I created the Anomaly Control Bureau

Chapter 982, Section 977: Just One Step Away

The moment he saw that figure from behind, a feeling of familiarity mixed with strangeness completely overwhelmed Ma En. Although he couldn't see the face of that figure, he still recalled that warm and reassuring feeling.

That was the helmeted woman who had appeared in his dreams, and the woman whose face he couldn't see clearly on the beach.

Ma En immediately set off to head to the shore.

However, just as he lifted his left leg, he suddenly noticed that a shadow had risen out of thin air beside the figure, and Ma En was quite certain that the shadow had not existed before, as if it had appeared out of thin air from the ground.

Moreover, this shadow only had a basic outline, but no matter how Man looked at it, he could only see pitch black. And unlike the monster that the magician transformed into, the pitch black of this shadow was even somewhat blurry.

It was like some kind of illusion.

Snapped.

As Marne's left leg landed, he felt himself lose his balance instantly, as if he was about to fall to the ground. But then he saw the whole house tilting towards him, and he immediately tried to use his telekinesis to steady himself.

But he immediately realized that he had not actually lost his balance; he had just suddenly darted to the window.

At the same time, the black shadow flickered between him and the golden figure.

At this point, Ma En could see the other party's appearance more clearly. It was indeed a shadow, with an overall outline that looked like a smooth human figure, but the surface was completely a black shadow.

It's like the black silhouette that occasionally appears in animation, except that this body is three-dimensional, and the blackness on its surface is not a color that can be imagined or described, but more like a feeling.

That's right, it's the silhouette itself.

Marne tried taking half a step back.

He could feel his body making that movement, but the distance between him and the window did not change at all. Instead, the dark figure suddenly flashed to the window.

The completely black silhouette stood outside the window, creating a strange contrast with Marx and Engels.

“You are…” Ma En asked.

The shadowy figure suddenly raised his arm and tapped the window between them with his index finger. Ripples spread across the glass as he tapped, distorting the view outside.

The originally dark silhouette gradually transformed into a more concrete face of Marx and Engels.

Lifeless eyes, a young girl's face, and a simple school uniform.

Karina.

And this is the way she is behaving in reality right now.

Marx and Engels frowned:

"You are Karin..."

She suddenly revealed a sinister smile, then raised her hand and lightly traced a line across her neck, making a highly threatening throat-slitting gesture with an icy gaze.

Then, she reached out and shoved the window hard, her body disintegrating into a silhouette once more, and the scenery behind her began to collapse and escape, emanating a terrifying attraction.

At the same time, Ma En also felt a similar situation behind him. A powerful attraction erupted from the location of the corpse. He immediately used his telekinesis to create a safe space, but soon, under the pull of the two forces, his telekinesis itself began to shatter, and then his body...

broken.

Ma En opened his eyes again, and his psychic power spread out like a cloak.

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Mental Strength V-4
You possess remarkable mental strength.
Possesses a variety of basic mental abilities, including clairvoyance, telekinesis, mental resistance, resistance to cognitive impairment, resistance to memory erasure, and mild resistance to falsehoods, which naturally improve over time. 98 days remaining until reaching level V-5.

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This memory journey advanced his progress by more than 500 days, most likely due to the last so-called pleasant and safe memory. Now he is only a little bit away from V-5.

It is estimated that a safe evacuation is all it takes to fully restore his mental strength.

However, some thoughts now overshadowed his expectations, because what he had just seen was probably not something inexplicable. The astronaut's body seemed to be some kind of symbol, perhaps hinting at something related to space or hanging.

He couldn't think of anything useful for the time being, but what happened next was completely different. The reappearance of that warm figure was not unexpected, after all, she had appeared several times before. Although he could never see her true face, she must have been a very important person in his past.

More importantly, there was the black silhouette that appeared out of nowhere beside her.

What on earth is that?
Marne didn't have the answer to this question. Although, in the most simplistic way, it might be some kind of incarnation of the Goddess of Darkness in a dream, Marne vaguely felt that this wasn't the truth.

Because the sinister smile that the black silhouette revealed after transforming into the goddess of darkness could not be completely matched with any goddess of darkness in reality or the past, nor could the deliberately threatening gesture.

Rather than being a real threat, it's more like releasing some kind of signal or hint.

Considering that it might be a "pleasant and safe" memory, and assuming this speculation is true, it might indeed be a memory from a safe situation, or even a warning from one's "subconscious".

Ma En stood up and stretched his body a little.

He walked out of the containment room:
"Qin Lan".

Qin Lan, who was talking to Kania, also looked up and stared at Ma En with a serious expression:

"You need to take a look at this. According to the monitoring, there is an anomaly at the end of this memory."

Ma En walked up to them and followed their gaze.

Kania asked;
"Judging from your performance, it seems that you have entered a much deeper place, and it is obviously many times deeper than other memory fragments, almost to the point of being the difference between the most core memory of a person's life and a brief, messy thought."

What happened back then?

Marx and Engels nodded:

"I did try some ideas, and this time I need to recover much more than before. If this continues, I estimate I will be able to fully regain my power next time. However, this situation is probably not easy to replicate."

"Furthermore, I've obtained some rather interesting information. I don't know if you've heard the rumor that the Prince of Bliss was once a fairy?"

Qin Lan and Kania exchanged glances, then she replied:

"No, if there were such rumors, I would have heard about them long ago."

Marx and Engels nodded:

"It's nothing. There's one more thing. We need to develop a more comprehensive and covert surveillance plan for Karina."

"Okay..." Qin Lan nodded at first, but her expression changed as soon as she finished speaking. She then whispered a few words to the control center with a serious look in her eyes, and her expression became more and more serious.

She looked at Marx and Engels with an extremely solemn expression:

"Just as you gave the order, I received a message that came in: the members we sent out last time..."

"We lost track of Karina."