The Other Party's Goal, You Are Truly Beautiful

"I'll immediately arrange for someone to go to Lop Nur. First, we need to find out if Zhuanghe is telling the truth. No matter what, we have to find those eight bodies."

Hearing Xie Yi say this, I gave a bitter smile. "So much time has passed, can we still find them now?"

"If the location he provided for burying the bodies is correct, we should be able to find them. Besides, the geographical environment and soil there are very special. Even though a long time has passed, the bodies probably won't decompose that quickly." Xie Yi seemed to know a lot about Lop Nur.

However, his mention of the bodies reminded me of something else. "You know, they copied Zhuanghe and the others, and even killed their original bodies. Why didn't they just bury the bodies too? Why did they have to let Zhuanghe and the others find the corpses?"

Xie Yi glanced at me, and I could see the approval in his eyes.

He gently patted my shoulder. "That's a good question. So, have you thought about why?"

Of course, I had thought about it, but I couldn't come up with an answer. Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that they didn't have time to bury the bodies for some reason, or that something sudden happened that forced them to abandon the bodies and leave.

Fatty, however, said, "They must have left the bodies there on purpose, with the intention of letting Zhuanghe and his people see them."

"Why?" Xie Yi pressed further.

Fatty rubbed his head. In fact, he had no hair on his head, not a single strand. He was bald, and the shiny kind of bald.

He really looked like a Buddha, like Maitreya Buddha.

Especially since he always had a smile on his face.

He clearly couldn't answer this question either.

Xu Qiuyan glanced at me. She seemed to have something to say. I nodded slightly, and then she spoke. "The reason the other party did this was to see Zhuanghe and their reactions. I feel like they are conducting some kind of experiment. As for why they mastered the technology to replicate mirror people but still wanted to seize the Twin Fish Jade Pendant, I also have some thoughts. It's possible that the principle of the technology they mastered came from the Twin Fish Jade Pendant, but it had many unsatisfactory aspects. That's why they set their sights on the Twin Fish Jade Pendant. They wanted to use the Twin Fish Jade Pendant to improve their technology for creating mirror people. Or perhaps, they wanted to be the only ones to possess this technology, which is why they wanted to claim the Twin Fish Jade Pendant for themselves. Whether it's an object or a technology, being unique is the most valuable."

Xie Yi smiled. "You're absolutely right. It seems I really didn't choose the wrong person."

"By the way, do you have any information on the Island Nation's Onmyoji?"

"Do you have a specific name?"

"Abe Ichinan. It should be a woman."

"Abe Ichinan?" Xie Yi seemed surprised.

I didn't know why he reacted like that, but I nodded anyway.

Xie Yi's brows furrowed. "This Abe Ichinan was once the most promising Onmyoji in the Abe family. When she was only twelve years old, she was already ranked among the top Onmyoji in the Island Nation. No one in the younger generation of the entire Abe family could compare to her. However, I later heard that she went mad and then committed suicide."

Abe Ichinan is dead? And she committed suicide years before I met her.

Then who was the one I met?

The Onmyoji herself told me her name was Abe Ichinan, and Yin Wuyu also confirmed that Abe Ichinan was a woman.

"Do you have a photo of her?"

"Yes, I'll have someone send it over immediately."

A moment later, his phone rang. He fiddled with it for a bit, then said to me, "I've sent it to you."

I opened it and took a look. The Abe Ichinan in the photo was actually a little girl. The girl was very beautiful, with a hint of charm in her beauty.

This photo must have been taken several years ago, as the girl in the photo looked about twelve or thirteen years old.

"When was this photo taken?"

"Ten years ago, two months before she died. It was right around her birthday."

My guess was right. This photo was old.

"Since Abe Ichinan has been dead for a long time, the current Abe Ichinan is very likely also a mirror person."

"Find her. If possible, capture her. However, this must be done with extreme caution. If any repercussions occur, the Ninth Bureau will not admit to having instigated it."

As Xie Yi said this, his gaze was fixed on Fatty.

Fatty smiled and nodded. "I understand."

Xie Yi came and left quickly. He told me that if they found the bodies buried by Zhuanghe and the others, he would inform me immediately.

At the same time, he took Gu Song with him. Not only Gu Song, but he also sent people to pick up Zhuanghe.

He said he would protect the surviving members of that team first.

However, in my heart, I suspected that he had another motive for doing this: they wanted to study Zhuanghe and the other mirror people, like studying laboratory mice.

Our next task was to find that Onmyoji, the one named Abe Ichinan.

But in this vast world, where could we possibly find her?

After Gu Song left, I kicked Fatty into the room Gu Song had been staying in, letting him room with Yin Wuyu and assigning him the task of taking care of Yin Wuyu.

The nights in Harbin City were colder than where I came from. I turned on the air conditioner in the room.

The purpose of coming to Harbin City was to find Zhuanghe. I had already learned about their experiences in Lop Nur from Zhuanghe. I was wondering if it was time to go back to Lin City.

I called Half-Immortal Wu, wanting him to help us book plane tickets back to Lin City for the next day.

However, when I called, it wasn't Half-Immortal Wu who answered, but a woman.

"Hello, I'm looking for Wu Lun," I said. Although a woman answered, she might be Half-Immortal Wu's wife or girlfriend, and he might be busy with something at the moment.

"Who are you, and what do you want with him?" the woman asked warily.

"I'm his friend, my name is Jiang Xiaobai. He knows me."

As I replied, I couldn't help but wonder if things weren't quite as I'd imagined.

"He's had an accident and is in the hospital right now."

I was taken aback. "What kind of accident?"

"I don't know. This afternoon, he said he wanted to take a nap, but he hasn't woken up since. No matter how much I call him, he doesn't react. They took him to the hospital, and his vital signs are all normal, but the doctors don't know what's wrong."

I asked who the woman was, and she said she was Half-Immortal Wu's girlfriend.

Just as I suspected.

We could have booked our own flights to leave, but knowing that Half-Immortal Wu had something happen to him, I felt bad about just leaving.

Moreover, from what the woman said, Half-Immortal Wu's comatose state was quite strange, piquing my curiosity.

"Which hospital are you at?"

"Harbin City Sixth Hospital, the emergency room."

We quickly arrived at Harbin Sixth Hospital and went straight to the ward.

I saw the woman. She looked about twenty-seven or twenty-eight. She wasn't conventionally beautiful, but her features were delicate, the kind of face that grows on you.

She was wearing a professional suit, like a white-collar professional.

"Mr. Jiang, my name is He Li. I'm Wu Lun's girlfriend and also his colleague."

"Are you also from the Ninth Bureau?" I asked.

He Li nodded. "Mr. Jiang, you can tell me anything you need to."

I hummed in response and then said, "You brought him to the hospital just because you couldn't wake him up from sleeping?"

The reason I asked this was that for an ordinary person, such a situation wouldn't warrant such a fuss. It's normal for people to be hard to wake up when they're extremely tired.

He Li gave a wry smile. "He's always been a light sleeper. He takes a nap every day, usually for about thirty minutes. He wakes up naturally at the end of that time. This has never happened to him before."

From this, it seemed Wu Lun was a man of very regular habits.

"Besides, we both work in these special departments. Even though we only handle support, we've heard and seen many strange things, so we're naturally a bit more vigilant. And his nap today was a bit unusual. Normally, even when he sleeps at night, he never talks in his sleep, but during his nap today, he kept muttering."

I asked curiously, "What was he saying?"

He Li's expression became a little unusual when I asked this. "He seemed to be dreaming about a woman..."

I narrowed my eyes. He Li continued, "You should go take a look."

I walked a few steps to Half-Immortal Wu's hospital bed. Fatty, Xu Qiuyan, and Yin Wuyu were already standing there.

Fatty had a complex expression on his face, while Xu Qiuyan looked very calm. Yin Wuyu still hadn't put down his phone, though he did glance at Wu Lun in the bed a few times.

Wu Lun's lips were moving, as if he were speaking. I leaned down, bringing my ear close to his mouth, trying to hear what he was saying.

However, I couldn't hear clearly. The only thing I distinctly made out was three words: "You're so beautiful!"