Chapter 642: Return

Not bro, what the hell is this?

Right now, Zhang Jie, about to leave the forbidden zone, looked at the news on his phone and felt utterly speechless.

Saying I'm an anomaly is fine, but what the hell does it mean that I, Zhang Jie, am so badass I've assimilated even Ceng Tian—does he even know that himself?

When did the Anomaly Bureau get this crazy? Plus they're saying Zhang Jie is the Mimic King's partner—what utter bullshit.

Zhang Jie was speechless; the more he looked, the more speechless he felt, as if over the past few years any trivial nonsense could be blamed on him—Old Zhang, the source of all evil, right?

Master! I'm hungry!

Qi Yu constantly cries hunger, so Zhang Jie casually killed an A-rank anomaly to feed her as rations.

The Anomaly Bureau checkpoint is right ahead.

Does becoming Chief solve everything? Not necessarily, but it definitely solves most things.

Above the Chief is the Forbidden Permit—only seven people hold it. For an ordinary Chief, who could threaten Zhang Jie?

My will level is wavering...

After level 5, Zhang Jie's consciousness didn't stagnate—it kept growing; reaching Forbidden Permit level 6 isn't that far off.

Who's up ahead!

This is the Night Watch Outpost! Report your ID; if you don't have one, you'll be treated as an anomaly!

Zhang Jie's figure slowly emerged from the depths, and the Elite Guard on the Night Watch Outpost stared wide-eyed at this aura...

Chief!

From now on, all slander will be useless against you! Starting with the Chief, ordinary detection methods are completely ineffective!

In short, every Chief is far removed from the concept of human; Ceng Tian can turn into black water to become immune to damage, so-called Chiefs are merely a gathering of beings that are neither human nor ghost, yet they consider themselves human.

Just like that woman who ambushed you in the forbidden zone—don't you know what she said?

After becoming Chief, the only way to confirm your identity is your will; as long as your will doesn't change, you remain human!

One could say that will is the sole means by which all Chiefs anchor their real selves; only will can confirm your identity.

If a Chief's will collapses, the outcome is a living S-rank Mimic!

And when the news of your breakthrough to Chief rapidly travels from Blue Star to the mother star, the first to receive it are likewise those targeting you.

How is that possible.... How is that possible?

This isn't scientific...

In the empty office, a person wearing a Chief's uniform stared at the report in hand, utterly baffled.

The probability of Zhang Jie breaking through to Chief is even higher than the chance of you occasionally going out and being killed by a flowerpot falling from the floor above.

The current number of Chiefs: the mother star has about forty-plus, while Blue Star has even more—over sixty.

Accounting for recent losses, there hasn't been a new Chief in many years.

Breaking through to Chief in your twenties.... That's great!

No matter what, I will win.

He burst out laughing; if Zhang Jie hadn't broken through to Chief, he could have used Zhang Jie's crazy slices for research, but since Zhang Jie did break through, it means humanity has gained another top-tier combatant.

No matter what, fundamentally it's for humanity's survival and development!

It's time to cut ties.

While Zhang Jie hasn't returned, still on that planet, he had enough time to make some microscopic adjustments.

Just as he thought, Zhang Jie has now boarded the ship returning to the mother star.

After tedious verification and sensing by other Chiefs, Zhang Jie's identity has been fully confirmed; any claims that he is an anomaly will shatter.

Even his sidekick Qi Yu, who looks like a little dog, was outright ignored by others.

With a combined population of over forty billion across the two stars, only a few Chiefs have emerged, each wielding tremendous power.

Cough, except for Ceng Tian.

As a Chief, he was nearly killed by Zhang Jie, who is an Elite Guard—almost killed twice!

Saying that would be a laughingstock!

This time he was arrested and imprisoned, also because his own strength was lacking, and nobody truly wanted to do anything to this Chief.

In other words, the Chief's status isn't about seniority—it's about how un-human you are.

Zhang Jie merely said that the pollution hollow spanning several kilometers was his doing; just that sentence left few wanting to contradict him.

I don't know how Lei Na and Huang Mao and the gang are doing.

Zhang Jie flipped through his phone, a gloom crossing his eyes—Lei Na's last message to him was months ago.

The news wouldn't report a mere junior investigator, but Zhang Jie knows Lei Na likely ran into trouble.

Whatever, I should head back.

Becoming the new Chief, aside from insiders, few people know about it.

Even those ordered to target Zhang Jie still think he's just that easy-to-catch Elite Guard.

Cough, his subordinates are loyal, racking their brains to help their boss find Zhang Jie for slicing research—then what?

But the boss surrendered before even fighting....

It's just poor Lei Na—she's probably having nightmares now.

Zhang Jie leaned against the ship's seatback; in the end he still didn't choose to traverse the universe with his flesh.

This Chief thing is really comfortable....

Qi Yu lay beside Zhang Jie, nibbling his arm with her small mouth—not eating dead skin, but drinking blood.

Delicious....

Qi Yu learned another phrase, smacking her lips; Zhang Jie's breakthrough to Chief didn't deviate from humanity like other Chiefs do.

Her Master is a total freak.

Qi Yu's body was constantly recovering, but at this moment Zhang Jie saw something astonishing.

"Lei Na... is that Lei Na?"

On Zhang Jie's phone, a live broadcast was showing a group of people conducting his own "judgment".

In the picture, Lei Na's eyes were completely occupied by pitch black, her expression cold, and under that group's command she was inflicting violence on Huang Mao and Qiu Yu.

The surrounding crowd was stirred up, showing none of their usual caution, and the scene once made Zhang Jie feel dazzled.

"Do you know why Star Bridge District is so safe when Zhang Jie is around?"

"These are the data they've hidden! It's all fake! They help with mimicry, they help impostors, letting them blend into human society!"

"This way, those casualties, those vacancies, are perfectly filled!"

"And these two people are Zhang Jie's accomplices!!!"

"Gone mad?"

Zhang Jie really couldn't imagine how important he must be; has this world ultimately gone completely insane?

Moreover, Lei Na has become an accomplice of that group?

Seeing that Lei Na was about to attack Huang Mao and the others soon, Zhang Jie could no longer sit still; he now had to physically traverse the universe.

"Where's the pilot! Open the hatch! I'm going out directly!"