A few days later, in Ganghu City.
Inside a street-side café, Charles, dressed in a well-fitted suit and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, leisurely sipped his coffee while reading a newspaper. His demeanor was entirely that of someone from high society, drawing many glances of admiration.
“Boss!”
After waiting for a moment, a man in a black coat approached excitedly: “You’ve finally come back to life?”
“In fact, I haven’t.”
Charles shook his head: “I… have other plans. This time, I’m just here for a few days.”
Since learning that the Divine Space had begun directly recruiting living humans as reincarnators, many teams of spirit reincarnators had intentionally added one or two living members.
After all, many pieces of information from the real world needed to be brought by them, and some tasks in the real world also required their involvement.
Due to the advantage of participating in reincarnation missions first, spirit reincarnators held a significant edge within the Divine Space. At the beginning, new reincarnators were practically reduced to working for them.
More importantly, even with such a humble status, opportunities weren’t guaranteed—reincarnators, especially spirit reincarnators, were extremely cautious about keeping their secrets.
Without definite guarantees and trust, they would rather temporarily ignore their families in the real world than let out even a hint of information.
Sitting before Charles was one such fortunate soul, nicknamed Gray Rat. He had signed contracts with nearly every member of Charles’ team—binding agreements certified by the Divine Space, impossible to breach. Thus, he became the manager of their team in the real world, quietly supporting and protecting their families and friends, handling many matters they couldn’t attend to themselves.
In return, they had brought Gray Rat along, helping him survive the most dangerous newbie phase. His current strength was quite decent among reincarnators, making it a fair exchange of giving and receiving.
“Could it be that we don’t have enough contribution points?”
Gray Rat looked puzzled: “I still have some…”
“No, it’s not about that…”
Charles shook his head slightly. The deficit in contribution points he faced was at least in the millions. Gray Rat’s savings were just a drop in the bucket—barely enough to drain his entire team.
“Have you taken care of the matter I asked you to handle?”
Unwilling to dwell further on the topic, Charles quickly changed the subject.
“I’ve thoroughly investigated all the information on those people!”
Gray Rat said, handing a folder to Charles.
Charles took it, opened the brown envelope, and saw a thick stack of records and photos inside—scenes of several families’ daily lives.
These were the families of his teammates, or those who had died in battle. He had entrusted Gray Rat to take care of them.
As for his own family?
Despite the contract guarantee, he still didn’t want to entrust such a critical matter to someone else. Thus, he had remained tight-lipped about it, planning to handle it himself upon coming out.
Now, it seemed that his caution regarding Gray Rat wasn’t entirely unwarranted, but it hadn’t caused any harm either.
“Good. I brought out a stash of gold. You handle it—transfer the money as usual to those accounts!”
Charles casually tossed a black travel bag to Gray Rat.
With a nonchalant throw, Gray Rat caught it, but the impact was heavy enough to make both his hands tremble and even shake the table slightly.
“O-okay!”
Although he was now a reincarnator, Gray Rat still couldn’t help but swallow hard when thinking about the value of the gold in his hands.
“Also, it’s been a long time since your last report. Any recent updates? Anything new in the real world…”
Charles exhaled deeply, looking at a photo of a werewolf in the newspaper: “Recently, this world seems anything but peaceful.”
“Lycaon Siegel! He’s made quite a name for himself in the Divine Space. Countless people are furious with him, thinking he’s broken the rules!”
Gray Rat smirked.
“Broken the rules?”
Charles suddenly smiled: “Who decided that we supernatural beings must live like rats, forever hiding in the sewers? Oh… sorry, I didn’t mean to imply anything about you!”
“It’s fine…”
Gray Rat was clearly intrigued by what Charles had just said: “You mean… boss? Can we really stand in the sunlight someday?”
“The identity of reincarnators doesn’t need to be hidden. One day, it will become a source of pride!”
This was Charles’ intuition. After all, with the Divine Space’s current rate of expansion, it was truly alarming. He wasn’t even sure whether one day every person on the planet would become a reincarnator.
Or perhaps, reincarnators would dominate with absolute power and become the upper echelon of society.
These current social elites merely wielded power and wealth, but what they possessed were real supernatural abilities.
Those who control power will inevitably control authority!
Under the authority of life and death, what significance could money possibly hold?
“If that day really comes, that would be great!”
Gray Rat murmured, then continued: “Globally speaking, aside from Lycaon Siegel making the news and the rebellion in Pandon, there’s nothing major happening.”
For the common people of the Kingdom of Gold Oak, they might never even leave the city they lived in throughout their entire lives. A rebellion thousands of miles away in another country only caused a bit of schadenfreude, with no other feelings involved.
Even Charles shared this mentality to some extent.
However, as a leader, he secretly paid attention to the events in Pandon. He also noticed Gray Rat’s reserved tone: “Globally speaking? You mean there’s something happening behind the scenes?”
“Exactly! And that’s the real key point!”
Gray Rat’s expression turned serious: “I suspect that our existence as reincarnators has already been exposed at the upper levels of the Kingdom!”
“Evidence is that several people have contacted me, saying they suspect they’re under surveillance.”
“Surveillance?”
Charles furrowed his brow: “Only that?”
“Of course not!”
Gray Rat shook his head: “Alongside that, there are various signs of ‘luck,’ such as career advancement, consecutive promotions for those holding public office, or significant investments for businesspeople…”
“Indeed…”
Charles wasn’t sure what to say.
It seemed the other side was going all-out to recruit reincarnators. Moreover, unless someone lived in a vacuum, they inevitably interacted with society—family, parents, friends, lovers… All these relationships could be mobilized by powerful institutions to influence reincarnators.
Otherwise, why in Wu Ming’s past life, in ancient times, did so many people still eagerly seek government jobs, selling blood and body parts to join, even though they knew entering officialdom was like diving into an ocean with no return?
“Hmph…”
After a long silence, Charles exhaled deeply: “Well… honestly, this isn’t surprising. After all, that damned novel already announced everything to the world!”
“Regarding this… I have some insider information. It seems the author has already been recruited by the Federation and even holds the title of Special Advisor in the government!”
Gray Rat scratched his head, looking quite puzzled: “Although we know for sure he’s not the Divine, it still feels really strange.”
Reincarnators couldn’t actively leak information about the Divine Space, but if it was unintentional leakage or not done with personal intent, the space wouldn’t carry out an elimination. This was a loophole.
Once there were reincarnators genuinely recruited by the government, the information of these spirit reincarnators wouldn’t remain a secret from the entire Kingdom.
Names, appearances, ages… and even the characteristics of their violent deaths. Just by checking recent death databases and running a differential machine analysis, one could definitely uncover many reincarnators’ identities.
“Damn it!”
Charles suddenly slammed his fist on the table.
No one would be happy knowing others were desperately trying to uncover their secrets.
Moreover, unlike Gray Rat, the Kingdom of Gold Oak, once determined to investigate one by one, would surely discover his existence using modern procedural rules and tedious formalities.
“Why didn’t I change my name and appearance from the beginning?”
Charles felt a pang of regret but knew it was too late now.
His reputation as the “Mind King” would definitely attract great interest from city halls and private detectives.
“We must relocate immediately, along with the families of my teammates…”
A heavy sense of unease arose in Charles’ heart.
Handing over one’s vulnerabilities to others was never a wise move.
After adventuring in the Divine Space until now, he had teammates who would die for him, and he had taken responsibility for their families in return.
He absolutely could not allow anything to happen to them.
Just as he murmured this, Gray Rat across the table shifted uneasily, clearly feeling quite awkward and tense.
“What exactly happened?”
Charles’ expression turned stern, instantly radiating immense authority.
This was an aura cultivated from killing and wielding power—something Gray Rat couldn’t resist. He immediately confessed everything:
“It’s the Metler family! They’ve encountered a little trouble recently, boss. Believe me, I can handle it!”
“Metler?”
Charles slightly closed his eyes, and an image of a kind yet sharp face appeared in his mind.
That was his dear friend, someone who had fought alongside him through life and death. Without him, Charles would never have reached his current position.
“What happened to his family?”
Charles’ voice suddenly turned icy cold.
“Just a small issue! Well… it’s actually somewhat troublesome…”
Gray Rat’s face turned red, then pale, before finally confessing honestly: “Boss, besides the large sum of money you previously had us send to his family, you also gave them a few artifacts, right?”
“Exactly! Did those artifacts cause trouble?”
Those artifacts were very useful for ordinary people. Even Charles had spent quite a few contribution points to obtain them. He immediately connected this to the problem at hand.
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