NOVPUBChapter 623: Chapter 621: Deceived
Chapter 623: Chapter 621: Deceived
“Hmm. Why did he come to look for Black?”
“The child. I made some inquiries, and soon after he was released from prison, he adopted a child from an orphanage. Later, the child went missing, and after searching for a month without success, he came to Heizhou to tell Black about it.”
“Did Black make him adopt a child?”
“Yes.”
“Do you have that person’s information?”
“Yes.”
Xi Seno handed Sally a piece of paper folded into four squares.
Sally opened it—
Name: Chen Liu.
Gender: Male.
Age: Twenty-six.
Marital status: Single.
Occupation: Supermarket cashier.
Residential address: 753 Peony Street, City F.
“I need to meet this person.” Sally said to Xi Seno, “What about you?”
“Get revenge, get out,” Xi Seno replied.
Sally understood what he meant, “I look forward to seeing your good news online.”
“Thanks, I owe you three lives!” Xi Seno replied solemnly.
Sally slightly smiled, then laughed, “Let’s form a good connection, don’t worry about it.”
…
At 753 Peony Street, City F, Sally had Xiaomei take her directly there.
[Xiaomei, why did Linai make him adopt a child? Could it be that the child is his Divine Status split entity?]
[It shouldn’t be; Divine Status cannot leave the Beast World. If the host needs to find a Divine Status split entity, it should also be in the Beast World, not here.]
[Hmm.]
Sally knocked on the door, “Excuse me, is Chen Liu in?”
It wasn’t long before the door opened.
A man with thick glasses, skinny and slightly hunched, answered the door. He wore a black sleeveless vest and washed blue jeans, and he was holding a kitchen knife.
Upon seeing the kitchen knife, Sally instinctively stepped back.
The man quickly put it away, “Sorry, sorry, I was cooking. May I ask who you are and what you need from me?” 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
Sally looked him over, “Are you Chen Liu? Do you know Black?”
Chen Liu looked at Sally puzzled, “Who are you?”
“I’m Black’s girlfriend, my name is Sally,” Sally replied offhandedly.
“I haven’t heard Black mention you.” Chen Liu was very wary.
Sally paused, “He betrayed me and had a child with someone else. He wrote to me recently, asking me to send the child to his mother, and the address he gave for picking up the child was yours.”
“I see,” Chen Liu stepped aside, letting Sally into the house.
Sally looked around the clean and tidy courtyard, which housed some chickens and a few stray cats eating cat food.
Chen Liu was indeed cooking, in a makeshift kitchen.
An old gas cylinder with one stove burner, a thick plastic cutting board on a stool with half-cut garlic sprouts that were somewhat yellow and old, a small basin with two unscrambled eggs, and a bundle of noodles.
Chen Liu walked inside, took out a few pictures, handed them to Sally, and scratched his head vigorously, seeming unsure of how to begin, “That… the child is gone.”
Sally took the pictures, which showed a boy aged around six or seven, with unusually mature-looking eyes and a rather delicate appearance.
[Xiaomei, can you locate this child?]
[I can try.]
[Good, start searching.]
“The child is gone?” Sally frowned, “How did he disappear; did you report it to the police?”
“…No, I didn’t dare. I just got out of prison, and if I reported it, they would surely suspect me; I didn’t want to go back there,” Chen Liu said, looking down and avoiding Sally’s eyes.
“What about the child?” Sally frowned.
“I’m sorry, I’m really not good at taking care of children, I did my best,” Chen Liu said, kneeling down to Sally.
Xiaomei told Sally, “Found him, the child is in a circus.”
“No matter what, I must find the child. Check the orphanage again,” Sally said without mentioning the child was at the circus.
“Okay, okay, I’ll head there after I eat. By the way, are you eating? I can make a couple more dishes.” Saying that, Chen Liu went inside.
When he came out holding two fresh tomatoes in one hand and a big potato in the other, Sally had already left.
He glanced at the vegetables in his hand and bit into a tomato.
Sally arrived at the circus and saw the little boy from the photo.
But the little boy was actually not so little; he had dwarfism, and he was already twenty-two in reality, and he owned the circus.
He also told Sally that someone paid him to intentionally wait at the orphanage for Chen Liu. After Chen Liu took him away and he stayed for a while, he could leave. However, when he left, he had explained to Chen Liu and had not left secretly.
Sally realized she had been deceived.
She immediately returned to Chen Liu’s residence only to find that the chickens had been let out of the coop, a cat was sunbathing on the roof, and Chen Liu was gone.
She entered the house, which apart from a bed, had nothing else in it!
“Xiaomei, can you locate Chen Liu?”
“He might have disguised himself, and there isn’t anyone matching his physical data.”
Sally flipped over the mattress, finding not even a single hair.
The kitchen knife! Sally remembered the kitchen knife he was holding earlier—it should have his fingerprints on it.
Yet, even the kitchen knife was cleaned very thoroughly.
Sally’s gaze shifted, landing on the cat food bowl…
“Xiaomei, the cat food bowl?”
“There’s a complete fingerprint, already extracted.”
Sally once again thoroughly checked the place with the System Map to make sure there were no useful clues before leaving.
Walking slowly along the bustling street, Sally considered her next steps.
“Host, why are you looking for the Demon God? He is clearly avoiding the host—someone who genuinely wants to hide and is particularly cunning. It’s likely to be a huge waste of time and energy.”
“Will the Main System refuse to develop a Talent System for Little Beibei if it learns that I didn’t truly kill the Demon God?” Sally’s real concern was this.
“But, hasn’t the Main System already agreed to develop it for the host?”
“That’s why I want to finish this task even more.”
“Host, the Supervision System has arrived,” Xiaomei warned Sally.
Sally stopped in her tracks; standing under the maple tree ahead was 000, clad in black casual clothes and holding a briefcase, his ash-gray long hair flowing down to his waist. He wore a cap and a pair of tea-gray sunglasses that seemed to reveal the bones of whoever he looked at.
The passersby also stopped to gaze at him, some even walking into trees…
Sally looked at him in amazement, “You haven’t transformed into the System again, have you?”
“No,” 000 said, “The task was completed well, here’s your reward.”
“How is Wu Zheyu doing now?” Sally asked.
“Don’t know.” 000 did not want to associate with that side.
Sally nodded, “And Linai’s matter?”
000 replied, “That’s also concluded. As for Linai having a surviving split, the Main System knows it, so that’s put to rest for now.”
“…Little Beibei’s Talent System.”
“It is in development too, no need to worry. There’s another task here; are you interested?”
000 handed Sally a contract.
Sally took it and first showed it to Xiaomei.
“How does it feel to reincarnate as a human out of boredom, only to endure such an ordeal?”
“It’s better being bored.”
“Haha~”
000 took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, expertly put one in his mouth, and lit it, taking a deep inhale.
Sally reached out, “Give me one.”
“…This is a childbearing task.” 000 did not give her a cigarette.
“What?” Sally was stunned.
She quickly asked Xiaomei, “A childbearing task?”
