Chapter 623: The Real Inquiry (Part 3)

"A wise decision."

After bowing slightly to the Cleanup Bureau Director, Director Aquarius 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 slowly opened, revealing the true face of the behemoth inside.

"Hiss..."

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

Immediately after, the mouth, similar in shape to the mouthparts of a nautilus, slowly opened, 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, Director Aquarius crossed his ten fingers and pressed hard toward the spread-out brain-eating demon.

Only hearing a muffled roar, the huge demon with a body size of nearly thirty meters seemed to be pressed by something incomparably heavy, fell to the center of the venue with a bang, and let out a painful wail.

Covering God Fork Finger... A secret art of the Aquarius lineage specifically used to suppress imprisoned True Gods.

Looking at Director Aquarius, who just pressed it casually and forcibly suppressed a God-level brain-eating demon, the Cleanup Bureau Director couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and a look of slight admiration appeared in his eyes.

The secret art developed by the first Aquarius is truly formidable. Once the authority of a True God is sealed, no matter how strong the physical strength is, as long as there is a gesture, it can be easily suppressed.

The only regrettable place is that the threshold is slightly higher, resulting in no second person being able to master it except for this generation of Aquarius...

Pity.

Looking at Director Aquarius, who let go of the brain-eating demon's tongue, covered his face again, and took the initiative to step forward to accept the licking, the Cleanup Bureau Director couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

If it were just privately manufacturing anomalies, 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 a problem, then only...

Huh?

Seeming to have discovered something wrong, the Cleanup Bureau Director couldn't 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, he moved the main stage back a distance and protected them behind him.

But these people didn't hide honestly behind him, but instead peered around. Among them, the cleanup agent named Leon even quietly reached out and touched the butt of the God-level brain-eating demon.

……

"Zi..."

【Encountered... Materialist... Information】

【Name: Ruminant Memory Eater (Memory, Fallen)】

【Appearance: A huge demon like a soft-bodied squid, about thirty meters in size, exactly the same as an ordinary living adult God-level brain-eating demon】

【Ability: Memory Reading】

【Cost: None】

【File: A God-level demon that descended on Sai'ao of the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom through an accidentally opened abyss rift nine hundred years ago, causing unimaginable huge casualties. The No. 0137 anchorless 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 one hundred thousand people, this God-level brain-eating demon was finally captured by the Pisces Branch and Aquarius Branch of the Cleanup Bureau, and sent to the contemporary Taurus Director for transformation, removing...】

【After a series of treatments, the authority of this demon was stripped, and its emotions and wisdom were also cleansed, leaving only the instinct to swallow memories, and it has been stored underground at the Cleanup Bureau headquarters as a special anomalous object specifically for reading memories until now】

【Evaluation: An anomalous object with extremely powerful effects. The tentacle-like tongue between flesh and spirit can easily invade the brain of any intelligent creature and take away the other party's memory by licking its brain grooves. Because its own status is extremely high, even a True God cannot resist its reading...】

【Infection Value: 59.9】

This thing... is really disgusting... and really deadly!

Secretly touching the butt of the God-level brain-eating demon, and relying on 【Materialism】 to obtain information about this thing, Leon only felt a chill on his back.

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

Looking at the tongues that pierced into Director Aquarius's head, constantly "scraping" something out with those purple-red meat tumors, Leon couldn't help but shiver violently.

If Director Aquarius is not bluffing, but really has a way to muddle through, then the person who is sucked and licked in the brain by this thing will become himself and the Director! And looking at Director Aquarius's blue veins bulging and his whole body twitching, the experience of being memory-read is probably quite bad...

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

……

Looking at the "Fallen" label in the name of 【Ruminant Memory Eater】, and thinking of 【I Am the Demon】 which can forcibly manipulate 【Fallen】 anomalous objects, Leon couldn't help but clench his fists hard, then stretched out his evil right hand again, preparing to put a double insurance on Director Aquarius.

However, at this moment, a somewhat cold voice came from the front.

"Stop."

Looking at Leon, who touched the brain-eating demon's butt and was not satisfied, and was actually preparing to touch it a second time, the Cleanup Bureau Director couldn't help but frown and ask: "Why do you keep touching its butt?"

"……"

Good guy, after this thing spreads out, it looks like a cut-open giant octopus. How did you distinguish which is the head and which is the butt?

After complaining in his heart, facing the Cleanup Bureau Director's scrutinizing gaze, Leon had no choice but to withdraw his right hand, then laughed and "truthfully" replied:

"My ability is to forcibly obtain part of the information of the anomalous object being touched through touch. Just now, after listening to Director Aquarius's words, I was afraid that he would play tricks when accepting memory reading, so I wanted to see if there were any loopholes in this thing..."

Want to find loopholes in this thing? Just by you?

Not knowing that Leon's purpose in finding loopholes was actually to drill into it himself, after staring at Leon's eyes and confirming the truth of these words by some means, the Cleanup Bureau Director turned his head back and warned indifferently:

"Don't try. When this thing was at its peak, its strength was basically on par with Olivia's. Now, although its authority has been stripped, its status is infinitely close to a True God, not something a third-level cleanup agent like you can shake."

"This... I actually have already touched some out."

In order to strive to touch the brain-eating demon's butt again, so as to use 【I Am the Demon】 to trip Director Aquarius, Leon had no choice but to try his best to show his own value and state:

"The name of this thing is 【Ruminant Memory Eater】. Its predecessor was a God-level brain-eating demon that descended on the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom, and was finally captured by the Pisces Branch and Aquarius Branch.

Nine hundred years ago, that generation of Taurus Director washed away its emotions and memories, removed the organ it used to digest memories, and replaced it with 【Memory Dream Furnace】 which can turn memories into dreams.

The memories swallowed by it will not be digested, but will go around in the 【Memory Dream Furnace】, leave a batch of replicated dreams, and then spit the memories back..."

……

When Leon first started narrating, the Cleanup Bureau Director was still somewhat indifferent, and even glanced in the direction of the red-haired Director, very dissatisfied with her behavior of leaking important information without authorization.

But as Leon said more and more, and even began to describe how the Taurus Director nine hundred years ago dealt with that God-level brain-eating demon, the Cleanup Bureau Director's expression gradually changed.

If it were something recorded in the Bureau, it would be fine, but among the information this kid told, much of it had no written records at all, and even he, the Director, only vaguely knew about it, and Olivia couldn't possibly know.

So... he just reached out and touched it, and touched out so many things?

Looking at Leon with shock, and feeling his aura, a flash of realization flashed in the Cleanup Bureau Director's eyes.

Looking at the degree of infection on his body, it is only at the average level of a third-level cleanup agent. Such a weak person can actually forcibly obtain information about a True God-level anomalous object while ensuring his own safety!

No wonder Olivia and the Taurus Director both want to protect him. This kid is really a treasure!

Guessed right, this Director is indeed a person who pursues "pragmatism"!

Looking at the Cleanup Bureau Director's eyes, and tasting a hint of hidden eagerness from them, Leon decisively stopped the statement and did not finish it all.

And the Cleanup Bureau Director, who had already been hooked, couldn't help but ask:

"Why did you stop? What about later?"

Leon said somewhat embarrassedly:

"The later ones... my strength is indeed a bit weak, and I am also afraid of being polluted, so I just touched it lightly just now, and the second time I was stopped by you..."

"Then you continue!"

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

"Touch as much as you want! Touch as long as you can, see how much information you can touch out in the end! In addition, you don't have to be afraid of pollution or anything. With me here to help you block it, I guarantee there will be no problems!"

Alright! This is what you asked me to touch! If Director Aquarius is touched into trouble later, you can't blame me!

Biting his cheek secretly, forcibly holding back the corners of his mouth that wanted to curl up, Leon nodded hard, then switched out 【I Am the Demon】, stretched his evil right hand toward the brain-eating demon's butt, and carefully exhorted:

"Then you must block it..."

"Don't worry, just touch!"

……

Phew... finally over...

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

Carefully checking the backup he had prepared, confirming that there would be absolutely no leaks, Director Aquarius, whose brain was almost boiled by the brain-eating demon, immediately brought a smile that only belonged to the winner, and looked up in the direction of the Cleanup Bureau Director.

Settled! It was worth all these years of preparation, this time it is absolutely foolproof!

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

"？？？"

After receiving Director Aquarius's dumbfounded gaze, the Cleanup Bureau Director explained somewhat awkwardly:

"This thing has been built for more than nine hundred years. Although the core Memory Dream Furnace is not broken, it has been eroded by the brain-eating demon's stomach acid quite seriously, and the memory reading was not completely successful.

Just now I checked the dreams spit out by the Memory Dream Furnace and found that your memory only replicated a small part, which is not enough to prove your innocence, so... can I ask you to come again?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 624 =====