MI9 in Action

"Mr. R, the results are in." Ms. Q's words were concise and clear, and Mr. R immediately replied:

Let's get straight to the conclusion.

"In almost every area where the 'Covenant Card' Imitation Case occurred, other Imitation Case also happened around the same time. According to the subsequent police investigation, the perpetrators of these Imitation Case were the same people who died in the 'Covenant Card' Imitation Case."

Ms. Q's tone was emotionless, but Mr. R frowned and said:

"How could the intelligence department handle such important intelligence?"

"This was our oversight. After all, we only handle issues related to ghosts. Once it's confirmed to be Imitation Case, we hand it over to the police. And the police department doesn't proactively contact us, their Secret Department, for case reports after closing the case." Ms. Q's tone was calm, as if she were talking about something unrelated to herself. However, at the end, she added:

"I will then request the establishment of a follow-up mechanism for Imitation Case."

"Compared to this..." Mr. R didn't intend to waste time discussing the case follow-up with Ms. Q, and immediately changed the subject:

"In other words, these notes bearing the covenant might not be copycats, but rather they triggered the rules of the ghosts? For example... execution?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. According to the Scales Covenant, Oath Keeper punish those who fall into execution. These copycats have clearly violated the commandments. However, the original work does not contain any content about the Covenant Card, only descriptions like 'a sudden bell ringing.' This card should have appeared due to some kind of secondary creation or the will of the ghost itself."

Ms. Q affirmed Mr. R's point of view, and Mr. R paced slightly before saying:

"The number of Imitation Case far exceeds the number of times Covenant Card appear, and their distribution is relatively scattered. It shouldn't be because 'this rule was only recently created.' What do you think is the reason?"

"Are you suggesting that there are certain rules and limitations to execution itself, rather than targeting all copycat offenders?" Ms. Q clearly had some idea about this as well. Mr. R nodded slightly upon hearing her answer.

"We found a lot of valuables on this body today. I'm wondering if it's because he stole the deceased's belongings that the rules were triggered?"

"That's what I thought at first too, but according to the case files we have now, excluding the victims involved in the Covenant Card, more than 60% of copycats take some of the victim's belongings. However, only 30% of the cases actually involve the Covenant Card. In other words, 70% of the copycats who take the victim's belongings do not trigger this rule."

Ms. Q refuted Mr. R's point of view, to which Mr. R showed no displeasure. He simply pondered for a moment before saying:

"They said there's a bit of a hassle over the phone. Could you help me gather some of the most popular fan-made content recently? We can discuss the rest when I get back to headquarters."

"OK."

Hearing the call abruptly ended, Mr. R, who had been about to say something, stiffened slightly but didn't call back. He simply put his phone in his pocket and then said:

"Go to the crime scene on the Covenant Card. Call the police there and tell them to secure the scene and not let any extra people near. Call Mr. X and tell him I need to call B-44 and send me another Class D agent."

"Okay." The subordinate didn't waste any words and immediately began making communications, while Mr. R got into his car and drove towards the park where the body was found...

About an hour later, Mr. R, who had been waiting in the park for a long time, finally saw the familiar car parked on the side of the road.

"Good day, Mr. R." The man holding a small, pure black suitcase waved and greeted Mr. R. Behind him was a middle-aged man with handcuffs, a pale face, a full beard, and a very decadent appearance.

"Good day, administrator." Mr. R nodded in greeting, then looked at the disheveled middle-aged man and said:

"You already know the rules?"

"Yes, do as you say, and you'll get a reduced sentence, right?" The dejected middle-aged man nodded. Mr. R didn't say much, but gestured for the "administrator" to open the small black briefcase, where a Magnifying Glass was carefully kept.

"Take this and search around the human figure outlined by the white line. Notify us immediately if you find anything unusual, understand?" The administrator gave a simple explanation of how to use the Magnifying Glass. The D-level personnel was surprised by this strange request, but they still picked up the Magnifying Glass and began to walk along the white line.

What appeared before him was undoubtedly a murder case, but the unremarkable black Magnifying Glass in his hand was strange.

"It can't be a bunch of rich kids playing detective games, right?" The D-level officer couldn't figure out what the point was of walking around the place where the body had been found with Magnifying Glass, but considering the possibility of a reduced sentence, he chose to obediently do as instructed.

But soon...

"What's this?!"

Upon hearing the exclamation from the Class D personnel, Mr. R immediately stepped forward, not looking at the Magnifying Glass, but asking directly:

What did you see?

"Blood Text! A whole lot of Blood Text!" The D-level personnel were clearly horrified by the surreal scene before them. They couldn't see anything with the naked eye, but through Magnifying Glass, they saw a large amount of blood, as if all the blood had been drawn from a person. In these bloodstains, lines of messy letters were combined to form seemingly meaningful sentences, which distorted their worldview that they had held for many years.

"What's the content?" Mr. R asked coldly. The D-level personnel seemed to regain some composure from the icy tone and began to read haltingly:

"The Oath Keeper... joins Libra... breaks the covenant... execution... Skull Mask... Lapel Pin..."

A large amount of meaningful yet ambiguous text came from the mouth of the D-level personnel, even describing the font and shape in detail, before Mr. R signaled to the administrator that the people and items could be taken away.

B-44 is a Magical Item in the collection of MI9 in Victoria. It looks like an ordinary Magnifying Glass, but when used to investigate crime scenes, it can reveal "death messages." It is still unknown whether these death messages come from the thoughts of the deceased before their death or are fabricated by this Magical Item. But there is no doubt that through this information, traces of the perpetrator can be found.

However, as a Class B Magical Item, it also has terrible side effects. If the killer cannot be controlled within a day and night (whether it is oneself, the police, or an unrelated person), one will die on the following night after the time limit expires, and the process of death will be exactly the same as the previous victim.

However, each Class D individual is a death row inmate who is "dead" in a social sense, and this side effect actually allows people to see the killer's modus operandi more directly.

After the Magnifying Glass was put back into the black briefcase, Mr. R carefully read the "death messages." Based on these Blood Text, he was basically certain that the Covenant Card did indeed originate from "Libra," and that they also involved the Oath Keeper at the Aberration Core...

PS1: Don't underestimate the power of standing an egg upright; it can improve a person's focus, patience, concentration, hand dexterity, and control over strength.

It is very effective for "internal skills" such as meditation, visualization, and Breathing Technique, and it is also very helpful in some techniques that require a high degree of finger dexterity and stability (such as pulse diagnosis and surgery).

My method of achieving Entering Stillness through boredom is actually a very unorthodox approach.

Of course, for modern people, this thing is not very useful except for showing off, but if you practice it with the idea of showing off, you will basically not be able to learn it.

PS2: There are two ways for private prisons in Europe and America to make money. One is to provide excellent prison conditions for celebrities and the wealthy. You can find this information online. Many European and American celebrities have been in such prisons.

Another method is to use prisoners as consumables. A large portion of the bullets in Mi Li's family were made by prisoners. Not just bullets, anything you can think of, whether for civilian or military use, as long as the production activity has a low barrier to entry, can be handed over to prisoners (if you have a strong learning ability, you can make anything by hand after you get out, and if you learn some techniques from the seniors in the prison, that's the standard Dragon Field Enlightenment), even including drug experiments.

In reality, many private prisons have secret collaborations with large medical companies (such as Rhine Life), and these prisoners who are used as guinea pigs may not even know that there are drugs in their food. And prisoners, especially homeless people, black people, and ethnic minorities, die in prison and nobody cares—even if someone does care, they have no say.