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Join the ServerThere was a limit to playing someone for a fool, wasn’t there?
One day he was watching someone’s dangerous magic show with great relish at an underground venue, and the next day you tell me he’s gone crazy?
Belladonna truly wanted to slap the secretary on the opposite side twice, disregarding all grace and image.
Yesterday she could already tell the other party wasn’t particularly keen on cooperating or revealing information to them.
Fine, if you don’t want to, you don’t want to.
But what did it mean to agree upon a time and then go back on your word?
Even if she stepped back ten thousand steps and let the breach of contract slide, who was such a stupid excuse trying to insult?
However, the secretary on the opposite side felt extremely aggrieved right now, because she genuinely had no intention of playing them for fools…
Who could have known that a perfectly fine, living human being would suddenly lose his mind out of nowhere?
The man was currently still in the hospital, mumbling unintelligible words under his breath now and then.
The doctor only said he had suffered severe psychological trauma, and even the police couldn’t find anything when they came to investigate…
So Miss Secretary was also thoroughly irritated right now.
If this man had snuck behind her back to privately invite a little girl over for a late-night rendezvous, and if she had been able to catch wind of it, she could have stopped him.
As a secretary, she naturally knew her boss lived a somewhat improper lifestyle and possessed certain unspeakable preferences…
So even if she wanted to call the police for an investigation, it was impossible to tell the police about that kind of thing, right?
If that were brought to light, the one facing an investigation would likely be her boss himself.
To make matters worse, the person he had a quiet rendezvous with was that elusive tiny magician, complicating things even further.
Everything was fine last night, and the only person who had made contact with Mr. Xin was that magician named Blue Iris.
Yet she only found out about this affair the following day, and by the time she knew, Mr. Xin’s mental state had already fallen into complete frenzy.
“Hahaha, it’s burning… No! I’ll tell you everything! Ah, it’s all… Hahaha, they’re all around me, all floating right beside me!”
With only meaningless words left in his mouth, even the doctor could only shake his head and say there was no saving him.
This matter would likely end up left unresolved in the end, leaving Miss Secretary wondering if she would be out of a job once she finished handling the aftermath.
“Let’s go, Top Student. Let’s go back and think of another way.”
Tei had always disliked wasting time and energy on pointless matters.
Since the other party was no longer cooperating, sticking around here held no meaning.
It was better to head back and figure out what to do.
Thus, Tei dragged away Belladonna, who had her feathers ruffled and wanted to roll up her sleeves to beat someone up.
It was only after walking roughly half a block away that the pink-and-white-haired girl finally managed to calm her emotions.
“We’re completely finished now. We didn’t accomplish anything and wasted two days for nothing… Do you know that?! Two days! Do you know how much work could be done in two days, how much progress could be made?!”
Come on, Top Student, you’re being way too anxious.
It’s not like we were slacking off these past two days and doing nothing at all…
Tei complained silently in his heart.
Watching Hydra use its wings to stroke Belladonna’s hair and comfort her, he also turned his head to glance at the skeletal raven perched on his shoulder.
“Gurgle-gurgle-gurgle…”
The little creature was currently curled up into a tight ball, sleeping exceptionally soundly on Tei’s shoulder, occasionally making strange noises that sounded like snoring.
When he woke up this morning, he found the creature already in the room.
However, this little bird appeared extremely drained of energy, looking thoroughly exhausted.
When asked, it simply shook its head to indicate it needed rest.
So Tei simply let it perch on his shoulder and sleep peacefully.
To be honest, Belladonna really wanted to complain about this scene as well.
After all, very few people were casual enough to accept a creepy thing like a skeletal raven perching on them.
The two Reapers naturally couldn’t communicate through language to ask anything, but Hydra had managed to inquire a little from this senior…
“Senior, where did you go yesterday?”
“Went to work and tended to a bit of private raven hobbies~ Whew, I’m dead tired…”
Hydra was rendered speechless, but Phini truly looked like she could barely keep her eyes open.
To be honest, it was already remarkable that she managed to persevere and fly back.
“During work hours, one needs to relax appropriately~ Oh dear, no no, I’m gonna die, gonna die again… Anyway, I’m gonna sleep for a bit, maybe more than just a bit…”
Then, before Hydra could even react, this little bird dropped from the air straight onto the ground with a thud.
It was Tei who picked her up and placed her on his shoulder to let her sleep in peace.
Was that really just sleeping, though…
Hydra looked at the little bird snoring away on Tei’s shoulder, its mind full of doubts.
Back at the inn, there hadn’t been a single trace of movement from her.
Rather than being asleep, it looked more as if she had stopped breathing.
To be honest, that scene was genuinely terrifying.
Fortunately, she seemed fine now.
“By the way, the stuff you guys wanted, I put it in the drawer of that kid Tei’s room. Check it yourselves later.”
This was the message left by a certain skeletal raven before falling into her death-like sleep.
After the group returned to the inn, Hydra also used the Spirit-Manifesting Silk to inform them of this matter.
Opening the drawer, what they saw was merely a stack of ordinary papers.
After carefully reading through it once, Belladonna completely lost her composure as a young lady and shouted in excitement.
“Yes, yes, yes! This is it! The exact stuff we needed! Lady Phini! I take back all my previous disrespect toward you! You’re amazing!”
The items Phini left behind were all internal report documents regarding the supernatural incidents at the construction site.
It could be said to be the course of events described purely from the perspective of ordinary humans in the Living Realm.
Although it appeared to be merely event descriptions without high-value clues, relying on these items alone was actually enough for a Reaper to summarize the abnormal patterns within.
“Look, the incidents all occurred at night. This proves that this anomalous spirit only acts at night.”
“Also, the missing individuals were all workers—to be precise, workers on the night shift. Those who had already clocked off but hadn’t left yet didn’t encounter anything abnormal…”
Belladonna excitedly explained and taught the concept to Tei beside her.
A part of a Reaper’s job heavily relied on inferring the appearance conditions and various mechanisms of anomalous spirits from these tiny commonalities.
Then, as she flipped to the middle documents, a small slip of paper sandwiched inside fell out.
When Belladonna saw the content written on it, her excited speech came to an abrupt halt…
The handwriting on the slip of paper was exceptionally neat and delicate.
However, that wasn’t the main point.
The main point was the content written on it, which directly gave Belladonna a sense of unreality.
(1. Time: Night only, specifically between 2:00 AM and 5:00 AM in the Living Realm;
Personnel: Staff members only, specifically personnel performing actual labor inside;
Site: A graveyard and a shrine to the Earth Deity previously existed on the building site, with local rumors of Earth Spirits;
Missing individuals lost contact simultaneously at different locations, suggesting the capability or nature of multiple entities.)
“Isn’t everything already summarized?! What do they even need us for?!”
For a moment, Belladonna felt that Reapers like them were completely redundant…
For a skeletal raven, weren’t you a bit too capable?
When a raven steals a Reaper’s job, you’re making things very awkward and difficult for us!
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