Xena note: From what I translated so far, there’s a Supernatural Management Bureau, under it is the investigation department and the supernatural management department1There’s also a bit of suspicion in the back of my mind that the author interchanges Bureau and Department. welp.. In case you get confused. Thanks for reading~
Jian Xie took back the vitamin candy and said absentmindedly, “It was indeed me who called the police. I saw the monster you were talking about.” After saying that, he pushed his lower jaw with the tip of his tongue and tasted the sweet and sour taste of the orange…
Well, although he didn’t know why the doctor lied to him, the vitamin candy tasted unexpectedly good. He thought.
Hearing his words, Cheng Li, who was sitting opposite him, shook violently, opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and exchanged a shocked look with his companion beside him.
Wait a second……
Since it’s been determined that he’s not the murderer, aren’t these people here to interrogate him about what happened?
Just as Jian Xie frowned, the woman’s equally surprised voice explained his confusion, “You can see it? You’re not crazy? Not dead? You’re still awake?!!”
“…………”
Jian Xie, who had just been declassified as a mental patient, said, “…Are you playing a brain teaser with me?”
Although he was surprised, Cheng Li quickly explained it to Jian Xie so he wouldn’t be kept hanging for too long. “Generally speaking, ordinary people can’t see monsters… Only people with a certain amount of insight can do that. We thought you couldn’t see.”
Insight, in short, the sensitivity to monsters.
The supernatural management department has divided Insight into several levels, with Special A-level being the highest, followed by A, B, and C.
A high level of insight is more convenient for investigators on field work, since they can more easily discover unusual events and clues.
But on the other hand, it also means that they are more likely to discover things that they cannot understand, causing their minds to be polluted until it drives them crazy. Thus, the higher the level of insight is not necessarily better.
The insight level of ordinary people is D, and they may never be able to peek into another world in their lifetime…
Except when being hunted by monsters.
This can also mean that the person is on the verge of death.
However, Jian Xie in front of them was neither missing any limbs nor did he appear to have suffered a mental blow.
Apart from the fact that his handsome face was slightly pale and there were some faint dark circles under his eyes, which meant he wasn’t getting enough sleep, he didn’t seem to have any problems.
“Then why did you come to see me?” Jian Xie asked.
Cheng Li came back to his senses and said, “We looked for you to protect you. Because even if you have never seen an abnormal object directly, as long as you’re exposed to its scent, something may be attracted to you.”
He was the one who called the police after all, and the three bodies that had died tragically not long ago might still retain the corresponding scent.
Jian Xie said, “I can protect myself.”
He didn’t want anyone following him all the time.
Moreover, he’d always felt that there was something unusual about this whole thing, as if there was a secret about him…
It could be deduced from the information revealed by the woman’s words earlier that the scent of the B-level monster has completely disappeared, which immediately reminded Jian Xie of the flesh and blood that exploded yesterday which eventually gathered under the soles of his shoes.
The disappearance of the scent seemed to be related to his sudden auditory hallucinations.
“But you’re just an ordinary student.” The woman frowned. “Those monsters don’t obey protection laws.”
“They won’t find me.”
Since the car accident a year ago, Jian Xie has come into contact with monsters many times. After all, ignoring didn’t work every time. However, no monster has ever tried to hurt him.
Except last night.
Of course, although he didn’t understand why. Its ending has already been seen through.
Jian Xie subconsciously felt that this was not an accident, and they really couldn’t touch him. it was as if he had been marked by something with a strong possessiveness.
Although the school-uniform-wearing Jian Xie obviously did not belong to their supernatural world, the strange thing was, a chill suddenly climbed up everyone’s back and everyone in the room shivered uncontrollably when he said that last sentence.
An almost unbelievable idea seemed to emerge in their minds.
No living monster would dare approach him, because…
Because of what?
Cheng Li seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment’s silence, he handed a business card to Jian Xie. Jian Xie took it and found a phone number written on it.
“Since you say so, we won’t insist. But this is my contact information, you can call for help if you’re in any danger. “
Jian Xie said “Oh” and did not refuse further.
Considering the possibility of losing the business card, he took out his mobile phone from his school uniform pocket and saved the number in it.
Although private high schools are stressful, they don’t control students’ electronic devices as strictly as other high schools.
Cheng Li glanced at Jian Xie, who was fiddling with his phone, and said with some surprise, “Your phone is quite expensive.”
He had heard some information about Jian Xie’s family background from his class teacher and other teachers, so he knew that Jian Xie was currently in a very difficult financial situation.
He needed to work three jobs while balancing his stressful high school studies, but the phone he was holding was obviously a new model that has just been released on the market.
“I won the raffle during a promotion at the central shopping mall.” Jian Xie said casually, then put down his phone.
The old cell phone he had been using for a year had broken down.
Cheng Li suddenly felt sour. “Are you usually so lucky?”
He always gets a consolation prize for participating in this kind of raffle. A new mobile phone? What level of European emperor2European Emperor comes from online games such as Warship Girls R, and is one of its derivative cultures, referring to players with extremely good luck . is this??
Jian Xie glanced at him. “It’s just so-so.”
In fact, he initially didn’t want to go and draw. After all, his luck was just so-so. But the organizer of the event insisted that he go into the store and try.
Seeing that he still looked uninterested, the other party’s face distorted with anxiety, cold sweat covered his forehead, and he repeatedly emphasized that he was willing to let him draw the raffle for free.
Ah, this.3This is an expression like Aigoo or Aiya. When pronounced, it’s Ahzhe, literally translated as Ah this.
It was the first time that Jian Xie had seen such a scene. He became alert and felt as if he was being dragged to a pyramid scheme den.
But the organizer looked so pitiful with tears in his eyes, as if he would be sentenced to die if Jian Xie didn’t participate in the raffle, so he had no choice but to draw from the raffle reluctantly.
But what Jian Xie didn’t expect was that he would win the grand prize mobile phone in one go, which surprised him.
He thought the other party would default on his debt, but in the end the organizer was so impatient to send him away that they were almost beating drums and gongs and setting off firecrackers. The relieved expression on the other party’s face made him, who was holding a new phone, unable to complain.
How baffling.
The world is so big that there is nothing too bizarre.
“I didn’t know there was a raffle some time ago.”
“Maybe it was just a coincidence that there was an event going on the day I went there.” Jian Xie put away his phone, raised his head, and asked politely, “So, can I leave now?”
“You can.”
Seeing the two of them talking by themselves, the woman interrupted their conversation anxiously, “What are you doing? He’s just a student, what would he do if he gets into trouble? How can you let him go with only your contact information? We all know that danger may come in any second—”
But Cheng Li gave her a look that indicated to wait and see, so she had to stop asking questions hesitantly.
Jian Xie pushed the chair back and stood up politely. “Can I go back to the classroom now? The next class is English and we have a quiz. I don’t want to miss it.”
Especially when his English teacher was displeased with him and was slapped in the face in front of a lot of people. He didn’t want to do anything unnecessary.
Seeing Cheng Li nod, Jian Xie turned and left the office, then gently closed the door, blocking out the sound of conversation in the office.
As soon as his figure disappeared from sight, the woman couldn’t help but ask more questions.
“Why on earth?! You must give me a suitable reason, otherwise I won’t know how to write this report.”
Although they were both investigators, they have different responsibilities.
Cheng Li was an investigator and had insight value, but she was only an employee in the logistics department and didn’t have any insight value. She could only use instruments to do the finishing work.
By the end of the work, the investigation report would be compiled and submitted to the superiors by logistics personnel like them. She could not put the witnesses in danger for no reason.
Cheng Li looked at her helplessly, then looked at their short companion who had been silent from the beginning.
The other party had clearly come here with him to conduct an investigation, but ever since Jian Xie entered the room, his face had instantly turned extremely pale, losing all its color.
“…Doesn’t his reaction mean anything?”
As Cheng Li finished speaking, the woman noticed that there was a companion in the room who had been ignored by her from the beginning. She turned her attention to their short companion.
“Yu Jinghe, how are you?”
But just one glance and she was immediately startled.
She saw that the other person’s forehead was covered with fine cold sweat, his teeth were chattering, and his fingers that were originally hidden under the desk were raised and curled up into a tense shape.
His nails left conspicuous bloody marks on his palms. His whole body was shaking uncontrollably, and his pupils were trembling with great fear, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
His insight level was A.
Although not as good as the Special-A monsters, A-level ones were also quite rare.
No matter how accurate spirit-detecting instruments were, it was man-made in the end and could not compare to humans with high insight values. For this reason, the department asked him and Cheng Li to come to this school together.
Hence, while the woman was using instruments to search for residual energy in the corridor, he went to the office at the end of the corridor and tried to start searching for clues from there.
Everything was going normally, but the moment Jian Xie walked into the room, his five senses were instantly thrown into terrible chaos.
Fear, horror, cowering…
In an instant, indescribable negative emotions filled his entire brain, causing an intermittent buzzing in his ears that was almost like the ebb and flow of a tide.
He almost forgot how to breathe, his mind was lost in a deep ocean of silence, until a foul smell and pain spread in his mouth. Only then did he realize that he had bitten his tongue too hard.
This was a conditioned reflex he had deliberately trained so that he could wake up briefly when faced with such a situation and not completely lose his mind.
It was too dangerous.
If it had been a second later, he wasn’t sure his sanity would have remained intact.
That was not something they could look straight at!
This sentence immediately flashed through Yu Jinghe’s mind, causing him to shake all over. He seemed to have been warned just now—
But perhaps it wasn’t quite appropriate to describe it as a warning. After all, he was powerless to compete with that and wasn’t worth It’s attention. It may not have even notice his existence.
“I-I seemed to sense It’s4I was torn about this for the longest time. Let me explain. The pronoun used is signifying a divine being, the appropriate translation is He with a capital H, but considering other things that will come in later and with the title of this novel, I decided on It with a capital I. Along the way, I got confused if I should be adding a possessive apostrophe because we don’t do that with the normal it. BUT, to set It as a different category, I’ll be treating It as a pronoun that requires a possessive apostrophe (cuz It’s possessive amiright?
). This will make it a lot easier later so bear with me. presence just now.”
Under the woman’s worried and horrified gaze, he said with trembling lips, “I think this is much more important than any B-level monster…”
He guessed that it was probably just a little residual scent left by the other party, but it had actually scared him—a human with A-level insight value—almost to the point of insanity!
Cheng Li shook his head and said in a deep voice, “So… Jian Xie will be fine. The only ones who will be in trouble are us.”
They were worried about Jian Xie before because after coming into contact with a B-level monster, he would most likely emit the scent of “this is prey that can be hunted”. This was also the reason why there were almost no living witnesses when supernatural events occur; it was because other monsters would soon come to kill them.
Although this did ensure the secrecy of the monsters’ existence to some extent and prevented panic among other ordinary people, it was also very cruel.
On the other hand, Jian Xie’s situation was different.
He encountered both a B-level monster and a… terrifying being, and luckily survived.
The scent of this powerful existence covered the remaining predation field left by the B-level monster on Jian Xie.
Even a Special A-level monster would never rashly regard this kind of scent as prey, so Jian Xie would be fine.
It’s impossible for It to care about a tiny human being, right?
So as long as this scent dissipates, Jian Xie will be able to become an ordinary person again.
Therefore, the only ones in danger are… them.
For a moment, the three people present had different expression, all of them a variation of confusion and surprise.
——What on earth kind of monster is that?!
The author has something to say:
After writing this, my friend asked me: Is this ABO world?
Me: ?
Friend: The smell left by the monster corresponds to the pheromone left by an A on the O. The gong’s pheromone is the most powerful, so it can scare away other A who want to attack the male protagonist. The male protagonist, as a newly differentiated rare O, doesn’t know that he is now covered with the gong’s pheromone.
Me: ………..
Makes sense.
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