Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 430 New Clues

It has to be said that lists are the kind of things that most people see and know have nothing to do with themselves, but they still enjoy looking at them and use them as topics of conversation with friends over tea.

For example, Zheng Fan only started to get tired of Lin Yilin after they had reached the thousands of views together.

Some netizens, eager for a spectacle, have even begun their debate, discussing how the ranking should be revised from a combat power perspective.

Just as Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin were about to call it a day, the doorbell rang at the firm.

But before Lin Yilin could answer the door, the noisy figure rushed in.

"Xiaolin! Is it true that Mr. Illusion is back and even got a ticket?!" Hong Yijia was still as boisterous as ever.

"Are you focused on Mr. Illusion or the tickets?" Lin Yilin asked deliberately.

"Mr. Illusion has priority! If I really can't get the tickets, I'll have to resort to underhanded tactics!" Hong Yijia declared with her hands on her hips, making a boastful statement about how she would pull strings.

Lin Yilin tapped the table: "We have internal tickets."

You haven't mentioned a word about Mr. Illusion.

Hong Yijia was used to it and started taking out her bag.

"You didn't go to work today? That's rare."

"Finally, we have a little time to rest. Let's hurry up and get ready for what we need to do next. Look!" Hong Yijia pulled out a glow stick!

"...They'll give you this when you enter, right?" Lin Yilin remained silent for a moment, speechless.

"Wrong, this is custom-made." Hong Yijia waved the glow sticks in her hands, and when the two glow sticks were put together, a phantom projection appeared.

It consists of "steel multi-wire".

Lin Yilin and Zheng Fan: ?
What the hell?
"Ah, I took the wrong one." Hong Yijia was taken aback. She changed it and this time she made a normal "Mr. Gundam" and the other set was "Doris".

"It's awesome!"

"It feels so meaningless that I can't even find the words to complain," Lin Yilin replied expressionlessly.

But you know what, mixing glow sticks and support signs together is actually quite clever; it makes them convenient to carry around.

“This is a great idea that I racked my brains to come up with,” Hong Yijia said. “If you say that, then I won’t give you ‘Mr. Gundam’.”

"You only intended to give me the other one from the beginning, right? Also, given the current size of the monastery band, it's probably impossible to bring this homemade stuff into the venue; we can't guarantee its safety."

Lin Yilin's rational point instantly shattered Hong Yijia's dream of chasing stars.

"why is it like this!?"

This is the first time in my life that I've had a celebrity I can follow without restraint, so why don't I even give her a chance to shine?
Zheng Fan felt a little sorry for her, so he took out his phone, adjusted the microphone to change his voice, and then said:

"It's okay, our security isn't that strict, since we can get backup dancers for free. If something really happens, we'll stop it beforehand and bring you up to be a backup dancer."

Hong Yijia's eyes lit up when she heard the voice, but she quickly said weakly, "Backup dancer... I'll pass on the backup dancer part, haha..."

Most fans would be incredibly excited to hear that they'll get to interact with their idols at a live performance.

Fans of the Monastery band would be mortified if their idols came to grab them for a chat.

"By the way, Jiajia, has the matter I asked you to sort out been settled?" Lin Yilin didn't want to continue on this topic and brought up the matter she had recently asked Hong Yijia to help investigate within the Bureau.

"Oh, this." Hong Yijia then remembered and took a USB drive out of her bag and tossed it to Lin Yilin.

Lin Yilin plugged it into the computer and used it directly.

"What is it?" Zheng asked in return.

"Statistics on the frequency of appearances of those superpowered individuals on the lists in recent months, as well as details of various conflict incidents," Hong Yijia helped answer.

Zheng asked Lin Yilin, "Have you discovered any blind spots this time?"

Lin Yilin directly exported a graph, examined it for a while, and said, "A significant portion of the members on that list emerged within the last half month to a month." "Wow, you even noticed that?"

"I just felt like I was hearing more unfamiliar names lately, so I was a little curious and asked Jiajia to help me compile a list," Lin Yilin said matter-of-factly.

This keen insight remains as strong as ever.

"They all appeared recently, which means they probably acquired their powers around the same time. If there really is some kind of unification behind this... it's an illusion?" When it came to serious matters, Hong Yijia quickly followed Lin Yilin's train of thought.

Although Metro Line 0 has injected a unique vitality into the metropolitan area, the growth rate would not be so concentrated and prominent if it were mainly due to Metro Line 0.

Lin Yilin then transformed the statistical content of the table.

"Among the superpowered individuals who emerged during this period, the vast majority are ranked within the top 1,000, a few are in the top 100, and there are even three who broke into the top ten within just about a week of emerging," Lin Yilin said, looking at the results.

This list is not a ranking of combat power, but there is no doubt that those at the top are definitely not weak.

“The people who have appeared recently are of a higher standard than those who have risen to prominence and developed wildly thanks to the Zero Subway.” Hong Yijia frowned.

What is driving this surge of powerful individuals?
It hasn't been long, but it seems like some strange thing is brewing in some unknown place.

Sure enough, after the earthquake, all sorts of strange and monstrous things came out.

Lin Yilin retrieved the case files, and with the ideas she had developed from the previous review, she quickly found the answer after a little filtering.

“There are quite a few of them,” Lin Yilin said. “The ninety-eighth and seventy-sixth on the list have had some friction. The thirty-fourth and fifty-fifth were exposed before the situation was dealt with because of an uncontrolled fight. The eighteenth and twenty-third are mixed in with different gangs and clashed because of gang rivalry. The fourth and fifth are rumored to have met secretly, but they didn’t actually fight…”

He recounted the conflicts that had occurred among some of the people in the top 100 of the list.

"These individuals all fit the criteria we previously selected: 'powerful newcomers who have recently begun to emerge'," Lin Yilin concluded.

Hong Yijia said seriously, "There is no evidence to confirm it yet, but in a sense, the clues are pointing very clearly..."

Zheng Fan understood halfway through the conversation.

It's similar to what happened with the little lamb back then.

There might be something lurking behind this, like a treacherous snake.

The idea of ​​using the capital as a chessboard to raise worms might sound a bit exaggerated, but since Metro Line 0 has already been released, this one seems alright.

The only troublesome thing is that the speed and intensity of this behind-the-scenes development are a bit exaggerated. It's unclear what kind of price and scheme are hidden behind it.

“I’ll go back and try to confirm it from other angles,” Hong Yijia said. “This speculation alone isn’t enough. To get the Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate, we need more testimony.”

We can't afford to suffer the same pain we did at the hands of the Ashbringers.

"It's troublesome."

Hong Yijia sighed: "It's all for this dilapidated capital."

After saying that, she turned around, then suddenly remembered something, turned back, placed a set of light sticks on Lin Yilin's desk, and then left in a hurry.

Lin Yilin picked up the support stick, activated it, and approached it. The projected image displayed was "Doris".

"Tsk."

"Actually, you want it too, don't you?" Zheng said sarcastically.

"Mr. Illusion, buy me one of yours."

"That's not good, but just consider it as helping me cheer for Little Sheep."

"Mr. Illusion, your trick is really vicious."

"Have it?"

(End of this chapter)