Artifact Report

Chapter 310 Brianna - It's Brianna, the Vulture, Fu Tailan!

Xiang Fu Tailan fired a shot—

One bullet after another suddenly pierced the eyeballs, shooting out from the orbital bone and into the boundless darkness.

Huh?
What happened?
Am I going to die again?

The image of her dying last time, surrounded by countless residents, crawling endlessly forward, flashed through Brianna's mind again.

Then, they all turned into physical entities.

Many, many residents, laughing shrilly and weeping, their voices calling out countless names bursting forth from the top of her head and the back of her head; they swam, walked, stumbled, and crawled, disappearing into the darkness along with the bullets.

"Don't go!" Brianna cried. "Don't leave me alone."

The resident with Morandau's face glanced back at her, as if burned by her ugliness—it looked disgusted and turned to run away. Its arms and legs dangled high and irregularly in the air like four ribbons, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Why are you looking at me like that? Where are you going? Why aren't you looking at me anymore?
Brianna just wanted to scream and cry, but—but—

...She doesn't have eyes or tear ducts.

She blinked her non-existent eyes.

Yes, she had long forgotten what her upper body and head looked like now.

Since burying her upper body into Green's corpse, she hadn't even felt her own face again...

If she doesn't even know if she still has a head, how could countless residents be born one after another, squeezing her head open?

what happened……

Brianna strained to open her eyes, but she could no longer see the world through Grimm's eyes as she had before.

what happened?

Is Green broken? Or did she fall out of Green's body?

No, no... Calm down, she hasn't completely detached from Green's body.

Although it was pitch black and the senses felt like they were tightly wrapped in plastic, if you tried hard enough, you could still faintly hear some distant, indistinct sounds...

People kept howling, but each howl was cut off after only a short half-sound.

The dull thuds of heavy objects falling to the ground one after another.

The stench of burnt flesh was also noticeable...

Someone is speaking; the voice is light and gentle, perhaps because it is soaked in blood.

"...Those without children, think of cats and dogs. Happy thoughts... Don't blame me for not reminding you, keep your eyes closed."

The house is too blue.

Is it Fu Tailan? — What kind of illusion did he use?

He warned everyone not to open their eyes, and told them to think only of happy things, along with the scenes he had just experienced...

Brianna understood immediately.

Can a thought materialize and break through a person's skull? He actually has such an illusion in his hand.

So many people, and they were all killed just like that...?
Even if Brianna doesn't care about human lives, isn't Fu Tailan still a human being?

She always felt that the boy's words and actions were as if they were floating outside a layer of mist, separated from the world; so when he killed people, he neither hesitated nor regretted it.

Oh dear, so in that case... isn't it fortunate that she died once?
She was neither human nor a resident; although the illusion still had an effect on her, it was not fully effective because she was already dead—the only consequence was that it "detached" her from Green.

Fortunately, fortunately, fortunately, the Upper State District Manor is not within the nest's coverage area.

So even if she lost her grip for a moment, she wouldn't fall all the way back into the nest; she was still barely "stuck" inside Green's body.

With a little adjustment... like adjusting clothes, by putting Green's body back on, she can stand up again.

Fu Tailan probably thought she was already dead and couldn't possibly have foreseen her "resurrection." All it takes is finding a gun on a nearby corpse; even a genius hunter—

"How could this happen?"

Fu Tailan seemed to have already considered herself the only living person in the security center, and muttered softly, "Could it be that I killed Wei Xilai?"

Brianna stood frozen in the darkness for a moment.

……what?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

Eeee ...

What does that mean? What does he mean? Does he mean what I think he means?

Is there any other way to interpret this sentence? Is there? No, there isn't.
Brianna pretended to take a deep breath and calm herself down. If she got too excited, she might slip and slide towards the residents.

That's not right, how can anyone stay calm at a time like this? Don't force people to be calm.
Fu Tailan's implication is that he knew Wei Xilai would die, but how did he know? Was it some kind of prophetic vision of the future?

She also really wanted to see that future preview. Thinking about it carefully, everything made sense. Wesley had already collected all four target artifacts; the game was very, very close to ending, and his life was in unprecedented danger. That's why he was so trembling with fear. His death wouldn't be surprising.
Vesilé was destined to die
Dad was already dead.
Wait, we should still find out the truth from Fu Tai Lan... but she's too cunning, how could we simply tell her the truth...?

"Oh, I found it."

Fu Tailan's voice suddenly rang out beside her.

Brianna paused in thought.

She suddenly felt relieved; thankfully, she hadn't had time to put Green's body on yet. She didn't have to worry about accidentally moving around and being discovered by Fu Tai Lan.

"……died?"

Fu Tailan seemed to squat down next to her and poked Green's face with something.

It's like a child poking a dead bird by the roadside with a stick.

If you don't know who raised this child, you should just kill him.
“How strange…” Fu Tailan muttered to herself.

Brianna knew perfectly well what he was wondering about.

Others die by having their thoughts materialize and their skulls burst open; but Green naturally doesn't have that risk—he's already dead, without a single thought.

If Brianna doesn't "lock" him properly, he will revert to his original form: a dead man.

A dead body, though indeed dead, with its head intact, is a sight that clashes sharply with the security center's design. "Is it really dead?"

He seemed to move a little closer, and Brianna felt a hand on Green's chest, sensing his heartbeat. After a long while, Fu Tailan finally seemed somewhat reluctant to accept Green's death.

"So you're really dead... Hmm, then the person who called me on the 26th wasn't you."

He knew the future—he really did know the future—when was Vessilé truly dead?

"……Eh?"

Fu Tailan seemed to want to say something, but then stopped and just smiled gently.

For the next minute or two, since it was still dark in front of Green, Brianna could only guess at Fu Tailan's actions by listening to the rustling sounds around her—he seemed to have been searching through Green for a while, looking for something but not finding it, and even scolded Green for being inconsiderate.

Then he placed his hand on Green's eyelids, as if he were prying them open.

But even with my eyelids pulled back, it was still dark.

For a while, there was no sound from the surroundings.

She thought Fu Tailan had left; but she wasn't sure if she had heard his footsteps fading away.

Brianna suppressed her anxiety and slowly moved inside Green's body, gradually returning to the correct position.

When she finally managed to put Green back on halfway and the darkness became faint and blurry, she was startled – Fu Tailan was still standing beside Green, quietly watching her without uttering a sound.

Did he find out?

No, no, I haven't fully put on my Green yet... At this moment, Green is still a corpse.

Fu Tailan smiled gently.

Even Brianna was momentarily stunned.

The moment he smiled, it was as if the clouds had parted and the stars and moon were shining brightly in the sky.

...But his appearance, like the words he uttered, was all a lie.

Fu Tailan glanced at a card in her hand, then turned and left.

Brianna watched him walk away, heard him say "bye" to the alpha wolf, and heard the door open...

As soon as Fu Tailan disappeared, it was as if the lid of hell had been suddenly opened, and the security center was instantly filled with a thick, damp stench of blood and burnt flesh; there seemed to be people who were still alive, whimpering and trembling.

After waiting a while to make sure he wouldn't turn around and attack again, Brianna got up from the ground.

Fu Tailan's target was clearly Wei Xilai in the main building of the manor; however, she did not immediately raise an alarm or call for help.

She stepped over the corpses scattered on the ground and walked to the monitor screen.

Just now, Fu Tailan seemed to have walked over to the monitor screen and even made a phone call to the bodyguards in the manor... He said that "Secretary Green" was about to arrive, right?

So, he just used that fake identity to turn himself into George Green?
Because her current state is difficult to define, even if the illusion takes effect, its impact on her is unpredictable; Brianna cannot be certain whether Green's identity has already been taken away.

She looked at screen after screen, and soon found Fu Tailan on the screen.

Even though she was no longer Fu Tai Lan, she still recognized her at a glance, because it was impossible for her not to recognize her.

Brianna stared intently at the screen.

Brianna opened her lips.

Brianna thought she was about to burst out laughing.

The wolf with its mouth wide open in the security center was clearly the alpha wolf; however, the long, winding, and crashing howl came from Brianna's throat.

She did seem to laugh, though she didn't know it; the sound tore through the air and ripped through her throat, making Green's eardrums tremble.

Yu Guangli's alpha wolf remained motionless, staring at her like a black hole.

"Did anyone see it?" Brianna pointed at the screen and laughed loudly, "Did anyone see it? Did anyone see it?"

No one answered her.

On the screen is a corridor in the main building of the manor, where a young woman's back is visible as she walks lightly forward.

"That's me! That's me! That's me!"

Brianna couldn't help but laugh, tilting her head back and covering her eyes with her hands.

Even if it's just your own back view, a back view that you rarely see, it's still yourself, and you can recognize it at a glance—isn't that strange?
She walked briskly forward, as if nothing had happened yet, as if life was still leading to that young woman on Moran Drive—

It's Brianna.

Fu Tailan is using the identity of Brianna this time.

Does he know it himself?

Brianna stared intently at the screen through her misty vision.

A few seconds later, she took out her phone and dialed Wei Xilai's number.

He seemed to be fast asleep, and the phone rang several times before he answered. As he picked up, Brianna could vaguely hear Jacqueline grumbling unhappily beside him.

“Dad,” she called softly.

Vesile was naturally unhappy that he had called her "Dad" without her permission.

But before he could reprimand himself, Brianna spoke up again.

"Dad, vultures have just entered the world."

“…What? Really?” Vesil’s voice suddenly became clear, as if it were burning with vitality and hope.

Of course, he always hoped that the vulture could become him and take away all the risks in his place.

"It's true, the rumors have come true, the vulture has entered the human world. I just tried it out and found that it can indeed become my substitute."

Brianna licked her dry lips.

"...it turned into another Brianna."

(End of this chapter)