Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 375 - 373 Knowledge and Wisdom

Chapter 375: Chapter 373 Knowledge and Wisdom

After discussing the matter of the strength barrier with the Water Tadpole, two hours had passed, and the matter concerning the Angel of Universal Light should have also concluded.

Wen Wen approached the cell door, snapped his fingers, and the dark veil enveloping the cell abruptly vanished, allowing Wen Wen and the people of the Disaster Area to see clearly what was inside.

The Angel of Universal Light was still suspended by chains, but now it no longer retained its former pride, its feathers and hair were bereft of any sheen, and its faint luminance had disappeared.

Despair and fear hung on his face, indicating the sizeable trauma inflicted on him through the abuse by a low-level demon.

Upon seeing Wen Wen enter, his eyes immediately lit up, because this meant his torment had ended.

Wen Wen nodded in satisfaction; it seemed that using a demon to punish an angel was very effective. After all, this being had once been riddled with holes by Wen Wen using the Buddha Gatling and still hadn’t displayed a trace of fear.

In the future, if any demon became disobedient, he would let the Angel of Universal Light ’educate’ them.

Rodney knelt down halfway, looking up at Wen Wen with a fawning gaze, believing he had done his utmost to break the Angel of Universal Light into submission, and now it was time to ingratiate himself with Wen Wen.

In the art of shifting with the wind and flattering those in power, every demon was an adept player.

"Now, are you willing to obey my commands?" Wen Wen grabbed the Angel of Universal Light by the hair, forcing his head up, and said with narrowed eyes.

The Angel of Universal Light, after a long silence, said, "If you let me kill that demon, I will be willing!"

Wen Wen stroked his chin, "It seems you still resist. Then let’s add another two hours to it."

"Wait, wait!"

Humiliation deeply etched on his face, the Angel displayed perhaps the most expressive look he had in a millennium, gritting out through clenched teeth three words: "I am willing!"

"That’s more like it."

Wen Wen released the angel’s hair and helped tidy him up briefly before leaving the cell with grace.

After Wen Wen and Rodney left, the Angel of Universal Light began to cry silently, knowing that from the moment he agreed to Wen Wen’s terms, he could no longer consider himself a proud angel.

Genderless angels, strong as the stoutest men when powerful, yet can be as sorrowful as women when weak.

Witnessing the pitiful state of the Angel of Universal Light, the Fear Hand Demon and the Faceless Demon, even though trapped themselves, couldn’t help but take pleasure in his misfortune, but the other monsters incarcerated with the Angel for some time felt a pang of empathy.

They resolved in their hearts never to contravene Wen Wen’s commands, realizing that the pain they had endured was perhaps the mildest of punishments, and this pervert might employ some unspeakable means to torment them.

After bringing the Angel of Universal Light to heel, Wen Wen then continued his investigation into Wen Rui’s case.

Wen Wen retraced every place Wen Rui had been in his life, from birth to feigned death—his education, work, and daily life.

When he combined all the clues, he discovered a stark disparity between the father he had always admired and the true man his father was.

Had the inquiry been perfunctory, Wen Wen would have thought the man named Wen Rui was exactly like the father he remembered.

But with professional analysis and thorough investigation, he found Wen Rui’s life journey entwined with numerous deranged and twisted cases.

At first glance, these cases seemed unrelated to Wen Rui, who at best was just a passerby, yet each case intersected with his life, making it all the more sinister.

The victims of those cases might have deserved punishment, but the manner of their retribution was excessively inhumane.

The darkness in the executor’s heart was probably much greater than that in Wen Wen’s!

However, Wen Rui’s life was not always accompanied by blood and gore. Before he got married, he had taken a six-month trip. After the trip ended, the frequency of those bloody incidents sharply decreased, and Wen Rui married Wen Wen’s mother and had children...

Wen Wen’s next investigative target was to find out what exactly had happened during those six months of travel.

...

"Dr. Wen, I have some good news for you, your son has found out you are not dead," said a woman dressed in a sailor suit, looking like a young schoolgirl, as she leaned over the back of a man and whispered in his ear.

A man with thick glasses, dressed in a scholar’s gown and exuding an aura of academia, pushed his glasses up and said expressionlessly, "How is that good news? It’s just a nuisance."

This man was none other than Wen Wen’s missing father, Wen Rui!

"Aren’t you curious whether he can find you or not?" the woman asked as she walked around to face the man.

Wen Rui picked up a thick book and lightly tapped it on the woman’s head, saying, "What difference does it make if he finds me or not? From the day I arranged my own ’death,’ I’ve cut ties with the past and dedicated everything to knowledge and wisdom."

"If that’s the case, why do you still pay attention to his movements?"

The man smiled elegantly and replied, "It’s simply because some interesting things have happened to him. He once had a talent like mine, but I extinguished it with my own hands. I’m curious why he has become a superpower user again."

"Extinguished it with your own hands?" The woman covered her mouth and said, "He really is unlucky to have a father like you. But the talent you spoke of is...?"

"The same as you’re thinking, but now he cannot extract strength from madness."

Wen Rui looked up at the intricately decorated ceiling, his eyes reflecting a complex emotion.

To extinguish Wen Wen’s talent was both cruel and merciful, for only he knew the consequences that power would bring.

But when Wen Wen returned to Lugang City, he was surprised to find that Wen Wen had become a Demon Hunter and was quite skilled.

Where was this power coming from? By all accounts, Wen Wen should have been a slightly deranged ordinary detective for life.

This unexplained power sparked Wen Rui’s curiosity, and he prepared to thoroughly investigate the source of Wen Wen’s strength.

For Wen Rui, nothing was more important than solving a mystery. If anything stood in opposition to the problem, he simply needed to sweep it away.

He opened the book in his hands with a bronze cover; the pages were made of irregularly shaped parchment, and recorded on those parchments were texts unknown to the real world.

Exotic Texts!

After opening the book, Wen Rui began to read aloud.

"To knowledge and wisdom, to the mysteries and laws, to the omniscient and omnipotent deity who creates the principles that govern the world..."

As Wen Rui read, countless strange tadpole-like texts leaped out from the book, burrowing into his mind. Acquiring knowledge was the most delightful part of Wen Rui’s day.

Looking at those texts, the woman showed an envious expression. Those bizarre and forbidden bits of knowledge, she could only remember a little each time. Forcing too much into her memory would send her into endless madness, but this man in front of her recited the knowledge as if there were no obstructions.

In just a few years, he had surpassed her century’s worth of accumulation!