Chapter 62: The Ghost Living in the Borderland
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For the first time, Li Lin saw Captain Song—usually so composed and dependable—looking uneasy, as if he were facing a formidable enemy.
“So… that eye-shaped Dark Angel just vanished silently from the Otherworld it had infested? It didn’t try to corrupt or control anyone, nor did it leave behind any ‘offspring’?” Captain Song asked after listening to the report from the two Special Operations Bureau agents in front of him. He had been silent for a long time before finally speaking. “And throughout the entire process, neither of you heard any ‘higher-dimensional whispers’ in your minds?”
“No,” Xu Jiali replied, shaking his head, his voice low. “But it definitely noticed us. For a moment, I could clearly feel its gaze. It focused right where we were hiding. It was as if…”
Captain Song leaned forward, frowning. “As if what?”
Xu Jiali hesitated, searching for the right words. “As if it was searching for something.”
Captain Song tapped his fingers irritably on the table, deep in thought. After several long seconds, he exhaled slowly and turned to Li Lin.
“When you interacted with the man who called himself ‘Yu Sheng,’ did you sense any… ‘otherworldly’ aura about him? Based on your intuition, did he seem more like a human or… something else?”
“Like a human,” Li Lin said confidently. “At least in his speech, behavior, and basic social norms, he seemed entirely human. If he were an entity disguised as a human, then that disguise is flawless—to the point where you’d consider him genuinely human.”