BXBX NOVEL Chapter 338: The Truth
Chapter 338: The Truth
After assessing the situation, Adam turned his attention to Rabbit.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine."
All psychic mutants possessed superhuman psychic recovery abilities, so she had already largely recovered.
Rabbit stood up as she spoke, and after giving the man a punch, she turned her gaze toward the woman, who was still hanging onto life by a thread.
"Please... kill... me..." the woman implored, and Rabbit picked up a knife before plunging it into her neck to put her out of her misery, then stepped over her body to arrive by Adam's side.
Mole had been standing on lookout duty, so he had no idea what had happened, and he asked, "What happened? Was the guy too strong to beat? Are we alright to just leave like this?"
"I'll tell you about what happened in there later. Let's get out here for now."
With that, Adam and his group left the booth, taking care not to attract any attention to themselves.
Even after arriving in the hall, Adam was still extremely alert. If that man were to go back on his word, then he and his companions would have to get ready for battle at the drop of a hat.
However, the man did keep his promise.
In other words, he chose to keep silent as he didn't want to face potential retaliation from Adam's backers.
"What should we do from here?" Shae asked. "Do we stay or do we leave?"
"Let's get out of here. That woman upstairs has been dead for a while now, and the party's also progressed past its halfway mark. On top of that, our cover's been blown, so it would be too risky to stay here any longer."
"But it's such a shame that we only managed to hunt down one anomaly."
Shae was very greedy as she had an intense yearning for power.
"It is indeed a shame, but we have to cut our losses. We can hide in ambush on the way out to see if we can capture a few stragglers."
"That's a brilliant idea!" Mole said as he patted Adam on the shoulder. "As expected of a brother of mine."
Thus, after a brief discussion, Adam and his group left the cannibal club.
No examination was conducted on them on the way out, and they were able to leave without a hitch. At this point, it was already very late at night, and Adam and his group departed from the island on a small boat.
The gentleman who was still in the club finally heaved a sigh of relief as he watched Adam and the others leave the clubhouse, and there was still a hint of lingering fear in his heart from that near-death experience.
The older I get, the more I fear death,?the gentleman lamented internally.
Thinking back to when he was 30 years of age, he had been an avid adventurist, often going on long voyages by sea.
He had almost lost his life countless times during the violent storms out at sea, but never had he been fearful for his life.
However, as an old man, all he wanted was to be able to survive and find a path to immortality.
Regardless of whether it be injecting a young person's blood into his own body, taking different medications, or switching to a different body altogether, he was willing to do anything as long as he could live.
Right as the gentleman was caught up in his own thoughts, a hand suddenly appeared on his shoulder.
He was quite startled by this sudden contact, and he hurriedly turned around to find a complete stranger standing behind him.
"Are you with those people from before? We've already made an agreement, so please don't bother me any further."
"No, I'm not with them. In fact, I'm an enemy of theirs, and I wanted to ask you some things."
"My apologies, but I have no interest in getting involved in your conflict," the gentleman said with a shake of his head. "If I had known that this meal would be such a troublesome affair, I would've never come here. I was very much looking forward to this, but now, I'm in a terrible mood."
"Likewise, I'm in a foul mood myself." Indeed, having eaten so much human meat to fit in, Thilan's stomach was currently churning violently, and he had a feeling that the first thing he would do after returning home would be throw up everything in his stomach. "Hence, I don't want to leave this place empty-handed. If I don't get the information I came here to find, no one gets to leave!"
Thilan lifted his jacket slightly as he spoke, revealing the special psychic police badge inside.
"I'm a special psychic police officer, and there are more of my colleagues waiting outside. If you don't cooperate with me, then all of the psychos in this club, including yourself, will be sent to rot away in Darvaza Prison for the rest of your lives!" Thilan threatened in a cold and menacing voice.
The gentleman heaved a heavy sigh upon hearing this, then asked, "Will you spare me if I tell you everything?"
"That depends on whether you have sufficiently valuable information for me to justify letting you go. Let's talk in the booth."
Thilan led the gentleman into the nearest booth as he spoke.
Through inspecting the man's memories, Thilan was quickly made aware of everything that had just happened, following which he fell into deep thought.
Getting stronger through battle is indeed the fastest way for an adapter to improve, but why did he come here of all places?
Thilan recalled that last time, Adam had gone to Darvaza Prison and sought out several inmates suffering from mental problems to conduct an investigation, ultimately resulting in the death of one of those inmates.
Right as Thilan was pondering the situation, a commotion suddenly rang out outside the booth.
He rushed outside to see some people gathered on the second floor, and spurred on by his inquisitive personality, he immediately made his way upstairs before squeezing his way through the crowd, upon which he discovered a woman holding onto the lifeless body of another woman while yelling furiously at surrounding clubhouse employees.
"Why is my friend dead? I was wondering why I couldn't find her! This club has to take responsibility! This place can't even ensure the basic safety of its members! Where's that man who came up here with her? We have to find him!"
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By listening to the commotion that was taking place, Thilan was able to make sense of the situation.
This woman was most likely a friend of the woman who had been killed. They hadn't arrived together, but they had agreed to meet up at the club at an agreed-upon time. However, after arriving at the club, the woman was unable to find her friend.
After receiving access to the security footage, she discovered that her friend had entered a room with another man. Initially, she didn't pay much heed to this, merely thinking that this was another one of her friend's flirtatious flings. However, the footage showed that the man left the room not long after they entered it, but her friend remained failed to emerge.
She was unable to get through to her friend via communicator, so she made her way up to the room on the second floor, and upon discovering the state of the locked door, she knew something was terribly wrong.
Thilan strode forward to examine the woman's cause of death, and he quickly determined that she had most likely suffered brain death.
After making this assessment, Thilan was all but certain that Adam had been responsible for this.
So he targeted another psychic deviant before that man from earlier. Is he able to somehow rapidly improve himself through battling these psychic deviants?
After connecting all the dots, that was the conclusion that Thilan had arrived at.
At this point, he knew Adam very well, and he knew that Adam was a pragmatist.
He had come all this way and taken quite a significant risk, and the only plausible explanation for his actions was that he could somehow benefit immensely from this trip.
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I feel like I've heard of this self-improvement method from somewhere else before...
Thilan pulled out his communicator, and after some thorough research, he finally found what he was looking for in an old news article from several decades ago.
Back in his younger days, the ruler of Shadow City also had a similar period in his life where he went around seeking out and killing psychic deviants. During that period, his powers were?elevated very quickly, bringing him to the top of the adapter pyramid in just two short years. Could it be that Adam has some type of connection to the lord of Shadow City?
The more Thilan uncovered, the more excited he became. He felt like he was already very close to the truth.