I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 230 Archives Room

"This is a photo of..."

Tang Chen looked at the photo and smiled speechlessly.

In the photo, Wenzhu is hugging her arms, supporting her chest which is about to burst through her clothes.

He was on Wenzhu's left side, pointing at Quannai on Wenzhu's right side, with his face right against Wenzhu's round left hemisphere.

Izumi's height is just enough for her to touch Wenzhu's right hemisphere.

At the moment the photo was taken, both of them had ferocious expressions and were pointing at each other.

Only Lin Xing'an at the very edge was looking at the camera.

"Damn it! You got it again! Sister Wenzhu! He bumped into me on purpose!"

"No, shorty, what do you mean I bumped into it on purpose? How could I have dodged it when it was that big?"

Tang Chen hit him with his face again.

"See? This time I did it on purpose."

"You! You you you! What are you doing!?"

"Didn't you see it? If you didn't, I'll show you again!"

"Ah! Sister Wenzhu! He took advantage of you!"

"Did you see it this time? Did you think it was you?"

Tang Chen glanced at Izunai's chest and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth in laughter.

But after seeing that Izuna actually lowered his head to look at himself, lifted himself up in the air, and performed a series of non-property performances, he couldn't hold it anymore!

"Izuna, no, what are you doing? Don't laugh at the challenge, it's a bit interesting, I...hahahahaha!"

He burst out laughing!
"you you you you you!"

Izuna's face turned red instantly!

"I'm still young! I haven't developed yet! Some people just develop late! Do you understand?"

"Is development late? Development...hahahahahahaha!"

This time, Tang Chen laughed so hard that tears came out.

"Damn it! I'm so pissed off!"

"You, you, you! I'll bite you to death! I'll bite you to death!"

Such undisguised ridicule completely broke Izumi's defense!
But Tang Chen just raised his hand to hold Quannai's head, preventing her from getting close.

"Go play somewhere else."

He threw the confiscated phone to Izuna.

Izumi, who had a ferocious look on her face as if she was furious just now, suddenly started to smile foolishly.

He ran out happily with his cell phone in his hand.

"Well, never mind, it's not bad, it's pretty good, haha."

Tang Chen, who wanted to suggest taking a good photo, met Ke Ke's eyes, smiled awkwardly and waved his hand.

"Xiao Lin, did the director assign you a separate task this afternoon?"

"Yes, let Director Ke and I go and see a human-animal that seems to have awakened. Let's confirm it."

"Okay, go ahead. In our Operations Department, the Director takes priority over everything."

Tang Chen put his arm around Lin Xing'an and patted his shoulder. "Be careful. I'll tell you in detail about our team's daily tasks tomorrow."

"it is good."

Lin Xing'an nodded.

Then Tang Chen didn't say anything more, waved his hand, and left the archive room.

"Junior, even though everyone in this group seems so frivolous, they are all very powerful."

"Especially Tang Chen, his ability is Grade B [Clues]."

"When something happens, he can quickly deduce the cause through all the surrounding details, or 'clues'."

Seeing Lin Xing'an looking tired, Ke Ke also comforted him.

"...No wonder Director Xu asked me to join this team..."

Lin Xing'an was stunned.

A look of understanding appeared on his face.

"No matter what, Director Xu is still very concerned about your future."

Ke Ke obviously didn't understand what Lin Xing'an meant. "Alright! This is your file. I won't open it until you die."

In front of Lin Xing'an, she sealed the file bag with a special instrument and came to the door that was comparable to the highest-level safe in a bank.

"Stock it in storage!"

Keke opened the lock using his fingerprint and iris.

After the verification was successful, a mysterious aura emanated from within.

Then the door opened automatically.

Keke pushed open the door and saw a dark corridor with no end in sight.

"Senior, I'll wait for you outside."

"Why are you waiting for me? Come in! I'll show you around."

Ke Ke smiled and waved to Lin Xing'an.

"Normally, outsiders are not allowed to enter the archives room."

"But you, my junior...you're definitely not an outsider, right?"

Keke stepped into the corridor.

The space was clearly deep and surrounded by walls, but there wasn't even a trace of echo.

After walking only a few dozen steps, a ray of light suddenly appeared in the darkness ahead.

This unusually sudden beam of light made Lin Xing'an's heart skip a beat.

It seems like the door...

It seemed like the door in his dream, which was said to lead to Taoyuan Village.

"Come on, junior."

"it is good."

Lin Xing'an let out a light breath.

He held Koko's hand and stepped into the light together with Koko.

When he regained his sight, Lin Xing'an saw rows of shelves dozens of meters high in front of him.

It is like a scripture library, filled with various files.

"...Senior, is this the file of everyone in our Siege and Killing Division?"

Lin Xing'an caught up with Keke's pace.

While asking, he calmly controlled the darkness in his body to quietly dissipate from his fingertips and hid in the shadows.

He had tried it many times when he was outside the door just now.

After refining the darkness to the extreme, one can indeed enter the door.

But through the darkness, Lin Xing'an could only detect that there was a... empty space inside the door.

There was no corridor, and no light.

"No, it's not just the Encirclement and Killing Division, it's not just the committee, it's all the files on all the gluttons and fools. They're all here."

"But I only manage the files of our colleagues in the Siege and Killing Department and a small number of the Coordination Department."

"The Coordination Department also has an archives department. Because they collect all kinds of data, their authority is greater than mine."

Koko said as he walked between the rows of shelves.

Lin Xing'an suddenly stopped.

He felt the gloom he had just emitted... and the connection between him and it suddenly disappeared.

It was as if... the distance between me and him suddenly exceeded the maximum range.

"..."

Lin Xing settled down and turned around.

The scene behind him made his eyes widen.

The road he and Keke had walked on had disappeared without a trace.

The neatly arranged bookshelves filled with files on both sides of the road seemed to have lost gravity and floated disorderly in the void.

It's like mahjong tiles being shuffled, colliding with each other and then quickly bouncing away.

After watching it for a while, Lin Xing'an felt confused and dazed.

"Junior!"

Ke Ke grabbed Lin Xing'an!
Lin Xing'an also shuddered and woke up!

"..."

Only then did he realize that one of his feet had unknowingly stepped into the void.

If Ke Ke hadn't caught him in time, he would have already floated away. "Junior, follow me closely. You haven't received professional training, so it's easy to lose focus."

Keke took Lin Xing'an's hand and walked forward quickly.

"Senior, what's going on in this archive room?"

"Is this caused by some kind of ability?"

Lin Xing'an looked back again.

The shock in my heart could not dissipate for a long time.

It even made him feel like... the first time he saw Puguang Mountain floating in the air as a coffin when he was six years old.

"Yes, the history of this archive is even longer than that of the committee."

"Junior, do you know the first glutton to obtain a Class A ability?"

Koko asked, tilting his head.

"...I don't know, this archive room was created...by the first senior with Class A abilities?"

Lin Xing'an asked in surprise.

This is not an effect that can be achieved by ordinary Class A abilities.

"No, the archives room was originally an observation room that my mother built when she was building the chicken coop."

"So it exists completely independently of the entire chicken house and can only be entered from outside the chicken house. It cannot be observed from inside the chicken house."

"Later, this space was gradually abandoned by my mother. Based on this, the first senior with Class A abilities transformed it."

“After the renovation, this space can be entered from inside the chicken coop.”

"The order of everything in space is random."

"But entering through the door in my archives creates a path, which is the path under our feet."

"Follow this path to find the archive area I manage."

"The Coordination Department, including the interior of the shrine, also has this type of door. When the door is opened, a path will appear, leading to the area they manage."

Keke stopped at the end of the road.

In front of them was a row of bookshelves that did not float with them.

"This is the file of everyone in our Siege and Killing Division's nearly thirty-year history."

Keke raised his head, a look of respect and seriousness on his face.

Lin Xing'an also nodded silently.

I secretly said what a pity.

Unfortunately, even though his dark secrets had been spread, some of them were even sealed in his file bag along with his files.

But it is definitely impossible to control Yinhui from outside to view the files and obtain the Taogui data.

"Let's go, junior."

After Ke Ke put Lin Xing'an's file away, a gap appeared on the bookshelf as if some mechanism had been triggered.

After verifying Keke's fingerprint and iris again, the gap widened and turned into a door.

Inside the door was the corridor they came from.

"Senior, why doesn't this door lead directly to the bookshelf you manage?"

"And then you have to walk around the archives for so long."

After coming out, Lin Xing'an asked curiously.

Keke was silent for a moment.

"It used to be like this. It was very convenient until the files at the Shrine were damaged."

"Someone entered the archives directly through the gate of the shrine. Although he was discovered immediately, he still destroyed a large amount of information."

"He even managed to escape and walk away."

"After that, all archive rooms were changed to require a complicated process to enter, but exiting was straightforward."

Koko said in a low voice.

Lin Xing'an frowned, "This beast hasn't been caught yet?"

"No, and it's highly unlikely that it was done by humans or animals."

Seeing that Lin Xing'an was interested, Ke Ke lowered his voice again.

"No one on our committee can enter the shrine, let alone humans or animals. So it's most likely a gluttonous ghost, and it was a gluttonous ghost inside the shrine who did it."

"A gluttonous ghost inside the shrine? What's his purpose?"

"Purpose……"

Ke Ke shook his head. "From what I've heard, none of the files are lost or damaged. The seals are intact, only the order is disrupted."

"...How is it possible? This person took such a huge risk to go in, and all he did was disrupt the order?"

"It's indeed very strange, but no one knows the specific details. The Shrine has completely locked this matter up."

Ke Ke looked at Lin Xing'an and said, "After all, my junior, this is the biggest scandal in the Divine Palace. You only need to know it, but you must not tell anyone."

She reminded seriously.

Lin Xing'an also took a deep breath, nodded, and didn't ask any more questions.

"Come on, junior, I'll take you to the cafeteria. Let's eat early. There won't be many people here at this time."

"After eating, I'll go to the human and animal place. I've already talked to the owner, so please eat less later~"

Koko said with a smile.

"why?"

Lin Xing'an blinked and asked.

"...Tsk! Junior, you're so stupid!"

Seeing that Lin Xing'an really didn't understand what she meant, Ke Ke hit him helplessly.

"Junior, there's a 60-70% chance that this human-beast has awakened."

"As long as you make sure she's awakened, can't you eat her?"

"Even though they have a large family and many owners, at least we can get an arm, right?"

"Junior, this is your first time eating a human or an animal. When the time comes... hehe, you will definitely love that feeling."

She swallowed and said.

"it is good!"

Lin Xing'an also licked his lips and rubbed his hands.

As if he couldn't wait.

"Senior, how are we going to test humans and animals then?"

When they arrived at the cafeteria, the two of them found a secluded seat with their noodles, and Lin Xing'an also asked.

Ke Ke smiled mysteriously, "Junior, how do you want to test me?"

She didn't answer, but asked instead.

"I think we should release the ghost realm first."

"If this human-beast is awake, she will definitely be able to sense the ghost realm and will definitely react to it. It's obvious at a glance."

"If this human-beast hasn't awakened... then it doesn't matter if I release the ghost realm in front of a confused person."

Lin Xing'an poured some vinegar into the noodles and said.

Ke Ke shook his head and said, "Junior, you are still too immature when it comes to dealing with humans and animals!"

"The method you mentioned is indeed very good, but it is very conventional."

"So the owner of this human-animal will naturally think of a good and conventional method."

"They must have used the ghost domain to test it again and again, but they still couldn't confirm it, so they came to us."

Ke Ke's words made Lin Xing'an silent for a moment.

"Since they have used the ghost realm to test it, doesn't that mean that this human beast has not awakened?"

"No, no, no, junior, you know too little about humans and animals. You think too simply of them."

"……What's the meaning?"

"Junior, do you think that newly awakened humans and animals will react and feel fear when they see the ghost realm?"

Koko asked, looking up.

Lin Xing'an nodded.

"Not at all. It's the survival of the fittest. In fact, almost a quarter of awakened humans and animals possess extremely strong mental qualities."

"Under their extreme survival instinct, they are able to remain calm and even disguise their emotions."

"Humans and animals are far from as simple as you think."

Keke slurped his noodles.

"So, Senior, how are we going to test it this afternoon? Are there any other methods?"

"Of course I have, junior. I will make sure you eat the most desperate, painful, and emotionally unstable human beast!"

(End of this chapter)