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Chapter 400

Tracking a trail through the lost city

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Early the next morning, Reid arrived as promised.

He also brought a large stack of documents and walked the two of them through the circumstances surrounding Luo Diya's disappearance.

Chen Xuan realized this was another sign of Abigail's willingness to cooperate: she was sharing intelligence to help them solve the case more efficiently.

The intelligence showed that the Dimensional Limit Organization had paid little attention to Luo Diya at first.

After all, there were simply too many people like her.

People who claimed to have awakened abilities, people who tearfully insisted they were being persecuted, people trying to escape their former small organizations, or simply people seeking the organization's protection—the New City Branch encountered twenty or thirty of them every month. Tests even revealed that some had no abilities at all and were outright frauds.

Luo Diya's test score was listed as 68, and her ability fell under the psychological category, making her unsuitable for the Execution Team. For awakened individuals with unremarkable abilities like hers, the organization generally limited itself to covert oversight. Once registered, they were treated as ordinary people and left to do as they pleased.

Still, Luo Diya had ultimately stayed at the New City Branch as a Logistics Team operative.

The reason the organization kept her was simple—her background was slightly unusual. She was a defector from the Gospel Society.

According to the documents, that had happened a month ago.

"Have you taken in other defectors from the Gospel Society?" Chen Xuan asked curiously.

"Of course. The New City Branch alone has several," Reid replied. "But after this incident, all ability users formerly affiliated with the Gospel Society were taken to headquarters for investigation."

In other words, Luo Diya was only marginally special.

"Is the Gospel Society really that difficult to deal with?" Honglian had

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