Chapter 580: You investigate me, I investigate you, normal

The ancestors of the royal families of the Twelve Kingdoms... were all once sitters of the Watchtower?

Originally, he had just caused a bit more trouble and was somewhat embarrassed to take the initiative to tell the Director, but after hearing such a secret, Li Ang was silent for a while and couldn't help but ask:

"Then is Jin Niu also..."

"Jin Niu has no children."

The red-haired Director answered:

"However, if she had descendants and had this idea, the Cleanup Bureau would also be willing to provide certain conveniences, including supporting her descendants to establish a country. If everything goes smoothly, the Twelve Kingdoms might turn back into Thirteen Kingdoms in a hundred years.

Li Ang, this world is much bigger than you imagine. It is not only the place where the Twelve Kingdoms are located that is suitable for human survival, and the Watchtower is the last barrier protecting the world. With the merits of the sitters in watching over the world, if it is only this level of condition, the Bureau believes it is not unacceptable."

"..."

Although that may be so... ancestors saved the world and then ruled the world? What kind of Celestial Dragon setting is this...

After listening to the red-haired Director's words, Li Ang couldn't help but open his mouth speechlessly, wanting to complain, but after thinking about it, he still closed his mouth.

Compared to Celestial Dragons, the royal families of the Twelve Kingdoms are much more normal. Although there are those who act recklessly, because most of them are not countries where the royal family has the final say, power is subject to certain checks and balances, at least not yet exceeding the category of "human."

And the Cleanup Bureau itself has a secretive style and a loose structure, and it punishes "anomalies" interfering with "daily behavior" extremely heavily. Each branch has great autonomy and is not a tight power organization.

Except for giving some special preferential treatment to the royal families of various countries based on the status of descendants of "sitters," it seems there is no intention to stand in the front and protect the Twelve Kingdoms to the death. So the Twelve Kingdoms and the Cleanup Bureau feel like some kind of mutually beneficial relationship.

The former has no direct competition for power with the latter and has to rely on the latter to resist the invasion of anomalies; the latter needs the former to maintain the stability of the surface world and provide corresponding help and support when needed, which can be considered a relatively stable relative balance.

"In addition, you must be more careful during this period."

Just when Li Ang was pondering what the situation of the Twelve Kingdoms was, the red-haired Director thought for a while and said somewhat uncertainly:

"I feel that this matter might also have something to do with the Aquarius Director."

Aquarius Director again?

Li Ang frowned and tentatively asked:

"Is it because the rebels' ability comes from the Aquarius Director? Director, do you suspect that this attack is actually instigated by the Aquarius Director behind the scenes?"

"There is that reason, but more of it is the intensity of that ability."

The red-haired Director frowned and said:

"If it were just to make an ordinary person be completely forgotten, there are not a few abilities that can achieve this level. But wanting to make a Princess of a country disappear from everyone's memory, the intensity of the ability, the status of the anomalous object, and the price paid would all be extremely astonishing. There are not many branch directors who can achieve this level.

And clearly, an extremely important figure is missing, but no one found anything wrong. Everything was forcibly 'rationalized,' as if this country never had a Princess in the first place... Do you feel this ability is somewhat familiar?"

Everything is forcibly rationalized...

After frowning and pondering for a while, Li Ang suddenly thought of something, his eyes full of surprise:

"You mean... the Evil God's Brain responsible for erasing the traces of anomalous events?" "To be precise, it should be the Evil God's Brain and the 【Illusion Can】 containing the Evil God's Brain."

The red-haired Director narrowed her eyes and said:

"The intensity of this forgetting ability is somewhat over the limit, so I am more inclined to believe that this time there is someone who extremely understands the operating rules of the 【Illusion Can】 and took a shortcut with the help of the power of the 【Illusion Can】.

That forgetting ability is likely just the beginning. The follow-up was to piggyback on the 【Illusion Can】's ability to erase traces, by misleading the 【Illusion Can】 to judge that the event had ended and the Princess had disappeared, and actively launching a large-scale erasure of the event's traces, which could cause this kind of effect.

Otherwise, if it were just a simple forgetting ability, as long as someone flipped through old newspapers or received official documents signed by the Princess before she was forgotten, they would immediately find something wrong. Only the Bureau's 【Illusion Can】 can ensure that these problems are forcibly rationalized. And the person who has the ability to do this..."

The person who has the ability to do this is none other than the Aquarius Director!

As one of the Twelve Directors, he should be very familiar with the rules of the 【Illusion Can】, plus there is some connection between him and the rebels. So the suspicion that he is behind the scenes this time cannot be said to be very large; it can only be said that he has already reported his ID number!

After instantly understanding the logic in the red-haired Director's words, Li Ang only felt a sense of discomfort all over his body, as if he had been stared at by some peerless old silver coin.

"Director..."

Looking at his mere 4.1 infection value and confirming that his small body couldn't withstand the tossing, Li Ang felt that something big was wrong and couldn't help but complain:

"Bobby Laien Blood Night was not even a week ago, and the Headquarters' investigation into me has already come down; and from the time we reported that the Aquarius Director might have a problem until now, how many days have passed, why is there still no movement from the Headquarters?"

"What kind of movement do you want? Directly arrest the Aquarius Director and let you take that sheep to interrogate him?"

After glaring at Li Ang, the red-haired Director said unhappily:

"No matter what, he is a Director! You are a newcomer who has only joined the Cleanup Bureau for a month. Proposing to launch an investigation into him is like a sheep herder in Bobby Laien County reporting that the King went to his sheep pen to steal sheep yesterday. Basically, no one will pay attention to it.

Even if I help you endorse it and let this news get attention, it is troublesome to implement an investigation into him. At the very least, it must be approved by three Directors, and most of the Directors in the Bureau not only keep their identities secret, but it is not even certain whether they are in this world.

So keep waiting!

Anyway, it will be the time for the year-end review soon. Every year, three Directors will be responsible for presiding over the year-end review. Plus the Jin Niu who is rushing back, I can notify four Directors next week at the earliest. By then, the investigation into Aquarius should be about ready to come down."

A week...

Li Ang pondered for a while and then relaxed a little, but just as he wanted to continue saying something, he heard a creaking sound from the drawer behind the red-haired Director.

"It should be news from the Headquarters."

Noticing the movement, the red-haired Director returned to the table, reached out to pull open the drawer and fiddled with it for a while, then pulled out a form dripping with ink and scanned it quickly.

"I was wondering what it was, so it turns out your investigation results have come down. You... um?"

Seeming to have seen something incredible, the red-haired Director's eyelids twitched violently, and then her brow frowned subconsciously.

"Li Ang..."

After reading this form at a glance and letting her gaze linger for a while on evaluations like "Suspicious!", "Dangerous!", "Crazy!", etc., the red-haired Director took a deep breath, her expression somewhat ugly as she notified:

"Your investigation results... are not very optimistic..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 581 =====