I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 262 - 226 The Unpeekable Spiritual Descent (Vote for

Chapter 262: 226 The Unpeekable Spiritual Descent (Vote for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 262: 226 The Unpeekable Spiritual Descent (Vote for Monthly Pass)

“It must be Mr. Liu!” the young boss gritted his teeth.

However, Lin An had a different opinion, “I suspect these are two separate matters. Mr. Liu monitoring us and Zheng Miao deleting data and running away might be unrelated. Combining them might lead us in the wrong direction!”

Seeing that the young boss was relatively composed, he continued.

“First and foremost, we need to find Zheng Miao. We must ascertain one thing: after she deleted all the data, did she make a copy to take with her or not?”

“This means we might still have a chance to recover it!”

“The special project team has been developing for so long. The art department cooperated intensively, and our investment was massive. If we can retrieve it, it would be a stroke of luck amidst this misfortune.”

“Secondly, how did she manage to hide her identity right under our noses? Could it be because she’s Zheng Miao’s twin sister or something, naturally looking the way she does, rather than relying on witchcraft?”

“You mean, this might not be an issue related to the Supernatural World, but a matter in the business world of ordinary people.”

“But if it was due to witchcraft, what kind of methods did she use?”

“Figuring this out will prevent us from being caught off guard by someone pulling the same trick in the future!”

“Third, why did she delete the database and leave? Was she trying to extort money from us? Or was she a saboteur sent by a competitor to disrupt our development progress? Or something else?”

“Fourth, if it’s Mr. Liu, then why now?”

Lin An had two hypotheses he hadn’t voiced yet.

Firstly, Zheng Miao had been recruited into the company because of her unique spiritual nature – she had a mermaid spirit that would incessantly shed tears.

And Lin An observed that, aside from his Ugly Head and Witch Zhou Xiaoxiao’s leeches, hers was another spirit that would continually ‘flow’.

This meant that Zheng Miao very well might be a witch.

Secondly, her true target could very well be his Spiritual Portrait.

This time the ‘Green-Robed Witch’, with his clear direction and the help of a large number of art technicians, might have actually created something.

That portrait might indeed be the very answer he had been looking for.

At the same time, Zheng Miao must have seen the value of that model!

After a brief discussion, the three decided to split up and pursue different leads.

The young boss would follow the traces from the apartment across the building, the Caidai Witch would continue her technical search for additional information, and Lin An would look for solutions from a witchcraft perspective.

Having settled on a course of action, everyone got busy.

The Caidai Witch led her trusted subordinates to skirt the edges of the internet, while the young boss pulled out his phone and, using his connections, began a worldly search stemming from the surveillance of his own apartment.

On Lin An’s end, before the young boss had arrived, he had already attempted to exercise divination with the aid of his spiritual head.

But it seemed as if something was hindering him; he could only see a vague mass of twisting smoke.

Of course, it might not have been an obstruction. It could be that they simply hadn’t yet learned to fully utilize this ability.

If their current powers were insufficient, then they must seek help.

Lin An summoned Chen Shuyun and the detective siblings. If these three couldn’t handle it, he could still turn to the newly joined witches. However, since their backgrounds were unclear, he was reluctant to involve them in such matters for the time being.

The special project team’s office was now empty. The detective’s brother, Chen Shen, crouched on the ground, hands on the floor, and blew out a forceful breath.

Whoo~~~~

Clouds of dust tinged with gold began to drift about, growing more and more plentiful.

His sister, Chen Jie, was holding a stick of incense, swiftly making circles in the air, within which ripples of light seemed to surge and swell.

The ripples passed through the dust and continued to advance forward, eventually vanishing into the projection screen on the wall.

Before long, images appeared on the screen.

It was Zheng Miao.

In the dead of night, she appeared to sit on a chair with her arms crossed, her long legs propped on the desk. She was sucking on a lollipop, gazing intently at the computer screen.

The glow of the computer bathed her delicate face, causing her eyes to shine.

Oh, no, it was her eyes that were actually glowing.

“Warm Lamp Glass Sorcery!” Chen Shuyun whispered to Lin An, “It’s a spell cast on the eyes, actually meant to shield the mind from external influences. It’s a very advanced form of witchcraft!”

“This woman is indeed a witch, and not a simple one at that!”

Lin An nodded, his brow furrowed as he kept watching. He had a nagging feeling of familiarity with the Zheng Miao in the projection.

It was a kind of familiarity different from his regular interactions with this female subordinate.

But no matter where he felt he had seen her before, even after scouring his entire memory, he could not find a matching figure.

“Lin An, Lin An…” the Zheng Miao within the screen licked her lips, the lollipop in her mouth wobbling, “you’re really formidable, truly a man I admire.”

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“!!!” Chen Shen looked up with a puzzled expression, stealing a glance at the Great Commander Lin An, then at his sister.

As if to imply, this isn’t going to turn into a battleground, is it? Shuyun is right here!

His sister glared at him – it was obviously not something for them to worry about. They just needed to focus on doing their job.

“Why does this person act just like my sister!” Chen Shuyun muttered, and when everyone looked at her, she was stunned for a moment before explaining, “My sister also liked to dangle a cigarette in her mouth.”

The detective siblings snickered, and Lin An shook his head.

This wasn’t Chen Xinmi, or to put it another way, he knew this person wasn’t transformed from Chen Xinmi.

Appearances can be deceiving, but spiritual essences do not lie.

Chen Xinmi’s spiritual essence was a collection of extremely complete traces of the past, a black cat, while Zheng Miao’s essence was a mermaid with two shells crowning her head.

Zheng Miao, hidden behind the curtain, admired something for a while and eventually typed something on the computer before pulling out a portable hard drive.

“She has made a backup!”

Lin An’s eyes brightened.

No, no need!

He came to his senses and quickly looked at Chen Shen, “Is there any way to see what’s on her computer screen? I need to know the content!”

That was what mattered most!

Chen Shen hesitated for a moment, “It won’t be very clear. When we helped someone investigate in the past, sometimes we would see people filling out some form documents, and the contents of the files would be rather blurry.”

Lin An nodded, “That’s okay, I need to have a look first!”

Chen Shen gestured towards his sister, and his sister, Chen Jie, quickly took out a particularly ancient-looking bamboo tube from her backpack. The tube wasn’t big, less than two centimeters wide, stuffed with incense ash.

“Our sibling’s casting materials are all related to incense, my brother uses incense ash, and I use ignited incense. This tube is specially researched and made by us; the images seen through it will be clearer!”

The sister explained as she handed the bamboo tube to her brother.

Chen Shen took the bamboo tube in his mouth, continuously searching for the angle in the office, and finally lay down diagonally behind the spot where Zheng Miao had sat the night before.

Whoosh~~~~

Pale golden sparks rose along with the smoke dust.

Sister Chen Jie waved her incense in hand again, but before she could perform her witchcraft, brother Chen Shen suddenly let out a wail.

He seemed to have seen something terrifying, suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground, supporting himself with hands and feet as he retreated, as if trying to dodge something.

Lin An could clearly see that from within the smoke dust, something was crawling out.

It was a mass of wriggling roots!

And a red silk ribbon!

There was also a huge white python!

Especially that white python, which was clearly Chen Shuyun’s spiritual essence; yet at this moment, in Lin An’s eyes, it was comfortably resting on Chen Shuyun’s body.

This means that these three items were unmistakably the spiritual essences emanating from the “Green Robe Witch” portrait they had ultimately painted!

Lin An’s expression changed, and just as he was about to cast the ‘Coffin-Sealing’ Sorcery to help Chen Shen, Chen Shuyun took the initiative.

Warm Lamp Glass Sorcery!

A shimmering light enveloped Chen Shen and flickered, turning into two streaks of light attaching to his eyes.

In an instant, the three things in the smoke dust that were crawling out towards Chen Shen vanished.

It turns out, the gaze truly was the key to bringing spiritual essences into the real world.

It wasn’t just Lin An; others could provoke this phenomenon as well!

But now was not the time for research; they rushed to support Chen Shen, checking over him.

“I’m alright,” Chen Shen wiped the cold sweat from his brow and looked at Lin An, “Great Commander, it doesn’t work; that image seems to have some kind of power making it impossible to peek into.”

“What exactly is your company doing?” Chen Shuyun asked curiously, looking at Lin An, “to create such weird things as unobservable images?”

Lin An was taken aback, “We’re just doing game development.”

“I’ve heard about this before,” Chen Shuyun expressed her incomprehension, pointing at the computer, “apparently some wizard artists have painted very terrifying portraits, cursing everyone who saw them. But the photos taken by cameras of those paintings didn’t have any witchcraft effects.”

“And you’re saying it happens with a computer screen like this?”

“How is that possible?”

This was entirely different.

One is a tangible painting, the other is digital, capable of easy duplication and spread, and seemingly indestructible in entity.

Simply terrifying!

“What exactly have you painted?”

Chen Shuyun’s expression became serious, “Lin An, I must warn you, if your beautiful subordinate stole this painting and made multiple copies to distribute everywhere, it would be a disaster for the ordinary world!”

Lin An squinted and nodded, looking at the detective siblings, “Can you track down that beautiful subordinate… ugh… what a descriptor…”

He gave Chen Shuyun a peculiar look and continued, “Can you track down that witch’s whereabouts?”

Chen Shen and his sister Chen Jie exchanged glances and nodded in unison, “That’s our specialty!”