Chapter 1238: Chapter 79: The Truth Always Hides in Silence
Everything changed quietly.
Nan Xiao Nan drank the freshly made cup of Ovaltine silently, feeling somewhat dejected and thinking she might have done something in vain.
There was no need to forge any evidence because the corpse delivered last night had disappeared. The bureau couldn’t find his identity, and everyone had already forgotten, the events that happened in the factory were distorted.
Things shouldn’t be this way, but it seems that they were meant to be this way, continuing ambiguously. Her accelerated thinking couldn’t prehend it at the moment.
Nan Xiao Nan increasingly felt the terror of this super powerful individual—the terror wasn’t in the power to destroy the world, although she had really seen such world-destroying power. It was more terrifying how reality was twisted silently.
Last night when she returned, the anger and grief she felt had vanished, replaced by a fervent zeal. Everyone was fully invested in the work of capturing ‘Zhu Jianqiang’… but was Zhu Jianqiang really the culprit?
Might finding him lead them into a deeper quagmire?
Nan Xiao Nan had a gut feeling that the truth would remain hidden in silence, a part no one (including herself) could truly understand.
When would she be able to do the same?
Nan Xiao Nan couldn’t help but ponder this question. As an Undying with nearly peak power, she couldn’t see where the path to the future lay.
She felt that her original self was like a nuclear weapon created by the sub-world, having reached an extreme… However, nuclear weapons can only be used for destruction and can’t acplish delicate tasks.
In a trance, she vaguely saw another path of development… It fascinated her, and like a moth to flame, she plunged into a new realm.
Bang—!
The cup fell to the ground at that moment, startling Xiaobao, who was slacking off. He turned his head to see Nan Xiao Nan falling to the ground, instantly shivering and rushing over.
“Forensic Doctor Nan! Forensic Doctor Nan, what’s wrong with you?! Don’t scare me!”
“So hungry…”
Nan Xiao Nan’s face was pale, her stomach contracted, growling with hunger, and her cheeks were sunken deep.
“…”
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In the club’s hall, Chen Mingming and Zhao Le met again—more than two days had passed since their last meeting. When they met again, Chen Mingming had regained the memories erased during the assessment.
“I never expected, Mingming, you are Mr. Blank…” Zhao Le couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
What he had never expected was that the anomaly he felt in Chen Mingming these days was because he was undergoing an assessment… And he himself had unexpectedly bee a Black Soul envoy.
But when he learned that Chen Mingming was merely an apprentice Black Soul envoy, he found it incredible… Chen Mingming should be more outstanding than him.
As for Boss Luo and Ms. Ren, he had just met them, and it was difficult to judge their personalities.
At this moment, in Luo Qiu’s hand, Zhao Le and Chen Mingming had pleted their transformation into Black Soul envoys—Zhao Le vaguely felt his transformation was slightly different from Chen Mingming’s, but couldn’t distinguish the exact difference.
Next, a giant black cabinet was summoned by Ms. Ren and slowly emerged from the floor.
Chen Mingming and Zhao Le watched this scene in amazement… It was like a giant safe.
“This is the Covenant Chest.” Ms. Ren smiled and explained, “It’s used to store the Life Lamps of the Black Soul envoys.”
“What is a Life Lamp?” Zhao Le asked curiously.
Chen Mingming responded silently but instinctively cast his gaze towards Ms. Ren. He knew that in the club’s system, he and Zhao Le seemed to be under Ms. Ren’s management.
“The Life Lamp stores your memories and soul,” Ms. Ren smiled slightly and said. “Black Soul envoys are not Undying, but with the Life Lamp in the Covenant Chest, even if you die during a mission, the Lord can use it to resurrect you… of course, whether you are resurrected depends on the Lord’s will.”
This is one of the club’s tenets, everything should be a paid service.
The storage of the Life Lamp is an experience every Black Soul envoy must go through; the first transformation was Taiyinzi by Boss Luo, who went through this, including Da Zhe and Nero later, they all did.
At this moment, a light sphere automatically separated from Zhao Le and Chen Mingming’s bodies… They could feel that this sphere contained everything about them, yet didn’t take away everything.
When the light sphere was placed in the Covenant Chest, a clearer shackle imprinted deeply into their souls… At the moment of being Black Souls, they vaguely sensed this shackle, but now the feeling was more concrete.
Zhao Le and Chen Mingming exchanged a glance, each seeing the gravity in each other’s eyes… From this moment, they were pletely controlled by the man before them, life and death determined by his whim, leaving no room for resistance.
“Your workplace is almost ready, before that, you have twelve hours of free time.” Luo Qiu smiled and said, “Why not get familiar with your new bodies… You Ye, e teach them how to use the Black Soul body.”
From now on, Boss Luo had transformed five Black Soul envoys, and the other value of Ms. Ren became apparent.
In simpler terms, it’s a job for the secretary.
With that, Luo Qiu turned and walked towards the black door that appeared behind him… This was the Border Gate opened long ago.
Back then, the Border Gate could only be opened in the sub-world as a nodal existence, connecting different places to the club.
After Luo Qiu experienced self-manipulation in South America, the Border Gate’s ability increased, allowing it to open other sub-worlds.
Walking into the Border Gate, Luo Qiu turned back to You Ye and said, “Once the teaching is done, e acpany me.”
“Alright.” Ms. Ren elegantly nodded with her hands held together.
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Using the Black Soul envoy’s body power doesn’t require teaching to some—like Taiyinzi and Nero. Before being Black Souls, they belonged to the side of the Transcendent, and power was something they’d already encountered. Being Black Souls was merely switching from one force to another, akin to changing currency from francs to euros, and they could understand the transformation themselves.
Da Zhe, due to the terrifying use of the Heteromorphic Origin and lack of prior contact with the Transcendent, was initially thrown into the dimension fissure by No. 18, experiencing a long potential awakening… As for Chen Mingming and Zhao Le, they didn’t need Da Zhe’s potential activation, just simple guidance on basic power use.
They didn’t even need to enter the dimension fissure.
Inside a white-bottomed black-topped rectangular space.
“…Flight and virtual-real transformation are basic abilities possessed by Black Soul envoys, but virtual-real transformation can’t protect you from all attacks. When the opponent’s power exceeds a certain level, it will directly affect you.”
The two listened intently, as it was their first contact with the Transcendent, so unbelievable.
“Remember, theoretically, there’s no upper limit to the power of Black Soul envoys, only the capacity of your Black Soul body’s ability to hold power has a limit. To gain more power, you’ll need to use Performance Points to purchase more ‘Heteromorphic Origin’ portions to upgrade your Black Soul Body. Of course, whether to upgrade is your choice. Our basic principle is trading, not that strong power can necessarily attract more masters. For instance, once there was a Black Soul envoy who became a leader, waging wars and building imperial faith to accumulate large Performance Points.”
Zhao Le couldn’t help but say, “Leader, the war… could the empire’s belief be?”
“Not in this world,” the maid said calmly. “Additionally, this envoy is already in a state of death; its Life Lamp is in the Covenant Chest, and it hasn’t been granted a chance of resurrection… Of course, whether it will be granted resurrection in the future, no one can say for sure; it depends on the master’s whims.”
Zhao Le slowly exhaled, secretly remembering… what he currently saw was just the tip of the iceberg of this shop.
The maid continued, “Although not only the Black Soul of immense strength can gain more performance points, one thing is certain: having stronger power makes it easier to contact high-quality masters and to accept more challenging tasks.”
“To what extent?” Chen Mingming frowned slightly.
The maid smiled slightly, “So far, the highest task is… destroying the world.”
Though the smile remained beautiful, it filled Chen Mingming and Zhao Le with terror when they looked into her eyes. At first, they did not feel it, but after being black soul envoys, they could clearly sense a trace of horror hidden in this maid.
You Ye clapped her hands at this moment, and a thick book about one centimeter appeared before Chen Mingming and Zhao Le, “You can use this place before you leave to familiarize yourself with your current abilities, or go outside to clear your mind. And this book in your hands is about some rules for black soul envoys. Basically, you have a high degree of freedom, with no restrictions on the type of masters you pursue, do as you like… but there’s one thing, our highest standard, that cannot be violated.”
“No betrayal…” Chen Mingming whispered.
You Ye smiled slightly, saying, “You both have quite good acceptance skills… So, the remaining time is at your free disposal.”
The maid slightly lifted her skirt and disappeared in front of the two of them after greeting them.
In the white-wall, black-ceiling space, only Chen Mingming and Zhao Le were left.
They had hardly had any time to municate since meeting, only now getting a chance to be alone.
Zhao Le knew Chen Mingming wasn’t the type to speak first, so he adjusted his glasses, thinking it was better if he was proactive, “Uh… Mingming, was it really you who sent me that gun earlier?”
Chen Mingming did not speak, but upon hearing this, only closed his eyes. His body began to vaporize, then slowly coalesced… the coalescence took a long time because of unfamiliarity.
After a while, the vaporized body finally turned into a silver handgun and flew to Zhao Le’s eyes.
Zhao Le widened his eyes.
He heard Chen Mingming’s voice, “This is something I bought when I made a deal back then, crafted with my soul… It seems like it was transformed together as well. However, the killing bullet has converted from lifespan coalescence to performance coalescence, but if it’s an ordinary bullet, there seems to be no limit. It’s calculated based on my physical stamina consumption.”
“Killing bullet?” Zhao Le was startled.
“It’s a type of bullet that guarantees a kill with one shot, ignoring spatial distances; for now, I call it the killing bullet.”
Zhao Le was amazed in his heart and subconsciously picked up the silver gun to play with it. However, after just a few seconds, the gun left Zhao Le’s hand, vaporized once again, and Chen Mingming returned to his appearance, with a face that seemed a bit unnatural.
Zhao Le sighed, “You’re still impressive, having this kind of ability. I don’t seem particularly special.”
Chen Mingming didn’t speak… He knew Zhao Le was an official Black Soul, while he was just an apprentice.
“How did you even think of buying such a gun?” Zhao Le thought for a moment and asked.
Chen Mingming shook his head… Everyone has words that they keep hidden in their hearts.
As for why he thought of buying such a gun… Perhaps what he truly wanted to kill was the part of himself that was cowardly and afraid to cry.
Having gone through all this, Chen Mingming understood his heart somewhat.
“Oh! There are some things I don’t understand,” Zhao Le seemed to recall something, “How did you handle those parts you took later…?”
He was referring to the missing sections of Wang Liang’s body.
“Burned them,” said Chen Mingming calmly.
Zhao Le swallowed… This indeed seemed like Chen Mingming’s style, straightforward.
But he also somewhat understood what this behavior was for. When the body parts were missing, it would shift the police’s focus once more, drawing them into the whirlpool of why the murderer did this, going in circles.
“Wang Liang… did you really kill him?” Zhao Le frowned and asked softly.
Chen Mingming gave Zhao Le a deep look, shaking his head, “It wasn’t me. When I got there, he was already dead.”
“Already dead?” Zhao Le was taken aback.
Chen Mingming nodded, “I did plan to kill him. It was part of the plan back then, so I made a lot of preparations before taking action. Before December 1, I had tried sneaking into Wang Liang’s house, installing a pinhole camera, intending to research his behavior patterns and then choose the right moment.”
The video footage was initially planned to be sent to the police after Chen Mingming went abroad. At worst, the video would clear Zhao Le of murder suspicion while creating the identity of Mr. Blank as the killer. Subsequently, Chen Mingming would choose to disappear abroad. The disease he had was incurable, so he planned to find a place where no one knew him and wait for death, leaving his parents with a memory.
As for now, naturally, he didn’t need to anymore… as long as he had enough performance, he could regularly ‘return’.
“Then…” Zhao Le opened his mouth.
Chen Mingming recalled, “That day when I was watching Wang Liang, he seemed to suddenly have a headache, then took some pain medication or the like, and not long after, he collapsed as if he had passed out. I watched for a long time; he didn’t move again, not even breathing, as if he was asleep. I went to check, it turned out he was indeed dead.”
“Who… who actually killed him?”
Chen Mingming shook his head, “I don’t know… but isn’t this better? If even the killer isn’t identifiable, this matter will only be wrapped in a layer of mystery, perhaps never solved. But if you want to find out, it’s simple—do some business, buy it with performance points, and the boss will definitely tell you.”
——The truth, forever hidden in silence.
Zhao Le slowly exhaled, smiled bitterly, “I’d rather use it to buy something for my sister.”
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A few days before, inside the interrogation room.
Brother Long angrily said, “I was so mad at that time, watching the kid sprinting away, didn’t think much, grabbed a bottle casually and threw it after him! Didn’t expect to be so accurate! Hit the kid’s head directly!”
“Then what?” Zhou Yusheng glared expressionlessly.
Brother Long shrugged, “This bastard didn’t stop, I chased him for a long time, but the brat got away. I was planning to catch him at his workplace, but then the next day I got arrested… Sir, do you think this counts as contributing? Can it reduce my sentence?”
Zhou Yusheng, expressionless, said, “Whether it reduces or not, I don’t know… but according to what you just said, you’re suspected of illegally using violence on others. The evidence is sufficient.”
“Huh? This… Sir, I remember wrong. I was just chatting with him at that time, I didn’t hit anyone, really didn’t hit anyone!”
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