Chapter 465: Chapter 281: Interrogating Julius, the Name of the Undercover Agent
The moment these thoughts landed, Black Cocoon suddenly lifted his head and fired questions like a machine gun:
"Where do you usually meet that man in glasses and a white coat? Where do you see those children in hospital gowns every time? How can you meet them?"
"I don’t know!" Julius almost roared, his voice growing weaker, stripped of pride and anger, finally showing some vulnerability of an old man, "I don’t know, I can’t say..."
"Then which people from Rainbow Wings have you seen?" Black Cocoon squinted, knowing that Julius’s spirit was at its end, so he clung to the last shred of hope and asked.
After he spoke, there was a period of silence in the basement. Surprisingly, Julius answered his question this time.
Though his words were slurred, it was still possible to understand roughly what he was saying:
"Urushibara, Liuli, Kalina... Oda Ehgo, and one more person, no... no, there should be one more person, I don’t know his name. But he took Ajaya, he took my old friend Ajaya..."
As he spoke, Julius’s pupils widened and he fell speechless.
It was as if he saw something extremely terrifying, he stared blankly and fearfully at the ceiling, his body stopped twitching, and slowly collapsed onto the couch. His whole being seemed dead, sleeping in silence.
Black Cocoon quietly watched Julius. His spirit had perished. Leaving only the body behind.
He closed Julius’s eyes with a restraint belt, then silently pondered:
"Urushibara Ryuri, Kalina, Oda Ehgo, and one more person, someone from Rainbow Wings connected to Ajaya? I remember Ajaya as the ’Mechanical Soul Bodhisattva’, what happened to him?"
"If this is the case, it matches with the intel provided by the Superpower System: there are four moles from the Salvation Society within Rainbow Wings; three of the names are already known, and as for the last mole’s identity, there’s no rush. It will naturally be revealed after exchanging information with my brother."
Black Cocoon took a deep breath. Moments later, he casually used the restraint belt to steal Julius’s superpower, then slowly withdrew the belt from him.
[Hint: Your restraint belt has stolen the superpower of the Superpower User "Julius", and you can release it within 48 hours (after "skill release" or "exceeding the limit", the stored superpower will automatically disappear).]
If possible, he would certainly want to keep Julius’s body to regularly extract his superpower. Doing so would be like treating an officer as an unconscious superpower ATM, strategically significant to Black Cocoon.
This is, after all, the superpower of a Catastrophe-Level Superpower User, naturally with high potential. More so, Julius is an important combat force within the Salvation Society. His ranking in the organization might only come after the monstrous children of the Salvation Squad.
But the problem is, Black Cocoon can’t keep Julius here. The Salvation Society might have some means to locate Julius, and thus find him.
It’s highly possible that the Salvation Society’s people are already on their way. So Black Cocoon must quickly deal with this now-vegetative old man to prevent future troubles.
"But there’s someone else to do the actual killing of the officer—to maximize the utilization efficiency of this corpse," he thought.
At that moment, a figure suddenly pushed the door open. He turned to see a silver-white giant statue, dignified and graceful, with ghostly blue flames flickering in her eye sockets. She held a dagger in each hand and walked in slowly.
This scene seemed baffling but was not actually unexpected.
Xia Pingzhou was riding the JR express train, fleeing Hokkaido with the team. If he sneaked back here to retrieve the corpse, he would definitely arouse suspicion from the hackers. He didn’t want to be thought of as a mole, constantly providing intel for Black Cocoon.
But the Queen’s Statue was different. This Chess Species could operate beyond the "Chessboard" range.
So Xia Pingzhou sent the Queen’s Statue to rush over here for this mission.
Just to claim Julius’s head.
"Queen’s Statue, kill him." Black Cocoon tilted his head, issuing the order in Xia Pingzhou’s tone while reading a comic that gave him a headache.
The Queen’s Statue nodded.
She shared memories with the Chess Player and naturally understood that Black Cocoon and the Chess Player were one.
And so, she raised her knife. The moment the dagger descended, Julius’s head flew upward, then was consumed by the ghostly blue flames.
Subsequently, Julius’s body also began to burn intensely.
This was the hidden trait of the Queen’s Statue; after killing an enemy, she could ignite the opponent’s corpse with ghostly blue fire.
But this trait wasn’t very useful, at most making body retrieval more convenient and stylish.
"The job’s done, return to the Chess Library." Black Cocoon closed "Octopus Screech" and tied it together with "Abyss of the Youth" on the ground using the restraint belt, then tossed them into the ghostly blue fire.
The figure of the Queen’s Statue suddenly blurred, then turned into a flow of black and white light and vanished.
In just a moment, Julius’s body was burned to nothing in the flames.
The ghostly blue flames flickered brightly, casting an uncertain expression on Black Cocoon’s face. He gazed at the last piece of flesh being consumed, then wrapped his whole body in the restraint belt, his tall figure melting into the air like it had become transparent.