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Unable to find where the third brother had died, the trio of Xiao Hei resorted to a risky method.
Memory extraction.
The essence of devouring shadows is to consume the soul, and the soul is a weave of thoughts and memories. If they didn’t consume the soul but merely held it in their mouths to lick,
they could acquire some very shallow memories.
Though it was nowhere near as convenient or deep as Mo Mo’s Alaya consciousness, it was still effective for locating an uncle who had disappeared last night.
The risk of this method was that there was a chance the Overseer Bureau might detect it, but with thorny troubles already weighing on them and death looming, they didn’t care anymore.
The trio wove through the crowd, their slightly sinister shadows intertwining with those of ordinary people, reading only the surface layer of memories.
Just licking without devouring was torturous for these rookies new to this world.
They so desperately wanted to swallow it whole…
But whenever they thought of that man’s chillingly cold face and murderous gaze, they got scared stiff and spat out the shadow.
No luck with that one; next.
From morning until afternoon, they accessed over ten thousand memories, and finally found some clues.
A pink magical girl.
She descended from the sky and kicked the third brother flying as he was casually wandering.
Because the magical armor came with a cognitive block effect, the bystanders showed no reaction to the bizarre scene—even as the third brother’s underwear was nearly ripped apart by the magical girl’s kicks.
However, this cognitive block had no effect on the trio.
They saw everything clearly.
Only when the third brother fled in panic, with the magical girl in hot pursuit, did the memory clip end.
The trio exhaled in relief.
“We found it… finally found it…”
It seemed that this magical girl had killed the third brother and taken the container.
Though they still didn’t know who the magical girl was, at least they had a target and knew her appearance.
That was enough.
The rest, that man would handle.
“Magical girl? Damn it, this thing is the reason we looked so pathetic in front of that lord.”
“Ever since drinking that vial, this messed-up world has only gotten stranger.”
Someone shrank back: “So, now we’re going after that magical girl?”
“Go find her? Where? And then what? That girl’s got the third brother pinned down—are we supposed to rush in and die for him?”
“Just report back to the lord. Tell him we’ve made progress, that we’re useful.”
“Let’s go.”
“Don’t keep him waiting.”
The trio left, and not far away, Ji Yue, sipping bubble tea, clicked a photo of herself pressing the tea against her chest and sent it to Mo Mo.
“Mo Mo-chan, we found them.”
“But it’s strange; I’ve been watching them all afternoon. They haven’t killed anyone, just licking shadows, like… searching for something?”
Because she suspected there was a hidden mastermind behind Xiao Hei’s group, Mo Mo instructed her to observe and surveil first rather than act immediately.
To find any trace leading to the mastermind.
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“I’m going to keep tailing them, just updating you for now.”
“Just now, they seemed to have found what they wanted, and they said something that really surprised me.”
“You won’t be unfamiliar with it, Mo Mo-chan.”
“Magical girl.”
After sending the message, Ji Yue leisurely followed along like an ordinary person.
Nothing about her behavior was unusual.
At this moment, Mo Mo frowned upon receiving the message.
“Magical girl?”
She pulled out a stack of documents from her desk drawer, quickly locating the one she wanted.
The file was titled “Mass-Produced Magical Girl Patrol Armor Project,” stamped with a red seal:
[TERMINATED]
“This project was already proven a failure and halted, wasn’t it?”
“Then why would those people mention the name ‘magical girl’?”
Her finger slid down to the bottom, stopping at the project leader’s name:
[Ye Zhi]
Mo Mo closed the drawer.
“Looks like I need to have a little chat with Dr. Ye.”
...
“Five people, three rewards.”
“Mo Bai, you’re not one of them.”
Inside the maid café, the manager—a tall woman with golden hair, sitting with crossed legs and tapping her high heels—slammed the table and shouted, “Mo Bai, do you know what you’ve done?!”
Mo Bai, crouching with his head in his hands, lifted his innocent face. “I didn’t know?”
“I just went out to get my appendix removed, what did I do wrong?”
“Appendix removal?” The manager sneered, gesturing to the maids on either side of Mo Bai, “Bring him here and strip him!”
“If there’s a scar, I’ll give you a box of milk. If not…”
The manager’s smile turned sinister, “Prepare for a salary deduction!”
“Nooo!” Mo Bai cried pitifully. “In broad daylight, under the clear sky, a beautiful lady is harassing me!”
“Flattery won’t save you.”
The manager switched legs and knocked the table rhythmically, “Strip! Strip him!”
“Let me see if your development is normal~”
“Manager, nooo!”
At the door, Xie Ziyun, always ready to greet customers, laughed maliciously, “Serves you right, Mo Bai. Now you’re getting punished hard by the manager.”
“See if you dare skip work again.”
Meanwhile, Lu Chun, the short-haired maid in black stockings, exclaimed, “Wow, old Bai, you’ve got abs!”
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On the other side, the twin-tailed loli maid Gu Xiaoxiao’s lips curled into a smile, “Hey, didn’t expect you to have such a good figure.”
“What are you hiding? How old are you still so shy? Don’t move, let sister count your abs properly~”
Trapped and overwhelmed, about to be defeated by two female bosses and disgraced, that wretched manager even pulled out her phone to start recording? When had Mo Bai ever suffered such humiliation?
Uh, actually, he kind of had.
Well, no problem then.
Ahem. Anyway, Mo Bai fought back, breaking free from the two maids’ grasp, striking a pose like a white crane spreading its wings.
Practiced to look like a crane...
Then slid to his knees at lightning speed.
“Manager sisterI'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.