Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 932 - 927 Clue Three

Chapter 932: Chapter 927 Clue Three

A bit of sweat seeped out on the tip of Yang Songyu’s nose.

She knew she couldn’t panic. Whether it was an illusion or a real disappearance, Teacher Wen would definitely be safer than her.

His strength was much greater than hers.

So now, she should be worrying about herself.

Although she had received an early gift from her mentor, a standard Imperial D-level Breeding Armor, the current situation was far beyond what a D-level Soldier Level Breeding Armor could handle.

"I have to find them immediately. Acting alone in a place like this is simply seeking death."

Suppressing the anxiety and panic in her heart, Yang Songyu began to carefully observe her surroundings.

On both sides were empty aisles, with countless dazzling merchandise displayed on the shelves, making her eyes blur.

Yang Songyu took a few deep breaths, squatted down, holding a gun in one hand, and took out a delicately patterned hexagonal silver object from her pocket.

She pressed the small object, and a faint light instantly lit up on it.

The white light, slightly tinged with silver, shone on the ground, quickly revealing a clear trail of footprints.

The footprints were small and delicate, not long, but they clearly appeared to be a girl’s size.

The soles also had ring-shaped marks.

"These are my footprints." Yang Songyu identified carefully, then used the small object to illuminate the side of her footprints.

At this, a chill ran straight to her head.

Alongside the trail of her footprints, there were no footprints of Teacher Wen Shenmin, nor of Zuo En.

Instead, there was another set of small, even smaller than her size, children’s shoe prints.

It was as if she hadn’t been walking with her teachers, but holding the hand of a much smaller child, all the way to the second floor.

"This.....!!?"

Yang Songyu’s breathing became rapid. Holding the silver object, she tried her best to calm herself and wanted to continue illuminating the direction from which she came.

Tap... tap... tap...

Suddenly, she clearly heard the sound of children’s shoes walking behind her.

It seemed a child was walking steadily, slowly approaching her back.

Step by step.

Yang Songyu tensed up all over.

Tap... tap... tap.....

She heard the footsteps getting closer and closer.

Then, they stopped behind her.

The child seemed to be standing right behind her, immobile, almost close enough to touch her.

Huff... huff... huff.....huff.....!

Cold sweat broke out all over Yang Songyu’s body. She slowly stood up, knowing she couldn’t stay this way.

Being rigorously trained, she understood her current physical state was due to fear and tension, greatly exhausting her physical and mental strength.

If this continued, in just a few minutes, she would fall into complete exhaustion and be left to die!

She could clearly feel there was a person behind her.

A small child, only up to her waist.

She seemed to be able to imagine this child, wearing ordinary little shoes, standing quietly behind her, expressionless, watching her.

This fear....

Yang Songyu’s eyes opened wide, very wide.

She wanted to turn around, but her muscles seemed paralyzed, unable to move.

With her strength rapidly draining away, her mind was increasingly consumed by despair.

"Am I... going to die?!"

The hand holding the gun was trembling, and she could clearly feel the child behind her slowly reaching out, extending a hand towards her....

Bang!!!

Suddenly, the whole supermarket shook violently.

Yang Songyu felt she instantly regained control and dashed forward a few steps, turned around to look.

Behind her, there was nothing.

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"Ineffective?"

Lin Xin looked at his outstretched hand.

The surrounding supermarket shook violently, but soon seemed to adjust to the tremors, and the space around returned to normal stability.

"Fifty million points of force to shake the space, and it’s actually ineffective?" Lin Xin’s mouth curled into an increasingly amused smile.

Just then, the mark he left on Yang Songyu weakened immensely.

So he reached out, intending to crush the space and escape.

But something unexpected happened.

This space, merely ten thousand square meters, couldn’t be crushed by a single hand.

"Fifty million points of Attributes, equivalent to the Seeker level, above the Constellation Level, even a stellar explosion in the Black Cosmos would only have such power.... yet it can’t break through this small space?"

"Even if there’s a material energy level gap between the Black Cosmos and the Grand Cosmos, here in the Grand Cosmos, using Attributes remodeled by the rules of this universe should naturally increase the power accordingly."

Lin Xin found himself increasingly intrigued by the supermarket.

It seemed he could smell certain auras he had been longing to touch.

Huh!?

Suddenly, he looked up, seemingly spotting the shadow of a child darting through an aisle between the shelves on the second floor.

He squinted slightly, slowly walking to the front of those few rows of shelves.

Boom!!

With a single grab, the entire four rows of shelves in front of him exploded all at once.

Countless goods flew scattered and burst.

Clothes, toys, shoes, all sorts of colorful products burst and scattered, flying in the air for a few seconds before crashing to the ground or against the surrounding walls.

"Cute little mouse.... let me see, where are you?"

Lin Xin’s mouth curved slightly upward as he walked slowly to another part of the shelves.

This was a strange and wonderful feeling.

He had never felt this before.

Obviously, he had just walked past someone face to face, yet he couldn’t sense the other’s presence.

Given his formidable attributes, this was basically impossible.

"So, where is the problem?"

Lin Xin withdrew his hand, walking slowly along the shelves on the second floor.

Boom!

Boom!!

Boom!!!

One by one, the shelves exploded directly.

The floor beneath his feet constantly cracked into countless fissures, and the walls seemed to be hit by an immensely heavy and gigantic creature, with web-like pits several meters wide continuously appearing.

Lin Xin had completely become a god of destruction; wherever he went, was a scene of chaos and ruin.

"Where are you?"

He advanced slowly, and everything was continuously destroyed as he moved.

"I’m not interested in playing your mystery games."

But no matter how he destroyed things, there was no further movement around him.

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Yang Songyu was desperately running.

She was on the Third Layer.

Just now, as soon as she could move, she could directly feel something was following closely behind her.

So, with no other options, she went directly up to the Third Layer.

The Third Layer was the bedding and miscellaneous goods display floor.

She was running desperately, and the silver metal of her right leg had extended over her entire right half, wrapping her right side of the body under a hard silver metal layer.

This was Breeding Armor, although it was just the lowest D-level Soldier Level armor, it could at least triple an ordinary person’s speed and strength.

Of course, this augmentation couldn’t exceed the Breeding Armor’s limit, which was a maximum of two tons.

Besides these, the Breeding Armor could provide considerable protection to the wearer; the smooth silver on the skin was actually a special detaching skin layer that could slide off enemy attacks.

Of course, the cost was that the endurance consumption of the Breeding Armor was triple the normal state. If the fight couldn’t be resolved in a short time, what awaited the original wielder would be exhaustion.

After reaching the Third Layer, Yang Songyu ran straight to hide beside a few large beds at the far end, finally having time to catch a breath.

The entire Third Layer was shaped like a field, with large beds and mosquito nets everywhere.

White gauze, red gauze, pink gauze, all kinds of bed drapes, covering most of the floor space here.

Leaving only a little black corridor for people to pass through in the middle.

As soon as Yang Songyu got onto the Third Layer, she could clearly feel the thing chasing her was gone.

Standing behind a pink big bed mosquito net, she shrank her whole body behind it, struggling to regulate her breathing, barely able to catch a breather.

But the exhaustion from the Breeding Armor was still becoming too much for her to bear. She wanted to deactivate the armor, but in this extremely dangerous situation, deactivating it was undoubtedly an unwise choice.

Huff.

Suddenly, she seemed to sense something and suddenly looked to the left.

There, a white big bed mosquito net was slightly swaying, seemingly blown by the wind.

Yang Songyu swallowed a bit.

At this moment, what she should do was sit down, rest quietly, and wait for the much stronger Teacher Wen to escape and contact her.

But somehow, she had a strange restlessness in her heart.

This restlessness was peculiar, prompting her to stand up slowly and walk toward the swaying white gauze curtain.

Slowly reaching the front of the white big bed.

Yang Songyu gently lifted the gauze, revealing a note on the bed, a piece of yellowed paper with black handwriting.

’Mom loves me.’

The paper had a line of crooked handwriting, seemingly written by a child.

Yang Songyu suddenly recalled the little girl’s laughter she had heard before and the inexplicable appearance of small shoes behind her.

Her expression grew more solemn.

She quickly took out her contact phone and dialed Teacher Wen’s number.

Beep....

Beep.....

Beep...

Click.

The phone connected.

Yang Songyu swallowed, picked up the phone, and listened carefully; there was no sound, only a muffled gasp as if something was covering and choking a mouth.

It seemed the phone was being pressed under something thick.

"Teacher?"

Yang Songyu asked softly to the phone.

The breathing sound on the other end got heavier. But still, no voice answered.

Yang Songyu suddenly seemed to realize something.

She extended her hand, covered in silver metal, gently pressing it against the phone, and carefully sensed.

Suddenly her face changed dramatically, and she turned around and ran toward a large red bed.

When she reached the big bed quickly, she grabbed the mattress and violently flipped it over.

Bang!

The mattress was directly turned over, revealing the white plastic bedboard underneath, and on the bedboard, there lay a middle-aged man spread-eagled.

It was none other than Wen Shenmin, who had been missing before!

His limbs and throat were nailed to the bedboard with palm-length spikes.

His throat and the palm of his hands and the backs of his feet were bleeding continuously, soaking the surrounding red mattress and bed, but everything was blood-red, making it impossible to see the bed was stained.

"Teacher Wen!!"

Yang Songyu suddenly covered her mouth and took two steps back.