I'm a villain, not a devil

There are only two people at the back door of the villa. The security measures here are very strict and there will be no other people around.

Concubine Lan's maid, guards and others should be waiting at another alley entrance.

Deliberately creating an empty environment, Concubine Lan, who was favored by His Majesty, began to kiss the man passionately.

Looking at the way the two were inseparable, and seeing that Lan Fei's face flushed at the slightest emotion, it was obvious that the two had just experienced a fierce battle.

The bird on the branch flapped its wings in place, causing the birds around it to flap their wings as well.

But, they are just a few birds, no one will pay attention to them.

At the back door, Lan Fei and the man kissed passionately for a long time before reluctantly parting their lips.

The two hugged each other and whispered something. The bird flapped its wings as if wanting to stand closer.

Suddenly, Lan Fei looked up in astonishment, and her voice became much louder: "You want to see Bai Youming?!"

The man looked around and said nervously, "Don't shout."

"This is my private residence, no one can hear us." Although she said so, Lan Fei still lowered her voice.

However, compared to the previous whispers, the conversation between the two people could already be heard vaguely.

Words like “Major General Lance,” “traitor,” and “emergency” kept leaking out.

After a while, the two seemed to have finished their discussion, and Lan Fei said with some concern: "What if it was Bai Youming who did it?"

The man's face looked a little ugly. "I don't know, but I can't find any useful information right now... I don't think His Royal Highness would do such a thing. He is second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Besides, his newly adopted son died not long ago. He has no motive."

"Okay...you're going now?"

"Yes." The man nodded and looked into the distance. "You should go back to the palace first. If you stay outside for too long, you will be easily suspected. By the way, after you go back, find a chance to meet with Covens and talk it over."

"Well, I see."

The man pecked Lan Fei's lips again and then left in a hurry.

Lan Fei did not delay and quickly walked towards her motorcade.

Just as the two men moved away, the birds on the tree branches flapped their wings. The slightly fatter one flew into the sky, circled for a while, and finally flew in the direction the man left.

It gradually climbed higher and higher until it could no longer be seen by people on the ground, and a human-like expression appeared on the bird's face.

Sure enough, it was not by accident that Concubine Lan came into contact with Major General Lance's information. She was having an affair with someone, and it was probably at the request of that person that she sought information about Admiral Lance.

The expression on the bird's face became more and more vivid. It looked down while thinking, making sure that the man who thought he was very smart and was secretly leaving here was within its sight.

After following for a while, it nodded slightly. The man was really going to find the prince for nothing...

Bai Youming must not be aware of this matter, otherwise, the trouble will be too big to be solved.

A flash of human hostility appeared in the bird's eyes. It circled lightly in the air and then glided slowly downwards.

If I remember correctly, it should be a deserted neighborhood...

From the spread wings, a light red mist slowly dissipated and gradually spread to cover the area where the man was.

Occasionally, a few scavengers would pass by the deserted neighborhood. They would bend over with their heads down, searching for anything valuable in the abandoned buildings.

"thump."

The sound of people falling to the ground continued, and they could no longer raise their heads.

His sharp eyes scanned the surroundings, and finally, the bird flew down following his gaze and landed on top of a steel bar.

The man who was reluctant to leave Lan Fei just now, now sat down on the ground weakly. He leaned against the wall and gasped heavily, but his face was still turning pale at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Beneath the grayish-white skin, there was a dark red color trembling, as if something was about to come out of the blood vessels.

The man gritted his teeth and glanced around desperately and fiercely.

His body was getting weaker and weaker, which made his emotions out of control.

"Who is it?! Come out!" the man yelled.

However, there was no response from the surroundings, only an increasingly strong fishy smell wafting over from all directions.

The man roared in despair, but it seemed that even this little bit of energy would make him weaker, and he began to cough violently.

As time went by, he gradually lost the strength to cough, and his eyes became cloudy.

After confirming that the man in front of it no longer had any ability to resist, the bird finally flew down right in front of him.

Under the man's incredulous eyes, the bird made a sharp human voice, like an old eunuch speaking with a pinched throat.

"You can hold on for five minutes at most." The bird raised its voice, "I'll give you a chance to live. Who asked you to start investigating Lance? How did you and Elisa Lam get together?"

The man opened his mouth in disbelief and took a few breaths with difficulty, his voice extremely weak.

"It's you... the person behind Lance... it's you..."

"I am only a servant," the bird said calmly, "your time is running out."

The man laughed miserably, and then said viciously: "A bird? Ha, you dare not even reveal your true face, and you expect me to submit to you?"

The bird raised one wing in a humane manner, and then it realized that it was now a bird and there was no watch on its wing for it to tell time.

It changed the position of its claws somewhat unnaturally and continued, "I don't need your submission. I am just giving you a great opportunity to listen to the gospel."

The man was almost out of breath, his chest heaving violently. "What a ridiculous thing! If you were really great, would you still need to do these sneaky things?"

The bird stroked its beak with the tip of its wings, as if it also liked to do this action when it was in human form.

"You just don't understand," it shook its head in disappointment, "You don't have much time left."

"Kill me and you'll never get any information from me," the man grinned.

The bird laughed sharply: "No, I told you that you don't understand. Even if you die, your head will be preserved. Coincidentally, we have a machine that can dig out the real secrets from your brain."

It saw with satisfaction that the man's face froze for a moment.

"Forgive me for not being able to check the time right now, but I estimate that you have the last two minutes. My mercy is not available to everyone."

The man's pale face became even uglier. He gritted his teeth and said, "I don't even know who is behind you. I can't possibly surrender to nothingness."

"It's not like he's surrendering to the void. At least, as our collaborator, he should be qualified to accept the surrender of the people of this country—" It stroked its beak subconsciously again, and then continued, "What you are doing now will not affect the final result. Of course, we all hope that things can be easier. After all, Bai Youming is a very, very troublesome existence."

It used the word "very" twice in a row, and it seemed that it was very reluctant to face Bai Youming.

"Well, you don't have much time left..." It subconsciously looked at the tip of the wing again, but there was no watch there.

The man still gritted his teeth and said, "Partners? How many parties are you joining together?"

"Those who share the same ideals and interests, and who each takes what they need... Of course, we..."

As he spoke, the bird suddenly froze.

It froze in place, then raised its wings in disbelief.

"This is the third time. This is the third time... My subconscious mind is following my habit, and it even affects my current state..."

It looked at the man in shock: "You are influencing me..."

The man who had a tragic and desperate look just now suddenly became a different person. There was some regret in his voice: "You can actually detect it from here. After I was promoted to Crimson, you are the first one."

"Who are you..." The bird flapped its wings frantically.

The scene around me changed.

The deserted block disappeared, replaced by a dim alley. The fallen homeless children were gone, leaving only broken wooden stakes on the ground.

The man in front of it disappeared, and instead, a six-eyed cat with blue-green fur was staring at it.

"Mountain and Sea Cat!" The bird blurted out, "Forty-two years ago, he wreaked havoc in the birdman tribe that called themselves the Angel Tribe, causing the genocide of the birdman tribe, and finally died in..."

Before he finished speaking, the creature called Yamakaigumi leaped forward at a speed that could not be captured by the naked eye, waving its claws stained with blue-green ink.

The earth and the sky seemed to have turned into a blue-green ink painting. They spread out like ink, and even turned the birds in them into ink halos.

The bird spread its wings and flew high, but it could not fly out of the range of the ink painting.

Its body seemed to be about to dissolve like a drop of ink dropped into water, but after a sharp cry, it suddenly flashed out of thin air and broke away from the ink painting.

However, using such means seemed to make it impossible for it to maintain its bird appearance. After a brief distortion, the bird turned into a middle-aged man wearing a robe of the same color.

He was wearing a bird-beak mask and a black hat, and a watch with only a minute hand was abruptly clasped on his long-sleeved leather gloves, which looked extremely strange.

The bird-beaked man looked at the mountain-sea cat in disbelief: "Apat...you are Apat!"

Sean, standing on the high wall, showed a surprised expression. The other party actually knew Apat? This guy...

From the beginning he and Elisa Lam started acting, it was to lure the other out.

The biggest problem is that such a perfectly forged resume is itself a problem. There are only two people who can view the information at will, the emperor and the prince, but they have no need to forge it.

Then, the forger could only be someone in the office. Although we don’t know who it is, if we put ourselves in another position, we will realize that a resume with problems must be prevented from being seen by others.

But Elisa Lam found it, which means that the other party can only forge it but cannot hide it completely... otherwise, they will be discovered first.

So, in order to prevent being discovered, the best way is naturally to leave some small tricks behind, and among those who entered the database that day, Elisa Lam was the most conspicuous one.

Therefore, Sean was certain that the other party would find a way to monitor Elisa Lam to see what was going on.

The play performed at the back door is to make the other party focus on him first.

Sean didn't know at first that the bird was the watcher, so he used the simplest method.

He directly brought everything around him into his own illusion, which was almost like a non-existent illusion - Sean just changed some of the objects around him.

In this situation, the humans around him can easily break free from his illusion, and at most they will just be slightly distracted. For those strong people, this slightest illusion cannot even make them aware, and they will not be deceived by the illusion. Seeing is still believing.

However, humans are able to break free because their etheric bodies are more powerful, but animals cannot.

Especially an ordinary bird that was not affected by its own illusion at all?

Sean's eyes behind him were watching all this, and when the bird spread its wings and flew high, he had already determined who the observer was.

Once you have a partner, everything becomes easy. Then, it’s a process of letting the other person slowly fall into the illusion.

However, what Sean didn't expect was that his illusion affected people's subconsciousness, which caused the other party to constantly make subconscious movements in human form while maintaining the appearance of a bird, and finally the abnormality was noticed.

All I can say is that the other party is indeed incredibly powerful and has extremely strong mental strength.

However, the illusion is just an appetizer, he also has the ability to "make lies come true". As long as it is a creature that he and Apat have killed, he can fight in a form between illusion and reality. If the opponent is affected by the illusion, the illusion creature will be more real and powerful.

Unexpectedly, the other party recognized the identity of the mountain sea cat and even knew that the mountain sea cat died at the hands of Apat.

Even the empire's top-secret documents did not record the creatures killed by Apat. How did this birdman know that?

Wait, Birdman?

Sean narrowed his eyes.

After the birdman calmed down from his shock, he actually flew up again.

However, this time he was not in the form of a bird, but a pair of wings grew directly behind him.

Birdman tribe... No wonder I know them.

Apat and Shanhaimao were not killed completely at the beginning...

"Apat..." The birdman flapped his wings again.

He raised his cane reverently and tapped his watch with the tip of it.

"Your faithful servant is praying, begging you to bring disaster and plague to punish these blasphemers!"

More and thicker fog scattered from the birdman's wings, and a strong fishy smell filled the entire space.

But Sean's eyes widened completely.

Ritual? He was begging for the plague to come... But this breath was... special proliferation!

Looking at the other person's robe, Sean recalled another similar style.

This birdman...is he from the Vatican?

The Vatican that holds the special multiplication power, was fooled by Sean once, and even sent people to Paradise City to congratulate!

While he was thinking, the plague that the birdman was walking actually drilled into the ground, and a huge earthworm covered with holes and rotten flesh drilled out of the ground.

Before the mountain sea cat could react, the earthworm swallowed it in one gulp.