I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Chapter 199 198. Healing (Seeking votes~)

Jing Ying asked, as if possessed:

"What do you want me to do?"

He regretted the words as soon as they left his mouth. His goal wasn't to cooperate with the Moon Goddess, but to find a way to make her stop obsessing over Ma En. Although this conversation made him suspect that Ma En might be more dangerous than he initially thought, he could find other ways to achieve his goal.

For example, when he saw Ma En, he could use the information he got from meeting the Moon Goddess to fabricate a lie, making Ma En believe that the upcoming work was fraught with danger, and he could completely help him quit the mission as a helper.

And if he didn't appreciate it, he could threaten him with the Moon Goddess's existence.

Thinking about it this way, the Moon Goddess coming to him was indeed a good thing. The next thing to do was to find a way to make her believe that Ma En was already in the Federation's pocket.

Then he saw the Moon Goddess answer with a gentle expression:

"Can you communicate with Ma En in the mental dimension?"

Jing Ying replied with some resistance:

"I can't say for sure."

He originally planned to find an excuse to meet Ma En in the mental dimension and naturally have a deep or shallow exchange with him, but now his goal was to make the Moon Goddess give up her idea.

The woman didn't seem to notice the resistance in his tone:

"I've prepared a trap specifically to deal with him, but now there's no way to throw him into it. If you're willing, I can hide it in your mind, and you just need to let him walk in."

"Impossible," Jing Ying said, both surprised and angry. "Do you think I'm brainless?"

The Moon Goddess comforted him gently:

"I understand your concerns. Doing so does mean entrusting your life and death to me, but I can't covet anything in your soul, nor do I need to do anything to you.

"My only goal is Ma En."

No matter what, the man opposite him couldn't imagine that this sentence was actually true.

Because if Jing Ying was influenced too much, he would lose the ability to see Ma En. Therefore, the Moon Goddess would never pull him toward her chosen one, nor would she erode his mind.

This trap had a characteristic that it wouldn't affect the mind it was in, which was a necessary condition for it to work on Ma En.

But she also knew very well that no one with reason would accept such conditions.

The purpose of her saying this wasn't really to get Jing Ying to agree to the proposal.

Jing Ying shook his head angrily:

"It seems you're treating me like a fool, thinking I'd hand over my life and death to a mind-manipulating goddess. I'll report this to the Investigation Department when I get back. You should completely dismiss this idea."

The Moon Goddess said with a smile:

"Be careful, you're talking to a goddess."

Jing Ying retorted sharply:

"You want to threaten me? I can leave the Southern Federation at any time and leave you here."

The liquid woman shook her head:

"No, no, you've misunderstood. What I mean is that you're standing in front of a goddess, and she needs your help.

"Since the Federation won't hand over Ma En, why don't you trade with me?

"I think you might not care about the survival of the Secret Night Curtain as much as they do, so you can completely exchange the reward for anything of equal value, such as fifty tamed and modified Tier IV mental creatures, or anything else.

"You can name any conditions to me."

Even if the Moon Goddess didn't say it, Jing Ying instantly thought of the real reward she was hinting at—the chance to continue living. No one knew his path forward better than a true Tier V mental entity.

And thinking about it carefully, if he proceeded according to the original plan, the result would likely be a narrow escape from death, and after meeting the Moon Goddess, the probability might increase to certain death.

But just before wavering, Jing Ying convinced himself again.

Because trading with the Moon Goddess now would likely also result in certain death. With such a huge gap between the two sides, the only possibility of opening his mind to the other party was to be completely controlled.

'No, the fact that the Moon Goddess would propose such a deal means that maybe she won't invade your brain, and besides, do you have any other options? The original path has been completely blocked.'

'Why not take a gamble? What if you win?'

Chaotic thoughts buzzed in his ears like noisy static, but Jing Ying still maintained his own thoughts amidst their interference:

"No conditions can convince me. The Federation won't give you evil gods any chance."

He had already obtained information from the Moon Goddess that could be used to deceive Ma En, and he could continue to try. Besides, he had already prepared himself for death when he accepted this mission, and the only reason he wanted to live was to spend more time with his family.

He couldn't die before his partner, who was clearly an extraordinary ability user.

If the price of living was to give the gods a chance to escape from here, then what was the point of living longer? To become slaves to these gods?

And Jing Ying hadn't seen many people who betrayed the Federation end well.

"If you're not ready yet, I can give you some time to think about it," the Moon Goddess suddenly said to him.

This sentence made Jing Ying suddenly think of an idea.

A look of hesitation appeared on his face:

"I have to admit that your argument is very tempting, but I really can't trust you just like that."

The Moon Goddess looked at him:

"I'll wait for you here."

Jing Ying nodded:

"If I don't accept, I'll come to you with the Federation's refusal."

The plan to deal with her was just a few days away. As long as he could delay her from trying to find other collaborators, these gods might not have anything else, but they certainly wouldn't lack patience.

With that, his figure slowly dissipated in front of the Moon Goddess.

Back at the Investigation Department, Jing Ying had just opened his eyes when he saw a delicate figure floating in the air.

Wang Yin slowly landed in front of him:

"Did you just go to see Ma En?"

Jing Ying frowned and questioned:

"When did you come in? Don't approach mental ability users when they're closing their eyes."

Wang Yin didn't take his words to heart. She had basically figured out Jing Ying's personality these days.

"I'm here to find you for Ma En," she said bluntly.

Sure enough, Jing Ying immediately perked up:

"What's wrong?"

Wang Yin asked:

"I want to ask you, do you have a way to tamper with that machine?"

Jing Ying asked in confusion:

"What do you want to do?"

The girl said:

"I want you to make some small modifications on it so that I can kill Ma En after he completes his work, provided that you haven't killed him and he successfully comes out of the Moon Goddess alive."

Jing Ying immediately narrowed his eyes:

"What do you mean? Do you think I can't kill him?"

'She's looking down on you.'

Wang Yin said with a smile:

"No, but if you die, I can avenge you, which won't be a loss to you anyway."

Jing Ying suppressed his anger and said word by word:

"You're lying.

"You also want Ma En to die, right?

"No wonder you're cooperating with me so much. You even said not to implicate you, but this is clearly also your goal, yet you pretend to be helping me for free."

Wang Yin put away her smile and said expressionlessly:

"So what?

"Don't you know that I'm your direct superior? If I want to, I can find an excuse at any time to make sure you never have the chance to touch this project in your life. Use your brain and think carefully, what harm does the request I just made do to you?"

Jing Ying said with a sneer:

"What harm? You're waiting for me to die.

"Since you also want Ma En to die, you could have said so clearly when I came to you. Even if you don't trust me, you shouldn't have said those nonsense things about not wanting me to implicate you.

"You want to use me but don't want to get your hands dirty. How can there be such a good thing?"

The girl revealed a long-lost hint of arrogant madness in her eyes, and laughed contemptuously a few times:

"What do you think you are? Just an insect that I can crush to death with a flick of my hand, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid that you dare to talk to me like this.

"Do you dare to tell the Shadow that I want to kill Ma En, and by the way, confess your little thoughts?

"Even if you really tell him, it's useless, because I'm Wang Yin, who betrayed the Shenxiao Traveler. The merits I've made are enough to support me in making a few small mistakes, but you don't have any get-out-of-jail-free card."

As she spoke, Wang Yin's face became increasingly sinister and terrifying:

"And if your plan goes smoothly, you may die soon. Have you thought about your family? At that time, they will only have the protection of the Federation without any support, but if two evil spirits want their lives, no one can stop them.

"Right?"

This threat extinguished all of Jing Ying's anger like a bucket of cold water.

Wang Yin looked at the silent man with his head down, feeling a little strange in her heart.

Jing Ying had lived for decades and had long learned to swallow his anger in his long life. In the past, even if his attitude was a little bad, there would be no reaction.

"Sorry," Jing Ying said in a low voice, "I don't have many days to live, and my emotions sometimes get out of control."

Wang Yin put on a smile again:

"It's okay, it's good that you can calm down."

And just like he said, Jing Ying didn't have long to live, and he might not even have thought of the correct time of death. She didn't need to be angry with this kind of person at all.

'Look at her eyes, she's looking down on you.'

Jing Ying said with his head down:

"I can achieve the effect you want, but I need you to transfer away the other engineers. Then, you just need to create some mental fluctuations around the machine to kill Ma En inside.

"But even if I fail to kill him, he can't survive in front of a goddess."

He was decades younger than himself and didn't have the experience to accomplish such a great feat.

Wang Yin said:

"I know, but it's better to be prepared."

In fact, she didn't think that Ma En could really survive in it. Wang Yin didn't see any qualities in him that were enough to escape in front of a god, but none of this mattered...

Because he was the person in the Shenxiao prophecy.

The possibility of him dying in the machine was theoretically not small, but reason and logic often lost their usefulness when encountering Shenxiao.

This would only be one of her preparations to deal with Ma En.

"Okay," Jing Ying continued, "I'll help you with this, but you have to do something for me."

The girl looked at him in confusion and said:

"What?"

She didn't expect Jing Ying to make conditions.

'Yes, we actually have another way.'

Jing Ying said with a firm gaze:

"Get me another Tier III mental animal, but there can't be any information bombs set inside.

"I want to use it to kill Ma En."

'Very good.'

How could he not have thought of it just now?

Maybe it was because he hadn't completely hardened his heart just now that he had overlooked such an obvious option. In fact, he didn't need to take any risks to complete the trap mentioned by the Moon Goddess.

"No problem," Wang Yin immediately agreed after hearing that this was to deal with Ma En, "I'll go prepare it now."

"Then leave and go out if there's nothing else," Jing Ying said to see her off, "I'm going to prepare the weapon to deal with Ma En, don't bother me casually again."

After watching the girl float out, Jing Ying turned around and sat back on the bed.

He closed his eyes.

As the surrounding environment changed rapidly, the figure from just now slowly emerged in front of his eyes.

The Moon Goddess looked at him with a smile:

"I knew you would come back."

In fact, his persistence was meaningless, just self-deception.

Yes, he might push the Moon Goddess to escape from this place, but even if low-level ability users like him helped the Moon Goddess with anything, they couldn't really change the result. His actions had a negligible impact on matters at that level.

'That's right, you don't have to bear any responsibility.'

Jing Ying looked at the Moon Goddess firmly and said:

"I can help you create a trap, but I can't let it appear in my brain. I'll prepare a Tier III mental entity for you, and then find a way to get Ma En to enter its brain. You can bury a trap inside.

"But I also have conditions."

The Moon Goddess asked knowingly:

"What conditions?"

He replied:

"My soul has been damaged due to frequent body transfers when I was young. If it continues like this, I won't live long. I want to heal the injuries on my body, and there can't be any side effects."

The Moon Goddess looked into his eyes gently and said:

"Extend your hand."

Jing Ying raised his right arm somewhat uneasily.

The Moon Goddess reached out and held his outstretched palm tightly, staring at her reflection in his eyes ambiguously:

"Drink it."

As she retracted her palm, this lifelike liquid body suddenly exuded a decaying aura, and a drop of liquid shimmering with a beautiful silver luster appeared on Jing Ying's hand.

He lowered his head and looked at the droplet.

A distorted male face broke into his eyes, and vague wails echoed around him.

This startled Jing Ying, but at the same time, he confirmed one thing.

This thing really could "cure" him.

He opened his mouth.