Mukaiji Nanako

Zhang Heng had effectively taken care of two things in one go tonight. First, he resolved the kidnapping case involving Yogurt, then he accepted the Shadow Set's trial.

The former had gone fairly smoothly. Although he had not earned any points, he had ultimately received something of equivalent value. At least Zhang Heng had not spent the night working for nothing. As for the grudges between Yogurt and 1810, as well as the tangled love and hate between Yogurt and Shen Dongxing, none of that had anything to do with him anymore.

The Shadow Set's trial afterward, however... contained a great deal of information.

Even now, Zhang Heng had not completely figured out what exactly had happened.

Based on his previous analysis, after inhaling that white smoke, he should have entered the Shadow Set's trial. But perhaps because of something about himself, he had returned to that bizarre little town from his earlier dream instead. This time, though, he had more or less uncovered the reason for the town's decline.

But afterward, Zhang Heng noticed Fabrikot's attitude. It was also the first time he had begun to doubt whether he should continue investigating his own origins.

In the end, he had not chosen to go to those black reefs and meet the creature there. Although Fabrikot claimed that thing was his most loyal servant and follower, Zhang Heng's experience told him that when someone went to great lengths, even paying an enormous price, to make you do something, it often meant that thing contained factors detrimental to you.

From the first time he came to that town, Zhang Heng had instinctively sensed that it had some sort of connection to him.

Unless something unexpected had happened, the thing on the black reefs should have been the leader of those half-human,