Li Lin had never before seen Captain Song, usually so steady and reliable, looking so grim, his brows knitted as if facing a formidable enemy.
"So... the eye-shaped Dark Angel simply left the Otherworld it had been parasitizing without making a sound? It didn't try to pollute or control anyone, and it didn't leave behind any 'offspring'?" Song Cheng only spoke after listening to the reports from the two Special Operations Bureau agents and remaining silent for a long while. "You didn't hear anything like 'higher-dimensional whispers' in your minds during the whole process either?"
"No." Xu Jiali shook his head, his voice low. "But that thing definitely noticed us. For a moment, I could clearly feel that 'gaze.' Its focus fell on the place where we were hiding. It was almost as if..."
Song Cheng frowned. "As if?"
Xu Jiali thought for a moment before saying uncertainly, "As if it were looking for something."
Song Cheng irritably tapped his fingers against the tabletop and said nothing for a while.
More than ten seconds passed before he let out a long breath and turned to Li Lin. "When you came into contact with the person calling himself 'Yu Sheng,' did you sense any aura of 'heterogenization' from him? Going by instinct, did he seem more like a human, or more like... something else?"
"Like a human. At least in his speech, mannerisms, and common sense when dealing with people, he seemed human. If that was an entity disguised as a human, then the disguise was simply too perfect—it was so perfect that he could be treated as a human without question." Li Lin spoke with certainty.
"But he has been 'living' in 'No. 66 Wutong Road,' a place that doesn't exist in the real world at all. It's an Otherworld