Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Yes.”
Ke Meng maintained the same expression when he saw the answer on the table. That was what he expected.
If they could live without a body, they would be an immortal species. It was unnecessary for them to live in someone else’s shadow as parasites.
“How many people like you, who can leave their bodies and penetrate someone else’s bodies as they wish, are out there?”
Both ants wrote ‘No idea’.
Ke Meng and Chen Momo looked at each other. It would mean there were many strange shadows like them.
“Is there an organization behind you guys?”
Both ants hesitated again this time. However, they moved under Ke Meng’s threat.
“Yes.”
“And the name?”
Both ants shook their bodies and walked in a straight line. They were twisting and turning as they formed ‘sha’, ‘dow’, ‘dri’ and ‘ft’ on the table.
Ke Meng put the words together on the paper. There were two words.
Shadow Drift.
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Half an hour later, Chen Momo returned to the store downstairs. She was in a slight daze and needed time to adapt to the new worldview she had.
On the second floor, at the table, Ke Meng took out his tiny notebook and jotted the important intel that he had just obtained.
“The shadows can live for a period of time without a host, but they will fade with time. The best way of surviving would be coexistence, hiding, and being a parasite.
“Humans will show signs of fatigue and sleepiness when the shadow species first invade their body. The shadows will go through a long sleeping period after they live in a host’s body. However, this isn’t the iron law. Both of them were still awake when they were transferred onto the shadowless ants.
“The mysterious organization in Octopus City is called Shadow Drift. The model of the organization is unknown. Both Wen Yushan and Mi Jingyun said they’re the downlines of Shadow Drift. They don’t know much about the organization.”
After jotting the notes down, Ke Meng closed the notebook and looked at the sky outside the window.
Sunlight penetrated the clouds, and dense golden gleam lit up the streets of Whale City as if the houses had put on a golden jacket.
A while later, the sunlight was no longer so bright, while the faint golden gleam disappeared.
Did something happen earlier?
Ke Meng realized the golden gleam was nothing simple, at least, not normal sunlight.
At that moment, a notification came from his system.
“Resistance +0.1”
It proved that Ke Meng went through a wave of mental disturbance. He gained 0.1 personal resistance after managing to resist it.
Something must have happened in Whale City.
Ke Meng looked at the street far away outside the window. He looked into the sky. The sun was still shining and seemed nothing different than a normal sun.
Meanwhile, the golden sun that was shining earlier covered from far away to his area.
Ke Meng texted Chen Momo while staring at the big-faced cat’s eyes.
Fifteen seconds later, the big-faced cat did not give any new strange knowledge. It seemed there was nothing new and strange around Ke Meng.
Beep, deep.
Chen Momo replied, “The sunlight was extremely bright for a few seconds earlier. It was warm, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing, just wanted to know how you felt. I suspect something strange appeared in Whale City too,” said Ke Meng.
“Do we need to watch out?”
“Since it was a warm feeling, it shouldn’t be anything dangerous,” said Ke Meng.
Ke Meng resisted the mental disturbance, so he did not feel any warmth toward him. He only thought the brightness earlier was rather unusual. He would not have noticed that if the system hadn’t reminded him about his resistance stat.
Something seemed to be hiding in this peaceful city.
Ke Meng looked at the sun in the sky. He was in a daze.
He turned around and sat at the computer table. He began thinking about what review video to do.
He called out to the system and looked at his mission list. The normal mission had been changed. It was no longer the requirement of 10,000 people’s views, but it had elevated to another level.
“Normal mission: Review a strange item and obtain at least 30,000 people’s views. The reward would be Resistance +2.”
The difficult mission was gone. However, the Shadow Catcher was really convenient. If Ke Meng could obtain similar skills, he would really want that. Unfortunately, there was only a normal mission available now.
Regarding Glutinous Ball’s review video, Ke Meng chose to hide its best skills. He would not show its Needle Storm and Devour Regeneration skills. He would only showcase its Enhancement visual effect to the viewers.
He had edited the new review video earlier, whereby he took out the scenes of it performing Needle Storm. There was no need for him to amend anything else. He could upload it to B Site directly and wait for it to be reviewed.
After Ke Meng clicked the ‘upload’ button, he sat in the house doing nothing for two minutes.
He thought he would scroll through videos, but he could not sit still upon recalling the golden sunlight that flashed through the streets earlier.
He went downstairs directly and shoved Glutinous Ball into the backseat of his car. Subsequently, he drove around the streets, especially the streets that had been illuminated by the golden sunlight earlier.
Ke Meng’s instinct told him that something strange was happening in Whale City too.
This was the city that he was born and lived, so he did not want to be aloof as he stayed at home. If the shadow species from Octopus City were here stirring things up, he could temporarily help fight crimes for the people.
He drove around the business districts in the city center first. He saw many tourists in face masks. They were shopping and dining in groups with happy smiles filling their faces.
Ke Meng drove slowly through those streets but did not see anything strange.
However, he saw two teams of police officers blocking the road near the museum. Warning signs of ‘no entry’ were out.
Ke Meng drove by the street that was blocked slowly and looked at the museum a few times.
The gun-holding police officer looked at him too. He looked ferocious and seemed to be assessing Ke Meng.
Ke Meng was fearless, so he stretched his head out of the car window and asked, “Sir, what happened at the museum?”
“A fugitive fled somewhere near the museum. Don’t stay here, go home now,” the police officer waved and urged Ke Meng to leave right away.
“What did the fugitive look like? I can inform you guys if I see him,” asked Ke Meng.
The gun-holding officer was stunned. He thought this little fellow was pretty ballsy.
People would be worried about being targeted and leave immediately upon hearing there was a fugitive around. He, on the other hand, volunteered to help. He was not timid at all.
“You can follow Whale City Police’s official Weibo account. We’ve posted the latest order to arrest on the account. His picture is on it. If you see him, stay far away from him. Only call the police when you’re somewhere safe,” said the officer.
Ke Meng showed an ‘OK’ sign to indicate that he understood.
He drove away from the street and pulled over by the road for a temporary stop. He used his phone to check out Whale City Police’s official Weibo account.
As expected, there was an order to arrest that had been posted ten minutes ago on the account.
It was a rough- and square-faced hunk with broad eyebrows. His nose bridge was pretty high, while his eyes were in a daze as if they were not focused.
On the official account, the order to arrest only mentioned that this man was a high-intelligent criminal. He was a fugitive who had escaped from Octopus City. His methods of crime were very stealthy. He was the prime culprit of many locked-room murders. He had extremely powerful hand-to-hand battle prowess too. The officers hoped that the citizens would not get close to him no matter what and beware of their personal safety.