This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!

Chapter 136: Chapter 136: Four Become a Team

Chen Ke’s world began to tremble, the man laughed as he backed away, vanishing behind the bridge pier. He turned his head back to look at the trading scene, where a fight among the three parties was on the verge of breaking out.

But none of these mattered to him anymore. For Lin Mo, the most important thing in this memory was his meeting with Hainerd.

The trembling in his world grew more intense, and Chen Ke felt a force pulling him towards the sky. As the scene faded and only darkness remained, a line of information appeared in front of his eyes: “Memory synchronization successful.”

He felt as though he had fallen from the sky, suddenly sitting upright. He was back in his rented room, lying on the bed in a spread-eagled position.

The sunlight outside passed through the window, shining on his back.

“Phew, phew…” Chen Ke got up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, grabbed his phone next to him and checked the time: 9:30 in the morning.

The memory sequence 0 finally synchronized successfully. He quickly picked up the wallpaper, writing down the key information.

Lin Mo collaborated with a man suspected to be Hainerd. A year ago, at Si’s consortium and Yasla’s deal, they tampered with the Holy Relics Diamond by switching it with someone’s severed hand.

On the day of the transaction, the two met, followed by the attack of the mutated individuals.

Was the transaction successful? Chen Ke put down a question mark. He didn’t think so. Otherwise, Lucina’s mother should have returned long ago.

Perhaps it was because the trade disrupted that day by a large group of mutated individuals with grievances against Yasla, which led to the incident at West Gold Building?

Chen Ke added this hypothesis afterward.

Looking at the piece of paper in his hand, Chen Ke felt he was one step closer to the truth, piecing various fragments together.

Si’s consortium, Yasla, the three targets given by Lester, the failed action of the courier, Lucina’s mother, the missing Miles… and Lin Mo’s sister. All these people and organizations were linked by the events of that night at West Gold Building.

When the Blasphemous Dagger pierced the heart, Lin Mo died, and Chen Ke awoke, as if by some divine providence…

If he could just find out what the entry for the Blasphemous Dagger really was, Chen Ke might be able to understand the relationship between the Great Void’s doorway, the contract demon, and himself.

Just as he was about to get up, Chen Ke’s field of vision suddenly turned a light blue, very similar to the sensation when Lin Mo activated his Transcendent Skill in his memory.

He rubbed his eyes, and where his gaze reached, his vision penetrated the walls, seeing several floors down with only one or two people in the elevator.

Wait… What’s this?

At that moment, the strange vision in his eyes disappeared, and two lines of small text emerged:

“Transcendent Skill regained: Spiritual Vision.”

Overjoyed, Chen Ke, following a successful memory sync, had actually retrieved his lost Transcendent Skill! He immediately opened the skill list to check the details of this skill.

[Skill Codex: Spiritual Vision]

[Inheritance: ?????]

[Type: Arcane]

[Requirement: Intelligence (Met)]

[Effect: Gathers Spiritual Energy in the retina, senses, and marks all humanoid life forms within a radius of 100 meters.]

[Knowledge Unfound]

As Chen Ke anticipated, this was an active reconnaissance skill that reached a radius of 100 meters and could see through any obstacles, directly penetrating them!

However, its downside was that Spiritual Vision was unable to highlight threatening targets like the Killing Aura Radar, making it difficult for Chen Ke to locate assassins hidden among crowds.

The greatest use of Spiritual Vision was to infiltrate indoors without the opponent’s knowledge and carry out decapitation operations, which from a certain angle, indeed matched perfectly with an assassin’s Transcendent Skill.

Chen Ke tried to activate Spiritual Vision, and immediately, the life countdown in the corner of his eye deducted 5 minutes. Chen Ke’s world seemed bathed in blue sunlight.

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This skill activates in just 5 minutes? That little?

As he puzzled over this, he noticed the life countdown at the corner of his eye decreasing at the speed of 10 seconds per second!

“Your life span now has 12 hours, 29 minutes, and 42 seconds remaining…”

Although Chen Ke now had a lifespan of 20 hours, he still had to thank the Spiritual Demon’s soul. If it weren’t for the ability to enter the memory sequence and explore, in just tens of minutes he could wear out an entire night, Chen Ke might have to hunt mutated cats and dogs in the abandoned Spiritual Energy breeding grounds every long night.

Lester hadn’t ironed the mutated suit yet, after all, unlike Chen Ke, he needed to eat and sleep.

Today was the day of the bank robbery, three days of long preparation, all for this heist! Since it was a daytime operation, he didn’t need the special effects of that suit, so Chen Ke wore a gray suit to the gun shop.

By the time he arrived at the gun shop, it was already past 10 AM. Weapons, equipment, and necessities had all been arranged by Pihom to be sent to the bank’s parking lot, so everyone just needed to bring their masks.

Hall wasn’t playing on his PS3 today; instead, he was sitting backwards on his chair, hands resting on the back of the chair, as if contemplating something.

Lucina, dressed in a purple leather jacket over a black T-shirt, torn jeans, and boots, greeted Chen Ke when she saw him.

“What’s up with Hall?” Chen Ke asked.

“He’s gone into shutdown mode because Lucina thrashed him,” Priskin said as he walked past Chen Ke, nodding towards the small table under the large TV where a PS3 cover of Tekken 5 lay.

“Lucina… are you really that good at this?” Chen Ke asked Lucina.

“It might also be that Hall is just too bad, but anyway, I do win more than I lose in arcades and on XBOX LIVE. Um… in other words, I’m pretty good,” Lucina laughed.

“These fighting games are always hard to play… You spend a lot of time practicing… dealing with frustration…” Chen Ke frowned, not fond of playing fighting games.

“If you’re interested and have the time, I could teach you,” Lucina offered.

“Maybe another time. Isn’t today the day we hit it big?” Chen Ke steered the conversation back to the bank heist. Currently, he couldn’t afford to waste his life on video games.

Just then, Pihom walked in timely and stood next to the table as the four of them gathered around.

“Today is an ordinary day to the world, but for us, it’s Payday,” Pihom smiled.

“Right, Payday,” Hall chuckled, as if stepping out of the gloom of Tekken 5.

“We are all set. Let’s go over the plan one last time,” Priskin said.

Chen Ke nodded and looked at Pihom.

“At 12 o’clock, you’ll ride the van near the bank. All essential equipment is in the pickup with the license plate ending in 2217. Lucina and Priskin will enter through the back door; she will handle the surveillance room and let Priskin set up the drill. Chen Ke and Hall will enter from the front door once the surveillance is under control and quickly subdue everyone,” Pihom, pointing at the blueprint of the bank, instructed.

“The drill will be loud, but don’t panic; the diesel generators outside the store will be louder, so no one will notice the noise. Once the vault door is opened, I’ve prepared twelve bags for the money. You need to grab 12 full bags of money and hide the item we need in one of them.”

“Then comes the escape. If all goes well, by the time you’re bagging the money, S.W.A.T. should already be on their way. A gunfight is inevitable, but we’ll still try to avoid killing cops. I have prepared smoke grenades just in case.”

“The money bags can be directly transported to the getaway car via a zip line from the bank’s roof, and you can also escape directly from the bank on the zip line. Once in the car, follow the escape route planned by Hall, breaking up.”

“Hall and Priskin will take the A route with the item we need, Chen Ke and Lucina will act as decoys on the B route. The decoy car must attract as much firepower as possible in the first part of the route, but Bain’s hacker will also come to help, so the pressure shouldn’t be too big.”

After Pihom finished, he clapped his hands and looked at everyone.

“The main target of this operation is the item in that small lock box, money comes second. So, adapt as needed and don’t lose your life for money,” he said.

“Understood,” everyone nodded.

Chen Ke sneaked a glance at the others, judging by their expressions, they seemed more interested in the money.

“Alright, time waits for no one, let’s move out,” Hall said.

The four of them responded and proceeded to leave the safe house, walking with swagger towards the van.

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