Nono: What am I?

Inside the medium-sized transport truck heading towards an unknown destination.

Jiu De Mayi held her breath, completely silent. Even though there were over ten other Hybrid members in the truck with not-so-weak auras, none of them noticed her standing in the corner.

Her figure was as dark as the backdrop of the deep night, like streaks of ink mixed into a pool of ink. Without shining a large flashlight directly on her, no one would notice anything out of the ordinary.

Sequence Number 69, Word of Power: Underworld Reflection.

This Word of Power allowed her to turn into a shadow within the shimmering light. As long as she was within her domain, she couldn't be detected. Even with focused attention, one could only see a faint, smoky light and shadow. As for at night, without specific countermeasures, she could easily infiltrate anywhere without being noticed.

...Why is it so pitch black all the way? Do the Chen Family drivers not need to turn on their headlights to see the road?

Jiu De Mayi complained inwardly. This way, she couldn't even subtly scout the route... but it didn't matter anyway, the miniature locator would take care of it.

She was bored staying in the truck. As the person best at infiltration and reconnaissance among the Little Devil team's three healers, she naturally became the contact person for secret communication with Nono.

Of course, Nono wouldn't be given detailed information. She would only know that the contact was a ninja master, with absolutely no information about the organization's name or general details.

Ever since the cooperation with Emiya and the Zhou Family was established, Jiu De Mayi had been responsible for the secret work related to the Chen Family. This included infiltrating the Chen Family manor to understand the building structure and personnel configuration, and also getting close to the rebellious Chen Family daughter to see if she was suitable as an inside agent.

Jiu De Mayi's eyes occasionally glanced at Nono, who was on the ground, bagged and unconscious.

The boss had said that this girl, whose real name was Chen Motong, was the best candidate. Just talk yourself up, exaggerating wildly that you are the Chen Family's number one enemy, and this girl will switch sides and surrender with courtesy in minutes.

It really is like that.

Looking at Nono, who was full of "filial piety" towards her father but completely obedient to her, Jiu De Mayi nodded inwardly.

She thought to herself, although her elusive boss's tasks were always bizarre, and the targets and reasons were unique and never repeated, and his riddle-solving skills were unparalleled... In short, he had many strange quirks, but his intelligence was truly accurate and never wrong.

This time was no exception.

Not long ago, the boss had declared: "It's time to stir up a storm of blood and gore, to bring the wicked and cruel innocent truth onto the visible stage, forcing the ignorant to face it..."

This was the boss's standard riddle-like opening before assigning a task. Then the boss would start explaining to Jiu De Mayi exactly what to tell Nono to do when contacting her—

That is, to have Nono falsely claim that she had passively triggered a certain scene's Profiling.

Profiling refers to deducing a person's psychological state based on their behavior, thereby analyzing their corresponding personality, living environment, profession, growth background, etc. This is common in detective novels, but Nono's Profiling was a special ability that wasn't a Word of Power.

Jiu De Mayi had collected relevant information. Nono's Profiling didn't require contact with people at all. She could directly deduce past events and people by contacting relevant items or environments, or even without contact.

Rather than Profiling, this was more like "Spiritual Vision."

Therefore, Nono had a nickname—"Little Witch."

But what was the special meaning behind the Profiling content fabricated for Father Chen this time?

Jiu De Mayi quietly pondered in her heart, randomly extracting a bunch of keywords... ancient times, black, white. Could it be about the story of the Black King and the White King?

But wasn't the Chen Family a Shenzhou Hybrid? How did the Black King's bloodline in Shenzhou get involved with the White King? Was the Little Witch Nono's Profiling ability really that incredible?

The utterly bored but forced to wait ninja master couldn't help but be filled with doubts. She followed these people all the way to a high-tech industrial park in the suburbs.

It was already late at night. The park had lush vegetation, and occasionally there were insect chirps. Besides that, there were large areas of darkness. Every now and then, from a long distance away, like someone trying to save electricity, a single LED street light would turn on sparingly...

Seriously, are you guys that stingy with electricity? Is this the standard villain style? Jiu De Mayi felt speechless.

The armed Hybrid personnel, however, didn't have such a mindset for complaining. They walked along the familiar route, day or night, it was all the same. Everyone escorted the unconscious Nono into a detection and inspection center that was entirely painted white, illuminated by the faint, pale light of the street lamps.

Jiu De Mayi glanced around and saw that there were also research and development centers, scientific research institutes, public laboratories, data centers... The research facilities were quite complete, but she didn't know how many of these facilities were essentially just for show to fool the government.

After entering the detection and inspection center, the indoor lighting was obviously much brighter. At least the rows of high-bay lights in the corridor cast dense light. Jiu De Mayi didn't follow closely this time, to avoid them noticing something was wrong later.

Anyway, Jiu De Mayi was just here to collect "evidence" of the Chen Family's Death Servant research. And as the eldest daughter of the Chen Family, even if something happened to Nono, she probably wouldn't be in danger.

But looking at Nono's treatment as an experimental subject, maybe she would stumble upon some unexpected gains?

Nono was in a daze and had a dream.

She dreamed that she was tightly locked by some kind of cold metal machinery, unable to break free. A feeling of wetness and a sweet, metallic taste mixed into her throat and nasal cavity. She painfully wanted to take a deep breath, but the heavy water pressure sealed off any possibility of recovering her breath. She almost thought she was about to die.

Then the metal machinery roughly lifted her out of the water, emitting a cold electronic synthesized voice: "The 17th execution is over. Asphyxiation time 45 seconds. Frigga Three, you may begin your statement."

Nono seized the opportunity to open her mouth and breathe. She felt her cheeks bleeding and her body covered in wounds. She tilted her head down slightly and glanced towards the water surface, seeing herself with a pale face, wearing a white dress but covered in blood...

Frigga Three was referring to herself? What did that mean?

Nono tried to think, but the next moment a sharp, needle-like pain shot through her head... Ahhh... Enduring the severe pain, a flicker of insight finally flashed through her mind—

Frigga, the chief goddess of the Aesir in Norse mythology, wife of the great god Odin, in charge of love, family, fertility, harvest, and destiny. She is usually depicted wearing a white robe...

But this was clearly some kind of experimental code name. And she was Frigga Three, so did that mean there were also Two, One, and the prototype Zero?

What exactly was she...?!

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