This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 55 RA Reconnaissance
When Zhen Jiankang fell to the ground, he felt like he was going to die.

Regret, despair, the desire to live, the desire to go home... the intense emotions within him subsided before the threat of death. He realized as never before the severity of his mistake. He mustered the courage to leave the city, but failed to accomplish anything. He tried to understand the current situation through a layer of summons, mistakenly believing he could rationally control the situation and resolve the problem, but he forgot that this was not a job done with pen and paper.

Besides, even when writing on paper, he has never been rigorous—

——Zhen Jiankang should think so. Or rather, on the surface, he should think so.

But actually...

An artist who graduated from the capital, no matter what school he attended, could come to a small county to teach an interest class, even if that county was a little special and had its own garrison...

But is this right?

Nie Weiyang didn't need to attend interest classes, and in his previous life, he was a loner, so naturally, it was impossible for him to chat with the other person. This time, he was traveling alone for a long time, making it even more impossible for him to communicate with this person.

Why does he know what this guy does?

Why does he know this guy's character?

That's of course because——

——I have killed someone.

Under the bloody sky, Administrator No. 2 lowered his head. Against the backdrop of the scarlet sky and in the shadow of the dark cloak, the red goggles gave people a sense of inhuman horror, making people feel cold in their hearts.

Zhen Jiankang lay in a hollow, half his body gone. His skin, flesh, and internal organs, uniformly seared by the intense heat, showed no blood, only a thin layer of tissue fluid. He stared intently at Administrator No. 2, his lips moving as if to say something, but ultimately, only tears trickled down his cheeks, audibly "Ah... Ah..."

He is on the verge of death.

The second time he killed this man, Nie Weiyang remained calm, and the enemy's tears were useless to him.

Zhen Jiankang, spy.

This man wasn't very courageous, or perhaps it was because he valued his life. In his previous life, when Nie Weiyang caught him, he couldn't even endure the beginning of half a round of torture. He even started crying when Nie Weiyang just laid out the tools one by one.

And there was only one reason why someone who was so cowardly chose to be a spy: drug abuse.

It's a classic story: a well-off but uneducated young man who casually studied some kind of art, planning to spend his life enjoying life. But before entering university, he took a trip around the world, where he met some psychedelic artists and, he claims, was lured into drug addiction. He was quickly recruited and controlled, starting as a minor leaker and accomplice to the undercover operation, and gradually progressed to where he is now...

Nie Weiyang had previously passed this person on to Xiang Feng. He wasn't the mastermind behind the Langcheng incident, but rather a hidden pawn with limited information, primarily designed to disrupt the local children's psychological and cultural understanding. He chose to run an ink painting class simply because this identity made it more convincing when telling the children, "Our artistic skills aren't high."

As for the main intelligence network in the city, they had already been caught and shot.

When Nie Weiyang led the four-man team out of the city, he had always had a negative impression of Zhen Jiankang, but he allowed him to join, so Xiang Feng didn't stop him. Xiang Feng trusted him, and he had indeed taken Zhen Jiankang out of the city because he didn't intend to let him go—it was just that in such a critical moment, in front of everyone, it was difficult for him to deal with it personally as his true self. This guy was too insignificant, not worth it.

Now, Nie Weiyang realized that something must have gone wrong in the city, which led to Xiang Feng leaving behind this traitor who had little intelligence value, and also led to Zhen Jiankang daring to leave the city, contrary to his usual behavior, and using himself as bait to try to guide the No. 2 administrator back to Langcheng.

Both sides were too busy, and without instant communication, the exchange of intelligence was insufficient... But Nie Weiyang had a feeling that someone was destined for death. He knew there wouldn't be just one Sam in the world; there would always be people trying to infiltrate Zhongzhou. There must be enemies in the city who weren't on the list.

Nie Weiyang turned and walked into the city. He wasn't interested in how a traitor would regret his actions before death. In the end, there were plenty of opportunities to change things along the way, and even if he regretted it now, all he knew was that he was going to die.

No betrayal is too small to be forgiven, especially those who only repent under violence.

But he was somewhat interested in the new information—

In the soul realm that few people know about today, Nie Weiyang used his mental power to explore the mind of the half-corpse behind him.

Before the opponent died from blood loss, the huge mental power instantly shattered the opponent's thoughts and brain, extracting the opponent's recent memories.

The brain almost seemed to explode outward from the memory area, quickly turning into a mess.

[World Boss [Administrator No. 2] has withdrawn from combat, and the challenger has died. Target's current health: ? /?, Target's current total energy: ?/?, Target's current danger to all humanity: Extremely High. Target's current location is displayed on the global map: Huaxia - Zhongzhou - Langcheng. The record of Administrator No. 2's challenger in the "Leader-level Hostile Target File" has been updated. Players are requested to refer to the appendix to the "World Boss: Administrator No. 2" chapter.]

Reading memories is a delicate job. In the new world, except for some specialized people, reading memories is always a destructive operation. Even reading emotions, most people can only do it through the target's intense emotional outburst. But... if the emotions have already exploded, wouldn't it be more convenient to directly observe the facial expressions and body movements?
Unless you are facing a strong person.

This was also the reason why Nie Weiyang was always so emotionally stable: emotions were also a form of intelligence. And among the seven guardians of Zhongzhou, he was the one who should and must maintain emotional stability and keep his information confidential.

In the square, a terrifying insect nest slowly rose from the ground. Under the bloody sky, the second administrator, who had just killed someone, slowly entered the town.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is simply a picture of hell.

Nie Weiyang's mind reeled in a memory as his mental energy returned. He quickly stripped away the unimportant information, retrieving a scene of Zhen Jiankang meeting with some outsiders. Several faces, young and old, appeared, some familiar to Nie Weiyang, such as his neighbor. Each of them was speaking to Zhen Jiankang, a recent memory.

Nie Weiyang simply put those faces together and compared their facial features in his mind, and he found the similarity among them: the eyes.

The expressions in these people's eyes are almost exactly the same. They all seem gentle with a hint of smile, but they make people feel cold to the bone, as if being entangled by a poisonous snake.

You know, even twins can have different expressions, especially the eyes. The similarities between these people made Nie Weiyang think of a possibility: disguise.

camouflage……

This look was so familiar that it reminded him of someone, a very troublesome person for ordinary people.

The people in the city were retreating, and it was a good opportunity for them to go out of the city to pick up the items dropped by the monsters that were previously burned to death. However, the monsters killed by the second administrator did not drop any items or experience, so Nie Weiyang did not think too much about it - he could use such a big cheat, and he couldn't have everything, right?
He simply passed through the crowd disguised as the No. 2 administrator, and the crowd made way for him. People almost hugged the dilapidated building just to avoid him, and the closest person was five meters away from him.

Nie Weiyang's mental power was searching for something in the crowd, and soon, he found it.

——She was a short, inconspicuous and non-threatening girl, with a mental strength that was inconsistent with her appearance, and a familiar look in her eyes.

At the edge of the crowd, a thin girl tried hard to reduce her presence. She kept sorting the boxes filled with poppy-like plants in her backpack. On the surface, she was just migrating with supplies that could not fit in her backpack.

At this moment, 'she' was planning what she would do in the future.

But she did not, and could not, discover that a spirit so huge that it was beyond her cognitive world was hovering above her.

(End of this chapter)