I write obituaries for the gods.

Chapter 58 Meteor Shower

"Are you feeling better?"

"It's okay... just a little dizzy..."

Lin Chen looked at Li Zhanyi lying on the seat opposite him. She was wearing a vital signs monitor on her wrist, which was emitting a faint green light.

The two were sitting in the van on their way back when Section Chief Jiang told them to go back first, saying that the work of Section One was already completed.

"That pressure guy...didn't make things difficult for you, did he?" Li Zhanyi looked at Lin Chen opposite him.

"The bureau chief?" Lin Chen paused, then shook his head. "No."

"I vaguely heard her say she was going to conduct a major investigation into you or something..." Li Zhanyi muttered, "That startled me..."

"..." Looking at Zhan Yi's slightly upturned lips, Lin Chen sighed helplessly.

According to Hua Molan's original intention, Lin Chen was indeed going to be investigated. Judging from the handcuffs, it seemed to be more than a simple investigation.

But then a text message arrived, just three words, and she gave up the idea.

Who is on the other end of the text message...?

His power is so great that with just one word, Hua Molan has to obey, no matter how many motives she may have.

She is the director of the Bureau of Abnormal Investigations. Who has authority above hers?

Lin Chen recalled what Jiang Zhengge had said during the previous interrogation: the Investigation Bureau seemed to be directly under the jurisdiction of the Yudu Municipal Government.

The city government and the Bureau of Investigation do have a good relationship; the mayor even gave them oil paintings...

Oil painting... "City of Mirages"... Mayor...

Lin Chen felt that something was vaguely connected to him.

In fact, he had casually asked Jiang Zhengge about the mayor during his free time, but he had basically brushed him off.

"If you try to get a first-class merit, you can meet the mayor," Jiang Zhengge said with a smile, blowing a smoke ring. "In all these years, I've only met the mayor twice."

It sounds like the mayor is a mysterious figure who is rarely seen. Lin Chen couldn't find much information about him online. It seems that the entire Yudu municipal government is intentionally reducing its presence.

Could the one who sent the letter to Hua Molan, telling her to ignore Lin Chen, be the mayor?

If so, then why?

What exactly does "the ghost of history" mean?

"..."

Lin Chen shook his head, deciding to put these thoughts aside for the time being.

He was exhausted. The obstacle-breaking operation had been incredibly tumultuous, and now even thinking about it for a moment made his temples throb.

Looking at the listless Li Zhanyi across from him, Lin Chen picked up her syringe from the table next to him and inserted a vial of Azure Factor into it.

"Hey, that's really expensive..."

Before Li Zhanyi could stop him, Lin Chen had already pressed the syringe against her neck.

"Um..."

Li Zhanyi let out a soft, comfortable groan. Her body trembled slightly, and the light in her eyes brightened a little.

"Consider this your treat to a meal," Li Zhanyi said, avoiding eye contact, a faint blush rising on her cheeks.

"Are you not getting enough supplements?" Lin Chen asked.

"It happened so suddenly, and the intensity was higher than we expected," Li Zhanyi said in a low voice. "While you were confronting Captain England, I kept the prophecy active almost the entire time, afraid that he would suddenly make a move and that humans wouldn't be able to react in time..."

So that's how it is... Lin Chen could now imagine that level of intensity.

She was afraid that Captain England would suddenly act, afraid that someone in the team would be instantly blasted into a bloody mist before they could react, just like those Foundation mercenaries who were instantly killed by Skybreaker.

So this silly girl really did stay in the prophecy the whole time, watching it from beginning to end.

No wonder I was exhausted.

"Have more faith in us," Lin Chen chuckled.

"Hey, you newbie are even lecturing the veterans."

Li Zhanyi playfully stuck out her tongue at Lin Chen, then turned over and looked at the night sky outside the car window.

The night rain lasted only a short while, and the sky, washed clean by the rain, was dotted with faint starlight, which was reflected in the girl's eyes.

"How embarrassing... How did I end up like this..."

The girl pouted slightly, looking somewhat aggrieved.

"Another embarrassing incident like this..."

"Again? You've fainted like this before?" Lin Chen looked up.

"Yeah, and I was all alone that time," Li Zhanyi muttered to herself, "and I was unconscious in the wilderness for half an hour late at night."

"Late at night? Alone on the grassland?" Lin Chen was taken aback. "What are you doing there?"

"The news said there was a meteor shower. I've always wanted to see a meteor shower, but it's raining heavily in the rainy city area. You can only see it in the open fields of the southern development zone."

Li Zhanyi gazed at the stars outside the window, reminiscing about that day.

"Back then, I hadn't joined the Investigation Bureau yet, and the 'prophecy' was still a secret. That night, Lao Jiang was working overtime, and I sneaked out by myself and rode my bicycle to chase the meteor shower."

"I kept making predictions the whole way, afraid that I would miss the best observation point. So I rode from Xiwang District to Southern Development Zone, and then rode and rode in the open fields... and then I got dizzy."

"I just fainted..." Lin Chen repeated.

That sounds really silly.

"I know what you're thinking..." Li Zhanyi puffed out her cheeks slightly.

You know you're being foolish.

"Even if you bring your friends along," Lin Chen sighed softly, "There aren't many people in the Southern Development Zone, but it's still the wilderness. What if there are wolves? Even stray dogs are dangerous."

"But I don't have any friends," Li Zhanyi said innocently.

No friends?

These words surprised Lin Chen somewhat.

He had assumed that a sweet-looking and lively girl like her would be the center of a small group.

So, the lonely Li Zhanyi I saw at the school gate that day was actually the norm?

"Here we go again. Old Jiang had the same expression back then, saying, 'How could such a pretty girl like you not have any friends at school?'"

Seeing the surprise in Lin Chen's eyes, Li Zhanyi narrowed his eyes:

"But I can't make any friends."

"Why?" Lin Chen asked.

"Because I couldn't control my psychic abilities when I was a child, I was always passively predicting the future."

Li Zhanyi spoke softly, her long eyelashes drooping slightly:

"At school, my psychic will predict everything they will say and do next."

"So I'm never really surprised by anything. For example, someone might share a riddle with me, but I already know the answer as soon as they open their mouth. Without going through the thought process, I naturally can't find it interesting, and it's hard for me to truly participate in everyone's activities."

"I'm sure other kids won't like me because of this. They might not mean any harm, but they'll gradually stop playing with me."

"For me, social interactions without surprises become unenjoyable, and I've gradually gotten used to being alone."

"And people who are too lonely will be ostracized no matter what they do."

Li Zhanyi smiled gently at Lin Chen, and once again Lin Chen saw that faint loneliness in her eyes.

People who are too lonely will be ostracized no matter what they do.

This reminded Lin Chen of himself.

When he was in college, AI painting had already taken off. After the art industry was reshuffled, all his roommates accepted reality and either started looking for connections to find jobs or prepared to take the postgraduate entrance exam to change their major.

He was the only one foolish enough to think his art was worth a few dollars and insisted on pursuing a career in design.

He went to class alone, went to the art studio alone, and went to Yudu to look for a job alone amidst the ridicule of his classmates.

He failed.

He didn't see the future he envisioned.

He's pretty stupid too.

"Did you see the meteor shower when you woke up that day?" Lin Chen asked softly.

He so wished that Li Zhanyi could tell him that she had seen a meteor shower.

But things didn't go as planned:

"I didn't see it. By the time I woke up, the meteor shower was over, and it was raining in the wilderness."

Li Zhanyi stretched and rested his hands behind his head.

"I even cried when I went back that time...but not because I didn't see the meteor shower."

"Sigh, a helpless little girl slept for half an hour in the wilderness, only to wake up and find that no one cared about her at all, there wasn't even a single message on her phone, and she was soaking wet..."

"That was the first time I felt so far away from this world... I had no friends at school, and I couldn't see any meteor showers. I was chasing after the stars all alone, and I just fainted like an idiot."

"However, I'm not too dizzy today," Li Zhanyi suddenly added.

"Not bad?" Lin Chen looked at the girl. "Why?"

He met Li Zhanyi's calm eyes: the afterglow of starlight still lingered in those dark eyes.

A gentle smile curved the corners of the girl's lips:

"Because someone I couldn't have predicted has come..."

"He's taking me home."

Unbeknownst to them, the hint of loneliness that the girl had inadvertently revealed had been melted away by Lin Chen's reflection.

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