Twisted Dreams-Chapter 373 - 441: Hunter
Nighttime, South Sea, Half-Mountain Villa, study.
On the desk, three things were placed.
A piece of flesh, a piece of cloth, a fingernail, a slip of paper.
These four items came from the flesh of a mysterious person’s corpse, the robe of a white-robed monk, the fingernail from the severed hand found in the mysterious person’s stomach, and a card with the word ’Hunter’ held by the severed hand.
All of these were sent by Cao Yi.
Li Yang dragged Suzu into the study.
He wanted to know the origin of the corpse at the bottom of the sea.
If scientific methods weren’t clear, then seek the help of Extraordinary Powers.
Though Suzu’s combat abilities aren’t strong, no one in the world can match her in divination.
Maybe Suzu could infer the past of these items’ owners from them.
Such as letting Li Yang dream about those events.
Suzu listened to Li Yang’s idea, shook her head like a rattle:
"It’s not that I don’t want to help, it’s that I can’t."
Li Yang frowned:
"Why can’t you help?"
Suzu shrugged her hands openly:
"I’m just too low-ranked.
Haven’t you heard, ’Don’t dwell on the past, look forward to the future’?
Deducing the past is much harder than predicting the future.
If I were Tier Five, maybe I could figure it out."
Li Yang looked somewhat disappointed:
"Actually, I shouldn’t treat you like this."
Suzu widened her eyes:
"Oh my god, Li Yang, you finally feel guilty!
You finally know you’re treating me badly, huh?
You should prepare more delicious food for me, buy video games, not make me work for you!"
Li Yang shook his head:
"I should treat you equally as Crow; look at Crow, he’s almost Tier Five.
Starting tomorrow, I’ll push you out to toughen up, don’t come back until you cultivate to Tier Five."
Suzu looked at Li Yang incredulously, pointed at the items on the desk, questioning:
"You want to kick me out for the origin of this junk?!"
Li Yang nodded seriously.
Suzu panicked, her brain working fast, thinking of ways to stay.
Who wants to suffer like Crow on Changbai Mountain!
A yellow light bulb lit up in Suzu’s mind, she snapped her fingers:
"Although I can’t help you see the past of these items, I can help you find people related to them!"
Li Yang raised his eyebrow, asked:
"What do you mean?" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Suzu placed each piece of ’junk’ from the desk onto the floor, sat cross-legged on the floor, and began drawing an array.
As she drew, she said:
"Everything in the world is connected, if the world were a spiderweb, then ’connections’ would be the silk threads.
Even a leaf in Xia Country, dig deep, you could trace connections to East Sakura.
Perhaps someone from East Sakura visited Xia Country, happened to know a cleaner, and that cleaner swept up that leaf.
I can use magic to find people connected to this pile of junk."
After finishing her words, Suzu also finished drawing the array, summoned a crystal ball:
"If I find people connected to this pile of junk, it should solve your problem, right?"
Li Yang nodded.
It’s worth a try.
If in this world, there truly are ’connected’ people with these items.
Li Yang spoke:
"Then why not include my name with these items too.
This way, we can find people connected to these items and me, right?"
Suzu wrote ’Li Yang’ on the floor:
"In theory, yes. Do you have anything else to add? If not, I’ll start."
Li Yang thought a bit:
"Also add the word ’Hunter’."
After Suzu added ’Hunter’ to the floor, her eyes turned a haunting purple, mysterious magic surged from her body.
Time slowly passed, Suzu’s little face gradually turned pale, fine beads of sweat appeared.
She didn’t understand why Li Yang’s questions always drained so much spiritual power!
Last time, Li Yang wanted to dream, it almost consumed all of her spiritual power!
Luckily, Suzu didn’t disappoint Li Yang’s expectations.
On the crystal ball, faces began to appear.
Li Yang’s expression grew serious.
Seems there really are many people connected to those items, to himself, to ’Hunter’ all at once!
Suzu felt she was about to collapse, looked at the crystal ball, and interpreted:
"In the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet; the deepest connection is red, the shallowest is violet."
The crystal ball showed an image of Cao Yi, and several people Li Yang didn’t recognize.
They were staff from the Security Administration’s research institute.
Those research staff had interacted with the seabed corpse, encountered the ’Hunter Card’.
Because Cao Yi is a member of the Demon Club, indirectly he has a connection with Li Yang too.
Research staff are at the lowest connection level, all violet.
Cao Yi’s rank was slightly higher, at orange.
Li Yang automatically ignored those below orange.
Among them, there was one red silhouette, a silhouette Li Yang was very familiar with.
Li Yang squinted his eyes.
That silhouette was the owner of the Hunter Internet Cafe, Su Manman.
Su Manman had never interacted with the mysterious seabed corpse, nor did she know ’Hunter’. How could she be connected to the mysterious seabed corpse and ’Hunter’?
Indeed, this woman is not simple!
This woman might know the origin of the seabed corpse, know the origin of ’Hunter’!
"She’s really hidden deep."
Li Yang walked to the coat rack in the study, took down a round hat, put it on his head, and walked out.
Suzu curled her lips.
Li Yang must be going to find that woman.
Undeniably, that woman’s indeed attractive, even Suzu found her beautiful.
Unlike Zhang Shi’ai’s walking hormone, this woman’s beauty is pure and absolute.
"I’d like to see what’s really going on between you two, what might happen in the future."
Suzu memorized Zhang Shi’ai’s image, while simultaneously recalling Li Yang’s.
The mysterious power surged from Suzu again.
On the crystal ball, images appeared.
Suzu blinked her big eyes, watching the images on the crystal ball.
Suzu’s expression shifted from displeasure to confusion, from confusion to shock, finally to utter fright!
She threw down the crystal ball with a frown, muttering to herself:
"This... how could this be?
How could he treat me like that!"
Her gaze no longer frivolous, instead it climbed to resolute determination:
"No, I must get stronger!"
....
Late night, Jinmu Cafe.
Su Manman, as usual, made a cup of coffee, sitting at the window seat.
While sipping coffee, she daydreamed.
She didn’t like Blue Mountain coffee, but its aroma reminded her of someone from the past.
’Ding, ding...’
The sound of the door chime echoed.
This cafe, since its establishment, had never had a customer come for coffee.
Except for that man.
Since meeting that man, it had its first customer.
Su Manman knew it was Li Yang, stood up, turned around.
She looked at that familiar face, asked:
"What would you like to drink?"
Li Yang replied:
"No coffee today."
Su Manman suspiciously asked:
"Then you are..."
Li Yang strolled up to Su Manman, sat down in the seat across from her:
"Want to hear you tell a story."
Su Manman frowned, showing some disdain:
"We agreed not to ask about my past."
Li Yang took off his round hat, revealing cool cold eyes:
"Not your story, another one."
He placed the hat on the table, quietly spoke two words:
"Hunter."
