Chapter 555: Chapter 401 Path Entry Realm
Hearing what the other party had said, Dong Tianyu glanced at Gavin beside him. Gavin shrugged after seeing Dong Tianyu’s gaze and then said to Dong Tianyu, "Don’t ask me, I haven’t even figured out what has happened from before until now. The person you caught, whatever you say goes."
After hearing what Gavin said, Dong Tianyu no longer sought Gavin’s opinion and directly said to him, "We can hand over the person to you, but just saying it won’t prove your identities. You need to give me something that can verify who you are."
When Dong Tianyu said this, the other party’s expression relaxed considerably. As long as Dong Tianyu was willing to hand the person over to them, providing something to verify their identities wasn’t difficult for them, since they were a unit directly subordinate to the Imperial Court and had such conveniences.
A team member carrying a backpack took out a card from the bag. When he approached Dong Tianyu and laid the card flat in his hand, he clicked the middle of the card, and with a ’ding’ sound, a 3D projection popped up from the thin card.
The projection was of the team member’s face, which surprised Dong Tianyu. He hadn’t expected that the metal card, similar in size and thickness to a playing card, not only had a 3D projection effect but also had voice playback capability.
As the image in the projection changed, a voice started introducing synchronously. However, it only introduced the name, work unit, and current position.
Actually, when the other party took out the card and a 3D projection appeared, Dong Tianyu already believed their identity. At this time, the only units that could be equipped with such advanced tech were those directly subordinate to the Imperial Court.
Once Dong Tianyu had confirmed their identities, he directly handed the person over to them. After arranging for two individuals to continue controlling the person, they inquired and recorded Dong Tianyu’s identity and stated that they would notify him to collect his reward from the relevant unit after the mission ended.
The other party was kind enough to want to register Gavin for the reward as well, but when they asked Gavin, he declined with words, and after Gavin refused, they did not ask further, bidding farewell to the two before leaving with their team.
Once those people had left, Dong Tianyu and Gavin asked each other:
"Why did you refuse to register? Isn’t an extra reward a good thing?"
"How did you know there was something wrong with the person lying on the ground?"
Upon hearing each other’s questions, both of them subconsciously said:
"You first!"
"You first!"
To avoid continuing this awkward scene, Dong Tianyu made a gesture of invitation, allowing Gavin to answer his question first.
After seeing Dong Tianyu’s gesture, Gavin didn’t intend to hide anything and spoke his thoughts, "I’m still within the period of executing my mission, and this place doesn’t fall within the mission’s active range.
I’m different from you. If they really are a department directly subordinate to the Imperial Court, and my leaders get contacted when they start issuing rewards, then they will definitely know that I and Bing Huo deserted our posts during the mission period. By then, whether I can receive the reward or not is one thing, but punishment is definitely inevitable.
Besides, it was just helping to catch a person. Even if there’s a reward, how much can it be? Furthermore, the task report will still depend on those people to write, so it’s questionable whether I could even get the reward in the end."
Hearing what Gavin said, Dong Tianyu instantly understood and succinctly summarized Gavin’s words. The reward wasn’t guaranteed, and even if one was received, there was no telling how much it would be, so it wasn’t worth the risk for an uncertain reward against a certain disciplinary action.
Seeing that Dong Tianyu understood his point, Gavin immediately counter-asked, "How did you find out there was something wrong with the person lying on the ground?"
Gavin’s inquiry made Dong Tianyu feel a bit helpless. How did he find out? He couldn’t just plainly say that he saw someone lying on the ground not far away, then subconsciously used Divine Sense to scan them, and after, detected the figure of a Bug Race controller at the person’s spine. Finally, he decided to take preemptive action and control the person directly.
If he were to tell the whole truth, there would be more troublesome matters to follow, so Dong Tianyu half-truthfully said to Gavin, "That was the ability I gained from merging the second wondrous object. It allows me to probe living beings.
Although this ability isn’t powerful, it can sense the presence of life forms around me. It’s quite practical as a capability that will never let me be ambushed by others.
However, when I learned from some sources about a special kind of Bugs Clan that can parasitize human spines and control humans by connecting to their nerves, I was amazed to find that my ability had another effect.
Aside from confirming how many babies were in a pregnant woman’s womb, it could also detect whether others were parasitized by that particular Bug Race.
Just now, when I saw someone lying on the ground, I subconsciously used my ability to observe him and then found out he had been parasitized by that Bug Race, and you know what happened next."
Upon hearing Dong Tianyu’s explanation, Gavin felt that Dong Tianyu was still hiding something, but he didn’t have any significant doubts about this explanation.
Even though the two of them were chatting, their feet didn’t rest for a moment, and they hurried towards the place where they first met, hoping that nothing had happened there.
