Chapter 308: Surveillance

Chapter 308: Chapter 308: Surveillance

"Wait." He Xingluo stopped Gray Rat. "I’ll go down with you."

Gray Rat nodded. "Okay, okay. Going down together is good. With you two protecting me, I can feel completely at ease."

He Yue Ning couldn’t help but frown. The man spoke in a strange, affected way that was very unpleasant to listen to.

He Xingluo asked, "What’s in the basement?"

Gray Rat walked down the stairs, opened the door to the basement, and replied, "Nothing much. It’s just a storage room, and it’s connected to the underground garage."

As he spoke, he stood at the doorway and shouted inside again, "Cousin, are you in there? The people from the Inspection Bureau are here."

The basement was pitch-black; not even a light was on. Under normal circumstances, no one should be in there, yet he deliberately shouted anyway.

Just as He Xingluo was finding this strange, she suddenly heard muffled sounds from the basement—MMMPH, MMMPH, MMMPH—urgent and desperate.

Her expression changed instantly. She rushed forward and saw two people tied up in the storage room. Their mouths were sealed with duct tape, and their eyes were filled with terror as they struggled to plead for help.

"You’re playing us!" He Xingluo immediately realized they had been tricked. With an angry shout, she spun around and lashed out with her Bone Chain!

Gray Rat chuckled, grabbing the staircase railing with one hand and leaping sideways and back.

The white Bone Chain grazed the hem of his clothes and struck the wall behind him with a sharp CRACK.

He Yue Ning also reacted, crying out in alarm, "He’s an Alien Species!"

No ordinary person could have reacted that quickly.

He Yue Ning immediately followed with her own Bone Chain, but Gray Rat’s reactions were incredibly fast, and he dodged it easily with a few leaps.

Fan Ze drew his gun and aimed, shouting orders to the other team members, "Secure the front and back doors! Don’t let him escape!"

"Do I need to run?" Gray Rat was amused by Fan Ze’s words.

He crawled onto the ceiling like a gecko, flipped over, and leaped to the second floor. Bullets hit the crystal chandelier, which SPARKED and CRACKLED. The remaining shots all hit the walls and railing.

Gray Rat’s voice came from the second floor, "Tell your Captain Bai to give us back our things!"

Fan Ze stared at the second-floor railing, his expression grim. He pulled out his radio and said, "Target is on the second floor. All units, be advised, the target is on the second floor."

The moment he finished speaking, the house was plunged into darkness!

The main circuit breaker had been shut off.

In the darkness, something swift shot toward Fan Ze!

Fan Ze was completely unaware, but He Yue Ning and He Xingluo saw it clearly—it was a Bone Chain! Identical to their own!

"Fan Ze! Run!" He Xingluo screamed, her own Bone Chain shooting out from her hand!

She tried to intercept it but was half a second too late. Before her eyes, Fan Ze was pierced through by the Bone Chain! Immediately after, Ghost Fire erupted, traveling along the chain to engulf his entire body!

He Yue Ning was horrified. "Why does the Alien Species have the same ability as us?!"

Seeing that Fan Ze couldn’t be saved, He Xingluo immediately gave chase to the second floor, with He Yue Ning right behind her.

They possessed the Black and White Impermanence Card, allowing them to see perfectly even in the dark. But there was no way Gray Rat would be foolish enough to just stand there and wait to be caught. He grabbed a large vase from the hallway, hurled it at the twins on the stairs, and turned to flee!

The twins dodged the tumbling vase, their Bone Chains slithering forward like snakes—

Just as they were about to catch Gray Rat, he suddenly ducked into a room on the left and SLAMMED the door shut!

Furious, He Xingluo phased right through the wall!

The moment her head emerged, she saw a giant scythe swinging right at her face!

He Xingluo was stunned and retreated hastily! She moved back so quickly that she stumbled and had to be steadied by He Yue Ning, who urgently asked, "What’s wrong?!"

"He turned into a Mantis!" He Xingluo, regaining her composure, turned to He Yue Ning. "This Alien Species has multiple Cards. We can’t kill it quickly. I’ll find a way to hold it off. You go rescue the two people in the basement first."

He Yue Ning nodded. "Okay, I’m on my way."

The sisters quickly agreed on a plan, unaware that Gray Rat had already used the ghost’s wall-phasing ability to leave the second floor. And the entire sequence was captured clearly by surveillance cameras.

Cameras installed in every corner of the villa transmitted the footage to Xing Guang.

Beside Xing Guang stood Fang Ye and an exceptionally pale, gaunt Alien Species.

The three of them watched the screen as Gray Rat passed through the second-floor floorboards. His figure appeared on the first-floor monitor, where he crouched down, pressed his hands to the ground, and activated the ghost’s ability again. His body, as if sinking into a swamp, gradually vanished from the first floor—

Xing Guang picked up the remote and pressed a button, switching the monitor feed to the basement.

At that moment, He Yue Ning had just arrived. Completely unguarded, she ran forward to untie Xing Guang’s former driver and secretary.

"Still lacking in combat experience. Far too careless," Xing Guang commented idly. "Gray Rat’s Card is the Hexagonal Prism Demon. As long as he makes physical contact, he can randomly copy his opponent’s Card Ability. The moment they entered the villa and Gray Rat copied their abilities, they had already lost."

Fang Ye gritted his teeth, staring at He Yue Ning on the screen. He thought anxiously, ’Look behind you! Turn around! Hurry up and spot him, he’s about to make his move!’

Whether it was his intense thoughts taking effect or He Yue Ning detecting the faint sound of Gray Rat landing, on the monitor, He Yue Ning suddenly spun around, her Bone Chain whipping toward Gray Rat like a long lash!

Gray Rat rolled forward, his right arm transforming into a sharp fin that stabbed straight at He Yue Ning!

Fang Ye’s eyes flew wide open.

"Oh, that’s your ability. It was copied too," Xing Guang said with a smile, enjoying the battle. "He Su’s Card was a hummingbird, which possesses outstanding reaction speed. After Gray Rat digested He Su’s Card, his power grew considerably. Not only did his reflexes improve, but more importantly, his ability-switching speed also increased."

Fang Ye clenched his fists tightly, unable to speak.

He couldn’t accept it—an Alien Species using his ability to kill a human. It felt as if he himself were an indirect murderer.

In the video, He Yue Ning cried out in pain as her abdomen was pierced in an instant. But her Bone Chain still flew defiantly toward Gray Rat!

Gray Rat immediately retracted his fin-like arm!

Because retracting it cost him half a second, his evasive maneuver was also a beat too slow. He had just turned when the Bone Chain struck his shoulder blade.

The Bone Chain pierced through his left shoulder, pinning his arm!

He Yue Ning glared at him with hatred. One hand clutched her wound while the other controlled the Bone Chain, sending Ghost Fire surging along it toward Gray Rat!

Gray Rat looked back with a cold smirk, and his entire body suddenly convulsed!

The instant the Ghost Fire reached his left arm, Gray Rat’s body and arm abruptly severed! He rolled across the ground twice and, just like that, dodged the Ghost Fire’s attack!

"That’s a gecko’s ability—shedding a limb to survive. Unlike a normal injury, a wound created by this method will quickly regrow a complete limb." A smile touched Xing Guang’s lips, thoroughly pleased with Gray Rat’s performance. "The Hexagonal Prism Demon itself has no offensive abilities. But as long as you prepare Cards for it to copy in advance and create the perfect combination of Skills, it can display power on par with a Lord-level boss."

Fang Ye watched as He Xingluo chased them into the basement, but the cunning Gray Rat had already fled into the underground garage, starting a game of hide-and-seek.

The sisters, unfamiliar with the villa’s layout, were at a constant disadvantage against Gray Rat.

He was both anxious and furious, but he didn’t dare show his emotions in front of the Alien Species. In a hushed voice, he asked, "The Hexagonal Prism Demon... Does it... not have any weaknesses?"