Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 700 - 690: Cheap Deception Method

Chapter 700: Chapter 690: Cheap Deception Method

After returning to the Sanctuary, Wen Wen felt a weight lifted off his shoulders; one way or another, he had managed to bluff his way through this time.

The mysterious powerhouse, Black Cross, was still a Catastrophe Level Powerhouse, and one that could easily repel a Tings Hound.

Fortunately, that Tings Hound was not as it had been the first time it appeared, driven solely by a desire to consume time; otherwise, the chains might not have been enough to scare it, and Wen Wen would have lost his composure in front of the other superpower users.

After briefly adjusting his emotions, Wen Wen didn’t linger in the Sanctuary. He snapped his fingers and his figure vanished instantly.

When Wen Wen reappeared, he was inside an abandoned mansion in Nim City that had been burned by a great fire, a place surrounded by a terrifying legend.

A young single mother who had just moved in went out to buy groceries and locked her two-year-old child at home.

However, on her way, she was knocked unconscious by a flower pot that fell from a great height. By the time she woke up in the hospital, ten days had passed.

When she returned home, her child had already starved to death. She lived crazily alongside her child’s corpse for several years until a fire engulfed everything...

Ever since then, children who passed by the area often disappeared, only to be found later in a charred cradle within the house, having starved for days...

Having the lesson of the Guide blocking the door before, Wen Wen came here first after the fog spread and effortlessly captured the mischievous young mother.

In consideration that she ultimately did not starve a child to death, Wen Wen simply implanted chains inside her and let her continue living there, serving as an exit for his Sanctuary.

After emerging from there, Wen Wen pretended to be oblivious and quietly merged with the main forces of the Demon Hunters, following the orders of Xun Qing and others, dealing with the aftermath of the Mist Box and the Tings Hound.

Apart from the battle between the Guide and the True-order Masters, the casualties in Nim City were not too severe.

Since the Mist Box had not been unsealed for long, the areas where monsters were concentrated were only around Wen Wen and a cyclone of mist escorting Stein. Only a few residents who didn’t take the notices from Nim City Government seriously encountered the mist monsters and got killed.

This was a stroke of luck amidst the misfortune.

Due to the agreement between Black Cross and the Capital District Hunters Association, Black Cross’s appearance did not cause an upheaval in the Golden Eagle District.

However, during his activities, Wen Wen clearly felt a mysterious qi encircling him, as if inspecting him.

This qi was far superior to Xun Qing and the others and likely belonged to a Judicator from the Golden Eagle District.

The Judicator probably wanted to have a chat with Black Cross, but unfortunately, he couldn’t find any trace of him.

After witnessing Black Cross taking away the Mist Box and capturing Stein, the superpower users in Nim City were not disheartened but instead became even more determined.

With their high spirits, it was bad luck for the monsters in Nim City. In just a day and a half, the city was thoroughly swept clean.

No matter if you were part of the Blood Clan, or belonged to a Werewolf Tribe or a Wizard’s Assembly, all were wiped out without exception.

Only the area around the Dark Kitchen was treated somewhat more gently, but previous offenders among the monsters were not spared. Of course, there were some accidental injuries, but compared to other forces, it was already quite merciful.

If it weren’t for Old Tings having some clout with some high-level members of the Golden Eagle District Association and the significant help he provided in dealing with Stein, the Dark Kitchen would have been swept clean as well.

The fog had now completely dissipated; without the environment for monsters to hide, and having undergone such intense cleansing, it would be at least several decades before the monsters of Nim City could pose any threat again.

Finally, after the eradication of the monsters had concluded, a collective memory modification was carried out in Nim City.

The citizens would no longer remember the mysterious events of these days, nor would they pay attention to the abrupt changes in the fog; rather, they had not completely abandoned wearing masks. In fact, on the third Friday of early spring each year, there was now a mask-related festival ...

It was worth mentioning that after three days of treatment, the superpower user Boyeve finally woke up.

However, his strength had dropped by an entire level, and his physical condition was like that of a dying old man, utterly devoid of his former vigor.

Wen Wen considered the opportunity and issued him an invitation to see if the Sanctuary’s strength could help him recover somewhat.

...

After a day and a half of busyness, Wen Wen finally had some free time. The next day at noon, they would head to Hunter Island, and Wen Wen could use this interval to return to the Sanctuary to organize his gains.

Once back at the Sanctuary, the first person Wen Wen looked for was Stein. Upon seeing his state, Wen Wen was slightly taken aback.

At this moment, Stein was left only in boxer briefs, bound in a seductive pose in the air of the cell; his skin had somehow turned completely green, displaying a thoroughly forlorn expression.

Wen Wen scratched his head. Before he had left, he had instructed Molodeni to administer some punishment to Stein that wouldn’t harm his body, and now it seemed that the punishment was quite effective.

This was also good; Stein had now completely submitted and would answer anything Wen Wen asked with honesty. He didn’t even conceal the fact that he still wet the bed at the age of eleven.

Thus, Wen Wen easily obtained everything he wanted to know, such as details regarding Stein’s time travel and all that had happened after he met the Guide.

Wen Wen also successfully obtained from Stein the methods to deceive the Tings Hound.

But Wen Wen was not satisfied with this method: initially, he had thought it must be some profound forbidden spell or a magical technique only usable by Time Travelers. He hadn’t expected it to simply be a Blinding Spell that even ordinary people could use.

With such a thing, fooling creatures without intelligence, or ordinary beasts like wolves or panthers might be tolerable, but to deceive the Tings Hound?

Considering the intelligence that had been displayed during its last gaze with Wen Wen, he could not believe this method would fool it!

Therefore, Wen Wen increased the pressure on Stein, using more methods, yet Stein continued to stick to his story, providing plenty of evidence to Wen Wen.

In the end, Wen Wen had to believe that what Stein had provided was indeed the real method of deception.

"Could it be that the Tings Hound is really so easily deceived?"

"Hiss..."

A thought suddenly struck Wen Wen’s mind, pondering another possibility.

"Maybe it’s not that the method had deceived the Tings Hound, but rather that the Tings Hound was willing to be deceived by such a playful tactic!"