“Good morning. I didn’t expect your schedule to be so regular,” said the singer, who was already sitting on the sofa looking at her phone when Leticia and the Anxi sisters walked out of the bedroom. Hearing the movement behind her, she turned and said to Leticia.
Then, her gaze fell on Anxi, “Oh, a telepath?”
Anxi looked at the singer timidly. In her eyes, the singer’s innermost thoughts were a beautiful melody, which was something she had never encountered before. Previously, she could either directly read others’ thoughts or read nothing at all. But for it to be read, yet not read at all, like with the singer, had never happened.
Seeing the confusion on Anxi’s face, the singer chucked, “Little girl, although your telepathy ability is not low, you are still too weak to penetrate my mental shield and probe my inner thoughts.”
Telepathy, like the singer’s ability, belonged to the mental category. The singer naturally had ways to prevent herself from being telepathically read. She couldn’t make telepathy completely ineffective like Leticia or Bai Ling, but she could use another method to render it useless, such as playing a song on repeat in the opponent’s mind.
“She can’t control her ability, please bear with her,” Leticia explained, to prevent the singer from feeling dissatisfied with Anxi.
Upon hearing this, the singer’s eyes widened in surprise, “She can’t control her ability, doesn’t that mean…?” She was about to die? She didn’t finish the sentence. For such a young girl, who didn’t even look ten years old, this was too cruel.
“You’re going to exploit a girl like this?” The singer’s gaze towards Leticia then carried a hint of displeasure. “This is employing child labor, don’t you know it’s illegal?”
Leticia immediately rolled her eyes. How dare a terrorist talk about legality? Besides, she wasn’t paying her, so how could this be called child labor? She was just asking her friend for a favor.
“This matter is a bit complicated. Anyway, initially, Bai just wanted to give her some end-of-life care, but then too many things happened, and her ability was so useful, so this is how it had to be,” Leticia whispered into the singer’s ear.
The singer, who had been forcibly made to half-crouch by Leticia, raised an eyebrow. “What if I say I have a way to cure her?”
“What?!” Leticia’s eyes widened in an instant. The singer had a way to cure Anxi? Was the Divine Seat really that powerful?
“Guess who the organization that controls the most divine artifacts in the world is? And who is the strongest mental ability user in the world?” The singer’s face showed a hint of pride. The answer was obvious, but Leticia was a little skeptical, “You? The strongest? Are you kidding me?”
A vein throbbed on the singer’s forehead. “I fought my way out of a sea of corpses and blood. I’m completely different from those ordinary ability users who live in greenhouses. The baptism of blood and fire has made my abilities even stronger. Until I retired, there wasn’t an ability user in the association who could come close to me.”
Perhaps, maybe, what the singer said made sense? Even after retiring, the singer held a high position in the Hero Association. This could be seen from her frequent invitations to participate in activities at the association headquarters. If she hadn’t joined the Divine Seat, her status in the human world would only be one level below Bai Ling’s.
“Furthermore, among the divine artifacts controlled by our Divine Seat, one is專精于治療 (specializing in healing). As long as she joins us, we have full confidence in saving this child,” the singer whispered to Leticia. “Her talent is very good; I believe the divine messengers will agree.”
Let Anxi join the Divine Seat? Leticia had no objections. She wasn’t exactly an enemy of the Divine Seat and didn’t mind them increasing their combat power. More often than not, the Divine Seat was an organization that could be cooperated with.
“It’s no use talking to me about this; you should talk to Anxi,” Leticia said, glancing at Anxi. “I don’t care either way, but let’s talk about this after the current matter is resolved. Be careful in your current state; you can still last for over a month.”
“One month, that should be enough,” the singer nodded. In a month, the matters here would surely be resolved. After all, the Divine Seat’s reinforcements would also arrive. If Sasha had been out of contact for too long, the Divine Seat’s Lord would definitely send more divine messengers for support.
“Alright, let’s go find the leader and the others first. After a night, I wonder if they’ve found any clues.”
When she met the leader, Leticia was almost scared to death by the girl with dark circles under her eyes. The leader looked very excited. As soon as she saw Leticia, she ran over, shouting, “Qianqian, we dug something good out of the ground!”
Out of the ground? Something good? Leticia couldn’t immediately think of what good things could be left underground. Until she saw a small piece of black flesh sealed in a glass tube.
“This is…” In the makeshift tent, Leticia stared at the small glass tube, her surprise evident on her face.
“According to the remaining data found, this is a part of a certain creature that the man with glasses found in the ocean,” Lu Siyu added. “The monster we saw yesterday is very likely to have split from this piece of flesh.”
“You mean, such a large monster originated from this thing that is smaller than a fingernail?” Leticia’s eyes widened.
The leader shook her head. “More accurately, this piece of flesh here was a small part cut from the original piece of meat. That monster was probably formed from the larger piece.”
“That man with glasses did a lot of research on the monster’s meat here. At the end of his research, he seemed to want to dispose of the evidence, but obviously, he didn’t clean it up completely.”
But Leticia immediately thought of another possibility: “No, he should have done it intentionally. He intentionally placed the monster here.” Since that person had done so much research, he definitely knew how to dispose of this piece of meat cleanly. If he had taken even a little precaution, a monster as large as the one from last night wouldn’t have emerged from underground. Therefore, there was only one possibility: that guy did it intentionally, he intentionally released the prototype of the monster before the basement collapsed. Perhaps he intended to use the monster as a second layer of insurance. Even if someone found the ruins of the basement, they would be killed by the monster, and after the monster rampaged, the ruins would surely become even more ruined.
“But with only this little bit left, can you analyze the monster’s weakness from it?” Leticia asked an important question, staring at the glass tube steadily placed on the table. If they could analyze the monster’s weakness from such a small sample, they would have much greater confidence when fighting the monster later. But the leader’s answer disappointed Leticia. “There is definitely not enough time. Confirming its safety will take a lot of time, and it needs to be sent to a suitable research institute. With all sorts of troublesome procedures, it would probably take half a year.”
Leticia was speechless. The efficiency of human affairs was truly remarkable at this moment. Forget it, even if they analyzed such a small thing, they probably wouldn’t be able to find anything. The results obtained in the end would likely be what Leticia already knew. For example, it had strong resistance to magic, general resistance to physical attacks, and was suppressed by divine power.
In fact, thinking this way, Leticia already had a way to deal with the monster. She just needed to use divine power to bombard it. Simple and crude. The only problem was how much divine power it would take to destroy that monster. It took her a very long time to kill the small monster, and the main force of the attack was the cannon on the Divine Seat’s aircraft. If she were to provide energy with her physical body, she might not even be able to kill the mountain-sized monster, even if she exhausted herself.
“We asked the surrounding residents. They don’t have a strong impression of that man with glasses. After he moved here, he always lived a secluded life, only going out on rare occasions,” the leader continued to talk about the results of her busy night. “And he moved here a few months ago.”
“Do you know where he lived before?” Leticia asked, looking up. The leader shook her head. “We’ve already sent people to look for it, but the possibility of finding it is quite low. Compared to this, I also learned something strange from the nearby residents.”
“Oh?”
“After that man moved here, a beautiful girl with blue hair would come here once a week, but she wouldn’t knock on his door. She would just stand quietly not far away, looking at this place.” The leader flipped out a photo from her phone’s album. “The picture quality is a bit bad, just make do with it.”
“Was this thing taken with a doorknob?” Seeing the blurry blue mass in the photo, Leticia couldn’t help but complain. This wasn’t a problem with the shooting technique; it was definitely a hardware issue. Even using a doorknob might not capture something so abstract. The few of them looked at the photo left and right, and finally reached an undisputed conclusion: this photo was definitely taken with a doorknob.
“You probably won’t believe it, but the phone that took this photo is actually a new model that was recently released,” the leader shrugged, saying something she herself found hard to believe. The resident who took this photo was a native of Black Alley with decent living conditions. The reason he didn’t move out was obvious: his money didn’t come from a legitimate source. However, he didn’t neglect himself in terms of living standards, at least his phone showed that he had considerable expenses in his daily life.
The leader brought up another photo, which was a seascape taken by that resident. “This one and the previous one were taken by the same phone.” Looking at the two photos with vastly different image quality, Leticia slapped her palm. She knew!
“That blue-haired girl is definitely not normal!” she said with confidence. The girls present all thought so. If it wasn’t a problem with the camera, then the only problem was that blue-haired girl who appeared there regularly. Coincidentally, Leticia had a way to achieve this kind of effect using magic. As long as she didn’t want to, no one could take pictures related to her. That mysterious blue-haired girl might possess a means similar to Leticia’s magic to interfere with the observation of strangers.
“Yes, I think the most crucial thing right now is to find that blue-haired girl, but unfortunately, we don’t even know what she looks like, and the resident who saw her has already forgotten her impression,” the leader sighed. The clues were almost entirely broken now.
But the singer’s eyes suddenly lit up. She raised her right hand, a confident smile on her face, “I think you need an expert like me to help you with this.”
“You mean…” Leticia looked at the singer, her eyes gradually lighting up. She guessed what the singer was trying to say, “Can you extract the information from those people’s minds?”
“Exactly.” The singer nodded. In this regard, she was an undisputed expert. “I used to do this often, and of course, I still do.” Dealing with divine artifacts is very dangerous for ordinary people. Most ordinary people, even if they see divine artifacts, will have that period of memory blurred by the artifact’s special power. And the singer’s main job in the Divine Seat is to clarify that blurred memory.
“It just so happens that there is a telepath here. With her cooperation, I can quickly go through that person’s recent memories,” the singer told Leticia. Leticia smiled. Bringing the singer here as a workhorse was indeed the right choice. Look how useful a mental ability user was now. Sending her to the battlefield to fight monsters would be a complete waste of talent. Thank you, Miss Yi Yujun, for letting the singer stay here to help. If she unfortunately sacrificed herself in the fight against the monster, Leticia would certainly remember this kind person in her heart.
“Let’s do as the singer said. Leader, go and bring the person… perhaps bring a few more people who saw that blue-haired girl, to avoid problems,” Leticia immediately decided, adopting the singer’s plan. “We also need to find the original address of the man with glasses. The faster we move, the less danger Bai Ling will face!”
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Swish! Beautiful yet dangerous starlight shattered the giant tentacles that emerged from beneath the sea. Watching the tentacles gradually turn into black mist and disappear, Bai Ling’s face showed no other expression. She was being held back, held back by a group of endlessly regenerating monsters in the storm. The monsters’ defense wasn’t strong, and Bai Ling could easily cut them in half, but cutting them wasn’t the end. These things could revive, and they were inexhaustible, which put Bai Ling in trouble.
