I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

“If you aren’t in a rush to leave,” the girl said to Ma En, who had barged into the Investigation Department, “you can come with us to see the mind-specialized machine called Silver Dagger. It will play a crucial role in our upcoming cooperation, and we can also take the opportunity to introduce its features to you.”

Jing Ying followed up closely:

“I can explain in detail what exactly we’re going to do. Actually, this suicide mission was originally supposed to be carried out by me, but obviously Shadow changed his mind after meeting with you.”

He paused and continued:

“Your appearance saved my life.”

Jing Ying didn’t intend to reveal his true thoughts in front of Ma En, but he never expected that Ma En had already learned from Ren Shizhi’s report how he acted in front of other people in the Investigation Department.

This made Ma En feel even more puzzled.

“Then let’s go take a look,” he said to the girl as he stood up. “It just so happens that I’m here, and we need to discuss the upcoming plans before I leave. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to communicate with the Moon God’s presence.

“She might be watching us.”

Wang Yin turned around, and Ren Shizhi immediately opened the door:

“That’s possible, but Shadow is relatively optimistic about it. Although the Moon God should be paying attention to you, the chances of her seeing you specifically shouldn’t be that high.”

Ma En replied:

“But it’s always good to be cautious, isn’t it?”

The girl nodded:

“You have a point. Then we can discuss how to contact each other at the end to avoid risks.”

Ma En followed her towards the elevator and casually asked:

“I remember the last time we met, Qin Lan said that you and your brother were following the Divine Firmament Walker.”

The girl raised her eyebrows:

“What, do you want to condemn me?”

Ma En shook his head:

“I actually haven’t been in the Salvation Alliance for very long, and I don’t know much about her. You, on the other hand, have been following the Divine Firmament Walker for several years. Perhaps your feelings for her are much deeper than mine.”

“Indeed, very deep, but in a bad way,” Wang Yin said with a cold smile. “And you don’t have to say that you haven’t been in the Salvation Alliance for long. Who would believe that?

“You encountered the fall of the Divine Firmament Walker as soon as you joined, and you happened to save Qin Lan. Do you know that the Investigation Department built a prediction machine to deal with the Divine Firmament Walker?

“That machine was used to deal with the Divine Firmament Walker, and it showed that Qin Lan would be taken away by us smoothly.

“Do you really think you can fool the smart people in the Federation?”

After finishing the conversation with her brother, Wang Yin realized why the Federation was so determined to kill Ma En. As Wang Yang said, this was caused by the Federation’s fear of the Divine Firmament Walker.

They didn’t want him dead because “Ma En saved Qin Lan.”

But because he could appear there and save Qin Lan.

They were afraid that Ma En was a contingency left behind by the Divine Firmament, because if this was true, it would mean that the Divine Firmament had likely done many things in the past to resist the predicament she was facing now.

But in fact, this view had been repeatedly discussed and overturned. The simplest reason was that if the Divine Firmament Walker had really foreseen this war, she would have directly taken other measures to completely solve these problems, and things wouldn’t have developed to this point.

In addition, there was a lot of evidence to show that this was just unnecessary worry, but even after confirming these things, there would definitely be Federation members who couldn’t sleep, and in order to completely end their worries.

Killing Ma En seemed to be a solution.

“I think you definitely have some misunderstandings,” but Ma En didn’t seem to accept this statement. “Even if my appearance there has something to do with the Divine Firmament Walker, I haven’t met her in the past.

“The focus isn’t on me, but on you. Just out of curiosity, I really want to know your reason for betraying the Divine Firmament Walker. After all, if it were me, I definitely wouldn’t do that. I haven’t even met her, and I’ve only joined the Salvation Alliance for such a short time.

“But I still chose to stand by her side, although this has something to do with your wanting to kill all the members of the Salvation Alliance, but I also think that standing behind the Divine Firmament isn’t a bad decision.”

The girl snorted coldly:

“You don’t understand anything.”

Ma En looked at her expectantly:

“Then can you tell me, what should I understand?”

Wang Yin hesitated for a moment, and finally said:

“This isn’t really a secret. We were originally at odds with the Divine Firmament Walker. The first time we met the Divine Firmament, Wang Yang and I were devouring the blood of the living, and she completely destroyed our fighting spirit with terrifyingly powerful force.

“And according to what we learned afterward, normally the Divine Firmament Walker would use clean and decisive means to kill monsters like us in your words. Ghosts like us have no chance of survival at all.

“But she ‘pardoned’ us and claimed to see a future where we would become kind, and then, like wanting to tame wild wolves into domestic dogs, forcibly took us by her side for education, but Wang Yang and I were both very angry at her approach.

“But considering the gap between us, this anger eventually turned into helplessness. We could only live under the Divine Firmament’s constraints. You can ask around how many times we clashed during that time. Sometimes I even wanted to ask her to kill us.”

Ma En asked:

“Because you don’t like being restricted?”

“No,” the girl shook her head. “Because she forcibly demanded that we become good people. I won’t explain to you here what conditions are required for the dead to become like us. You just need to know that my brother and I weren’t always monsters.

“We used to be ordinary human siblings. Although we weren’t particularly kind, after all, we were just two children when we were alive, but we were definitely not bad people. We were probably more likable than many spoiled children today.

“But we died.

“My brother and I were killed after being cruelly tortured, and when we returned to our old home driven by resentment, wanting to follow our instincts to kill our blood relatives, we saw only a few mounds of earth.

“It was the alchemist who killed my father, but it was the people who were supposed to protect them who killed the other family members.

“I can understand that the Divine Firmament Walker is a kind person, but I think that a wise and powerful person like her can also understand that we don’t want to become like her, even imagining myself becoming a good person makes me want to vomit.

“We are bad, and we don’t plan to turn back.

“If there is that self-righteous and useless guy, he can come to us for a life-and-death fight at any time. We won’t have any complaints if we are killed by the Divine Firmament or others. This is our choice.

“We haven’t met a single good person in our lives. Why do you think we have to be good people like you?”

Ma En asked:

“Did you and Wang Yang think about so much before meeting the Divine Firmament?”

The girl didn’t hide it:

“I know what you mean. She did change Wang Yang and me. In the past, we were no different from the other monsters you deal with now in any real sense. The desire for living blood drove us.

“But the things that determined our essence haven’t changed, after all, we can’t change our past.

“Even the famous Divine Firmament Walker can only see the future.”

Ma En said:

“But the Divine Firmament Walker did profoundly change you. If you could choose, would you want to live like you did before the Divine Firmament Walker arrived, or like you are now, no different from ordinary humans?”

The girl smiled:

“Of course it’s like this now. I can use the principles the Divine Firmament Walker taught me to refute you, for example, the things that make you better can also be unsightly, but this is actually just making excuses, because the Divine Firmament Walker is indeed being good to us.

“At least from her perspective.

“But I won’t be grateful, because I’m just bad.”

Ma En then asked:

“But I still have some doubts. According to what I know, even if you are purely selfish, the Divine Firmament gave a pretty good condition. In fact, there have been many people in the Salvation Alliance who followed her purely for profit in the past.

“Isn’t it more beneficial for you to follow her? She is one of the strongest humans known. You can completely say one thing and do another, and use her identity to gain benefits.”

“We haven’t already done that?” the girl first asked sarcastically, but then paused. “There’s a reason why we don’t want to follow her, but I doubt whether you can understand.”

Ma En said seemingly casually:

“I don’t have any fixed impression of her anyway.”

This was what he wanted to ask.

What Ma En wanted to know was actually the Divine Firmament Walker in Wang Yin’s eyes. As she said, Ma En himself had no way to particularly well judge whether his appearance there had the Divine Firmament Walker’s intervention.

Moreover, he didn’t have his past memories. The past self may have heard of the Divine Firmament Walker’s existence and had a basic evaluation of her in his heart, but the current Ma En had lost all of these.

Although considering the existence of the Unremembered and what the Divine Firmament Walker said when she met him, the probability of the Divine Firmament Walker causing him to appear there wasn’t high, because the Unremembered might have cut off this possibility.

But in any case, the current him actually knew less about the Divine Firmament Walker than other adults who had lived for decades, and Wang Yin was the Divine Firmament Walker’s former follower, so he naturally wouldn’t let go of this opportunity to explore other aspects of the Divine Firmament Walker that hadn’t yet emerged.

Wang Yin said upon hearing this:

“She’s a madman. You shouldn’t have seen the way she spoke in private. Sometimes she would say a sentence in a very slow and strange tone. In fact, the Divine Firmament wasn’t really saying anything at that time. She was just following the guidance.

“I really doubt whether the one talking to us was Qin Luan, or some terrifying great power disguised as the Divine Firmament Walker, after all, no matter how I think about it, I can’t find a suitable reason to explain her behavior.

“Not only me, but many of your compatriots also have similar views. They are always doubting and worrying that the Divine Firmament Walker’s performance in the past twenty years was just the result of her following the power, rather than her original appearance.”

Ma En summarized and asked:

“What you are afraid of is that she will become like you?”

A bad person.

Wang Yin said:

“You haven’t understood her like we have. To be honest, I actually think she is closer to the gods described in some religious texts than any other living being I’ve met, but the more like a god…”

“The less like a human.”

Ma En repeated and asked:

“So you are still just afraid that she will become like a human, because in your opinion, the so-called ‘human’ is what you see when you look in the mirror, right?”

The girl asked back:

“Don’t you think so?”

Ma En didn’t comment on her answer.

In fact, their fear of the Divine Firmament Walker seemed very reasonable at first glance, but ultimately it was very simple. Those things that were there were completely just embellishments of its true essence, which were actually completely unimportant.

The real root was the Divine Firmament’s power.

If she were weaker, for example, only the strength of Shadow or other Rank V ability users, then although she might cause some fear, no one would consider the amount of divinity.

If she was only Rank IV, then most of these people who feared her wouldn’t have any ill feelings towards her, and if she was just a mortal, then in their eyes, Qin Luan might just be a somewhat stupid ordinary person.

“If it wasn’t Qin Luan who had this power,” Ma En asked, “would you be so scared that you wouldn’t dare to discuss her behind her back? After all, in my opinion, anyone with this kind of power would be more worthy of fear than her.”

The girl wasn’t willing to admit Ma En’s statement:

“I’m the one who stayed by her side for several years.”

Ma En said:

“But you haven’t said a word that is enough to prove that your fear is justified. To be honest, after learning about the Divine Firmament Walker’s achievements, I also had similar feelings, a deep fear of her going out of control.

“This isn’t a feeling unique to you, but one that everyone who knows her power is likely to feel. If a strong person who can foresee the future has no bottom line, it’s hard for me to imagine what can stop the realization of her will.”

Wang Yin immediately retorted:

“Don’t imagine her as omnipotent. This is the most classic misunderstanding of her by the members of the Salvation Alliance. You just haven’t seen her defeated, but that doesn’t mean she really has no opponents.

“There are very few strong people of that level, and the possibility of mutual hostility is almost zero. Maintaining peace is the most beneficial choice for them.

“And do you know why the Divine Firmament Walker joined us?”

Ma En asked:

“Why?”

Wang Yin replied:

“Her grandfather was a high-ranking official in the Federation. Since childhood, he began to cultivate their sisters’ loyalty to the Federation. The reason why the Divine Firmament Walker works in the Federation is all due to her grandfather’s request.

“But her grandfather died not long ago, and now she has no reason to stay here.”

The words the girl said didn’t have any real foothold in Ma En’s ears. Rather than explaining the Divine Firmament Walker’s problem, it was more like trying to give her betrayal legitimacy.

She couldn't really articulate what was wrong with a Divine Firmament Walker.

And that was exactly the answer that Mann wanted to hear.

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