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Chapter 413: Chapter 414: The Sin of Peering

"Do we really... have to do this?" Honglian gulped after listening, "In a sense, that Rodiya is indeed dead, right..."

"Yes." She answered frankly, "But so what? Rather than living every day in fear and spending the rest of my life anxiously waiting for death to arrive, I might as well take matters into my own hands. Besides, I am she, she is me; this is a decision we’ve made together. I just didn’t expect... the power of the soul forge is even stronger than I imagined, it actually inherited the abilities too. You figured out Sheri’s problem through this, didn’t you?"

Chen Xuan didn’t deny it.

He noticed that Sheri’s Spiritual Qi light points were significantly larger than the other three, while she should have been an ordinary employee. Moreover, he knew Rodiya had the ability to refill cups, which was akin to foresight, so suspecting her was quite logical.

"When did you join the Evangelical Association and why did you escape from there?" Chen Xuan was more concerned about this question.

There were plenty who escaped the Evangelical Association, but Rodiya was evidently a special case.

Otherwise, the former wouldn’t have specifically sent people to kill her.

He initially thought it was related to Rodiya’s ability.

But now that she’s explained it, it’s clearly not the case, as she didn’t even know she could transfer memory and ability before joining the organization.

Rodiya shrugged, "Are you sure you want to hear a long-winded childhood tragedy story? Back then, I had three paths: street walking, begging, or joining a gang. I chose the latter. And the Evangelical Association is essentially a gang for Ability Users, it provided me food, safety, and... friends."

The last word she said quietly.

Honglian raised her eyebrows in surprise, but before she could speak, Rodiya had already said, "The Dimensional Limit Mechanism hadn’t announced its existence back then. How was I supposed to know you had a branch in Europe? Not to mention that if I ever got beaten up, Evangelical Association actually fought back for me... even more fiercely. They also swallowed up many gangs, making those hooligans follow our orders. Honestly... I was quite happy during those years."

Honglian instinctively covered her chest, "You read my thoughts."

"Sorry, I know a lot of people don’t like this, but I can’t control it." Rodiya showed an innocent expression, "With ordinary people, I have to be covert, but since you all know my ability, I’ll just be direct."

"At that time..."

"Sixteen." She answered quickly again.

Honglian was speechless.

Evidently, Rodiya’s growing environment was a major factor in shaping who she is now.

"Sounds indeed nice, so what’s the reason for leaving?" Chen Xuan asked.

The other party fell silent for a while before replying quietly, "I heard something... something I shouldn’t have been able to hear. I also know... that eavesdropping on others’ thoughts is prone to accidents, so my excuse to them was that I could see their unspoken thoughts ahead of time. And just a month and a half ago... a big figure came to our place, he was chatting with our boss, and I heard... I heard..."

She hesitated for a long time but didn’t say it.

"What did you hear exactly?" Chen Xuan followed up.

"...Damn, the leaders of Evangelical Association are a bunch of lunatics!" Rodiya suddenly cursed, "They want to create a massacre to draw the attention of Ability Users worldwide, I absolutely don’t want to be on the same boat as these madmen!"

"Massacre?" Honglian’s gaze sharpens.

"I don’t actually care about the supremacy of Ability Users, but I know that by doing this, they’ll make all Ability Users enemies to mankind! Besides, this isn’t just a passing thought, they’ve actually made plans for it, even calling it ’The Howling’. They’re really ready to implement that damn massacre... hissing... cough cough!"

She spoke too excitedly, forgetting that she was in a deliberately wounded body, the pain pulling at her injury made her cough uncontrollably.

Chen Xuan’s mind sparked, "It couldn’t be that they’re stealing nuclear bombs, could it?"

"Yes, they’re stealing nuclear bombs! To be exact, stealing a nuclear submarine and then launching the nuclear bombs from it!" Rodiya’s eyes widened, "You even know about this? Wait... has it become reality in the future!?"

"No, it hasn’t... I got this intel from other sources." Chen Xuan said vaguely.

This isn’t considered lying.

Future Warriors count as one of his intel channels.

"Lin Qing?" Rodiya asked instinctively.

Chen Xuan inadvertently furrowed his brow.

This reaction was also captured by her, "If you don’t want me to reveal things in advance, you can stay a few meters away from me, I generally can’t hear thoughts from that distance."

"It’s fine, I’m just not very used to it." Chen Xuan thought for a moment before deciding to stay seated, since he chose to cooperate, he must adapt to the side effects of the other’s ability. As long as there’s no physical contact, her reading efficiency isn’t that exaggerated either.

Rodiya’s gaze flickered slightly.

"Rest assured, it’s highly unlikely to succeed." He added, "Perhaps due in part to your escape, someone will prevent it from happening in the future."

At least the current future residents haven’t experienced that nuclear haze period.

The history Lin Qing experienced has already changed.

Only he didn’t expect that the Dimensional Limit Mechanism in Lin Qing’s era would regard Evangelical Association as an "extreme environmental organization," when the latter’s propaganda isn’t advocating Ability User supremacy?

But upon careful consideration, this sort of cognitive discrepancy doesn’t seem to be entirely wrong either: eliminate most ordinary people, societal order will collapse, industries and cities will paralyze, in a way it’s quite "environmental."

In that world line, Evangelical Association was pretty much street-level, controlling nuclear submarine missile launches gave the organization the best excuse for intervening, taking them down in one shot in successive fashion, thus appearing quite lackadaisical in the records.

And now the world line has evidently undergone many changes.

Not only is the organization changing.

Evangelical Association has changed as well.

It now possesses the capability to threaten the organization.

"If that’s indeed the case, then that’s great..." Rodiya breathed a sigh of relief, "Actually, I also hate those who bullied me, but it’s not worth going as far as massacring humanity for revenge; otherwise, what’s the difference between me and terrorists?"

"If you just ran off directly, the Evangelical Association shouldn’t have sent people to hunt you down, right?" Chen Xuan asked puzzled, "Did you tell anyone about this?"

Given her description, the Evangelical Association shouldn’t fully understand her ability.

A complex emotion flickered in Rodiya’s eyes, "I wanted Angelica to come with me, so I told her what I heard. In the end, she agreed to me on the surface, but deep down she was extremely scared—not of the Evangelical Association’s plan to massacre ordinary people, but afraid to leave the organization."

"If it was just unwillingness to join me, that’s one thing, but I didn’t expect her to disappear that very night."

Rodiya’s tone was very calm, but her hands unconsciously tightened.

"You didn’t sense her intention to betray you?" Honglian asked in a low voice.

She shook her head, "Maybe she thought of it later, as thoughts can change at any time."

"What happened next?" Chen Xuan suspected things might not be so simple.

"If the organization finds out about this, I wouldn’t escape Britain even with wings, so I leaked the organization’s location to the Mechanism. By the way... the structure of Evangelical Association is similar to the Mechanism, a small group here and there, though compared to the Dimensional Limit Mechanism in full swing, they resemble a refugee shelter more." Rodiya stated, "Thanks to my ability, I know more about the Mechanism than most evangelicals, and the Mechanism’s response was indeed swift. Just a day later, our stronghold was surrounded by their Ability Users."

"Once they clashed with the Evangelical Association, no one would care about what I said." She said as she closed her eyes, seemingly recalling the scene, "The building where the organization hid was eventually strewn with bodies, yet there wasn’t much blood... they were all frozen into icy shards, shattered all over the floor."

"The Ability User saving me called himself Lin, an agent of the Arbitration Court. I saw her freeze Angelica and then crush her head with a stomp."