Chapter 260: The Truman Show?

Chapter 260: The Truman Show?

“Another witch, huh. Hey, Loli, do you know about this witch?” Zheng Yichen waved the Magic Weapon Summoning Book in his hand as he called out to Loris.

“I know.” Loris glanced at the contents on the Magic Weapon Summoning Book. It was a post about a Secret Treasure. Since there were no restrictions, anyone could see it. Zheng Yichen used his admin privileges to check the poster’s status. Well, the person was dead.

Come to think of it, that made sense. Any normal, sensible person basically wouldn’t post such information for no reason. The person was dead; did the truthfulness even need much consideration?

Even if it wasn’t ten out of ten true, it was at least seven out of ten. Regarding the Secret Treasure described in the post, Zheng Yichen said he was quite interested too. This kind of thing, how should one put it, treasures! Zheng Yichen had already used quite a few.

A large part of the reason for his current achievements came from such good items boosting him up. Otherwise, if he had to grow to his current level on his own, it would probably take decades.

No one didn’t want to improve themselves. Not to mention the part about improving one’s aptitude, just the aspect of greatly increasing lifespan was enough to make people desperately pursue it.

Moreover, the information about the key holder of the Secret Treasure was also made public. Even if it was fake, finding a few low-level Adventurers was a trivial matter. For those power ful individuals, even if they made a trip for nothing, they could treat it as going out for a change of scenery.

Of course, for those whose lifespans were about to reach their end, if it turned out to be fake, taking out their anger on others was practically commonplace.

More importantly, Zheng Yichen actually knew someone from this group. That guy really had a lot of misfortunes. Zheng Yichen felt he should discuss with him, maybe sell him some insurance or something. Not to insure him, but to insure his sister…

“That item is useless to you,” Loris added. The distance between Zheng Yichen and her wasn’t particularly close, but with a Witch’s eyesight, this distance allowed her to easily read the entire page’s content at a glance. Seeing that Zheng Yichen seemed very interested, she simply cut off some of his little thoughts: “Aren’t you going to make Magic Arms?”

“Oh, right, let’s hurry up and deal with this then.” Zheng Yichen scratched his head. Useless for him, huh? In that instant, he felt the allure of this Secret Treasure diminish greatly for him. He raised a fingernail and swiped it to the side, opening a crack. Reaching into the crack, he pulled out the Alchemical Avatar inside and placed it on the ground. Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but look over this Alchemical Avatar several more times.

After all, it was made based on his own image. Now, being a dragon, every time he saw this Human Form of himself, he felt an extra sense of familiarity. As for himself looking like this? Tsk!

Transferring most of his attention to the Alchemical Avatar, Zheng Yichen’s main body lay down on the ground. He controlled the Alchemical Avatar to go to the elevator. Regarding this elevator, Zheng Yichen felt a bit helpless. It seemed not long ago, Dan Marina came over using this very elevator. He clearly had set the entrance to a rather hidden area, and left a pretty complex password at the entrance, plus a camera. If the password was entered incorrectly the first time, that thing would immediately be activated.

But Dan Marina entered it correctly on her first try!

That woman with cheat codes was really… If that woman could go to an Internet Cafe on Earth and glance at a keyboard, she could probably casually play using the accounts of everyone who had played games on that computer before! Secrecy? Didn’t exist. As long as an account password was typed on that keyboard, it couldn’t escape. More powerful than those keyloggers.

Maybe mobile phone tokens or something could avoid this… Tsk, who knows the specifics. Maybe this was a big step forward for technology challenging magic.

“Hmm… Let me change the password!” As he left, Zheng Yichen casually changed the opening password for this exit door. Then he glanced at a hidden secret Armory nearby. Motorcycles, he had already researched them. Bicycles too. Cars? Coaches? Steady as can be!

Yet, there was no chance to drive them out.

If I get the chance, I must take some girls out for a proper drive! Somewhat reluctantly, he took another look at that Armory. Zheng Yichen curled his lip and left the exit. Back when setting up the exit, what was I thinking, idly making this vehicle storage Armory? Making it so awkward now, extra uncomfortable.

Arriving at the residence in Kaja, seeing that the person opening the door was actually Dan Marina, Zheng Yichen’s first thought was to turn around and leave!

“Holy crap, why are you still here?” He widened his eyes, looking at the grinning woman before him.

“Because I have an Avatar now, so my true self stays behind to properly be the person behind the scenes.”

“…So your claim back then about urgently needing an Avatar was just fooling me, right?” Zheng Yichen’s cheek twitched slightly. He pulled a face, looking unfavorably at this woman. So, how much of what this woman said was actually true?

“I did urgently need it back then. But your efficiency was too low, so I changed my approach. So, it’s not urgent anymore.”

Hearing this, Zheng Yichen looked furious. “And that’s my fault? If it weren’t to avoid dangerous factors, would I have taken that long? Whatever, forget it!”

Thinking about the things Dan Marina gave him, he who accepted gifts felt indebted. Even though he felt he was fooled, he couldn’t keep complaining: “So, you plan to stay in Kaja for now?”

“Hmm~ For the time being, yes. Accidentally caused quite a troublesome matter, so I need to observe the follow-up for a while longer.” Dan Marina shrugged, saying quite helplessly.

“Oh? You actually had a careless moment?”

“Not exactly careless. I was a bit careless, who knew the thing that randomly popped up would be so troublesome.” Dan Marina crossed her arms, gave a light yawn, and glanced at Zheng Yichen, cutting off the question he was about to ask. “I probably know what you want to ask. But actually, there’s not much to say. It’s not that I didn’t want to ‘see’ more, but there really wasn’t any need at the time. If there’s a breakfast shop right across from your house, would you specifically take a bus to go buy breakfast?”

“So you ended up causing a new big event?”

“A matter neither big nor small. If it hadn’t affected the little guy I’ve been watching recently, I wouldn’t have bothered much about it.”

In the past, she was the one who made messes and got others to willingly clean them up. When did she ever actively step in to handle things herself? Thinking back carefully, it seemed when she tried researching and making the Fate-Killer before, she accidentally created a not-so-small spatial distortion phenomenon right where she was. At the time, she claimed she was innocent. Who would have thought the place for the experiment was a rare spatial Weak Point? The ripples from the damaged Fate-Killer’s outburst slightly stimulated it and poked a hole.

Slightly more troublesome was that, at the time, some lucky creature from who-knows-which world actually came through the spatial distortion without being shredded. But besides luck, strength played a significant role too. As a non-combatant, Dan Marina certainly wouldn’t idly go deal with such a tough opponent.

Of course, to prevent the other party from causing too much trouble and others finding out it was her doing, Dan Marina played the role of a ‘legendary prophet,’ ‘slightly’ guiding a team of Adventurers who were decent people, had solid bonds between comrades, and had passable strength. They staged a show of the Hero confronting the Demon King, and with the help of the local forces there and the place being remote enough, they successfully dealt with that lucky and unlucky guy before the news reached the Sanctuary Church.

As for the Sanctuary Church finding out later? Dan Marina said all traces were cleaned up afterward. With her personally covering up, unless there was someone with abilities similar to hers, others simply couldn’t discover it. Oh, a few years after that incident ended, it seemed someone wrote it into a story, and it’s still circulated to this day. Not long ago, she saw that book in a Library in Kaja.

“What you’re watching is this?” Zheng Yichen’s eyes moved. He immediately took out the Magic Weapon Summoning Book and pulled up the post whose popularity still hadn’t faded.

“Correct.”

“Tsk tsk, then they were seriously tricked by you.” Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but feel some sympathy for Oss. So this matter was stirred up by Dan Marina. Finding treasure, chance encounters—these were mostly things only protagonists encountered. But with Dan Marina around, even a side character could have such controllable possibilities. Only, due to her carelessness, it seemed Oss and the others, who got the Secret Treasure key from this, directly became targets for all.

What was Oss doing now? He suddenly realized something and was preparing to rush frantically back to his original city. He thought of his sister. He knew that before, he had always been doing legitimate Quests, rarely making enemies. So, most of the time, he didn’t hide his relationship with his sister. He also wouldn’t trust others to be responsible for his sister’s schooling. So when he sent his sister to School back then, he went personally. Quite a few people saw them.

This time, the matter he encountered was so big. He was very worried some people with ulterior motives would investigate this relationship, causing his sister to get involved. If he encountered people stronger than himself and couldn’t win, he would give up this hot potato Secret Treasure key. But if anyone captured his sister as a threat, even if the other party was a weakling, he would risk offending that powerful person to death and use the key to exchange for his sister’s safety.

“It’s not too bad. A protagonist always needs some bumpy experiences. But this time, I’ll consider it my great kindness, letting him off once.” Dan Marina said casually. When one’s power reached her level, for many ordinary beings, a single sentence, a single thought could change many things!

As for the fact that the initial mistake in this matter lay with herself? That was an accidental carelessness! Having lived for hundreds of years, who didn’t have some minor slip-ups?

“What’s the rush to go somewhere?” ‘Lena’ looked at Oss, whose eyes were somewhat red, his anxious expression completely unconcealed, and asked ‘curiously.’

“Why are you here?” Oss, who intended to secretly leave the city, was startled. He couldn’t help but glance at his companions beside him. Their disguises weren’t that poor, were they? ‘Lena’ actually recognized them at a glance. Seeing her, Oss felt a bit more ashamed in his heart. He was only thinking about his sister’s matter and forgot about this companion who had been with the team for a while…

But ashamed or not, in the current situation, besides not wanting to see his sister meet with disaster, he didn’t want to run into Lena. He couldn’t even guarantee his own safety; having her rejoin the team now would just bring harm to her, wouldn’t it?

“You have the nerve to ask! You disappeared without a word for over half a month. I just came back from Oro City.”

“…” Oss touched the tip of his nose. So Lena’s young lady temper flared up, and she directly ran back… Wait, since she just came back from Oro City, then about his sister’s matter…

“Did you see Nancy when you went back?” His tone carried a hopeful anticipation.

“Yeah, I saw her. What on earth did you guys run into that has you in such a hurry?”

Lena rolled her eyes and asked.

“It’s a long story. How has my sister been recently?” Oss’s voice sounded a bit dry. Thinking about it calmly now, even at the fastest speed, going back would take at least close to ten days. By then, it would be too late. The only hope was Lena. Although her family background wasn’t clear, from her usual unintentional behavior, one could tell her family was very wealthy. Now was even more so. Otherwise, how could she make a round trip between Kaja and Oro in about half a month?

“She’s alright. She was found to have some Talent valued by the Sanctuary Church, so she was temporarily taken to The Church for testing. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have come back so soon,” Lena said, curling her lip. Of course, this was just what she said. The actual situation was not like this at all. But even if the timing didn’t quite match up, she had her own methods. Tricking the local Sanctuary Church branch into taking her away wasn’t difficult. Anyway, for at least ten days, his sister would have no problems.

As for afterward, in the short term, it might not be a big issue either. After all, some Talent was discovered on her. Before it could be clarified whether she had any real connection with the Sanctuary Church, those with ideas wouldn’t rashly reach out. Of course, during this period, it wouldn’t be as absolutely safe as those ten days. Those with brains wouldn’t recklessly seek death, but there were always some reckless fellows who felt pretty good about themselves, right?

“…That’s good.” Oss completely relaxed. Even though he didn’t care much for the Sanctuary Church, if his sister was discovered to have some aptitude suitable for development in the Sheng Tang Church and was taken away, this was already the best outcome. There, even a branch was very safe. Still, he wasn’t completely at ease; he needed to return as soon as possible!

“Hurry up and tell me what you ran into!”

Looking at Dan Marina, whose eyes sparkled with full anticipation and eagerness, Oss, who had just relaxed, felt his head swelling. How should he say this? If he told her, he was afraid he couldn’t get rid of this woman!

“…So, you Witches, when you had nothing better to do in the past, just played around like this?” Zheng Yichen rubbed his head, looking rather conflicted at the scene displayed in the water basin, which was clearly Dan Marina’s Avatar conversing with Oss and the others. Through the water surface, their voices came through clearly, like watching a movie… no, The Truman Show?