This Nascent Soul old monster had once been an ordinary member of the Rose Society and had followed Inverse Light around in some immortal cultivation world.
Back then, he had merely been a lowly errand-running lackey. With such meager cultivation, he could only rank at the very bottom among the Blue White Society's many D-class personnel.
He was simply someone who, after the Rose Society collapsed and its evil debts were settled, deserved execution for his crimes and had been sentenced by the Blue White Society to become D-class personnel.
He could be called an insignificant figure. Lan Mu still did not even know his name.
Yet it was precisely such a person who had caught Lan Mu off guard.
Guwajai, Jimila, and Min Long had all merely been cushions. Even though he had suspected the Main God, Lan Mu had never guarded against a veteran D-class personnel who had been brainwashed into an idiot.
For sixty years in the Blue White Society, he had worked tirelessly and done every dangerous job imaginable. He was considered a "model worker" among D-class personnel. With more than a dozen restraints placed on him, he had long since lost himself. Why would Lan Mu have been wary of him?
He truly had not considered the possibility that every negative effect could be removed. The odds had been far too low. It was something almost impossible, and since he had not thought of it, he had not thought of it. It was useless to understand everything with hindsight afterward.
Without question, this had been 001's trump card.
Starting with Guwajai, then Min Long, and finally, because he feared the Main God, he had the Pawn Machine seal half of the Enslavement System.
Then, because of the Pawn Machine's side effect, he chose to have