Chapter 272: Chapter 205: A New Watchful Gaze, and It’s Jingang?
’Back then, the Round Table Conference tested me to see if I was a Wizard Professional, even resorting to using something like Holy Light.’
’But for me, getting information on Extraordinary Professions doesn’t seem to be as difficult as I imagined.’
Spiritual Vision, Decomposition Mimicry!
With this one-two punch, Lin Qi could directly copy his opponent’s Extraordinary Power.
’Whatever their Extraordinary Profession is, I can just experience it for myself!’
Based on the Extraordinary Ability obtained through Decomposition Mimicry, it wouldn’t be hard to trace it back and identify the profession.
’But the difficult part is her Extraordinary Level. She’s so old she could almost be my grandmother. Even a pig would have reached Tier Three by that age, and maybe even Tier Four.’
She held a high position, was advanced in age, and on top of that, had an Extraordinary Profession.
There was no way Lin Qi could just casually analyze her.
The Decomposition Mimicry Ability stayed true to the usual characteristics of Lin Qi’s abilities: when used remotely, it only worked on those with a lower Extraordinary Level than his own.
As for the other method of use—devouring...
Lin Qi’s face turned a little green just thinking about it.
Until he had completely lost all hope, Lin Qi couldn’t accept using that method.
He had to find another way, a different approach to break the stalemate.
Continuing to review the intelligence from Guang Ling, Lin Qi soon found a new angle of attack.
Family!
Director Aishwarya was not alone in Alliance City; she had a sizable family.
According to the intelligence provided by Guang Ling, the director had a total of six husbands and had given birth to a whopping nine children.
There were nine members in the second generation alone.
By the third generation, the number was simply absurd, with over forty members.
It seemed she had inherited the fine tradition of the people from New Reid City—maxed-out fertility.
No wonder people from Reid City were able to occupy so many jobs in various corporations in the early years.
One, they were cheap labor; two, there were certainly enough of them.
A single Reid City couldn’t possibly contain such a large population, forcing them to emigrate.
Given enough time, they might have been able to change the demographic structure of many Cyber Cities without resorting to overly complex methods.
Unfortunately, later events caused the people of most Cyber Cities to develop a deep-seated hatred for them.
It was only because Director Aishwarya held a position of great power and influence in Alliance City; otherwise, her huge family would have been living at the absolute bottom of society.
This many family members gave Lin Qi an excellent opportunity.
With a few eccentric exceptions, Extraordinary Professions were highly hereditary.
This was especially true for certain Extraordinary Professions that were already rare to begin with.
These professions were often passed down reliably through bloodlines.
For example, the Shaman Profession of the Si Clan and the Wizard Profession of the Liu Clan.
Both the knowledge related to the Extraordinary Profession and the inherent Talent were passed down with considerable reliability.
’I’ll start with the family members, find one whose Extraordinary Professional Level is lower than mine, and analyze them.’
’If one doesn’t work, I’ll move on to the next. I’ll analyze all several dozen of them. I’m bound to find some clues eventually.’
Since his plan was to find a weakness by targeting her Extraordinary Profession, the first step was to confirm what that profession actually was.
Having made up his mind, Lin Qi immediately sent another email to Guang Ling.
[I need more detailed intelligence. I need the movements of the second- and third-generation members of Director Aishwarya’s family.]
Asking Guang Ling for this kind of intelligence was the most direct approach.
Guang Ling replied quickly.
[One million Credit Points.]
Lin Qi was already so deep in debt that a little more didn’t matter. He typed out another reply.
[Deal. I now owe you six million Credit Points.]
Lin Qi believed that Guang Ling could definitely monitor all of his accounts.
One million Credit Points?
What a joke!
Lin Qi couldn’t even scrounge up ten thousand Credit Points right now!
’I’ll just owe it for now!’
Guang Ling seemed to be used to it and didn’t say anything more to Lin Qi.
About a minute later, a new email arrived in Lin Qi’s inbox.
It was a file of considerable size.
The file was named "Schedule of Sharma Aishwarya’s Family Members."
’As expected, Guang Ling is a professional when it comes to intelligence.’
Guang Ling had compiled the movements of several dozen people in just one minute.
Anyone who didn’t know better would think Guang Ling had prepared it in advance.
Wait!
’Don’t tell me Guang Ling really did prepare this in advance?’
Lin Qi had this suspicion in his heart.
Based on Lin Qi’s understanding of Guang Ling, even though he had never revealed his Decomposition Mimicry Ability in the Cyber World, it didn’t mean Guang Ling was unaware of it.
Guang Ling’s methods were so numerous that Lin Qi had, at times, viewed it as an omniscient and omnipotent existence.
For a mysterious organization, this was a tremendous source of confidence.
If Guang Ling knew about his Decomposition Mimicry Ability, then preparing this information in advance wouldn’t be strange at all.
There was no way Guang Ling wouldn’t have thought of a method that he himself had come up with.
He shook his head, clearing it of stray thoughts.
Now was not the time to be suspicious of Guang Ling, and there wasn’t much to be suspicious about anyway.
If Guang Ling wanted to harm him, it wouldn’t be this troublesome.
Guang Ling only needed to send his information to the Round Table Conference, and they would naturally take care of everything.
Lin Qi would be guaranteed to die a silent, unnoticed death.
Combined with Guang Ling’s methods, it could probably make the entire Cyber World, with the exception of a few people, forget that a person named Lin Qi had ever existed.
Getting to his feet, Lin Qi followed the intelligence and left the Alliance Mansion once again with Brother Green Hair.
Not long after leaving the Alliance Mansion, Lin Qi sensed two gazes fixed on him.
Lin Qi was already very familiar with one of them.
It came from that A-Class Prosthetic Implantation user.
Ever since he was accidentally discovered, he was watched every time he left the Alliance Mansion.
Si Ranran had no intention of letting him go.
He ignored this gaze for the time being.
Lin Qi’s attention was on the other gaze.
Compared to the previous one, which was filled with malicious intent, this gaze was very strange.
There was no malice, just a simple stare, or perhaps a sense of surveillance.
’I’m being watched again?’
’Who is it this time?’
He activated his Spiritual Vision, locking onto the source of the gaze.
The target was less than a thousand meters from Lin Qi, and Lin Qi saw the person’s face clearly.
It was a Prosthetic Implantation user, with a very high implantation rate—over eighty-five percent.
His face was quite gaunt, and he looked malnourished.
But in stark contrast to his malnourished face, the Prosthetic Bodies all over him were of surprisingly high quality.
Numerous flagship A-Class Prosthetic Bodies, a few S-Class Prosthetic Bodies, and one of the S-Class ones gave Lin Qi the feeling of an Extraordinary Item.
Seeing this set of Prosthetic Bodies, Lin Qi’s pupils contracted violently.
’Who is this?’
’Or rather, whose man is he?’
The combat power of this set of Prosthetic Bodies was absolutely terrifying, making him arguably the strongest combatant below S-Class.
Theoretically, Lin Qi wasn’t afraid of such a Pure Prosthetic Implantation user.
He could easily take care of him with a shot of Rapid Growth followed by a blood clot.
But the real trouble was not the Prosthetic Implantation user himself, but the entity behind him.
The power required to equip an Implanter with such a setup could not be underestimated.
His mind raced.
Then, as if in a flash of Spiritual Light, a name appeared in Lin Qi’s mind.
Jingang!
Yes, Lin Qi instantly thought of Jingang.
With such a malnourished body, any normal person would have been unable to withstand the terrifying neural pressure from this set of Prosthetic Bodies and would have long since become a cyber madman.
A person with such high tolerance for Prosthetic Bodies was incredibly rare.
Coincidentally, according to what Lin Qi knew, there was one person in Alliance City who could.
Member Number Six of the Highest-Level Mercenary Corps, Jingang.
’If he’s Jingang, then his reason for monitoring me is very interesting.’
’The Capitalist? Trying to test my identity again?’
Lin Qi’s guess was correct. Jingang’s current actions were indeed arranged by Qiao Xi.
According to her thinking, after the Wizard obtained the intelligence, he would most likely set out personally to investigate Aishwarya.
