Enforcer Manual
Chapter 431

Chapter 431: 431

Director Lu had come to rescue them.

From a standpoint, Lu Xiang was undoubtedly their enemy, but for some reason, after her arrival and mentioning the notes left by the "enthusiastic citizen", the observers suddenly felt a sense of security.

And this also confirmed the United Government’s long-standing speculation.

Since the "enthusiastic citizen" went missing, Lu Xiang had been in communication with the Void Investigation Bureau, and considering the timing of her appearance and her attitude toward Ge Fu and the adventurers, it was clear their relationship was very familiar, possibly dating back a long time.

They learned the true identity of the lady in white through the notes left by the "enthusiastic citizen".

A Void creature known as an "Absurd Demon".

The first to realize its existence was Adventurer No. 7, who, while investigating a Void region resembling an abandoned factory, was attacked by unknown Shadows at night. He found that every time he eliminated the Shadows, they would reappear the next day.

The Shadows always made aggressive, clawing gestures, but at first, they seemed unable to cause real harm to humans.

This immediately reminded the observers of the scene on the first day when they saw the lady in white stay in Emily’s room for a long time without doing anything.

The third note was left by Adventurer No. 7 a few days later. Under the torment of chronic insomnia, he began to hallucinate, and it seemed the Shadows could truly touch him. He also vaguely realized that what he had eliminated wasn’t the true body of the Shadows, but rather that someone else was creating them.

In the last note, an on-the-verge-of-death Adventurer No. 7 finally discovered the culprit behind the Shadows—a massive monster with pus flowing from its body and multiple heads growing out of various body parts, looking like many human bodies sewn together irregularly.

The image of that bizarre figure also had dried bloodstains on it.

Just one glance at it was enough to induce a visceral sense of nausea and fear in the onlookers.

"This is the relic discovered by the ’enthusiastic citizen’ when he arrived in that area after receiving the distress signal."

Lu Xiang said without changing her expression, but sometimes she really admired Song Lan’s imagination. He even designed the twisted story of discovering the Absurd Demon, and in the story, he sacrificed an Adventurer No. 7 who had never existed.

This fabricated story shared by Song Lan evidently had an impact on the seven people poised for action. After a long silence, the Mayor of Sheep Village finally asked, "So... what happened to Adventurer No. 7 afterward?"

"When the ’enthusiastic citizen’ found the Absurd Demon, his body had already merged with the monster. He speculated that the Absurd Demon weakens its prey’s will in this way and swallows them when their consciousness is on the verge of collapse."

Hearing this, even Song Lan couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

Because the content Lu Xiang had just mentioned wasn’t part of the notes, but her own improvisation.

She didn’t stop there, continuing to flesh out the "enthusiastic citizen’s" backstory, "The ’enthusiastic citizen’ only found one Absurd Demon in that Void region. Such creatures might have a very strong territorial sense. I suspect the reason no other Void creatures can be found in the town is because an Absurd Demon resides here. That’s why I came. Every day you stay in town, it becomes harder to eliminate."

Director Lu was learning to be bad.

She had perfected the art of spinning tales without even furrowing her brow.

The observers had learned the general situation of the Absurd Demon, but there was still one question that had not been answered — why would the Absurd Demon, located in a small town in District 17, affect them who were far away in the second district?

This was a distance spanning nearly half of the United Government’s territory, something that even Psychic Users couldn’t do.

Could it be that a mere Void creature was stronger than a Six Stars rescuer?

At that moment, they couldn’t care less about violating departmental rules. They anxiously contacted them through the program implanted in the investigators’ minds by the company, "Ask quickly why even we are affected by the Absurd Demon?"

The sudden voice in her head startled Emily, who had been listening attentively. She blinked in confusion before rephrasing the question and said, "Excuse me, is the Absurd Demon’s ability not limited by range?"

"Yes, according to the intelligence we have at present, once you’ve seen it, its powers will affect you no matter where you flee, even to the ends of the earth."

"... But we haven’t seen it at all!"

Emily swore, this was absolutely the first time she had seen such a twisted, disgusting monster.

Big Radish Head and the others nodded in agreement—if they had seen the monster, they surely would have had an extremely deep impression of it.

"You might not realize its existence the first time you see it. In Adventurer Number 7’s case, he only vaguely realized that he had seen a similar shadow on the first day of his investigation in the area after he found the Absurd Demon’s true form."

This statement failed to gain everyone’s trust.

Everyone subjectively felt that they could not possibly overlook such a terrifying creature, and the observers in District 2 thought the same.

According to what Lu Xiang said, it wasn’t just Emily and her group, but even they had seen the presence of the Absurd Demon while surveilling?

What a joke, was Lu Xiang treating all of them as if they were blind?

They immediately pulled up all the recordings taken after Emily arrived in town, embodying the spirit of ’if you don’t believe it, go check the recording.’

This was Emily’s first day, when she escaped the pursuit of the monster and came to town.

The journey from the highway in front of the town to the inn wasn’t far, and they slowed down the video, not missing any detail.

Perhaps to bolster their courage, the person operating the video even said, "You see, there’s nothing here, nothing there, and nothing..."

However, as Emily passed a residential house just a street away from the inn, the observer’s voice suddenly stopped.

The image on the screen also froze at that moment.

At that moment, upon an adventurer’s introduction, Emily looked up, gazing through the fog at the gradually emerging outline of the inn, but she didn’t notice that in her peripheral vision, a person... or rather some kind of creature was spying on her from the second floor.

After the image was frozen, the creature beside the window finally revealed its outline.

At first glance, it looked like two people leaning out of the window looking downstairs, but a closer look revealed that the heads were unnaturally close together, as if growing from the same body.

There was dead silence in the observation room, and the questioning of Lu Xiang stopped abruptly.

The observer, trembling, zoomed into the image, letting the scene behind the window fill the entire screen. At that moment, they finally saw the huge figure lurking in the shadows, with two highly decayed heads casually perched atop that lump of rotten flesh like flags on a pole.

"But I..."

On the other side, Emily was about to say something, but the observers’ voices once again rang out in her mind.

The voice broke her train of thought, "You saw it."

"Huh?"

"You really saw it."

The observer emphasized, "On the first day you came to town, across the street outside the inn, in the double-deck loft, there was something with at least two heads watching you."

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