Chapter 593
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" . . . What?" Jin looked at the picture . This person did not really look like the one he remembered having met . Obviously, if the timeline were correct, she would have to be at least an adult already . Yet, this baffled him a lot . How can a dream match with reality?
"It could be just a dream, you know? Why are you putting so much weight to it?" Jin asked Kraft with all seriousness . The bellator grinned before he quietly asked Jin to take a seat .
"Well, first of all, the person in your dream was hard to find . So much so that even I can't call it anything but difficult . Aside from that . You are not the first to have lucid dreams, which may not have been dreams . . . Its a little hard to explain . "
"Past System Users have dreamt of similar things before, and we have ignored them in those instances . Suffice to say, we shouldn't have . " Kraft replied with a rare solemn voice as if implying that it had personally happened to him .
"Really? So it became precognition or a forewarning like of situation?" Jin asked, and Kraft shook his head vehemently and provided him with a little background story .
"There was a System User who had inherited the powers of Time from the System . Nothing too fancy, just being able to slow down or accelerate it . You can imagine how useful such an ability could be in a fight . "
"It made it seem as if the User was able to appear at two places at one time . But as her powers grew, so did her skills in predicting the future . At first, it was predicting what her opponent would do in a few seconds, but in time it grew . It turned to minutes and later hours . "
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"Because of this, her headaches got worse and worse . One time she had overexerted herself and fell unconscious . When she woke up, the User told us that she could foresee problems even when unconscious . Surprisingly, being unconscious allowed her to peek further into the future, but at one point, it was endless . "
"And then Poof, all she could see was blackness . Given her prior condition, we dismissed it as just wild dreams . Only when the incident happened, did we realise her powers of prediction had indeed become too powerful? But that was also when she lost her life permanently . "
"How . . . could she lost her life permanently? A Banned Emperor Assassin?" Jin asked . As far as he knew they were the only cultivators who discovered the means to prevent cultivators from being resurrected .
Else, it shouldn't be hard to revive, especially with the System's help . Kraft looked at Jin and sighed heavily . He knew that his answer would not be satisfactory .
"A black hole of some sort opened up and swallowed her whole . The System was unable to find her signal afterwards . Perhaps she was teleported to another world, another time or she was dismantled into nothing but atoms . " Kraft answered and later gave a stifled laugh .
"Anyways, your guess is as good as mine! Getting back to the topic . Maybe I was just too bored and wanted to try my luck infiltrating the government . " Kraft twirled his chair around once, and his sly smile came back in an instant .
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"But how did you do it?" Jin asked the most awaited question which Kraft had been waiting to answer . There, the bellator bragged on how the System and him managed to create the Foxy Virus .
"Considering how deep Foxy had to infiltrate, the moment it found this series of pictures, I had programmed it to self destruct immediately after sending them back to us . Leaving no trace behind as quickly as possible . Did not expect the programme to work this long to get the results but thankfully it did . " Kraft replied .
"But could it not have waited until the Grand Feast was over? What was the urgency?" Jin asked as he only saw the portrait of the blue haired lady .
"Now, see this . " Kraft then pressed a button, and behind that portrait, a collage of pictures exploded into the screen . She was no longer fashioning that blue hair in those pictures and instead had disguised herself .
Without knowing any better, it would be impossible to tell that those pictures were of the same person . Not to mention, there were symbols imprinted on the top edge of the photo, which indicated that they were sourced from multiple intelligence agencies from all over the world .
"I'm sorry, I'm only getting more confused . " Jin was just overwhelmed by the amount of information that was presented to him .
"In short, the lady that you somehow seem to have interacted with, might playing with very dangerous people . The most likely answer is that she is one of them too . " Kraft explained stating that she might be a possible spy for the Chinese intelligence, or worse . A double agent .
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"Buuuttt, the most important reason why I called you here just now… was this particular picture . " Kraft said as he pulled the image out from the myriad of images and expanded it for Jin to see .
At first, he did not know what he was looking at until he scrutinised the picture a little more and noticed there was one very familiar person within the whole picture .
Mr Know-It-All .
"I tried to dig through all the classified junk that Foxy had collected and collated but to my surprise . . . I cannot find him within all that data . " Kraft said and even iterated that the System's registered database of customers was no help at all .
"I tried to cross check the details of this guy, but it was undeniable that he was using an alias . To have a master spy within our midst . . . Oh, man . This is like calling me to take the challenge to unveil his identity . " Kraft mentioned with a scary look on his face .
"Maybe Ke Loong know something about him? I can casually ask about him since they seem to be best friends of some sort?" Jin asked, and Kraft shrugged his shoulders .
"The CEO could possibly be one of the contacts that this Mr Know-It-All had . Perhaps I should have paid more attention to him . I've noticed that he never made an appearance ever since I sent Foxy out to scout for information . " Kraft tried to piece the information up, and it puzzled Jin a while .
"Though, to be honest, there is nothing much you can do about it now . Since you have already escaped the Grand Feast, go and have a proper rest . Perhaps even take a day off . "
"I guess I shall take the former . . . A day off is impossible with the pressing issues at hand . " Jin thanked Kraft for the information and wished him a happy Christmas .
In the meantime, Kraft was not taking things as it is . The old fox always knew that Mr Know-It-All had some sort of elusive presence . At first, he had not bothered too much with it . The middle aged guy always mixed himself with a public presence so at most Kraft thought him to be a competitor spy out to unveil Jin's secrets .
Only now Kraft did realise that hiding in plain sight was truly Mr Know-it-All's real speciality and it made the original Bellator a little perturbed that as Jin's personal self proclaimed spymaster, he had allowed such an individual to do what he pleased so long .
Separately, the System advised Kraft to calm down . "Knowing that Mr Know-It-All is a possible spy won't do much harm to User Jin . It shows that people are watching, and that is what the System wants . For more people to know more about User's shop . "
"Oh…So your take is that we should see them as a customer base rather than a threat?" Kraft stared into space for a moment and chuckled to himself .
"I guess… that is fine by me . Tsk, you are fine as long as they bring you more cash, after all, it's us who are going to deal with him if he becomes a problem . "
"Still, that does not mean we should not be prepared . Even if we are just assuming the worst or Mr Know-it-all could possibly be just a normal person being photographed at that point of time, it's time to get those uppity rebels to enjoy some special Christmas training to burn those fats from the feast . " Kraft replied as if he had some sinister training plan for all his foxes (including the elves . )