Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 31 Part 3

He gave the boss a deep look, but didn’t hesitate much, directly opening his mouth: “It’s fine, I wasn’t planning to hide it from you anyway. It’s just that the situation then wasn’t suitable for detailed discussion.”

“That seal—it’s a rune developed internally by Ciji Institute, used to suppress contained abominations. However, that’s an old version of the rune, which was completely abandoned about 5 years ago.”

He joined Ciji Institute 4 years ago, and by the time he joined, this type of rune had already been completely replaced and was no longer in use. So when he said he “saw it in the documents,” it wasn’t really a lie.

However, there was one point he didn’t mention at that time—this type of sealing rune was developed by Ciji Institute to deal with contained objects. In other words, this should be something that only “ability users” would use.

Or rather, former ability users.

The boss looked over with some surprise, then quickly frowned: “You mean…”

“Xu Turan once told me that she found a box of business cards in ‘my’ room. The torch pattern on the back of the business cards had been erased quite a bit,” Yang Buqi said calmly, “This indicates that the entity recognized this pattern. Not only recognized it but harbored hatred towards it.”

The boss: “…”

Although he had vaguely guessed before, after hearing Yang Buqi’s clear indication, he still couldn’t help but gasp: “He’s a fallen high-level ability user.”

“And from Ciji Institute,” Since the topic was already open, Yang Buqi didn’t intend to beat around the bush, “Most likely one of the victims of that incident 5 years ago.”

“…Victim?” The boss twitched the corner of his mouth, clearly disagreeing with this term, “Alright… Anyway, it’s somewhat of a lead.”

Not only a lead for him to write the report, but also a lead to find that abomination—now that they’ve guessed the origin of that thing, they might be able to trace it back based on the abilities “it” demonstrated and its past identity, perhaps really finding “its” current location.

Yang Buqi nodded slightly. In fact, even if the boss hadn’t come to ask him today, he had planned to share this part of the intelligence—although it might be a bit embarrassing for Ciji Institute, this was ultimately a matter involving human safety that required cooperation from both sides.

“But we can’t let Su Sui’er know about this,” the boss stared out the window for a moment, suddenly speaking, “If she knows, she’ll definitely curse Ciji Institute for their wrongdoings again. She might even go make trouble.”

Yang Buqi lowered his eyes: “She indeed has the right to do so. Still no news about her brother?”

The boss shook his head: “We’ve been looking, but it’s like a stone sinking into the sea. If he’s just dead, that would be fine, at least he’d be at peace. The fear is that he might have become like this thing this time…”

Yang Buqi sighed, said goodbye to the boss, and turned to leave. After a few steps, he was called back by the boss.

“Oh right, there’s one more thing I want to ask you,” the boss turned to look at him, “That little sister—the one called Xu Turan. She hasn’t joined your Ciji Institute yet, right?”

Yang Buqi’s footsteps paused, his expression becoming a bit subtle: “What do you mean? Are you trying to poach her?”

“Hey, what do you mean by poach. If she had already joined Ciji Institute and we approached her, that would be poaching—if she hasn’t joined yet, then it’s just ordinary recruitment,” the boss argued vigorously, “So she hasn’t joined yet, right?”

Yang Buqi: “…” Although he was a bit unhappy, he couldn’t refute.

“That’s good then,” the boss nodded, “I’ll have Su Sui’er ask her later.”

He had been quite interested in that little girl when he was in the domain earlier. Although her actions were a bit unorganized, she was full of ideas, had strong psychological quality, and her… ability to take action was also quite strong.

And then there were those bizarre objects she pulled out… After coming out of the domain, the boss had discussed with Luo Yu and others, belatedly eating up that shocking “someone went on a spending spree at old man Jiang’s shop” piece of news, and he had personally seen Xu Turan take out the supernatural Polaroid and long-haired doll. Putting the two pieces of information together, who that “hidden big shot” that shocked old man Jiang was, goes without saying.

He didn’t know if Yang Buqi was aware of this. Anyway, he currently had only two guesses about Xu Turan—first, she was indeed a hidden big shot, and not at the Firefly level, but disguised herself through some means. Second, she was indeed at the Firefly level, but her ability was special, special enough to support her running around with a bunch of bizarre objects.

Either way, in the boss’s view, it was worth making good contact.

He had been worried about having to snatch her from Yang Buqi’s hands, but fortunately, judging from Yang Buqi’s attitude, Renxin Institute’s chances should be quite high.

The boss scrutinized Yang Buqi, who was just slightly frowning, seeming to be thinking about something. After a moment, he said: “Ciji Institute also has plans to recruit her. However, I’m not in a position to interfere with your actions, and how Xu Turan decides will be entirely up to her.”

Hearing this, the boss secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but then heard Yang Buqi say: “But as a friend, I still want to warn you, don’t bring trouble upon yourself.”

The boss: …?

…??!

“No, wait a minute,” he put down the milk tea in his hand, “Are you threatening me?”

Yang Buqi, that Yang Buqi who seemed not to care much about people but actually had an extremely good temper, was actually threatening him?

…And for a pretty little girl?

The boss’s thoughts ran wild for a moment, suddenly feeling as if he had traveled to the scene of some CEO romance novel.

But Yang Buqi just looked at him with a grave face.

“No, this is really advice,” he said extremely seriously, word by word, “For the sake of your heart.”

The boss: “…??!”

Even more incomprehensible!

At the same time.

Plum Blossom Apartment, inside 1401.

Xu Turan sat in her room, unconsciously smearing the white paper in front of her.

On the paper were clusters of standing black shadows, with two white voids where the eyes should be. In the middle of the black shadows was a small white path, winding and extending into the depths, leading to an unknown destination.

This was what she had “dreamed” of after coming out of the domain that day.

She was in a daze at that time and didn’t realize, but later she finally remembered—”Path of Chaos,” this term had been mentioned by the Courting Death Value system before.

As a reward for exceeding 2,500 points, she had received a “Path of Chaos/Garden of Beast Entry Ticket” at that time. Now that entry ticket was shown as “Used.”