C79

Lange was fifty years old, and he was black. Because he was born with white hair and a white beard, he was nicknamed the "White-headed Eagle". But the nickname referred not only to his appearance, but also to his eagle-sharp eyes. Other than the accuracy of the hundred percent, Lan Qi had an almost innate sharp perception of the unknown. This was also the reason why he was able to roam the Southwest Land for nearly five years without turning into a monster's food.

Lan Qi's ability was a skill specialized in fifth rank, which could be considered an expert amongst ordinary organizations and superpowers. But in Elk Town, where adventurers were on average at the seventh stage, Lan Qi was pitifully weak. But many of those stronger than him had died, while the White-headed Eagle was still alive. Lan Qi naturally had his own way of life. That was, he didn't have to do anything beyond his own ability.

During these five years, his figure had appeared in marginal zone. This area took up tens of thousands of square kilometers, it had already become the buffer zone between Elk Town and Southwest Land. Although most of the maps of this gray area are well-known to adventurers, many of the species and resources are not valued by adventurers. In their hearts, they had long since determined that a huge fortune could only be discovered from deeper and more unknown lands.

The White-headed Eagle, on the other hand, locked its eyes onto this gray belt. He was very clear about his own abilities, even surviving in this gray belt was already rather difficult, not to mention those unrecognized areas. In the past five years, Lange had discovered a lot of valuable information in this gray belt, but he was very clear on the fact that he couldn't bring these precious resources out of Elk Town by himself.

So he chose another way to make money, and that was to sell the information in the tavern. It turned out that he had done the right thing. The gray zone was much safer than the unknown, even though the information provided by Lange did not give him the resources he would occasionally bring back from the unknown. However, the unknown region's resources were scarce, and the danger was too great. As a result, Lan Qi's information had become extremely popular.

Just the cost of this half a month's worth of information had already brought Lan Qi's savings up to seven digits. This money was not something that Lan Qi had prepared for himself. The retirement fees that Parkland's valve had paid for him was enough for him to live the rest of his life happily. White-headed Eagle still worked hard to earn money after retiring, but it was for his son Kabu.

However, his son Kabu had already displayed a rare talent in the area of perception domain at such a young age, and now, he had already become the first successor of the Parkland's valve, Solon, the Tracing Specialist. Without a doubt, Kabu's future would be even greater than Lan Qi's. Every single cent that the White-headed Eagle painstakingly earned in the Southwest Land would be given to Kabu to use as the fee to raise their own ability's formula.

He poured all his effort into his son.

Lan Qi was already preparing to leave Elk Town. The valuable information had already been sold out, so he no longer had any reason to stay in this town. Today, after selling off the last piece of information, the White-headed Eagle ordered a bottle of whiskey as a way to send him off.

As he slowly savored the amber liquid, a young soldier pushed open the door of the tavern and hurried toward him. Sniper Specialist's keen perception immediately discovered that something was amiss. Lan Qi's hand had already lightly landed on the Desert Eagle by his waist. He did not bring his sniper rifle, Falcon III, with him, but the automatic pistol of the old dynasty was enough for Lanqi to deal with any situation.

"Mr. Lange ?" The soldier came to the counter, panting while shouting out the White-headed Eagle's name.

Lan Qi lazily replied, "My intelligence reports have been sold out. If you want any more information, go and report it to the other intelligence merchants."

"What did you say?" Mr. Lan Qi, I am here on behalf of Master Solon. "

When the soldier stood up, Lan Qi saw the Parkland's valve's badge on his tactical suit. The White-headed Eagle's heart skipped a beat for no reason. He put down his wine heart and asked in a deep voice: "What happened?"

Solon would definitely not send someone to Elk Town to find a retired Sniper Specialist for no reason at all. Other than his son Kabu, Lan Qi could not find a reasonable reason.

"Mr. Lange, I'm sorry to have to tell you a bad news. Sir Solon's Tracing Specialist, who is also your son Mr. Kabu, died in a mission two months ago! "

"What?"

The White-headed Eagle roared, looking at the usually quiet adventurer, everyone suddenly became excited, all of them had strange looks on their faces.

"What task is it?" How did Kabu die? Killed by a monster? "

To Lan Qi, Kabu was the continuation and hope of his life. Even though Lan Qi knew clearly that there was no such thing as safety in the wilderness, and Kabu could possibly die at any moment in some ruins, Lan Qi had spent all his effort to earn money in order to raise his son's strength to ensure his life. But the White-headed Eagle never thought that Kabu would leave so early.

"Mr. Kabu was killed by a special ability user called Zero. There is a video here that you can watch." The soldier took out the tactical plate and called out a footage from it.

This video was a recording of the time when the blood rider went berserk. They would record the entire process of the quest. In order to prevent himself from dying in battle, he had to provide the necessary information to the successor. The video of Kabu being killed by zero was also recorded by the Intelligence brain that Solon carried around with him. Right now, the scene that Lan Qi saw was precisely one that was edited out from the Intelligence brain's records.

In the scene, Zero was like a humanoid Vicious Beasts. Even with the Intelligence brain's speed of 5,000 frames per second, it could only barely catch his moving trajectory. He watched as the intermittent afterimage broke through Solon's defense in the blink of an eye and approached him. His son was thrown like a doll, and when he landed, his head was twisted 180 degrees, no matter how one looked at it, his neck would not be able to survive.

From the moment Kabu was killed to the time he went berserk, the entire process took less than five seconds. This caused Lan Qi, besides being enraged, to calm down as well.

There was no doubt that the zero in the image was very powerful. Lan Qi estimated from his experience that zero had at least about the strength and strengthening ability of his sixth rank. If Lan Qi allowed Zero to approach him, he would have been killed without any suspense. However, in Lan Qi's mind, Zero wasn't strong enough to be an absolute monster. This meant that both the trap and sniping would be able to kill the opponent who was slightly stronger than him.

"Give me his information! "Everything!"

Lan Qi's killing intent could be seen in his simple words.

Tens of kilometers away, on the wilderness outside the Raging Reef City, Zero suddenly felt a chill. It was like being aimed at by a sniper rifle, causing him to instantly lower his body. A moment later, after confirming that there were no more snipers within two thousand meters, he stood up.

Su Yun looked in the direction where the chill attack came from. From time to time, a bolt of lightning would explode from the thick radiation cloud in the southwest sky.

The storm was approaching!