Chapter 416
Chapter 416: A Well-Intentioned Lie
Bai Moxue silently despised her darling from the side.
She was very dissatisfied with his lying.
Especially deceiving Murong Xuanya that she was rescued rather than bought and sold.
Luo Sheng whispered in her ear, “First, we need to play on emotions, so she won’t resist us, then see if we can dig up some useful information.”
“Darling, you’d better be doing that,” Bai Moxue said with her small red lips pouted.
Murong Xuanya looked at the two of them strangely.
Then she asked, “What do you plan to do with me?”
“For now, you can only stay in the card, because there’s no better place to live,” Luo Sheng said simply.
Murong Xuanya thought for a moment and asked again, “Can’t you let me return to my original body? I don’t want to remain a card forever.”
She used to be a somewhat famous Card Master.
So she didn’t want to become a card, and was even less willing to have her safety in someone else’s hands.
Luo Sheng shrugged, making a helpless expression.
He said to her, “Sorry, with our current understanding of the Soul Ferryman, we can’t make you return to your own body yet.
We don’t even know if your original bodies are still intact, so I can only apologize to you, you can only exist in the card for now.
Of course, we won’t do anything to you, we just want to ask you about some things related to the Soul Ferryman, or other information.”
“Alright…”
Murong Xuanya smiled bitterly.
Luo Sheng didn’t intend to comfort her.
Instead, he began to inquire about her situation.
Murong Xuanya was indeed a member of the Murong family.
She studied at the local Card University, was a Gold 2-star Card Master, and once went out with a team to hunt invading creatures from another dimension.
They were attacked by a group of Card Masters.
Fortunately, they escaped in a scattered manner, but in the process, she suffered severe injuries.
On the verge of death, someone asked her if she wanted to live on.
Murong Xuanya didn’t hesitate and agreed immediately.
Then she became like this.
“So it is indeed like that, everyone whose soul is taken by the Soul Ferryman is asked the same question. But do you know who those people who attacked you were?”
Luo Sheng inquired further.
Murong Xuanya shook her head, “I have no clue at all, I don’t know where they came from, they attacked us without a word.
We wanted to fight back at the time, but unfortunately, the attackers were too strong. Moreover, we had been fighting for a long time, so our spiritual power was already mostly consumed, we were no match for them at all.”
Luo Sheng fell into thought after hearing her account.
Xu Ruirui’s soul was taken away because she died blocking invading creatures to protect the core personnel.
Dongli Yuyan’s base was destroyed, she was also seriously injured, and then her soul was taken away.
And Murong Xuanya was attacked by enemies while out on a mission.
One was inside the city, two were outside the city.
Luo Sheng couldn’t summarize a pattern.
So he gave up on that idea.
He changed the subject and asked, “Do you know about your family’s Fate Card Master?”
“I know, but does this have anything to do with me?” Murong Xuanya’s face showed a confused expression.
Luo Sheng pretended to ponder for a while, brewing a sense of urgency as if a storm was coming.
He said frankly, “The Fate Card Master of your family has gone blind. We don’t rule out the possibility that he was searching for you, which led to the shattering of his fate card, and he himself became blind.”
Murong Xuanya’s face turned pale as she listened to his words.
According to what Luo Sheng said, the Soul Ferryman’s power was terribly formidable.
Even a Fate Card Master was no match for them.
Luo Sheng didn’t panic because of his own lie.
The Murong family’s Fate Card Master had simply blinded himself trying to pry into Luo Sheng’s affairs.
But Luo Sheng didn’t intend to tell her the truth.
He continued to deceive her, saying, “So I hope you can tell us in detail about your family’s Fate Card Master’s information, so we can find clues from it.
And deduce how these Soul Ferrymen blinded your family’s Fate Card Master.”
Deception was the best way Luo Sheng could think of to kill two birds with one stone.
He could get the information he needed without threatening her.
Murong Xuanya hesitated for a moment, then began to speak.
The Murong family’s Fate Card Master — Murong Guiwen.
A Platinum 5-star Card Master who had just entered the Platinum rank and awakened his fate ability through spiritual essence.
The 【Spiritual Essence】 was obtained through auction in the black market.
It was estimated to cost 50,000 card coins.
Luo Sheng also heard for the first time that the higher the level of 【Spiritual Essence】, the more powerful the awakened ability would be.
For example, the Rule Maker.
They could create a domain that applies their own rules within a certain range.
This kind of Card Master’s ability was very powerful and quite rare.
So they were worth more than ordinary Enhancers.
There were also Teleporters, who could build transmission channels through some special ability, but it was said to be extremely costly.
Especially for teleportation between cities, the resources consumed were enough to build a Card University.
Murong Xuanya continued to talk about the Fate Card Master’s information.
Murong Guiwen was second only to the family head in status.
Besides helping the family predict fate and find cards that could bring miracles, what he often did was…
He would help ordinary people with fate sensing three times a month, charging 100 card coins each time, to earn the necessary funds.
The time Murong Xuanya died…
It was actually because Murong Guiwen had discovered through his fate card that there was some kind of treasure in another dimension, so they organized a team to enter.
Luo Sheng listened to Murong Xuanya’s content.
He was quite speechless.
Murong Guiwen had caused the death of his own clan member through his fate card.
This was too lousy.
At this moment, Murong Xuanya timidly asked, “Can you send me back to my family?”
She was still thinking about returning to her family at this point.
Perhaps it would be safer within her own family.
Luo Sheng shook his head, “We can’t do that for now, because we’re not sure if there are members within your family who are in collusion with the Soul Ferryman.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t have died so strangely, and your existence is also very confidential to us, other Security Bureau officers don’t know about it either.
After all, these Soul Ferrymen are too mysterious, we’re afraid they have already infiltrated every aspect of the entire city, so I hope you understand.”
Luo Sheng spoke very seriously.
Making people feel the severity of this matter as they listened.
Bai Moxue couldn’t help but laugh on the side.
This guy was simply not on good terms with the Murong family, their Fate Card Master had blinded himself trying to obtain her darling’s secrets.
And the secrecy from the Security Bureau was because he was afraid that Sima Shengnan would come to make trouble again.
But Murong Xuanya very much believed what Luo Sheng said.
Because her experience was strange in every aspect.
“Mm, I believe you, then let’s do as you say.”
“Thank you for your understanding. Rest assured, apart from needing you to provide information, we won’t disturb you. Of course, if you have any needs, we’ll try our best to satisfy them.”
Luo Sheng still spoke in a pretentious manner.
Of course, he wouldn’t satisfy Murong Xuanya’s needs.
This sentence was just to make himself look like a normal Security Bureau detective.
“I do have some thoughts. Can you let me have a meal? I haven’t had a good meal for several days and nights when I was out exploring before, and I haven’t taken a bath either.”
Murong Xuanya suddenly requested.
Luo Sheng looked at her.
He nodded, “This request is no problem. Let her take you to take a bath, as for dinner, you’ll have to wait a while.”
“Thank you.”
Murong Xuanya nodded solemnly to Luo Sheng, expressing her gratitude.
Then Bai Moxue took her to the shower room to bathe.
Luo Sheng also summoned Acoley and asked her to cook a delicious dinner.
After Murong Xuanya had eaten and drunk her fill, Luo Sheng would return her to his own card.
【Meow Monster – Murong Xuanya】
Level: Bronze 7-star
Type: Demi-human – Transmigrator
Skills:
①Cute Kitty: Display a cute temperament, making the opponent reluctant to attack, damage reduced by 10%.
②Kitty Attack: Cat claws hidden in the fur, can suddenly attack the opponent.
③Nine Lives: The kitty has nine lives, can immediately recover from fatal damage, can be used nine times a day, cooldown time one week.
④Hunting Silence: A quiet hunter, can approach the enemy silently.
⑤Escape: When encountering a powerful enemy, the kitty can run faster than others.
Description: I’ve actually become a kitty? How cute!