This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!

Chapter 149: Chapter 149 Reality

All afternoon, Chen Ke did not leave his rented apartment. He took a shower and sat in front of his computer desk in a comfortable bathrobe, browsing the internet.

In recent days, many things had occurred in Opportunity City, changing the course of certain events in the shadows.

This included Chen Ke’s three assassination tasks.

The CEO of Mirror, a well-known advanced material engineering company in the United Federation, Jeff, committed suicide by jumping from the building of the Opportunity City branch three nights ago. The news shocked the entire Opportunity City, and most people watched the spectacle online with glee.

Some speculated that Jeff killed himself because the rapidly growing Spiritual Power Industry had critically squeezed the traditional materials industry’s living space, creating unbearable pressure that kept the CEO from getting enough sleep.

Meanwhile, the ongoing merger of Mirror by the Li Consortium has been the focus of industry news. Jeff had initiated a buyback of shares through the board to resist, but it was largely ineffective, and he was also facing the prospect of being ousted from the board.

Mirror was an industrial company dedicated to the research and development of top artificial synthetic materials. They had once met the military cooperation needs of the United Federation’s armed forces, but after the military undertook reforms in spiritual energy, their business shifted from military to civilian use.

Chen Ke remembered this man named Jeff, who had jumped from a building over thirty stories high right in front of him. When Chen Ke found him, Jeff seemed to be talking to something that didn’t exist.

He didn’t think that Jeff was merely drunk at the time. The sudden appearance and unexplained disappearance of killing intent convinced Chen Ke that there were others in the room besides them.

Why did that entity eventually change its mind? Chen Ke had no idea. But if Jeff was truly talking to someone, then it must have been the source of that killing intent.

The next news item described a shooting in the Holy Oak Villa District. The victim was Fox, the president of the Lescott Spiritual Ability Enterprise of the United Federation.

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment. So that hysterical heat in the room was actually from the boss of the Lescott Spirit Company… He remembered that Sleery and Yang Xiao were spiritual investigators under Lescott.

Online sources also indicated that the Lescott Spirit Company was currently discussing a merger with the Li Consortium, but Fox had some disagreements with the Li Consortium on certain aspects, so the merger deal had been at a standstill.

Fox’s death had already been classified as murder by the County Police, and an investigation was quickly underway. However, because the assassin’s methods were very professional, the FBI still had no clues.

However, considering that both cases had indirect relations with the Li Consortium, the FBI was currently preparing to investigate the Li Consortium of the Fei Huang Republic.

Chen Ke sneered. It seemed that, unwittingly, the Li Consortium had taken the fall for him.

But strangely enough, these two people were both targets the Li Consortium had intended to acquire. These two assassinations seemed like a message from some organization intending to send a dangerously rich signal to the Li Consortium.

“I’ve been made a pawn,” Chen Ke said.

But an assassin is a gun that anyone can use. Whoever pays more gets to pull the trigger.

Chen Ke searched for the Holy Mother Angel Hotel. His third target met a gruesome end in room 2201. To infiltrate the hotel, he even knocked out two bystanders and donned a waiter’s uniform.

Logically, this incident should have been the first to come to light. Yet, no matter how much Chen Ke searched the internet, he could not find any information about it.

There was no news mentioning the murder at the Holy Mother Angel Hotel. The man who had acquired special abilities due to a spiritual energy infection died unnoticed, as if no one cared.

Chen Ke stroked his chin, musing that there were only two possibilities: either Lester’s employer had covered up the incident, or the Spiritual Ability Administration had locked down the information.

After all, the man was involved with the Transcendent realm, and it was normal for him to be harmonized by the relevant departments.

Moreover, considering the incident involving Hainerd’s wife, the Spiritual Ability Administration was clearly not clean either. An organization that treated prisoners like lab rats shouldn’t be surprising when they engage in certain activities.

The bank robbery that took place at noon today was also downplayed to some extent.

“The Pulito Bank in Holy Oak District was raided by robbers at noon today, but Opportunity City’s S.W.A.T. quickly responded and controlled the situation. The criminals were killed during their escape, and the bank only lost 2.6 million union coins, all of which has already been recovered.”

That’s how the Opportunity City Daily’s official website described the bank robbery that happened at noon today.

The news made no mention of the Holy Relics and clearly stated that the robbers were killed and emphasized the mere loss of union coins.

Chen Ke sighed. He couldn’t help but admire the media control capabilities of these capitals. It was no longer just a question of what information could be seen but rather “what information they wanted whom to see.”

Chen Ke shook his head. He knew that this was not someone secretly helping the postman but rather a certain promise made to the Superiors when facing even greater fear.

Pulito Bank was where Si’s consortium hoarded their ill-gotten Spiritual Energy goods, and it was also a member of “the company.” That green diamond was also hidden in that bank.

It was not hard to imagine why this news was so flippant.

Whether Si’s consortium was aware that the green Holy Diamond was hidden in the bank they controlled, or whether they knew it had been stolen, was not certain.

Their warehouse full of stolen goods being robbed was clearly a very embarrassing affair. Combined with what Hainerd said, Si’s consortium, in order to maintain their seat within “the company,” manipulated the media to repeatedly downplay the losses of the robbery to just the least valuable thing—”money.”

It was like a child who made a mistake telling lies to their parents.

Chen Ke turned off the computer, picked up a few orange Holy Diamonds from the table, and looked at them closely. They were from the Blasphemous Dagger found in the bank, a total of seven!

Lin Mo was killed by this thing piercing through his heart, and moreover, the dagger’s entry had vanished without a trace.

Although he had learned about the rough usage of the Blasphemous Dagger from Hainerd, now, he finally had the chance to see the exact details of the dagger’s entry.

The daggers had been appraised, so Chen Ke didn’t need to expend extra life. In the bank, he only managed to get a brief glance; now, he could calmly take a closer look.

[Blasphemous Dagger]

[Durability: Intact]

[Time-Space Travel: After fully charging, kills the sacrifice to open a random portal through time and space](Requires prerequisite: Killing Intent Connection)

[Killing Intent Connection: Absorbs killing intent to charge itself](Requires prerequisite: Trinity)

[Trinity: Use three lives as a sacrifice to activate Killing Intent Connection](One-time use only)

[A dagger from Fan Hede, imbued with mysterious Magic, it became a wicked Sacrificial Artifact, capable of allowing its bearer to travel through time and space.]

[“The evil Magic attached to this dagger is even older than the Fan Hede Kingdom itself, its origin comes from the Dull Witch. If I could also possess her power, then all of time and space would submit to me…” ——The Pope Mazville]

Chen Ke’s hands, holding the orange little diamonds, began to tremble slightly…

The essence of the life countdown was actually a combination of Killing Intent Connection and Time-Space Travel. In other words, Chen Ke was a humanoid Blasphemous Dagger…