Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 618 - 607: Association’s Assistance

Chapter 618: Chapter 607: Association’s Assistance

Tao Qingqing cleared her thoughts and said to Wen Wen:

"The murders that occurred here, though they seem reasonable, still have many unexplained aspects."

"The first is that even though the murder rate is incredibly high in this place, it still hasn’t attracted the attention of local authorities; everyone thinks they are just accidents."

"The second point of suspicion is that all the cases have one thing in common: the victims’ families are all out of town. I think the murderer’s idea might be to kill people to bring the families back to the town for mourning, and then catch them all at once."

"The third is about the timing; everything started from the appearance of the Endless Stairs. I suspect that the root of everything lies with the Endless Stairs!"

Tao Qingqing cleared her throat and, looking at Wen Wen with some anticipation, said:

"If all my thoughts hold true, then the murderer’s target should be all the town’s residents, even those not currently living in this town."

"Why target all the town’s residents? The first possibility is that it’s a sacrifice targeting special bloodlines, but the population of Tian Family Town is actually quite mixed. The second is that this is an act of revenge, aimed at everyone in the entire town!"

A strange light flashed in Wen Wen’s eyes, and then he said to Tao Qingqing, "All you’re saying is your conjecture. Come talk to me about your deductions after finding some evidence."

Having said that, he lay down on the bed, turned on the TV, and started watching a boring soap opera.

Tao Qingqing felt somewhat aggrieved. She had thought hard about these things, hoping to earn Wen Wen’s praise, but never expected to be dismissed with just a comment.

Then, Tao Qingqing looked at the Three Cubs lying on the table. Usually, when Wen Wen came back, Three Cubs would crawl onto Wen Wen, but today it just stayed on the table.

...

To verify his own ideas, Wen Wen left near the church and conducted a thorough investigation of the entire town.

Eventually, he discovered that in the entire town, he was indeed the only living being; the place was so clean that even the hibernating bugs underground had disappeared.

Then Wen Wen returned to the Sanctuary and performed numerous tests, finally confirming that he had indeed not been affected by any Illusion Technique, and that the town he saw was indeed real.

By examining the feces left in the residents’ toilets and the food remaining on the dining tables, he deduced that the residents of the town had disappeared for at least ten days.

So, when Wen Wen first entered the town, he had already fallen into the Illusionary Realm!

"No, this place shouldn’t just be a simple Illusionary Realm, at least the people I saw back then should all be real, and that hundred kilos of roasted sunflower seeds is still in my Space Ring."

Wen Wen rubbed his hair frantically. He didn’t understand how all this had been done; it didn’t make sense to call it an Illusionary Realm, and even less so to say it wasn’t.

"Real and fake, tangible and intangible, it’s better to find a professional to come over. Without help, I fear this is too difficult to resolve alone."

Wen Wen opened the Ranger Terminal and reported everything that had happened here to the Association. It wouldn’t be long before a superpower user specialized in Illusion Techniques would arrive.

While waiting for support, Wen Wen left the town and started observing it.

After waiting a while, he became focused because he saw a bird suddenly fly out from the entrance of the town.

Before the bird flew out, Wen Wen had not seen any sign of a bird at all, until it emerged and he noticed its form.

"That’s it... Perhaps there is a false town in front of me that only I cannot access, and everything in this town is still normal."

"Every living being in the town lives within that false town, unable to perceive anything unusual, much like myself as an Outsider, who would also enter that false town immediately, and upon leaving, would enter real space,"

"And the real town, it turns out, can be seen only by someone like me, who has been exiled, to others this real town simply does not exist."

"But this means that the entire town is under its control!"

"It can impose illusions on the whole town that I couldn’t even detect, and can perfectly merge the false town with the real one within the same space, allowing people and animals to come and go without noticing a thing."

If the essence of this Containment Item is the church that contains the Endless Stairs, then being able to do all this within the church’s bounds is not surprising to Wen Wen at all.

But if the enveloped range is the whole town, even a superpower user of the True Order Realm would not be able to create such a large, high-quality Illusionary Realm!

After pondering, Wen Wen began to observe Tao Qingqing through the chains implanted in her body.

No matter how powerful the Illusion, the Sanctuary’s status is ultimately much higher than that of the Illusion, so Wen Wen easily saw the situation surrounding Qingqing.

She was indeed still in that hotel, and on the hotel’s large bed lay a familiar figure, which was none other than Wen Wen himself.

"I really hate it when people impersonate me now... But this person must be part of the Illusion, meant to keep Qingqing from noticing anything unusual here."

"I’d better not tell her for the time being. That way, I can still use her to observe the environmental situation. Maybe if she sees through the Illusion, she will be expelled from it just like me..."

After waiting an entire afternoon, Wen Wen received a phone call, wherein came the heavily curry-scented Common Language of the Federation, and he immediately recognized it as the accent of the Yingua District.

"Respected Mr. Mystic Detective, I am ’Shen Jing,’ a Ranger. I’ll be arriving outside Tian Family Town soon,"

"How many people have you brought?"

Shen Jing paused then said, "Um... one motorcycle."

Wen Wen did not quite understand the meaning of this statement—how many people could fit on a motorcycle? Were only two people sent by the Hunter Association?

Soon, Wen Wen realized his thinking was somewhat naive; the size of a motorcycle from the Yingua District could not be guessed by normal standards.

A motorcycle about seven or eight meters long clumsily drove over; the motorcycle itself was only about one meter tall, the remaining six or seven meters were all people...

Wen Wen, with his mouth agape, watched as the motorcycle pulled up in front of him and stupified, he watched as more than forty people steadily alighted from it.

Among these forty or so people were five superpower users and a complete Supporter team, including various types of equipment.

"You... you all came here like this?" Wen Wen asked, his mouth twitching.

A man, with a scarf wrapped around his head and skin darker than the average person, said, "Yes, we came here just like this."

"Don’t mind our odd poses; it’s actually very comfortable because the motorcycle is a Containment Item."

"When you ride this motorcycle, your weight temporarily disappears and no matter the posture, it won’t feel uncomfortable or affect the motorcycle’s operation..."

Wen Wen swallowed hard and said, "The problem is, how would ordinary people react to seeing you like this?"

Shen Jing laughed and said, "To ordinary people, it just appears as a regular motorcycle. Let me reintroduce myself, my name is Moyadi, codenamed Shen Jing, and I am an Illusion Master!"