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Chapter 369 - 229: The Problematic Company, Benjamin: Why Are You Forcing Me?

Chapter 369: Chapter 229: The Problematic Company, Benjamin: Why Are You Forcing Me?

Brian had opted to receive Gift Two.

A ticklish sensation spread around the area of his ears, where the structure of the ear canal and eardrum underwent subtle changes, becoming much more sensitive.

The next moment.

Many of the faint sounds that Brian used to overlook flooded into his ears.

There were the sounds of bodily tissues rubbing together, the movements of internal organs, the slight distortions of the building structure, and the footsteps of employees walking downstairs...

This range wasn’t vast, only about ten meters. Beyond that, the sound diminished significantly, but within that ten-meter radius, his hearing was not only incredibly sharp but also highly accurate, similar to echolocation.

"This faint enhancement of my hearing is a bit better than I expected. I suppose it’s because of my own body’s superior condition; that captain probably doesn’t have hearing as good as mine."

Brian speculated in his mind.

The improvement from his Auditory Enhancement exceeded his expectations.

In daily life, this talent-based enhancement seemed more practical than Olfactory Enhancement, and it came with fewer negative sensations.

Just as Brian was about to test more changes in his auditory system...

An incredible reaction occurred.

An unknown force was infused into the area where his auditory system was.

The next moment.

Brian was amazed to find that his eyes, ears, nose, and sonar perception systems—all four areas—merged into one under the influence of this unknown force.

It was a peculiar sensation, as if his specialized sensory vision had merged with his auditory system, becoming more vivid and controllable.

It seemed to be an ability that came with Brian’s Blood Moon Gift Ability’s third upgrade: Talent Fusion.

Indeed, as the changes subsided,

Brian found that he could now easily control the volume of sound in his ears, and the previously ten-meter range of precise hearing had extended to about twenty meters.

The most outrageous thing was that the moment Brian’s ears locked onto a source of sound, the approximate shape of the source, the scents it emitted, and more, all appeared in Brian’s mind simultaneously.

Moreover,

The reflections of that object’s sounds also outlined the surrounding environment.

This meant that, if someone was speaking in another room, Brian could not just see through walls in an unusual manner, knowing the outward traits of that person but could also sense the three-dimensional environment around that person...

"This can’t be considered cheating, can it?"

Brian smirked with a wry smile.

He still had a vial of No.3 Auditory Enhancement Reagent in his hand, and following the assault incident, the Internal Affairs Department of the organization would compensate him with two additional types of Enhancement Reagents.

After all injections were administered, his hearing should be further enhanced.

This sensation was quite thrilling.

After quickly acclimating to the brand-new sensory system, Brian devoured Captain Krist’s residual Spirit Crystal and skimmed through the dead man’s memories, hoping to gather some useful clues.

Indeed, there were some.

Within Captain Krist’s memories of his death, Brian saw the communication between him and the mastermind behind the scenes, the minister of the Internal Affairs Department of the organization.

From the content, it seemed that the information given by Ellie wasn’t deceiving him.

The only disappointment for Brian was that after consuming the Spirit Crystal of an enhanced person, the impact on his own Spiritual Strength was negligible.

It was much the same for physical constitution.

He needed more high-quality deceased victims.

..

Chief Flory’s team was highly efficient.

The campground area by the lake where the disappearance occurred had, because of a previous fire incident, already supplied the police with most of the client’s data from the company involved.

Their task was to revisit those files and compare them to Brian’s sketches.

Human features are mainly composed of bones, muscle tissue, skin tissue, and the like.

Of these elements, bones contribute to one’s skeletal features.

Flesh and skin contribute to one’s facial features.

Facial appearance is easy to change and unreliable, but skeletal features, unless altered by surgery, can be extrapolated over decades based on studied patterns.

Additionally, parts like the eyes and mouth are also key facial markers.

These traits form the technical logic behind modern facial recognition tools and electronic eyes or satellites, which can accurately identify individuals in large crowds.

Sketch artistry follows the same principles.

The techniques are further differentiated into psychological profiling sketches and age progression sketching, among others.

Brian was using the latter technique at the moment.

Comparing the photos and sketches, it took Chief Flory’s team less than half an hour to identify the individual.

The individual’s name was Kullos Delarossa, born in March 1994. Strictly speaking, he should be 11 years old now, having disappeared from the lakeside campground during a fire two years prior.

Brian was somewhat surprised when he saw the photo in Chief Flory’s hand.

It was different from what he had imagined.

In that fire incident, seven children and teenagers, two caretakers, and an elderly security guard perished, while three children, a caretaker, and the camp manager went missing.

Kullos was one of them.

Brian’s three sketches illustrated the subject at ages ten, twenty, and thirty.

Based on his understanding of human growth,

Brian estimated that the age of the figure in the footage was around thirty years old.

So the person he suspected was actually the missing camp manager.

After all, it had only been just over two years since the fire, and most of the staff were quite young, except for the camp manager, the rest were young people in their early twenties.