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Chapter 147 Clues, Feathers, Opportunity (Seeking monthly votes)

After sending a message to Ghost Bell, Black Chrysalis headed back towards the direction of Guyimai Street.

After arriving at the door, I used restraint straps to hold onto the base of the air conditioner outdoor unit, swung to the outside of the second-floor room, and slipped through the open French windows.

He lightly placed his feet on the floor, and upon hearing footsteps coming from upstairs, he raised the restraints and pressed them against the ceiling. His senses penetrated, and he saw Gu Zhuo'an walking out of the bathroom on the third floor, his lower body wrapped in a bath towel as he entered the bedroom.

"Dad came back so quickly..."

Ji Minghuan muttered something silently and quietly pulled back the restraints.

At the last second, he saw Gu Zhuoan pick up his phone from the bed, so he took his phone out of his trench coat pocket, waited a moment, and sure enough, Gui Zhong replied to the message.

[Ghost Bell: What information do you know about Rainbow Wings?]

[Black Chrysalis: Sailhollow needs no introduction, "Azure Vessel"—everyone knows that. Besides that… I can also reveal the names of two other members, and their codenames.]

[Ghost Bell: Speak.]

[Black Chrysalis: Of course, I'm not helping you unconditionally. If needed, I hope you can help me find someone.]

[Ghost Bell: Looking for someone?]

[Black Chrysalis: The crazed exorcist "Red Light," I wonder if Mr. Ghost Bell has ever heard of his name.]

Seeing that Gui Zhong hadn't replied to the message for a long time, Ji Minghuan looked away from the phone screen and nonchalantly took off all the restraints.

Then, after taking off his trench coat and mask, he casually stuffed the items into a cardboard box with the restraint straps, sealed it, and slowly put it back under the wardrobe to avoid his father upstairs hearing the noise.

Finally, he closed the French windows with the restraints, then brought up the mission panel to check the progress of the main mission.

Main Quest 2 (Phase 3): Help the supervillain "Ghost Bell" find clues about a member of Rainbow Wing (who is the murderer of "Su Ying").

Ji Minghuan thought, "Could I exploit a bug? I could give my dad two names that I know, and if the mission is completed, it would prove that one of them accidentally killed my mom."

[Ghost Bell: I've heard of him, "Red Light." He's quite famous among exorcists.]

[Black Chrysalis: That's right, I'm looking for him. If you find any clues about the traffic light, please let me know...]

[Black Chrysalis: And if we find the red light, I want your help to arrest him. That's my request. You hate superhumans who use their power to indiscriminately kill innocent people, don't you?]

[Ghost Bell: Understood.]

[Black Chrysalis: I have one more question. Do you know the name "Salvation Society"?]

[Ghost Bell: The Salvation Society?]

[Black Chrysalis: Yes.]

[Ghost Bell: Never heard of it.]

[Black Chrysalis: That's a good thing. Well, here's a piece of advice: I hope you don't mention this name when you talk to others, otherwise you might easily get into trouble.]

[Ghost Bell: First of all, I have absolutely no interest in what the Salvation Society is, let alone talking to them. Stop rambling and tell me... information about Rainbow Wings. If I find out you're just being mysterious, I'll kill you.]

[Black Chrysalis: Rainbow Wing's 12th member is named "Ajaya," from India, codenamed "Machine Soul Bodhisattva"; their 10th member, codenamed "Gothic Doll," is a girl from England. That's all I can tell you for now.]

[Ghost Bell: What's the difference between this and saying nothing at all?]

"Hehe, it really makes no difference whether I said it or not." Ji Minghuan shrugged.

The idea of ​​using a bug to complete the main quest failed; either the information provided was not detailed enough, or the two people were not the murderers of Su Ying.

[Black Pupa: That makes a lot of sense.]

[Black Chrysalis: This is just a small test. Once your good son joins Rainbow Wing, I will work with him to extract more information.]

[Ghost Bell: I could never allow him to join Rainbow Wings.]

[Black Chrysalis: You can't stop him, and he can't stop you.]

After sending the message, Ji Minghuan turned off his phone and lay down on the bed in a starfish position.

He stared blankly at the ceiling, lost in thought.

"Next, I need to help my older brother get into Rainbow Wing as soon as possible, and then have him help me get close to and investigate this person, 'Urushihara Ruri'. It has already been confirmed that this Rainbow Wing member is directly related to the Salvation Society."

"If she is the one who killed Gu Qiye's mother, then things will be even easier. We can interrogate her directly and maybe find out where the Salvation Society's base is."

Ji Minghuan opened the gear panel and, after a long time, brought up the three worldview development progress bars.

[Current progress of world-building for the "Ability User" branch: 40% → 62% (↑22%) (Click here to receive 1 Split Point as a world-building reward)]

[Current progress of world-building for the "Exorcist" branch: 60% → 68% (↑8%)]

[Current progress of world-building development for the "Mysterious Envoy" branch: 30% → 60 (↑30%) (Click here to receive 1 Split Point as a world-building development reward)]

"I've already received the exorcist's reward. Have the development progress of the other two branches also met the targets?" Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan raised his hand and clicked on the two notification boxes.

[Two split points have been acquired.]

He brought up the gear panel, flipped to the last page, and opened the option for "Split Game Character".

[The splitting process is not yet complete; a new game character cannot be created at this time.]

Currently, there are 5 split points.

[Note: 16 Split Points are required to create a new game character (once you have collected a total of 16 Split Points, you can create another "game character" in the real world)]

Ji Minghuan stared at the numbers on the panel, deep in thought.

"It takes 11 more split points to create Unit 4, which seems pretty hopeless. I'll have to rescue my main body from the Salvation Society in two months at most, and I don't know if I'll have enough time to create Unit 4 in those two months?"

"No... If we think about it this way, as long as we find an opportunity to rescue my original body during our first mission outside the Salvation Society, there will be far fewer troubles."

"Let's put aside whether this is a trap set by the Salvation Society. The problem is, do I really have enough fighting power to break through...? If I fail, wouldn't I end up killing my father and the young lady there?" "'Red Light'... Should I seize this opportunity, or should I play it safe and selectively give up?"

Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan took a deep breath and closed all the panels in his field of vision.

Close your eyes and synchronize your consciousness with Unit 3, Yagubaru.

In another corner of the world, in a miniature garden within a whale, in a floating castle.

The third unit, Little Shark, awoke from the crystal ball, opened its eyes, and looked through the glass at Caesar lying on the bed.

Caesar still looked dejected, with his arms crossed behind his head, staring blankly at the ceiling.

A moment later, he suddenly whispered the little shark's name: "Aguru, Aguru..."

"What's wrong?" Agubaru asked.

“I just went to the Oddities Library, and this is what I secretly brought back for you.” Caesar said, getting up and approaching the crystal ball, taking out two colorless cards with light patterns from his sleeve.

The two cards are named "Foraging Garbage Bag" and "The Never-Ending Light".

The former's function is to summon a garbage bag that can eat garbage on its own;

The latter's function is to release an inextinguishable light, which can be held in the palm of your hand as a light source.

Agubaru glanced at them; both cards were "Common" level Oddity Shards, the lowest level, but better than nothing. So it spoke:

"I can't eat like this. Throw the fragments of the strange tale into the crystal ball."

Caesar was taken aback: "Throw it into the crystal ball? Are you sure?"

Yagubaru nodded his shark head and blinked as he stared at Caesar.

"Ok."

Caesar hesitated for a moment, then opened the opening at the top of the crystal ball and put the two cards into the seawater.

The instant the two cards sank into the water, Ababaru suddenly opened its mouth. Its mouth expanded more than twice its normal size in the seawater, and it swallowed both cards whole.

Immediately afterwards, a dark blue notification box slowly appeared in my pupils.

[You have consumed two "Common-grade" Oddity Fragments, triggering the effect of the exclusive cultivation system "Oddity Gluttony," increasing your actual size by 1 meter.]

[The size change of Unit 3 – the Eternal Abyss Shark "Agubaru": 102 meters → 103 meters.]

Ji Minghuan thought, "Two of the worst rare item fragments can only increase my size by 1 meter? This is too slow. I need to find a chance to eat something better. If all else fails, I'll just trick the Third Prince into giving me his 'Christmas Sleigh' and eat it. It's useless to give it to him anyway."

Thinking of this, he looked up from the crystal ball and saw Caesar pressing his face against the glass, curiously examining the little shark.

"Amazing! Agubaru, you actually managed to eat the Fragment of Wonders!" he exclaimed.

“Right?” Agubaru said, “And the more fragments I swallow, the stronger I become, and I can even help you beat people up later.”

"Aren't cannibal sharks supposed to never grow bigger?"

"I am a noble shark, unlike those low-level Nobel sharks."

“Alright.” Caesar smiled. “Then I’ll bring you some fragments every day from now on.”

"Deal!" said Agubaru. "If you'd like, you can feed me your Christmas sleigh too!"

Caesar was stunned: "No, this is a once-in-a-generation event, Father will be angry if he finds out..."

“Okay, I was just kidding.” Agubaru puffed out his cheeks.

“By the way, Agubaru, Li Qingping just came to see me and gave me this.” Caesar said, taking a reddish-brown bird feather from his pocket.

"what is this?"

“Li Qingping said it was ‘the feather of the phoenix.’ He told me to keep the feather with me and not to show it to anyone. He said I should take the feather out if there was any danger.”

"Thank goodness I'm not human, Shark."

"Yes, yes, showing it to the shark won't break the agreement."

"So, what use is this feather to a bird?" Agubaru said, then corrected himself to avoid setting a bad example for the child: "I'm not swearing... I mean, it's useful to a phoenix, a phoenix is ​​useful?"

Caesar thought for a moment: "'Maybe a miracle will happen'... That's what Li Qingping told me."

Ji Minghuan pondered for a moment and figured that what Li Qingping had left for Caesar was probably an item for self-defense. So he controlled the No. 3 mech and said, "Alright, then keep this feather with you for now, and don't tell anyone except me. Not even the butler, we made a promise."

"I understand." Caesar smiled and silently put the phoenix feather back into his pajama pocket.

"It seems Li Qingping has also prepared a backup plan... Then the Third Prince's situation is much safer. Unless the First and Second Princes are ruthless enough to mobilize the Royal Court's forces to assassinate Caesar, I have no problem protecting Caesar's life in the short term."

Thinking of this, Agubaru glanced at the sky outside the window through the crystal ball. "Sleep, Caesar, it's already dark."

Goodnight, Aguru.

Goodnight, Caesar.

After the man and the shark said goodnight to each other, Caesar closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep.

Agubaru lay silently in the darkness, its eyes fixed on the bedroom door. A moment later, the door was pushed open silently and gently, and a figure in a butler's uniform walked in, his face gradually revealed in the moonlight.

He was practically Caesar's butler—"Ikar".

"As expected... butlers are either loyal dogs or traitors," Agubaru thought. "Couldn't everyone take 'Oda Takikage' as the industry benchmark?"

　Asking for a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)