Chapter 94 Night Talk 2
Asaho can use her blessing power to trace the past experiences of her target. I think the reason she is always observing the Shadow Man's fingers is to investigate clues about the Shadow Man through her tracing skills.
Since we can't count on Lu Youxun, we can only hope to see Ma Zao for now.
Asa gave a response that met expectations.
“I’ve figured something out,” she said. “This strange person has been frequently visiting a certain place and making contact with certain people for a long time. Sometimes he even goes there every day and stays for a long time. If nothing unexpected happens, he will probably continue to visit that place frequently in the near future.”
"So, all we need to do is go to that place and ambush him..." I suddenly saw a glimmer of hope for victory. "So, what kind of place is that?"
“I’m still investigating. There’s only been a short time, not enough to gather all the information,” she said. “This strange person seems to have anti-divination abilities. Although my abilities aren’t divination, they’ve been affected to some extent. The images I’ve traced are all fragmented.”
"Are you confident you can pinpoint the exact location of that place?" I asked.
"It's hard to say, but I feel there shouldn't be any major problems," she said. "It's like a jigsaw puzzle. Even someone who doesn't know how to do jigsaw puzzles can eventually find the right way to put them together if they spend time and patiently try everything. As for the exact timeframe, I can't give you a precise figure. If I'm lucky, I can get the results tomorrow. If I'm unlucky... it shouldn't take more than a week."
"It's okay, take your time," I said gently.
I no longer have a time limit. Whether it takes her a week or a month, I can accept it. It's just that she herself might not be able to accept it. She still has the mission of preventing the apocalypse and may not be willing to waste her time in something that's just starting out.
"Also, remember to watch out for a man named Lu Chan," I reminded him.
"Lu Chan, who is that?" she asked curiously.
I told her about Lu Youxun and the Extraordinary Sect, and advised her not to let their forces find out.
I originally thought she would react with extreme vigilance and stick to her strategy of infiltration, but after listening to her, she said directly, "It's okay, let them find out. You and Zhu Shi don't need to put in the effort to hide me, just show yourself openly."
"What?" I was quite surprised.
"This is based on experience. In the past, I had a terrible reputation during the apocalypse. When passing through some survivor settlements, I considered acting discreetly. But I'm the type to easily cause trouble, and trying to hide myself peacefully... has never been successful." She said with a sense of acceptance, "Instead of being so restrained, it's better to act with the premise that you will be known. That way, you can avoid being suspicious of those around you."
"So, what should you do if the supernatural faction tries to kidnap you?" I asked.
She replied, "I will use spatial teleportation to escape."
She escaped using spatial teleportation…and then what? I waited a while, but didn’t hear her continue. She just looked at me with a calm gaze.
Wait, is that all?
"Is that all?" I asked.
“That’s enough.” She glanced at my reaction and patiently explained, “I admit that many strange forces and phenomena can’t be escaped simply by teleportation, but my teleportation is different. It might seem unbelievable to you, but think about it this way—”
"In the past, I lived in a perilous apocalyptic era. On top of that, I had a jinx constitution that would endlessly attract strange and calamities to my side. Almost everyone who had ever been involved with me is now dead, and I am the only one still alive today... What do you think is the reason I can live so long?"
"If I want to escape, no one can stop me, and no one can track me down."
Until she encountered the Calamity Demon—she added at the end.
And I gradually accepted her point of view.
Yes, if she only knew ordinary spatial teleportation, then let alone the endless strange phenomena, she wouldn't even be able to escape from my palm.
Moreover, Lu Youxun is an expert in investigating the supernatural, so it's unrealistic to expect someone as prone to attracting supernatural beings as Mazao to hide under his nose. And if Mazao's spatial teleportation is truly beyond the reach of anyone other than a Great Demon or a Great Impermanence, then whether the Transcendentalists can detect her current whereabouts is actually irrelevant.
If I had to pinpoint something worrying, it would be that the power of the supernatural is truly unpredictable, and her confidence seems somewhat excessive. However, when it comes to knowledge of the supernatural, she is definitely ten or a hundred times more knowledgeable than I am. And it was she who made the judgment that "there's no problem," a judgment that carries extraordinary weight.
“Okay, I believe you,” I said.
Upon hearing this, she smiled, a rare occurrence for her.
"Could you tell me more about the monster creator and the Humanitarian Division?" she asked.
I nodded, and then began to tell her.
The night passed.
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That night, Mazao insisted on giving me the bedroom and sleeping on the sofa herself.
Actually, there are two bedrooms in this house, but one of them doesn't have a bed. I think it's time to buy a new bed. For now, I'll just go along with Ma Zao's suggestion. If I keep arguing with her about these trivial things, it might actually lower her opinion of me.
I've also stopped keeping the "firefly" surveillance cameras around her. After all, she's truly free to come and go now, and it would be bad if she noticed the "firefly's" presence. The same reason I didn't insist she sleep in the bedroom. Surveillance is pointless now.
As for the matter of the monster creator and the Humanitarian Affairs Bureau, there wasn't much I could explain to her clearly. Later, I used my laptop to display the relevant information, and we looked at and discussed it together.
Long before we defeated the immortal monster, Lu Youxun sent me and Zhu Shi relevant information about the Humanitarian Affairs Department. This included both confirmed and unconfirmed information.
First, there is confirmed intelligence—the creator of the monster is not an ordinary member of the Humanitarian Division, but a member of its decision-making body.
Because the creator of the monsters seemed to be doing work that involved traveling around, I initially thought he was a low-ranking executive, but that's not the case. Lu Youxun pointed out in the documents that the creator of the monsters was not only a leader in the decision-making level, but also the head of the research department, someone who should have been working behind the scenes.
Moreover, the Humanitarian Affairs Bureau has a decisive difference from Luoshan: most of its members are ordinary people. The term "ordinary people" here simply means that they do not possess supernatural powers; in reality, they would be at least legitimate professional elites in society.
In an organization like Luo Shan, which is primarily composed of demon hunters, the decision-makers are often high-ranking demon hunters. Therefore, they can issue orders from behind the scenes or go to the front lines to overcome numerous obstacles. The Humanitarian Division cannot do that, let alone have the monster creators come into close contact with those deranged monsters.
The creator of the monster likely possesses powerful supernatural abilities—this is Lu Youxun's speculation. Although Lu Youxun had contact with the monster creator in the past, that was during his time as an experimental subject of the Humanitarian Division, and he had never actually fought the monster creator, so this speculation is not entirely certain.
The documents also show that the Humanitarian Division kidnapped many scientists in order to study the power of the Witcher, including some who were originally well-known in academia and served the official forces.
Such unbridled behavior naturally deeply angered the official forces, so they commissioned Luo Shan to eliminate this lawless organization as soon as possible.
However, based on the uncertain parts of the information, Lu Youxun subjectively believed that the Humanitarian Affairs Division likely had official backing, suspecting it to be a dark research institution cultivated by official forces to counter Luoshan in the near future. Even if not, the Humanitarian Affairs Division must have received financial support from various sectors of society and was an organization that grew with the tacit approval of official forces.
Is that really the case? Considering the freaks cultivated by the creators of these freaks who wantonly kill and refine souls among the people, I can't quite agree with Lu Youxun's skepticism.
I woke up in my bedroom the next morning.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Mazao standing silently by the bed like a ghost, her head down, staring intently at me.
Although I really hope to see her face when I wake up, or rather, I hope to see her by my side 24 hours a day, why is she standing here?
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Did you enter the misty dream world last night?" she asked seriously.
"Not yet," I answered honestly.
She slumped her shoulders in disappointment.
So that's how it is. She's still worried about Little Bowl Number Two, hoping I can re-enter the Misty Dream Realm as soon as possible and save her from the crisis of becoming a karmic demon. If I had a choice, I would certainly want to enter the Misty Dream Realm that very night, but unfortunately, that's not something I can control.
I got up, made breakfast, and ate with the restless Mazao. After we finished eating, I asked her about the progress of the investigation into the Shadow-Switch Fingers.
"We still haven't figured out what's inside the place that strange man frequents, but I already know how to get there," she said. "It's in this city. Shall we leave now?"
Upon hearing this, I took out my phone and contacted Zhu Shi.
An hour later, the three of us met up in the new town area.
(End of this chapter)
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