Enforcer Manual
Chapter 728 - 726: Food_1

Chapter 728: Chapter 726: Food_1

As the elevator descended, Jasmine had already prepared for the worst.

Fortunately, this was the Galaxy Transport Company; if a battle broke out on the streets outside the company, it would surely alarm the people inside.

Moreover, the Chairperson of the Council was also in the company at the moment, and he could at least serve as a witness.

Yaku volunteered to follow closely behind, ready to report back to the people inside the company at a moment’s notice, ensuring nothing went wrong.

The time inside the elevator felt incredibly long, giving Jasmine just enough time to think about what she was going to say when meeting the "Emperor."

The recent disturbances had made The First Region eerily quiet after dark; looking down the streets under the night sky, one couldn’t find a single pedestrian, as if they were in a dead city.

The automatic door sensed the arrival of the two people and slowly opened for them.

The evening breeze brushed their faces as Jasmine and Yaku stepped down the stairs and stood on the deserted street for a long time before Yaku finally voiced his doubts, "Where’s the person?"

Looking around, he couldn’t see a soul.

In fact, he was eager to meet this "The Strongest Six Stars rescuer," despite Sister Jasmine describing him as a thoroughly dangerous individual.

"I don’t know."

Jasmine was baffled as well.

She took out her phone and replied to the other party for the first time:

"You’re not even on the street in front of the company. Where have you gone?"

But this time, the silent one became the "Emperor." After nearly two minutes since the message was sent, they still hadn’t received a response.

"Sister Jasmine, have we been played?"

Yaku couldn’t help but express his suspicion.

"Shouldn’t be."

Jasmine shook her head; in her impression, the "Emperor" was a serious and formal person who always kept his word and never joked about such matters.

"Then he wants to flush us out," Yaku suddenly had a brainwave and said, "He actually has no idea where we are, but now that there’s no one on the streets, just by monitoring the surveillance footage to see who leaves the company after receiving the text, he could track us down."

"Military Intelligence Section Seven had tampered with the surveillance of this stretch of road a long time ago; otherwise, the High-level Parliament people would have discovered it when the Chairperson of the Council arrived."

"...Then what’s going on?"

Yaku was utterly perplexed.

"I don’t know."

Jasmine stared deeply down the empty street, with darkness beyond where even the streetlights seemed unable to dispel it. As a Six Stars rescuer, she felt a tinge of dread for the night, reminding herself not to wander the streets at will.

She didn’t know where this ominous premonition came from, but out of politeness, she waited for five more minutes at the entrance of the Galaxy Transport Company. Seeing that the "Emperor" still hadn’t replied, she turned around and went back into the company building. And as she walked through the sensory door, the uneasy feeling in her heart instantly faded away.

This place was safe.

Even just being in the lobby on the first floor of the company, the dangers from outside couldn’t penetrate the sensory doors and affect the people inside the building.

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At the same time, the "Emperor" was traversing an entirely unknown space.

Just minutes ago, he was standing on the street outside the Galaxy Company, looking across the street, patiently waiting for Jasmine to come down. First, he needed to confirm whether Jasmine had been controlled by interference-based Psychic Abilities or whether it was her own change of mind.

Finding her was not difficult.

According to the information provided by the High-level Parliament, Jasmine had been actively contacting other Six Stars candidates these days, but not all of them kept this confidential. Someone had leaked her whereabouts, and based on these snippets of descriptions, he eventually found this place called the Galaxy Transport Company.

He had investigated the company on his way here and found that the entire company had not released any news on the web since its establishment; he could only find some vague establishment times and information. If not for all the clues pointing here, he might have never known that such a company existed in The First Region.

But before Jasmine came downstairs, someone else turned up in the "Emperor’s" sight even earlier.

A suit, a tie, a white shirt.

On the arm was a briefcase made of artificial leather.

There was no more standard corporate attire than this.

The company man, yawning profusely, sleepily emerged from the company doors. This, in itself, wasn’t noteworthy, but as he descended the steps, he disappeared without a trace right in front of the "Emperor."

The "Emperor" reflexively activated the scanning feature of his bionic eye and only then noticed the rapidly fleeing plant maze attached to the staircase; he immediately took action and followed before the root-like plants completely vanished.

Straight after that, he found himself in this unfamiliar labyrinth.

This place seemed like a den for those plants, with vines covering the walls on both sides of the road, and further away, one could barely make out the sound of water.

The disappeared company man was nowhere to be found, and upon entering the maze, the "Emperor" immediately got the feeling that he was being watched.

As he progressed along the left side of the labyrinth for nearly ten minutes, the path ahead finally changed.

The road dipped down, leading to a giant hollow at the end.

Spiky thorns blocked the entrance to the hollow, and a faint smell of blood wafted through the air.

The artificial eye scanned the thorns stained with blood, which also included bits of human tissue, all fresh and recently smeared.

These thorns seemed to reject his arrival, obstructing the entrance to the deeper parts of the hollow.

In an instant, the thorns were twisted and snapped, an irresistible force pulling them into the depths of the hollow, while the surrounding wall also cracked from the force, with fissures spreading across it.

The "Emperor" forged his own path and then walked decisively towards the deeper parts of the labyrinth without hesitation.

Inside was an area shrouded by tree roots, in the very center of this unknown space, was a giant plant pulsating like a heart, and he just so happened to witness the process of digestion—a dark green "heart" quivered violently in front of him, then suddenly opened a gap.

Bones and mucus tumbled onto the ground in a heap.

Mixed among them were suits, shirts, and briefcases.

These relics were sufficient to prove the identity of the bones’ owners.

A flash of crimson brilliance passed by, and the "Emperor" simply looked up at the dark green "heart." As it struggled against the pull of gravity, the vines connected to the "heart" seemed to scream pitifully, twisting under gravity’s hold.

The tree roots attacked him at the same moment.

However, the moment they poised to strike, they were pulled back to the ground by a stronger force.

The "Emperor" stood still, and the eerie space before him began to crumble, and just as the "heart" was about to succumb to the pull of gravity and fall, a strange feeling welled up inside him.

The vines underfoot struggled to wrap around his ankles, and although they were again suppressed by gravity the moment they touched him, when the "Emperor" looked up once more, the "heart" had already vanished without a trace, and the faint stench of decay hit his nostrils—he finally understood the source of the sounds of flowing water.

This was the underground sewer of the First Region.

And the bizarre labyrinth and strange space had disappeared without a trace, everything he saw just now seemed like a hallucination.

He activated the positioning system attached to his prosthetic body to confirm his current whereabouts.

In just ten minutes, he had emerged on the other side of the city.

Spatial ability.

Recalling the vines that had tried desperately to entwine his ankles, he understood that "touching" was the way these plants transferred objects.

But before this, he had never seen a plant with psychic abilities.

The "Emperor" was certain that everything he had just seen was not a hallucination; the company man had been killed and became a meal in the belly of an unidentified plant, which seemed to be its unique method of predation.

And only when he left that strange space did his phone vibrate again.

"You’re not on the street in front of the company, where did you go?"

He saw the text message that Jasmine had sent him.

It was from 7 minutes and 21 seconds ago.

The timing of the anomaly and the unidentified plant preying on humans.

The "Emperor" was again reminded of the news on the day of the Chairperson of the Council’s death—High-level Parliament had claimed it was an explosion attack, and they seemed to believe that Rob Lucci, Executor of Military Intelligence Section Seven, had colluded with δ to orchestrate the assassination of the Chairperson, but that was clearly not δ’s ability.

Turning controlled puppets into psychic bombs and detonating them, the "Emperor" almost immediately thought of "Dominate."

Unlike the general public unaware of the truth, many members of the High-level Parliament were direct witnesses of that dark era; they had even participated in the emergency meetings to pursue "Dominate" and δ, and should be more than clear on the differences between their abilities.

The "Emperor" did not know how they had come to such an absurd conclusion, making Rob Lucci, an obviously unrelated party, take the fall. Allegedly, this unfortunate man had already been taken to the Sixth District awaiting trial.

It was only after he started investigating that he found out Jock had hidden much from him; however, it was clear that the High-level Parliament intended to use him to eliminate Jasmine.

"Now is not the time to trouble Jasmine."

A soft feminine voice suddenly emerged in his mind, "There are bigger problems ahead of you waiting."

The "Emperor" remained silent, tacitly agreeing to the suggestion.

In fact, he hadn’t planned to confront Jasmine today; he wanted to hear another part of the truth hidden by the High-level Parliament from her, such as the part related to "Dominate."

The situation was now very clear.

In the First Region, there was no longer anyone he could trust.

But for the "Emperor," this was not the first time such a thing had happened, and he was already accustomed to acting alone.

With this thought, he replied to Jasmine’s text message.

"There was an incident, someone was killed in the building across from your company"

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