Erza is vast in size, containing numerous facilities and equipped with everything, essentially a mobile airborne fortress. Naturally, it also has information acquisition devices.
These devices include normal surveillance systems as well as abnormal infiltration systems.
Baiyu now intends to use Erza’s infiltration system to directly hack into the Linjiang City’s surveillance control center.
"With the Simulation Realm shattered, the disturbances to signal and power have returned to normal, which is good news for my information infiltration. Right now, the Linjiang Armed Department, Anomaly Bureau, and others probably haven’t reacted yet; they might not even have staff in the information department, so the difficulty of infiltration should not be very high."
Linjiang is currently in chaos.
Even though the Simulation Realm shattered and a large group of Maple County personnel entered, it’s impossible to completely control the state of Linjiang quickly.
So, stealing Linjiang’s surveillance intelligence now should be quite simple.
Baiyu used Heart of the Dance to issue an information infiltration command.
The real-time surveillance images of major districts and streets in Linjiang City appeared on the large screen in the operation room, filling it with countless tiny squares, making it dizzyingly overwhelming.
Many of the squares have turned completely black, indicating that the surveillance cameras have been destroyed.
"North District, Tenth District."
Baiyu manipulated the surveillance images while Cang Yan jumped onto the control panel to assist.
On the Legendary Ship.
Apart from Baiyu, there were only some cleaning staff, so Cang Yan wasn’t afraid of being discovered. Moreover, last time Baiyu specially got a pet certificate for it at the Spirit Realm’s pet market.
"Baiyu, quickly look, there’s a discovery here!"
"Although most of the cameras near the Tenth District are destroyed, I see Kaz!"
Cang Yan waved his claws and shouted happily.
Baiyu quickly walked over and looked at the small window.
The cameras nearby were all black; he could only roughly judge that it was near the Tenth District.
The cameras had no sound.
Yet, after a fierce flash, Kaz with tentacles all over his body flashed across the screen and disappeared.
The whole image lasted only a few seconds.
That was about ten or more frames of an image.
Baiyu memorized some reference objects on the images, picked up Cang Yan without hesitation, and rushed out.
From the picture analysis.
Kaz was heavily injured, making his distortion further.
The tentacles had almost grown onto his head, practically no different from the real-world version of the octopus character.
The transport ship took off from the Legendary Ship’s helipad.
Baiyu and Cang Yan, one person and one beast, hurried towards the Tenth District. Pang Fei worriedly called to inform Yuwen Ba.
The fire in the Tenth District was gradually being extinguished by firefighters.
Yuwen Ba stood on the ruins, which were billowing thick black smoke, with a trace of fatigue in his eyes.
He hadn’t slept at all in recent days.
"We meet again, Baiyu."
Yuwen Ba dropped all pretenses and walked quickly to the transport ship: "What’s the situation on the Legendary Ship?"
"Qiong Yue left a will instructing us to make sure we capture Kaz."
Yuwen Ba’s pupils shrank slightly upon confirming Qiong Yue’s death from Baiyu’s mouth; he nodded sadly: "The four gates of Linjiang are already locked; Kaz absolutely can’t get out through them, so the only place he could be hiding is underground, but the search teams I’ve sent found nothing."
"Before I came, I saw Kaz’s whereabouts on surveillance; he’s near the Tenth District. If the Prefect trusts me, you can take me for a round around the Tenth District to find the location on the surveillance."
Yuwen Ba didn’t hesitate at all.
There weren’t many people in the Tenth District, so the search went exceptionally smoothly.
Soon, Baiyu and Yuwen Ba found the place shown on the surveillance images. Around here were several collapsed buildings, with only one entry to a sewer within a short distance to hide.
Both men’s gazes fell on it.
"I also thought Kaz had escaped into the sewer before, trying to use the underground river to get out of Linjiang City. But I sent people to search several times and found nothing."
He instinctively felt that Kaz must be hiding underground, but several searches were fruitless.
"Kaz is very familiar with Linjiang City’s underground structures. Last time, I went to explore the underground facilities where he was feeding the Devouring Fog with Tang Xiaoyu and Lin Shan.
"Such engineering requires not only a lot of manpower and materials for construction but also a thorough familiarity with Linjiang City’s underground structures.
"So at that time, to avoid Qiong Yue’s terrifying offensive, his first thought was definitely to escape into Linjiang City’s underground, because he didn’t know how many such attacks Qiong Yue could unleash, and underground in Linjiang is the most familiar place to him."
The more Baiyu inferred, the more he felt Kaz must have escaped into the underground sewer.
Because aside from that place, he had almost no other locations to hide.
Above ground, if Qiong Yue had more power left to launch an attack and Erza locked him, he would be in an almost certain death scenario.
Kaz is such a person.
He may not fear death.
But definitely fears a meaningless death.
Heeding Baiyu’s suggestion.
Yuwen Ba arranged personnel once more to search the underground sewer, with both Baiyu and him personally joining the search effort. The sewer was dark, with almost no light available.
Most of the light bulbs were broken.
Baiyu and Yuwen Ba had to rely on flashlights and other tools for their underground exploration.
After walking for about twenty minutes and passing through several forks.
Baiyu stopped his steps in the darkness.
Faint red dots emerged.
These are the distinctive features of Devouring Fog, which Baiyu could see clearly using Energy Perception. Kaz was the only one possessing the fog.
Baiyu led Yuwen Ba, following the direction indicated by the Devouring Fog for about another ten minutes.
There were faint gnawing sounds ahead.
"Something’s fishy here."
Yuwen Ba’s face turned serious; he lay on the ground listening for over ten seconds before his gaze shifted to the sewer wall.
He delivered a punch.
The wall, akin to foam, was punctured into a large hole, revealing not solid but a secret room!
The secret room was small.
Inside there were some basic living supplies and a wooden bed.
On the bed at this moment.
Kaz’s twisted, monstrous body lay motionless, long since devoid of life.
His body was crawling with red-eyed giant sewer rats, tearing off chunks of flesh and devouring his corpse.
The gnawing sounds originated from here.
Most people upon seeing the scene would likely vomit on the spot.
Their nerves might even be shocked, triggering all sorts of negative feelings.
Yuwen Ba, however, was battle-hardened and quickly steadied his mind.
He looked surprised at Baiyu beside him.
The sudden sight jolted his nerves enough to cause quite a turmoil in his mental state, yet Baiyu remained silent and maintained an unshakable composure.
He was simply more composed than even Yuwen Ba, absurdly so.
No wonder he could achieve top marks in Maple County’s high school entrance exams; indeed, every year there seems to be a prodigy.