Chapter 687 - 424: Beyond the Horizon

The city was still engulfed in war, the night sky long lost its original color, turning into a fiery red, as if a vast sea of fire was raging.

In the middle floor of a skyscraper yet to be completed, Chu Nanyi lay hidden in the shadows, his camouflage suit blending him seamlessly with the surroundings, like a venomous snake waiting to strike.

Beside him, Shangguan Li wore a similar camouflage suit, the mechanical eyes flashing with light traces, obviously operating at high frequency.

Beside her was a medical kit, filled with dozens of top-level immunity reagents, half of which were already used.

Chu Nanyi whispered, "Relying on immunity reagents to push through with ’Apocalypse Level 1’ mechanical eyes could lead to complications later. Maybe wait for Dongdong to come."

Shangguan Li retorted, "Stop talking nonsense, what kind of teacher relies on her student? She has her own tasks, I can handle myself."

With those words, the light arcs in her mechanical eyes showed slight instability, and she immediately injected a new immunity reagent.

"Hiss."

The reagent stabilized the light arcs quickly, but her face showed increased fatigue.

Chu Nanyi looked at the city engulfed in flames in the distance, and asked, "So, can you track Tsukimori Iori’s position from the coordinates given by the leader?"

"Hibell and Nuobai are only at Divine Protection Level and likely won’t last long at the Black Domain Group Headquarters. If we really can’t track them, we’ll have to abort the mission and call for their immediate retreat."

The Rebel Army’s task force targeting the Black Domain Group Headquarters was unique.

First of all, there were four members: Hibell, Nuobai, Shangguan Li, and Chu Nanyi, none of whom were top-tier experts like Fenrir and Dongdong.

This meant that it was impossible for them to breach the Black Domain Group head-on like Dongdong and Fenrir.

Additionally, with the specific role of the Spiritual Brain Modifier in combat, the tactic of "decapitation" became inevitable.

At the Black Domain Group Headquarters, Hibell and Nuobai intentionally got entrapped there.

Before the operation, Su Mo had told everyone that Tsukimori Iori’s real body was not there and provided them with the correct coordinates.

Hibell and Nuobai went there to create the illusion that they were "trapped," deceiving the enemy and providing cover for those actually carrying out the assassination.

The key to this assassination mission’s success was never Hibell and Nuobai in the open, but Shangguan Li and Chu Nanyi hidden in the shadows.

According to the coordinates provided by Su Mo, Tsukimori Iori’s real body was in the city, where the Black Domain Group had secretly built a hideout.

Tsukimori Iori had deliberately staged an empty city at the headquarters, while she was actually hiding outside.

The place she was hiding was fifty kilometers away from the battle lines, still tightly controlled by the Capital Group Army, and the Worker Bee construct couldn’t reach there quickly.

Under these circumstances, there was only one way to kill her: a long-range sniper kill.

A kill spanning fifty kilometers.

And Shangguan Li was the observer for this sniper mission.

Her talent in prosthetics was adequate, not outstanding, requiring immunity reagents to adapt to a "Fearless Level" prosthetic, with Vanguard Level being her limit.

In this operation, she replaced most of her prosthetics with lower-grade ones and carried a large number of immunity reagents, reserving all her tolerance for the newly implanted "Apocalypse Level 1" ocular implants.

She needed to use these top-tier eyes, combined with the coordinates from Su Mo, to pinpoint Tsukimori Iori’s precise location.

Then...

Strike with lethal force.

The observation system in Shangguan Li’s eyes was running at high frequency, with capabilities far surpassing human eyes, significantly enhancing vision to see even a mosquito tens of kilometers away.

At the same time, it also had "hyper-vision" capabilities.

This hyper-vision capability was composed of multiple detection rays, allowing it to penetrate obstacles along the path and directly search for target individuals or objects.

Tsukimori Iori’s location was over fifty kilometers away from Shangguan Li, far beyond the horizon, but this distance remained within observational range with the hyper-vision capability of her ocular implants.

Her gaze could pierce through buildings, the earth’s crust, and even ignore electromagnetic shielding, directly locating Tsukimori Iori based on the coordinates and automatically acquiring all environmental information like temperature, humidity, and magnetic fields of the area where she was.

Of course, using this hyper-vision capability involved a significant burden, and even for Dongdong, it might be maintained only for a few minutes.

Shangguan Li had already persisted for roughly the same duration, her physical endurance far from Dongdong’s, relying solely on immunity reagents to hold on.

This process was undoubtedly painful, with the side effects of excessive immunity reagent injections feeling like razor blades hidden in her bloodstream, tearing painfully through every part of her body.

The ocular implants were also excessively overheating, as if burning irons were searing inside her eye sockets, causing blood to trickle from her eye corners and drip down her fair skin onto the ground, splattering in radiating patterns.

Chu Nanyi had already noticed Shangguan Li’s oddity, but did not persuade her any further.

He knew Shangguan Li had made up her mind.

Pleading at this point would be redundant and distract her focus.

Under the high-frequency operation of those ocular implants, what Shangguan Li saw was an entirely different world, the high-rise buildings and skyscrapers constantly disintegrating into flying particles, the visual field rapidly advancing, the light sources stretching into countless arcs in this high-speed movement.