Chapter 1137

Indeed, the Blood-Haired Lady came really fast. If she had come any later, the two of them might have been digested completely.

Upon hearing Leon's words, the female reporter nodded and prepared to follow him back the way they came from the Dog God's big mouth. However, before the two of them had gone far, Leon stumbled and fell down with a thud.

Damn it...

Realizing something was wrong, Leon lowered his head and looked at his legs. Then he helplessly discovered that his two legs had become almost completely transparent and could no longer support the "weight" of his body.

Come to think of it, that's reasonable.

When the Dog God was still alive, its pitch-black stomach wall was constantly secreting digestive juices that could erode the soul. He just raised his hand and punched its stomach wall twice, and his right hand became more than half transparent.

And after he was swallowed by the Dog God, his feet had been in contact with its secretions all along. The speed of his legs' "transparency" would of course only be faster. It was already not bad that he could support his body until now.

"Let me walk in front."

After pulling Leon up from the ground and looking at his soul, which had become completely transparent, the female reporter couldn't help but shake her head:

"My soul has been digested by nearly 30%, and your soul strength is much worse than mine. I guess you've already been digested by the Dog God by 60% or 70%. With your current soul strength, you would dissipate on the spot if you were scratched by the Dog God's teeth."

"Alright..."

After listening to the female reporter's words, Leon helplessly nodded, then followed behind the female reporter and drilled into the Dog God's spacious esophagus.

However, the moment he followed behind the female reporter and was about to drill out of the Dog God's throat, the female reporter in front didn't know what kind of madness she had, and her right foot suddenly kicked back with great force, directly stepping Leon back.

???

No? What are you doing?

Just as Leon, who had been kicked for no reason, felt anger rise in his heart and was about to ask what she wanted to do, he heard the female reporter outside say in incomparable horror:

"Aquarius? You... why are you here?!"

Aquarius?

Upon hearing the female reporter's shout, Leon's brain couldn't help but buzz, and it became completely chaotic.

So the one who came to save people wasn't my Director, but your Director?

"Nicole..."

Unaware of what happened in the Dog God's stomach, looking at the female reporter who was looking at him with full vigilance, the Aquarius Director couldn't help but sigh, and a little fatigue appeared in his young eyes.

"Are you unwilling to even call me Director anymore?"

"..."

Upon hearing the Aquarius Director's question, the female reporter's lips trembled slightly, but then she quickly bit them hard, pursed her lips and looked at him, saying nothing.

"Forget it, if you don't want to call me that, then don't."

Looking at the female reporter, who no longer had the closeness of the past and was instead full of vigilance and defense, the Aquarius Director couldn't help but sigh again, then instructed with some fatigue:

"I'm leaving. When the Blood-Haired Lady finds her way here, don't say you've seen me. Just say you don't know anything. I used other means to finish it off, and the Cleaning Bureau's investigators won't be able to find out."

"..."

"Also, you don't need to hide information about me.

When the people from the Virgo Branch ask you, just tell the truth. Don't be afraid that that information will affect me, because from the moment I let you lurk in the Capital, the information you knew was already all fake.

But for the places those fake pieces of information point to, as well as the safe houses and laboratories you know, I have deliberately left some traces. If the Cleaning Bureau people investigate according to the information, they will find that I have just left, and they will also be able to have some 'key' gains. No one will suspect that the information you gave is fake."

"Why?"

After listening to the Aquarius Director's somewhat incoherent instructions, the female reporter touched the deer antler mark on her head and couldn't help but ask:

"Director... didn't you do something to my soul for the sake of confidentiality, making me be sent to the Dead Realm once I open my mouth? Then why do you still arrange these things?"

"..." The Aquarius Director fell silent for a while after hearing this, then said somewhat helplessly:

"Nicole, although you are an excellent cleaner, your talent is in dealing with anomalous objects. When you encounter things that need to be pondered about people, your brain is really not ordinarily poor!

Not to mention anything else, if it were that Level 3 Cleaner from the Virgo Branch, I guess as long as he saw me appear here, even if I closed my mouth and said nothing, he should have been able to guess seven or eight out of ten."

"..."

If you're talking about Leon... then he is indeed here, less than two meters away from me, and can even hear the content of our conversation...

"Forget it, I'd better explain it to you."

Looking at the female reporter who was still full of confusion, worried that she would tell everything to the Blood-Haired Lady because she couldn't figure it out, the Aquarius Director could only sigh:

"To put it clearly... being sent to the Dead Realm doesn't necessarily mean death. Although this trip is dangerous, it's actually a good thing for you.

According to my arrangement, if it weren't for the Three-Headed Dog God suddenly waking up and inexplicably eating you, you would only have been pulled to the vicinity of the 【Burial Mirror Lake】 and stopped, and wouldn't have been sent to the deepest part of the Dead Realm.

And when the Blood-Haired Lady finds her way here, because you betrayed me and were dealt a heavy hand, and you 'just barely' died, only then can you truly cut ties with me, so you won't be executed as a traitor by the Cleaning Bureau... do you understand what I mean?"

Does it mean... the Director actually didn't intend to kill me?

"You really are..."

Looking at the female reporter who seemed to understand something but still had eyes full of doubts, the Aquarius Director could only further remind her:

"My goal is to replace the Taurus Director and become the Palace-Sitter who ascends the Watchtower. Then after I successfully ascend the palace, what will be your result? Have you thought about this?"

"I..."

"Don't think about it. I'm not asking you a question. It doesn't matter if you've thought about it or not. When that time really comes, your only result will be death, and it will even be more miserable than death."

After shaking his head helplessly, the Aquarius Director continued:

"Just consider it for the sake of our twenty years of friendship. I can't bear to see you die so stupidly, so I tried to arrange a way out for you, ensuring that after I ascend the palace, you can still live on so stupidly.

And anything involving the Watchtower is no small matter. If you want to avoid being held accountable because of me, there must be someone above the Zodiac Director to plead for you, otherwise your ending will definitely not be good."

When he said this, the Aquarius Director paused, then said somewhat unhappily:

"Although the Blood-Haired Lady ruined my plans, I have to admit that she is indeed a good person. And among those who are qualified to plead for you, only she would stand up to guarantee you because of the simple reason that 'you are a good person.'

Similarly, although your resume is very clean, you betrayed the bureau after all by following me. Only she and her Virgo Branch, which is full of weirdos, might be able to accommodate you, a traitor... do you understand now?"

"Seems I understand..."

"If you understand, go back quickly, then insist that you don't know anything and haven't seen anything. Don't say a word of anything else! The fact that you were able to escape death so coincidentally is the biggest suspicious point itself. At this time, saying more will only lead to more mistakes!"

After pointing to the Dog God's corpse, the Aquarius Director rubbed his temples and said with a headache:

"The Blood-Haired Lady is very cunning, and that Level 3 Cleaner sometimes has more thoughts than her. With your brain, I don't expect you to be able to hide it forever. It's enough if you can hold on until I ascend the palace and then expose it.

But they aren't hard to deal with. Remember, as long as you continue to be your good person, even if they notice something is wrong, they definitely won't touch you, and might even choose to help you hide it."

"Good..."

"Then I'm leaving... don't forget my words!"

Looking at the female reporter, who finally understood his arrangement and had an extremely complex expression, the Aquarius Director couldn't help but shake his head. After giving an instruction, he turned and prepared to leave.

But before leaving, he seemed to suddenly remember something. He suddenly turned his head, stared at the female reporter who had let out a sigh of relief, and said:

"By the way, there should be another soul who entered the Dead Realm with you. Who is that soul?"

(End of chapter)