Chapter 209: The Brotherhood of the Sacred Body

"This damn Dai Ke family is truly insane..."

After dismissing Edi Dai Ke, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe evaluated them this way while on his way out of the Europa United Consulate in Yun-Du.

Fan Daike's image was that of a very charming, handsome middle-aged man: tall, robust, with deep-set features and a masculine aura that made young girls blush and young married women go weak at the knees.

The only flaw was a healed, lightning-shaped scar above his left eye socket; those who didn't know better would assume he had been on a battlefield.

This scar had been carved into him by his college classmate.

The Dai Ke family were traditional military aristocrats with a long history of martial vigor. After coming of age, the men of the family almost all attended military academies, primarily the "Danzig Royal Military Academy." This historic academy housed a student organization called the "Brotherhood of the Sacred Body," whose members were primarily children of the European upper class.

The Brotherhood's initiation ceremony was quite hardcore: dueling with unshielded steel swords.

Two hot-blooded male college students would hold blunt-edged steel swords, wear no armor, and only don goggles to protect their eyes for a one-on-one cold weapon duel. Moving was forbidden; they had to stand face-to-face and trade blows. Naturally, attacking vital points was also prohibited. After a few rounds of hacking, both sides would basically be covered in wounds. That was how the scar on Fan Daike's left eye socket came to be.

The boys of the Dai Ke family viewed this as a symbol of officially coming of age and becoming a man, while the Brotherhood of the Sacred Body viewed it as a test of courage. Those who couldn't pass were cowards unworthy of membership.

Fan Daike's most famous feat in college was enduring a body full of wounds to forcefully snap his classmate's sword in two. For this, the girls of the ballet club all hinted that they were very willing to accept this man's dinner invitations, making Fan Daike's college life quite "sexually fulfilling."

And the guy whose sword was snapped by Fan Daike back then was his cousin, Edi Dai Ke, the current military attaché at the Yun-Du consulate. He had colluded with Fan Daike beforehand, bringing a tampered sword to the duel—of course it was going to break.

As a reward for helping him pick up girls, after graduation, Fan Daike arranged for this loyal cousin to be placed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"According to Edi Dai Ke, no third person knew about the fakery during the Brotherhood of the Sacred Body's initiation ceremony besides him and Fan Daike himself. Yeyao reacted perfectly to his probing, which is why Edi Dai Ke confirmed that he was indeed Fan Daike."

Seeing Lan Shiwen sat in the car, watching the receding figure in the rearview mirror, feeling a lingering fear in his heart.

When Edi Dai Ke asked that question, he had once prepared to extract the correct answer from Edi Dai Ke's mouth, then immediately commit suicide and restart, returning to the past to inform Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe of the answers to these probing questions. But Seeing Lan Shiwen never expected... that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe would answer Edi Dai Ke's tricky questions and probes fluently, without revealing any flaws.

If Seeing Lan Shiwen hadn't been present, Edi Dai Ke would have even wanted to invite his cousin to go taste the girls at the Yun-Du night clubs.

"It seems Yeyao's ability to transform into others is not as simple as 'disguise'." Seeing Lan Shiwen closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

The rules Yeyao mastered were extremely strange. While obtaining the other party's external image, he could also acquire information and intelligence about them. Even the secret past from their student days, known only to Edi Dai Ke and Fan Daike, could not escape his eyes...

What a terrifying ability.

"How many times must I die before I have a chance to test the specific information of this ability from him?"

Seeing Lan Shiwen laughed at himself and abandoned the thought.

No one likes death, and he does not like it either.

Riding a ghost with one's body requires a price, and Seeing Lan Shiwen was no exception; it was just that the price to be paid for "Death Return" was never spoken of to outsiders. Seeing Lan Shiwen tried to track where Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe went after leaving the consulate via the city's "Heavenly Eye," but as expected, he lost him. For a Gridder who could switch his identity at will, tracking his whereabouts was almost impossible. He had been able to track him before only because Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had intentionally let him.

As for where he went now, no one knew.

July 30, 2018, 14:03 PM.

Bai Zhi rubbed her sleepy eyes and crawled out from under the covers, stark naked. Checking the time, she had woken up 3 minutes late today.

Because she always had nightmares at night, she had the habit of taking a nap to catch up on sleep.

It was two o'clock. Bai Zhi got up to get dressed, comb her hair, and wash up; she still had to accompany her mother to the mall in the afternoon. Feng Yushu had recently become obsessed with something; she, who originally didn't care much about dressing up, now spent a large amount of time every day primping herself. Whether there was a reason or not, she would put on new clothes, change into new makeup, and come over to ask, "A-Zhi, A-Zhi, do you think Mom looks good like this?"

She was already a mother; why was she acting like a young girl who had just fallen in love?

Bai Zhi stretched a big stretch and squinted her eyes to reach for the phone on the nightstand.

She reached out, but grabbed nothing.

"Huh?" Bai Zhi froze. She remembered the phone should have been placed on the nightstand for wireless charging.

Rubbing her eyes, Bai Zhi sat up, looking vigilantly at the surging Han River outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. She had a habit of sleeping naked, so she would always lock the bedroom door and pull the curtains shut before sleeping. But the gentle afternoon sunlight spilled into the room, clearly telling her: the curtains were open.

Bai Zhi put on her pajamas, carefully got out of bed barefoot, and hurriedly scanned her surroundings, checking everywhere.

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"The hair clipped to the cabinet door has fallen off; the wardrobe has been opened."

"The tiles in the bathroom are a bit wet. Who turned on the faucet?"

"The electric kettle feels warm, but I didn't boil water before I went to sleep..."

The more she checked, the more uneasy Bai Zhi felt. The locked bedroom door and windows had not been opened, but the various signs in the room were all telling her that someone had been here.

After searching around, she found the phone that had fallen into the gap between the bed and the wall. Unlocking it, she saw the battery was at 77%.

Bai Zhi had mild battery anxiety and neurasthenia. For any communication tool like a phone, as long as the battery was below 80%, she couldn't help but want to charge it.

"I remember when I put it on wireless charging at noon, the phone still had about 75% battery."

Bai Zhi looked at the 77% displayed on the phone screen, thinking this meant the phone had only been on the charger for a short while before falling under the bed.

The more she thought, the more suspicious she felt, and her heart turned cold. So, she brought a stool, climbed onto the wardrobe carved with the "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" pattern, and removed the hidden camera installed in the phoenix's eye.

She pulled the docking station with a card reader out of the cabinet, connected it to her laptop, inserted the memory card, and Bai Zhi sat at the desk to start watching the surveillance footage from noon today.

Because of her habit of sleeping naked, the surveillance camera in her bedroom was not pointed at the bed and was not connected to the internet. The surveillance footage on the local memory card was automatically cleared of recordings from 7 days ago every day, keeping only the most recent week.

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