Chapter 605: Contained Object Formed from the Chief Investigator

One day....

Two days....

One month....

Three months passed, and Zhang Jie had been staying in this damned place for three months; everything here was exactly the same as the Real World, with no difference.

Oh, the only difference is that this place only has a large area that includes the Star Bridge District.

But everyone else are thoughtless shells; only my family and the investigators who entered this place together have self-awareness.

For now I don't know the meaning of this place's existence; could it be that everyone is trapped here, forming a world of its own?

Zhang Jie didn't understand, but he always felt that something was off about this place.

His parents had aged a bit compared to a few years ago, but not much; yet Zhang Jie was certain these were his parents. He had thought finding people would be the most troublesome, but he never expected that escaping would be the hardest task.

His family caught up together, searching for an exit, and Zhang Jie's Unrestricted ability immediately sobered them up, but after a thorough search there was no progress.

If they remained trapped like this, who knows what monster might appear one day and sweep them away.

I just don't know how my older sister is doing out there...

But the turning point of all this came when Zhang Jie, while probing the depths of this place's anomaly bureau, discovered the sole contained object.

"B—1390, Virtual Abyss!"

"Is that really how it is?"

Zhang Jie looked at the contained object before him, carefully examining its effects, and his thoughts gradually became clear.

"Virtual Abyss creates a space that is absolutely safe, can project reality into it, and can normally generate anomalous entities."

Contained objects differ from anomalies; most contained objects are anomalies that have lost control and cannot be completely eradicated, plus.... humans whose contamination stripes have burst.

This one before me is exactly that, but the difference is that it actually... has not been contained.

This is a contained object formed from a Chief Investigator!

Funny enough, his reason for being here is that he himself 'believed' he had been contained, and he even thoughtfully provided a detailed explanation for his own containment.

This is.... an investigator whose existence has been eroded; he died here, his obsession undying, his body merging with contamination, becoming such a contained object.

No one remembers him anymore; he has no name, no relics, leaving only a contained object as proof that he once lived.

"Understand him, inherit him, master him, as proof of an existence."

Zhang Jie looked at the plaque bearing these words and fell into thought.

"So... if we contain it, can we get out?"

He pondered, and in the end decided to give it a try.

After all, his Unrestricted ability is truly unrestricted.

Zhang Jie punched open the external protection wrapping the contained object, then closely observed the small pit before him that didn't look large.

Unlike the pit Zhang Jie saw outside, this one is made of countless fragments of 'Reality' mixed with black contamination, spinning, resembling a constantly rotating sandworm maw.

Zhang Jie took a deep breath, thrust his hand in, and instantly the Chief Investigator's knowledge, memories, thoughts, experiences—everything—flooded wildly into his brain.

"Bad....."

Zhang Jie's superpower was completely useless; his level‑3 will, under the Chief Investigator's thoughts, was like a small boat drifting on the ocean.

He seemed to become that Chief Investigator, from birth onward—learning, growing, feeling the taste of loss, and finally....

Zhang Jie arrived at this damned forbidden zone.

He single‑handedly killed the strongest anomaly in the forbidden zone, leading his own squad to mutual destruction with it.

In the end, inside the forbidden zone, together with the corpses of the anomalies, he transformed into a powerful contained object.

If it weren't for him, this forbidden zone would become one of humanity's most terrifying disasters.

Opening his eyes again, Zhang Jie found himself at the scene of that investigator's final battle.

This time, he will take the investigator's place and fulfill his last wish!