Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 612: Chatting with Edward

Xia Shou pushed open the door and found the office full of people just like the previous few days, because Shangguan Yan was promoted to temporary deputy director, and the deputy director's office area was destroyed due to the riot, so the third department became the new office location.

Not only the staff of the three departments, but also people from other major departments frequently come in and out, and on weekdays it is as busy as a vegetable market.

Xia Shou saw Bai He huddled in his seat typing on the keyboard, and glanced around again, but did not see Edward.

"Brother Bai, where are he?" Xia Shou asked loudly.

"I'm here! Long time no see."

A calm and rough voice came from the side.

Xia Shou turned his head slightly to look in the direction where the voice came from, and saw a bearded man looking at him with a smile.

The other man's hair was long to his shoulders, his beard hung to his chest like Jesus in the portrait, he had crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and his skin was rough like a fisherman on the seashore.

But Xia Shou still recognized the other person.

"Edward? How did you become like this?" Xia Shou asked in surprise.

A few days ago, Edward was still a middle-aged man, but at that time, Edward was well maintained and looked no different from a young man in his early twenties. With healthy skin, sun-colored hair, and emerald green eyes, there was no problem for him to debut as a star.

But Edward now looks at least fifty years old. His rough skin has obvious pores and there is a scar on the end of his left eyebrow, so that part of his eyebrow has not grown out.

When he smiled, crow's feet were obvious at the corners of his eyes. Except for his eyes, which were exactly the same as a few days ago, everything else was like a completely different person. He had aged so much!

Xia Shou sighed with a complicated expression: "Did you encounter something weird that can make people grow old?"

Xia Shou himself had encountered this before. Glendower's aging curse was one of them, but when it occurred, it was obviously not as severe as Edward's.

Edward smiled and said, "No, let's go and talk somewhere else."

……

Xia Shou and Edward were strolling aimlessly on the pedestrian street. They bought some octopus balls and found a pedestrian seat to rest for a while.

"There was no such food in that era. It's rare to come back." Edward sighed.

Xia Shou had just finished listening to Edward's retelling of his experiences over the years. The reason why he had aged a lot was because there were some forbidden areas in the Root Sea, and the flow of time was different from that in the present world. In order to investigate some important information, he went to many places.

Because those areas do not have a cyclical history, the impact on the body will not be completely reset when returning to the present world. Even if you return to the present world, you will still be the same old.

"Don't worry about me. My current state is only due to my travel investigation. The main reason is still a curse that makes me age very quickly. But I can [Waste Time], so I will definitely find a way to purify it.

If you don’t believe me, I’ll show you.”

After saying this, Edward instantly turned back into his youthful appearance, and the octopus balls in his hand disappeared.

[Waste Time] - Replicate the state of oneself at a certain time point in the past to the present, and erase all the macro butterfly effects produced by oneself from that time point to the present.

Xia Shou's eyes widened: "You can choose a time point so many years ago?!"

"No, just a week ago." Edward's voice returned to the state it was in his youth, gentle and calm.

He added: "It only takes a week to become this old, but I can use my special powers to reset it repeatedly, so it's not a big problem. I just can't forget it, otherwise it will exceed the optional time range, and then it will be really over."

"Your superpower is really strong." Xia Shou said enviously.

"If I'm really going to die, I'll try to keep it for you." Edward said with a smile. Xia Shou's heart was shocked, and the octopus balls in his mouth burned him, and he took a breath of cold air.

"It's so hot, what did you just say?" Xia Shou pretended to be stupid.

He repeatedly pondered over what Edward had just said, wondering if there was any other meaning, but no matter how hard he thought, he could only think that the other party was talking about the black shadow!

Edward knew about his shadow's existence? !

No…it’s not necessarily that he knows about the shadow, maybe he just guessed its function.

"Someone copied Tamuka's account book, and I saw your name on the list of lenders. Before your name was An Gangxiongwu's name.

You replaced An Gangxiongwu as Tamuka's lender, so you must have acquired his ability, the [Superpower Bank]. "Edward said casually.

Xia Shou thought about it for a moment, and the skill introduction of the Superpower Bank appeared in front of him.

Among the costs, there is one: you have seized the ability of the lender that "Tamuka" has chosen, and you need to work for Tamuka regularly, and Tamuka will definitely reward you handsomely.

I have actually seen...

Xia Shou felt that the name Tamuka sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember it because he had seen it in the skill introduction of the Ability Bank.

But after so long, this Tamuka still hasn't asked him to do anything.

And who is Tamuka? Another nickname for a deity? Or a named being?
Speaking of which, not only Tamuka, but also the "Him" in the Blood Demon's price who prepared a special test for him, did not make any movement.

At the beginning, Xia Shou was quite uneasy, but now he has gotten used to it. He thinks of a debtor who finds out that the creditor hasn't come to collect the debt for ten years. After a long time, even the debtor himself forgets that he owes money.

However, Edward's explanation made Xia Shou feel relieved.

This proves that Edward didn't say that because of the shadow, but because he knew the existence of the [Superpower Bank].

"Don't tell anyone, okay?" Xia Shou negotiated, pretending to be very serious about this secret.

But in fact, he doesn't care about the Superpower Bank.

At this point, the Superpower Bank is destined to be known by some people as a superficial disguise of the Dark Shadow.

Some people smell the secret and keep holding on to it. He should give a reasonable answer to satisfy them.

Edward laughed and joked, "Only an excellent investigator like me would have such troubles.

If you know too many secrets and tell too many secrets, it will be difficult to gain the trust of others.

Even if I tell you that I won’t tell anyone, you won’t believe it.”

“I still believe it.”

"If you don't believe what you said, then that's my problem. But I don't believe it either. This is what an investigator does. Since I became an investigator, the first sentence that greatly improved my investigative ability was what I just said - 'I won't tell anyone else.'

I say this more than any other person, and I’ve probably said this in half of my jobs where I deal with people.”

"Did you say it last?"

"I didn't tell you anything, do you believe me?"

(End of this chapter)