When the cleanup team from the Special Affairs Bureau arrived at the top of the building, Ana Shen had already left first.
Only Li Lin was left, squatting half-crouched in a pile of minced meat, at a loss.
Female researcher Chen Yun finally found a place where she could put her feet down on the blood-stained rooftop. After standing still, she took the instrument and began to detect the spiritual energy value.
"The spiritual energy is dissipating rapidly. It seems that the realm master has been cleared."
Bai Ye nodded but didn't speak.
She stood in the purple-red plasma, looking at the ground of minced meat and the twisted and shapeless metal water tank, and couldn't help but feel a huge wave in her heart.
He managed to clean up the C-level secret realm by himself.
But it also means that a new era has arrived.
Taking a deep breath and driving away the emotions that could not be defined as fear or excitement, Bai Ye pointed at Li Lin, who had not yet recovered from her grief and confusion, and said, "Take her back with you when you leave. She should Know exactly what’s going on here.”
Chen Yun followed Bai Ye's footsteps and asked, "If you want to know what happened, wouldn't it be better to just ask the 'doctor'?"
"Our 'doctor' has always had a bad memory. If he forgets something, we can remind him."
…
Once the realm master is solved, the boundary between realm and reality has collapsed. Ana Shen avoided the crowd and returned to his residence smoothly.
It was already around 11 o'clock in the evening. Most of the street lights in the community were in disrepair and had been scrapped. The few remaining street lights flickered on and off due to wiring problems.
The crack in the sky projected an exceptionally clear starry sky, emitting a blue-purple light, shrouding the unlit corners in a blue-purple halo.
Ana Shen closed the door, walked to the sofa in the living room in the dark and sat down. The TV hanging on the wall opposite automatically turned on.
A dark room appeared on the screen, with a man sitting on a sofa with his back to the camera.
The layout of the room on the TV was exactly the same as that of Shen Yan's room. It was obvious that what was displayed on the monitor was the surveillance video of this room, and the camera was located on the wall behind Shen Yan.
Ana Shen sat in front of the TV, opened the hidden compartment of the sofa, and found a thick stack of files.
At the top of the list is Li Jianye's file.
The image of him in the photo is not much different from the image seen in the realm.
"Li Jianye, male, 45 years old."
"He once served as the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the No. 18 City Public Security Bureau. In May 2134, he was responsible for handling the Chen Gengnian case."
Ana Shen rubbed the paper and read out the words one by one.
In the empty and dark room, Ana Shen's emotionless voice began to echo to every corner.
The moment Shen Yannian spoke out, the monitor suddenly displayed a blurry screen, flickering and distorting as if the signal had been interfered with.
What's even more weird is that Ana Shen's back on the monitor was deflected due to the distortion of the picture, and the figure that originally had his back to the camera suddenly turned around!
Ana Shen seemed unaware of this and still read out the information in the file step by step.
"On July 10, 2134, Chen Gengnian was arrested and brought to justice with an arrest warrant."
"A public prosecution was filed on July 15. On July 16, Chen Gengnian's attorney presented a mental appraisal certificate. Chen Gengnian was diagnosed with severe delusions, cognitive deviations and other mental illnesses. On July 21, Chen Gengnian was released on medical parole."
"On July 29, the trial court suddenly changed the sentence, believing that he was unable to fulfill his criminal responsibility and released him on the spot!"
Ana Shen raised his head: "On July 31, Li Jianye, who was in charge of the Chen Gengnian case, disappeared."
He stared at himself on the monitor and said word by word: "How many more people like Li Jianye have you confused?"
'Ana Shen' on the monitor was also staring at him. The only difference between the two people was that one had sadness and anger on his face, while the other had an exaggerated and weird smile on his face, like a clown.
"Bewitched? No, no, no, I just woke them up at the right time, so that they will no longer be pigs in captivity for the rest of their lives, but become burning torches of faith!"
'Clown Shen Yan' exaggeratedly said: "Life - what a wonderful thing, I will never allow the soul that should be shining with golden light to be wrapped in a ball of shit, and then rot there and stink!"
"So you turned him into a realm lord, and then eliminated him with your own hands!!"
Ana Shen held the file bag's hand, with veins exposed: "He is an innocent person, even...even in the eyes of a madman like you, he can be considered a good person..."
The clown said piously: "Someone must fall before dawn."
"These are all your excuses! They are just victims for you to regain your strength!"
Ana Shen looked at himself on the monitor, the dark golden scale he held tightly in his left hand.
This is the monster separated from Li Jianye's head, and it is also the source of spiritual energy in the entire realm. It was picked off by the clown during the battle.
Li Jianye disappeared, but the monster, which represented the source of Li Jianye's spiritual energy, remained in a magical state and became part of the clown's power.
Whether it was because he was told what he meant or for some other reason, Clown Shen Yan's face instantly darkened.
Although there was an exaggerated smile on his face, there was a coldness in his eyes.
"I think you made a mistake," the clown Ana said, eyes slightly closed, half of his face obscured by shadows: "I am not the one who caused this tragedy."
"It was Chen Gengnian who caused this tragedy. It was the doctor who issued him a mental certificate, the judge who acquitted him, and the Public Security Bureau who did nothing for five years!"
"Even Li Jianye refused to join in the conspiracy and let himself go."
The clown weighed the scale in his hand and sneered.
He knew that Shen Yan must understand what kind of character Li Jianye adhered to deep down in his heart.
Hearing the clown's words, Ana Shen fell into silence.
Just thinking of Li Jianye's last appearance, thinking of him kneeling in front of her and asking, 'Am I really a failure?', Ana Shen always felt a little confused in her heart.
"...We should have had a better solution, at least not letting him disappear completely..."
"There is a better solution...but why should I do this?"
The clown Shen Yan suddenly became crazy. He put on an exaggerated smile and mocking eyes while laughing and shouting: "Don't you know how many guys like Chen Gengnian there are in this world? Have you ever thought about changing anything? "
"You are the ones who caused the tragedy. Why should I pay for your mistakes?"
The clown looked at Ana Shen with disdain: "You don't really think you are righteous, do you?"
"If you hadn't gone to the police back then, Li Jianye wouldn't have been involved in Chen Gengnian's case! Everything else wouldn't have happened!"
"You are a hypocritical and cowardly maggot!"
Ana Shen on the screen was cursing all kinds of curses crazily, while Ana Shen outside the screen just watched quietly.
This scene seems to have happened countless times.
At the end, the clown seemed to have vented enough, and snorted coldly: "If you care about others, you should care more about yourself. The Balance of Balance has not been perfected yet, and my strength has not been restored. If you don't want to be made into a specimen, hurry up. Find a new carrier before someone from the lab comes knocking."
"Li Jianye's daughter is a good choice."
After saying this, snowflakes flickered on the screen, Ana Shen inside turned around, and the screen returned to normal.
…
Ana Shen was lying on the sofa calmly, as if nothing had happened.
He stared at his back on the monitor, his face full of vigilance and hatred relaxing tiredly.
Everyone thought that the abnormality in this world began after the purple-black crack appeared in the sky.
"but I am not."
Many years ago, I don't know the specific day, Ana Shen found that he saw twisted monsters growing on many people.
These monsters never spoke and hung over people's heads like hydrogen balloons, invisible to anyone except him.
At first, Ana Shen thought he was hallucinating, and he saw many doctors for this.
No one can understand that the world in his eyes is different.
When chatting with a friend, you should pretend not to see his head covered by a monster. When dating a girl, you should choose to ignore the resentful doll on her back.
Over time, Ana Shen became more and more autistic. He did not want to communicate with others, or even meet anyone.
Until one time he couldn't help but reached out and touched a monster. He found that he was entangled with a 'thing', a monster that he could never get rid of.
At first, this monster would only speak in his heart, and later it would take him to strange places while he was sleeping. Later, it could even appear in front of him and snatch control of his body from him.
Ana Shen tried countless methods to drive it away and kill it, but as time went by, he gradually lost the power to even fight this monster for his body.
He began to lose memories from time to time, and a completely unfamiliar life experience would appear inexplicably. He found that the time he could stay awake was getting shorter and shorter.
He began to panic. He was afraid that the next time he fell asleep, he would never wake up again.
He frantically searched for a solution. He went to temples, churches, and the inheritors of intangible culture who performed folk dances. He even secretly gave himself electric shocks, but it was all to no avail.
Until one day he woke up and found a diary beside him.
Judging from the handwriting, it should have been written by herself, but Ana Shen had no impression of the content recorded in it.
Looking at his figure on the monitor again, Ana Shen took out the worn notebook from under the sofa.
A very worn book, with a brown leather cover full of cracks.
Half of the brass letters inlaid on the front of the cover fell off, leaving only the sparse A, C, and Y still hanging on it.
This diary has been in Shen Yan's hands for half a year.
He skillfully turned through the pages recording trivial matters and stopped at an abstract figure painting.
This is an eight-armed figure sitting cross-legged. Two arms are closed at the navel, and the other six are stretched out on both sides of the body, as if they are holding something.
After turning to this point, Ana Shen unbuttoned his shirt.
No one knew that Ana Shen's seemingly weak body was actually covered with criss-crossing scars. And these scars are connected together to form an eight-armed figure similar to the diary!
In the lower right corner of the eight-armed figure, there is a sentence written in deep ink -
"Use the most sincere and impartial scale as a key to open the first door to the truth."
