Star Rank Hunter - Chapter 193

Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Taken Away

When the bang happened, Cillin, Scarlet Wind, the gray cat and Czedow had all moved their gazes away for a second . It was just a blink of the eye, but Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball had already disappeared .

The communicator couldn’t be contacted . Not even the signalling device Tang Qiuqiu carried on herself were reacting at all .

It all happened in an instant .

Scarlet Wind suddenly tensed up and shifted into a highly alert state . Claws suddenly jumped out of his hands .

“What’s wrong, Scarlet Wind?”

“There’s a strange thing with a very disgusting smell on it!”

“Czedow!” Cillin said heavily .

Czedow did look away just now, but he had a separate monitoring device that wasn’t his eyes . Czedow opened his palm as a hologram appeared on it . It was a scene of the store that they had missed just now .

Tang Qiuqiu’s figure was still pretty obvious despite it being mixed with many other children’s . This was especially true for the white fat bear following behind her . Then, a black shadow flashed by, and both Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball disappeared . At the same time, a loud bang resounded from the other side of the store .

When the video was slowed down, Cillin noticed that the thing that wrapped itself around Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball looked a little like tentacles . He didn’t know what it was, but it should be pretty slippery and swift . The last place it vanished to was one of the exits of this street .

The gray cat took a sniff and said, “I can’t catch Tang Qiuqiu or Snowball’s scent anywhere . Our opponent is quite crafty . Moreover, that thing that snatched them away had the scent of sweets, allowing it to mingle with its surroundings . But it cannot escape my nose!”

Both Scarlet Wind and the gray cat had caught the scent of the thing that took Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball away . However, they allowed Scarlet Wind to lead the way instead of the gray cat since his reactions to the scent were stronger . The fact that the other party drew such a reaction from Scarlet Wind meant that they were absolutely not a normal human being .

Scarlet Wind led the way while Cillin and the gray cat followed him behind . Czedow hung at the tail of the group .

They tracked down the scent very quickly . While pursuing, Czedow also copied the security footages captured by every security monitor in the area without being discovered .

Looking at the footages, it would seem that Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball were taken into a normal-looking flying car after they were snatched from the street . Without these footages, it would’ve been difficult for them to track down their enemy even though they noticed its scent since the beginning .

Cillin rented a flying car from the automatic car rental center and chased after them immediately . Their opponent drove very quickly . Since there was a speed limit, they had been driving at the highest allowed speed limit with incredible skill . This alone showed that their opponents were no small fries .

Those people had switched flying cars midway . Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball were carried into a building, but a different flying car had flown out of another exit of the building afterwards . It was likely that Tang Qiuqiu and Snowball were inside that flying car .

Under Cillin and the gray cat’s combined efforts, they finally tracked the kidnappers into a port . The port was one of the five biggest ports of the City of Trade .

It was obvious that their opponent had noticed that Cillin was tracking them too . They had made many efforts to conceal themselves after they arriving at this place . Right now, it was very difficult for them to keep track of the kidnappers based on the security monitors and scent alone .

Why on earth had the kidnappers taken Tang Qiuqiu? Did they belong to a certain force?

These were the questions that puzzled Cillin greatly .

“What do we do, Cillin? Should we split up and search around?” the gray cat asked .

Cillin didn’t answer it immediately . Now that he had calmed down, he quickly figured out some critical points of the kidnapping .

After arriving at a quiet corner of the port and falling silent for a dozen or so seconds, Cillin said, “No, we should stay together . It’s possible that we were targeted since the beginning . Our opponents had made a meticulous plan, and we would not find anything even if we were to investigate that sweet store or balloon . Czedow, remember to inform Cary and the commander about our situation . Scarlet Wind and I will chase them directly, or we will not be able to catch up to them anymore . ”

“Scarlet Wind, follow me . Don’t take even a step away from me . ” Cillin said to Scarlet Wind .

“Mm . ” Scarlet Wind’s eyes were filled with anger and murderous intent . The long claws on his hands extended a little more without him noticing . However, he forcefully withdrew them after Cillin patted them softly . After all, there were a lot of people at this place .

“Czedow, go find the commander together with Wheeze . ”

Cillin led Scarlet Wind into the port . Meanwhile, the gray cat and Czedow went inside their flying car and drove away .

Scarlet Wind followed Cillin closely, but he didn’t understand Cillin’s arrangement . Both Wheeze and Czedow were invaluable if they wanted to track down their opponent . But if that was the case, then why had he sent Wheeze and Czedow away?

Scarlet Wind didn’t voice his opinions, however . He trusted in Cillin’s judgment, so he obeyed his decisions even though he was puzzled by the arrangement .

“This is the direction, right Scarlet Wind?” Cillin asked .

Scarlet Wind nodded . He was very familiar with this smell; it was a disgusting smell that couldn’t be removed even if it was washed with disinfectants . Although the opponent had made efforts to conceal it, Scarlet Wind only needed a bit more time to identify the direction where the scent was coming from .

The duo chased the scent all the way to a spaceplane parking lot . There weren’t many people at this place . Scarlet Wind was just about to say something when every hair on his body suddenly stood on its end . His animal instincts informed him that there were danger, but his vigilance was quickly carried away by a powerful sedative . He wobbled once, twice, and collapsed onto the ground .

Cillin was also lying down on the ground beside Scarlet Wind in the same manner . Both of them were shot by an extremely thin needle . This type of needle made almost no sound at all when it was fired, and it travelled at a tremendous speed . Moreover, the thin needle contained a surprisingly powerful sedative that could knock out even a Rank A genotype human .

A number of people came out of the surrounding spaceplanes after they’d collapsed . No one could’ve imagined that the surrounding spaceplanes that looked like they came from different places and forces parked in this area were in fact all under the same boss .

This area was cut off from the rest of the world before anyone realized it . No one here was an outsider, and although there were a few guards in the area they completely ignored whatever those people were doing . Instead, they left the area after exchanging brief glances with each other . The people that came out of the spaceplane confirmed that both Cillin and Scarlet Wind were knocked out after an inspection and carried them both into a spaceplane .

When the spaceplane took off into the air, no one noticed the two bumps that looked almost identical to their surroundings sticking at the bottom of the spaceplane .

They didn’t notice that these two bumps were communicating with each other through a certain method that was completely undetectable by the spaceplane’s security system .

It didn’t take long before the spaceplane left the port and entered into space . There was a starship parked at a giant space station, and its logo was a number ‘6’ that had been rotated 255 degrees clockwise . It was also designed to have a bigger curve and longer tail .

Cillin would’ve been surprised to see this logo . This was because the people with this logo were the kind of people whom Shawton wanted to stay away from the most .

In a room on the starship, two people were conversing with each other .

“How dare you mobilize a test subject to capture people without permission!” a man dressed in black formal attire looking like he had just finished attending a party said with undisguised anger .

A middle-aged man sat across him . Right now this middle-aged man was looking at the data recorded in his electronic notebook . He showed no fear towards the black suited man’s harsh words .

When he raised his head, the excitement in his eyes hadn’t faded away completely, “Kedwell, I’m absolutely sure you cannot imagine what kind of life form we just got . ” the middle-aged man brought up a number of data and passed over the electronic notebook to Kedwell, who had just finished attending a large-scale auction .

Kedwell might be dissatisfied with the middle-aged man’s methods, but his face instantly lit up the moment he saw the listed data . That being said, it was necessary for him to maintain a certain attitude as a part of the management staff . He straightened his expression and passed the electronic notebook back to the middle-aged man, “Shelt, the higher-ups had said this many times already . This is not the time to create any noise . Someone has already informed the military about this, and certain political organizations are voicing dissenting opinions too . We must watch out and control our actions!”

“Of course I know . But since we coincidentally ran into such a rare and perfect specimen, I can’t possibly give up on it, can I? This specimen is several times better than the last batch of test subjects . ” Shelt retrained his gaze onto the electronic notebook once more, skimming through the test data transmitted back to his device one after another .

“Which force do they belong to?” Kedwell loosened his collar and asked .

“I checked, they’re from Vanguard’s Sixth B Squadron . ”

When Kedwell heard the name ‘Vanguard’, his eyebrows quickly became wrinkled . But when he heard the words ‘B Squadron’, they became relaxed again . It was just a B Squadron . The loss of a few personnel wouldn’t draw the ire of the A Squadrons .

“I’ll forget this this one time, but don’t you start another kidnapping as you like during this time . If this affects the whole ‘Miracle’, then all of your experiments will be obliterated!”

“Of course, I do know where my priorities lie . ”

Shelt only mentioned Cillin and Scarlet Wind’s capture briefly . Moreover, Scarlet Wind was another rare specimen to Shelt, so he had no intentions of telling too much and have his prize taken away from him . Luckily for him, Kedwell was rather busy today since the higher ups had instructed him to whitewash certain things . Therefore, he couldn’t spare any more attention to the things Shelt had done today .

At the same time, inside a prison room on the starship . Cillin could feel the restraints placed around his limbs, but he neither moved nor opened his eyes . In fact, his body was maintained at the biological state of an unconscious person . The instrument beside him displayed the words ‘Subject Unconscious’ .

In reality, Cillin could’ve avoided that needle if he wanted to . He didn’t because he had a plan in his mind . His opponent’s appetite was very huge, since not only had they kidnapped Tang Qiuqiu, they seemed to have set their eyes on Scarlet Wind as well .

Although Cillin had outlined his plans back at the corner, that wasn’t his real goal at all . Verbal communication was hardly the only channel of communication between him and the gray cat . The gray cat was sitting right on top of Cillin’s shoulders, and their interaction neither needed words nor feared eavesdroppers at all . Moreover, the gray cat could communicate with Czedow through another method .

Before Scarlet Wind was knocked out, Cillin had already injected a kind of medicine into his body in secret . It was something Rikulab researched, and it could partially resist powerful stimulant drugs . Moreover, Cillin added a different kind of medicine into the mix that would make Scarlet Wind emit a different kind of scent . As long as this scent existed, Cillin would be able to find Scarlet Wind no matter where he was .

Scarlet Wind and Cillin were separated after the spaceplane had entered the starship . Obviously, Scarlet Wind was given heavy attention, while Cillin was abandoned at another room alone and surrounded with monitoring devices .