Chapter 143: Uncle King Was Right
"Emergency evacuation alert, emergency evacuation alert. A Mysterious Being has appeared on East Second Ring Road in Z City. The Disaster Level is Tiger. All nearby citizens, please evacuate as soon as possible."
"I repeat, emergency evacuation alert, emergency evacuation alert. A Mysterious Being has appeared on East Second Ring Road in Z City. The Disaster Level is Tiger. All nearby citizens, please evacuate as soon as possible."
The Mysterious Being alarm in the city center echoed slowly.
When King and the others drove to the location where the Mysterious Being had appeared, their eyes fell upon the already stiff corpse of a Stalker Maniac.
Chain Toad said in surprise, "The Mysterious Being has already been eliminated?"
Gunman touched the short gun at his waist and asked doubtfully, "Who did it?"
"Could it have been that perv... uh... that guy, Puri-Puri Prisoner?"
Child Emperor made a bold guess. Puri-Puri Prisoner had just passed by in this direction to attend a gay pride parade, so it seemed he was the only one likely to have eliminated the Mysterious Being.
"Perhaps."
King looked at the Stalker Maniac, whose head had been blown apart, and muttered to himself. Why did its posture in death look so familiar? A head exploded by a single punch? Could it be that fellow Saitama had been here?
It wasn't that surprising, come to think of it. Saitama was a resident of Z City, after all, so it was perfectly normal for him to be wandering around. What's more, Saitama was always looking for supermarkets with special sales, so it would be reasonable for him to appear in any corner of Z City.
"A Monster Card is available for conversion nearby. Please proceed to convert!"
The System's cold voice rang out. What a familiar sound. It made him want to cry tears of joy, to burst into song: "In all the world, only mo... ah, ptooey, in all the world, only the System is good! A protagonist with a System is a real treasure!"
To hell with everything else, getting that card is all that matters!
King stepped forward, bent down, and reached for the card.
"Ding! Card conversion successful. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining the Two-Star Monster Card: Stalker Maniac."
Holy crap, it's a perverted stalker?
King curiously opened the new card's details.
Stalker Maniac
Background: He has been interested in the private lives of various celebrities since he was a child. He was once a member of the famous paparazzi team "Cho Yui." He diligently studied all kinds of tracking techniques, vowing to expose the private lives of every celebrity. He became a Mysterious Being due to his excessive obsession.
Skill: Positioning and Tracking: Once a target is locked, it can be tracked with perfect accuracy, leaving the target with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Their movements will be laid completely bare before its eyes.
"Hey, this skill is quite useful."
King's eyes lit up. It would be much more convenient to track Saitama in the future.
"Uncle King, we should go."
Child Emperor urged King to get in the car. Since the Mysterious Being had already been eliminated, someone from the Hero Association would naturally come to deal with the corpse later. They didn't need to worry about it.
"Oh."
King got into the car promptly.
"Uncle King, I just asked around. Some people nearby did see Miss Yali's Maserati pass by. Because a Maserati is a supercar, everyone tended to take a second look. They said they definitely saw a beautiful woman through the open car window. Mmm, I think it must have been Miss Yali."
Child Emperor stroked his chin as he analyzed, telling King the information he had gathered from the citizens. "By the way, Uncle King, can you analyze Miss Yali's whereabouts from what the citizens said?"
King pouted. "I don't have a dog's nose, how could I sniff her out?"
The car continued forward. Yali had disappeared on the outskirts of Z City. The roads there led in all directions, connecting to various cities, making it very difficult to judge which way Yali had gone.
"Wee-woo, wee-woo!"
Along the way, the number of police cars increased. The police department had deployed a considerable force to cordon off the area, attempting to find any clues about Yali's trail.
"Officer Naolei?"
King and the others saw an acquaintance, Naolei, who had previously been in charge of liaison between the police department and the Yali Conglomerate.
"What are you guys doing here?"
Naolei was in the middle of assigning patrol tasks to his subordinates. "Team One, search along the highway to B-City. Team Two, search the roads towards A-City. Team Three... the northwest direction, hmm, we're not needed there for now. There's been a landslide over there, and the government has already organized a rescue team to clear the road." He turned his eyes and saw King and the others getting out of their car.
Child Emperor went up to act cute. "Uncle Naolei, we're here to help you!"
"Help us? Not necessary." Naolei's attitude was still as unfriendly as ever. He said icily, "Hmph, I know that most of you S-Class heroes are incredibly capable, but tracking and searching is our specialty as police officers."
Child Emperor, sucking on a lollipop, said, "Uncle Naolei, give us some clues. Maybe we can find a way to find Miss Yali."
Naolei snorted coldly. "You think you can find Miss Yali?" He let out a derisive laugh. "We've tried using satellites to locate Miss Yali's smartphone and Maserati, and both attempts failed without exception. What good methods could you possibly have?"
Child Emperor crunched down on his lollipop, his little face expressionless. "Mister, you've gone too far."
Naolei waved his hand, shooing Child Emperor and the others away like flies. "If you want to search, go search on your own. Don't bother me."
"Hmph."
Child Emperor let out a soft snort, squeezed his small body back into the car, and said with an unhappy look on his face, "Let's go."
King, however, wasn't angry. On the contrary, Naolei's words had given him a flash of inspiration. A thought struck him: hmm, I wonder if the Stalker Maniac's Positioning and Tracking can locate Yali.
He hesitated for a moment but ultimately couldn't ignore the motto in his heart: "A hero by luck is still a hero." He sighed softly. *Saitama, I'm going to have to lose the chance to probe your privacy again. I hope you don't blame me.*
"System, use the Two-Star Monster Card: Stalker Maniac."
"Card character attachment successful!"
"Ding! Consumed one Two-Star Card, obtained 1248 Experience Value."
"Ding! Host failed to comprehend the card character's Skill."
"Sigh, still failed to comprehend the skill."
The comprehension rate for skills from Two-Star Monster cards was too low.
King was slightly disappointed. He shook his head and focused his attention on Yali. A radar-like image appeared in his mind. He was a green dot. *Huh? Why green? And on my head? Damn it, couldn't it be blue?*
"Beep beep!"
After a moment, a few beeps sounded on the radar map, and a flashing red dot appeared.
"Found her! Northwest direction... two hundred and thirty-six kilometers away."
King's eyes lit up. He took out his phone, opened Qian Du Maps, and carefully compared the brainwave radar map with the map on his phone, slowly verifying and aligning the two.
"Landslide Village."
King stared at the small village on the map. "Child Emperor, I know where Miss Yali is. She should be in Landslide Village."
"Landslide Village?"
Child Emperor was momentarily stunned. He lowered his head in thought. A moment later, his eyes widened in excitement. "That's right! Uncle King is right! It's very likely Miss Yali is in Landslide Village! The satellites couldn't locate her phone or the Maserati, which means their positioning devices have been destroyed. Ordinary thugs wouldn't destroy a car. Perhaps the reason Miss Yali went missing is that she encountered a landslide, which wrecked the Maserati and accidentally damaged her phone." After his analysis, his little face gradually turned grave. "In that case, Miss Yali might already be..."
"We need to see a person if she's alive, or a corpse if she's dead! Let's go!"
(end of chapter)