Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 647 Friend and Enemy
Faced with the treacher's questioning, the magician calmly explained: "Gaia's opening of the Age of the Strange does indeed mean the defeat of mankind, but it is the victory of the strange, not the victory of us apostles."

If the Countermeasures Bureau's DX Project can eliminate all the Apostles, then even if the Age of the Strange descends, it will be irrelevant to us, because we will have already died at the hands of DX Project test subjects before that.

Tricksters have their concerns, and magicians have their insights.

The era of the Thousand Faces will begin after their success, but before that, they will also die in the DX project.

Project DX is an obstacle they cannot avoid.

"What about Gaia? When he comes back, he should be able to easily deal with the so-called experimental subjects, right?" the cunning master pressed on.

"Gaia won't be coming back for the time being."

The magician shook his head: "Actually, he set off a long time ago. It was because the distance was too far and he had to maintain a high level of concentration that he had to cut off contact with his clone."

"Too far away? Has he left Earth?"

The magician nodded slightly: "When Gaia last contacted me, she was already preparing to go to the Kuiper Belt."

This shocked not only the cunning master, but also Janus.

The Kuiper Belt is located near Pluto, and it would take several hours to travel there from Earth, even at the speed of light.

The cunning master never imagined that the long journey mentioned by the man with a thousand faces would be this far.

“I remember Gaia has been alive since more than a thousand years ago. At that time, civilizations only knew about the five planets at most. How did he come up with the idea of ​​putting that thing in the Kuiper Belt?”

Janus, unusually setting aside his usual silliness, asked with reverence.

As the world's first apostle with spatial abilities, he had previously attempted to use his powers to leave Earth and travel into space.

But before they even reached the asteroid belt, they returned because they couldn't withstand the desolate space and the radiation from various deadly particle streams.

It's hard to imagine how much effort the Thousand-Faced Man had to put in to get there.

"No, that thing was originally placed on the moon, but as technology advanced, Gaia felt that it was not safe to leave it on the moon, so it was moved to the Kuiper Belt a second time."

The Asian Union and the European Union are not particularly outstanding in aerospace technology, but they have combined a bizarre technology tree that is far more outrageous than aerospace technology alone.

Landing on the moon was not a difficult task for either of the two major powers.

They were simply under pressure from the Apostles and didn't have the energy or extra resources to do those things.

Once the Countermeasures Bureau and the Special Affairs Bureau learn that the key item to ushering in the bizarre era is on the moon, these people will definitely go to great lengths to use a space transfer device to get there.

The magician's words make sense.

The Thousand-Faced Man cannot return for the time being, and those apostles who remain on Earth will inevitably be purged.

The countermeasures bureau could not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

This feeling of being watched like prey is extremely uncomfortable for the cunning master.

It seems that once they left the Thousand Faces, they became a bunch of worthless chickens and dogs, completely disregarded by the Countermeasures Bureau.

"I understand, I will participate in this operation."

The trickster chose to heed the magician's advice.

The cunning master dislikes being brave and aggressive, and doesn't want to actively engage in battles with the Countermeasures Bureau. However, she would rather not be at home one day and suddenly be captured by the Countermeasures Bureau and turned into armor.

It was under pressure from the two major powers that the Trickster joined the Apostles.

"So……"

The cunning master raised his hand and pressed it against his head, pausing for a few seconds: "Breaking news, the experimental subjects of Project DX have just been kidnapped by the Hermit."

"The Hermit? How did he get involved in the Countermeasures Bureau's plans again?"

Upon hearing Ai Liang's name, Janus's body involuntarily contorted as if a screen had gone haywire.

Having been truly killed by Ai Liang once, he now trembles at the mere mention of the word "hermit."

The cunning master transmitted the images observed by his masked subordinates to the three through an inscription.

Gazing at the earth that seemed to have been plowed by something, the three fell silent.

"I've wanted to ask this for a long time."

Janus swallowed hard: "To be able to forcibly fix space, easily tear apart the earth, and churn up plasma streams comparable to heat death with his bare hands—is this really the psychic power Gaia was talking about?"

"..."

The magician said uncertainly, "Perhaps it's some kind of special method of developing mental power, converting mental power into kinetic energy or something?"

"But isn't Gaia the strongest apostle in terms of mental power? Why doesn't he know that mental power can be used in this way?" Janus said, pursing his lips.

The magician said with some helplessness, "Who told you Gaia didn't know? He just rarely uses it because the consumption of converting mental energy into kinetic energy is very high."

"According to you, a hermit who can create such a scene with a casual strike must be at least at the level of Heat Death, right?"

The cunning master pointed out the problem they faced: "The DX test subject has already fallen into the hands of the Hermit. Can we get the test subject back through negotiation?"
"If not, I think we should think about how to deal with this guy first. Ghar, you fought him last time, how strong was he?"

"And me?"

Janus pointed to himself.

When Janus walked right up to him seeking ridicule, the treacher sneered and retorted sarcastically, "Can being slaughtered like livestock be called a battle?"

Janus's momentum faltered, and he muttered under his breath, "Well, at least I can describe the level of pressure they were putting on me..."

The tyrant and the cunning master ignored Janus's incessant chatter and turned their gazes toward the magician.

Recalling the Thousand-Faced Man's evaluation of Ai Liang, the Magician said solemnly, "The Hermit is very strong, stronger than all of us."

When I went to rescue Janus, I couldn't even use my spatial abilities to open up the space around him. The entire area had solidified, and using my spatial abilities was like trying to sew a steel plate with a needle.

As Aurora said, the Hermit possesses at least the combat strength of Heat Death, a fact Gaia himself acknowledged.

"As for getting the DX test subject back through negotiation... I think it's unlikely. The Hermit just destroyed one of the main bases of the Sea Heart Society a while ago, just to make the Sea Heart Society give up on tracking down the whereabouts of the DX818A test subject from the DX Project Phase A."

"So the Hermit is also involved in Project DX? If he is also a member of Project DX, and they share the Countermeasures Bureau as a common enemy, he has no reason to refuse to join us."

The cunning master couldn't understand why the hermit kept refusing the thousand-faced man's invitations.

Even if they offended the other party unknowingly in the past, the Apostles not only apologized but were also willing to make any compensation. It is really hard to understand why they are not grateful.

The magician said with considerable frustration, "I don't know either. Gaia has always forbidden me from inquiring about any information about the hermit. He is the only one who knows everything about the hermit."

(End of this chapter)