"Do you think this place is different from what you thought?" Seeing Yun Jian's shocked expression, Tang Aibai explained with a smile, "This is the headquarters of the Twenty-Eight Mansions. Only internal members can enter, so the layout is relatively casual and relaxed."
After all, the Twenty-Eight Mansions have to face the dark side of the entire Mansion, and fighting with super-powered criminals is even more dangerous. Having a comfortable and warm safe house is beneficial to the mental state of the members.
Yun Jian finally understood and nodded thoughtfully, with even more respect for the Twenty-Eight Mansions.
Tang Aibai glanced at him quietly out of the corner of her eye, and seeing that he had no objection to the sentence "Only members of the Twenty-Eight Mansions can enter", she couldn't help but smile. She walked to the ice cream machine next to the dessert stand, made a grass-flavored cone by herself and handed it to Yun Jian. After he finished it in a few bites, she couldn't wait to pull him forward.
"I'll take you to the detention center first," Tang Aibai said. "There are a lot of things related to you in the interrogation this afternoon, so I'll tell you about it all at once."
Yun Jian followed him and walked to the green tent beside the round carpet, only to find that this thing that looked like a tent was actually a huge turtle shell.
Perhaps it heard the noise, the turtle's head popped out of its shell, and its basketball-sized dark brown eyes stared at Yun Jian for a long time before turning to Tang Aibai and said slowly, "A newcomer is here, where are you going?"
This turtle can talk! Yun Jian was completely shocked.
He vaguely remembered that Cat Toy had told him that no animal had become a spirit in the past thousand years, so the age of this turtle couldn't be more than a thousand years old, right?!
[This is not a turtle spirit.]
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Cat Toy guessed what Yun Jian was thinking and explained with a yawn.
[If I'm not mistaken, this should be a human transformation - most likely a curse or a superpower research accident? In any case, it's definitely not a good thing.]
Yun Jian's heart sank immediately. Even when he saw the big turtle stomping its feet and a very modern and deep corridor appeared behind it, he was not as excited as before. Instead, he politely said goodbye to it and walked into the corridor with Team Nangong.
As soon as he stepped into the corridor, the hall behind him disappeared. Yun Jian turned his head and could only see the cold walls. He was a little dazed for a moment, until Qiao Liang pulled his arm, then he hurriedly ran to their side and walked to the other end of the corridor.
On both sides of the corridor, behind the solid glass walls, criminals were imprisoned one after another. Most of them were sitting in chairs with slumped heads or lying on the steel cages nearby. A few of them stared sinisterly at the passers-by, and when they saw Yun Jian looking over, they actually grinned in a hideous and terrifying manner.
Fortunately, Yun Jian's psychological endurance had been greatly improved by what he had experienced in the past few days. Even when threatened by the criminals, his face remained expressionless. He followed the example of Tang Aibai and the others, and glanced indifferently at them, pretending not to see their weird smiles.
"Most of these people are fanatics of the superpower sect," Peng Hua quietly told Yun Jian, "and there are a few who awakened their superpowers and thought they were invincible and ran out to burn, kill and plunder - but this is very rare, because most people with superpowers awaken in childhood."
The known examples of people awakening super powers after adulthood are all due to special circumstances such as experiencing a heart-wrenching setback or some kind of adventure.
Yun Jian shook his cat's tail, and obediently classified himself as "having an adventure". However, if this was said to Cat Toy, it would definitely be so angry that it would scream for five minutes, and then mutter for an hour, "The power of the Cat God is fundamentally different from superpowers, and the status of the power of the gods is much higher than that of humans." This is what it repeats almost every day.
At the end of the corridor was a prison room, which was filled with all kinds of torture tools. At first glance, it seemed like a dream back to the Middle Ages. Yun Jian was so shocked that he couldn't help but look over there a few more times.
“Actually, these things are useless,” seeing Yun Jian’s concerned look, Tang Aibai smiled, “They are no better than the truth serum prepared by the pharmacist. The main reason they are placed here is to scare people. Most criminals don’t know much about the style of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, so they get scared when they see these tools.”
Qiao Liang raised his eyebrows, leaned close to Yun Jian's ear, and whispered, "It's not to scare people. It's because the captain felt that the cell was too empty. He had just become the captain and was still in his middle school years, so he bought the decorations with his own money. Look at that guillotine, the blade is blunt. Who can be fooled by such a cheap Halloween decoration?"
Tang Aibai covered his face.
He cleared his throat, trying to stop his team members from exposing their dark history. He picked up the interrogation record on the table and handed it to Yun Jian. He marked a few key points on the record with a pen and said, "Look here. According to them, it was someone who openly sold information on the black market and swore that you were a cat demon. This made these small sects that lacked research materials interested."
"So, we suspect that there must be someone behind this, and their purpose is most likely to test your true identity and the limits of your abilities. Regarding this, we speculate that it may be related to the hellhound - do you have helpers to fight the hellhound, or do you know if the hellhound has similar helpers?"
Yun Jian shook his head helplessly.
The relationship network of the tabby cat is extremely simple. Apart from the Twenty-Eight Mansions, only his own body meets the condition of a helper. As for whether the hellhound has helpers, at least so far, he has not discovered it.
[I don’t know either. Cat God never said that.]
The cat toy also knew nothing about the question. After hesitating for a long time, he added in a low voice.
[Even if there are, the helpers of Hellhound are from Hell. They are likely to have died thousands of years ago. They have no connection with human organizations...right?]
The investigation was now stuck in a dead end. Tang Aibai rubbed his chin in embarrassment and did not speak for a while. After pondering for a long time, he spoke again: "There is also a possibility that they really think you are a cat demon."
After all, this was the initial judgment of the Twenty-Eight Mansions on Yun Jian, so it was not surprising that the superpower sect, which had obtained relatively little information, would think so.
Since no meaningful conclusion could be drawn, Tang Aibai stopped talking about this topic. He put down the thick stack of interrogation materials in his hand, looked at Yun Jian, and his expression gradually became serious: "Li Hua, are you willing to join the Twenty-Eight Mansions?"
The frequent appearances of hellhounds have endangered the safety of Su Fang, and his identity as a person from hell has been taken extremely seriously by the Twenty-Eight Mansions. In addition, Yun Jian's mysterious origin, extraordinary skills, and the countless sects he has provoked, whether for the sake of the overall situation or for Yun Jian's own safety, recruiting him into the Twenty-Eight Mansions is the best choice.
Tang Aibai had started preparing the words and materials to persuade Yun Jian long ago, and even specifically reported to his superiors to apply for exceptionally favorable conditions for Yun Jian. When he made the invitation, he was mentally prepared for a long speech and extreme pushing and pulling. He even unconsciously moved his toes back half an inch, and his posture was no different from that before the battle.
Unexpectedly, Yun Jian tilted his head and thought for a moment, then readily agreed: "Okay."
"Don't deny it so quickly - cough cough!" Tang Aibai was choked by his own saliva and coughed madly. It took him a while to straighten up and said in disbelief, "You agree?"
He didn't even say no, he agreed so easily, which made him feel unfulfilled!
The author has something to say:
So sleepyQAQ
This chapter is a bit short, I will try to make the next chapter longer hehe
The tabby cat is probably the cat that is closest to the original character among all the vests. Cherish this frank and cute little boy (chewing chicken legs)
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