Mazao had the ability to use the "blessing power" to track the target’s past experiences. I gathered that the reason she kept observing the Shadow Swapping Monster’s fingers was so she could use her tracking skill to investigate clues related to the Shadow Swapping Monster.
Since we couldn’t count on Lu Youxun’s side, we had to rely on Mazao first.
And Mazao gave a response that didn’t disappoint expectations.
"I have managed to perceive a few things," she said, "this monster used to frequent a particular place for an extended period and interact with so people there. Sotis he would go there every day and stay for a long period. If nothing unexpected happens, he should also be visiting that place frequently in the coming ti."
"So, all we need to do is to ambush him there..." Suddenly, I saw a glimr of hope for victory, "Then, what exactly is that place?"
"I’m still investigating that. There wasn’t enough ti to gather that much information," she said, "This monster seems to have anti-Divination abilities. Even though my ability isn’t Divination, it still was sowhat affected. The images I tracked were all fragnted and disjointed."
"Do you have confidence in finding out the exact location of that place?" I asked.
"It’s hard to say, but I feel like it shouldn’t be too much of a problem," she said, "It’s like a puzzle ga. Even those who do not play puzzles, as long as they spend ti and patience exhaustively searching, will eventually find the correct way to piece it together. As for how much ti this will take, I can’t give you an exact number. If we’re lucky, the results could co out tomorrow; if not... it shouldn’t take more than a week at least."
"No worries, take your ti," I said soothingly.
Now, I was no longer restricted by ti. Whether she needed a week or a month, it was acceptable to . But she might not be able to accept it herself. She also had the mission of preventing Doomsday from arriving and might not be willing to waste ti at such a preliminary stage.
"Also, rember to be careful of a person nad Lu Chan," I reminded her.
"Lu Chan? Who’s that?" she asked curiously.
I told her about Lu Youxun and the Transcendentalism Mountain affairs and suggested she not let the opposing forces discover her.
Originally, I thought she would react with total vigilance and implent a strategy of concealnt, but after hearing out, she simply said, "Don’t worry, let them find out. You and Zhu Shi don’t need to bother hiding . We can reveal ourselves openly."
"What?" I was quite surprised.
"This cos from experience. In the Doomsday Era, I had a bad reputation. Even when passing through places where survivors gathered, I considered being discreet in my actions. But I have a Broom Star Physique that easily causes incidents, so the thought of hiding quietly... never worked out." She spoke with a resigned attitude, "Instead of being so restrained, it’s better to carry out activities with the assumption that others will know of . It also saves the trouble of being paranoid about my surroundings."
"What if the Transcendentalism Mountain forces try to kidnap you forcibly?" I challenged.
Her answer was straightforward: "I will use Space Transfer to escape."
Escape using Space Transfer... and then what? I waited for a while but didn’t hear her elaborate. She just looked at with a calm gaze.
Wait, was that it?
"Is that all?" I pressed.
"That should be enough," she said. Upon seeing my reaction, she patiently explained, "I admit, many powers of the strange and their phenona cannot be escaped simply by Space Transfer. But my Space Transfer is different. You might find it hard to believe, but consider this—
"In the past, I lived through the crisis-ridden Doomsday Era, and on top of that, I had the Broom Star Physique that endlessly attracted strange disasters to . Almost everyone who had been involved with has perished, yet I alone am still alive today... What do you think is the reason for my survival?
"As long as I want to escape, no one can stop , and no one can track ."
She concluded with a ntion of the Disaster Demon—an addition to the list of obstacles she’d faced.
And I gradually ca to accept her point of view.
Yes, if she possessed the regular Space Transfer, not only would she be unable to escape the myriad strange phenona, but even escaping my grasp would be impossible.
Moreover, Lu Youxun was an expert in investigating the strange. Hiding Mazao from him—soone who attracted strangeness so easily—was indeed unrealistic. And if Mazao’s Space Transfer was indeed so powerful that it couldn’t be overco except by a Great Demon or sothing of the Great Impermanence Level, then perhaps whether Transcendentalism Mountain learned of her whereabouts was not important.
If there was any cause for concern, it was that the power of the strange was unpredictable, and her confidence seed sowhat excessive. But when it ca to knowledge of the strange, she was certainly ten tis, a hundred tis more experienced than I was. And it was she who had made the judgnt that there was "no problem," lending substantial weight to that assessnt.
"Alright, I believe in you," I said.
Upon hearing this, she rarely showed a smile.
"Can you tell more about the Weirdo Maker and the Human Bureau?" she asked.
I nodded, then told her about them.
A night passed.
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That night, Mazao insisted on giving the bedroom and she herself slept on the sofa.
In fact, there are two bedrooms in this house, but one of them doesn’t have a bed. I thought it was about ti I purchased a new bed. For now, however, I just went along with Mazao. If I kept bickering with her over such trivial matters nonstop, it might decrease her favorability toward .
I no longer continued to set up surveillance "Fireflies" around her either. After all, she was now truly free to co and go, and it wouldn’t be good if she noticed the presence of the "Fireflies". This was the sa reason I didn’t insist on her sleeping in the bedroom. Surveillance was no longer aningful.
As for the Weirdo Maker and the Human Bureau, there wasn’t much I could explain clearly to her. Later on, I just used a laptop to display the related materials and discussed them with her as we looked at them together.
Soon after we defeated the Undying Monster, Lu Youxun had sent and Zhu Shi information related to the Human Bureau, which contained both confird intelligence and information of suspect veracity.
First was the confird intelligence—the Weirdo Maker was not an ordinary mber of the Human Bureau but a mber of its decision-making body.
Because the Weirdo Maker seed to be working on tasks that required moving about in the outside world, I initially thought he was a lower-ranking executor. Not at all. In the information file, Lu Youxun pointed out that the Weirdo Maker was not just a leader of the decision-making body but also the head of the research departnt, a role that logically should act behind the scenes.
Furthermore, the Human Bureau differed decisively from Luo Mountain in that most of its mbers were ordinary people—"ordinary" here rely ant that they didn’t possess the power of the strange; in reality, they were legitimate professionals and elites in society.
With an organization like Luo Mountain, whose main body consisted of demon hunters, the decision-makers, who were often high-ranking demon hunters, could both issue commands from behind the scenes and potentially storm the front lines. The Human Bureau, on the other hand, couldn’t do that, let alone have the Weirdo Maker getting up close and personal with those psychotic monsters.
It’s very likely that the Weirdo Maker possessed a powerful strange force—this was what Lu Youxun surmised. Although Lu Youxun had encountered the Weirdo Maker in the past, it was during his ti as a test subject for the Human Bureau, and he had never actually battled the Weirdo Maker, so this speculation wasn’t entirely certain.
The information also indicated that the Human Bureau had abducted many scientists to study the power of demon hunters, and so of those scientists were well-known in the academic community and had previously served official forces.
Such unscrupulous behavior naturally deeply angered the official forces, and as a result, they commissioned Luo Mountain, hoping Luo Mountain could quickly eliminate this lawless organization.
However, according to the unconfird information in the materials, Lu Youxun subjectively believed that the Human Bureau likely had a background in official forces and suspected that it was a dark research institution cultivated by official forces to contend with Luo Mountain in the not-too-distant future. Even if not, the Human Bureau must have received financial support from various sectors of society, growing under the tacit approval of official forces.
Is that really the case? Thinking of the monsters created by the Weirdo Maker—who were wantonly wreaking havoc and harvesting souls among the civilians—I found it difficult to agree with Lu Youxun’s suspicions.
The next morning, I awoke in the bedroom.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Mazao standing silently by the bed like a ghost, her head down, gazing at with deep concentration.
Although I really hoped to wake up to see her face—indeed, I wished I could see her by my side 24 hours a day—why was she standing here?
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Did you enter the Mist Dream Realm last night?" she asked seriously.
"Not yet," I honestly replied.
Her shoulders slumped in disappointnt.
I see, she was still worried about Bowl Number Two, hoping I could soon enter the Mist Dream Realm again and rescue it from falling into a crisis of becoming a Sin Demon. If I had a choice, of course, I would choose to enter the Mist Dream Realm that very night, but sadly, that wasn’t sothing I could control.
I got out of bed, prepared breakfast, and ate with an uneasy Mazao. Afterward, I inquired about the progress of her investigation into the Shadow Swapping Monster’s finger.
"Regarding the place where that monster frequents, I still haven’t figured out the inside situation, but I now know how to get there," she said. "It’s located in this city; should we set off now?"
Hearing this, I took out my phone and contacted Zhu Shi.
An hour later, the three of us t up in the new district.
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