Li Shan’s self-awareness is very clear.

At least judging by the various abilities displayed by the killer, he can be sure that he cannot capture the killer alone, not even find out who it is.

With the possibility of new victims appearing at any time, even if he wanted to be brave, he wouldn’t choose this moment.

Ding~

The elevator doors opened, and Li Shan walked out of the elevator, taking three steps in two, quickly arriving at this new crime scene.

After all, since he didn’t know how the killer controlled the security personnel, he didn’t rashly enter the room, but stood outside the door, cautiously observing everything inside the room.

If it weren’t for the five corpses lying in the room right now, it would be impossible to tell there’s any problem.

Indeed, Li Shan knows he can force a security officer to leave their firearm outside and enter the room alone.

Perhaps doing so would reveal some clues, but this approach is too cruel, and unless it’s absolutely necessary, Li Shan would not issue such an order.

"Guard the door and temporarily don’t let anyone enter this room."

In any case, City Martial Headquarters has already received Feng Yixuan’s report asking for backup, and after understanding the situation on the scene, they have increased their attention to this case.

"Did they mention who is in the backup unit?"

With nothing else to do, Li Shan casually asked. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Feng Yixuan recalled for a moment and said, "Don’t worry, it’s led by our City Martial’s fifth team captain. Once the boss arrives, we should be able to finish up. I’m craving hot pot after we get off work."

Hearing this, Li Shan’s heart trembled: "Don’t jinx us."

...

In a remote alleyway in Habitable City.

Under Lv Bai’s control, the "Bird Cage" covered an area of less than ten square meters, completely low-profile.

Faced with the bird cage that instantly enclosed him, Vice President Zheng had no intention of testing its durability and calmly accepted his situation, introducing how to leave the refuge to Lv Bai without further ado.

The initiative was so apparent that Lv Bai suspected whether Vice President Zheng was doing it on purpose to inform him of this matter.

"...It’s more or less like this, not hard for you. With your Captain Lv privileges, you should be able to find it in the City Martial Headquarters’ database."

Vice President Zheng explained the way to leave the refuge in one breath.

Only after his cigar, clamped between his fingers, was half burned did he take another puff and add, "But I don’t recommend you search for this information, as City Martial Headquarters will archive browsing records unless you plan to leave openly."

Lv Bai nodded, snapped his fingers, and canceled the "Bird Cage" that enveloped them both.

After a sincere thank you, he skillfully stripped away Vice President Zheng’s abilities.

Even though possessing the "Discard Pile," Lv Bai could find a suitable ability for any situation, but who would mind having too many abilities?

"Until we meet again."

Lv Bai left the alley, stood on the commercial street, quickly identified his direction, and headed towards the Central District of Underground City.

Notably, his face, which seemed to always carry a smile, was expressionless at the moment.

When he first arrived in this world, he was curious about what the surface was like.

But during his time at the refuge, he subconsciously ignored this aspect.

Unwillingness to leave the comfort zone is part of human nature; taking action is one thing, thoughts are another.

Lv Bai clearly knew that during this time, he hadn’t had the thought of leaving at all.

Upon reflection, it was unexpectedly unnerving.

Besides the time spent in the Death Arena, his time in this underground refuge was only six months.

Merely six months, yet this effect was felt.

During this time, he subconsciously never thought about leaving the underground refuge.

If it weren’t for the clones arriving at the refuge, reminding him, he’d doubt if he’d remember that humans originally lived on the surface after staying longer in the Underground City.

It’s almost like there’s a subtle form of thought interference.

Then what about the people who have lived in this underground refuge since birth?

They’re likely already deeply imprinted with this mindset.

No matter whether such thought interference exists, Lv Bai plans to go to the surface to have a look.

Ultimately, leaving the underground refuge isn’t too difficult for him now.

He organized his thoughts, leisurely walked to the military restricted area behind the City Hall Building.

The restricted area contains a building over a kilometer tall, which, when viewed from afar, looks like a majestic pillar, connecting heaven and earth.

One can’t help but marvel at this world’s exaggerated architectural materials science.

After gazing from afar for a while, Lv Bai turned and walked to a monitoring blind spot, activated his cloaking ability, then boldly crossed the restricted line in front of numerous vigilant soldiers.

Seen from a distance, the building looked narrow, but upon closer inspection, its footprint wasn’t small; even its narrowest layer covered two to three acres due to its remarkable height.

Lv Bai stood at the building’s entrance, patiently watching for someone to come or go, and seized the opportunity to slip inside along the wall.

There weren’t many people in the lobby, and nobody seemed in a hurry; they all appeared idle.

"The hermit elevator entrance to the surface is on the 404th floor."

Lv Bai recalled the information provided by Vice President Zheng and walked to the elevator area to wait.

According to Vice President Zheng’s information, this building is permanently staffed by two or more full squads from City Martial, and Can Society’s attempts to attack have never successfully reached beyond the 100th floor.

In formal ways, permission to enter above the 400th floor requires authority equivalent to the City Martial Headquarters’ head. Not even ordinary City Council members are qualified to enter.

Can Society isn’t clear about what happens on each floor of this building, only that the confidentiality level is high.

But the 404th floor is an exception.

Anyone can swipe an identity card of internal personnel to take the elevator to the 404th floor.

Lv Bai didn’t have to wait long before encountering a staff member planning to use the elevator going up.

In his cloaking state, Lv Bai followed closely and entered the elevator along with the staff member.

He surveyed the elevator, activated [Flash Time].

In the fleeting 0.5 seconds, he switched from cloaking to mind control, stuffing the preset commands into the staff member’s mind.

When time resumed flowing again, Lv Bai was back in his cloaking state.

And the staff member, bewildered, pressed the button for the 404th floor.