Chapter 208
A moment later, Maier leisurely got out of the taxi with his portly belly leading the way .
He looked at the beautiful smiling waitress serving the customers and quickly pulled out his mirror and comb from his pocket and gave his hair a quick comb . Only then did he walk into the café and sit opposite Lin Sheng .
“We meet again . ” Maier smiled at Lin Sheng .
“Yeah . What you want to drink . My treat today . ” Lin Sheng was now bloody rich, having a wealthy disciple sure was something .
“Anything . ”
“Then the same as me, three shots of espresso, no sugar,” Lin Sheng ordered .
The waitress at the side hid her snigger as she took down the order and left .
Maier opened his mouth, wanting to say something but he held his tongue . He was not here to drink coffee .
“Alright, alright . Truth be told, the reason I came looking for you today was to clarify something, are you a member of the Holy Sanctum or the Ironfist Society . ”
“The Holy Sanctum . ” Lin Sheng answered without any hesitation . “There was no Ironfist Society, to begin with . All of us are members of the Holy Sanctum . ”
“So the Ironfist Society was just a front?” Maier gasped in surprise . This was big news as internationally, the Ironfist Society was already a known organization . Especially after they fought off the Heaven’s Spire’s six-wing elite, Vanyi of the Brutal Staff, their reputation soared even higher .
So they were being monitored by almost everyone .
“It is just a front . ” Lin Sheng smiled . “The Holy Sanctum is the core of our organization . But I was at Xilin back then so I had established a branch there, never thought I’d run into trouble . ”
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“Alright, that aside, you should know why I’m here for right?” Maier’s face turned grim .
“I know, about the Zeons right?” Lin Sheng smiled . “I’m just a branch master, and the person in charge of this is Khadula of the Thousand Arms . Why don’t you go look for him?”
“I am, but I can’t seem to locate him . ” Maier wiped off his sweat, as he started to feel warm .
“Why not I help you relay the message?”
“No need, no need! Don’t disturb the Emissary . We’ll settle this small matter ourselves . ” Maier’s was sweating profusely .
Khadula’s notoriety had made rounds across nations after his week-long rampage killed thousands of Redwinian soldiers . And as a simple government officer, he had to be super careful when he meet the former, or else he might just die there and then .
“The blood of the Zeons is tainted with the blood of the dark demons, and they will run rampage every now and then . Zeon Sr . has a feud with Zeon Jr . , and my disciple Adolf witnessed it that time . ” Lin Sheng simply explained .
“Now that Zeon Sr . has gone missing, you should be asking Zeon Jr . , not me . ”
“We had tried to ask but…” Maier wiped off his sweat, soaking the tissue in the process . “But there’s been a problem of late, a big problem that has us shorthanded . ”
“And?”
“Well, that aside, we hope that you can help us, and we will provide the necessary recompense . ” Maier quickly replied .
“Can you authorize this?” Lin Sheng raised his eyebrow .
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“My father is a state councilman, and my mother is an instructor of the Special Forces stationed in Shermanton,” Maier said, sounding confident .
“Then that’ll work . So a verbal agreement?”
“A verbal agreement . ”
“May our cooperation be fruitful . ” Lin Sheng held his hand out, and Maier shook it .
“Now, about the situation . ” Once the cooperation was agreed upon, he quickly went straight into business . “We need your help in providing support with people who can sense supernatural auras . The more the better . ”
“What do you need us to do? And give me more details on your need for the sensors,” Lin Sheng responded .
“Do you know about the Black Clusters?” Maier’s expression turned grim again .
“Black Clusters?”
“Come, you’ll understand better if you see it yourself . ”
The two quickly settled the bill and left the café . There was a police vehicle already waiting outside .
The moment the two got on, the police car quickly sped along the road and came to a garbage dump about five minutes later .
All around the garbage dump were clusters of farmland and abandoned factories . The police car was parked by the right side of the dump . It was empty all over .
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Maier leaped out of the car and quickly made his way into an area sealed off by yellow police tape . The fat officer pointed towards the inside of the sealed area .
“This is a Black Cluster . ”
Lin Sheng followed behind and made his way to that sealed area, and peered out to look .
At first glance, he saw the pitch-black swamp-like area . On the surface, it looked no different than a glop of black mud .
“What is this?” Lin Sheng frowned, as he could sense danger from that thing .
“A Black Cluster,” Maier said calmly, but underneath his calmness was some reservation .
“No matter what you throw into it, the Black Cluster would consume it whole instantly . Look around it . ”
Lin Sheng quickly observed as he was prompted . And soon his expression changed .
That glop of black mud was slowly but surely dragging everything into it . Rubbish, sand and stone, and even bugs and papers .
It was not picky as it consumed everything .
“What is this actually?” Lin Sheng’s face turned grim .
“No one in the Holy Sanctum knows about this?” Maier queried .
“Do I look like someone who had joined the sanctum long?” My master had not thought me about that yet okay?” Lin Sheng said, rather grumpily . And for his age, this excuse was impeccable .
“You have a point . ” Maier squat down as he pulled a hair out from his head and threw it into the mud, and the hair instantly disappeared .
“This is a Black Cluster . Based on the Three Secret Realms, the Black Cluster is an existence that is capable of connecting to a very dangerous realm . This is just a preliminary cluster . And apparently, the Three Secret Realms themselves are suppressing the three largest Black Clusters, but whether that is true or not is up for debate . ”
“Then why do we need to find those clusters? Nature will heal itself, it won’t recover from that?” Lin Sheng asked .
“It will disappear by itself . ” Maier nodded . “But it will take a very long time . So what we need to do is to find them, and isolate them to avoid any civilian casualties . ”
“Is this thing only happening in Xylond? I’ve never seen this in Xilin before . ” Lin Sheng frowned as he kicked a rock that landed right on top of the Black Cluster .
*Fwip!*
In the blink of an eye, the fist-sized rock disappeared . It had not fallen into it and gotten consumed, it simply just disappeared .
“There are a number in Xilin as well, but you did not come across them back then . So the Holy Sanctum’s mission is to help us find all of these Black Clusters in the whole of Shermanton .
“I’ll be frank, our department has sent all our men across all states, and due to the late eruption in Shermanton, we are short of manpower,” Maier said, his tone helpless .
“Sure, but what about our recompense?” Lin Sheng was more concerned about that .
“It certainly won’t disappoint you . As for the news about Ironfist Society, we will keep it a secret for you . Once you locate a Black Cluster, just call me, give me your number by the way,” Maier said as he pulled a big silver cellphone out of his pocket…
And Lin Sheng could not help but look at his big bulky pants .