Child of Destiny

Chapter 1951: All According to the Plan

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The team had followed Shin’s plan and proceeded accordingly. And just like what he had expected, the team disguised as them travelling on the surface had attracted quite a lot of attention from multiple parties.

The bus that they were riding blended quite well with the traffic along with their ’escorts’.

Despite the current technology, it was still quite a hassle to go through such a large number of people who attended the concert.

However, it was still much better compared to the previous times, where people needed to wait for long hours before they could get out of such heavy traffic and continue to their destination.

The team still took quite a lot of time before they could even go through the traffic and go out of the city, but it was still within the acceptable range.

Not long after, when they were quite a distance away from the city and no civilians around, those who were eyeing them from the dark immediately made their move.

They ambushed the bus and its escorts, launching an intense attack so that the opposing party would not be able to fight back.

Unfortunately for these guys, the Alpha Team that they were up against was not simple. Moreover, they were already expecting such an encounter, giving them enough time to fire back.

Given all the preparations they have, they couldn’t get caught off guard by such an ambush.

The two sides immediately fought, causing the local government of the Sun-Moon Continent to notice the battle through their satellites.

They then sent people to check on what was happening before joining the Alpha Team after realizing that the opposing side was a bunch of mercenaries with no good intentions.

Moreover, the band was their guests, so they had to uphold their duties and protect them when such things happened.

Unfortunately for these mercenaries, their targets were not in the celebrity bus. It was already too late for them when they realized that they had been had, making their retreat quite delayed as well.

Along with the authorities that the Sun-Moon Government had sent, the mercenaries were immediately suppressed and forcefully captured.

Quite a few skilled ones were still able to escape, but the rest were either killed in the gunfight or caught in the process.

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At the same time, the Beta Team had also done its job at luring another group of mercenaries.

Even though there were no spies in their group, the mercenary forces should be aware of the underground passages, especially when they had the Lufus Family on their backs.

The Lufus Family was one of the local tyrants of the Sun-Moon Continent before, so they should be very aware of how the network system of the country worked.

They would surely think of the possibility of Shin and the rest using the underground passage to avoid them, so sending another force to intercept the group during the escape.

They could not openly attack Shin and the others since they were still working under the World Government, but that did not mean that they could not send their mercenaries to do the dirty job.

Unfortunately, the opposing side was fully prepared for this. Seeing through their maneuvers, the forces on Shin’s and the others’ side immediately launched an attack right after finding the traces of these mercenaries.

The Beta Team cleared the path for the rest before moving toward the safehouse, making the opposing side believe that the VIPs were with them.

It was also already too late for these poor mercenaries to realize that they had been chasing after nothing.

They only realized that they were being hunted down by a special force unit instead of running away from them when they reached the so-called safehouse.

They thought that they were chasing after the right target right after receiving the reports from the other teams, who were responsible for dealing with those on the celebrity bus.

But who would have thought that these guys were thinking way too many steps ahead and luring their forces instead?

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After retreating, the mercenary forces quickly gathered at their secret rendezvous point other than the warehouse that they had used earlier.

They quickly headed to this place right after retreating and shaking off the forces chasing after them.

Mad Dog seemed to be feeling quite calm despite the failure of their mission. He seemed to have expected something like this to happen since the very beginning.

He looked at everyone who had gathered in silence while also waiting for something.

Beep! Beep!

Not long after, his special communication device suddenly started ringing. He calmly took out an old-looking device, which looked like a smartphone of the older generation when the technology was still not as advanced as today.

He did a few taps on the screen of this phone and read through the contents of the message. After a while, he set up a timer on the phone before tossing it away.

After that, he took out his huge military knife and started walking toward the group of mercenaries that had just finished doing their roll call.

A few moments later, the entire hideout was littered with the bodies of these mercenaries. Mad Dog had done a quick job on them before leaving.

While he was walking away, the old phone that he had tossed earlier showed that the timer that he had set earlier had finally reached zero.

Beep!

Immediately after, this phone suddenly combusted, erupting with a massive explosion. This explosion was further augmented by the barrels within the hideout, which seemed to contain some sort of energy reactor.

BOOM!

Mad Dog then headed toward the location, where he was summoned by his real contractor.

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Somewhere within the outskirts of the city, Shin and his team emerged from a skewer tunnel along with their real escorts.

This location within the city seemed to be quite isolated and devoid of people. It was a closed area, which was under a redevelopment project.

The security of this place was quite lax because it was not a project under the Sun-Moon Government. Instead, it was a private place that the Cilvana Family had brought.

The Cilvana Family was planning to build a huge manufacturing base in this place, but it was later delayed due to the multiple clashes that the family had with their rivals.

Alongside the series of events that were happening around the Sun-Moon Continent, the family was forced to pause the project temporarily.

Cloe was the one who had suggested using this place for their temporary escape point since the situation was getting a bit trickier.

While they were traversing the underground passage earlier, they had just gotten a report that another organization was joining the chaos.

This time, it was the Hextech Laboratory who were making its moves. Moreover, the target of this crazy group of scientists was the geniuses and prodigies of the Magic Ace Academy, aside from whatever the package that the Black Serpent Mafia was carrying.

This group was one of the mortal enemies of the Sun-Moon Government, so they immediately sent their forces to hunt to and deal with them right after receiving a report regarding their movements.

Due to this, the already scattered forces around the continent were further thinned out, creating a few gaps for the other organizations to take advantage of.

Because of this development, the higher-ups of the Springfield Forces and the Magic Ace Academy decided to let Shin and the others hide for the time being while organizing their forces.

They could no longer risk the safety of these kids after learning that more organizations were putting a target on their backs.

They were told to stand by for a while and wait for further instructions.

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The people from the Wings of Dawn and Sleeping Dragons immediately scattered in different places when they entered the compound, securing the area and making sure that there was no one else around aside from them.

The Ruler’s Realm Mentalist among the group also started setting up arrays to isolate and hide the group from any form of detection satellites.

The Venerable Realm Mentalist could also do it in a much faster way, but they refused to make any move unless it was necessary.

Aside from an invisible barrier that they temporarily summoned, which also had a similar faction as those arrays, they did not use any advanced techniques to hide their presence.

While everyone was busying themselves, Shin, who was about to take his post, suddenly felt something strange.

He could not help but pause for a moment to feel what exactly it was.

He then started frowning deeply when he felt that intense pulses were coming inside his body, which was slowly becoming disturbing.

”What’s happening?” asked Shin, both to himself and the existence hiding within his sea of consciousness.

It did not take long for Uno to respond. [Something is summoning us somewhere nearby.]

”Something is summoning us?” repeated Shin before asking, along with a deep frown. ”What is it?”

[I am not sure either.] answered Uno. [But it must be something beneficial to us since both your Devouring Talent and my existence are reacting strongly to it.]

[Or it can also be a disaster given the reaction that our body is having,] he added somewhat solemnly.

The corner of Shin’s mouth suddenly twitched when he heard the latter part of those words. ”Do we have to check on it?”

[You should.] answered Uno without hesitation before adding. [Or you can ask that big guy in your group to go look for it.]

Shin thought for a moment before nodding. He then started walking toward a certain bodyguard within the group, who looked too ordinary among the group.

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