“Rest assured, Mr. Ling, our technique for controlling the supernatural is quite mature,” Su Yuanhe said coldly.
“Is that so? That’s wonderful news,” Ling Xun replied with a fake smile.
A technology that even the Bureau headquarters didn't possess had been developed by a charitable organization?
It was truly hard to believe.
Ling Xun’s eyes flickered slightly. If this technology was real, then the collaboration between the Amber City Investigation Bureau and the Glory Association... could be deepened further.
On the real-time broadcast, the doors of the three containment pods slid open simultaneously, and the restraints on the three red-furred monkeys were released.
Almost the instant they were freed, the Three No Monkeys became violent. They leaped from the containment vehicle and landed heavily on the ground. They immediately locked onto the transcendents sent by the Glory Association, their humanoid faces contorted with cruelty and malice.
However, just as they attempted to attack the transcendents, rings of black, chain-like patterns suddenly surfaced on their bodies.
The three monkeys let out agonized howls and collapsed to the ground, rolling and thrashing in a frenzy, seemingly enduring extreme torture.
The torment lasted only a few seconds, but it was effective. Their intent to attack the transcendents vanished, and they obediently walked into Qingshan Sanatorium step by step.
Watching this through the screen, Ling Xun sneered inwardly. Most of the excitement he had felt toward the 'new technology' had already dissipated.
Because this might not be 'new technology' at all.
Ling Xun was well-traveled and experienced; he recognized at a glance that the chain-like patterns on the Three No Monkeys were some form of curse or restriction.
Since it was a curse, the source had to be a supernatural creature, a transcendent, or some kind of supernatural object.
This meant that this 'technology' for controlling the supernatural was not replicable. It lacked portability, scalability, and universality. It couldn't be widely applied, making it of little practical use.
On the live feed, the Three No Monkeys led the way into Qingshan Sanatorium, followed by the other transcendents.
At this moment, everyone was likely focused on whether this squad could successfully contain the Director.
Yue Shi was also thinking—thinking about how to kill.
He looked up and quietly observed Su Yuanhe. The old man's expression management was too perfect; no emotion could be read from his face. In fact, he seemed not to care at all whether the Director was contained.
As he retracted his gaze, Yue Shi inadvertently caught sight of Ling Xun. This usually gentle and responsible section chief looked somewhat worried, yet the corners of his tightly pressed lips were turned up slightly.
“Ah—!”
Suddenly, a piercing scream erupted from the screen.
The sound came from inside the sanatorium. Immediately following it, a window on the third floor shattered with a loud crash, and a figure was hurled out, slamming heavily onto the ground.
It was one of the Three No Monkeys!
The monkey that had been covering its ears was mangled beyond recognition. After hitting the ground, it twitched a few times and then went still.
Before the onlookers could cry out in shock, the monkey covering its mouth was hacked into several pieces and tossed out the window.
A moment later, a monkey head with hollow black sockets was thrown out. It was the monkey that had been covering its eyes, though it no longer had any claws to cover them with.
The Director was still standing on the fourth floor.
In the conference room, everyone's expressions shifted.
The Three No Monkeys, which had looked so ferocious, had been completely wiped out in a single encounter?
The Glory Association's plan to 'use the supernatural to fight the supernatural' had failed miserably.
Right then, Yue Shi felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.
He didn't pay it much mind at first, thinking it was just spam.
However, the vibration didn't stop. It continued persistently, almost relentlessly.
Fortunately, the noise from the live broadcast in the conference room was loud enough that the faint buzzing went unnoticed.
Yue Shi frowned slightly and took out his phone.
The screen displayed an unfamiliar number he had never seen before.
“A call from a stranger?” A trace of doubt crossed his mind.
After a brief thought, he declined the call and put the phone back in his pocket, turning his attention back to the rapidly changing events on the screen.
With the three monkeys killed instantly, Qingshan Sanatorium fell back into an unsettling silence.
As if echoing the silence of the scene, the phone in his pocket stopped vibrating.
But only two or three seconds later—
Buzz... buzz... buzz...
The phone vibrated stubbornly again.
Yue Shi's eyes narrowed as he pulled the phone out once more. It was the same unfamiliar number, but this time it was a text message.
He opened the message casually.
The text on the screen instantly seared into his vision:
【If you don't want anyone to discover that you were once an experimental subject from Lab 0, come out right now and do exactly as I say.】
The cold words remained for only three seconds before being wiped away like an eraser on a chalkboard. They vanished completely, and the screen returned to normal as if everything just now had been an illusion.
Yue Shi's fingers tightened around the phone for a brief moment.
Although his facial expression remained unchanged, a tempest of shock erupted in the depths of his eyes!
His identity was exposed?
This thought struck his mind like a bolt of lightning.
He believed it was impossible for him to be exposed.
The body he used after transmigrating had been mostly destroyed in the laboratory.
His current appearance was his pre-transmigration self, reshaped by the Full Moon Stone Tablet.
Could he really be recognized even like this?
Yue Shi's mind raced, recalling every possible oversight, but he could find no clue in such a short time.
He quickly calmed himself, his peripheral vision scanning the conference room. Everyone was fully absorbed in the big screen; no one was paying attention to him.
Tsk... how troublesome.
If it really comes down to it, then so be it.
I need to speed up my leveling...
As Yue Shi’s thoughts whirled, a second message arrived quietly:
【Don't misunderstand, I'm here to help you.】
【There is a corpse inside the Glory Association's containment vehicle, number X-04. It's most likely one of the Lab 0 minions you killed. Your methods of torture are excellent, but you didn't completely destroy the body at the time.】
【That minion's brain is well-preserved; it wasn't completely damaged. The Glory Association happens to have a transcendent who has the ability to gain all of a target's memories by eating their brain.】
【I don't know if you have that 'villains die because they talk too much' habit where you have to analyze your entire mental journey before silencing a witness. I also don't know if you disguised yourself well. Regardless, this is a hidden threat that needs to be eliminated as soon as possible.】
A few seconds later, this message also self-destructed without a trace.
Yue Shi fell into deep thought. This message contained a lot of information and hit right at the heart of the matter.
The other party not only knew his identity but also knew he had killed someone from Lab 0. They even accurately pointed out the flaw he left when disposing of the body—failing to completely destroy the brain.
Which corpse's brain was left behind?
Could it be those three roasted whole sheep?
The vagrants in the Chaos Zone were useless; they didn't even eat the sheep brains, which were supposed to be a delicacy.
Then again, getting memories by eating brains...
That ability felt a bit disgusting.
Rate on N.U.
