Lin Huang’s wait lasted three days.
At the black market that day, as he was going past a shop that specialized in selling intel, he suddenly saw information on a wanted individual being projected on the shop wall that directly faced the entrance.
“Mission: Manhunt
Target: Lin Huang
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: Unknown
Combat Level: Unknown
Target’s Information: Joined Death Sickle previously under the identities of Xie Lin and Xiu Mu. His main cultivation path is in sword skills, with a secondary cultivation path in Divine Telekinesis. Carries disguise equipment on his person and could be disguised as anyone of any appearance.
Mission Request: If you see this man, all you have to do is provide his coordinates, and you will get a top-grade god sequence relic or another item of the same value. If any lord-level powerhouses assist in the capture, they will be rewarded with an expert-grade Dao Weapon or another item of the same value.”
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Remarks: This man’s abilities are not known, but he is extremely dangerous. It is not recommended that cultivators below lord-level confront this individual.”
Apart from this textual information, there were also several holographic projections of his various identities beside it.
Lin Huang could not help raising his brows after he finished reading. ‘The group of investigators has finally shown up.’
He immediately went into the store and asked, pointing at the projection, “Can this mission be taken on by just anyone?”
Before he had arrived for his temporary stay on the Ricky Star, he had disguised himself with a new form. He had also gotten Yang Ling to create a new identity for him so he was not worried that he would be recognized.
“That’s right. Anybody can take up this mission; there aren’t any restrictions,” the female staff responded with a professional smile. Clearly, she did not recognize Lin Huang.
“Alright, I’ll give it a shot.” Lin Huang grinned and scanned the info code at the bottom right corner of the projection. Almost immediately, he received the black market mission that the store had sent.
He made a show of looking around and glanced at some of the other missions.
After listening to almost everyone in the store talking about him, he left the black market unhurriedly.
After returning to the hotel, Lin Huang pulled up the mission information and read it over in detail.
It had to be said that the information the Raiders had on him was quite complete.
Practically all the identities he created since coming to the great world had been exposed. Furthermore, his real identity as Lin Huang and his identity as a human had been revealed as well.
This was not surprising in the least. After all, Spy had done some digging into Lin Huang’s identity before; it would have been very difficult to keep that information concealed from him. From the looks of things now, he must have put Lin Huang’s information on file at the Raiders’ headquarters.
In other words, if Lin Huang used any of these identities—Lin Huang, Xie Lin, Huang Mu (Xiu Mu)—and was discovered by anybody in the black market, they would definitely report him.
After closing the black market mission, Lin Huang checked Death Sickle’s forum.
He logged in with Xiu Mu’s identity using incognito mode, which would not attract any attention. However, if he used his Blood Sickle member authorization, anyone on the system’s backend would be able to see his login status.
He used Xiu Mu’s identity because it had Gold Sickle authorization in Death Sickle. This meant he could see more information using that identity.
However, as soon as he logged in, he saw that forum’s main page was practically swamped with discussions about him.
There were also all sorts of strange headings.
“Xie Lin, Xiu Mu, can’t tell them apart”
“Xiu Mu (Xie Lin)’s true identity exposed”
“Xiu Mu, the human spy who sneaked into the God Territory!”
“A boss is still a boss no matter how many identities he’s switched”
“My night with that sleaze Xiu Mu”
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Lin Huang could not help clicking into a few threads to read the contents. The ones exposing his identity were all wild guesses. There were a few conspiracy theories saying that he was a human spy, but none of them provided a shred of solid evidence—they all insisted on laying the blame for various matters at his door. As for the threads that proclaimed he was a sleaze, Lin Huang did not click into those stories at all. However, he glanced at a few of the posters’ accounts. They were all men…
Given the state of the forum, Lin Huang did not even need to think about it to know that everyone from Death Sickle must have seen the manhunt information which listed him as its target.
He clicked into the mission section. As expected, the first mission pinned on top was the mission to hunt him down.
Furthermore, the thread was authorized for public viewing. Even reserve members could see it.
Lin Huang did not think there was anything untoward in Death Sickle posting the mission about the manhunt.
He knew that Death Sickle had had no choice but to do it, under pressure from the Raiders’ investigators. It not, they would be destroyed in the investigators’ fury.
There would be at least one upper-rank Lord among the investigators; Death Sickle would not be able to contend against this at all.
Death Sickle might have a backer behind the scenes in the universe, but in the great world, it was just a small branch organization without a guardian Lord (Buried Heaven had elevated on his own later on).
If Death Sickle truly did enrage the upper-rank Lord and they were wiped out, at most, the Raiders would compensate their backer in the universe out of courtesy. It was highly unlikely that there would be more serious consequences.
Although he had already faked his death to sever any ties to Death Sickle, the Raiders’ investigators most certainly would not allow any possible clues on Death Sickle’s end to slip through their hands so easily.
However, Lin Huang did not know how much contact the investigators had had with Death Sickle, or if they had been in touch with Buried Heaven. Given Buried Heaven’s character, Lin Huang was rather worried he might bring down trouble upon himself by protecting Lin Huang.
Currently, seeing the mission that Death Sickle had posted actually helped him feel slightly less worried. At the very least, Death Sickle’s compromise meant that they had not been wiped out.
After closing Death Sickle’s forum, Lin Huang checked out the forums of a few grade-7 organizations by logging in as a guest.
Based on the situation in Death Sickle’s forum, any news in the grade-7 organizations should also be accessible to the public.
Just as he expected, the discussions on all the forums of the grade-7 organizations were entirely about him.
Most of the topics were discussions about his identity as a human, while most of the threads had nothing good to say.
Of all the discussions, the ones on God Capital’s forum were the worst. It was almost entirely one-sided abuse, using the most derogatory of terms.
After all, God Capital was an organization of pure blood Protoss. They even looked down on those of their own kind who were not of pure blood. Naturally, they looked down on humans even more.
Lin Huang ignored these vituperative threads and looked at the mission section.
The five major grade-7 organizations—the Combat God Temple, God Capital, Precious Treasure Pavilion, Xeno, and Divine Clapnet—had published the mission about the manhunt. Not only that, it was accessible to the general public; even guests could view it.
It was the Combat God Temple and God Capital that puzzled Lin Huang a bit more. One must know that these two grade-7 organizations never accepted external missions. However, not only had they accepted the mission this time, but they had even made the mission public.
Lin Huang then checked on news from the humans’ side. It turned out that they were discussing him as well.
The three Saints and seven sects—Daluo Temple, Sanctuary, Leiyin Temple, and the rest— had also posted up the mission about the manhunt. The time of the mission’s publication was even several hours earlier than the organizations in the God Territory.
This alone had shown Lin Huang how powerful the Raiders were.
It did not matter if the investigators went door to door requesting the organizations’ cooperation, or whatever other reason. All of this was sufficient to prove how afraid of these investigators the organizations in this great world were.
“Just as I expected, force wins the day.” Lin Huang smiled and shook his head.
If this had occurred before he had performed unification and become a Lord, he might have panicked a bit upon seeing this news. After all, the situation made one feel as if the entire world were against them.
However, right now, Lin Huang merely found it amusing.
