I impersonated God in America

"She really likes the symbolism of cosmos flowers."

Xu Ge's voice was flat, like he was telling a story.

"When she left a month ago, she took a bag of seeds with her."

He turned his head slightly, his gaze passing over Gislinn's shoulder and looking out the window.

Outside the window was the manor shrouded in torrential rain.

"Did you plant that patch of cosmos flowers in the backyard?"

Gislinn's face drained of all color. After all, she was just bad, not stupid. Considering her own interests, she naturally understood what the other person meant.

"I……"

"You planted her there, didn't you?"

Gislinn's lips trembled as her mind raced, trying to find a plausible excuse.

But then he realized that there was no way to argue anymore.

puff!

"Go to hell."

Chapter Eight: The Shepherd

The torrential rain did not stop.

In the study of the main building of the Gislin Manor, Xu Ge sat on the floor.

The documents he had pried out of the filing cabinet were scattered around him. He simply opened the document in his hand and read through it page by page.

The cover of the first folder has a photo pasted on it.

The girl in the photo has dark curly hair, a Latina face, and a canine tooth that shows when she smiles.

Xu Ge turned the paper over.

The back shows the logistics information.

The girl's name field was blacked out, but the transfer address was still there, a place name he had never heard of before, which sounded like an island.

The shipment status column is stamped in red: Received.

He rubbed his thumb on the red stamp.

The inkpad has no patterns and is waterproof.

Ghislaine bought good stuff; even the stamp was waterproof.

He set the paper aside.

The second document was more than twice as thick as the first.

Opening the cover revealed a medical examination report, with all the items listed.

The last column of the evaluation form contained a few lines of notes.

"His appearance is not good enough to enter the high-end market, and he is too old, making the training cost too high. His liver and kidneys have been confirmed to be healthy through physical examination."

"It is recommended for organ reserve."

Xu Ge read the sentence three times.

At first, he even thought that his English was not good enough and that he had misread it.

In this document, a person, a living, breathing human being, is merely positioned as a "spare part."

It's like buying a car and having a spare tire in the trunk.

You hope you never need it, but that it's there when you do.

Convenient, easy to use, and won't cause any complaints.

He had considered that Estein and his group were bad.

But it was only at this moment that he realized how lacking his imagination was.

"But even the worst people are like this."

For some reason, a scene from a movie suddenly flashed through his mind.

Claypot rice...

"Impossible, we live in a civilized society now, I must be watching too many movies."

Xu Ge placed the document on his lap, his knuckles turning white as he pressed them against it.

He flipped to the third copy.

The third document differed from the first two; it was a bound roster with several capital letters handwritten on the cover.

【in stock】

He stopped when he turned to the fifth page.

The photo shows a girl with short, ear-length hair who reveals a canine tooth when she smiles.

She was wearing a light blue cotton shirt, the collar of which was slightly faded from washing, but it was ironed very neatly.

She made a funny face at the camera.

He took this photo...

"..."

He didn't know how long he had been staring at the photo.

It could be a few seconds, or it could be a long time.

He continued scrolling down.

Because he needs to see more.

Hatred without a clear target is just a shapeless emotion that burns out and then disappears.

He couldn't let this fire burn in vain.

The folder contained a separate envelope, made of thicker paper than regular archival paper, and the seal was not tight.

He pulled out a sheet of paper; it was a list of contacts.

The list is not long.

The first one is Estein, who is in charge of the North American region, followed by a long list of encrypted contact information.

The second is Gillyn, who is in charge of screening and transfer in the New York area and is the head of Shining Models.

The third is Brunel, who is in charge of regional European market expansion and is the head of MC2 Model Agency. He is followed by an overseas phone number with the area code +39.

Xu Ge recognized the area code.

"This is... Italy's international dialing code."

He looked unwell, and his thoughts drifted to his hometown.

Sardinia, Italy.

He has never been one to assume the worst about others, but now he's starting to have doubts.

Perhaps Anna had already fallen into this trap when she was in Sardinia.

This network isn't in New York, or even in America; it's right here in this global village!

If these seemingly virtuous people harbor even the slightest evil in their hearts, they can ruin an entire ordinary family.

Estein and Gislin were just on the North American side of this web.

And on the other side of Europe?

This Brunel might be looking for the next Anna in the impoverished villages around Sardinia!

Xu Ge folded up the contact list and stuffed it into the same pocket.

He stopped looking, and he didn't need to look anymore. He knew enough, enough for him to do what he needed to do next.

He took the still-burning alcohol lamp from the wall and casually flicked it onto the curtains.

crunch.

Suddenly, as he walked down the corridor, he noticed a full-length mirror.

The mirror clearly reflected his appearance at that moment.

Blood, half-snake, scales.

Like a monster from a folk myth, but sometimes people are more terrifying than monsters.

He turned and disappeared into the night.

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crunch.

Lynn's feet were on the scorched floor.

I casually glanced around the room.

He didn't care about the documents Xu Ge had flipped through.

Because he had already learned about it from the other person's perspective.

He came here with only one goal.

He reached out and took out a blue folder.

[Organ Trading Records]

Lynn's gaze swept across the rows from top to bottom.

Soon, he saw his number.

The donor's identification number is followed by a record of the heart retrieval.

The transacting party: the shepherd.

"Got you?"

The flames surged in from all sides, forming an encirclement.

Lynn thought of Xu Ge.

To be honest, he wasn't very interested in Xu Ge as a person.

What he was concerned about was what Xu Ge would do next, and what kind of chain reaction this would trigger.

It's important to know that Xu Ge's target tonight, Gislin, is an upper-class member who plays a key role in Estella's supply chain.

Her death was destined to be unlike that of an unknown person.

Xu Ge was like a firefly in the darkness.

It signifies the emergence of a wild, supernatural force.

Now, all Lynn has to do is wait and see who responds.

The first possibility: the official, standard response.

It should be noted that the United States is the world's largest country. If the government intervenes, the person who recruited Xu Ge is just an ordinary government agent.

That means that extraordinary individuals are extremely rare in this world, and even the authorities may be facing such a case for the first time.

If this happens, Lynn can loosen up a bit.

As for the second one...

Xu Ge's case was suppressed, and Jislin's death was handled discreetly.

The appearance of a group of "men in black" did not surprise Xu Ge's abilities at all; in fact, they said they had already prepared a countermeasure.

What does that tell us?

This indicates that the world has a sophisticated supernatural management system.

The authorities were not only aware of the existence of superhumans, but also had contingency plans in place.