Chapter 205: Action

"Well, aside from the Church and Siman's residence, I would like Miss Yun, and Mr. Dunn, to investigate the matter regarding the Scarlet Relief Society."

"Just the two of us?" Yun Mu pointed at herself, looking somewhat surprised.

"Yes, only the two of you." Brenna gave her a slightly apologetic expression and explained: "I need you to disguise yourselves as ordinary people to join that Scarlet Relief Society for a preliminary investigation. Among everyone present, only Mr. Dunn the Faceless One, and you, who wear that necklace, can accomplish this."

"Most importantly, Miss Yun, you can perceive the locations of other Bloodline members, as well as the presence of Transcendental beings. I believe this will certainly play a positive role in the investigation, so..."

"I see, I understand." Hearing her say this, Yun Mu nodded in realization.

"Please be sure to act with caution." Seeing her agree, Brenna immediately instructed her:

"Although the Scarlet Relief Society's actions are high-profile, on the surface, it is currently just a normal labor union organization. Most of the ordinary people who join it have not encountered any danger."

"But there has been the case of that informant, so if you encounter any special circumstances, please do not push yourself and report to me in time."

"Don't worry, I value my life much more than you think!" Yun Mu said with a very confident look.

"That is not something to be proud of... right, heh." Seeing her like this, Brenna was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but chuckle.

"Ahem."

Clearing her throat, she straightened her expression again and pointed with a marker to the final area.

"In this area, reports have been received frequently over the last two days of Monsters leaving the sewers to attack pedestrians on the street."

"I am only mentioning this in passing. Although there is no evidence, I feel it might be related to that Scarlet Messenger, and, when the Guard Hall personnel enter the sewers to investigate, I hope it will be best for the Mecha Unit to go."

"About that..."

Brenna's words were clearly directed at Leinuode, but... "The Mecha Unit only just cleared out the city sewers a few days ago. The Gold Frost spent on every deployment of those mechas, just for combat maintenance costs, consumes a huge amount of funds. Not to mention, the Mecha Unit lost a Steam Mecha during the last operation due to the terrain, and it still hasn't been found..."

Leinuode wore a very distressed expression on his face. He covered his forehead with his hand and said: "Persuading the Chief is not a simple matter."

Not my business, not my business... Yun Mu silently looked away.

"It's fine, I will have one of the Shadow Guards accompany you to 'persuade' the Mayor."

"In that case, there shouldn't be any problem," Leinuode said, clearly relieved.

"Eh, is it already over?"

Seeing that Brenna was no longer speaking, Lienie pointed at herself and Kamal on the side, looking a bit strange: "Then what about Kamal and me? Is there anything we can do?"

"Hmph, don't include me without asking," Kamal, who had blue hair, snorted, his tone sounding quite dissatisfied.

"Can't you think of such a simple reason?" he said.

"Roar~"

"So you're saying you're very smart, huh." Lienie's tone sounded quite annoyed.

"I wouldn't say how smart, just stronger than some guy whose brain is full of fat," Kamal retorted unceremoniously.

"Who are you saying has a brain full of fat!?"

Lienie stood up angrily, her bouncy chest heaving slightly.

"I didn't name any names; you just took it upon yourself," Kamal said, closing his eyes with a flat tone.

"Calm down, both of you!" Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, Brenna hurriedly interrupted.

"Let me explain," she said.

"The reason I didn't arrange tasks for the two of you is not for any special reason, it's just..."

"Both the Preachers and the Apostles are too easily recognized by Bishop Land, who is also a member of the Church."

"To avoid alerting the enemy, please remain on standby during this time. When your strength is needed, we will decide what to do then."

"Whatever, I expected this from the beginning." After Brenna finished speaking, Kamal pulled a thick "Mathematical Principles" from out of nowhere and began reading it with great interest.

"Ugh, this guy..."

For some reason, when she saw Kamal pull out that "Mathematical Principles," the anger that had originally ignited in Lienie's heart was instantly extinguished.

She felt a sense of not knowing what to say.

It was probably the thought of why she would even get angry at such a person.

"Tch, how boring."

Sitting back down in her chair, Lienie rested her cheek on one hand and cast her gaze in the opposite direction of where Kamal was sitting.

"Then, let's end the meeting here."

Brenna put away the map on the table and looked at the President of the Painter Association, Mr. Sixin, saying: "Mr. Sixin, could you please restore the items on the table to their original state?"

"Of course, no problem."

Sixin tapped the table lightly with his finger. Yun Mu only sensed a subtle fluctuation of Spirituality, and the plates and other items that had turned into two-dimensional images quickly returned to three-dimensional form.

"The methods of a Painter are truly never tiring to watch," Bishop Muse praised softly at this moment.

"Not at all..." President Sixin wore a gratified smile on his face, but modestly said: "It's just some clever little tricks. Compared to the Supernatural professions of the Church, there is still too much of a gap in combat ability."

"Heh, combat ability is not the only standard for measuring a Supernatural profession. After all, we can't expect a Diviner to fight enemies like a Gunner," Bishop Muse chuckled.

"Ms. Ai Er Nuo Li at the Painter Association headquarters in Winter City and I are old acquaintances. I once heard her talk about you..."

"Ms. Ai Er Nuo Li?"

"She really talked about me?" A look of surprise appeared on President Sixin's face.

"Of course," Bishop Muse nodded and smiled: "She said you are a very excellent Painter, provided that you are not drinking."

"Ha, what does that old woman know? Alcohol is the best of all medicines. Me? I can't paint good works without drinking," President Sixin said without hesitation.

Eh? Is that so? Yun Mu, who had been secretly listening to their conversation, recalled the few times she had met President Sixin previously; no matter what he was doing, he never seemed to be drinking.

Wait, something seems wrong.

As a Fourth Order Master Transcendental, even if President Sixin had been drinking, she wouldn't be able to tell from the surface.

Moreover, this guy usually didn't have any work, yet he always said he had things to deal with, acting like he was very busy.

She had been suspicious for a long time about what his so-called 'work' actually was.

Could it be that all that time was spent by him drinking!

Ah, no, this person is just awful.

Yun Mu looked at Sixin, the president of the Painter Association, with a very disdainful gaze. "I just have a feeling, you aren't thinking about anything rude, are you?" President Sixin, who inexplicably felt a chill down his back, turned around and said to Yun Mu.

"No, you are just overthinking it." Yun Mu avoided the other's gaze with a guilty conscience.

"Let's end the meeting here."

Inside the Barrier in the hotel lobby, Brenna looked at everyone and said: "Act according to the tasks I just arranged, and at eight o'clock every night, come to Frost Bank to gather and share your investigation results."

"If you are unable to attend the meeting for any reason, please write your investigation results in a letter and send them to Frost Bank via the steam communicators in the city; I will read them."

"That is all. Does anyone have any objections?"

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"Very well, then let us begin our operation!" Seeing that no one proposed an opposing plan, Brenna nodded with satisfaction.

"Dismissed!"

"I am very happy to be able to work with you, Miss Yun."

"Let me introduce myself again, I am a Fourth Order Master Transcendental, Faceless One, Dunn."

After everyone left the hotel, dispersed, and went their separate ways, Dunn, who was wearing a Grey Iron Mask on his face, reached out his hand to Yun Mu.

"That line should be mine to say." Yun Mu grasped the other's palm and said in a sincere tone.

"I only hope I won't hold you back."

"It's fine." Shaking his head, Dunn explained to her: "Our mission is only to disguise ourselves as ordinary people to join the Scarlet Relief Society and conduct a preliminary investigation there."

"A mission of this level does not have high requirements for strength; on the contrary, for gathering information, it is more suitable for a lady as charming as you."

Pausing, Dunn looked at the Cat Ear on top of Yun Mu's head, as well as her conspicuous heterochromatic eyes.

"It's just that, before we start the operation, I think we still need to make some preparations..." he said slowly.

"It's actually gone!"

Yun Mu stood beside a clock shop on the street, using the glass on the wall of the clock shop to look at her current appearance, and said in a very surprised tone.

It was not just the visual, but even its existence itself... She raised her hand to grab at the location where the Cat Ear had originally been, but she grabbed at nothing.

Even after she had obtained the Cat Ear, that super-strong hearing, as well as the sensation of having an extra pair of organs on her head, had all disappeared without a trace! 【Your traits 【Cat's Ears】 and 【Sharp Eyes】 have been temporarily Exiled!】 The Game Panel popped up a prompt at the right time regarding the situation she was currently in.

At the same time, Dunn was standing behind Yun Mu, yet his figure was not reflected in the clock shop's wall glass at all, and he said: "This is an ability I obtained after touching the boundary of the Champion level, and it is also the main reason my disguise can deceive gods."

"It is no longer about Exiling a whole person entirely, but selectively Exiling a part of the other party."

"Exiling domains, Exiling power, Exiling memories, Exiling presence, Exiling existence; such an ability makes even me feel Fear."

"Mr. Dunn, you are only at the strength of having one foot stepped into the Fifth Rank Champion level, right?" Seeing the other say this, Yun Mu suddenly felt her scalp tingle, and she asked him:

"Compared to Bishop Muse, Mr. Dunn, how do you rate your own strength?"

"You want me to compare myself to Bishop Muse?"

"Heh."

After hearing her question, Dunn was stunned for a moment, then let out a dry, emotionless laugh.

"To be honest, I don't think I could last half a minute."

Is the gap really that exaggerated... Yun Mu, who had originally thought that the ability Dunn obtained after stepping one foot into the Champion level was already abnormal enough, silently raised her perception of the strength of Champion level Transcendentals in her heart.

"That said, how are we going to sneak into the Scarlet Relief Society?" Yun Mu suddenly thought of something and asked Dunn, who was at her side.

To join a guild organization like the Scarlet Relief Society, the two of them at least need to be workers, right?

And they also need to prepare new Identity Cards.

The one Yun Mu originally registered definitely cannot be used; after all, she is still a wanted criminal.

And although she has not seen Dunn's Identity Card, she imagines it cannot be used either.

Perhaps the moment it is taken out to show the other party, they would be exposed.

"Hmm... Miss Yun, do you know where the Black Market of Frostfall City is?" Dunn pondered for a moment and asked her.

"About that..." Yun Mu hesitated for a while, but still decided to tell Dunn the truth: "I do know, but... are you planning to go to the Black Market to forge an Identity Card?"

"That's right."

Dunn snapped his fingers casually and said: "Handling things like Identity Cards is very troublesome; even if we went to entrust that Captain Leinuode of the Supernatural Guard, it would likely be difficult to obtain."

"But in the Black Market, especially in big cities, there will definitely be guys who specialize in handling Identity Cards."

"They have people in the Guard Hall and have a mature industrial system; as long as the money is sufficient, the matter of an Identity Card can be settled very quickly."

"And these transactions are clearly tacitly approved by that Commissioner in the Guard Hall, but I don't intend to use the Princess's power to find him."

"Because my intuition tells me he is not very reliable, so it is better for us to bypass this Commissioner."

"In any case, lead the way!"

"After arriving at the Black Market, finding those guys who specialize in handling Identity Cards, getting a decent-looking background, and then changing our attire, we can go apply to join the Scarlet Relief Society."

"I hope so."

Yun Mu sighed imperceptibly. She took Dunn and rode a Steam Taxi to the west side of Frostfall City, to the busiest street—Yongle Street.

Even during the day, there were still many people here.

A large number of merchants from overseas traded and sold with local forces.

Among this, there were also countless grey-market transactions.

Passing through the densely crowded area, Yun Mu led Dunn into a pitch-black alley.

In her memory, the location of the Black Market was right here.

If she remembered correctly, this was also where the previous owner was brought by a Black Market merchant after she first sold some erotic literature she had picked up.

The entrance should be right here... PS: Slightly depicted the personalities of some characters.

Actually, it seems useless. I plan to recover a foreshadowing in the Black Market. (I guess it counts as foreshadowing?) Who knows.

(End of chapter)