C4 Assassination Ring

Pearl Ability Academy had a special course to teach students how to judge the danger level of the catabolic beast.

Once an animal became a catabolic beast, its eyes would become more intelligent. Furthermore, as the superpowers in its body continued to increase, its eyes would carry a symbolic brilliance.

This kind of light could not be seen during the day, but at night, it could be seen with a careful observation.

During the night, the eyes of elementary catabolic beasts would have a faint white light. According to the brightness of the white light, one could judge the level. When it reached the intermediate level, the light in the eyes would gradually retract, and it would transition from white to green, then to advanced blue, and finally to the top red.

Zhang Ping was not an experienced Awakened, so he could not judge the level of the catabolic beast based on the brightness of the light. However, he could roughly judge the level of the Sky Fox through the light in the eyes of the Sky Fox.

According to his observation, the strength of the Sky Fox was generally between the intermediate and advanced level, which was around level 19 to 25.

Unfortunately, the Sky Fox did not inherit the talent of the Nine-Tailed Fox. Otherwise, he could more easily judge the level of the Sky Fox and be more accurate.

There were many catabolic beasts in the wild, so one did not need to judge the level based on the brightness of the eyes.

For example, once a Nine-Tailed Fox became a catabolic beast, it would definitely have two tails. When it became an intermediate catabolic beast, it would have three tails to four tails. When it became an advanced catabolic beast, it would have five tails to six tails. If it went one step further, it would have seven tails to eight tails.

Apparently, the king of Nine-tailed Foxes would have nine tails.

Therefore, it was easy to determine the level of a catabolic beast with nine tails.

In fact, there was also a similar method of judgment among the Awakened.

According to Zhang Ping's knowledge, it was easy to determine one's level in the early stage of the fire element among the Awakened.

At level 1, the fire element superpowered could at most condense a fireball the size of a basketball. At level 2, it could condense two fireballs, and until level 9, it could condense nine fireballs. It was very easy to determine the level.

However, after breaking through level 10 and becoming an intermediate Awakened, the level could not be determined because of the change in the quality of superpowers and different people using different abilities.

Taking advantage of the night, Zhang Ping recorded the information about the Sky Foxes in the nearby streets and turned around to return to the school.

In the next few days, he used the school as the center and continuously collected information about the Sky Foxes in the city. At the same time, he also had some doubts in his heart. There were actually quite a few Sky Foxes in the city that were only at the level of elementary catabolic beasts, but they were able to hide from many advanced Awakened.

"Another elementary fox!"

Zhang Ping was hiding in a corner not far from the school. He looked at the Sky Foxes in the distance, whose eyes were emitting a bright white light, and muttered in his heart.

No matter how powerful the ability of an elementary catabolic beast was, it would be quite helpless against the level suppression. For example, it was almost impossible for an elementary Awakened who had 'spirit control' to cause much damage to an intermediate Awakened.

Even if he really controlled it, he would be broken free in a few seconds, or even suffer a backlash from his ability.

Zhang Ping remembered that the teacher in charge of the combat class was an intermediate Awakened. At that time, the entire class had used all their strength, but they were unable to cause too much damage to Teacher Chen.

On one hand, there was the difference in experience, and on the other hand, there was the suppression of the level.

Then the question came.

These elementary catabolic beasts ate humans in the city, so why didn't the intermediate or even advanced Awakened notice it?

In theory, even if the Sky Fox's superpower was stronger, it would not be able to suppress an existence of a higher level than itself.

However, according to Zhang Ping's observation during this period of time, these elementary catabolic beasts were also rampaging and eating humans in the city, and the people around them were completely unaware of it.

There must be some information that he did not know about, and this information was especially critical.

Zhang Ping glanced at the elementary catabolic beast that was swaggering on the street, then returned to the school in the night.

At the moment, he had a rough idea of the situation. At least, with the school as the center, the surrounding sixteen streets were all infiltrated by the Sky Fox, and there were at least fifty Sky Foxes living in the vicinity.

Outside the school, he discovered that the strongest Sky Fox was between level 25 and level 27, and the weakest was only at level 5.

It was a young Sky Fox that often moved around the Small Food Street.

As for the school, the Sky Fox that pretended to be a teacher was at least level 29, and its strength was extremely terrifying.

However...

What was even more terrifying was the Sky Fox that had killed Lo Shiyu.

Zhang Ping did not even dare to use the appraisal on it.

This was because he had a feeling that once he used the appraisal on it, he would be immediately locked onto by the other party.

This feeling was definitely not an illusion.

Therefore, Zhang Ping guessed that the Sky Fox that had killed Lo Shiyu was of a very high level, and it might even be a top-grade catabolic beast!

"Now that I have gathered enough information."

"I can confirm that it is impossible for me to deal with all the Sky Foxes by myself."

"The problem is that the abilities of the Sky Fox are too strange. Even a low-level Sky Fox can easily deceive an advanced Awakened. I don't have any evidence, so no one will believe my words."

"The only way is to kill a Sky Fox as evidence."

"As long as there is evidence, it will be possible to attract the attention of some strong people."

In the dormitory, Zhang Ping was doing push-ups as he analyzed and thought about it in his heart.

Hunting down the Sky Fox would definitely alert the enemy.

Furthermore, Zhang Ping was not confident that he would be able to retreat unscathed after killing the Sky Fox.

Zhang Ping thought about it for a long time and sighed in his heart. He was still too weak. If he was strong enough, he wouldn't have so many concerns.

In the end, strength was the key to stopping him from acting.

"Raise your body and do another five hundred times!"

Zhang Ping clenched his teeth and ordered in his heart.

In the past few days, he had eaten two Contract Gems every day, but unfortunately, no new talent had appeared.

However, as his potential continued to increase, the effects of training became more and more obvious. This feeling of improvement made him not feel despair.

In fact, he was already certain that this city had fallen.

The Sky Fox that controlled this city was not human.

The next day.

Zhang Ping opened his eyes and found that he had woken up earlier than usual.

It was four o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still dark. He was the only one running on the field.

The surroundings were extremely quiet.

When the cool breeze blew, he even felt as if he had returned to the school in his previous life.

If only there was no Sky Fox.

Zhang Ping thought of the children and students who had been killed, and he subconsciously clenched his fists.

Suddenly, he felt as if he had stepped on something. He turned around and looked back. There was a ring on the ground.

"Give up on the morning jog and move freely!"

Zhang Ping ordered in his heart, then turned around and walked back to pick up the ring.

This was a dark black ring. It was unknown who had dropped it here. Although the material of the ring did not look especially precious, the workmanship was exquisite. The patterns on the ring were especially exquisite, and it did not look like an ordinary decoration.

"Identify!"

"Identify failed!"

"Identify!"

"Identification failed!"

Zhang Ping was slightly surprised.

Normally, it was rare for an item to fail in an identification. This ring actually failed two times in a row.

Then, he continuously used the appraisal and finally identified the ring's attributes after failing more than ten times.

Successfully appraised

Assassination Ring: After wearing the ring, all lifeforms will subconsciously ignore the wearer. Advanced Awakened and above can be immune.

At the same time that the appraisal was successful, a scene naturally appeared in front of Zhang Ping's eyes: an old man with white hair and beard was holding the ring with his left hand and a tied-up man with black hair and beard with his right hand.

As the old man's two hands emitted golden light, the tied-up man's face distorted and blood flowed out of his seven orifices. He opened his mouth and let out a miserable scream. In the end, the blood-colored light on the man's body was extracted and merged into the ring through the old man's hand.

Then, the scene changed. Zhang Ping saw a man in white clothes and a black mask on his face fighting with Lo Shiyu on the field. However, the man was obviously not Lo Shiyu's match. Not only did he lose three of his fingers, but his waist was also taken off.

Unfortunately, the scene ended after the waist was taken off. Zhang Ping did not see whether the man in white clothes had escaped or not.

"Oh no!"

The scene ended.

Zhang Ping suddenly reacted.

Could this ring be a bait left behind by the Sky Fox?

He quickly looked at the girl's dormitory, but he did not find the Sky Fox. He forced himself to calm down and quietly put the ring on.

Regardless of whether this ring was a bait or not, he had already picked it up. It would be more suspicious to deliberately throw it away now.

Since it was still early in the morning, the nightwalker had to return to the dormitory as soon as possible.

After making up his mind, Zhang Ping quickly turned around and disappeared into the night.

...

In the corner of the field, a Sky Fox was a little distracted and could not help but yawn.

Suddenly, it felt that something was wrong. It focused its attention on the field and wiped its eyes. Only then did it realize that the ring had disappeared.

"Not good!"

It immediately jumped into the field and lay on the ground, carefully sniffing the scents in the surroundings.

The scents on the field were very mixed, but it could distinguish the time that the scents had been left behind. However, after searching for a while, it subconsciously 'forgot' one of the scents, so it did not discover anything.

"Is there no one here?"

"How is that possible!"

The Sky Fox was dumbfounded at this moment.

It listened to Lo Shiyu's orders and stared at the field the entire night.

Even when it was distracted, it paid attention to the movements of the field. How could the ring disappear into thin air?

"That's not right. Someone must have been here. If they can hide from me, then they must be an Awakened at the intermediate level or above!"

The Sky Fox calmed down. Its long and narrow eyes gradually narrowed. It looked around but did not find any suspicious footprints. Thus, it turned around and walked towards the female dormitory.

In the male dormitory.

Zhang Ping watched the Sky Fox leave on the balcony and heaved a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it was already past four o'clock in the morning. His presence was very low, and after wearing the Assassination Ring, his presence was even weaker.

From the Sky Fox's look, it could be seen that the other party did not notice him. He was still safe.

However, he definitely could not wear the Assassination Ring during the day. Otherwise, he would be in danger if Lo Shiyu found out.

"So it turns out that I was not the only one who discovered the catabolic beast in the city."

Zhang Ping returned to his room and looked down at the Assassination Ring as he pondered.

It was obvious that the white-clothed man had also noticed the catabolic beast infiltrating the city. However, why did he attack Lo Shiyu? Could it be that Lo Shiyu had a special meaning in the Sky Fox?

Also, was there an organization behind the white-clothed man?

"There is still too little information."

Zhang Ping's fingers gently rubbed the Assassination Ring as he thought about the things that he could not figure out. He simply laid down on the bed and stopped trying to figure it out.

However, the Assassination Ring made him realize that not only did his strength depend on his own strength, there were also many mysterious equipment in Pearl City.

These equipment were usually made by blacksmiths and had special abilities.

Previously, the reason why he had neglected this point was that he was an orphan. He had never come into contact with such equipment in the past, so he had almost no memory of it.

What the original owner did not know was that he, who had inherited the original owner's memories, naturally did not know about it.

"I'll go out and investigate tonight and see the price of such equipment."

Zhang Ping set his goal in his heart. He then looked at the alarm clock. It was already past five o'clock in the morning, so he could still sleep for another hour.

He closed his eyes and ordered himself to sleep. In the blink of an eye, he fell asleep.

"Zhang Ping, there's danger! Get up!"

In his daze, Zhang Ping saw Su Jingyao.

Her body was hazy, but her eyes were clear as water. Those beautiful almond eyes were looking at him anxiously.

Dream?

No!

Waking up!

On the bed, Zhang Ping suddenly opened his eyes.

In the next second, he subconsciously took off the Assassination Ring and swallowed it. Then he continued to sleep.

A few minutes later.

'Lo Shiyu' pushed open the door and walked into the dormitory.

She walked around the dormitory and walked in front of Zhang Ping. She lowered her head and looked at him.