Chapter 349: 349 Plan Success!

349 Plan Success!

"Thank you, Leon."

Watching her daughter, who had been running wild behind William and Melanie all day and whose eyelids were starting to fight after just two bites of cake, her little head bobbing, Ai Ma lovingly took her into her arms and gently rubbed her cheek against little Ai Li's head.

"Ai Li likes the fireworks you gave her very much. This is not only the happiest birthday she has ever had, but also the happiest day I have had in these years. To have such a happy ending can be considered as having no regrets."

"It's nothing, Ai Li is a very cute child, and I like her very much too."

Facing Senior Ai Ma's "farewell-like" words, Leon, who had also made up his mind, did not try to persuade her again, but asked softly with a calm expression:

"Senior Ai Ma, have you made your preparations? Even if you are banished to the Dead World by the General Bureau, you still want to perish together with him?"

"Hmm..."

After giving Leon a look of apology, Ai Ma nodded slightly, her eyes full of earnestness as she said:

"All my clansmen are in the Dead World, father, mother, grandfather... they are all still in the City of Regret. I should have been with them six years ago. Now I am just going to the place I should have gone to long ago."

"Is that so... Since you have already decided, then I won't stop you."

Looking at William, who was still struggling to eat cake at the table but kept poking his fork into his nose, and Melanie, who had long since curled up in Ani's arms and was snoring with her little nose wrinkled, Leon switched out 【Master of Performance】. Sighing as if doing the whole act, he said goodbye with a ghostly expression:

"Senior Ai Ma, then... goodbye."

Looking at Leon, whose eyes held four parts bleakness, three parts loneliness, and three parts unspeakable regret, as if he were saying goodbye forever to something extremely precious, Ai Ma's heart couldn't help but ache fiercely, and words of retention almost slipped out.

But the pain and remorse of nearly two thousand days and nights over the past six years, as well as the hatred that had grown sharper in the torture of regret, successfully held back her reason, turning the promise that almost came out into a farewell that was equally dry and low.

"Goodbye."

After hearing her reply, the last glimmer of hope in Leon's eyes gradually faded. After a soft 'hmm', he gave a bitter smile, then rose from the table and took Melanie from Ani's arms.

"Ani, let's go."

"Okay, then I'll go call the carriage."

After a whole day of getting along, although Leon and the other had been avoiding her while talking, the sensitive Ani had long since discovered that the atmosphere between her big brother and Sister Ai Ma was not right. In order to take care of their emotions, she took the initiative to take William out of the small wooden house in advance.

And Ai Ma, after sending her daughter back to her room and gently tucking her in, silently saw Leon out of the small wooden house. Then, she wrapped her arms around Leon's waist, gave him a warm and soft hug, and said softly with apology in her gentle eyes:

"I won't see you off... Leon, I... if only I had met you sooner."

"..."

It's not too late, at the very least it's not too late yet!

After looking at her deeply, Leon didn't answer, but waved his hand, then holding Melanie, who was still snoring, walked slowly onto the pebble path in the garden.

"Since you're already awake, then get down and walk yourself."

"..."

"Stop pretending."

After walking for a while longer, Leon couldn't help but stop, patted Melanie's tense little butt, and said irritably:

"Who sleeps with their legs still tensed? And snoring faster than breathing? You should at least make it look a bit more realistic, right?"

"Oh..."

After being exposed by Leon, Melanie, who was struggling to hold back her giggles, relaxed her whole body. Opening her big, rolling eyes, she carefully looked at Leon, then hugged Leon's neck like she was acting spoiled, and whispered tentatively with a ghostly cleverness:

"Big brother, Sister Ai Ma she... I mean... are we... not allowed to come and play with little sister Ai Li in the future?"

You really are a little thing with a big heart!

Looking at his younger sister, who clearly understood something and might even have guessed that Ai Ma was "saying goodbye forever" to him, Leon couldn't help but reach out and pinch her little nose bridge, saying irritably:

"What are you guessing blindly! Your Sister Ai Ma will be fine. In the future, when you and William aren't in school, you can still come over to play with little sister Ai Li!"

"Oh..."

After responding with doubt, Melanie blinked her watery big eyes and asked curiously:

"Then... what were you two just now..."

"Your Sister Ai Ma was thanking me for helping Ai Li celebrate her birthday, so she hugged me in excitement, that's all... Oh right!"

When speaking of this, Leon narrowed his eyes in a "director style," and then threatened without any big brother demeanor:

"After we go back, if Ani asks, then what you just heard and saw..."

"Heard what?"

Melanie blinked her big eyes.

"I was dreaming the whole time, dreaming that big brother bought me a new doll, and then when I woke up, I was already in the carriage!"

Good fellow, she actually took the opportunity to blackmail me!

After glaring at Melanie, who was taking advantage of the situation, with a mix of laughter and tears, Leon said irritably:

"Fine, I'll buy it for you! But there will absolutely not be a next time! You really are..."

"Big brother is the best~"

After kissing Leon on the cheek with a giggle, Melanie, who had played all day, couldn't help but yawn. Then, she closed her big eyes, curled up in Leon's arms like a kitten, and whispered like she was talking in her sleep:

"Auntie Ai Ma is a good person, and so is little sister Lai La, but you must take good care of yourself too, Big Brother. You still have to buy me... *hiccup*... buy me a doll... *huff*... and you have to keep supporting me in the future... no backing out..."

"..."

Sure enough, although the ability of 【Master of Performance】 is powerful, for people who are too familiar with him, the effect is not very good, and it is easy to see that it is different from usual.

Looking at his younger sister, who was snoring again in his arms but whose little hand was tightly clutching his lapel, Leon couldn't help but shake his head, then curled the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Hmm, big brother promises you."

"Clatter, clatter, clatter"

"Toot..."

With the clattering of horse hooves and the long, sharp whistle, a carriage with white steam rising from its boiler slowly stopped by the side of the road.

"No. 35 Fleet Street, Happiness Apartment."

After taking out the carriage fare he had prepared early and handing it to the coachman, Leon stepped on the carriage's footboard, sent Melanie, who was sleeping soundly, to her seat, and then carried William, who was leaning on his leg, onto the carriage. Then he turned around and said with slight apology:

"Ani, I'll first..."

"I know."

Pulling the handle to get on the carriage and holding the sleeping Melanie on her lap, Ani interrupted Leon's words, bit her lip slightly and said:

"Sister Ai Ma is a good person, but I only have you as a brother. You... I won't stop you from doing what you want to do, but remember to be safe."

"..."

So you saw it too...

Looking at Ani, whose eyes held half encouragement and half worry, and then looking at Melanie in her arms, who was frowning while sleeping, Leon, with a warm feeling in his heart, couldn't help but give a sighing 'hmm'.

It seems that even if 【Master of Performance】 can deceive a strange True God, for family members who live with him day and night and know his temper and nature, it will always be a clumsy performance that can be punctured with a single poke.

"Huh?"

Just at this moment, William, who was leaning against the seat back, tried hard to open his sleepy eyes, his little face full of confusion as he asked:

"What's wrong? What is big brother going to do?"

"..."

Hmm... but the premise is that the family member hasn't really fallen into a daze, or their emotional intelligence isn't clearly lacking.

"Nothing."

After rubbing his younger brother's tiger-headed little head, Leon answered with a smile:

"Big brother isn't going home today, I'm preparing to do something that if I don't do now, I will definitely regret deeply later."

"Then I understand."

After nodding with a look of understanding, William tried hard to open his eyes, his little face full of earnestness as he cheered Leon on:

"Go for it big brother! I've read in "The Great Emperor's Biography" that a real man won't be afraid before doing something, and won't regret it even more after doing it!"

What kind of messy stuff is this...

"Go to sleep!"

Facing the chicken soup that was clearly off-topic from William, who was extremely sleepy, Leon couldn't help but scold with a smile. Then he raised his hand to close the carriage door, seeing off his younger brother and sister.

Looking up at the sky, Leon restrained the smile on his face, walked out of the Red Cedar Avenue, and beckoned to another carriage waiting by the side of the road.

"Go to the Municipal District, Police Department!"

"You got it!"

This carriage, which was also waiting at the intersection of Red Cedar Avenue, had already seen the Leon family preparing to take a taxi earlier, but it was just a step slower and was snatched by a box carriage that was closer.

Originally, the coachman thought this business was hopeless, but he didn't expect that the family didn't get on the carriage together, but left one behind, and he had to go to the far Municipal District at night. It was truly an unexpected joy.

"Thank you for one silver wheel... please get on the carriage!"

After accepting the silver wheel Leon paid in advance, the coachman, who had unexpectedly picked up a big job before getting off work, chatted happily:

"Guest, are you a public official of the Police Department?"

Leon, whose steps were a bit light, got on the carriage and nodded:

"Hmm, I am."

"You're still going over so late... is it temporary overtime?"

"Hmm, that's right."

"Oh my, there's still a case so late, your Police Department's work is really hard!"

The quite talkative coachman turned his head slightly, looked at the passenger behind him whose expression was plain and whose figure was a bit blurry in the night, deliberately turned up the small light in the carriage, and then continued to exert the talkative nature of the "taxi driver" profession, chatting with great interest:

"Speaking of cases, the Sun Newspaper recently added a special issue on cold cases. A female reporter named Nicole dug out all the cold cases in the kingdom over the years and published them one by one, causing a huge stir. You wouldn't be working overtime because of her, would you?"

"That's right, that's exactly it."

"Ahahaha, then she has harmed you quite a bit. I heard from other Police Department guests I picked up before..."

"Toot..."

The sharp and long whistle sounded again, temporarily covering the coachman's slightly noisy chatter. The box-type steam carriage carried Leon away from the roadside and drove towards the Municipal District.

And the other Leon, who was left on the roadside by the carriage, looked at the "himself" who was sitting upright in the carriage and going back to work overtime, and nodded with extreme satisfaction.

In order to be able to win against the Taurus Director, the third-generation director really put in a lot of effort when crafting the anomalous object for him, and the materials were upgraded from fragments of the Holy Spirit to the weapons of a True God. The effect of the new main combat anomalous object can be considered a comprehensive upgrade.

Compared to the 【Holy Spirit Pendant】 that was really using spirit to change matter, the 【Dream Intruder】 that erodes reality with the power of the Dream World, although it needs to use the "dreamer" as a springboard to exert the power to erode reality, the consumption is much, much smaller.

When it was still the 【Holy Spirit Pendant】, just briefly turning hard stone bricks into a quagmire almost emptied his power, and it could only be maintained for a very short few seconds before being modified back.

And now, he just chatted with the coachman for two sentences, and then paid about 1.5 infection value of power, and successfully used his soul as a springboard to pull a character dream named "Leon going back to the bureau to work overtime" from the Dream World.

The existence of this "Dream Leon," although only the coachman can see clearly, and it is just a blurry shadow in the eyes of others, it is ultimately real, and it will even really get off at the Police Department and work overtime in the Cleaning Bureau for the whole night, and it will not disappear until the coachman wakes up the next day.

And the 【Dream Intruder】 that created "Dream Leon" in a few words, not only has a hidden triggering method and extremely low power consumption, but also has a very long effect duration... even if the upper limit of lethality has dropped a bit, its functionality is much stronger than the 【Holy Spirit Pendant】 produced by the Taurus Director.

As expected of the second-best anomalous object blacksmith, the third-generation director really has some skills!

After silently giving a thumbs up to the square-headed old man in his heart, Leon turned around with slightly floating steps, walked in the opposite direction of the steam carriage, and pondered in his heart how he should do it in a while.

After all, people can act because of anger, but before acting, one must finish using one's brain. At the very least, one must think clearly about the consequences of acting, otherwise, that would be truly stupid.

Not to mention anything else, if that Golden Cuckoo Marquis who should have died long ago suddenly died suddenly, the General Bureau's first reaction would definitely be to come to Senior Ai Ma, and it would also likely pay attention to him.

And facing the 【Dream Intruder】, which was modified from a True God's weapon and had an extremely high status, the Cleaning Bureau's investigators would definitely not be able to detect it. After all, if they could handle this kind of thing, they wouldn't be investigators.

With the average level of those internal investigators, they would at most find that the coachman's soul had been slightly shaken, and they would definitely not be able to get any definitive evidence.

And these inconclusive suspicious points gave him room to argue with the bureau, and the "himself" who left with the carriage and really worked overtime in the bureau for a night could also help pass those more elementary lie detection methods.

If all these are survived, then just hold on.

Relying on the trust of the Director and the Taurus Director, as well as the great merit of just exposing the Aquarius conspiracy and protecting the Watchtower, he now has a "halo" protecting him. If there is no definitive evidence, just some suspicious points, it is unlikely that anyone will hold on to it.

And if someone still insists on holding on at this time, then he will find a reason to bite back, and then pull him to be licked by a God-tier brain-eating demon together!

As for what reason to find... isn't this ready-made?

Whoever dares to suspect that I did it, then he is a spy who took the Aquarius Director's benefits and tried to persecute a hero!

Plan success! ===== CHAPTER 350 =====