Chapter 220 The Real Questioning

Chapter 220 The Real Questioning

Chapter 220 The Real Questioning (Part )
"A wise decision."

After bowing slightly to the director of the Cleanup Bureau, Director Aquarius left his seat and walked slowly towards the huge cage in the center of the venue.

As he approached, the icosahedral prison formed by thirty golden light beams slowly opened, revealing the true face of the huge monster inside.

"Sigh..."

Along with a strange roar that echoed in everyone's soul, this ugly demon, which looked like a giant soft-bodied octopus, quickly "spread out" its slippery and sticky body, instantly covering nearly a quarter of the venue.

Then, a mouth similar in shape to that of a nautilus slowly opened, and hundreds of long and thin tongues with purple-red tumors on them, like a bunch of strange sea snakes entangled with each other, bit towards everyone around them.

"Be honest!"

With a shout, Director Aquarius crossed his fingers and pressed hard towards the brain-eating demon that was spreading out.

There was only an unusually dull thud, and a huge demon that was nearly thirty meters in size fell to the ground in the middle of the venue, as if it was pressed down by something extremely heavy, and let out a painful wail.

The God-covering Cross Finger... a secret technique used by the Aquarius lineage to suppress the imprisoned true god.

Seeing Director Aquarius overpowering a god-level brain-eating demon with just a casual press, the director of the Cleanup Bureau couldn't help but narrow his eyes with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

The secret techniques developed by the first generation of Aquarius are truly powerful, and once the power of the true god is sealed, no matter how strong the physical strength is, it can be easily suppressed with just a gesture.

The only regret is that the threshold is a little high, resulting in no one else being able to master it except this generation of Aquarius...

pity.

After looking at Director Aquarius, who let go of the Brain Eater's tongue, covered his face again and took the initiative to step forward to be licked, the Director of the Cleanup Bureau couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

If he only created the anomaly in private, there would be room for maneuver, but since this was related to the safety of the Watchtower Palace, no matter how talented this generation of Aquarius was, as long as there was a problem with the memory he read out, then he would only be greeted with...

Ok?
As if he had discovered something wrong, the director of the Cleanup Bureau couldn't help but frowned.

When the Brain-Eating Demon "spread out" just now, in order to prevent the four people who were moved in from being crushed to death, he moved the main stage back a distance and protected them behind him.

But these people did not hide behind him obediently. Instead, they looked around curiously. Among them, the cleaner named Leon even reached out and touched the butt of the god-level brain-eating demon.

……

"Zi..."

[Encounter...Materialism...Information]

[Name: Rumination Memory Eater (Memory, Corruption)]

[Appearance: A giant demon about 30 meters in size, like a soft-bodied squid, exactly the same as an ordinary living adult God-level Brain-Eating Demon]

[Ability: Memory Reading]

[Price: None]

[Archive: Nine hundred years ago, a god-level demon descended upon the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom's Saio through an abyss rift that was accidentally opened, causing unimaginable casualties. The Saio Kingdom's No. 0137 unmoored ship was almost completely destroyed by it.

After wreaking havoc in Seio for three months and devouring the memories of nearly 100,000 people, this god-level brain-eating demon was eventually captured by the Pisces and Aquarius branches of the Cleanup Bureau and sent to the current Taurus director for transformation, removing the...

After a series of treatments, the demon's power was stripped away, and its emotions and wisdom were cleansed, leaving only the instinct to devour memories. It was treated as a special anomaly that specializes in reading memories and has been stored in the basement of the Cleanup Bureau headquarters until now.

[Evaluation: An extremely powerful anomaly, with a tentacle-like tongue that is between flesh and blood and a spirit body. It can easily invade the brain of any intelligent creature and steal the other's memory by licking its brain grooves. Due to its extremely high status, even true gods cannot resist its reading...]

[Infiltration value: 59.9]

This thing... is really disgusting... and it's really deadly!
After secretly touching the butt of the God-level Brain Eater and obtaining information about this thing with the help of [Materialism], Leon felt a chill on his back.

Not to mention whether the memory of one's "time travel" would be read by it, just letting its tongue covered with disgusting mucus reach into the brain and lick it around was enough to make one want to die.

Looking at the tongues that had penetrated into Director Aquarius's head and were constantly "scraping" something out with those purple-red tumors, Leon couldn't help but shudder violently.

If Director Aquarius was not bluffing and really had a way to get away with it, then the people being sucked and licked by this thing in their brains would be him and the director! And looking at Director Aquarius's throbbing veins, the experience of having his memory read must be quite bad...

No! Absolutely not! I must think of a way quickly to ensure that he can't use any tricks he has!

……

After looking at the "corrupted" label in the name of [Ruminant Memory Eater] and remembering [I Am the Devil] which can forcibly control [corrupted] anomalies, Leon couldn't help but clench his fist tightly, and then stretched out his sinful right hand again, ready to help Director Aquarius get double insurance.

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

"Stop."

Seeing that touching the Brain Eater's butt wasn't enough and Leon was actually preparing to touch it a second time, the director of the Cleanup Bureau couldn't help but frown and asked, "Why do you keep touching her butt?"

"..."

My goodness, when this thing is spread out, it looks like a giant octopus that has been cut in half. How do you tell which is the head and which is the butt?
After complaining in his heart, facing the scrutinizing eyes of the Director of the Cleanup Bureau, Leon had to retract his right hand, then smiled awkwardly and answered "truthfully":

"My ability is to forcibly obtain some information about the abnormal object I touch through touch. After listening to Director Aquarius' words just now, I was afraid that he would play tricks when accepting memory reading, so I wanted to see if there are any loopholes in this thing..."

Want to find loopholes in this thing? Just you?
Not knowing that Leon's purpose in finding loopholes was actually to drill them himself, after staring into Leon's eyes and confirming the truth of his words in some unknown way, the director of the Cleanup Bureau turned his head back and warned indifferently:

"Don't try. When this thing was at its peak, its strength was basically the same as Olivia's. Even though its power has been drained away, its status is still infinitely close to that of a true god. It's not something a third-level cleaner like you can shake."

“This… I’ve actually figured out a few things.”

In order to get another chance to touch the Brain Eater's butt so that he could use [I am the Devil] to trip up Director Aquarius, Leon had to work hard to show his own value and said:

“This thing’s name is [Ruminant Memory Eater]. Its predecessor was a god-level brain-eating demon that descended on the Thousand Sails Sea Nation. It was eventually captured by the Pisces Bureau and the Aquarius Bureau.

The Taurus directors of nine hundred years ago washed away its emotions and memories, removed its organs used to digest memories, and replaced them with the [Dream Furnace] that can turn memories into dreams.

The memories it swallows will not be digested, but will go around in the Dream Furnace, leaving behind a batch of copied dreams before spitting the memories back out..."

……

When Leon first started talking, the director of the Cleanup Bureau seemed a little indifferent, and even glanced in the direction of the red-haired director, expressing his dissatisfaction with her unauthorized disclosure of important information.

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

It would be fine if it was something recorded in the bureau, but a lot of the information this kid told me had no written records at all. Even the director himself only knew about it vaguely, so it was impossible for Olivia to know clearly.

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

Looking at Leon with shock, and after feeling his breath, a glimmer of enlightenment flashed in the eyes of the director of the Cleanup Bureau.

Judging from the degree of infection on his body, he is probably only at the average level of a third-level cleaner. Such a weak person can actually forcibly obtain information on True God-level anomalies while ensuring his own safety!

No wonder Olivia and Director Taurus want to protect him, this kid is really a treasure!
You guessed it right, this director is indeed a person who pursues "pragmatism"!
After looking at the eyes of the Director of the Cleaning Bureau and sensing a hint of eagerness in them, Leon decisively stopped his statement without finishing it all.

The Director of the Cleanup Bureau, who had already taken the bait, could not help but ask:

"Why did you stop? What's next?"

Lyon was a little embarrassed when he heard this:

"As for the ones behind... I am indeed a little weak, and I was also afraid of being contaminated, so I just touched them lightly just now, and you stopped me the second time..."

"Then continue!"

After glancing in the direction of Director Aquarius and confirming that the memory reading was still proceeding normally and without any interference, the Director of the Cleanup Bureau immediately made the decision:

"Touch as much as you want! Touch as long as you can and see how much information you can get in the end! Also, don't worry about contamination. I'm here to help you prevent it and make sure nothing goes wrong!"

Okay! You asked me to touch it! If Director Aquarius gets hurt by being touched, you can’t blame me!

After secretly biting his cheek and forcibly holding back the corners of his mouth that wanted to curl up, Leon nodded vigorously, then switched to [I am the Devil], stretched out his sinful right hand towards the butt of the Brain Eater, and carefully instructed:
"Then please try to stop me..."

"Don't worry, feel free to touch it!"

……

Phew...it's finally over...

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

After carefully checking his prepared backup plan and making sure it would not be exposed, Director Aquarius, whose brain was almost boiling after being licked by the brain-eating monster, immediately looked up in the direction of the Director of the Cleanup Bureau with a smile that only belongs to a winner.

It’s safe! All my preparations have paid off. This time, it will be foolproof!
"Sorry... there was a slight problem here, so the reading just now doesn't count."

"???"

After receiving the confused look from Director Aquarius, the Director of the Cleanup Bureau explained awkwardly:
“This thing has been made for more than 900 years. Although the Dream Recall Furnace, which is the core of it, is not broken, it has been severely corroded by the stomach acid of the Brain Eater, so the memory reading was not completely successful.

I just checked the dream that the Dream Furnace spit out, and found that only a small part of your memory was copied, which is not enough to prove your innocence, so... can you please try again?"

(End of this chapter)