Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 1036: Discovery

As soon as the words came out of Olivia's mouth, she felt as if a knot in her heart was untied, and she was no longer as fearful as before.

She was still afraid, but at the very least, she was no longer afraid of getting her mind crushed by that tree.

The freckled Olivia realized that Anna's words made complete sense. Since the tree was so strong, why bother fighting Him?

Beaded sweat covered Olivia's face, and she was breathing in ragged pants as she stood before Anna.

A smile rose unbidden to Anna's lips. The sight told her that she had just obtained another cannon fodder. She reached out and moved the laptop over to search for tickets to her destination.

"Call the school and explain to them. Tell them that you won't have time to come to class for a while."

Olivia nodded in a daze and took out her phone to do as instructed.

While Anna's fingers were dancing across the keyboard with her fingers, she turned to Olivia and asked, "By the way, what did the IMF use to modify your memories? Was it a living or an inanimate Anomaly?"

It was imperative that Anna asked Olivia about what Anomaly had altered her memories as well as the specifics of how it was done. This way, she would be able to do the same later.

"I have no idea how to describe them, but anyway, they looked strange and had equally strange abilities.

"They used their hands to pull at the colors of my memories before altering them into other things. They grabbed the yellow hue of the human corpses in my memories and turned them into a beach by the sea.

"They kneaded the green of the forest into tiny lumps and scattered them into the sand on the beach. Then, they grabbed the moonlight and stacked them on top of each other until the moonlight became a bright sun in the sky."

Anna's fingers stopped as she tried hard to imagine the scene that Olivia had just described. Unfortunately, she couldn't quite imagine it. "Haha, that's an interesting Anomaly, but the memories altered by it are a bit too unstable.

"Its work can actually be undone with just a bit of stimulation."

"I don't think so," Olivia said, shaking her head. "They used that mirror to alter the memories of many people."

"Oh? Then, why are you different from them?" Anna asked and pondered over it.

Olivia thought long and hard about it as well, but she had no idea what to say. In the end, she lowered her head and focused on her phone.

Anna's destination was a city built on a plain. Judging from the medieval castles around the city, it had to have been a highly sought-after city during ancient times.

Thanks to the castles, the city welcomed many tourists. Anna, Gao Zhiming, and Olivia were among the tourists today. Their clothing allowed them to blend in, and Anna even used her excellent makeup skills to give herself a brand-new look.

Anna also transformed her hair into a brown, wavy one to avoid attracting the attention of the IMF's shadows.

Gao Zhiming's eyes were full of awe as he stared at the ancient castle that was covered with Boston ivy ahead of him. Gao Zhiming was a sensible and obedient child, but a child was still a child, after all. The fact that he could visit so many unique places made him the happiest of the three.@@novelbin@@

In contrast, the freckled young woman standing next to him clearly looked nervous. She was nervously looking around, but even she had no idea why she was doing that.

The mirthful and innocent Olivia from before was no more. She had long been replaced by a paranoid and mentally disturbed young woman.

Anna tapped Olivia's hand with the camera in her hand. "Calm down. Don't stand out."

Olivia forced out a smile and walked away while holding Gao Zhiming's hand.

"Anna, are we just going to keep traveling like this? And what do I need to do?" Olivia asked.

"You just need to stay put for now. The time to use you has yet to come," Anna replied while staring at the tall buildings in the distance. There were things she wanted in this city, but she knew that she couldn't rush in recklessly.

Having dealt with the IMF many times before, Anna was no stranger to them.

On the outside, they didn't seem to be formidable; their individual members weren't exactly that strong. In fact, the captain of their strongest Mobile Task Force wasn't as strong as Charles when he was still the Captain of the Narwhale.

However, they were an organization—a collective. Their sluggish and weak responses at the time were only because too many incidents required their attention back then. After all, their work covered the entire world.

The IMF's overall strength was terrifying, and once they had decided to eliminate a target, their target would most likely not live to kick up another fuss; they would suffer the same fate as Anna.

Since the IMF believes that I'm dead, then I absolutely cannot let them see me again. Otherwise, they will definitely hunt me down. Before anything else, I should locate the site first. I'll know whether infiltrating it is doable or not once I've seen their defenses.

Soon, it was late at night. While the others were asleep, Anna went out and began searching the entire city for the IMF's site. She started her search by investigating the suspicious locations she had marked on the map.

The city was large, but under the guise of tourism, Anna had already eliminated some of the marked locations during the day. Tonight, she just had to go to the places that were inconvenient to visit during the day.

In the first few days, Anna obtained no clues at all. The majority of the places she searched were factories and private clubs.

On the fourth day, she finally discovered something. A region in the southeast corner of the city was almost invisible on the official map. Earlier, Anna tried to take photos of the area using sightseeing as an excuse, but the tour guide stopped her.

When Anna asked for the reason behind it, the tour guide haphazardly changed the subject. It was suspicious, so Anna assumed that the region was most likely part of an IMF site.

On that same night, Anna found herself standing before a factory building. She looked inside through the window and saw drug dealers packing drugs.

Anna was instantly disappointed by the sight, but this was nothing out of the ordinary. These drug dealers were like the IMF, they also needed a hidden place to conduct their affairs.

The speechless Anna turned around and walked toward a nearby hotel. When she was halfway there, she heard a scream from behind the walls.

"Hm?" Anna stopped and pondered over it briefly before walking in the direction of the scream. Soon, Anna saw a woman collapsed on the ground in a small alley.

The woman's fishnet stockings and heavy makeup told Anna that she was most likely a prostitute. The woman was sprawled out on the ground, and her eyes helplessly looked at the sky.

There were two men looming over her. At first, Anna thought that the two men were trying to violate the woman, but the thick, rusty scent in the air changed her mind.

Anna's face was solemn as she quietly walked to the side. Soon, the clouds parted, allowing the gentle moonlight to descend and illuminate the two men looming over the woman.

Their pale white skin—resembling their counterparts in the seascape—and their elongated canine teeth proved their identity.