Chapter 1050: Chapter 1050

"Alright, the interview is over!"

Lin Chichi ended the recording on her phone, clapped her hands, and glanced at the thieves still lying on the ground, "Scram."

The thieves on the ground looked at each other, then got up, backing away from Lin Chichi until they were about ten meters away before turning to run off.

"There’s nothing useful."

Watching those people disappear from her field of view, Lin Chichi lowered her head and turned off her phone.

The thieves’ descriptions of the K Belief were not much different from what she had read in the reports.

In this area, there were the rudiments of a superficial K Belief, with legends of ’Divine Being K’ circulating among the populace, and sometimes people would talk about ’K’ in their conversations.

However, there was no sign of a more organized Sect or anyone establishing an organization or Church in the name of ’K’, at least not to the thieves’ knowledge.

They also hadn’t received any flyers about ’K’ similar to the ones distributed by the ’pseudo-Believers’ yesterday.

Of course, this didn’t necessarily mean that there wasn’t an organization built around the core of K Belief.

But from the current situation, even if such an organization did exist, it seemed it had not spread widely,

"We still need more information sources."

The girl sighed and put away her phone, looking at the traffic around her as if ready to hail a taxi.

A taxi at the end of the street noticed her gesture and started to move slowly.

But in the end, the girl didn’t wave for the taxi and instead took out her phone and hailed a ride using a ride-sharing app.

The taxi driver inside watched silently, then extinguished the flame.

Ride-sharing wasn’t very widespread in Feklay, and it took a while before the car Lin Chichi had summoned arrived.

The girl put her luggage away and sat in the black sedan.

The vehicle started slowly, moving forward along the aging street.

With a light vibration, the taxi that had been idling at the corner started up, and the driver, looking at the phone connected to a call placed near the center console, drove off, speaking softly, "The target has begun to move."

The old taxi slowly followed the black sedan.

Sunlight pierced through the streets, scattering some of the shadows.

And above all the radiance and shadows, from the top of the highest building around, a gaze slowly lifted from the taxi following the black sedan below.

The speeding train rushed forward through the dark ’tunnel’, with He Ao sitting at a table, his head lowered, flipping through the documents in his hand.

Most of the information came from the accounts of the people captured last night.

After last night’s ’Divine Punishment’, the ideas and thoughts of many of these individuals had been ’shaken’.

They were not core members of the Rong Guang Society; some were roped in by the white-robed man in the name of ’K’, while others were more peripheral members of the Rong Guang Society who, out of trust in the Rong Guang Society, believed they were chosen by ’K’.

After being ’Divinely Punished’ by K, their defenses had virtually collapsed.

They spilled everything about the organizational structure of the Rong Guang Society in the Yika Republic, including personnel outside the capital Mote City, like shaking out beans.

Yan Yue had been capturing people across the Yika Republic since early this morning.

And some core members of the Yika Republic’s Rong Guang Society, under Yan Yue’s extensive memory recovery spells, had been partly coaxed into opening up, revealing some of the Society’s structure.

For example, at the top of the Rong Guang Society was the Leader, followed by the deputy Leader, then the protectors in charge of various regions, under whom there were some lower level leaders.

This organizational structure roughly matched the information He Ao had obtained from the white-robed man, but this structure was limited to the internal operations of the Rong Guang Society within the Yika Republic.

Regarding the Rong Guang Society organizations in other places, their headquarters, and the City of Rong Guang, they knew almost nothing.

All higher-level contacts were managed by the ’protector’ of the Yika Republic who was killed last night, the man in the white robe.

These subordinates were only responsible for executing orders, and even asking one additional question would result in punishment by the man in the white robe.

Therefore, the only clue in the entire file that might involve the Rong Guang Society organization outside of the Yika Republic is the data for that ’travel agency.’

Through the interrogation of the Rong Guang Society members, Yan Yue basically confirmed that last night’s lottery draw was rigged.

That is, Lin Chichi being ’selected’ last night was not by chance, but intentional.

And the ’travel agency’ responsible for the ’winner’s’ travel within the Trok Republic is the ’Old Town Travel Agency’ mentioned in Yan Yue’s data.

In the software developed by the man in the white robe, this travel agency was described as ’experienced, having served hundreds of thousands of people, a major travel agency.’

But according to the data obtained by Yan Yue, this travel agency was only registered a few months ago, with a registered capital of just 50,000 Western Lands Currency, roughly equivalent to 50,000 Central Earth Currency.

This is the minimum registered capital required by the Trok Republic.

However, other than a basic introduction, there is no record of this travel agency in the entire software, including the backend.

And those captured members also do not know anything about this travel agency.

All matters regarding the travel agency were handled solely by the man in the white robe.

This method of handling things is very similar to how the Rong Guang Society’s internal organizations in different regions interact.

Unfortunately, the man in the white robe himself also has no memory of the relevant contacts.

In the data, Yan Yue also used the registration information of this travel agency to direct the World Tree members dispatched to the Trok Republic to find the actual address of the travel agency.

As she told He Ao, the travel agency had already been abandoned overnight, leaving no one behind.

The lead was broken off there.

He Ao leaned back in his chair, gazing into the darkness outside the window.

He pondered over the information he had just obtained at the gang’s manor.

That gang leader ’Skal’ had been silenced and turned into a monster even before He Ao arrived.

According to He Ao’s estimation, the time Skal was silenced may even predate when He Ao found Kake.

There was possibly also some buffer time for preparation and decision-making before the silencing.

When the person behind Skal ’decided’ to silence him, it might have been much earlier than when He Ao found the cab company.

This means that Skal was unlikely silenced because He Ao had found Kake.

Of course, the other party silencing Skal was probably also to cut off the trail and prevent following up leads.

He Ao was able to find Kake and Skal because of Lin Chichi, and likely the other side’s silencing operation was also largely due to Lin Chichi.

After Kake passed Lin Chichi’s information to Skal, Skal also conveyed this information to his ’upline.’

The ’upline’ became aware of Lin Chichi’s existence and realized that Lin Chichi might bring about other ’attentions’ that could lead them to trace up the chain to themselves.

So they decisively silenced everyone who had come into contact with the information about Lin Chichi.

He must have had some ’vital weakness’ grasped by that ’upline,’ hence he was directly eliminated and mutated into a monster.

As for Kake, if He Ao had been slightly later, he would probably have been ’silenced’ too.

Kake also realized this, which is why he tried every possible way to beg He Ao to save him.

Looking at the whole situation, the other side is extremely decisive and ruthless.

Estimating the time, the other side might very likely have decided on silencing immediately upon receiving Lin Chichi’s information.

If He Ao had not found Kake in time this time, and had gone a bit later, allowing Kake to be silenced, the clues would have been cut off right here.

Then, who could be this Skal’s ’superior’?

The underling mentioned that Skal talks to a figure at night that resembles a mountain of flesh.

All the Transcendents from the World Trees in Feklay are registered, and none of them resemble a mountain of flesh.

Is it the incarnation of some kind of monster? Or some hidden Transcendent?

The Velora sailed out of the darkness, and verdant mountains appeared outside the window.

He Ao took out a satellite phone, and dialed a number.

His voice slowed down, morphing into that of ’Hu Wen’.

The phone was quickly picked up, a somewhat restrained voice came from the other end.

This was He Ao’s ’lieutenant’ in Daybreak, Noding; all of He Ao’s ’territory’ and ’influence’ within Daybreak was managed by him.

"Is the Trok Republic now under my jurisdiction as well?"

He Ao lowered his head to look at the mountains, asking calmly and hoarsely.

Noding on the phone hurriedly answered, "The organizations of Daybreak in the central and western part of the Western Lands are all under your control."

Following the incident in the Newland City-State, the previous Leader of Daybreak directly handed over half of the Western Lands to him, topped off with the power from the Tia Empire, He Ao is now the second in command in Daybreak, with only the Leader above him.

"Who is the person in charge of the organization over in the Trok Republic?"

"One moment, please,"

There was a brief pause on the phone, then sounding as if he found the information, Noding slowly began, "It’s a C-level, named ’Flesh Doctor’."

Then he paused, continuing, "However, this ’Flesh Doctor’ doesn’t quite obey our management. While he’s nominally willing to follow your commands, in reality, he often withholds or is unwilling to submit many reports.

"When we reach out to him, he’s basically unresponsive, and very slow in replying.

"Our control over Daybreak organizations in the Western Lands is inherently weak due to the distance. According to the information I’ve obtained, he’s also taken in another C-level who is unwilling to follow your rules, to strengthen his own power.

"His influence in the Western Lands is a bit strong. During the recent Blood Sun incident, the organization forces of the Yika Republic were severely hit, leading to his trend of monopolizing the central and western part of the Western Lands."

"Send me his full profile, complete with a full-body photograph."

After listening to Noding’s words, He Ao asked calmly.

Noding quickly said, "I will send it to your email immediately."

He Ao nodded, stretching out his hand and hung up the phone.

He took out a laptop, and logged into Hu Wen’s email.

At this moment, the inbox at the top showed a new email, from Noding.

It was the profile of this ’Flesh Doctor’.

Not far below this email, there was also one from Noding with the profiles of various regional heads.

That profile contained a summary of this ’Flesh Doctor’s’ information, as well as a simple portrait photo.

He Ao faintly remembered that this ’Flesh Doctor’ seemed ’very fat’.

He withdrew his gaze and clicked open the email profile.

The first thing that caught He Ao’s eye was the full-body photo of the ’Flesh Doctor’.

His entire body was monstrously large, looking to be over two meters tall and at least six to seven hundred pounds in weight, layers and layers of flesh piled together, like a moving mountain of meat.

However, as ’vast’ as his head and body were, they only made him look ’obese’.

Stationed there, he squinted his eyes, like a vulture circling the sky, coldly gazing at the camera.

He Ao moved the mouse, looking down at the detailed profile information.

According to the profile, ’Flesh Doctor’ wasn’t originally ’so fat’. He was a member of Moonlight, and it was after entering a certain relic, he became C-level, his body suddenly grew massive, and he also became brutal and bloodthirsty.

He enjoyed turning people into twisted flesh monsters, and then let these flesh monsters ’hunt’ other ordinary people.

His cruel actions provoked a siege by Moonlight, and he had to seek refuge with Daybreak, with Daybreak’s help, he smuggled himself to the Western Lands, becoming the head of the Trok Republic.

Even Daybreak could hardly tolerate his conduct, hence they specially constrained and warned him.

To avoid being hunted by the World Trees in the Western Lands again, this ’Flesh Doctor’ finally toned down a lot, restraining his nature, no longer as brutal.

However, his loyalty to Daybreak was not strong; from the information provided by Noding, before the former second in command Feiya died, it seemed he was already not very compliant to Feiya’s orders.

After He Ao became the new second in command, although he expressed his willingness to abide by He Ao’s rules, he basically ignored this side, entering a state of ’obedience in words but not in deeds’.

Especially in the past half month, after he ’took in’ a C-level code-named ’Challenger’, he became even more ’arrogant’.

Noding believed that this guy might very likely have the intention to split off, to establish his own dominion.

But since he always declared obedience to ’He Ao’ and had not truly rebelled or completely ignored the summons, Noding did not dare to report to He Ao.

At the end of the entire profile, there was the address provided to the Daybreak headquarters by the ’Flesh Doctor’ for his long-term residence in Feklay:

[Pine Forest Street No. 172, 3rd floor, ’Flesh Photo Studio’]

He Ao lowered his head to look at the tour agency information spread out on the desk next to him.

[Address: Pine Forest Street No. 172, 1st floor, ’Old Town Travel Agency’]

He Ao withdrew his gaze, looking back at the full-body photo resembling a mountain of flesh.

Feklay·Dew Morning Building

The man sitting behind a desk piled high with thick documents placed the half-flipped file down on the desk and stretched, "Finally, it’s about to end."

Then he looked at the files on the desk, seeming to remember something.

He swiftly grabbed the file, "Wait..."

He stood up directly, heading to the corner of the office where piles of documents were stacked, hurriedly rifling through them.

Soon, he found a not-so-thick file, confirmed the cover and label were correct, and quickly flipped through the file, comparing with the one in his hands.

As if he confirmed something, he quickly drew out another file, opened it, and looked at the content inside, "This one too."

A thunderclap sounded in the sky, and the entire sky quickly darkened.

Senwen raised his head to glance at the grey sky outside the window, then lowered his head again, continuing to pull out new files for comparison.

The pitter-patter of rain poured down, splashing on the floor-to-ceiling windows, covering the entire window with droplets of water.

And behind the man, the tightly closed office door was silently opened.