DipNovel Chapter 386 Shackles
Chapter 386 Shackles
the other side.
Xu Si's figure streaked across the night sky like a dark red meteor, speeding off towards the southwest.
When the star veins are extended to their limit, no energy fluctuations within the range of the star veins' vision can escape his perception.
No.
There was nothing there.
The Marriott fleet vanished as if it had evaporated into thin air, leaving not a trace.
Xu Si did not give up.
He continued searching southwestward, increasing his speed, and the coverage area of the star vein trembled slightly under the extreme operation.
Ten kilometers.
Twenty kilometers.
Thirty kilometers.
Still nothing has been found.
He stopped in mid-air, the night wind making his cloak flutter behind him.
Yi Yi nestled on his shoulder, her little hands clutching his collar. She could feel the suppressed anger emanating from Xu Si's chest.
"Xu Si..." she whispered, wanting to say something, but not knowing what to say.
Xu Si did not respond and continued to expand the search area.
Even if he has to dig three feet into the ground, he has to find Fu Wanhao.
He had just reconnected with his sister; he couldn't let the connection be severed, not even if there was the slightest possibility.
Xu Si searched for a long time, until the sun rose.
Until his heart sank to the bottom.
During that time, he looked at the trait that had been imposed on him over and over again.
He wanted to clear it away, he wanted to discard it, but he couldn't even activate it.
This is a completely passive characteristic.
Perhaps his sister was slowly forgetting him, and the thought of that possibility sent chills down his spine.
"No," he said in a low voice.
Yi Yi peeked out from his shoulder, cautiously looking at his profile, her little face almost overflowing with worry.
"Xu Si..."
"Keep looking."
Instead of expanding the search area, he turned back and resumed the search along the possible escape routes of the Marriott convoy.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
Until the blood sun broke completely off the horizon, painting everything red.
Until his sequence energy was more than half depleted, the coverage area of the stellar veins began to shrink.
He had to admit a fact—
Fu Wanhao ran away.
That old fox slipped through his fingers like an eel, and even casually put a shackle on him.
Xu Si landed atop a hill, the night wind blowing from behind him, making his cloak flutter loudly.
He gazed at the sky gradually brightening in the distance, his eyes as deep and unfathomable as a dry well.
"Xu Si, are you alright?" Yi Yi finally couldn't hold back any longer. She flew off his shoulder and hovered in front of him, asking with a worried expression.
"It's alright," Xu Si said with a wry smile.
His only consolation now is that this ability wasn't innate, so perhaps things aren't as bad as he thinks.
Fu Wanhao could never have imagined how much trouble this feature, which he considered the most useless, would cause Xu Si.
Xu Si remained silent for a long time.
"Let's go back."
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When Xu Si returned to the camp, it was already morning.
The blood-red sun hung high in the sky, enveloping the entire camp in a dark red halo.
Everyone is waiting for him.
The campfire had gone out, leaving only a pile of grayish-white embers.
Tashan had been awake for a while and was squatting by the fire, holding a stone in his hand, unconsciously kneading it, shaping it into various forms and then crushing it again.
Fu Xiaojian and Fu Ruoxue seemed to have reached some kind of consensus and were talking about something at the moment.
Jiao Jiao sat on the hood of the tank, her legs dangling in the air. She would occasionally look up at the sky and then look down again, her fingers constantly digging into the sheet metal beneath her.
Her little mouth kept muttering to herself, as if she were scolding someone.
Xiao Luo huddled in the back of the Hummer, seemingly catching up on sleep, but his spiritual senses remained at a minimum level, sensing the direction Xu Si was returning from.
"We're back." The shared sense of awareness exploded in everyone's minds.
Everyone looked up at the same time.
On the horizon, a small black dot is rapidly growing larger.
A few breaths later, Xu Si's figure descended from the sky and landed in the center of the camp.
He looked no different than when he left.
But everyone could sense that the oppressive atmosphere emanating from him was even heavier than when he left.
"Knife, that old bastard..." Tashan stood up and asked cautiously.
"They ran away," Xu Si replied briefly.
There was a moment of silence in the camp, perhaps because no one knew how to respond.
Moreover, they didn't know why Xu Si was so persistent, so they couldn't easily persuade him.
Fu Xiaojian stood up, walked to Xu Si's side, and didn't say any of those nonsense like "it's okay" or "we'll find each other next time".
He simply patted Xu Si on the shoulder and handed him the meal that had been prepared earlier that morning.
"Eat something first."
Xu Si took it; he was indeed a bit hungry after working all night.
"Redhead..."
"Are you alright?" Jiao Jiao awkwardly leaned forward and asked with concern.
"It's nothing." Xu Si's lips curled into a very faint smile.
For most people, gaining a new feature would be an exciting thing, but for Xu Si, it wasn't.
"What's going on with these guys?" After filling his stomach in a few bites, Xu Si noticed that there were several unfamiliar faces in the camp.
"The newest addition to our ranks, the prisoners from last night!" Fu Xiaojian explained simply.
"Is he reliable? If not, let's just kill him!" Everyone, including Fu Ruoxue, turned pale. This guy was too terrifying!
"Don't worry, Jiang Li has put 'shackles' on them!" Fu Xiaojian explained with a smile.
It would be such a waste to kill them.
Xu Si then noticed that their hands and feet all had a faint collar, which was the so-called shackles?
"Isn't there a contract?" Xu Si asked.
A contract was signed, but it only contained simple restrictions.
It can't compare to the "consumables contract" with Zhou Huo and others.
That's why an extra layer of protection is needed.
Jiang Li's shackles would be more suitable.
"Shackles?" He repeated the word, looking at Jiang Li.
Jiang Li stood to the side, nodded slightly, and said softly, "The shackles can restrict the flow of their sequence energy. Once the restriction conditions are triggered, the shackles will tighten until they completely seal off their ability to move."
She paused, her gaze falling on Fu Ruoxue.
Fu Ruoxue remained calm, seemingly unconcerned about the shackles on her body.
She even slightly raised her wrist to glance at the faint, dark pattern, like a delicate bracelet.
"It looks pretty," she said.
Jiao Jiao rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath, "Even prisoners of war are so dramatic."
Xu Si withdrew his gaze and did not ask any further questions.
He had no interest in Fu Ruoxue, nor in Yang Shu or Jiang Ling.
All he can think about right now is how to get rid of that damned "causal isolation" barrier.
Perhaps he could upgrade a similar artifact to eliminate it.
However, he doesn't have any ideas yet.
He just didn't know whether the effects of [causal isolation] would recover on their own by then.
If not, he really would tear Fu Wanhao to pieces.