Chapter 221: 220 True Inquiry (Part 3)

「Wise decision. 」

After bowing slightly to the Cleaning Bureau Director, the Aquarius Director left his seat and walked slowly toward the huge cage in the center of the venue.

And as he approached, the regular icosahedron prison formed by thirty bright golden light pillars opened slowly, revealing the true face of the behemoth inside.

「Hiss…」

Accompanied by the strange hissing sound that resounded in everyone's soul, this ugly demon, which looked like a giant soft-bodied octopus, quickly "spread out" its wet and sticky body, instantly covering nearly a quarter of the venue.

Immediately after, the mouth, which was similar in shape to the mouthparts of a nautilus, opened slowly, and hundreds of slender tongues with purple-red meat tumors, like clusters of strange sea snakes intertwined with each other, bit toward everyone around.

「Behave! 」

Accompanied by a shout, the Aquarius Director crossed his fingers and pressed hard toward the spread-out brain-eating demon.

Only hearing a dull, abnormal boom, the giant demon with a body size of nearly thirty meters, as if it had been pressed by something incomparably heavy, fell to the ground in the center of the venue and let out a painful wail.

Covering God Fork Finger… the secret technique of the Aquarius lineage specifically used to suppress imprisoned true gods.

Looking at the Aquarius Director who just pressed it casually and forcibly suppressed a god-tier brain-eating demon, the Cleaning Bureau Director could not help but narrow his eyes, a look of slight admiration appearing in his eyes.

The secret technique developed by the first-generation Aquarius is truly powerful. Once the power of a true god is banned, no matter how strong the physical strength is, it can be easily suppressed with just one gesture.

The only pity is that the threshold is slightly high, which leads to the fact that except for this generation of Aquarius, no one else has mastered it…

Pity.

Looking at the Aquarius Director who, after letting go of the brain-eating demon's tongue, covered his face again and took the initiative to step forward to accept the licking, the Cleaning Bureau Director could not help but shake his head slightly.

If it was just privately manufacturing anomalous objects, there would still be room for maneuver. But since it involves the safety of the Watchtower, no matter how talented this generation of Aquarius is, as long as the read memory has problems, then only…

Hmm?

Seeming to have discovered something wrong, the Cleaning Bureau Director could not help but frown.

When the brain-eating demon "spread out" just now, in order to avoid those four people who were moved over being crushed to death, he directly moved the main stage back a distance and protected them behind him.

But these people did not hide honestly behind him, but instead poked their heads and looked around. Among them, the cleaner named Li Ang even reached out quietly and touched the brain-eating demon's butt!

……

「Zzz…」

【Encountering… Materialistic… Information】

【Name: Rumination Brain-Eater (Memory, Corruption)】

【Appearance: Body size around 30 meters, a giant demon like a soft-bodied squid, exactly the same as an ordinary living adult god-tier brain-eating demon】

【Ability: Memory Reading】

【Cost: None】

【File: Nine hundred years ago, a god-tier demon descended on Sai'ao of the Qianfan Sea Kingdom through an accidentally opened abyss rift, causing unimaginable huge casualties. The No. 0137 unanchored ship of the Sai'ao Kingdom was almost completely destroyed by it.

After raging in Sai'ao for three months and swallowing the memories of nearly 100,000 people, this god-tier brain-eating demon was finally captured by the joint efforts of the Cleaning Bureau's Pisces branch bureau and Aquarius branch bureau, and sent to the Taurus Director of that generation for transformation, removing…】

【After a series of treatments, the demon's power was deprived, and its emotions and wisdom were also cleaned, leaving only the instinct to devour memories. It was stored in the basement of the Cleaning Bureau headquarters as a special anomalous object used specifically for reading memories until now】

【Evaluation: An anomalous object with extremely powerful effects. The tentacle-like tongue, which is between flesh and spirit, can easily invade the brain of any wisdom life form and take away the other party's memory through licking the brain grooves. Because its own status is extremely high, even a true god cannot resist its reading…】

【Contamination Value: 59.9】

This thing… is really

Disgusting… and it's really going to kill!

Secretly touching the brain-eating demon's butt and obtaining information about this thing through 【Materialism】, Li Ang only felt a chill on his back.

Not to mention his "transmigration" memory, whether it would be read by it, just letting its tongue, which carried disgusting mucus, stretch into his brain and lick back and forth, was enough to make people have the urge to die.

Looking at those clusters of tongues that plunged into the Aquarius Director's head, constantly "scraping" something out with those purple-red meat tumors, Li Ang could not help but shiver violently.

If the Aquarius Director wasn't bluffing but really had a way to muddle through, then the person whose brain was licked by this thing would be himself and the Director! And looking at the Aquarius Director's blue veins bulging and his whole body twitching, the experience of being read memory was likely quite unpleasant…

No! Absolutely not! He must hurry up and think of a way to ensure that even if he has means, he can't use them!

……

Looking at the "Fallen" tag in the name of 【Ruminating Memory Eater】, and remembering 【I Am the Devil】 which can forcibly manipulate 【Fallen】 anomalous objects, Li Ang couldn't help but clench his fists hard, then extended his sinful right hand again, preparing to add double insurance for the Aquarius Director.

「Then you must block it…」

「You rest assured, just touch! 」

……

Sigh… finally over…

Following waves of memories flowing back into his brain along those sticky purple-red tongues, the Aquarius Director stood up unsteadily, trying hard to open his turbid eyeballs, and looked toward the Cleaning Bureau Director on the main stage.

「This…」

After receiving the confused look from the Aquarius Director, the Cleaning Bureau Director's upper lip trembled slightly. He was really embarrassed to ask him to come again, so he could only turn his head to avoid his gaze and suggest from the side as much as possible:

「The situation is a bit better than last time, maybe 20 percent… Adding these two times together, there are almost a quarter of the memories.

If there can be another 30 percent, it will be more than half. Half of the memories should be enough to prove your innocence, so… so do you want to…」

So you promised me that there would be no problem this time?

Hearing that he had to be licked by the brain-eating demon again, and if his luck was bad, he might even be licked twice, even the Aquarius Director, who was deep in the city, could not hold back anymore. He stared at the Cleaning Bureau Director with bloodshot eyes and questioned gloomily:

「Director, instead of persuading me to accept reading again, why don't you try it yourself and see what's wrong with this thing? 」

「I don't need to. 」

After the Aquarius Director, whose emotions were somewhat out of control, started to "bare his teeth" at him, the Cleaning Bureau Director turned his head back, narrowed his eyes and stared at the Aquarius Director:

「Aquarius, if you don't want to continue accepting memory reading, then why don't you ask the Gemini branch bureau director to take action and trace back all the locations you have been to over the years? It's just that because of your status problem, this investigation can only be done slowly, taking about a year or so.

And during this year, please stay in the basement of the General Bureau. Before Taurus ascends to the palace and the investigation of you is thoroughly completed, stay in a state of sleep throughout the process, ensuring that the Watchtower and Taurus are not disturbed… What do you think? 」

「……」

Accept memory reading one or two more times, or sleep in the basement for a year until Taurus ascends to the palace and leaves… Do I have a choice?

After staring at the Cleaning Bureau Director for a while with bloodshot eyes, the Aquarius Director did not make any more futile defense, but sighed gloomily.

He walked unsteadily to the front of the god-tier brain-eating demon again, and then pressed the thin copper piece embedded in the back of his head again.

The first time he didn't activate the electric shock, he only copied 5 percent of the memory. After the electric shock the second time, it instantly increased to 20 percent. Then if he adjusted it slightly higher, would it reach 30 percent or more?

Although the process of electric shock was somewhat painful, as long as he could be read one less time, this little pain was not worth mentioning!

……

Hmm? Is he pressing something?

For the Aquarius Director's action of pressing the back of his head, most people saw it, but the Cleaning Bureau members who belonged to the "magic side" didn't pay too much attention.

Including the Cleaning Bureau Director, everyone was concentrating on checking whether there were fluctuations of anomalous objects, preventing the Aquarius Director from cheating with anomalous objects. Only Li Ang, who had seen "science side" abilities, paid a little more attention to this.

After watching the back of the Aquarius Director's head for a while and vaguely discovering the metallic reflection belonging to the copper piece under his sparse hair, Li Ang could not help but frown, and then before the brain-eating demon started reading again, he asked loudly:

「Aquarius Director, can you please answer why there is a metal piece on the back of your head? 」 ===== CHAPTER 224 =====

"Why did you stop? What about the rest?"

Li Ang, upon hearing this, said with some difficulty:

"The ones after... my strength is indeed a bit weak, and I'm also afraid of being contaminated, so I just touched it lightly earlier, and the second time I was called out by you..."

"Then continue!"

Looking at the direction of the Aquarius Director, confirming that the memory reading was still proceeding normally and had not been interfered with, the Director of the Cleaning Bureau immediately made the decision:

"Touch whatever you want! Touch as long as you can, see how much intelligence you can get out in the end! Besides, don't be afraid of contamination or anything; I'm here to block it for you, I guarantee there won't be any problems!"

Alright! You're the one who told me to touch it! If something happens to the Aquarius Director later because of the touching, you can't blame me!

Secretly biting his cheek and forcibly suppressing the corner of his mouth that wanted to curl up, Li Ang nodded hard, then switched out 【I Am the Devil】, extended his sinful right hand toward the Brain-Eating Demon's butt, and incidentally cautioned carefully:

"Then you must block it..."

"Don't worry, just touch!"

Phew... finally over...

Following wave after wave of memories flowing back into his mind along those sticky purple-red tongues, the Aquarius Director gradually regained consciousness and stood up shakily.

Carefully checking the backup plan he had prepared, confirming that it would absolutely not be exposed, the Aquarius Director, whose brains were almost boiled by the Brain-Eating Demon's licking, immediately looked up toward the direction of the Cleaning Bureau Director with a smile that belonged only to a winner.

It's settled! It was worth all these years of preparation; this time it's absolutely foolproof!

"Sorry... there was a slight problem here, the previous reading cannot count."

"???"

After receiving the Aquarius Director's bewildered look, the Director of the Cleaning Bureau explained somewhat awkwardly:

"This thing was built over nine hundred years ago. Although the core Memory Dream Furnace isn't broken, it has been eroded quite severely by the Brain-Eating Demon's stomach acid, and the memory reading wasn't completely successful.

I just checked the dreams spat out by the Memory Dream Furnace and found that your memory was only copied in a small part, which is not enough to prove your innocence, so... can I ask you to do it again?"