The Net

After getting the relevant information from Chen Miemie, Fengling left in a hurry.

She was in a rush to leave partly because she bore heavy responsibilities and was indeed very busy.

On the other hand, sitting in Chen Miemie's house, she constantly felt like she was being watched, making her feel uncomfortable and restless all over.

After Fengling left.

The beauty in the vase stepped out, the roast chicken on the table stood up, the little water droplet in the kettle floated out, and the paper wind chime turned into a paper crane and flew over.

"This teacher of yours is quite sharp."

"Of course. If she released all her eyes, she might have been able to discover one or two of you."

"The sun is about to set," Bobo leaned in, hinting to Chen Miemie that it was time to eat.

Chen Miemie checked his watch. "It's still early, only 4:30 PM."

Qinghua waved her hand, moving the covering tiles away to reveal the evidence wall once again.

"According to your teacher, the entire church is under control, and only Bishop Jing is missing. There is a high probability that there is a problem with this Bishop Jing."

Loop also agreed. "The priest who committed suicide was obviously pushed out to take the blame, and to make a priest with real power willingly go to his death, it's hard to imagine anyone else besides the bishop."

Chen Miemie sighed.

"The target is clear, but the issue returns to the starting point. It's still the same question: why did the church or the bishop want to kill me, and why did they want to destroy the seal of Sixiang City?

We still can't find a motive.

The Sun and Moon Church of Sixiang City is mostly made up of native-born locals. There is absolutely no reason for them to betray the city and their own race.

The parents of Wu Bin, the one who committed suicide, are still in the city.

That Bishop Jing was born and raised here, with a perfectly clean background. The status and power he has achieved are also fundamentally reliant on the city's stability.

The Homeroom Teacher's side searched the entire church and still didn't find out what they were after."

Bobo stayed to the side, watching everyone discuss with eager eyes.

It looked at whoever was speaking, hoping someone would say, The discussion is over, we can eat now.

Unknowingly, dusk arrived.

Tonight was the Constant Moon again.

Chen Miemie transformed into Yellow Clothes.

"There are two tasks tonight. One is to take Origami to as many places as possible so it can record the spatial coordinates of various locations; the other is to look for new anomalies."

If possible, he naturally also wanted to find Bishop Jing.

He had tried. What he always called Law Follows the Word was more about being invincible in face-to-face combat, but it wasn't a wishing machine, nor was it omniscient. Otherwise, he could just say I want to be the lord of a hundred cities, the king of the world and then retire.

The figure in yellow clothes began to constantly flash and appear in various parts of the city.

The mystics of Sixiang City, with all their monitoring items and search abilities fully activated, were unable to discover him.

Origami stayed in the outer pocket of the yellow robe. Tonight, all the family members except Loop were brought out together.

Three hours later.

"Alright, the coordinates for most areas in the city have been recorded."

"Good, next we head out of the city."

The first stop outside the city, the Long Live the Moon office, Loop's village.

The second stop, Qinghua's hometown, the Porcelain Pool.

The third stop, the lake where Pure Water used to stay.

The fourth stop, the place where Dawn often stayed, the Recursive Corridor.

They could run further, even to other cities, but there was no need for that for now. Enough was enough, so they stopped there.

Chen Miemie began to look for anomalies.

When his Mystery was at level 1, contracting an anomaly would increase his Mystery by 0.3. Now that his Mystery was at level 2, contracting an anomaly would increase it by 0.2.

After entering Mystery level 2, he had contracted Road Rage, Pure Water, and Origami, and now his Mystery had reached 2.6.

There were also differences in strength among anomalies. Generally speaking, those with fixed residences like a home were stronger, because the weak ones were easily killed for their materials.

Soon, Chen Miemie arrived at a waterfront full of shells.

This was not the sea, but a river.

At this time, Chen Miemie was in his Yellow Clothes form, with no blood on his body, and Pure Water was kept in a porcelain bottle.

"I know this anomaly."

"Where is it?" The others hadn't noticed yet.

"These things in front of us that look like shells are it."

Chen Miemie pulled a shell off a rock. "This thing doesn't seem to be aggressive?"

Pure Water floated over. "They are called Inspiration Barnacles. They are very special and only attack specific groups of people. It seems it's not interested in you."

"How so?"

"Inspiration Barnacles only parasitize artists. They feed on creative bottlenecks and can provide endless inspiration. At the same time, they slowly absorb the host's emotions, ultimately making their works gorgeous but hollow."

Chen Miemie's face turned as cold as iron.

He pressed the barnacle in his hand against his arm. "Little barnacle, I'll count to three. If you dare not to parasitize me, I'll crush you."

"One, two, three!"

After three counts, a few fallen leaves drifted by, but nothing happened.

Pure Water: "It seems it doesn't consider you an artist."

Chen Miemie smashed it to the ground and kicked it twice. "Ignorant of the times. Let's go."

This river was very long. Following the water, they flew for another few thousand meters.

At a bend in the river, a giant octopus head popped up.

"Yellow glowing person, wait for me!"

Chen Miemie looked at the car-sized octopus in the water, treating it as a formidable enemy.

An octopus, and an octopus from the mystical world at that. It might even be a juvenile Cthulhu. He absolutely could not take it lightly.

Pure Water floated out again.

"This is my friend, the Blame-Shifting Octopus. I usually just call it Blame-Shift."

"How do you know everyone?"

"I know most of those in the water. Some underwater anomalies live inside my body for a period of time."

Pure Water could be a basin of water, or it could be a lake of water.

The octopus paddled its tentacles and quickly swam over.

"Pure Water, it really is you. My feeling was right."

Chen Miemie stayed silent, observing this octopus.

The octopus didn't look very smart. It was entirely red, and a frying pan was attached to the suckers on each of its tentacles.

"Blame-Shift, why are you here?"

"It's all that crab's fault, saying that since it gave me a gift, I have to give one to other anomalies. Hmph, I can't be bothered with it."

"Oh, so you're being hunted down."

"Me, afraid of it? What a joke! I can break its claws with two whips. If I hadn't been disturbed by a school of clownfish last time and lost sleep, I would have beaten that stinky crab to death in minutes."

As it spoke, the octopus threw a pan at a nearby clownfish, knocking the little fish dizzy.

Pure Water continued to introduce it to Chen Miemie: "The Blame-Shifting Octopus can transfer the responsibility of any mistake to a completely unrelated third party through bizarre logic. Its ink can even generate liability waivers on paper."

Chen Miemie thought about it. He was an upright person who never shifted the blame, so this anomaly was of no use to him.

After Pure Water and Blame-Shift caught up for a while, Chen Miemie left the river directly.

With two bizarre anomalies in a row, he suspected that the river itself was unreliable.

He continued flying for more than half an hour.

In a small mountain ravine, a cluster of dilapidated pavilions unexpectedly appeared.

The architectural style of the pavilions was highly classical, completely unlike modern buildings. With red pillars and peeling paint everywhere, the place exuded an aura of total desolation.

The members of the [Everlasting Moon] tour group immediately perked up. Clinging to the yellow robe in various forms, they curiously observed these buildings that looked like they belonged in a horror movie script.

Stepping over broken tiles and shattered bricks, Chen Miemie entered the pavilion.

"Is anyone here? Is anyone home? You have a guest."

The surroundings were dead silent; there was not even an echo.

Just as Chen Miemie pushed open the door to the main building and ventured inside, waving his hands to brush aside the cobwebs, the door behind him slammed shut with a loud bang.

The room plunged into pitch darkness.

A faint rustling sound echoed.

Chen Miemie felt as if something was wrapping around his body, getting tighter and tighter.

"Moonlight~" As soon as he spoke, the room was bathed in yellow moonlight.

By the moonlight, everyone could clearly see the situation inside the room.

Beneath Chen Miemie's feet lay a giant spider web, and his yellow robe was tightly bound in fine white silk.

A giant spider monstrosity was entrenched less than five meters away.

This monster had the lower body of a spider and the upper body of a woman dressed in red. A spider's compound eye grew right in the center of her forehead, and her flowing white hair extended outward to form the spider silk.

She stuck out her tongue, licking her lips:

"Welcome to my home. My name is Red, and my absolute favorite thing is putting friends in my belly."