Chapter 61: Disappearing Audience
Last night’s century concert was like a shocking nightmare, lingering like a dark cloud, and sitting in the stadium’s audience seats, one could still feel the space pulsing, lingering sound, the figure from last night standing alone in the center of the stage, a one-man army, solitarily performing the hell symphony, as if his shadow and spirit still remained there.
All Mysterious Group members stood in solemn reverence, gazing for a long time at the spot where the bones once stood, unwilling to leave.
After some investigation, the Mystic Investigators finally learned what heavy and awe-inspiring past this treasure of the human world, this genius of the music world, had truly experienced.
During the years Haimofen was in seclusion, it was not that he deliberately avoided the mundane world, nor was he casually free-spirited, aloof and arrogant; he had his reasons for having to avoid the secular world.
In the residence in Laitai City where Haimofen had retreated into seclusion, the Mystic Investigators discovered traces of dimensional power remaining in the attic where he studied music scores. This man had once faced an abnormal god’s invasion alone, and under the gaze of thousands last night, he resolutely confronted and resisted the powerful abnormal god. Moreover, that man seemed to have succeeded in expelling the musical abnormal god, which was entirely composed of irregular sound waves, through his own manner.
Although they had not witnessed Haimofen challenging divine might on-site with their own eyes, the death scenes Haimofen left behind all informed the world that humans could resist abnormal gods in their own ways, even if humans were mere insects and ants to abnormal gods, or even insignificant mayflies.
If humans can be insignificant things to abnormal gods, then why can’t humans choose to become viruses or cancer cells that can “poison” or even “kill” those abnormal gods? He Jia’an and the others thought so.
The recent series of heavenly anomaly events—the destruction of the Mysterious Group’s headquarters’ flesh and blood lycoris, the annihilation of the harmful beast abnormal god Kuthuen’s dimensional abnormal race branch, plus the musical abnormal god expelled by a human musician last night… all shook the Mystic Investigators’ former belief that heavenly-grade events were unsolvable and abnormal gods unbeatable to the core.
Humans have a chance to deal with abnormal gods… even at the price of their lives.
One life, two lives… even thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives, when they become numbers, compared to the global population of over eight billion, these sacrifices are worthwhile.
What’s more, what they had to do was “godslaying,” was “Godslayer”!
“I’m very sorry, Mr. Haimofen. I didn’t like your music much when you were alive. Your overly charming and enchanting feminine face made me often view you through colored glasses, thinking your success was mainly due to your appearance, with talent being secondary. Now I feel immensely regretful.” He Jia’an stood at the place where Haimofen’s bones had once stood and let out a long sigh. “You are one of the greatest humans I have ever seen.”
“I really wish I could hear you perform once more. Um, of course, not those demonic sounds that are too beyond normal reason.” Li Yingqi also mourned nearby.
Yu Lianyun: “…”
As the old sixth in the team, Yu Lianyun had always felt guilt. Now the whole group was silently worshiping and mourning Haimofen, but she knew deep down that everyone didn’t need to go to such great lengths for Haimofen, expending so much effort and thought, because he himself was delighted by his own death, and might even have premeditated it. He was now “alive” in a form of existence similar to Wei Jiang but even more eerie, incomprehensible to humans.
She had already seen the dead Haimofen in the forest shop in her dream. At this moment, Haimofen was jubilant at having escaped the constraints of the flesh and blood, reveling to the extreme in the prospect of enjoying immeasurable time, even somewhat uninhibited and off-the-rails, showing none of the greatness and heroism everyone imagined.
In short, mourning for that guy was actually not worth it.
After the brief mourning session ended, He Jia’an and the others still needed to throw themselves into their main job. Although yesterday’s event had temporarily passed, the aftermath still required them to handle the cleanup.
Bu Gaojun, the Mystic Investigator who had temporarily teamed up with He Jia’an before, had joined He Jia’an’s Tiger Group squad as a Tiger Group member shortly after recovering from his injuries not long ago.
This was a guy who was quite enthusiastic about work and harbored an excessively fanatical adoration for He Jia’an. Li Yingqi and Yu Lianyun thought there was nothing wrong with him, but He Jia’an often felt a regret like “letting the wolf into the house.”
“Captain He!” Every time Bu Gaojun made even a small discovery, he would eagerly report it to He Jia’an immediately. Although his discoveries were useful information, they weren’t of much use… This enthusiastic new group member, who seemed like he was currying favor, now appeared to have made another discovery at the scene where last night’s anomaly event occurred.
He Jia’an looked over expressionlessly, waiting for Bu Gaojun’s answer. When Bu Gaojun tried to approach within one meter of him, he reached out to block and stop him, determined not to let the other get any closer.
Bu Gaojun wasn’t annoyed and said excitedly with a face full of excitement: “Captain He, I have a new discovery!”
“Speak.” He Jia’an said coldly.
“Last night, there were a total of two hundred and eighty-one on-site audience members. Excluding all interferences, the final statistics based on hospital admission list show that two people are not on the hospital admission list.” Bu Gaojun reported.
Hearing this, He Jia’an was stunned. Li Yingqi and Yu Lianyun were also frozen in place, then both put on serious expressions.
Because this time it was truly a major discovery worth noting, which had to be taken seriously.
“Can you identify which two people they are?” He Jia’an inquired.
Bu Gaojun smiled and said: “I’ve already handed the screening work to the technical department. I believe there will be results soon.”
Yu Lianyun fell slightly silent. If it was about two audience members at the scene not being on the hospital admission list, then she might know who they were, but she couldn’t say…
“Hm?” Yu Lianyun felt a chill on her neck, a gust of cold wind whistling by. She looked around, puzzled in her heart. In this enclosed stadium, where did the natural cool wind come from?
This made Yu Lianyun’s scalp tingle for a moment, because she didn’t know if this was her high inspirational ability acting up again, making her sense some abnormal phenomenon she shouldn’t actively seek out.
But Yu Lianyun’s main job was no different from actively courting death. When Yu Lianyun confirmed this might be her inspirational ability guiding her to discover an anomaly nearby, she didn’t resist this sensation. She touched the back of her neck, turned around to seek the direction from which the strange cold wind came.
Not long after, she arrived in front of a certain section of stairs in the north side audience seats and stopped, crouching down to carefully check what peculiarities were near the source of this cold wind.
“Wait!? This is… a seam?” Yu Lianyun was slightly stunned and finally discovered, in the tile seam of a certain stair step, a deep crack that penetrated and connected to the outside world.
Yu Lianyun inexplicably had an ominous premonition, and at this moment, Bu Gaojun seemed to have received feedback from the technical department at the same time.
“The results are out!” Bu Gaojun trotted eagerly to He Jia’an and reported the investigation results he received. “Although the electronic equipment inside the stadium was destroyed, there is still a street-side surveillance camera near the Civic Sports Center’s pre-check ticket area, connected to another underground cable, which can clearly see every audience member entering and exiting through the door. After categorizing and analyzing appearances, ultimately only one pair of father and daughter who entered the scene had no matching comparison result.
And during the estimated time of the anomaly event, that pair of father and daughter indeed seemed to know something in advance, leaving the scene ahead of time before the incident fully erupted.”
He Jia’an frowned tightly; there was indeed something eerie about this.
And Bu Gaojun wasn’t finished; he continued reporting: “In addition, we finally discovered one person not on the ticket list, but from checking the surveillance camera, he had sneaked into the stadium perimeter before the concert started.”
“Who are these three people?” He Jia’an asked seriously.
Working overtime today, came back very late…
