Chapter 43: Great, I'm Gradually Understanding Everything!

Terra Calendar, October 9th, the 282nd day of the year.

Zhou Yun, wearing the Superpower Hat, stood outside Nema Karl's house.

He concentrated his power on his eyes, and the objects before him gradually became transparent.

Through the walls, he could clearly see the situation inside Nema Karl's house.

No one was there; at least, according to the X-ray vision, there was definitely no one.

But there were too many ways to deceive the human eye; what was seen with the eyes was not reliable.

Zhou Yun closed his eyes, rubbed the center of his brow, and alleviated the slight fatigue that had risen.

Using X-ray vision on the entire house consumed quite a bit of his energy.

Among the three superpowers, X-ray vision was the one he was least skilled at.

"Did you find anything?" Xiang Xiang Leina stood beside Zhou Yun and asked.

"On the second floor, in the study on the left, there is a safe."

Zhou Yun opened his eyes, looked at Xiang Xiang Leina, and said:

"Inside should be the flight route files we are looking for."

Speaking thus, Zhou Yun took the Arbitrary Ring from his pocket and placed it on the wall; a tunnel leading into Nema Karl's house appeared immediately.

"Where exactly did you get these strange and bizarre things?" Xiang Xiang Leina asked, looking at the Arbitrary Ring with some astonishment.

Zhou Yun glanced at her, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth as he said, "Didn't you claim to be blessed by Hua Di Huang?"

"I didn't claim it; I am!" Xiang Xiang Leina glared at Zhou Yun and said with a firm tone.

"That is quite a coincidence; I was blessed by the God of Machines," Zhou Yun joked.

"Liar; you have so much flesh on you, one look shows you are not from the Xie Sect," Xiang Xiang Leina retorted.

The two followed the tunnel created by the Arbitrary Ring and drilled into Nema Karl's house.

Through the hazy light from the window, the two vaguely made out the house shrouded in darkness.

This was a standard Upper Hive two-story apartment; below was the living room, and above were two bedrooms.

Nema Karl had converted one of the bedrooms into a study, and the thing Zhou Yun and Xiang Xiang Leina were looking for was inside.

The first-floor living room was ordinary, cleaned and organized; at a glance, Zhou Yun detected nothing abnormal.

It was only on the left side against the wall where a few small tables stood, with neatly arranged paper and pens on them.

Zhou Yun walked over to those small tables and opened the notebooks on top.

The notebooks were filled with dense mathematical formulas.

But unlike the notebooks belonging to Nema Karl, the mathematical formulas in these notebooks were relatively simpler.

The most difficult only reached definite integrals, content that is relatively simple in university-level advanced mathematics.

Zhou Yun, an expired university student, could still barely understand it.

"This is where Mrs. Nema taught the children nearby mathematics," Xiang Xiang Leina poked her head out, looked at the notebooks on the table, and showed some nostalgia.

The children around here...

During the two days Zhou Yun and Xiang Xiang Leina followed Nema Karl, they also saw those children coming to study.

The oldest were only eleven or twelve years old; they were already starting to learn advanced mathematics?

Was Mrs. Nema's teaching level not too good?

Zhou Yun flipped through the notebooks on the other tables again.

Although the level was not so outrageous, they were generally far ahead of what children of that age should be learning...

Moreover, did the children of Upper Hive residents really need to learn this deeply?

Zhou Yun frowned, as if he had sensed something.

He flipped open all these notebooks and began searching between them.

387, 420, 489.

Zhou Yun saw this string of numbers on several notebooks.

Different children had recorded this string of numbers with different strokes in different positions.

Zhou Yun vaguely felt his brain become active, as if he had sensed the pattern of this string of numbers.

"Zhou Yun?" Xiang Xiang Leina patted Zhou Yun's shoulder, interrupting his train of thought.

"Did you discover something?" Xiang Xiang Leina asked.

Zhou Yun glanced at the numbers on the notebook and shook his head.

A vague feeling had only arisen in his heart.

Zhou Yun and Xiang Xiang Leina walked up the stairs to the second floor; the two carefully looked around, confirmed no one was present, and then entered the study.

The study was messier than the outside; papers were scattered on the floor and on the table, covered with complex mathematical formulas.

And on the desk sat a small safe.

This safe was not large; it was even smaller than the Arbitrary Ring.

Zhou Yun could not use the Arbitrary Ring to take the things inside out.

But fortunately, this safe was just a relatively ordinary type and was not difficult to open.

Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina.

Xiang Xiang Leina stepped forward and gently extended her finger toward the safe.

The air around them suddenly became colder.

This was the reaction that appeared when a Psyker mobilized their psychic power.

Xiang Xiang Leina took a deep breath and gently exhaled a single word, using her voice to assist herself in mobilizing psychic power:

"Thunder!"

Rrrrip!

A bolt of Lei Guang shot out, melting the metal casing of the safe and revealing the route log inside.

Watching Xiang Xiang Leina's flurry of actions, Zhou Yun recalled the methods used on the Black Ship to suppress psykers.

Suppressing most untrained psykers is very simple; one only needs to put a gag on them and block their mouths.

Because the vast majority of untrained psykers require sound to assist them in channeling their psychic power.

Xiang Xiang Leina was clearly the same.

Zhou Yun pondered that if his cooperation with Xiang Xiang Leina fell apart, he could try blocking her mouth directly when fighting.

Xiang Xiang Leina did not know what Zhou Yun was considering; she was simply flipping through the book in her hand with joy.

"It is a route log from over ten thousand years ago! This is it!"

With joy, Xiang Xiang Leina stuffed the book into her pocket.

"It really went this smoothly." Zhou Yun frowned.

Too smooth; it was so smooth that Zhou Yun felt increasingly strange.

"You are truly... cautious," Xiang Xiang Leina couldn't help but shake her head and say.

"Didn't we already confirm it? Mrs. Narma's only issue is that she prays to Hua Di Huang a bit too little."

Speaking thus, Xiang Xiang Leina and Zhou Yun, who was frowning, walked out of Mrs. Narma's study.

"Although it is little, Mrs. Narma still goes to the church every few days to pray devoutly."

"If she were truly corrupted, how could she go to the church and pray to Hua Di Huang before the Ecclesiarchy priests?"

Hearing Xiang Xiang Leina's words, Zhou Yun nodded lightly.

Indeed.

Wait, going to the church to pray every few days.

Zhou Yun was stunned for a moment.

Augustus Flax stated in his file that Mrs. Narma's last prayer was seven days ago.

Now two more days have passed.

Mrs. Narma's last visit to the church to pray was nine days ago.

In four years, Mrs. Narma prayed a total of one hundred and fifty-three times.

Today is the 282nd day of this year; adding the previous three years...

That means in the past 1,377 days, Mrs. Narma prayed a total of 153 times, once every nine days.

Zhou Yun stood frozen in place, feeling his brain working faster and faster.

The number nine became clearer and clearer in his mind.

Six thousand five hundred and sixty-one Blood Coins; 6561 is nine to the fourth power. This was Mrs. Narma's donation to the church, a string of numbers representing Tzeentch.

That means, in that church of Hua Di Huang, a small part belongs to Tzeentch!

Zhou Yun suddenly understood.

She goes to pray once every nine days, not to pray to Hua Di Huang.

She is praying to Tzeentch, to the Lord of Change!

387,420,489.

Zhou Yun recalled that string of numbers, joy appearing in his eyes.

Excellent! He gradually understood everything!

It turns out it was this simple; this nine-digit number is nine to the ninth power, the number most strongly representing the Lord of Change!

Praise the Lord of Change!

Join the group! Join the group! Draw a Tyranid pawn!

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(End of this chapter)