Chapter 151
Chapter 151
“But the championship prize is a cursed artifact with a resurrection effect…”
“Do you truly not want one?”
Su Xiaoyue was willing to follow Qin Lan’s arrangement, but she still asked quietly, sounding exactly like a cat pawing at its human.
Even from her voice alone, Qin Lan could imagine those moist, innocent eyes.
“Resurrection… How should I put this? It’s good. It really is…”
Qin Lan struggled to explain.
“I can’t call it bad, because it definitely isn’t…”
“It’s just… unnecessary. You understand? I don’t need it.”
Could he tell her he could resurrect endlessly inside instances?
Still, Qin Lan’s resurrection ability had major limitations.
First, he had to be inside an instance, severely restricting where it could be used.
Second, an anomaly had to kill him. Death at another human’s hands wouldn’t count.
That was why Qin Lan never teamed up with others except for a few companions he knew extremely well.
Resurrection-type cursed artifacts also had many restrictions, but their conditions were still far more flexible than his Talent’s.
They would be a useful bonus.
However, even if Su Xiaoyue could defeat Li Fengyun, Qin Lan didn’t want it to happen.
Yin Manqing might have lied, but he refused to gamble.
Moreover, based on the abnormalities he had uncovered, her claims were very likely true.
Over the next several hours, Qin Lan investigated Yin Manqing’s history.
The Anomaly Hunter Bureau had sealed most of it, but some relatively public events remained accessible.
Those records portrayed her as an Anomaly Hunter with a powerful sense of morality and justice.
Although the Central Region offered better prospects, she voluntarily requested assignment to a small Safe Zone closer to the Fallen Zone.
There were also countless incidents involving rescues of low-star Anomaly Hunters and the killing of anomalies.
Notably, she was even more ruthless than Lu Xingshan.
Lu Xingshan had merely cut off Zone Governor Yuan’s relative’s head and made it into a wind chime.
Yin Manqing had directly massacred every senior United Government official in her Safe Zone. She spared no one.
No one knew the exact reason, but the fact that she remained director afterward proved the killings were entirely justified.
“Massacred the whole senior leadership… Tsk. I wanted to do that too.”
Qin Lan nodded slightly. “Too bad I wasn’t strong enough.”
Yuan Risheng still sat comfortably in his position in Safe Zone 088.
The deaths of only a few leaders had prompted United Government headquarters to send investigators demanding answers.
Qin Lan probably couldn’t pull him down until he truly entered tier four.
Thus, Qin Lan took Yin Manqing out again.
That sounded somewhat strange…
He invited her out.
“I was suffocating in there!”
“I’m already awake. How could you still throw me into a storage bracelet?!”
Yin Manqing’s voice overflowed with resentment as mental fluctuations carried her complaints.
“Where else am I supposed to put you? Wear you?”
Qin Lan sighed speechlessly.
“Never mind whether it fits… You’re fused with this combat uniform now. If I wear it against my skin, wouldn’t that be equivalent to…”
Qin Lan didn’t finish. Yin Manqing’s mental fluctuations were already bursting with humiliation.
At her peak, she might have crushed him with a mental impact.
“Anyway…” Qin Lan swiftly changed the subject. “The records say you taught several students?”
“One of them seems to hold a high position in the United Government now.”
“Why not ask him for help?”
Yin Manqing’s mental fluctuations suddenly surged.
“No!”
“Absolutely not!”
Her reaction startled Qin Lan. Only after a moment did he realize something. “Don’t tell me that back then…”
Yin Manqing ground her teeth.
“Yes. It was that wonderful disciple of mine…”
“He reported to the United Government that I was about to enter the Fallen Zone and attempt Ascension. He also revealed my location…”
Deep resentment colored Yin Manqing’s voice.
“I had been extremely cautious and deliberately entered deep into the Fallen Zone to break through unseen.”
“I poured my heart into training him and brought him out of the slums… Yet to climb higher, he chose to betray me.”
“I should have left him there to rot…”
Yin Manqing clearly regretted her choice–both misjudging and trusting the wrong person.
“Then why do you think I can avenge you?” Qin Lan asked curiously.
“Logically, I might reveal your survival to the United Government or sell you out again like your disciple.”
“On one side is an unlucky mental entity reduced to a tiny soul fragment. On the other is the most powerful organization in the Safe Zones, with three Ascendants… Any normal person would choose the latter.”
Teasing colored Qin Lan’s voice.
Yin Manqing fell silent.
Not because she lacked an answer, but because she didn’t know how to say it.
“Well…”
Yin Manqing hesitated, then tested the waters. “Perhaps because you also cultivate the Soul Tower, I can faintly glimpse some thoughts in your mind?”
Qin Lan’s smile froze.
“What do you mean…?” His pupils shook. “You can read my thoughts?”
“Are you serious?!”
Yin Manqing hurriedly explained, “No! It isn’t what you think!”
“I can’t learn your specific thoughts. Through our faint connection, I can only judge changes in your emotions and such.”
Alarm bells rang in Qin Lan’s mind.
“Only emotional changes?”
Unconvinced, Qin Lan narrowed his eyes at the combat uniform.
Only three seconds later, Yin Manqing screamed in embarrassed fury.
“Ah! What filthy nonsense are you imagining?!”
“Shameless!”
Qin Lan was equally aghast.
“Fuck! You absolutely can read minds! You still dare deny it?!”
“How else would you know what I was thinking?!”
“You nearly fooled me!”
Exposed, Yin Manqing sounded guilty.
“I-I only feared you’d be frightened if you knew… Mind Reading does invade one’s privacy…”
Qin Lan decisively picked up his communicator.
“Hello? Funeral shop? Yes, I contacted you earlier…”
“How much to alter something into burial clothes? Women’s style, yes… Burn it. Today.”
Now Yin Manqing panicked.
“What are you doing?!”
“I was wrong! Isn’t that enough?!”
“I’ll teach you Mind Reading! I’ll also teach you to resist invasions of your mental world!”
“We can negotiate!”
Qin Lan instantly changed his expression.
He ended the call with a smile and spoke warmly.
“Sister Yin, the night is still long…”
“Let’s have a proper discussion about everything you just mentioned…”