Chapter 1061: Chapter 1061

Accompanied by the pouring rain, the figure standing in the curtain of rain received an exceptionally ancient-looking wooden box.

Intricate light outlined complex patterns on the wooden box.

"This is a gift from the City of Rong Guang; it will support your use of the graces bestowed by the City of Rong Guang,"

The handsome young man, standing before the huge helicopter, smiled at the figure holding the wooden box and opened his mouth slowly, but in an aged voice, "Likewise, this is also a testament to your becoming the third vice-chairperson; from now on, we are colleagues."

"It’s troubling that you had to come here in person."

The figure stood up straight, slightly embarrassed while looking at the young man.

"The president and vice-presidents have high hopes for you,"

Hearing the figure’s words, the young man just smiled gently, his mouth continuing to emit an aged voice, "I’ll stay here until this batch of Human Sacrifices is sent into the City of Rong Guang. The final moment has already arrived, do not disappoint us."

"Rest assured, the glory of the Destroyer K guides us, and everything is under control now. Those devils from outside of Rong Guang are all in our prisons,"

The figure immediately straightened up, devoutly saying, "I am willing to offer my loyalty and life for Destroyer K, for the City of Rong Guang, and for the president and the vice-presidents."

"The gates of the City of Rong Guang are open for you,"

The young man looked at the figure in front and nodded slightly, "The path to the eternal new world lies beneath our feet, stay alert, this is our final battle."

The figure nodded firmly.

"The vice-chairperson has prepared a seat for you in the City of Rong Guang, I hope we can meet again there."

The young man smiled, turned around, and with a light jump, landed steadily on the seat of the helicopter.

Accompanied by a roaring sound, the huge propeller instantly turned the raindrops into a mist.

The young man waved to the figure, then seemed to hear something, reaching for the communicator beside him.

While the figure stood in the curtain of rain, watching as the helicopter rapidly disappeared into the depths of the night.

A slight cool breeze blew through the girl’s temple locks.

Sitting in the temporary office, Lin Chichi quickly flipped through the printed documents in her hands.

"We are hurrying over,"

The somewhat frustrated voice of Yan Yue came from the phone next to her, "The rain is too heavy, it might affect our journey; I will try to get there before nine in the morning tomorrow."

"It’s alright, Sister Yan Yue, take care of your safety first,"

Lin Chichi looked at the documents in her hands while speaking softly.

"Don’t worry, Chichi,"

Yan Yue laughed, "We are not kids anymore; it’s not that easy to get into trouble on a trip."

"Sister Yan Yue, why does it sound like you’re jinxing yourself?"

Lin Chichi playfully said.

"Girl, are you actually hoping your Sister Yan Yue runs into trouble?"

Yan Yue’s tone rose slightly as she laughed.

Then she paused for a moment before continuing, "How is the situation over there? Is the local World Tree Organization cooperating with you? You haven’t encountered any danger, right?"

"The cooperation is there, just not very high, and as for danger, there won’t be any dangers,"

Lin Chichi flipped through the documents in her hands, placed them aside, and then opened another set, "Minister He is still here; the World Tree Organization wouldn’t dare lay hands on me even if they had the guts,"

She laughed, "Plus, I’m not a pushover."

"Alright, alright, we know you’re tough,"

Yan Yue chuckled, then she realized something, "I’ve gone through the documents over there; getting those guys to cooperate even just superficially isn’t easy, our girl here is quite capable."

Lin Chichi slightly shrugged her nose.

"So how are things on your end? Any discoveries?"

Yan Yue asked with a smile.

"I have found something,"

Upon hearing Yan Yue’s words, Lin Chichi paused slightly and looked towards the open documents beside her, "It just feels a bit strange."

Yan Yue was somewhat puzzled.

"Do you remember the photos I sent you before, Sister Yan Yue?"

Lin Chichi put aside the copied documents she was looking through and picked up a file she just placed beside her, "Could you look at photo number 18?"

The sound of quickly flipping papers came through the phone, "Okay, I found it. Is it the photo with a pile of documents chaotically stacked on the ground?"

Lin Chichi nodded as she looked at the photo within the documents, "I realized that these documents are not randomly stacked,"

She slowly placed her hand on the photo, "Look, all the documents that are backside up have a pattern; their footers are pressing against some of the open documents beside them, and they just happen to land on certain letters."

"Hold on, let me see,"

Yan Yue’s voice paused slightly, seemingly beginning to search carefully. After a while, her somewhat surprised voice came through the phone, "You mean the arrangement of these documents isn’t accidental, but deliberately arranged, and these letters are a ’message’ left for us?"

Then she paused, "But these letters put together don’t make sense. They aren’t any word, but rather look more like a code."

"The letters are not in order."

Lin Chichi quickly spoke, "I’ve organized a timeline of these letters from the files. I’ll send it to you."

She picked up her phone and sent a document to Yan Yue.

Yan Yue quickly responded.

"Sister Yan Yue, try reading these letters in reverse order according to the timeline of the cases in the files."

Lin Chichi also spoke slowly.

Yan Yue’s voice hesitated briefly, then quickly continued, "Feklay... World Tree?"

Then she raised her tone slightly, "Is this a hint left by Senwen? Is his disappearance related to the Feklay World Tree Organization?"

Hearing this question, Lin Chichi stopped speaking for a moment and did not immediately respond. After about a minute or two of silence, she slowly said, "It seems so."

Yan Yue keenly caught the key word in Lin Chichi’s speech, then slowly asked, "Do you think there’s something wrong with this ’message’? Is this what you just mentioned as ’strange’?"

Lin Chichi nodded slightly, then she paused and slowed down, "Sister Yan Yue, how long do you think it would take to arrange these documents?"

Yan Yue was silent for a moment, then continued, "If I were to arrange something this complex, maybe half an hour?"

"But judging from the traces in the office,"

Lin Chichi continued, "Senwen disappeared instantly; he didn’t even have time to resist."

"Either Senwen has the ability to instantly move these documents, or,"

Yan Yue also realized, her voice gradually slowing,

"These documents were not arranged by Senwen. So, if the documents have not been moved since then, the only ones who could have had the time to arrange these documents were the ones who were in the office with Senwen at that time.

"Is someone deliberately drawing our attention to the Feklay World Tree?"

The girl ruffled her hair with both hands and sighed, "If that’s really the case, then our clue is broken again. It’s so difficult; how can these guys be so crafty? Where exactly is the clue?"

Brother Hao Yi, bless us with some clues!

A violent thunderclap sounded outside the window, followed by a howling gale that blew into the room, flipping the documents laid on the desk.

Lin Chichi raised her head and looked towards the fully opened window beside her, "I don’t remember it being opened this far just now."

She slowly approached it, placing her hand on the window, cautiously confirming that no one was inside or outside, then slowly reached out to close the window that the rain had blown through.

Then she turned around and walked back to her desk, which had been messed up by the wind.

Yan Yue asked curiously from the other end of the phone.

"The window was open too wide, letting the rain in..."

Lin Chichi reached out to close the disheveled documents.

Just then, her gaze fell on the document closest to her that was open.

This was a file from the World Tree provided by Feklay, previously reviewed by Senwen, which she had just been reading. The main content of this document was about the crimes committed by a wanted Transcendent.

At this moment, the file was open to the wanted poster for this Transcendent.

Lin Chichi’s words faltered to a stop, and in that instant, she suddenly realized something and quickly picked up the document.

"Chichi, what’s wrong?"

Listening to Lin Chichi’s prolonged silence, Yan Yue asked with a slight nervousness.

Lin Chichi put down the document in her hand and quickly said, "Can you access the wanted list database for Transcendents of the three major organizations right now? Can you check a few people for me?"

"Transcendent wanted list? World Tree and Research Institute are no problem, as for Moonlight, I’ll ask around. They should give Minister He some consideration,"

Yan Yue was slightly startled, "The people you are looking to check, have they been checked before?"

Lin Chichi gazed at the document in her hand, "I’ve checked the internal wanted list of the World Tree, couldn’t find their information; I haven’t had time to send a request to the Research Institute yet."

"If they’re not from Central Earth, it’s unlikely that the Research Institute would have their wanted lists,"

Yan Yue replied calmly, "Then I’ll just directly ask Moonlight."

Saying this, her tone paused, then suddenly she realized, "You think this matter is related to Transcendent criminals? You think, this event..."

"After all, this city isn’t just home to the World Tree organization,"

Lin Chichi said in a low voice, "But this is just a guess..."

She shook her head, turning to look out of the firmly closed window, "I always feel that this city’s situation is somewhat complicated."

"This city is like that,"

The long-haired man leaned on the railing, looking towards He Ao beside him, sighing slightly, "Actually, I came here voluntarily."

He Ao turned his gaze to him.

The long-haired man smiled, "You all have your own lives, brought here by these people, but not me, I have no life."

The aggressive man standing not far behind him raised his head, glancing at him.

The long-haired man, as if oblivious, looked up and glanced at the big hole overhead,

"I’ve lived in this city for many years, but it seems I have no memory of this city.

"My father was originally a farmer, then Feklay’s agriculture company came, carrying guns and very little money, took away our land, and like livestock, we were driven to the city.

"We had no home of our own, so we had to pay money to rent a house; my father worked as a laborer at the river dock, and as I grew up, I worked with him.

"I have no impression of this city, only the endless, repetitive work. My father died before he reached sixty, I fared a bit better – at forty, I injured my leg. The manager thought I was no longer capable and kicked me out.

"I only knew manual labor, no company wanted me; my wife worked as a helper in a pastry shop, which was bought out by a chain store, and she was fired, having worked there for many years with not a high salary, but it was just enough to live.

"Later, she was hired by another store owned by that chain company, earning only half of what she used to make but with double the workload.

"With the rent from Feklay rising and me having been jobless for several months, we kept moving until we were crammed into a tiny five-square-meter room in Pine Forest Street.

"I knew we were about to not afford our daughter’s tuition fee, either go wandering, using the rent to pay for tuition, or let our child drop out."

Having said this, the long-haired man chuckled, reaching out as if looking for a cigarette on him, but after a long search, he found none.

At this moment, the aggressive man behind him stretched out his hand, throwing over a cigarette.

The long-haired man took the cigarette, put it in his mouth, and sucked on it, but he didn’t light it.

He turned to look at He Ao, his voice hoarse as he continued, "During that time, I wandered the streets every day, hoping to find a good job. Eventually, I realized, I was truly useless."

He removed the cigarette from his mouth, looked at He Ao, and smiled, "At this point, anyone else would curse and say why I can’t get to the point quickly, yet you’ve actually listened up until now."

"Is this why you ended up here?"

He Ao looked at him, smiling as he asked.

The long-haired man smiled, with the cigarette in his mouth, and continued, "I wasn’t their ’Prey’; I just happened to come across their ’hunt’ by the roadside."

"Looks like you, bastard, have bad luck."

A nearby irritable man couldn’t help but say.

"Indeed, my luck is not good, but in some ways, my luck is quite good,"

The long-haired man sighed, "At first, they seemed ready to kill me to keep me quiet, but I thought, since I’m such a waste anyway, why not ask for something good.

"So I asked them, since they were there to kidnap, why not give me some money and take me along.

"Hearing my ’suggestion,’ they found it very amusing.

"Actually, I also found it very funny; these people were obviously there to kidnap for ransom, why would I think I could get money from them.

"However, their boss heard our laughter, walked over, and after listening to my suggestion, seemed to find it interesting. Then he carefully inquired about my background and finally told me that my life was worth ten thousand yuan."

"You sold yourself for just ten thousand?"

The impulsive man couldn’t help but interject.

The long-haired man smiled, "Ten thousand yuan, it would take my wife five months to earn that much. With this money, both my child’s tuition and our rent would be covered,

"I didn’t bargain, I just agreed to it promptly."

He looked up at the sky, "I remember it was raining that day just like today,

"That boss took out ten thousand yuan in cash and threw it on the ground in front of me.

"So I picked up the money one bill at a time. Their people surrounded and laughed at me; I didn’t know why they were laughing, all I knew was that it was the foundation for my family to survive, for my child’s tuition.

"The rain wasn’t light that day, the money got muddy, and I cleaned each bill with my clothes,

"Then I found a bank branch, and after a long talk, they agreed to let me deposit the wet money,

"I transferred the saved money to my wife and told her I was going abroad, then I followed them."

At this point, he smiled again, "Only after coming here did I learn, that for people like us, about to be wandering, there are gangs specifically responsible for capturing, and those of us who could get money are considered very lucky."

Raindrops mixed with a bit of wind continued pattering on the ground, the middle-aged man holding the cigarette leaned against the fence, his gaze extended to the end of the corridor, "This city, that’s how it is, humans, actually aren’t worth much."

This time, the irritable man didn’t interject again.

And He Ao raised his head, calmly looking at the sky.

"Those in the back, move faster."

A loud shout came from afar, and the crowd began densely moving forward along the corridor.

The chains of shackles dragged on the ground, making a crisp sound.

"Where are we going?"

The bearded elderly man bowed his head and asked quietly.

The long-haired man shook his head, smiling, "Maybe to death, maybe to freedom."

Hearing this, the elderly man fell silent for a moment, then asked hoarsely, "Can I live?"

This time, the long-haired man fell silent.

Everyone fell silent.

The sounds of the wind and rain and the clanking of chains echoed in everyone’s ears.

In this quiet darkness, only the calm voice of the young man echoed,