang Dama's voice seemed somewhat proud: "And his sister... is a Middle Rank Third Grade Seeker of the Benevolent Demon Cult!"
"Hiss!!!"
"Wow!!!"
"Middle Rank Seeker???"
"Oh my god..."
From the hidden earpiece came a series of incredulous exclamations from the teammates.
They knew exactly what this meant.
How many people are easily corrupted even by the most ordinary faith rituals? Those who can withstand a faith ritual conducted by an Initial Rank fanatic are natural disguise agents.
A faith ritual conducted by a Middle Rank fanatic?
There are indeed some examples in the country, but they are extremely rare.
And those people are all geniuses among geniuses!
There isn't even one in the entire Bingjiang Province!
Now!
Their Third Group Second Team of Sushan City in Bingjiang Province actually had such a super genius-level disguise agent. After the shock, everyone became excited.
Lin Le: "Jiang Yuan, you're so awesome! From now on, you're my idol!!!"
Hu Zhengfeng: "Hahaha, from now on, I'm the captain of a super genius?"
Wang Rou: "When Jiang Yuan accepts a disguise agent mission, he will automatically be promoted to captain. Thank you."
Hu Zhengfeng: "Haha, but I was once the captain, right?"
Chi Zhongyue: "Amazing, Jiang Yuan! No wonder you could break through in one go. So that's why!"
Chi Zhongyue's words made everyone react.
They had just killed a fanatic yesterday. Even though that fanatic was First Grade Initial Rank, the redemption power obtained was higher.
But did they know that Lin Le had several kills before but only entered the rank yesterday?
There are even many Awakened Ones who haven't entered the rank after eight or ten kills!
This is the difference.
Higher soul strength allows one to absorb and digest more redemption power, naturally entering the rank faster.
They had thought Jiang Yuan was just lucky to enter the rank in one go yesterday, but now it seems it was his true strength!
A super genius...
Following such a disguise agent, their promotion speed in the future will definitely not be slow.
Because there will be more killing opportunities. This is a consensus.
"Alright, let's talk about this later. Jiang Yuan, first tell us what's going on."
Wang Dama interrupted everyone and said in a deep voice: "Everyone report your positions. I'm in the southeast corner, about three kilometers away. I was indeed watching you when you came out."
The others also quickly got serious and reported their positions and distances one by one.
After listening, Jiang Yuan's expression became even more grave.
Hu Zhengfeng was behind this building and couldn't see him at all!
And Hu Zhengfeng himself said he didn't even look in this direction.
This means...
The other three pairs of watching eyes all came from unknown people.
'Ding——'
The elevator arrived.
As Jiang Yuan walked out of the elevator, he said with a bitter smile: "Just now, as soon as I stepped out of my building, I sensed a total of seven pairs of watching eyes."
"Besides the four of you, there are three more... I don't know who they are."
"Maybe one of them is Xiong Yong, but I don't know about the other two."
There was a long silence in the earpiece.
It wasn't until Jiang Yuan opened the password lock and entered the house that Wang Rou spoke, her voice clearly becoming extremely grave: "Because of yesterday's incident, did Xiong Yong tell others about the news?"
"Or... did he hire someone else?"
"Regardless, let's first search to see who they are!"
Jiang Yuan quickly said: "No, let me do it."
"I just remembered their approximate positions. Let me try to look with a telescope first."
"You don't know the specific locations, so you might alert them."
As he spoke, he took out a telescope from his bedroom.
This telescope was brought by Jiang Yuan from the armory in the safe house. It was said to be a very advanced military telescope.
Just as Jiang Yuan was about to secretly observe, Wang Dama suddenly said: "Xiaoyuan, go to my house to observe. If you suddenly go home, it might attract their attention. It would be better if you observe from my house."
"The password for my door lock is 833240."
Jiang Yuan had no objection. He pretended to go to the bathroom and indeed felt someone was still watching him through the window of his house.
He went outside the bathroom, didn't go in, but lay on the ground and crawled toward his front door.
He didn't feel that gaze until he quietly left his home and arrived at Wang Dama's house.
It seems that being careful was indeed correct.
Jiang Yuan didn't care about the situation in Wang Dama's house. Wang Dama also lived alone.
After arriving at a room facing the community entrance, he carefully went to the windowsill, secretly stuck his head out a little, recalled the positions, and looked in a certain direction with the telescope.
With his soul strength increased to 47 points, his perception was more acute, and he could clearly sense the direction, but he couldn't get more specific details.
He could only search with the telescope.
Searching building by building, not missing a single window.
If there was nothing in this building, move on to the next one.
To be fair, this telescope was indeed quite advanced.
It could automatically detect human figures and faces, and then automatically zoom in after detection. Although there might be some deviation, the efficiency was greatly improved.
It could search about one building per minute.
Three minutes later, when searching the twelfth floor of the third building in this direction...
Suddenly!
A green frame appeared in the telescope, a figure, and the lens instantly zoomed in!
This phenomenon had occurred many times before, so Jiang Yuan wasn't surprised.
But the scene he saw this time made Jiang Yuan extremely happy.
At a glance, he saw a figure dressed in black, wearing a , and even a mask on his face!
Most importantly, the other person was also holding a telescope and looking at something!
However, just as Jiang Yuan was about to look more carefully, the other person suddenly seemed to sense something and sharply turned the telescope towards him.
Almost at the moment he looked in this direction, in less than 0.01 seconds, the other person immediately turned around and walked into the room, leaving only a back view for Jiang Yuan.
This result was beyond Jiang Yuan's expectation. He didn't expect the other person's perception to be so acute and his reaction speed to be so fast!
Through the telescope, he stared fixedly at the other person's back. Because the distance was too far, he could only vaguely see the outline of the other person's figure.
At first, he didn't think much of it, but the more he looked, the more Jiang Yuan felt a faint sense of familiarity.
Xiong Yong?!
Yes, it's him, it must be him!
He had dealt with him before, so it was normal for him to be familiar with his back!
By now, the other person had long since disappeared. Jiang Yuan gritted his teeth. Old bastard, I finally found you!
Just then!
The familiar feeling of being watched came again, but before Jiang Yuan could react, that feeling immediately disappeared.
The other two people also discovered him!
Jiang Yuan immediately made this judgment.
This made Jiang Yuan very annoyed. He had originally wanted to see who the other two people were, but now he had to give up.
Needless to say, if the other party discovered him, they would definitely not continue to watch him from a distance, and it would be useless for him to search again.
But it doesn't matter!
Finding Xiong Yong is enough!
Moreover, after Xiong Yong discovered him, the other two people immediately锁定 his position. Jiang Yuan was certain that Xiong Yong must have told them, and the three of them must know each other!
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan didn't hesitate and said loudly: "Found Xiong Yong's position!"
"He's in the residential building behind the Sushan Bank Financial Building!"
"He has already discovered that I'm observing him, he should be running away!"
Wang Dama's voice immediately sounded: "Well done, Jiang Yuan!"
"None of you move, I'll go myself!"
"What about the other two people? Did you see who they are?"
As Wang Dama spoke, there was a whistling wind from her side, clearly she was already in action.
"Those two people should be with Xiong Yong, or hired by Xiong Yong again."
"When Xiong Yong discovered I was watching him, those two also looked over immediately, then quickly disappeared."
Jiang Yuan answered truthfully.
"It's okay, since they're in the same group, there will be traces to follow."
"As long as we catch Xiong Yong, those two can't escape either!"
"You go back to the safe house first, don't stay here too long."
"I'm afraid that after Xiong Yong knows you discovered him, he might break the pot and expose your information, leading the Security Bureau to come and arrest you directly."
Wang Dama instructed as she acted.
"Okay!"
Jiang Yuan quickly left, hurriedly going downstairs.
Sure enough, when he came out this time, apart from the passersby around him, he could only sense three distant watching gazes: those of Chi Zhongyue, Wang Rou, and Lin Le.
Not wanting to delay any longer, Jiang Yuan, still holding the love breakfast, left the community and took a taxi straight to the vicinity of the backup safe house.
...
In the car, Jiang Yuan certainly hoped to catch Xiong Yong this time.
He wouldn't feel at ease until Xiong Yong was eliminated.
Trust Wang Dama. After all, besides his second team, there are other teams, even other groups.
He believed Wang Dama should have made arrangements. As long as Xiong Yong was there, he probably couldn't escape!
The car was speeding along the road to the western suburbs. The buildings around were getting fewer and fewer, and the area was becoming more remote.
Jiang Yuan's mind still kept replaying that back view. He always felt something was wrong, but couldn't say exactly what was wrong.
Just as he was thinking, suddenly!
'Weng——'
The car engine, with the accelerator pressed to the floor, let out a hoarse roar, quickly approaching from far away.
At the same time, Wang Rou's horrified shout came through Jiang Yuan's earpiece: "Jiang Yuan, be careful!!!"
In fact, when he heard this unusual engine sound, Jiang Yuan had already become alert.
From the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw an off-road vehicle on the left side of the crossroads, speeding towards his taxi!
When he saw the figure in the driver's seat through the window, Jiang Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted!
Xiong Yong?!
Why is he here?!
Why did he escape so quickly from the Redemption Organization's surveillance!
And...
He was wearing a light blue shirt.
Chapter 28: Explosive Growth in Strength
Midnight.
Ninth floor, Jiang Yuan's bedroom.
Jiang Yuan waited quietly for the survival point settlement at midnight.
He didn't know how many he would get, but he thought it shouldn't disappoint him.
23:59
00:00
Congratulations on successfully resolving a crisis, killing a First Grade Initial Rank, and surviving for 24 hours.
Comprehensive calculation, reward: 1088 survival points
...
"1088 points?!"
Jiang Yuan had thought there would be quite a few.
But this number still far exceeded his expectations!
Jiang Yuan was overjoyed. This was unprecedented wealth.
Based on the calculation that each level of divine power requires 100 survival points, wouldn't he be able to immediately advance to Second Grade Initial Rank?
He smiled. The temptation was indeed great.
But Jiang Yuan definitely wouldn't do that.
Theoretically, rapid advancement doesn't work. The body can't handle it, the soul can't bear it.
Even without these reasons, someone who advances quickly might not even be able to defeat someone a small realm lower.
A paper tiger, as they say.
Moreover, if he wanted to become stronger in the future and climb to higher realms, he had to be steady and solid, first consolidating his current realm before considering the next one.
Putting aside this tempting thought, Jiang Yuan planned how to use these survival points.
Adding the original 4 points, he had a total of 1092 survival points.
He definitely had to increase his soul first!
Immediately, he began frantically adding to his soul.
25...
26...
27...
Until he was about to increase from 30 to 31, he suddenly discovered that each additional point now required 20 survival points.
After thinking about it, he temporarily stopped adding.
With 1042 points remaining, he would improve his strength, endurance, and speed!
His strength was 10 points. Jiang Yuan increased it by 20 points at once, consuming a total of 200 survival points.
When he tried to increase it further, like with his soul, each point now required 20 survival points.
Jiang Yuan roughly understood the pattern.
He stacked his 11 points of endurance and 10 points of speed all the way up to 30!
This consumed a total of 390 survival points.
452 points remaining!
At this moment.
Jiang Yuan felt an earth-shattering change in himself.
It was even more significant than the change when he entered the rank!
In fact, each point increase in strength, endurance, and speed brings considerable changes.
Not to mention increasing them by 20 points at once.
The massive improvement was not just a multiple of the numbers.
To describe it...
Let's put it this way.
This afternoon, Jiang Yuan had a spar with Lin Le.
They both entered the rank on the same day, but Lin Le had trained earlier. No matter how lazy Lin Le was, Jiang Yuan couldn't beat him.
But now!
If they fought again now, not just one Lin Le, but three, five, or even more Lin Les wouldn't be his match!
Jiang Yuan's biggest shortcomings now were only combat skills and practical experience.
If we were to describe the current improvement in a more intuitive way...
The current Jiang Yuan was equivalent to a Second Grade Initial Rank with insufficient divine power!
In fact, some Second Grade Initial Rank might not even match Jiang Yuan in terms of strength, endurance, and speed!
This.
Is the importance of these three attributes and the necessity of improving them!
Too important.
A person's strength is not just reflected in their realm.
After being excited for a while, Jiang Yuan continued adding points.
With such a large improvement in the three attributes, he needed time to adapt, so there was no need to improve them further.
The same applied to divine power. It was best to improve divine power after fully adapting and consolidating his current strength.
As a disguise agent, the importance of soul strength is self-evident.
What's more, in more than ten days, he would have to go to the provincial capital to participate in the Faith Ceremony.
Immediately, he began frantically adding points to his soul again.
This time he directly increased it by 17 points, bringing the total to an astonishing 47 points, consuming a total of 340 survival points.
The remaining 112 survival points were kept as backup.
After all, now that he had discovered that his soul could recover, he definitely had to keep enough survival points for emergencies.
Opening his attribute panel again, all the data had undergone earth-shattering changes.
Name: Jiang Yuan
Strength: 30
Endurance: 30
Speed: 30
Soul: 47
Divine Power: lv4
Strength: Third Grade Initial Rank
Survival: 112
...
The Divine Power column had moved down, above the Strength column.
This was another small feature Jiang Yuan had discovered. He could freely adjust the display position of each attribute on the attribute panel.
This adjustment made it feel much more comfortable.
Compared to the shabby state at the beginning, the current attributes were much more impressive.
His strength was already incomparable to before.
Even if Xiong Yong launched a sudden attack on him now, Jiang Yuan didn't know if he could defeat the opponent, but it would be almost impossible for the opponent to kill him...
If he couldn't beat him, he could still run!
Unless Xiong Yong was a Second Grade Initial Rank with all three attributes at the peak of this realm!
Or even beyond the current realm!
But the possibility was really low. This required a lot of time, a lot of energy, and most importantly, talent.
Xiong Yong definitely had enough time, given his age.
Energy was unlikely. He had to work every day. Talent was even more impossible.
If he had such powerful talent, why would he be a security guard? He would have long held a position in the Zhengyong Demon Cult he believed in.
At least a Hunter position would be guaranteed.
Looking at his attributes with satisfaction, Jiang Yuan couldn't seem to get enough of them.
Especially his mind and even his senses had become more clear and acute than ever before.
"After my soul strength increased, even my perception became so acute?"
Jiang Yuan was very happy: "In that case... when fighting people with low soul strength, I have an even greater advantage!"
This was definitely another pleasant discovery.
Not only that.
His thinking had also become exceptionally agile.
This had nothing to do with intelligence; it just meant his brain reacted faster.
...
Early the next morning, Jiang Yuan went to the kitchen energetically to make a love breakfast.
Yesterday's love breakfast was ruined, so he would make it again today.
Life had to go on.
Disguise training naturally had to continue as well.
When he came back last night, he had bought a new lunch box at the supermarket, a cute pink one.
The breakfast was rich and carefully prepared.
Homemade sandwiches, heart-shaped ones, two pieces.
Seafood porridge cooked before going to bed last night.
Jiang Yuan had discovered that Chi Zhongyue quite liked seafood.
Taking the carefully prepared love breakfast, he strolled out the door.
As soon as he stepped out of the first-floor elevator and onto the outside of the building, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt something, his expression stiffened for a moment, then immediately returned to normal.
But he was extremely vigilant in his heart.
Just now, the moment he walked out of the building, that feeling of being watched that he had experienced before came again!
And there was more than one!
A total of seven pairs of watching eyes were on him!
Jiang Yuan was instantly terrified, his whole body cold.
He knew who five of those watching eyes belonged to.
Wang Dama, Hu Zhengfeng, Wang Rou, Chi Zhongyue, Lin Le!
But what about the other two?
Assuming one of them was from Xiong Yong, then... who did the other watching eye belong to???
Or maybe...
Like yesterday, were they gangsters or killers hired by Xiong Yong???
It was even possible that Hu Zhengfeng and the others weren't watching him the entire time.
Jiang Yuan was numb.
One wave had not subsided, another wave arose. Just one Xiong Yong had caused him and the second team so much trouble. If there was another hidden mastermind, Jiang Yuan would really be at a loss!
He had to find out!
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan suddenly frowned, clutching his stomach, pretending to have a stomachache, and turned back into the building.
As soon as he entered, that feeling of being watched disappeared.
At the same time, Wang Rou's voice came through the hidden earpiece: "Jiang Yuan? What's wrong? Do you have a stomachache?"
Jiang Yuan exhaled, with a hint of gravity: "No, I might... have discovered Xiong Yong!"
There was an immediate silence in the hidden earpiece.
The next second, Wang Dama's slightly excited voice immediately sounded: "That old bastard finally showed up!"
"Where is he? Did you sense him???"
"Wait... Did your soul break through???"
There was no one in the elevator. Jiang Yuan whispered: "After entering the rank yesterday, my soul did have a significant breakthrough."
"But... I can't be sure if it's him. I just sensed someone watching me in secret."
"First tell me your locations, and then tell me if all your eyes were on me when I walked out of the elevator just now?"
There was another silence in the earpiece.
Wang Rou asked gravely: "Do you mean... you sensed more than just Xiong Yong and us?"
"Wait, you... you even sensed Team Leader Wang's presence???"
"Your soul strength..."
By the end, Wang Rou's tone was filled with incredulity.
She wasn't surprised that he could sense them.
Jiang Yuan was a disguise agent with super strong soul strength. If he couldn't do this, what kind of disguise agent would he be?
But the key point was, Wang Dama was a Middle Rank powerhouse!
And a Middle Rank Second Grade at that!
Wasn't this soul strength a bit too exaggerated!?!