My Ability Pool is Superior-Chapter 83 - 82: Hunt

At night, Yao Yi had a dream.

He saw himself, or rather his body.

Clothes tattered, hunched over, walking on a muddy path.

The road seemed endless, the scenery on both sides indistinct, bizarre and fantastic.

He tried hard to see his own face clearly, eyes moving upward, then further upward...

Then, he woke up.

Scared awake.

Visibility in the hospital room was low; he wiped the sweat from his forehead, panting heavily.

The specifics of the dream were hard to recall; he only felt that watching himself walk was very strange.

"Is this considered a nightmare?"

He turned to look at the adjacent bed, wanting to tell Lv Bai about his dream.

Only an empty hospital bed made him gradually regain clarity.

Right, after Lv Bai took Xiaoying away, he hadn’t returned, where did he go?

...

Bang!

A mirror was smashed.

He Yan blocked the uninvited guest outside the room.

The wound kept sending waves of sharp pain, giving her a strong urge to vomit; it seems the stab must have hit her stomach.

Unfortunately, the current situation left her no chance to verify the severity of her injury. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Crunch~

In the dark, Lv Bai accidentally stepped on a piece of broken mirror. The sound wasn’t loud, yet it startled He Yan into a cold sweat.

This was a hair salon located on the mall’s second floor. Besides the haircut area, there was an inner room for living.

The mall had minimal traffic, so most shops closed early.

Even slightly louder movements wouldn’t attract much attention.

Lv Bai slowed his breath, approached the room’s door, and suddenly kicked down the fragile door.

While leaning forward, he sent out a slash with his Long Teeth.

"No! Spare me..."

Shhh~

His hand didn’t tremble in the slightest, sealing the throat with one slash.

[Ding!]

[Score +1, Current Score: 3, Current Rank 2/415]

"Tch."

Lv Bai put away Long Teeth: "Is there someone even faster than me?"

The number of Death Fighters declined drastically in a short time; clearly, he wasn’t the only one acting under cover of night.

Yet, the efficiency of this hunting method was low.

The main challenge was how to quickly find the next target?

In fact, although Lv Bai had only scored three points until now, this was already his sixth attempt.

With the night passing, any slightly clever Death Fighter likely wouldn’t stay in one place.

Better change the approach; calling it a night.

Lv Bai turned around and wandered through the salon, carefully cleaning any trace of hair, footprints, fingerprints that could expose information.

After spending some time cleaning up, Lv Bai left through the mall’s other exit, dodged surveillance cameras along the way, returned to a flower bed, retrieved his hidden phone, and headed straight back to the hospital.

...

The next day, morning.

Yao Yi groggily woke from sleep, sporting faint dark circles, clearly indicating a restless night.

He was surprised to see Lv Bai "refreshing" in the bed next to him: "Brother Lv? When did you come back last night?"

"You were asleep when I returned."

Lv Bai opened his eyes, staring at the white ceiling, speaking some empty but correct words.

He hadn’t slept long, but felt alright, so he got up to wash in the bathroom.

Some say to stroll around a hospital, as perhaps its walls have heard more prayers than a church.

But Lv Bai felt indifferent; in past life or present, he held no penchant for lamenting lost time.

His stay in the hospital recently hadn’t adversely impacted his mental wellness.

After finishing washing up, he checked the time, it was almost nine o’clock.

Sleeping in seemed unnecessary?

Upon returning to the room, he noticed doctors with medical interns in the corridor conducting pre-surgery inquiries with patients.

The intern took notes in a small book: "You haven’t eaten in the last twelve hours, correct?"

The family supported the patient and quickly replied: "No, no."

The older doctor suddenly spoke: "How can you handle such a major surgery without eating something?"

"Yes, yes."

The family nodded rapidly: "But we weren’t allowed to eat, so we only drank a bit of millet porridge."

Hearing this, Lv Bai couldn’t help but smile.

Different attitudes toward the same situation bring different results.

Still, since at the hospital, better to smile more.

...

"That Xiaoying really is... a parasitic entity?"

Yao Yi glanced outside the room, ensuring no eavesdroppers, then whispered.

"Yes." Lv Bai shot him a look and continued sipping the soy milk brought by Tong Shujuan.

"I just find it unbelievable; now parasitic entities can disguise themselves so well. Don’t you think they’re evolving too quickly?"

Yao Yi looked toward Tong Shujuan: "Shujuan, don’t you think?"

Tong Shujuan rolled her eyes: "I wouldn’t know, I haven’t seen this Xiaoying you two mentioned."

It’s worth noting that not only Lv Bai and Yao Yi but Tong Shujuan was also recruited into the Special Affairs Bureau through strong insistence. She wasn’t placed in the Field Department though.

Given the need to control information dissemination, the Special Affairs Bureau couldn’t recruit widely at this stage.

Initially, personnel from the department were mostly drafted from military or police systems.

This meant that anyone who witnessed parasitic entities and willingly joined would generally not be refused by the Special Affairs Bureau.

However, as the Bureau becomes more comprehensive, joining would likely become more difficult.

Lv Bai swallowed a meat-filled bun and opened his phone to play a video.

The video showcased surveillance footage from several intersections near the hospital.

He had asked the special ops officer who gave him a ride to the hospital to help obtain the surveillance footage. By the time the video arrived, he’d already fallen asleep on the hospital bed.

Not entirely useless, but barely useful.

Taking a casual glance to see if any suspicious individuals were loitering near the hospital.

Ring ring~

Two phone calls rang almost simultaneously.

Lv Bai was just watching surveillance footage, so he answered readily.

He had some idea of the nature of Xu Qiang’s call.

"Hello?"

"Lv Bai? Have you seen the news?"

"Not yet."

"It’s horrifying, absolutely horrifying; nearly a hundred murders in a single night, largely home invasion murders!"

"Your point?" Lv Bai raised his eyebrows.

"Hell, such a massive commotion. Do you think those parasitic entities have gone mad? What’s their aim?!"

On the other end of the call, Xu Qiang was outraged, banging the table loudly: "Get yourself back to the Bureau, we’re going to increase your responsibilities."