Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 1436: Chapter 1434: The Core of Artificial Existence (Four)

Is it coming already, and even so classic?

Fu Qian was undoubtedly quite pleased with the unexpected prompt.

One step, a kill, no restriction on abilities, a clear target, it’s always such a delightful combination.

Although ensuring oneself remains uncontaminated requires some consideration, as well as the discovery of more than one strange occurrence from earlier.

But in the face of an ultimately positive goal, it is not seriously harmful.

Considering the timing, the husband of the customer in front, Mr. Lek, seems to have a significant connection with my target.

Of course, the first thing to clarify is what exactly this so-called plague refers to.

Given the concept of a source, it’s easy to think of the corresponding "spread."

Which means at this moment in Los, something should be spreading.

...

"Lord Grimshaw, is there any way to help him?"

While pondering, Claire couldn’t contain herself any longer and asked the master for a solution.

"So you came here to find me because your husband’s more exaggerated philanthropy than before made you think he’d encountered some kind of occult incident?"

"Yes."

Claire appeared resolute.

"I’m very certain it’s not normal, something is contaminating his mind and is taking my husband away from me."

"But honestly, this sounds like it’s already within the responsibility range of the Night Watchman."

Yet, Fu Qian remained in full contrast mode, first questioning whether it was within his scope of work.

"Unfortunately, here in Los, I can’t even use this as a reason to get the police’s attention."

Conversely, Claire’s tone had turned somewhat anxious.

"Even if I try to make them believe what I say, at most they’ll think it’s just a quirk."

"And in fact, not far from where we live, you can see the base of the Night Watchman, my husband and I even visited a friend who works there yesterday."

"If there really was any outrageous anomaly, it should have been detected long ago."

Clearly, after the previous back-and-forth, Claire’s stance had shifted from the initial hesitant lack of trust to a concern over the master’s unwillingness to make a move.

...

"Sounds reasonable, in fact, I’m quite willing to provide help too."

Fu Qian gestured conspicuously for the other to relax, seeming a bit moved.

"But as mentioned earlier, I need more things closely connected to your husband to help confirm his situation."

"Then what should I do... Is there a rough range? Like hair, personal clothing, I still have time to go back once today."

Claire furrowed her brows tightly for a moment.

"Or should I try to bring him here directly? Telling him directly won’t work, he certainly won’t agree."

"Hehe... No need to go to such trouble, aren’t you his most intimate connection?"

With a light chuckle, Fu Qian suddenly changed his tone, as if suggesting she had finally passed a test.

In the next moment, as Claire looked surprised, he snapped his fingers to signal her to look over.

...

The current situation is theoretically quite clear.

With this strange-behaving Mr. Lek, the next step should be to get the address from his wife and directly confront him at his house.

However, as a professional, the prerequisite of "not being contaminated" in the containment conditions, along with Claire’s mention of her husband’s private connections with the Night Watchman, prevented Fu Qian from rushing into action.

What I need to find now is a pollution spreading in this city.

And whether it’s the pollution itself or the source of it, the reason Lek hasn’t been discovered by the Night Watchman seems to lie in the subtlety of the pollution, and the role they visited had insufficient Insight.

But what if we expand on this?

For instance, if the level of concealment of this contamination is so high that even a Second Phase facing it might not detect it?

A basic quality of professionals is to never underestimate due to expertise.

In this bizarre and chaotic world, it’s undoubtedly a vice to take things for granted.

And to avoid such situations, besides being in the Second Phase, I seem to have another identity suitable for deeper Insight—the Master of the Dream Realm.

At the same time as snapping his fingers, the Clear Dream Ring on the other hand was also being activated—

But it wasn’t activated very successfully.

Within the dream enveloping the surroundings, Fu Qian observed Claire standing across.

At the very first moment of entering the dream, this customer, whom I had been guiding all the way, suddenly stood up.

Some kind of incredible, extraordinary alertness seemed to have made her aware of the changes happening around.

In theory, changes below the Middle Tier Transcendent would be hard to detect.

...

"What’s happening?"

Amid Fu Qian’s admiration, Claire standing there had already voiced an incredible question.

It seemed she was also quite puzzled about why she suddenly stood up.

Strange, yet unaware of her own strangeness.

More like a victim of some kind of hidden pollution.

To this behavior, Fu Qian silently commented while responding.

"Don’t worry, just a little ordinary Necromancy, I’m trying to communicate with the you in the dream."

Communicating with the self in the dream...

Fu Qian’s sincere words remained somewhat incomprehensible to Claire.

Of course, it didn’t stop her from looking pleasantly surprised the next moment.

The other party was indeed not a charlatan pretending to be profound!

The image Fu Qian had built through the contrast strategy, along with this inexplicable change, finally reached a state of complete satisfaction.

"Thank you, please go ahead and ask."

Feeling some kind of close yet distant, even vaguely seeing herself asleep at times.

Finally completely believing that the person before her was the real master, Claire spoke as she sat down again.

"Regarding your husband, aside from the previously mentioned licking various creatures in his sleep, are there any other things you find odd?"

Likewise observing this unique individual, who seemed ready to slip away at any moment, in the dream state, Fu Qian marveled and casually asked.

Claire’s dream state was so unstable that it was even impossible to lock her as the core of the dream.

And precisely because of this, the inducement I’ve been doing since just now suddenly had greater significance.

If not for this love-for-the-job spirit, facing an incoming customer, using the Clear Dream Ring to force a confession without further ado, most likely wouldn’t be as effective as it presently is.

"Lek used to be a doctor, with a great reputation, full of knowledge and compassion, if there’s anything else unusual..."

Claire was clearly doing her utmost to think.

"In the place we live, he has a private room exclusively for himself, never cleaned, and prohibited anyone from entering, including me who has been married to him for over three years."