Before I check to see how much money Ive made from all the arbitrage, I notice sothing very strange going on with the rats in the city.
To be specific not my rats.
To the left of is an injured man. On top of him is a healing rat.
But, its not mine.
Im repeating it in my head, just to make sure Im seeing this correctly. There are healing rats and they arent mine.
Granted, the healing from this rat appears to be significantly slower and is only able to get minor to moderate injuries, but this ans soone else is copying what Im doing.
Seriously, what is going on?
One of my rats runs around and also heals another person in the distance. The wounds visibly heal from both of them, though at different timings.
Leaning over to soone in the crowd that seems to just be relaxing, I try to get their thoughts on the issue.
Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, but I have a quick question.
Before I can ask the question, the gruff looking man looks up and down and barks out an answer.
Ah. Foreigner. You wanna head in that direction, if you want to get involved with the political side. We don't usually deal with that out here.
He points at the road heading toward the mountain, like that would explain anything.
Uhhh. Actually, I was just shopping here and was hoping you could tell if rats healing people laying on the streets was normal to see for areas around sects?
He pauses then coughs out a laugh.
A few people look at him briefly before continuing. He doesnt appear to be anyone important, so they move on.
For his part, he shifts to face more directly and looks at closer.
Hahaha, sorry about that. We usually get a lot of foreigners here, who dont know where to go for their fancy etings. And I suppose that is a pretty good question.
He seems to think on it a bit before giving a slow and cautious answer.
It seems to be sothing pretty recent, but a lot of us assu that it might be one of the bigwigs in the sect trying to finally clean up the city a bit. To be specific, by helping more local people, everyone is more tolerable of when certain undesirables disappear.
Nobody liked when the drug groups that ca in a long ti ago, but no one was able to do anything about it. Quite a few people are happy that sothing is being done about it.
He leans in conspiratorially, clearly enjoying spreading this gossip. His whispers add nas to my ear.
There are talks that the Ascending Myriad Monsters group and the Eight Winds Alchemical Research society have tead up to make these rats, on the request of the sect. Such groups have always been a sore point for the Alchemical Research society, ever since one of their recipes was perverted by those sa drug groups. It does make one wonder, though, how they got the Myriad Monsters group involved
Wow. It's easy to forget that Im not the only one doing stuff around here. Though, this is just gossip, I wonder what the truth is.
With my question answered, so many new ones have now co up.
I finished by engaging in so more light talk with the man before politely moving on.
He did seem to be filled with gossip, as I heard a lot of so of the things I had already seen about groups and people in the area. Of course, I reacted with surprise and other actions as would be appropriate, as I would do with any rchant.
Before I left, I gave him a 2 Big Coppers as thanks for the information. While not a terribly large amount of money, it's still just under half of what a person would normally make during a work day.
The man didn't look too unsatisfied, either.
Now that I'm away from the man and have blended back into the crowds, I use my scan to verify that I am generally hidden in the crowd from both special abilities, cultivator senses, and just normal, regular people.
I changed my scan away from the marketing style scanning, back to an information based one. I do all of this so that I can have enough leeway to be able to do a regular information scan.
Without a doubt, what's really going on will be hidden Is being kept as a secret. I'm sure the details of sothing like this will require to take this very slowly and carefully.
Learning from my earlier mistakes with my scan, I've built in a probing style thod into my scan. When there's sothing I don't know, I'll send out the slightest feeler for information towards it. This doesn't even qualify as actually getting information, but it's more just probing towards the existence of sothing.
To give an example, if I would have done that with finding out how to get my cultivation thods, I would have imdiately discovered how bad of an idea it would have been to even attempt the lowest possible version of the scan.
With that said, it appears that this is a pretty well-kept secret. Finding out what truly is going on would be far too much for my scan, even at lower levels. If spread out in ti, I simply wouldn't have ti to do that and everything else that I need to do to succeed in this world.
However, I can instead just see if there's truth to the rumors that are going around. It will still cause so pain, but I can discover the rest with ti.
I imdiately activate the scan according to these paraters, causing the pain filled effects, as detailed.
What I find is that the two groups ntioned, the Ascending myriad monsters group and the eight winds alchemical research society, are actually the ones that are fielding the rats. The Research Society differs actually from the Alchemy Group.
The Alchemy group was created to make money and in so ways exploit people, while the research group is ant to help people and also expand the realm of alchemy.
Unfortunately, no other data can be corroborated, though.
So, intentions, other groups involved, or even how they do it cant be discovered. Just the fact that those groups are actually the ones doing it.
The good thing is that the only things they are doing are actually healing people. In a sense, they are actually helping by giving a front against the dangerous groups. The only issue is, but they are most definitely looking for who the original person to do this is. The question will be whether theyre looking to recruit or sothing else.
Thankfully, I get the feeling that the relationship that I would have with them would be a lot friendlier than what happened with the alchemy group. It will also be harder for them to gather information on , so I may have more ti than I expected. All the previous things I thought about will also still be giving so protection on this. Like, I know Ive been running around this whole ti, appearing as if Im busy.
In addition, unlike the alchemy group, Ive had no dealings with them and they havent shown up in any of my previous scans.
My scan also lets know that its well known that the two groups, the alchemy group and the research group, have issues with each other, because of their differing goals and areas of operation.
Of course, as soon as I think that, the subtlest spiritual sense I have felt yet washes over the area Im in. No one other than I seems to notice it, not even the nearby cultivators.
A testant to how skilled its user is.
I resist the urge to look straight at the person as it continues to go over every person. It stops on for for a mont longer than everyone else but then continues on.
Its only when it returns to , and only , that Id give them a sharp look. Its a person completely covered from head to toe and black cloth, sowhat similar to , but even their eyes are covered.
As a glare at them, i can see the shivers run down their back. Just as they use their sense on , Im now using my scan on them and I lower everything but my protection to make sure I do this thoroughly.
This person is actually sowhat well known, but they hide their identity well. They are known as the Probing Air Master.
This is because, despite only being in the Qi condensation level, that are able to hide their spiritual sense to where she can gather decent information over a very large period, but at a level that not even core formation experts can discover.
Her services are very valued for information gathering. Which ans soone really wanted to know what was going on with the rchant situation.
What did cause more pain to discover is who she really is.
Her na is Wei, having no family na. Shes desperately trying to gather enough coin to get materials to ascend to the foundation establishnt stage, since they only have an above average spiritual root. Once they reach that level, they will be in a secure position. They will continue cultivating, but theyve said that multiple tis to people in their inner circle.
What is the surprising part is they are an outer court mber of the sect Im trying to join. They arent doing this as part of their normal duties, but as an outside activity.
Im consistently shocked by how much I can learn about a person using this scan. Nonetheless, there are still many things I cant get access to which would take far too much energy to be worth it.
This makes things tougher, though. Since shes part of the sect, Ill have to step carefully.
Contrary to my thoughts, Wei is still frozen in place, as I have not stopped staring at her.
As I continue to think to myself, I am brought out of my thoughts when she slowly raises her hands up in submission.
She points to a nearby alleyway, as if to talk for a mont.
Why does this seem so familiar?
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