Chapter 626: Soul Society!

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

As a cautious person, Ling Lan didn’t go near the bead.

“Little Four, what is that?”

She had no qualms about calling Little Four out whenever she liked. She had went passed the period of feeling guilty for using child labor. After all, she had been looking after him for over 20 years now. Her kindness had disappeared under the guidance of Number Five. Ling Lan was not a good person anymore. Of course, she was not an evil person too.

The more powerful Ling Lan became, the more information Little Four could gather. Hence, Little Four didn’t need signals to read data anymore.

“Huh? That is a miniature optical supercomputer. It was made using the same materials as your communicator. It is a communication bead.” Little Four did some simple research and managed to find out what the bead was.

Ling Lan looked down at her wrist instinctively. There was nothing on it. Her communicator had been sent back to the headquarters of the 23rd Division to facilitate their mission.

However, Ling Lan’s communicator was an upgraded one. Her first communicator was destroyed after she first used her domain power. She knew that she would be questioned if she went to collect a new one herself so she looked for her father for help.

To protect his daughter, Ling Xiao took much effort to settle this matter for her. He used his status and power to get a new communicator for his daughter. Of course, this communicator was not so simple too.

The Federation would only give new communicators to formidable warriors who managed to achieve the domain realm. These communicators were able to withstand the energy released by domain masters. It can also changed its form according to its owner’s element.

After Ling Lan tried out her new communicator, she was stunned. She felt that she had jumped from a technologically advanced world to a magical world. Only domain warriors could use this communicator. This was why the Federation had the information of all domain realm masters and would only distribute to those who were qualified to be called formidable warriors.

To get this communicator and not become an illegal immigrant, no formidable warriors would conceal themselves as this device represented honor and a certain status. It was a good thing to them.

Also, if they didn’t register, they would be unable to get the new communicator. Without it, they wouldn’t be able to fully use their domain power. If they did, their old communicator would break apart. Then, they would be questioned when they would apply for a new one so it was almost impossible for them to hide themselves. Ling Lan could conceal herself because she had an amazing father.

When Ling Lan knew about the communicator, she was curious about the materials used.

Ling Lan knew that assassins would not bring any communication device on them when they went on a mission as it would increase the risk of exposing their identity.

Ling Lan also suspected that the face which her opponent had might also be fake. The Federation had an agent which could temporarily change the appearance of a person. Its effects only lasted for a day but it was enough to carry out short missions.

However, no one knew what they would change into after consuming the agent. It was random. Hence, people with long missions couldn’t use this agent.

The communicator that Ling Lan had on her now contained her fake identity. It was just a normal communicator so when they went out today, they left it in their room in case it would be broken in a fight.

“I have decoded it. Soul Society, Sky Rank Assassin number 37. Nickname: Demon Fire… I can even login into the main page of Soul Society. Wow, there are all kinds of mission on their main page.. I found it. Mission: Kill Princess Guliba. S level mission. Remarks: A domain master is protecting the princess. The level has increased from A+ to an S. The reward would also be doubled.”

The information that Little Four found appeared in Ling Lan’s mindscape. Ling Lan looked at the blood red words in the remarks section. She frowned.

The Soul Society was the most famous assassin society in the human world. Their assassins comprised of two groups. One group of the assassins were raised within the society when they were young. Another group of them underwent many challenges and tests and to become temporary assassins. The temporary assassins were just bounty hunters who wanted to earn some extra income.

The Soul Society was so famous, everyone in the Federation heard about it. The society seemed to be exposed to the public but in actual fact, no countries were able to destroy the power that Soul Society had planted in their nation. No one knew where their headquarters were and who worked for them. They didn’t know who the assassins were too.

The Soul Society never gave missions face to face or through a third party. You needed a secret communicator to contact these people.

Even if they had the communication bead, they could only see the main page of the Soul Society. They could apply for a mission to be added on the main page and the staff members of Soul Society would gauge the difficulty level of the mission and the rewards for it. The rewards had to be sent to a designated account given by the Soul Society within three days. After that, Soul Society would upload the mission.

All communications were carried out using the communication bead so no information could be leaked. Many countries had tried using hackers to hack into the Soul Society’s mainframe but Soul Society had its own hackers too. In the end, both parties suffered great losses. The countries didn’t dare to do anything to the Soul Society anymore and let them run by themselves. After all, the Soul Society only wanted to target the assassin industry and had no intention of overtaking any countries.

Thus, Ling Lan knew that the situation was bad for them. They could escape the assassination this time but there would be more powerful opponents sent to kill the princess the next time. The longer they dragged, the worse it would get.

“Boss, the Soul Society’s rules are weird. Once a domain realm assassin took on a mission, no other domain masters can interfere with the mission unless it was confirmed that the domain realm assassin failed or requires help.” Little Four read out the rules for Ling Lan.

“How long will it take for them to ascertain that Demon Fire is dead?” Ling Lan heaved a sigh of relief secretly. If only one domain assassin came one at a time, she could still handle it.

“When the spiritual power on the nameplate of Demon Fire disappear, Soul Society will declare Demon Fire as dead,” Little Four replied.

Ling Lan asked in surprise, “Can a person’s spiritual power still linger after they die?”

“Of course. When you died in your past life, your spiritual power still remained for some time, right?” Little Four looked at Ling Lan with disdain. “You thought that you were a ghost that time. I was the one who kept your spiritual power, passed it through the time crack, and gave you the opportunity to be reborn as your father’s child.” Little Four looked up proudly. Hurry up and praise me.

Ling Lan touched her head. She said in a helpless tone, “Yes, Little Four is the best.”

Little Four shook his butt happily when he heard the compliment. Even though 20 years had past, Little Four still expressed his happiness in the same way.

“Did you keep Demon Fire’s spiritual power too?” Ling Lan thought about another domain master appearing in her mindscape… she shivered. It didn’t feel good.

“No I didn’t. I don’t know him so why would I do that?” Little Four rolled his eyes at Ling Lan. Didn’t she know that it required a lot of energy to keep someone’s spiritual power? He took a lot of effort to build up his energy. How can he use it just like that? A good knife must be used to cut good meat… is that how you say it?

“I just kept the spiritual power in this communication bead so that the mainframe of the Soul Society will not know that he is dead,” Little Four explained.

Ling Lan’s eyes lit up. “Little Four, how long can you keep this spiritual power for?”

“At most two days. No matter how well you keep this spiritual power, it will disappear,” Little Four replied.

“Two days?” The time was a little short but they should have left Planet Kachi after two days. Hence, before arriving at the next planet, Feiyang Ship was safe.

“Actually, I can imitate Demon Fire’s spiritual power.” Little Four thought for a moment before telling Ling Lan this news. He felt that his boss might need this information.

Ling Lan was elated. “Good. Do that until the end of this mission.”

If she was alone, she would not be afraid of any domain realm masters appearing. It was beneficial for her to battle with strong opponents. However, she needed to send Princess Guliba back safely to Balaya Kingdom. She couldn’t just think about herself.

“I understand,” Little Four smiled and replied.

“Tell me what you want to say.” Ling Lan knew that Little Four was up to no good when she saw this evil smile.

“Boss, I just intercepted a message that was sent to Demon Fire just a moment ago. He was ordered to go back immediately after the battle and report information about you.”

“Tell me the main point.” Ling Lan didn’t think that Little Four just wanted to tell her this information. He must have some request.

“I tracked the source of the message. The source is not far away from here.” Little Four looked at her with two bright eyes.

“What do you want?” Ling Lan raised her eyebrows and asked.

“I want to see their headquarters. Boss, let’s attack them!”

“Bang.” Little Four was thrown away by Ling Lan.

When he appeared in front of her again, he was rubbing his head. He asked pitifully, “Boss, why did you throw me again?”

Ling Lan said coldly, “Attack? Do you want me to die?” If it was really the headquarters, she would be looking for death if she attacked rashly.

“No. I have checked. There are only some old people and young children at the location. There are no powerful people there. If you go over, you will easily dominate over them,” Little Four attempted to coax with her.

“Old people? Children?” Ling Lan glared at Little Four. “Do you think that I am stupid? Will the headquarters let these two kinds of people exist in their society?”

Her sharp gaze forced Little Four to lower his head. Ling Lan continued calmly, “Send me the image of the location.” Since Little Four said that he had checked the area, he definitely had seen the place.

Little Four didn’t dare to say anything. He immediately took out the images that his boss wanted.

A huge room appeared in Ling Lan’s mindscape with a young man and a few middle-aged men were standing in the room.

Ling Lan stared at Little Four. “Old people and children?”

Little Four pointed at them. “I just reported their numbers wrongly.”

Ling Lan didn’t want to argue with Little Four. She asked, “Is there no one else besides them?”

Little Four nodded. He was sure.

Ling Lan pondered about it. She looked at the location Little Four provided her. It was only three kilometers away from her. With her powers, it wouldn’t require a long time… she looked at the positions of her own team members and made a decision. “Let’s take the risk then.”

The next second, Ling Lan disappeared…

At this moment, Qi Long and the other team members were in a bad state. They managed to snipe a portion of the assassins using the high ground advantage and their skills but there were more people were moving towards them. They were unable to snipe all of them and some of them even managed to enter the building they were in.

“How many people entered?” When there was no one around them, Qi Long sat up and asked Lin Zhong-qing.

His finger hurt from the massive activity just now. He was in a focus state so he didn’t feel it. Even his shoulder was in pain due to the recoil of the sniper rifle.

Lin Zhong-qing replied in a certain tone, “33 people have entered this building.”

Chapter 627: Expel?

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

It was a formidable feat for five of them to kill almost 160 opponents all by themselves. The people they killed were not normal commoners. They were assassins that had been specially trained by the Soul Society. There were even some assassins from the Black Rank and even the Red Rank.

Qi Long smiled. “I can finally do some workout.” The moment he finished speaking, he disappeared.

Li Lanfeng and Zhao Jun smiled at each other. They disappeared too.

Li Yingjie looked at the empty balcony. He turned and asked Lin Zhong-qing, “Where did they go?”

Lin Zhong-qing pointed below them. “They went out to kill people.”

Li Yingjie was furious. He exclaimed, “Why didn’t they ask me?”

Lin Zhong-qing glanced at him with contempt. “Do you need to be asked? Don’t you know how to analyze the situation yourself? Since 33 people had entered this building, we will be surrounded if we remained on the roof. The best way is to be proactive and sneak down to kill those people.”

Li Yingjie’s expression changed when he heard what Lin Zhong-qing said. He knew that sneaking downstairs to ambush and kill their opponents was the best course of action. However, shouldn’t they gather together and discuss first before acting? Why did they move without even informing each other? How could Boss Lan allow such actions?

In his team, none of his team members were allowed to act on their own.

Lin Zhong-qing noticed Li Yingjie’s puzzled expression. He calmly explained, “Our leader taught us to have our own judgment. He would only correct us if we were wrong.” He suddenly stared at Li Yingjie intently. Li Yingjie shrunk under his gaze. “If you are not able to get use to our team structure, you might be kicked out of the group after the three year protection period for recruits has ended. All the best to you.”

Kicked out? Him? That is impossible! Li Yingjie was furious.

Li Yingjie was a proud person. He never acknowledged anyone. Ling Lan was too powerful so he had no choice but to bow down to her. This was why he was willing to joining the Lingtian Battle Team. However, he never expected himself to be so unwelcomed. He thought that his addition to the team would give glory to the Lingtian Battle Team and Boss Lan would accept him readily.

However, from what Lin Zhong-qing had said, Ling Lan seemed hesitant in accepting him. Li Yingjie felt depressed. Was he worse that Chang Xinyuan who just managed to achieve refinement?

Li Yingjie kicked that thought out of his mind. He was a genius in physical skills and mecha operations. A genius! Damn it!

Li Yingjie was unconvinced. He thought about the abilities of the other members in the Lingtian Battle Team.

His second brother… likes to experiment with all kinds of agents and medicines. He was someone who liked to torture people using unscrupulous means. He should not compare himself with his second brother. Of course, Li Yingjie would never admit that he was afraid of his second brother and his torture methods.

Qi Long… erm, he was better than him. Let’s ignore him.

Luo Lang… was also as strong as him. But, he would not compare himself to a ladylike man.

Zhao Jun was three years older than him so it was reasonable that he had gained some fame within these three years. There was nothing for him to compare with.

Li Lanfeng… had a weak body. What was his physical skills’ level? Wait, he seemed to be at the late-stage of Qi-Jin? Wasn’t that the same stage as him? He was an ace mecha operator too, right? Damn, how could he become an ace mecha operator with that body? Li Yingjie suddenly felt that the world was unfair to him.

He couldn’t beat any of these people. He looked at Lin Zhong-qing. At least he was stronger that Lin Zhong-qing who just managed to attain Qi-Jin and was a special-class operator… Li Yingjie felt better about himself.

“Even Lin Zhong-qing was not kicked out of the team. So why would I be kicked out. I am not convinced.”

Li Yingjie’s feelings were deeply hurt so he didn’t realize that he spoke his thoughts out loud.

Lin Zhong-qing smiled when he heard this sentence. He took out his backpack and passed it to Li Yingjie. “You are stronger than me but I was never a fighter in the first place. I am the logistics leader.” He signaled Li Yingjie to open the backpack.

Li Yingjie looked inside. There were some emergency agents, a bag of compressed biscuit, a few nutrition packs, binoculars, as well as other small tools. Everything was placed neatly in the backpack. In the side pocket, a transparent box was stuffed inside. There were two sticks that looked like cigarette inside the box.

Li Yingjie was stunned. He thought about something and his face changed. “Why do you have this?”

Li Yingjie felt weak in his legs. If one of these sticks exploded, everything within a hundred meters would be turned into ruins… he had never seen the real thing before but in the military academy, they were taught about this. This was the most frightening and most primitive kind of bomb, the TNT bomb.

Lin Zhong-qing took his backpack back and looked at the surroundings with his binoculars. After confirming that there was no one around them, he continued, “Did you think that the opponent only placed one bomb on the cruise?”

Li Yingjie was not stupid. He instantly understood what Lin Zhong-qing was trying to say. “How did you find it?” The search crew from Feiyang Ship didn’t find anything on the ship. How did Lin Zhong-qing find them?

Lin Zhong-qing smiled. Just as Li Yingjie thought that he was going to explain, Lin Zhong-qing retracted his smile and said coldly, “Why are you still talking to me? Shouldn’t you be killing opponents with Qi Long and the rest of them? Our team don’t keep useless people.”

Li Yingjie wanted to vomit out blood. Why did you talk so much then? He refuted angrily. “You didn’t go down too.”

Lin Zhong-qing waved the binoculars that was in his hand. “Don’t you know my position in the team?” He was already doing what he was supposed to do.

Li Yingjie’s expression changed again. He didn’t think much of it just now. After Lin Zhong-qing’s reminder, he realized that everyone else had started doing what they were supposed to do. Only he didn’t understand the situation.

Li Yingjie felt depressed. He was too stupid.

“I will not lose to you all!” Li Yingjie shouted angrily before disappearing from the balcony.

“Not lose to us?” Lin Zhong-qing smiled. He felt that he was bullying a little child. That little child didn’t know what to say so he threw this sentence at him and then ran away.

Li Yingjie was not so irritating after all.

Lin Zhong-qing smiled as he raised his binoculars and observed the surroundings again. He didn’t notice anything but his hand was holding a powerful handgun hidden in his bag.

The assassins that managed to sneak in gave each other a hand sign when they met. After that, they formed different sized groups and went up.

Everyone had a beam handgun in their hands. A beam handgun was powerful enough and with light recoil. It was accurate and the sound of bullets was light. It was the best handgun for middle-range attacks.

One of the