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Chapter 60
Chapter 60
Chapter 60
The next day, when everyone in the Special Case Investigation Team learned about what had happened the night before from Li Fufeng, they were all stunned.
“Is this for real? You’re not joking, are you?”
“Are you sure you didn’t confuse a dream with reality last night?”
Although they knew he probably wasn’t lying, everyone still found it hard to believe and exclaimed with exaggerated tones.
“How could I possibly joke about something like this?” Li Fufeng laughed, “Besides, I’ve communicated with Adams. He’s not against interacting with everyone, but he doesn’t like being disturbed by too many people. If you have anything to say, we can go together later, and then you’ll know whether what I’m saying is true or false.”
“Of course we want to go!” Everyone was excited. It was a legendary ghost after all. While they were scared, the excitement of being able to communicate with it overshadowed their fear.
“However, he’s still just a child, so I hope you all don’t expect too much,” Li Fufeng specifically reminded them.
The others nodded nonchalantly, not really taking his words to heart.
But when they actually arrived at the place the Supernatural Affairs Investigation Bureau called the “Ghost Inn” and saw the “animation” on the TV screen with their own eyes, everyone finally understood why Li Fufeng had given that reminder.
Looking at the flickering long segments of animation on the TV screen, everyone present was dumbfounded.If they had to communicate entirely through this kind of “animation”, apart from Li Fufeng, who had already maxed out his skill in interpreting images, everyone else would be completely lost.
Fortunately, in addition to these doodle-like animations, there were many real-life snippets flashing, including life segments from the perspective of the little boy Adams, some TV news clips with jumbled timelines, as well as anime clips and game segments that no one had seen before… All kinds of images kept switching on the TV screen, containing an enormous amount of information.
Yin Xubai had already started analyzing on his own—
“These should all come from his own memories, his past life, TV programs he watched, news he accidentally saw, and anime and games he usually paid attention to… Although it’s very fragmented and chaotic, children themselves don’t focus much on certain things, and those news clips might have been watched occasionally with his parents. We also need to consider that after death, becoming a ghost might have caused some damage to his memories, so this incomplete state is quite normal…”
As he spoke, he looked at Li Fufeng. “…I guess he’s displaying all this content in front of you to ask what you want to know. Children themselves can’t judge what information is valuable, so he’s simply letting you choose.”
Li Fufeng was stunned, his face showing surprise.
Yin Xubai calmly continued, “This is normal. Previously, everyone brought him gifts, and you often came to play with him. This time, you even helped collect his parents’ ashes. I think he might be expressing gratitude, and it’s also possible that he has indeed established a bit of friendship with you—don’t be surprised, for you, this is a deserved reward. This time, we all benefited from your kindness, we should thank you.”
While expressing gratitude, his tone remained flat from beginning to end, feeling as if he was reading from a script.
But this performance was enough to surprise Li Fufeng.
Not just Li Fufeng, everyone else was surprised too.
The surprising point wasn’t that the ghost knew to repay kindness and understood human interactions, but Yin Xubai’s reaction.
“Then you previously…”
Liu Ningshuang mumbled, about to say “Then you previously wanted to move their parents’ bodies,” but swallowed the latter half of the sentence.
She suddenly realized that with Yin Xubai’s intelligence, it was normal for him to see through all this, he just didn’t want to act on it. Because he was Yin Xubai, not Li Fufeng. It wasn’t that he couldn’t empathize with others, he just didn’t want to. After all, all of this person’s passion was devoted to scientific research.
Yin Xubai didn’t care about others’ reactions. While talking, he fell into his own thinking mode and muttered softly, “It seems that ghosts indeed still have emotions from when they were alive. I wonder if this is a special case, or if all ghosts are like this…”
“What did you say?” Because his voice was too low, Liu Ningshuang only saw his lips move and couldn’t help but ask.
“Nothing.” Yin Xubai pulled back his thoughts, looked around, and finally stared directly at the flickering TV screen. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to know if you’re aware of the situation with that killer K? In your world, are there any other people with special abilities like him?”
When this was said, the curiosity of others was also piqued, and they all nodded along, asking, “Yes, yes, little one, do you know if there are any other superhumans or ability users? Uh, I don’t know what you call them, just extraordinaries?”
Although there was no one in front of them, their behavior of talking to the air looked a bit silly.
The TV screen flickered for a while, and scene after scene slowly appeared. First was a news report about the Ghost in the Rainy Night, just one news item from an anchor.
Then came a series of disconnected news clips, all about the situation of other ability users in that world.
“…A world similar to our Blue Star, with slightly more advanced technology?”
Through those fragmented news clips, everyone quickly captured the key information.
“Most of the world consists of ordinary people, with only a few possessing special abilities. Most ability users aren’t very powerful, with the most destructive unable to directly confront missiles. There was once someone who tried to create a cult and overthrow peace, but because they were too high-profile and arrogant, they were publicly blown to pieces. So, ability users tend to operate in the shadows unless recruited by officials, and generally don’t act too conspicuously?”
“…But ability users aren’t completely disadvantaged because they hide among ordinary people and have extreme mobility. If they cause destruction in secret, the impact could be severe. So it seems the official forces and ability users in that world have reached some sort of balance, where one side won’t use large-scale weapons, and the other won’t cause large-scale destruction… Everything is restricted to a certain degree? There should be a set of special laws or rules, right? Unfortunately, the child doesn’t know…”
In fact, whether it was because the child hadn’t specifically watched so much news or because the ghost’s memory was incomplete, the clips on the TV screen were all very fragmented.
Besides this, newspaper images would appear on the screen, but they were also intermittent. Some parts that might have been forgotten in his memory were directly replaced with mosaic patterns of various candies, making everyone both amused and exasperated.
Everyone watched intently, some started recording videos, some took notes on their phone memo apps, not wanting to miss any useful clue.
Until suddenly, a fragmented newspaper image flashed on the screen with the headline [Global Ability User Rankings].
Everyone was initially excited, but when they looked closer at the content, they didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, because nine-tenths of it was mosaic.
—It really showed that he was just a child, having only glanced at many things once, unable to remember them carefully.
The content on it was mostly like this—
North ???, greatest individual destructive power, ?? ?? user, ???? …
Not only were there large patches of mosaic, but the newspaper itself was also fragmented, with pieces of newspaper scraps pieced together on the screen, not knowing which came first or last, which was above or below.
At a rough glance, no more than ten people had relatively complete information.
Well, what valuable intelligence could be gathered from this?
Just then, Liu Ningshuang suddenly called out, “Wait, look at the third newspaper fragment, Dawn City!”
Her exclamation immediately alerted everyone.
They all looked over, their expressions changing.
[Puppet Master: ??? Council leader, controls Dawn City, ???? shadow, ????? guides evil people towards evil, self-destructing in evil.]
“Dawn City? That place name sounds familiar! If I remember correctly, when that mysterious Shadow Council President was talking to K, the latter mentioned Dawn City!”
Someone quickly recalled. Comparing these few key words with the remote control methods displayed by the Shadow Council President last time, they suddenly had a realization. “This Puppet Master, could it be the Shadow Council President? Looking at the items here, everything matches up!”
Others also realized this and nodded in agreement.
“Yeah, at first we didn’t know about other worlds and thought all extraordinaries were native to Blue Star. We even thought there was another world of extraordinaries on this planet, and those two lived in a place called Dawn City. Now we understand that these two people should be from the same other world, but only the Puppet Master is from Dawn City— that’s probably the headquarters of the Shadow Council!”
“Now everything adds up! This must be right! We’ve finally figured out the structure of the Shadow Council, at least we know the background of that president.”
“I think that’s it. Unless the Puppet Master, K, and this little boy are all working together to deceive us…” As they said this, everyone laughed, “But how could that be possible!”
Although they didn’t get more clues, what they had obtained so far was already a great harvest for them.
It’s worth noting that before this, they knew nothing about the Puppet Master and others, but now they had figured out their background. At least they had some understanding now, which would help them come up with better plans when dealing with them in the future.
Seeing that Yin Xubai’s question was really answered, others became more excited and started asking questions one after another. After all, this was a communicable ghost from another world, and they had so many things they wanted to know.
Fortunately, Li Fufeng stopped everyone in time.
After all, little Adams wasn’t some question-answering tool. If they kept bothering him, even a child would get upset. There was no need to pile up so many questions at once.
They should have some other form of interaction.
“We haven’t read today’s storybook yet. Everyone can come back tomorrow,” Li Fufeng took out his storybook.
Others also realized they were too eager, and after calming down, they started trying to please the little boy. “Me too, me too. I’m great at telling stories!”
“…I’ll bring freshly baked cupcakes tomorrow!”
“I have a collector’s edition comic book signed by a great cartoonist…”
Afterwards, everything that happened was organized and reported. An Yuansheng, the director of the Supernatural Affairs Investigation Bureau, made the final decision. “We’re just getting started in the supernatural field. We don’t need to aim too high. Any gain is a gain.”
“Moreover, our biggest gain right now isn’t just this information, but Adams’ friendship. This little boy is the greatest gain for our Supernatural Affairs Investigation Bureau.”
Saying this, he looked at Li Fufeng with satisfaction. “The idea of developing him into our external staff is excellent. See what needs he has, and we’ll try our best to meet them. It’s best if we can help each other. Go ahead and do it!”
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