Chapter 43 It turns out he was just a puppet too.

After a while, Nangong Qi heard the blind subordinate leave.

What Nangong Qi didn't know was that the blind man she thought he was had turned a corner after leaving and wandered into another place. This place was filled with densely packed screens, and as he walked, he unwrapped the bandages from his face.

The images shown above depict various corners of the base.

Although the base may appear to have no cameras at all, in fact, cameras are almost everywhere on the base, with no blind spots.

This is the monitoring room (the director built this after the security guards who witnessed the last incident of a social incident causing a police brutality incident).

Sure enough, not long after, he saw the person he wanted to see—the director.

Then he gently handed the stack of papers in his hand to the director.

The director glanced at it lazily and thought, "Ah, how amazing."

February 20

7:30

It's so annoying, there's still so much work, it's exhausting. Thank goodness for the system. If I could, I definitely couldn't finish it all myself, right, system? ...No need to be so modest!

7:31

Ahhhh! I really want to eat strawberry cake... I don't want to waste my points on the expensive cakes in the system store.

7:32

Ahhhh, even though the system is already helping me, there's still so much work to do... You're right, I need to pull myself together and rescue Miss Shaoji from this hellhole.

7:33

Damn director! Damn villain! Damn job! And I still haven't been paid! Damn... ugh, this hateful world! Why can't I even vent?!

7:34

Waaaaah, why can't I just go straight to the main character? The main character is like a warm sun... how much longer until I can get off work?! Mission, mission... I knew it was a mission, I know! I'm working really hard now!

7:35

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7:36

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These are all Nangong Qi's true feelings.

Yes, that's the truth. It's all thanks to this blindfolded person's... oh, that's not his special ability.

Mind reading sounds amazing, right? But in fact, this ability has an irreparable flaw: it will truthfully write down the inner thoughts of the person he chooses.

However, there's always a "but," and the biggest drawback of this ability is that the person who possesses it cannot see it.

Therefore, he usually covers his eyes when he is writing.

Otherwise, the brain would receive all the information from its surroundings, causing it to crash on the spot.

But that's why he dared to expose his superpowers while walking around the base.

That's also why he was able to save his life. Knowing so many people's secrets, what would happen? You don't even need to think about it to know he would be killed to silence them. But with this life-saving lock, neither the people in the base nor the outsiders would think he knew any information, so no one would try to assassinate him or capture him to make him reveal any information.

It's practically a natural protective shield, and this skill is known to everyone. Back then, quite a few people mocked him for having this superpower.

Although he was quite satisfied with it originally.

He has been here for almost three years.

He's been doing nothing all this time, isn't his special ability quite useful? He can read minds of others regardless of their level.

Although everyone knows about his special abilities and is wary of him, wouldn't it be a waste not to take him out since everyone knows? We can always disguise ourselves.

Otherwise, what was the point of spending so much money to get him out three years ago?

So, for so many years since he came to this base, he has always worked diligently as a low-level staff member, handling all kinds of documents like an ordinary low-level clerk.

Well, just a few days ago, with the arrival of this little girl, he finally had his first task.

At first, he did intend to help. Although the girl told him not to help and to rest, his conscience still bothered him. But he didn't expect that this young girl had so much on her mind, speaking hundreds of words almost every minute.

He's too busy to help her with any documents.

Once everything had been reported, he turned to leave.

Then the director's voice suddenly came from behind. "Tomorrow you won't have to stay by Nangong Qi's side to keep records anymore."

"Should I just go back to being idle?" He almost blurted it out, but he swallowed the words back.

He nodded nonchalantly at the end, then turned and left.

Actually, this is fine too; he casually kicked a stone away from his feet.

Suddenly, a thought popped into his head: Why are there stones here?

"...Stop kicking, this is your reward." The director rubbed his forehead; he shouldn't have acted so arrogantly.

Just now, he casually tossed the energy ore aside. In his mind, the scene was that he would casually throw this (which he was actually a little reluctant to part with) to him without any regard for his status as a big shot, and then the other party would catch it with a look of surprise. That was the scene he imagined.

To his utter surprise, he had lost focus and failed to catch the energy ore that the man had thrown. It landed right at his feet and he kicked it. Did he realize that even a small piece of it hurt him to see it fall?

If it weren't for his image as a big shot, he would have already knelt down and picked it up, okay?

This is a really good thing. Superpowers are still a mysterious and elusive thing for them, and there is no specific method of cultivation.

It's possible to break through, but that's only for a few. For most people, their special abilities are predetermined from birth.

This thing can give superpowers to people who don't have them, and can give superpowers to people who already have them.

The person in front of him is one of the few undercover agents he left behind.

The difference is that this person is the most treacherous of all the traitors.

He openly revealed his superpowers from the beginning, which is good, being able to know other people's secrets about using superpowers when he himself is unaware of those secrets.

As a result, he was able to thrive in each base, moving from one base to another. To others, it seemed like he was in a terrible situation, as each base he stayed in would go bankrupt.

But no one ever imagined that the base would be destroyed because of this insignificant, useless superhuman.

No one knew that he was simultaneously a spy for one base and another, and also a traitor sent by one base to another.

His multiple identities as a spy ensured he had a place in any base.

Unfortunately, one problem that no one considered was that he himself claimed to have this superpower.

In the text, this character's identity is very strong. He is a person from a chaotic era with a strong desire for revenge. Any displeasure will result in a devastating attack from him.

Although he cannot know what others are thinking, he can write it down, but he can sense their emotions and modify them accordingly.

That's the most terrifying thing: turning a wise leader into a foolish, irritable, and hedonistic individual.

That's what made him capable of destroying base after base.

When he first found him and asked to be taken in, the warden had to make a great effort to keep him there, providing him with good food and drink and not making him do any work, hoping that he would not hold a grudge against him in the future.

It seems to be working quite well; two years have passed and there haven't been any major problems at our base.

The reason he was called here this time was because he discovered that those who hadn't taken any action before had started contacting other bases, indicating that they had been staying here for far too long.

He didn't intend to go to extremes to eliminate them, but rather planned to curry favor with them, since they were likely to become big shots in the future.

He knew he had been troubled by his superpower, so he decided to give him the energy stone he had obtained.

He named this energy stone himself. After releasing it, he did three things: first, to make the stone remember his kindness in the future; second, he didn't release any important information about it to harm others; and third, to test whether the thing he had been researching for several years was actually useful.

Ahem... Back to the main topic.

"I only have one request—after you get out, don't help them fight against our base." After explaining the whole story, the director said to the person in front of him with a serious expression.

After a moment of silence, he left.

He used to have only one code name: Translator. Although Translator was supposed to be a mind reader, he couldn't read other people's minds.

However, he has a strong ability to read minds, which, combined with his weak supernatural power, allows him to change other people's thoughts.

However, he tried countless times to change the director's mind and get him promoted, only to find that the director's thoughts were exceptionally firm and could not be changed by him.

That's why he chose to come to this base. It wasn't that he was unwanted or had nowhere else to go; he just wanted to see the glorious history of the base built by the director.

If it weren't for the fact that it had been so long—two years already—he wouldn't have sought refuge with someone else. Now that he thinks about it, the director probably discovered his intentions.

Someone like him must be nothing more than a clown in front of the director.

Everything seemed transparent to him.

He glanced back at the base one last time, then stepped out without hesitation.

He will never lay a hand on this place; it is humanity's only remaining hope.

On the other side, the director was deep in thought, looking at the documents in his hand.

He hadn't expected that she was also a time traveler, and that the novel he was reading featured his own character and his alternate name, which seemed to be a prediction of the future.

This gave him a chill down his spine, making him feel like his life wasn't real anymore, as if he were being watched and his life trajectory was being planned.

Just like when he first saw the novel, he took advantage of the plot to gain benefits time and time again.

And now he's been incorporated into this storyline.

It turns out he was just a puppet.