Chapter 377: Shadow Killer

All I need to do now is ensure that I survive to the end.

After taking a moment to assess the situation on the battlefield, Adam could see that the Desert Gang was in severe trouble, and it was no longer in any position to be hunting him.

All he had to do was weather the storm until morning arrived the next day. In fact, he didn't even have to last that long. As soon as the northern congress received wind of the riot taking place, journalists would swarm to the prison, and order would have to be restored.

Before I find a place to hide, I have to find Mole and Armadillo. I can't let them die here.

Mole and Armadillo were both insane, and in particular, Mole was extremely susceptible to being swept up in the heat of battle. He was a formidable fighter, but he didn't have any good weapons, and he fought in an extremely reckless fashion, so Adam was afraid that Mole would end up dead if he didn't find him soon.

In a chaotic battle like this one, there was no telling what could happen.

With that in mind, Adam squeezed his way into the crowd to begin searching for the pair of psychic mutants.

At this moment, his entire body was drenched in blood, and he was completely unrecognizable as a result. Furthermore, everyone was focused on surviving the battle, so no one paid any attention to him.

All of a sudden, Adam felt someone grab onto his wrist, and he was greatly alarmed as he looked down to find that a dry and wizened hand had closed itself around his wrist.

In this perilous situation, Adam was fully alert and vigilant, and his telegnosis was working in overdrive. Hence, it was incredible that someone had managed to get so close to him that they were able to grab onto his wrist before he detected their presence.

Adam immediately swung around, upon which he was greeted by the sight of a familiar face.

"Guang Fei? When did you get here? What do you want?"

"I want to kill you..."

Guang Fei made no attempt to hide his intentions, and it seemed that he had been waiting for this moment for quite some time.

"I knew something wasn't quite right about you the moment I first saw you!"

"I also wanted to kill you the moment I first saw you, but that fat pig told me that I had to wait until the riot. That suits me just fine. With so many people dying today, I'll be able to pose as one of the bodies and escape once all the bodies are transported out of the prison."

Guang Fei was revealing his plan to Adam without any qualms or hesitation. It seemed that in his mind, Adam was already a dead man.

Judging from what Guang Fei had just said, Adam was able to deduce that the chief warden had promised him that he would be able to escape from Darvaza Prison by posing as a dead body, so long as he killed Adam during the riot.

All of the inmates in Darvaza Prison were imprisoned for life without the possibility for parole, so no one would've passed up an opportunity like this.

"You're an adapter? I've never seen any information about you on the outside."

"That's because the sly old foxes of the Hosman Family always like to keep a pawn around. Perhaps they'll never use the pawn, but they would rather have a redundant pawn than risk not having one in their time of need."

Guang Fei continued to grip tightly onto Adam's wrist as he spoke, and somehow, despite the fact that he resembled a dried and shriveled corpse, he possessed incredible grip strength, locking Adam firmly into place.

"Let's go settle this someplace where there's no one around, what do you say?"

A chaotic battle was still unfolding all around them, so it would've been no different to committing suicide had they chosen to engage in a psychic battle here.

"Sure," Adam agreed without any hesitation.

He could tell that Guang Fei was most likely quite a formidable adapter, but the same applied to himself as well.

On the outside, someone like the late Oni no Hanzou was already considered to be an elite adapter, yet his powers were only on par with those of a level four anomaly. Charlie Thompson appeared to be the most powerful adapter in the prison, and his powers would've allowed him to stand toe to toe against a Lamp Keeper of the Guild of Immortality, yet even he was no match for Adam.

Adam's primary objective for his voluntary incarceration was to advance his own powers as an adapter.

.

Perhaps Guang Fei would've been able to kill him on his first day in the prison, but Adam had made significant strides since then.

"You're very good at concealing your aura, but are you really sure that you'll be able to beat me in a psychic battle?" Adam asked.

"I won't know unless I try," Guang Fei replied as he made his way into the darkness with his hand still tightly wrapped around Adam's wrist.

The two of them left the most chaotic area before arriving in a cell. After entering the cell, they piled up some objects in front of the door to act as an obstacle, following which Adam turned off his flashlight, leaving the two of them in complete darkness.

"Shall we begin?"

"Let's begin."

As soon as Adam's voice trailed off, he felt his opponent invading his consciousness.

"You must be very confident if you're invading my psychic world!"

In a psychic battle, there was always an element of home advantage involved, unless the two combatants were fighting in a neutral psychic venue. Thus, Adam offered no resistance and allowed Guang Fei to enter his psychic world.

He had no idea how powerful an adapter Guang Fei was, so as soon as he entered the psychic world, he immediately invoked Sludge before fusing with it as a safety precaution.

Sludge was very bulky and cumbersome, and it wasn't versatile, either, but it was a very safe option as even an adapter of Hebi no Miko's caliber had no way of killing Sludge in a short time.

As soon as he completed his fusion with Sludge, Adam's body instantly broke through the cell around it, with its head punching straight through the roof.

As was the case the majority of the time, one entered the psychic world in the same location as they were situated in in the real world.

The cramped cell was nowhere near large enough to hold Adam's enormous frame, and he was outside of the building altogether, allowing him to see the other areas and the outdoor activity area of the prison.

Adam shrank himself down as much as he could, but in the end, he was still standing at around eight meters tall.

In its normal state, Sludge was around 12 meters in height, while the two-story structure of the prison was only roughly seven meters tall. Hence, even after shrinking himself down as much as possible, he still had to crouch down to be able to see what was happening inside the prison.

Where is he?

Adam pulled apart the rubble of the building with his hands as he began searching for his opponent, but all of a sudden, he felt something tighten around his neck.

What a sneaky bastard!

He had already been attacked, even though he hadn't sensed anything through his telegnosis.

He reached a hand toward his own neck, but didn't feel anything there.

What the hell am I being attacked by?

Right as he was looking around in befuddlement, he felt his limbs being bound as well, and this time, he was able to see what he was being attacked by.

It was a shadow.

Within the dark cell, there were even darker shadows latching onto his body and his limbs.