BXBX NOVEL Chapter 308: Three Reasons
Chapter 308: Three Reasons
Adam was furious.
The biggest threat to his life was just about to be eliminated, yet his plan had been foiled at the very last moment. It felt like winning the lottery, only to find out that the winning ticket couldn\'t be redeemed.
I have to catch Raven!
Through the footage transmitted back to him by the Mechguard units, he had already witnessed Hebi no Miko and the others fleeing into the sewers.
The area of the sewage system that they had fled into had already caved in from the explosion, so it was going to be quite difficult to capture them.
However, Hebi no Miko hadn\'t escaped on her own. Raven was able to invade Chen Yanyan\'s psychic world, so he had to be nearby as well.
All of a sudden, an image was transmitted to him by some Mechguard units, informing him that a young man had been detained nearby. An identity verification procedure had been conducted, and it was discovered that the man had no identification documents.
In this day and age, even illegal gangsters had to carry identification documents. Otherwise, it was very difficult for them to get anything done.
Many residents of Shadow City had tried to start new lives in Sandrise City, only to be driven out again as it was simply too difficult to live in Sandrise City without legitimate identities.
Not only did this man not have any identification documents, the fact that he just so happened to be in the area at a time like this was very suspicious.
After being notified of this, Adam quickly arrived on the scene.
"You\'re a brave man, aren\'t you, Raven?"
Adam strode over to the young man before grabbing onto his collar. The young man\'s physical appearance was very mundane and unremarkable, with his head of red hair serving as his only eye-catching feature.
However, what grabbed Adam\'s attention the most were his eyes, which were extremely bleak yet filled with intelligence.
"Raven? What are you talking about?"
Adam leaned in close to the young man before taking a sniff.
"If you\'re not Raven, then why were you in the sewers? Are you telling me that you hanging out in the sewers in a hobby of yours?"
"Why don\'t you tell that to the judge?" Raven wasn\'t displaying any fear from being captured by Adam. "I\'m not breaking any laws, I just so happen to be passing through here. Even in the worst-case scenario, I\'ll only be deported for a lack of identification documents."
Raven leaned in closer to Adam, then lowered his voice as he continued, "I know what you\'re angry about. You\'re angry because I saved Hebi no Miko, right? Don\'t worry, I\'ll make sure that she doesn\'t cause any more trouble for you."
"She\'s just gonna listen to you? Who do you think you are?"
"She won\'t listen to me, but I can put her in a predicament where she\'ll be too busy dealing with other things to come after you," Raven said with a sly grin.
Adam didn\'t say anything to this. He knew that Raven was indeed capable of doing this.
He was once just a recessive personality of Sithu\'s, yet he was able to hatch a plot to have all of the other personalities eradicated so that he could take over Sithu\'s body. If he could do this, then he was definitely more than capable of dealing with a psychic mutant.
Hebi no Miko was extraordinarily powerful, but her personality was too violent, and she was nowhere near as intelligent as Raven.
"You can arrest me now, but that won\'t benefit you in any way. At the very worst, I\'ll only be deported. Sure, you can say that I saved Hebi no Miko from the psychic world, but do you think you can build a legal case based on that? You were trying to kill Hebi no Miko, so you didn\'t record the process. Without a recording, you have no evidence to present to the courts.
“Even if you did have evidence, what crime have I committed? All I did was save someone, how is that a crime? Hebi no Miko may be insane, but insane people have human rights too, don\'t they? Why can\'t I save her out of a sense of justice? You can claim that I was disrupting the enforcement of the law, but again, you have no evidence!"
"You may be right, but that still doesn\'t mean I\'m going to let you go!"
While it was true that Adam couldn\'t pin any major crimes on Raven, he certainly also couldn\'t just let Raven go without any consequences.
Aside from arresting him, there were other things that he could do to Raven.
"I can instruct these Mechguard units to go away, then shoot you down on the basis of resisting arrest. Perhaps I won\'t be able to handle you on my own, but once the other two arrive, you\'ll be powerless to resist."
Adam was naturally referring to May and Wax Figure here.
Both of them were nearby, but they had refrained from showing themselves as both were extremely important figures, and they didn\'t want to be captured in this place on the cameras of Mechguard units.
"Arresting or killing me won\'t do you any good."
"Yes, but it can vent my frustration."
"That may be true, but here\'s what I have to say to that: you can stand to benefit immensely from not killing me," Raven said with a composed smile. "Firstly, as I mentioned before, I can help you get Hebi no Miko off your back. I don\'t want you to die. Secondly, I can help you get rid of the parasites in your psychic body.
“Those things are mine to begin with, so this is a simple task for me. Thirdly, we can work together. If you want to kill someone, but your identity as a special psychic police officer is getting in the way, then you can get me to do the job."
"You\'re going to help me kill people?"
"I\'ll be helping you and also helping myself. I need to kill people for my own ends, and it doesn\'t matter who I kill."
This was a rather strange response that left Adam feeling a little confused, but it had to be said that Raven was presenting a very compelling argument.
Even though Adam was still furious, he couldn\'t help but feel as if working with him was the correct choice.
After some careful consideration, Adam asked in a low voice, "How can I trust you?"
"We\'ve already worked together once, so you should know that I\'m someone who sticks by my word. Also, in my opinion, credibility and trustworthiness are integral if one wants to go far in life. Regardless of whether you\'re a good person or a bad person, no one will want to work with you if you\'re not trustworthy. If Hebi no Miko weren\'t a trustworthy person, then I wouldn\'t have saved her today. I didn\'t save her in order to make an enemy out of you."
Adam fell into deep thought upon hearing this.
"We don\'t have much time, you\'ll have to make a decision soon."
"Fine, you have yourself a deal."
Even though Adam was still fuming on the inside, he was a mature adult, and he knew what choice had to be made.
In the instant that Adam made up his mind, he instructed the surrounding Mechguard units to leave so that they could continue to hunt down Hebi no Miko, then dragged Raven away into an obscure corner.
Raven wasted no time and immediately invaded Adam\'s psychic world.
In the psychic world, they were still in Area 8, and Adam looked up at the giant raven in the sky as he urged, "Hurry up."
Raven descended in front of Adam, and his six red eyes began to glow faintly, immediately following which all of the parasitic tentacles that were originally lurking deep within Adam\'s psychic body came to the fore.
Raven leaned down before plucking out all of the tentacles with his beak and devouring them.
Once all of the tentacles were gone, Adam felt a noticeable change, and for the first time in a long time, he was able to separate himself from Clown.
Adam was quite elated to finally be able to separate himself from Clown. At the very least, he hadn\'t come here for nothing.
Due to their previously permanent fusion, Clown was unable to evolve, nor was he able to absorb any anomalic power. As a result, his psychic body was unable to keep up with the development of his anomalies.
Furthermore, Clown\'s offensive and defensive capabilities were both quite lackluster, so it was quite limited in its usefulness, and it was certainly good news that Adam was now able to separate himself from it.