Chapter 582: Chapter 414: The Metamorphosis of the Mindset_2
Zachary used Divine Sense to search for someone again, but this time, his previously unfailing method yielded no results.
Unlike treasures that can hide themselves, there are only three possibilities when a person escapes detection by Divine Sense.
The first possibility, the person is not within the area covered by Divine Sense.
The second possibility, the person has been hidden by some means, which could be within a completely enclosed barrier or some special method of concealment. Such methods typically require energy, and under normal circumstances, without facing difficulties, one would not choose to utilize them.
The third and simplest possibility is that the person is dead, therefore Divine Sense naturally cannot find the target anymore.
Zyaire belonged to the frontline soldiers at the camp, so it was quite normal for him to either be out or dead.
As for the second possibility, Zachary didn’t even consider it; in his view, unless Zyaire had encountered something special after Zachary left, his identity at their meeting wasn’t significant enough to warrant wasting energy on concealment.
Zachary landed outside the camp, and in fact, it was quite simple to confirm Zyaire’s condition—a member of the Officials, so one just needed to ask around to know whether Zyaire was dead or alive.
Of course, even though Zyaire held a fairly high position in the camp when they met, not everyone knew him, like picking a random person in any city before the disaster and asking about the local district chief.
Ordinary people wouldn’t know the recent experiences of that district chief, and they might not even be aware of their local district chief’s full name.
However, Zachary was not foolish and knowing that Zyaire had led troops before, he found the recruit training area and with the enormous ’cost’ of a pack of cigarettes, he learned about Zyaire’s recent situation.
It was unknown whether Zachary had stimulated him, but after Zachary left, Zyaire gradually began to relinquish his power and then started scheming ways to make money.
Zyaire, no stranger to such situations, did not resort to blunt and violent methods but rather employed a silently influential approach. Under the premise that very few could guess his actions, he began to make money extensively.
Although they were close to Pengcheng in terms of a straight-line distance, not everyone could travel wherever they wished like Zachary. Hence, Zyaire had to rely on the aircraft from Kyoto that landed at the camp once every quarter, boarding the plane, and then personally flying to Kyoto to make his purchases.
When returning, he didn’t have to wait for the monthly scheduled flight but could simply parachute down when passing overhead.
Zachary’s visit was unfortunately ill-timed; the day before yesterday was the quarterly landing day for the aircraft, so Zyaire left the camp with the plane on its return journey.
As for how long Zyaire would be gone before he could return, that depended on the success of his trip. If all went well, he could be back in about three days. If not, there had been times when he stayed out for a week.
Having confirmed that Zyaire wasn’t around, Zachary had no intention of waiting for him there. After all, his visit was more of a spur-of-the-moment decision, which is why he had rushed over, only to find that his friend wasn’t home. This was a bit embarrassing.
Coming here was a sudden idea for Zachary, and without having found his friend, he decisively left. As for staying behind to buy oddities like the last time, everyone wasn’t foolish.
Last time, Zachary was able to buy so much largely due to Zyaire’s identity. Otherwise, although it might be a guess, others would not have allowed Zachary to guess correctly so many times and someone would have stepped in to stop it.
Zyaire might not have known about Dong Tianyu’s abilities at first, but given Dong Tianyu’s subsequent behavior, even a fool could tell that Dong Tianyu had special abilities. By continuing to let Dong Tianyu play and taking him to better places to continue the fun, Zyaire was actually trying to bewitch Dong Tianyu into revealing his methods.
However, Dong Tianyu ate up all the sugar coating and discarded everything else that was useless, leaving Zyaire with nothing in the end. With no choice, Zyaire could only reluctantly agree on a next time for their transaction, but Zyaire never expected that even after he had given in so much, Dong Tianyu would still not show up.
Indeed, he wondered if Dong Tianyu had stood him up, got held up by something else, or if he had already been taken out by someone else.
But Zyaire didn’t pin all his hopes on Dong Tianyu. As Dong Tianyu continued to be a no-show, Zyaire could only board a plane himself and head to Kyoto to see if the nutritional supplements were really as Dong Tianyu said, something that could be bought with money, whether in Pengcheng where they were produced or in Kyoto.
When Dong Tianyu returned, he intentionally landed at the southern gate of the camp in advance, then entered the camp from the south gate without any attempt at concealment, and afterwards went back home.
Shortly after Dong Tianyu arrived home, the spies tailing him not only learned that Dong Tianyu had returned home but also found out that he entered the camp from the southern gate.
After repeated confirmations, the little tails had no choice but to report directly to their supervisors. What to do next was for those above to decide; they really didn’t need to worry so much.
Just as Dong Tianyu hadn’t been home long, Ye Liuyun hurried over to knock on the door. After Dong Tianyu opened the door and welcomed him inside, Ye Liuyun couldn’t help complaining, "I called you, why didn’t you answer?"
Hearing this, Dong Tianyu suddenly realized that he didn’t like to carry bags or to wear those messy things at his waist, so in many cases, Dong Tianyu would put his phone into Storage Space.
After putting the phone into the Storage Space, it naturally wouldn’t receive calls from others, so he wouldn’t know if someone was looking for him.
Feeling guilty, Dong Tianyu said to Ye Liuyun, "I forgot, I put the phone in the storage artifact absentmindedly. I was wondering why nobody else called me." While talking, Dong Tianyu took out his phone and saw a burst of missed call alerts popping up. Ye Liuyun knew that Dong Tianyu wasn’t lying.
However, Ye Liuyun’s attention wasn’t on the phone at that moment, but was instead carefully observing every ornament on Dong Tianyu, trying to figure out which one was the real Storage Ability item.
Until Ye Liuyun looked Dong Tianyu up and down enough to give him goosebumps, Ye Liuyun still couldn’t tell which item on him was the Storage Ability item.
Unable to find it, Ye Liuyun simply asked Dong Tianyu directly, "Which item on you is the storage artifact? I’ve never seen a storage artifact with my own eyes. Show it to me, will you?"
Hearing this, Dong Tianyu spread his hands and said in a very innocent tone to Ye Liuyun, "It’s not really what you would call a true storage artifact."
He lifted his arm, showing everyone the tattoo on his hand that looked like an ancient sword and without waiting for others to ask, Dong Tianyu continued, "I actually consecrated an oddity, no, perhaps it’s a set of oddities.
It’s an ancient sword with a scabbard, and I found out after consecrating it that, while these two items are a set, it turned out that, the sword and the scabbard are a set of oddities, but in essence, they are still two separate items.
The storage artifact we were talking about is actually the scabbard. The Storage Space in the scabbard is not very big. It’s okay to put some small items in there, but if you want to put something big, it just won’t fit."
Hearing Dong Tianyu say this, Ye Liuyun was still very interested in the scabbard.
It’s not surprising that the scabbard has Storage Ability. Precisely because of this, after Dong Tianyu discovered it, he took the opportunity to find an excuse for concealment.
