Ambush

"Indeed, there are three. Judging by the way they look, they seem to be sizing up how to make their move!"

Liu Daimei smiled as well, sweeping her binoculars across the crowd. Suddenly, they stopped, and her expression turned solemn. "Not three. Four!"

"Look over there!"

She handed the binoculars to Gu Sheng and pointed toward a bespectacled young man with gold-rimmed glasses amid the distant crowd. He looked refined and harmless, with the bearing of a scholar, and was standing openly not far from Wu Xin.

He held a notebook and fountain pen that perfectly suited the era. As he wrote, he chatted with several tabloid reporters beside him, blending naturally into the surrounding environment. Even Gu Sheng had failed to notice anything unusual about him.

Liu Daimei had spotted him because she had interacted with him before. Whenever this man activated his ability, he exuded a very distinctive air. He made no effort to conceal his traits, so anyone who had met him a few times could detect them.

"Interesting. He’s hidden himself very well. Who is he?"

Gu Sheng stared at him carefully for a while longer, circulating True Essence into his eyes and observing the area around the man. Only then did he notice the faint abnormalities.

"Number Nine, Two-Faced Wolf Wu You."

Liu Daimei’s expression was grave as she whispered to Gu Sheng, "This man performed exceptionally well in the first world, Underworld. He’s a Werewolf leader personally bitten by the Wolf Lord Lucian. He has a dual personality and two innate abilities.

"Of his two personalities, the Calm Side appears to be a harmless, frail young scholar. His ability is extreme calmness. In this state, his brain can be developed to more than thirty percent of its capacity, allowing him to gather the greatest amount of information about a target from the smallest details.

"The Rage Side of his dual personality appears extremely mad and twisted. Its ability is Bloodthirsty Frenzy, and its combat talent is astonishing. He can control his body’s muscular reactions and combine that with the information gathered by the Calm Side. In other words, he’s unbelievably difficult to deal with.

"Even more terrifying is that he can switch freely between these two personalities. That means you never know which personality you’re facing when he confronts you. Before you realize it, he may already have stolen your information.

"Also, he’s very likely one of the few Third Star Level Reincarnators. His overall strength is extremely formidable."

"From the way you describe him, he sounds like quite a character!"

Gu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly. Just then, the man called Wu You suddenly turned his head toward the restaurant. His gaze was chilling and terrifying.

"Good heavens! What is that thing?"

Gu Xuanwu was so frightened that he dropped the binoculars in his hand. "That nearly scared me to death! What’s wrong with that man? What kind of look was that? I only looked at him once, Lord Gu. Why did it feel so creepy?"

"Don’t move!"

Gu Sheng grabbed Liu Daimei, who had instinctively taken a step back. Gu Xuanwu’s reaction had not been a coincidence. The man called Wu You had discovered that someone was spying on him—not Gu Sheng, but Gu Xuanwu, who had been far too blatant.

The man seemed to possess mental abilities as well, and had taken advantage of the situation to strike Gu Xuanwu with one, frightening him into dropping the binoculars. However, he seemed to have deliberately ignored Gu Sheng and Liu Daimei. If Liu Daimei reacted, she might arouse his suspicion.

"Old Gu, which young lady or married woman were you spying on to get scared like that?"

Gu Sheng smiled naturally and joked with Gu Xuanwu, using it to conceal his identity. Whether Number Nine was arrogant or had some other reason, he had no intention of disguising his identity. Gu Sheng, however, would never expose himself like that.

He disliked drawing attention to himself. If he could keep a low profile, he would. He only needed to reveal his strength at crucial moments. After all, there were so many formidable figures in the plot worlds. If he attracted too much attention, triggered some Great War, and caused a butterfly effect that altered the course of history, he would be the one to suffer.

Liu Daimei whispered, "Should we make contact with him? He is a Third Star Level Reincarnator, after all, and may disrupt the plan. She had encountered too few experts, and most of her impressions of Third Star Level experts came from Gu Sheng and Chu Xin before they broke through. She assumed that all Third Star Level powerhouses possessed astonishing destructive power.

"Little did she know that neither Gu Sheng nor Chu Xin was an ordinary Third Star Level expert. There was no need to mention Gu Sheng. He had already been on the verge of breaking through, and even before his breakthrough, he could contend head-on with Fourth Star Level experts.

"As for Chu Xin, although her combat ability was low, her cultivation power had been built up solidly on Cinnabar Fruit. With an explosive force of tens of thousands of kilograms, an ordinary Third Star Level expert would die instantly after taking one of her blows.

"However, Chu Xin disliked fighting. Especially after returning to the real world, she had held back during the few times she sparred with Liu Daimei. She could not even defeat the young lady. As a result, Liu Daimei’s impression was that Chu Xin was not very accurate when hitting people, but possessed astonishing destructive power."

"No need. Third Star Level experts also vary greatly in strength. Someone who has just broken through and someone standing at the peak are separated by no more than a move or two, to say nothing of the vast gulf between Fourth Star Level and Third Star Level."

Gu Sheng shook his head. "This man can’t cause any trouble. If he truly has that ability, I’ll personally send him on his way."

At dusk, Wu Xin closed his stall and shop, then walked home carrying a pig’s heart.

"Two hundred silver dollars again today. What a pity that Lord Gu forcibly took half of my earnings."

Wu Xin calculated as he walked. "Sigh, forget it. Without their help and advertising, this shop wouldn’t have made money so easily. I really never thought the title of Sorcerer could be used this way."

Wu Xin passed another intersection. The usually lively alley was sparsely populated, and not a single person was speaking. Two men were playing chess by themselves, while a rickshaw puller had come into the alley instead of waiting for passengers at the entrance.

"Hmm… Something’s wrong!"

Wu Xin suddenly stopped. He noticed that the skin exposed by the rickshaw puller was only slightly yellow, while both hands were fair and free of calluses, just like a woman’s hands. They did not look like the hands of a laborer. The two chess players were suspicious as well. Their attention was not on the chessboard, but on his direction. Something was very wrong.

"Let me take a look!"

Wu Xin grew alert and stood where he was. His right hand brushed over his eyes, and his eyelids closed tightly. A strange, blood-red world appeared before him. Yet strangely, he saw nothing different. (The Lord God concealed the unusual aura of Reincarnators in foreign worlds.)

"Am I just being paranoid?"

Wu Xin thought to himself. After muttering for a while, he continued forward. Still, he kept an eye on the approaching figures and secretly heightened his guard, just in case.

"Grandmaster, want a rickshaw? Whew~"

The rickshaw puller stood up, looking as if he intended to solicit Wu Xin’s business. But the instant he approached Wu Xin, a mechanism clicked inside his right sleeve. Immediately afterward, a black shadow shot toward Wu Xin.

The ambush had begun.

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