Chapter 147 Collecting Evidence
As her classmates battled fear, Chen Xiao'e also ran down the "corridor." The swirling mist vanished, and the barrier that should have existed vanished before her.
[C: The priority of Super Power - Zero has been increased.]
Pixel figures representing Chen Xiao'er and Zero moved rapidly across the screen. The speed at which the land was generated matched Chen Xiao'er's running speed, or rather... the "world" was being created beneath her feet.
The large screen played the Overlord's resistance. This territorial anomaly constantly mobilized immense energy, desperately creating obstacles for them.
This is not enough. It constantly changes the real-time location of things and hides important individuals deeper - but these are all useless efforts. Chen Xiao'er is thinking about "finding evidence of the crime", which is actually chasing the master's entity.
She quickly jumped into the first door. The information inside the door was reset to zero and materialized into filing cabinets. The dangerous radiation, rules and "knowledge" were all turned into paper files and stuffed inside.
Ordinary superpowered people certainly cannot enter the abnormal core area so easily.
Even the church's most senior investigators had to put on full gear and crack the rules bit by bit with the assistance of professionals, slowly advancing in a high-radiation environment.
Excluding numerous failed attempts, the average time to conquer a high-difficulty anomaly zone is about two weeks. After all, the longer the delay, the slimmer the chance of survival.
There is basically no one like Chen Xiao'er who runs into the core area.
The experts watched with envy as the two people shuffled through the archives, eager to jump in and look through these precious documents with them. Unfortunately, resetting to zero removes contamination while also distorting the true information.
For example, the paper Chen Xiao'er was holding said "Teach you how to make the most delicious butter cookies", and underneath was just a recipe, without any trace of anything related to abnormalities.
The white-haired expert typed on the screen, muttering, "We should have the Knights speed up their progress. Once all the protective seals are in place, Chen Xiao'er will be able to face the Overlord directly..."
The screen in her upper left corner was showing the battle outside the area.
Abnormality - The train rushed through the chaotic space, using its powerful spatial ability to create a long and narrow crack.
Huge amounts of energy radiated along the cracks, and the monitoring center could only degrade the image into a mosaic to resist the conceptual tearing.
The unknown anomaly next to the train was originally classified as an invisible anomaly, but now it also showed the existence of a similar entity under the energy attack controlled by the Overlord.
An extremely huge phantom of light rose into the air, pressed its heavy fists into the ground, and swallowed up piles of abnormal derivatives.
"It looks like a branch of the Devil Hunter, but it's not connected to the Abyss..." the assistant muttered softly, taking notes in his notebook.
Compared to the bizarre and domineering battles of the anomalies, the battle situation on the human knights' side was more simple.
More than a dozen glittering mechas rushed forward, and the tails of their missiles drew out a series of woven nets.
Mechas in the technological age require multiple operators to operate different parts at the same time, but after alienation, only one super-powered person is needed to make neural connections.
The silver-white mecha smashed towards the abnormal cluster like a sledgehammer. Each mecha could clear out a large area of space the moment it landed in the area.
They block the front line like reefs, creating a brief safe zone for the assault team behind them.
Beep, a prompt sound rang out on the big screen.
【Chen Xiao'e has obtained new clues】
…
Chen Xiao'er threw aside a copy of "The History of Oriental Cuisine" and then a copy of "How to Make Delicious Bone Broth," her face filled with speechlessness. "I want evidence of a crime, why are there only recipes here?" "Does the court have proof that the factory director enjoys culinary studies?"
However, her adoptive mother, Ms. Chen Yunshu, also had many cookbooks at home, so she had no right to criticize this hobby. If she had to blame anyone, she could only blame the factory director for putting the cookbooks in a locked filing cabinet, which made her happy in vain.
Because people often hide things in the pages of books in TV dramas, she picked up each book and shook it vigorously, but not even a banknote came out. She had no choice but to pile the magazines together and prepare to take them back to school for the teacher to check.
Aren’t there scenes of roasting with fire and dousing with water in stories? Maybe a professor who is proficient in cryptography or chemistry can discover the hidden message?
Anyway, the lock has been broken. If no evidence of the crime is found in the end, she can only apologize and pay compensation, and she may even be detained.
"Ah~" Chen Xiao'er sighed in frustration, suddenly noticing a decorative painting that didn't quite fit in. Even someone unfamiliar with art could tell it was an abstract painting, because it was so abstract.
The subject of the painting looks like a woman whose face has been torn and then pieced together. She has her arms folded and her brow furrowed, with a crown hanging precariously on her large head.
If this painting was hung somewhere else, Chen Xiao'er might not have thought much about it.
But the location of this archive room is very suspicious. It was built in a dead corner of an underground corridor: I almost didn’t see it when I was dragging Zero around in the basement before, and I thought it was safe when I was picking the lock. This room looks too much like a safe house prepared by the villain!
Such a safe house should certainly store the most important things. A bunch of recipes and a lonely painting are problematic no matter how you look at it.
Chen Xiao'er grabbed the picture frame with her hands, exerting a little force, and said half-jokingly, "Usually, the decorations in secret rooms like this have mechanisms..."
Click.
Before she used much force, the picture frame made a crisp sound of the axis turning, and slowly rotated along her right hand, revealing a dark secret door.
It’s true!
Chen Xiao'er grasped the door handle in amazement and turned it. She thought there would at least be a password or it was simply locked, but unexpectedly it opened with a click.
Behind the small door is a narrow passage slightly wider than a dog hole, which an adult can barely crawl into by lying down.
She half squatted down and sniffed the air inside. It was actually flowing and fresh, without the suffocating smell of stinky leaves.
I probably won't suffocate to death in there, but what if there's someone hiding on the opposite side with a weapon, he'll get chopped off if he shows his head out, right?
Chen Xiao'er looked at the dark cave entrance with some hesitation, and a terrifying scene of killing emerged in her mind.
Before she could decide whether to go in, Zero had already bent down and crawled in.
The senior sister was thin and her crawling movements were very agile. It seemed as if she was a lizard in her previous life. She disappeared in a flash.
"Wait for me~" Chen Xiao'er called out softly, lowered her body and crawled in with her senior sister.
…
Milo typed two lines and then quickly deleted them.
Zero's behavior was becoming more and more radical, so radical that anyone could see it, and she had no time to stop him or give him advice.
【“But it’s not bad, is it?”】The devil chuckled in her ear 【“Love is an emotion that can get out of control.”】
Milo hesitated to speak.
If the devil wasn't a devil, she might be in the mood to discuss the issue of apostles and feelings with her.
The purpose of the Apostle Project is very noble. The coming-of-age ceremony for the Apostles needs to be completely voluntary, but the operability of "voluntary" is too strong.
All the apostles, including Zero, were essentially a group of geniuses who grew up in a special environment.
The Church didn't conceal necessary knowledge and common sense, and the geniuses were too clever to completely obscure their perspectives with conspiracy. But an overt conspiracy is still a strategy, and until the moment they became apostles, almost all of them had never experienced the emotion of love.
Young people with great talents are instilled with the ambition to save the world from an early age. They are surrounded by noble people, noble words, and noble thoughts. Everything is shining and clear.
Even courses that open our eyes to the cruel side of the world will make the preciousness of the Pure Land stand out more strongly.
A vague sense of unease rose within Miroku. Zero was unique among the apostles, and the Church would not allow her to lose control. According to the procedures, he could just reset his actions.
[“Will it really get better?”] The devil’s voice was exactly the same as her concerns.
Won't.
Miroku cannot deceive himself, just as Ling cannot control his feelings for Chen Xiao'er.
No matter how many times it is reset, no matter how much things change, this relationship will eventually get out of control.
“Oh, look.”
As Milo fell into deep thought, the devil flicked his tongue in her ear in a classical broadcast voice [“My little savior has made another discovery~”]
The pixel figure representing Chen Xiao'er on the screen jumped on the spot and raised a shiny little star in her little hand.
The scene was lovely, but both the church members and the abnormal master in the monitoring center fell into a state of high tension.
Because she is located in the core area of the abnormal area.
Different anomalous areas have different rules, and their core areas will also present completely different forms. However, the rules here are the [rules] themselves, and the power of the rules is extremely biased towards Chen Xiao'er.
So when Chen Xiao'er wanted to obtain "criminal evidence", the abnormal area opened its heart to her.
In a sense, she was now jumping on the heart of the master.
…
"I knew there was something wrong with her!"
Chen Xiao'er cheered and held up a diary.
Now she no longer wants to complain about why villains in games keep diaries and villains in TV dramas hide money in the refrigerator. Because real factory managers do the same thing!
She and her senior climbed into a secret room and successfully found a large amount of banknotes that were suspected to be stolen money, as well as a whole diary detailing the crimes.
There was a simple cipher inside, but even a layman like Chen Xiao'er could tell that several pages recorded the income and expenditure of money, while the transaction items mentioned on the other page were probably people.
As to whether it was killing enemies, harming employees, or engaging in human trafficking, it has to be analyzed by professionals.
"Okay." Zero looked at her with a smile, not caring at all that darkness was surging all around him.
"Hehe~" Just as Chen Xiao'er put away her diary and prepared to leave, she suddenly heard the rustling sound of a mouse digging a hole.
Her heart skipped a beat, not because she was afraid that the mouse would jump out and bite her, but because she felt a strange numbness in her heart.
It's like a person lying at home and hearing a noise in the corridor at 1 a.m. Even if they know it's probably an illusion, they are still afraid that there is something more terrifying hiding in the darkness.
The sound seemed to come from the other side of the wall. Is there another secret room behind the secret room?
How many layers has the factory manager hidden? Can we find them all at once?
Chen Xiao'er didn't know what her impatience would bring. She just subconsciously put her hand on the wallpaper and scratched it with her nails.
…
Beep-beep-beep!
The orange-yellow border fills the entire screen, and the bright blue ripples filter all images significantly.
Chen Xiao'er's right hand emitted a pale light, swallowing up a void in the surging darkness.
"She's digging a hole in the core area! That's a space-based ability, right?!" someone in the expert group shouted.
No one answered, they stared at the screen with bated breath: Zero cannot be a space system, what is its essence?
The girl's arm reached straight into the darkness, and in the swirling black and red mud, she "grasped" something solid. The moment she grasped that object, the entire dark space trembled with pain.
What did she hold?
After a few seconds of downtime, the analysis system made a cautious guess: "Chen Xiao'er entered the current area and encountered an abnormal reincarnation mechanism."
The mechanism was inaccessible, but she entered because she could.
The observers were confused.
…
Crash!
Chen Xiao'er looked down and saw her arm had dug into the wallpaper, creating a massive hole. The factory director had hollowed out an entire wall and put up wallpaper in its place? He wasn't afraid of damaging the building's support.
"Let's go in and see what's inside..." She pulled the edge of the wallpaper hard.
Shala la la—a whole piece of wallpaper gently fell off, revealing the criss-crossing ribs inside.
And human arms.
Broken arm.
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