Chapter 19: Listening

"The autopsy results are in. The cause of death is autopsy."

There is an indescribable sense of incongruity when such a joke comes from the mouth of a tough guy like Takeshi Noguchi.

Kuroki Shinizumi looked at Noguchi Takeshi in front of him with a look that said, "Are you okay? Are you tired?"

"This is what Nakajima from the Forensic Department said. She was very angry and asked me to tell you exactly what she said." Noguchi explained expressionlessly, indicating that what he just said was not a joke, but rather a message of someone's anger.
Then he handed the detailed report to Kuroki Shinizumi.

Kuroki Shinizumi paused after taking the report and opened it. Surprisingly, the reporter did not print it out using a computer, but wrote it in handwriting. The font was neat, but one could seem to see the anger between the lines.

She ignored this emotion and read the contents carefully one by one. After reading it several times, she put the report on the table and thought about it alone.

Takeshi Noguchi sat down, took the report and started reading it, while talking about related things.

"It's normal for accidents to happen during vivisection, especially for Holy Infant members who have [high-density skin]. However, I have more contact with Nakajima. If there is a similar need in the future, find someone else. I remember that some people in some laboratories are very good at this." Noguchi Takeshi shared the pressure of Kuroki Shinizumi in his own way.

Kuroki Shinizumi smiled, albeit a little reluctantly: "Don't comfort me, I have already prepared myself mentally. What disappointed me was the autopsy result."

Due to his work, Takeshi Noguchi often needs to look for clues in a large number of files. Over time, he became good at capturing keywords in documents, reading ten lines at a glance, and quickly saw the summary.

"After the abdominal cavity was opened, the skin strength gradually decreased, and the superpowers were completely lost within ten seconds, becoming no different from ordinary people. All physiological functions declined rapidly, and he eventually died of heart failure. The remaining parts of the body were dissected and no abnormalities were found."

This result is very disappointing.

This shows that the previous speculation direction promoted by the investigation team was wrong.

The Holy Son Pill is not a concrete source of energy, but rather is more of a mysterious existence. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the abilities that seem to come out of nowhere in the bodies of people with super powers.

All kinds of routine blood and urine investigations that had been conducted long ago had not revealed any mysterious unknown energy, and various scans also showed that there was nothing extra in his body.

In the end, it was Kuroki Shinizumi who fully supported this vivisection. The target was one of the only two housewives who had taken the Holy Son Pill that were captured at the beginning. But now that the result is like this, there is no way to satisfy the people above.

You know, there are many "cooperationist" voices in the upper echelons now, and dissecting members of the Holy Infant Society who have received gifts is undoubtedly an act that is very disrespectful to the Holy Infant Society and is laying obstacles for future cooperation.

Kuroki Shinizumi scoffed at this. As a representative of the hardliners, she had reviewed all the casualty reports since the establishment of the investigation team. If they dissected a member, it would be a violation of cooperation, and the long lists of casualties showed that the Holy Infant Society had never thought about cooperation at all.

Instead of holding on to such an illusory dream, it is better to prepare for war actively. The axiom she believes in is that dignity has always been fought for, and begging will only result in nothing.

"The chaebols have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and we have a lot of their people here, so we have limited manpower to monitor them. But as of now, the probability of them contacting Nakai Hayabusa is very small." Their attitude towards the chaebols is to be cautious while cooperating, at least the three people who currently have actual control over the investigation team think so.

"We must keep an eye on it. You know, for those people, there is no such thing as a stance. They will stand on whichever side the benefits flow to."

Kuroki Shinizumi forced herself to stay awake and looked at Noguchi Takeshi, who had no intention of leaving. The contact during this period allowed her to have a deeper understanding of this "hero of solving cases". She knew that such a guy who did not like to waste time would not make a personal trip just to deliver a piece of information.

"Go ahead, I hope it's good news."

"It is indeed good news." Noguchi Takeshi nodded, "The boy with paranoid delusions has been found."

"Oh, it's good news indeed. How do you plan to train him to fight for us?" Kuroki Shinquan was excited. This was one of the few good news she had heard in recent days. "He awakened an ability that could turn his body into gaseous form and tried to save his mother, but because of the flaws his mother revealed, William who happened to be there discovered it. Finally, after communication, he was willing to cooperate with us temporarily."

Although there was not much fluctuation in Noguchi Takeshi's tone, Kuroki could still hear the surprise in it.

If the previous physical and strength enhancement could barely be explained by science, then now it has completely exceeded the science they understand.

At least it is beyond the current limits of scientific cognition.

Kuroki didn't know whether to show a happy or bitter expression.

Harvest!
You can sit at home and supernatural powers will come to you from heaven.

He thought he was lucky that the wild cat that escaped from the city last time had mutated him into a new ability, but he didn't expect that in less than a day, the son of the core member, a housewife, had also mutated into a new ability.

The wild cat of Baishi Air Traffic Control is called Yiziyan, and it is a great contributor to their current status.

The mutated ability is called [Listening], which allows it to listen to the sounds made by various creatures within a diameter of ten kilometers, and to understand the general meaning of the communication intentions of other creatures.

This ability is very good, and it will be exclusive to him and One-Eye from now on.

Moreover, the range within which he can listen includes not only his own ten-kilometer diameter, but also the ten-kilometer diameter of his symbiotic partner.

When using it, you just need to concentrate and you can hear a variety of complex sounds.

"God! I will overcome the trials of this world and wait for your return."

"I'm so hungry, what are we going to eat later?"

"It seems that the first version of the plan is better. Oh, let the other party revise it for another ten or so times, and then I will take the trouble to review it again."

"Brother, you smell so good (﹃)"

"Hey, what are you doing~"

When he first used it, it felt like hundreds of loud speakers were blasting at his eardrums. It took him a while to get used to it before he found the tricks to lower the volume, find directions, and filter species and content.

He directly listed the Holy Child and his own name as the words of concern. As long as someone said this word within his listening range, he could start monitoring the other party and roughly guess the other party's identity based on the location.

In the future, if he encounters someone who says bad things about him, he can secretly take note of that person.

Then there is another ability, which is the only four-word ability that Shiraishi Hang currently has.

【Walking in the Void】

(End of this chapter)