After finishing the "discussion", Shadow introduced him to Kang Shouxing, who was responsible for this operation, and asked him to arrange a place for Ma En to stay while waiting for the duel to begin, so as to prevent him from being attacked after Shadow solved it.

The Revenge of the Happy Taoist.

Of course, the reason why Ma En agreed was not because he was really worried about any revenge.

It will definitely not take long for Shadow to solve the problem. He stays here more because he wants to observe the Federation from the inside. It is best to have a deep understanding of how they operate. At least for now, the Federation will not take action against him.

You don't have to worry about safety when you stay here.

What he wants to know is how the federation restrains those high-level ability users, and what kind of powerful power they control. Of course, the most important thing is to see if there is anything particularly suitable for the Control Bureau. If there is a chance in the future, he can

Steal quietly.

In fact, what Ma En hopes most is to be able to come into contact with a strong enough level V item through this mission. As long as he is given a chance to contact it, he can take it away, but the prerequisite for this is very strict.

First of all, this requires that the thing he gets must be too strong. Secondly, he must understand the specific level of power that the Federation will use to retaliate against the ability user who has done such a thing. After making a comparison, he must ensure that he can use this thing to escape safely.

OK.

So what he has to do is to find the basis for the Federation to rule the world, and find a way to get one of them.

But he is not in a hurry about this matter. Now he doesn't even know what the federation can do. This is not a plan that can be completed in a short time. Moreover, the federation members basically just treat him as a guest, and he has nothing to do.

Given the opportunity and channels to come into contact with matters related to the Federation itself and high-level anomalous entities, they must also have basic wariness against Ma En.

Therefore, Ma En planned to start from the aspect of Atlantis, and the direction he chose was a quite reasonable direction, that is, the third-level ability user Alice who appeared in front of him last time. After all, the shadow also said that the Federation now views

She was like looking at Shen Xiao when she was a child.

Although Alice herself said that she was far inferior to Shenxiao, and that Shenxiao had already reached level V at her age, the fact that she could be introduced so grandly by Shadow was enough to show that Alice was extraordinary.

If she is really a genius highly regarded by the Federation, then she must be of extremely high value, and now is a good opportunity to get in touch with her.

And the most important thing is that she is also likely to help him understand the Federation. From the impression of the last meeting, Alice seems to be relatively naive. Although she may not be as simple as she seems, she is obviously not like the typical federation member who is tight-lipped.

.

Since she is highly valued by the federation, she probably won't care so much about trivial matters because she has this qualification.

So with ill intentions, Ma En took the opportunity to inquire about Alice's address while discussing the details of the duel with Kang Shouxing. Although the middle-aged man who heard his question looked at Ma En several times at the time, he seemed to have already had some idea about it.

As expected.

"She lives right opposite the room we arranged for you now. She also receives training and guidance from us during the day. If you want to find her, you can do it at seven o'clock in the afternoon, but I want to remind you that she is not what she looks like.

Such an easy person to get in touch with.”

Marn was not surprised by his warning. It was definitely not that simple for Alice to be valued by them. Moreover, he still remembered that the girl behaved strangely last time they met, and he did not forget the shadow's reminder.

Even speculating from the most naive perspective, assuming that Alice was a simple and kind-hearted girl before she was found and brought back by the Federation, then after she was raised with such an identity, it would be difficult for her to live like a

A child, after all, she is now serving the Federation.

What really surprised Ma En was that she actually lived opposite him. Was this specially arranged by the federation?

With this thought in mind, Ma En knocked on the door opposite at nine o'clock in the evening on the third day of his stay in this federal building.

After nearly two minutes, the girl's confused voice came from the door:

"who is it?"

He replied:

"I'm Ma En, that..."

Before he could finish speaking, Alice opened the door.

The girl who appeared in front of him was wearing light blue pajamas. She seemed to be ready to go to bed. Looking at her demeanor, she didn't think she had just been woken up.

But Ma En still asked in a somewhat apologetic tone out of politeness:

"Did I just wake you up?"

The girl shook her head:

"No, I usually go to bed at ten o'clock. Do you have any business with me?"

Ma En nodded:

"I want to ask you about Atlantis. Shadow and they don't seem to be planning to tell me about it these days. I just thought that you and I would have to fight them. I want to see what you know.

Are we going to do something?"

The girl answered quickly:

"I have been undergoing pre-fight warm-up these days. They want me to adapt to the feeling of fighting with others. But you may have to wait a while. They may not have prepared the preliminary work yet. You don't have to do it now.

What.

"And actually, they seem to have said that you are the least important among us. The Federation seems to have no way to ensure the outcome of that Level IV battle, so the main focus is on Uncle Li and I."

After hearing what she said, Ma En then asked:

"By the way, you mentioned my hat last time..."

At this point, Marn slowed down slightly, but Alice showed no sign of wanting to explain.

"...I want to ask, what exactly is the hat you are talking about?"

But these words made the girl look confused:

"What else could a hat be?"

Ma En narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to understand what she meant:

"What you want to say is that I have a hat on my head that you think is good?"

The girl nodded immediately:

"Yeah, it looks like it goes well with you."

Ma En then asked with a puzzled look:

"But I'm not wearing a hat?"

The girl just looked at him with a normal expression, showing no intention of answering this sentence.

Ma En then asked:

"Is this a metaphor? Or did you see something that we can't understand?"

Ten seconds of silence.

The girl suddenly said:

"Where did you buy your hat?"

After saying this, the girl yawned sleepily.

Seeing this, Ma En changed the subject and asked:

"You said last time that Shenxiao hasn't come to see you for a long time."

The girl suddenly became energetic again and immediately said:

"Yes, yes, I haven't seen Sister Shenxiao for a long time. You are her friend, right? Can you give me and my sister a message?"

Ma En paused, and then asked directly:

"Wasn't she arrested by the federation?"

The girl still looked at him expectantly, as if waiting for his answer.

Seeing this, Ma En nodded again:

"I'll ask her for you."

After saying this, the girl showed a grateful smile:

"Thank you."

Just now she suddenly said that she wanted to go back to sleep, probably because in her eyes she had just fallen into a long silence, so she mistakenly thought that Ma En was still waiting for her to say something related to the hat, so she said that politely

.

But what is this for?

Is it because they are worried that she will know the truth about Shen Xiao, and the Federation has used some method to prevent her from accepting this information? But if this is the case, I am afraid that I will not have the opportunity to meet her.

"I can guess what you are thinking, but I have already told you the real answer." Shadow's voice suddenly came from behind him, "I told you that she is a little lunatic, and you may turn her into a lunatic."

I understand it as a description of her character. In fact, what I said is that she has some mental problems and she can only perceive what she wants to perceive. For example, she can’t hear what I’m talking to you now.”

After saying this, Shadow said to Alice again:

"You go back to bed first. You have to get up early to warm up tomorrow."

"Okay, Uncle Shadow." Then the girl seemed to notice his presence. After answering, she looked at Ma En again, "If you want to know anything, you can come to me at any time."

After Shadow watched Alice return to the house, he said to Marne:

"We are very good at finding those people who can change the world in advance. Shen Xiao may be our most successful example. You cannot expect other geniuses we have found to be as perfect as her, not to mention Shen Xiao also has unrealistic flaws.

"But if compared with Alice, her problem is nothing at all. Shenxiao just has some arrogant ideas, and we have already used our own methods to correct this. But Alice is different. We still have her problem for the time being.

No cure has been found.”

Man said:

"She seems pretty normal."

Shadow said calmly:

"You may think you were having a conversation just now, but in fact you can't understand each other at all. She has no idea what reality looks like in your eyes, just like you can't see her absurd and crazy world.

"Although I know what she definitely can't hear, I can't always be sure what else she can't hear.

"I once visited her mind and wanted to see and understand the scene in her eyes. Of course, I did this because the Federation wanted to establish direct communication with her through me. There is certainly no danger to me.

, but I still can’t understand what she saw.

"The scenes I saw have no connection with reality. I cannot use pure logic to correlate them with the real situation. People who see those things should not be able to talk to other people at all.

"A guy like her should have spent her whole life in a mental hospital, or if she was unlucky, she might have starved to death on the roadside.

"But she has a gift that transcends the curse."

Ma En asked:

"Is she a reality bender?"

Shadow smiled:

"Otherwise, why do you think the Federation found her? Do you think it is easy to take care of such a mentally ill person? We still do not have any effective communication system to communicate with her. Only a few people can barely communicate with her in depth. God

Xiao is one of them.

"Although we usually say that reality benders are madmen, our statement is more like a metaphor, and Alice is really a madman. She is not very dangerous most of the time, but it is very difficult to communicate with her.

"Of course, it's okay even if she really loses control. After all, she is still a level III ability user. Alice can defeat most level IV ability users, but she can't reach level IV herself. This leaves us with no need to

Worried about what problems she may have."

Man said:

"It sounds like she is not suitable for such a complicated job."

Shadow nodded:

"If we hadn't happened to need a Level III ability user, she would still be in a special sanatorium now. But we can't tolerate any possibility of failure in this matter, and she can guarantee that we will definitely win.

.”

Ma En asked:

"When you say she can't reach Level IV, do you mean it's impossible for her to advance?"

Shadow looked at her house seriously:

"Yes, the reality is that she trapped herself.

"Reality warpers can use their own will to tamper with reality, while some mental patients have crazy thoughts. These two points formed a bad positive cycle in her. As she became crazy, the surrounding reality gradually came closer to her.

Delusion.

"Actually, this is a good thing for us. If she could reach Level IV, we might have executed her secretly. It is because she is trapped by her own abilities and mental illness that we can have time to find a way to cure her.

Method."

Ma En asked:

"Didn't you say that she would not normally cause any harm?"

Shadow said in a cold tone:

"We are the Federation, not the Salvation Alliance. Although you have performed very well among your companions, I still want to remind you that it is best not to bring the problems you cultivated in Shenxiao to us. I suggest you

It's best not to have too many emotions when working here.

"And she is not as safe as I just said. To be precise, Alice will not harm others, but she has a 'friend' called Lilith. She will only appear when she feels that Alice is in danger, but she appears

Sometimes I do very cruel things.

"What I just said is not dual personality, or that may have been, but she is a reality warper, so now it is no longer a purely mental problem, only the Federation can deal with her problem.

"Anyway, she's still alive now. Isn't it good?"

Ma En asked:

"Can you control her?"

Shadow said:

"Of course, not every reality bender is Shenxiao. Some of them are strong and some are weak. We have also killed many reality benders who pose a threat to the federation. And don't you see that we have defeated Shenxiao?

"Alice can even be said to be the most pitiful among them. Her ability has entangled herself like a spider web. She is slowly killing herself with her reality distortion ability. If it weren't for us,

With help, now she has been killed by her own power."

Man said:

"So the genius you value most is a poor girl trapped by her own abilities."

Shadow said:

"That's right, but we are trying to cure her. Strictly speaking, she has a better chance of becoming one of us than you, and when she reaches level V, she will also surpass ordinary high-level ability users like you and me.

This is an opportunity for the Federation and her.
Chapter completed!