38 Chapter 38

◎A new knife has appeared～◎

"How arrogant!" Tiaoye Caiju said, "Are you two going to continue this conversation in front of the hound?"

He raised the handcuffs in his hand and shook them, squinting his eyes.

Hearing the voice, Shibusawa Ryuhiko raised his head.

Beside him, Yun Xiji's voice was filled with surprise, "It's actually a hound? It's here really fast."

An exaggerated performance.

Shibusawa Ryuhiko calmly withdrew his gaze.

The hound arrived and successfully prevented a disaster that never happened.

Fudi Yingchi glanced at Yunxiji and reported the results to the higher-ups.

Long before Yun Xiji came to the Special Ability Department, Fyodor had told him: "His thinking is different from that of ordinary people."

Fyodor's meaningful tone echoed in his mind.

Fudi Yingchi suddenly understood this different meaning.

How could anyone join the Hounds like this?

Yun Xiji might have come to the government to have fun.

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Armed Detective Agency.

Following the Shibusawa Tatsuhiko incident, the Armed Detective Agency had a rare moment of rest. On a quiet afternoon, the agency received an anonymous letter.

The recipient was designated as Mu Ye Xue Che.

"Mr. Muye, there is a letter for you."

Mu Ye Xue Che raised her head, her hair hanging down and falling on her shoulders.

"Letter?" He took the letter and opened it.

A piece of letter paper was revealed, with only one line of words written on it: [About your secret, come to me at three o'clock.]

The young man lowered his eyes and frowned slightly after a while.

Scam letter?

The primary system's prompt sounded at the right time: [Assistive functions are automatically enabled, and the system functions are fully upgraded. The upgrade is expected to be completed in 48.5 hours.]

Ye Yuexin was stunned.

Accessibility? Upgrades?

When did all this come out?

After saying this, the primary system fell silent.

What are auxiliary functions? Ye Yuexin asked.

Primary system response: [Assistive function, see Quest Manual Article 352 for details. When audience satisfaction exceeds 100% of the quest value, the system will refine the character settings and script to ensure the quest can proceed more smoothly.]

[Exceeding 100% of the mission value?]

Ye Yueshen clicked on the pain value list.

-31%

Primary system answer: [Audience satisfaction is a hidden value and cannot be viewed.]

Ye Yue Shen could probably guess how much it was.

I see, he triggered the guaranteed mechanism.

Audience satisfaction is high but mission values ​​are extremely low.

The conditions are harsh and difficult to achieve.

Ye Yueshen was silent. Is he really a genius?

A genius with deep knowledge of mission failure.

He put his thoughts aside and turned his attention to the letter in his hand.

Then the letter that Mu Ye Xue Che received had an explanation.

The system improves the surrounding relationships of the vest based on the vest's settings, allowing his role-playing to be more in-depth.

As long as you dig deep into the background, you will always find the knife.

What is the upgrade?

Is the primary system going to become advanced?

Primary system answer: [Forum related functions upgraded. ]

Forum function?

Ye Yue Shen lost interest and chose to skip this upgrade.

He gets a heart attack every time he opens the forum. He won't be checking the forum again anytime soon!

The next time he checks, he will definitely be bringing a big knife to watch the audience cry because of the knife!

After knowing the source of the letter, Ye Yueshen immediately had an idea for the next script.

To fit the character of [Muye Xueche] who doesn't have a mouth, and also be able to throw knives——

Very simple.

Ye Yueshen made a good plan.

He now needs to handle all of this on his own without telling anyone, resolve it before anyone else finds out, and then silently endure all the unexpected events that happen.

During this process, the pain value will not soar sharply, but will rise silently like a quiet and steady stream of water.

Cutting flesh with a blunt knife is a slow torture.

Inside the detective agency, Mu Ye Xue Che put away the envelope with a calm expression.

Others just looked at him curiously but didn't ask any questions.

Mu Ye Xue Che, contrary to his usual behavior, took the initiative to explain: "A friend wants to ask me out."

He went to the president's office and asked for three days off.

Fukuzawa Yukichi quickly gave him approval.

"Are you Muye-kun's friend? I've never seen him before."

Murasakibara Xueche has been a member of the detective agency for four months. He arrives at the agency on time every day and rarely misses work. Even on vacation, Murasakibara Xueche just walks alone in Yokohama. The members of the detective agency have never seen his friends.

Mu Ye Xue Che could guess what everyone was thinking at a glance. He sneered, "Why, I can't make friends?"

"Oh, sorry, that's not what I meant..." The person who spoke immediately realized that his words were a bit offensive and quickly apologized.

Mu Ye Xue Che narrowed his eyes slightly, with a hint of displeasure in his golden pupils.

After a moment, he didn't bother to pursue the matter and said, "Be more careful with your words next time."

[Please rate my acting skills on a scale of 10 to 10 and make your choice.] Ye Yue Shen said.

The primary system is not responding.

What the system said was true. This primary system not only couldn't make small talk, it couldn't even initiate conversations.

Ye Yue Shen no longer teases the system,

Mu Ye Xue Che held up a black umbrella and called his bodyguard as he walked: "Go check on someone."

His voice paused for a moment, "I hid it from my father."

“Hidden…?”

The bodyguard hesitated, and Mu Ye Xue Che interrupted his hesitation.

The young man's tone was unquestionable as he ordered:

"Do as I say."

The other side.

Yun Xiji was captured and escorted by hunting dogs all the way. There were five people in the transport vehicle, four people from the hunting dog team and Yun Xiji.

Tiao Ye Caiju holds a supernatural power detector in her hand. As long as someone around activates supernatural powers, the detector will sound an alarm.

The last assessment did not yield any useful information, so Tiao Ye Cai Ju turned around and went to the Special Ability Agent Department to ask for a detector.

He curled his lips and placed the detector in plain sight.

"Okay, let me ask again." Tiaoye Caiju closed his eyes, leaving only a slit. He could clearly see nothing, but he could still accurately locate Yunxiji's position. "What is your purpose?"

As long as Yun Xiji activates his special ability on his ears, the detector in front of him will sound.

The man seemed to be thinking seriously, and after a long while he spoke: "The purpose is to save the world."

The detector didn't sound and the heartbeat was steady.

Suehiro Tetsuji's somewhat bewildered voice sounded beside him: "So you have such a great purpose."

His expression gradually became serious: "Did the demon threaten you to do those things before?"

Just a few words made Suehiro Tetsuji change his opinion of Yun Xiji.

Tiaoye Caiju was speechless: "You believe all this?"

"It's the truth." Yun Xiji said, "You can tell by what I say."

Tiaoye Caiju did hear it.

Yun Xiji did not lie.

But it’s still too magical for Yun Xiji to say that he wants to save the world.

Tiaoye Caiju was skeptical.

Fudi Yingchi, who was sitting in the front row, suddenly asked, "So, is it true what you said before about wanting to put your former colleague in jail?"

Yun Xiji raised his eyes and looked at Fudi Yingchi in the rearview mirror.

His eyes are very special. They are obviously two completely different colors, but people subconsciously ignore the colors and stare directly at the center of the pupil.

What was reflected inside was the scene in Yun Xiji's eyes.

"It's true."

The detector did not sound, Fukuchi Yingchi looked at Tiaoye Caiju, and his team members shook their heads slightly.

"So what you said before about the future of the hound is true?" asked Okura Yezi.

"yes."

It's all true.

All the answers are true, so what is false?

It feels weird to pick chrysanthemums in the wild.

"Are you interrogating a prisoner?" Yun Xiji complained, "I'm your future teammate. Are you sure you want to be my enemy?"

Yun Xiji said: "I have too many enemies. If you become my enemies too, I will probably not be able to remember you."

Tiao Ye Caiju smiled: "..."

Who would want to be remembered by this guy?

The Hound sped up and packed Yun Xiji and sent him to the government. The upper echelons had held many discussions about Yun Xiji. 5% of the people supported executing Yun Xiji, 30% supported sending this uncertain factor to Meursault for imprisonment, and 65% were still willing to keep Yun Xiji.

"We can learn about the future from him and avoid danger."

After a heated discussion, Yun Xiji's destination was decided -

Stay with the Hounds.

The surveillance power of the Special Ability Agent Department was unable to restrain Yun Xiji.

"Since he wants to go to the Hounds, let him go." The only difference was that he was monitored not by the Special Ability Agent Department, but by the Hounds team members.

The Hound members, who had not gone far, received the news.

"They actually let him in." Tiaoye Caiju was speechless for a moment, "Should we turn around and go back to pick him up?"

Fudi Yingchi looked at the message and shook his head: "No, he is meeting an important person now."

The Hound Captain put away his phone, turned his back to the team members, and his expression gradually became solemn.

Temporary Hound member Yun Xiji was taken to a room.

In front of him was a chessboard.

The other person raised his eyes. He had the same golden pupils as Mu Ye Xue Che, but the color was richer and sparkled with gold.

It's the director.

He invited Yun Xiji to come alone.

Ye Yueshen was controlling the vest while looking through Yun Xiji's settings.

He suddenly found a breakthrough point.

Everything that happened before was the optimal solution that Yun Xiji found after countless reincarnations. To achieve the best choice for each matter, he needed to explore, improve, trial and error, and practice.

It's like a branching choice game with hundreds of levels. In order to get the most perfect ending, each link must be repeated countless times. From the beginning of the game to the end, it is all based on previous experience.

Yunxiji does not have a perfect answer to pass the level.

Ye Yue Shen studied it carefully for two seconds——

This is the knife!

This is definitely surgery!

Every step Yun Xiji took next was in the right place, and he reached the final destination smoothly.

I thought it was fate's blessing, but I failed at the last step and was thrown into the cycle again.

Ye Yue Shen thinks he is a genius.

In front of him, the director raised his eyes nonchalantly from Ye Yueshen's resume and said, "Show me your abilities."

Yun Xiji imagined himself in an interview.

Members of a criminal organization come to the government for an interview...

Yun Xiji seemed to be lost in thought and pointed out the window: "It's going to rain today."

Crash.

The moment he finished speaking, heavy rain suddenly began to fall outside the window. Raindrops hit the window and the whole sky became gloomy.

The director observed him and nodded slightly: "Very good ability."

Controlling the weather is not an easy task, and Yun Xiji felt sleepy almost the next second.

He covered his mouth and yawned.

"All members of the Hounds have undergone transformation by psychic technicians," the director said. "Their bodies have been strengthened a hundredfold."

Yun Xiji refused with one word: "I'm afraid of pain."

“If I’m not feeling well, my brain shuts down.”

The director choked up, a rare occurrence.

Didn't this person recognize his own identity? He actually negotiated with him.

The atmosphere in the room froze.

After a long while, the director nodded slightly and said, "Okay."

The heavy rain outside the window came suddenly and violently, hitting the ground rapidly. On the street, Fyodor stood under the eaves and took off his wet hat expressionlessly.

I was walking on the road and suddenly got drenched in water. I looked carefully and found that it was raining.

Why did it suddenly rain in Yokohama?

Could it be that someone has activated a special ability?

He held his hat and waited for his men to come and take him away.

"You're the one who asked me out?" A young man's voice sounded, and the black umbrella first caught Fyodor's eye. When the other party saw Fyodor's appearance clearly, his tone suddenly changed, "Demon?"

Fyodor looked over.

He was a member of the Armed Detective Agency, and his special ability was to launch an invisible blade forward.

Wrong person?

Fyodor lowered his eyes slightly.

"Let's go inside to talk about anything." His tone was steady, and he smoothly followed up Mu Ye Xue Che's words, "It's not a good time to have a conversation when it's raining so hard."

Mu Ye Xue Che frowned.

"Aren't you worried that I might report you?"

Fyodor asked in return: "Can you?"

Mu Yexueche paused, then took the lead and walked to the side. "Where are we going to talk?"

Fyodor, standing under the eaves, did not move, but just stared at Mu Ye Xue Che silently.

And his umbrella.

Mu Ye Xue Che said with a forced smile: "You're already soaked. An umbrella won't help now, right?"

He looked very bad.

Fyodor could see that the other party was reluctant to have anything to do with him.

The guy from the Armed Detective Agency mistook him for someone else. When he mistakenly thought he was the person he had an appointment with, his first reaction was to hesitate instead of turning around and leaving.

It is a topic so important that we should continue to discuss it even if he is the one on the other side.

Fyodor had an idea. He said, "If I'm sick, then we can only talk about what you want to know next time."

Mu Ye Xue Che said directly: "Let's talk next time."

Fyodor: “.”

It seems that the topic of their conversation was not a pleasant one.

Fyodor took the identity in stride.

"Let's meet here again tomorrow at noon."

Mu Ye Xue Che responded and left immediately.

The men arrived quickly and took Fyodor back to the safe house safely.

Fyodor sent people to stake out the place where he met Mu Ye Xue Che, and also did a simple search of his interpersonal relationships.

The topic that person had an appointment with Mu Ye Xue Che to discuss was not urgent or unpleasant, but very important.

The men quickly ambush a person.

He was a man with an unremarkable appearance, and his men found an ID card on him.

[Area A Experimenter]

Fyodor looked at the information and coughed, covering his lips.

The rain he had been in still made him feel a little uncomfortable.

His men used some means to get the whole story out of the experimenter.

He came from a laboratory on the outskirts of the city. The laboratory exploded half a year ago, and he escaped the disaster because he took a leave of absence that day.

No one survived the explosion except for one subject, [Subject E1409A1].

After discovering the laboratory explosion, the experimenter tried to find the truth. After searching for four months, he found that the explosion was related to the Special Ability Department.

"That's what the experimenter meant. He said he had some information he wanted to share with Mu Ye Xue Che."

The men lowered their heads.

"Mu Ye Xue Che's memory was reset ten years ago. The method used to reset his memory was not very advanced. As long as someone reminds him, he will remember everything."

"The experimenter doesn't know the specific memory. He wants to awaken Mu Ye Xue Che's memory and get the answer from Mu Ye Xue Che."

A chance encounter actually yielded so much information.

Fyodor's eyes dimmed.

Yun Xiji did not pass on any information to him after joining the Special Ability Agent Department.

Fyodor did a little investigation and found that the other party was under close surveillance and was not as free as Fudi Yingchi. He had no time to hand over to the people he arranged.

Send yourself to the Special Ability Agent Department...

Fyodor was pondering Yun Xiji's logic when a hand suddenly appeared in front of him. "Dangdang~"

"Question! Who am I?"

The hand was wearing a red glove, and the fine fur could be seen clearly.

"Kolya." Fyodor collected his thoughts and called out his name calmly, "What's the matter?"

"Yes." Gogol appeared out of nowhere, holding a letter and shaking it in his hand, "I just went to Yunxiji."

To be precise, Yun Xiji adjusted his landing position and took the initiative to invite him over.

"He asked me to deliver a letter to you." Gogol smiled innocently and put the letter on the table.

"It's good news~" His tone rose slightly, as if he couldn't hide his smile.

Fyodor opened the letter.

[Dear Boss, By the time you see this letter, I will have already joined the Hounds.

In order to gain the trust of the Special Ability Department, I demonstrated my special ability in front of them - making it rain heavily in Yokohama.

You can start praising me now.]

The signature is a simple cloud with three arcs of different sizes on top and a flat straight line below.

Fyodor held the letter in his hand and said nothing.

It turned out that the sudden rain was caused by Yun Xiji.

He suspected Yun Xiji did it on purpose.

Knowing that he was caught in the rain, she sent him a letter to provoke him.

Fyodor put the letter away expressionlessly.

"knew."

After spending so much time with Yun Xiji, his mentality has become much calmer.

It was just a rainy day, as long as it didn't disrupt his plans.

“…”

Fyodor's eyebrows slightly lowered.

Crash.

Yun Xiji was walking on the road when someone poured a basin of water on him.

Tiaoye Caiju next to him reacted quickly and immediately moved away from him, almost getting splashed.

Yunxiji touched his wet hair.

His expression was slightly tense.

"I want to sleep."

Hound Team:?

Didn’t you just go out?

————

Mu Ye Xue Che didn't realize that he had recognized the wrong person.

But Ye Yue Shen knew.

In other words, he did it on purpose.

He paid too much for the pain value.

Fyodor didn't even seem to know him, let alone send him a letter.

In order to involve Fyodor, one day of the three days of vacation was wasted.

Ye Yueshen controlled Mu Ye Xue Che to the agreed place. There were few pedestrians nearby, and they were scattered here and there. No one noticed him.

He anonymously hired several people to take photos nearby, and if nothing unexpected happened, they would be able to take photos of him and Fyodor.

Mu Ye Xue Che waited there for five minutes.

Fyodor was late in arriving.

He glanced around.

What's the meaning?

Late? Or planning to stand him up?

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

"Sorry for the wait~"

The voice came from above Mu Ye Xue Che's head, very close, not through the umbrella, but inside the umbrella.

Mu Ye Xue Che was startled, but quickly calmed down.

"Who are you?"

Gogol smiled and said softly, "I'll take you to find Feijia~"

A force lifted up the back of Mu Ye Xue Che's collar and pulled him upwards, and a feeling of dizziness and suffocation swept over him.

The young man who was standing there just now disappeared out of thin air.

The umbrella fell to the ground.

The place where Fyodor met with Mu Ye Xue Che was in an unfinished building.

Mu Ye Xue Che fell to the ground with a very bad look on his face.

He leaned against the pillar for a long time before raising his head and said dissatisfiedly, "Is this your attitude?"

Fyodor apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry, if I spend too much time there, passers-by will notice me."

"You should know that our identities cannot be exposed to the public."

A very reasonable reason.

But Mu Ye Xue Che didn't buy it, and his face still looked unhappy.

Mu Ye Xue Che was silent.

He said, "Where's my umbrella?"

Fyodor looks at Gogol.

"Oh, I forgot to bring it." Gogol blinked innocently, "Do you want me to get it now?"

"No need." Mu Ye Xue Che's brows were cold, "I'll get a new one."

The interlude ended, and Fyodor got down to business.

"Do you remember anything before you were nine?"

"I don't remember."

"Then you want to know?"

"Why do you think I came to see you?" Mu Ye Xue Che sneered, "Does a 'demon' have so much to say?"

Faced with such words, Fyodor didn't even raise an eyebrow.

He just continued with his own topic, skillfully ignoring Mu Ye Xue Che's words: "Do you still remember the laboratory in Area A?"

“…”

"Huh? Who sent this package?" Nakajima Atsushi took the package upstairs and asked around in confusion, "Is there no one here?"

The package was simply labeled "Armed Detective Agency."

The rest of the information is blank.

"Could it be a bomb?" Kunikida Doppo had some experience, as someone had once sent a bomb to the Armed Detective Agency.

Nakajima Atsushi suddenly felt that the package was hot.

He was in a dilemma, neither holding it nor putting it down, and asked helplessly, "What should I do?"

Izumi Kyoka stared at the package for a while, then pulled Nakajima Atsushi to the window.

The girl took out a dagger and cut the package open along the marks.

——!

Nakajima Atsushi closed his eyes.

The expected bomb did not appear.

There is no ticking countdown.

There were a few photos lying quietly inside.

It was Mu Ye Xue Che and the wet Fyodor.