I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch-Chapter 447 - 416. The Future of the Dead
"Haisi Calamity Realm in District 19, half-concealed forests in District 20, Eternal Flow Sea · Bone Island in District 19..."
Beside the long table, a bespectacled investigator listed the eight locations where the Red Peach person had been spotted over the past 20 days, banging on the table with a deep voice, "There's no discernible pattern to these locations, and around 10 a.m. on November 2nd, Red Peach appeared in two of those areas simultaneously. Currently, it appears that Red Peach possesses some sort of cloning ability..."
"Secretary Mu, what do you think?"
Mu Qingtong took the information sheet about the Red Peach person from the bespectacled investigator, glanced over it casually, and nodded with a faint voice, "It's a type of spirit clone, with a maximum limit of three."
This was one of her Spiritual Unsealing abilities: Spirit Puppet. She could not only use spiritual power as a sacrifice to form clones, but upon meeting certain conditions, she could control the target's body. It was also the ability she used the most, often employed to deal with Mr. Xia...
Her thoughts paused; she looked up and handed the information sheet back to the investigator, "I can't discern more information, but the level of the Red Peach person's Spiritual Artifact is at least A."
The bespectacled investigator nodded thoughtfully, "An A-level Spiritual Artifact, that will be somewhat troublesome."
It had to be said that Secretary Mu's B-level spiritual class Spiritual Artifact was indeed formidable. Not only could it form a Spiritual Defense Net, but it also possessed an auxiliary ability called 'Pierce of Truth,' allowing her to see through all disguises and view the true information of the target when she laid eyes on it.
For this reason, ever since Secretary Mu arrived at the Holy Department of District 19, the information gathering on the Red Peach person had progressed a lot faster.
Mu Qingtong's expression remained cool and calm, and she simply nodded without saying much.
The so-called 'Pierce of Truth' was actually her Bronze Eye of Decompilation.
Through the Eye of Decompilation, she easily discerned the comprehensive strength of everyone in the Holy Department of District 19.
The overall strength of the Holy Department in District 19 was clearly several levels higher than that of District 51.
The elderly man sitting at the head of the table was the Director of this Holy Department, Ye Shi, from the True Martial Second Realm.
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The twenty-four captains seated on both sides of the long table were from True Martial Realm 1 and General Fifth, with the weakest being a Fourth-order Spirit Master.
The overall strength of the Holy Department in District 19 ranked fourth among the many divisions of the Holy Department, not weak but also not the strongest. The strongest was the Central Court Holy Department of the first major district.
As a matter of fact, the varying strength of the Holy Departments across the major districts was not only related to the economic and military strength of the district itself but also to the temporal stability of the district.
The less stable the temporal stability, the more Evil Clan entities would accidentally intrude into the Present Realm, naturally requiring more and stronger investigators to deal with them. The Central Court Holy Department would then deploy personnel according to the needs of the major districts.
Of course, the temporal stability of the first major district, where the Central Court Holy Department was located, was actually the most stable, and the Infinite Realm that protected the district's security was the most solid, but after all, it was the first major district where aristocrats and politicians gathered...
The Holy Department's discussion about the Peach Organization quickly came to an end, and Mu Qingtong left the Holy Department Building with a warm voice and a slight smile, greeting a few colleagues she was already familiar with.
As for her, she preferred being alone, or staying in an empty room with her thoughts idle, but integrating into a group was not difficult for her.
It was just a bit unfamiliar to her nowadays; if Mr. Xia were here...
The black-dressed woman paused, her beautiful eyes lightly lifted to gaze at the bright and clear moon hanging solitary in the sky.
It was getting late, and she suddenly remembered that Cha Naixue was coming to see her today.
Mu Qingtong was well aware of Cha Naixue's purpose in looking for her, but to tell the truth, she didn't have much to say to Cha Naixue.
She had waited for Mr. Xia for one day, two days, ten days... and now a month, and the fellow hadn't shown a trace of himself, as if he truly were dead...
But that was fine. After all, the Empire's territory was vast, and if Mr. Xia were to resurrect in District 51, it would take at least two or three months to reach District 19.
So she wasn't in a hurry, not in the slightest.
She believed that she just needed to wait a little longer...
The dark, luxury hovercar silently slid up in front of her. The car door opened, and Fei, dressed as a maid, asked from the driver's seat, "Master, where to?"
"Bronze Building."
Mu Qingtong withdrew her gaze and sat back in the car, closing her eyes to rest.
About a month ago, the Empire conducted an extremely meticulous operation to keep that assassination attempt under wraps, without a hint of gossip escaping, as if it had never happened.
However, based on the information reported by a Peach Organization member who had been arranged to infiltrate the Star Phenomena Bureau the day before yesterday, Cha Naixue finally understood why these ants wanted to surround and kill her and Mr. Xia.
— Sirius!
The high-ranking and privileged within the Empire actually believed that either she or Mr. Xia would destroy the world, so they wanted to nip the threat in the bud.
Ridiculous.
Even though Mr. Xia was framed as a fugitive and slandered so heavily, he had never contemplated seeking revenge or destroying the world.
As for her, at most she only wanted to change some of the current state of the Empire; destroying the world? She had no such interest.
However, another point worth noting was that there appeared to be two Sirius stars. According to the information displayed by the Star Phenomena Bureau, the first one emerged precisely when she advanced to First Rank.
She did not know the exact time when Mr. Xia advanced to First Rank, but the emergence of the second star coincided with the night she first met Mr. Xia, an obvious coincidence suggesting that the second Sirius was Mr. Xia.
This discovery did not surprise Mu Qingtong very much.
After all, Mr. Xia was one of her own kind, recognized by her.
Nevertheless, the existence of these two peculiar Sirius stars indicated, indeed, that she and Mr. Xia were special, with no third of their kind existing.
As for the Star Phenomena Bureau, which spread rumors about Sirius destroying the world, or perhaps the even more mysterious existence behind it, might they have some unspeakable ulterior motives?
If that was the case, perhaps she could expedite the infiltration of the Star Phenomena Bureau, taking control of this core institution of the Empire that liked to create trouble for her.
As Mu Qingtong's thoughts drifted, the hovercar had already arrived at the base of the Bronze Building.
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On the top floor.
Cha Naixue sipped her eighteenth glass of water, unable to stand it any longer.
Mu Qingtong was pushing things too far.
She had waited from afternoon until dusk, and from dusk until the moon climbed onto the branches! Four hours...
Had it not been for the fact that the top of this building was directly in the moonlight, conducive to cultivating S-rank Spiritual Clothes, she would never have tolerated someone with the surname Mu for so long.
"Tap— Tap—"
The crisp sound of high heels tapping on the floor tiles approached, Cha Naixue slowly raised her gaze; above the Black Crystal High Heels was a classic black dress, and looking down from high above was a woman with silver hair and faint golden eyes, meeting with her purple pupils.
Cha Naixue's lips curled into a gentle, faint smile, "Miss Mu, you really are hard to wait for."
"I know what you are here for," Mu Qingtong said indifferently and concisely, "He's dead."
"..." The suddenness of this statement caught Cha Naixue off guard, her pupils subtly contracted, and she fell into prolonged silence.
The woman in the black dress sat on the sofa opposite her, legs crossed, picking up a book to peruse, not even lifting her eyelids, "If there's nothing else, you can go now."
Cha Naixue's purple pupils darkened, and she narrowed her eyes slightly, "You don't seem very sad?"
Mu Qingtong casually glanced at the woman in the snow-white dress, as if pondering, "You seem a bit angry."
"....."
Seeing the woman's evasive attitude, Cha Naixue realized she wouldn't be able to extract any specific details, but that was okay.
She smiled, her lips parting softly, "Mu Qingtong, do you wonder if my Nai Luo Space can see the future of the dead?"
