Clues Gradually Emerging

Seeing Winnie’s expression, Su Ran knew she hadn’t taken her words to heart.

Right now, with most other matters dealt with, Su Ran decided to directly eliminate the effects of the Weak Constitution Value.

There should still be some of the salary Winnie sent her left, more than enough to get rid of the Weak Constitution Value.

The tightness from her collar made Su Ran feel like her neck was being strangled, even restricting her breathing.

Su Ran couldn’t imagine how someone with Yuffie’s proportions managed to endure it.

This was only five points of Weak Constitution Value.

If she let it stack up, sooner or later, Su Ran would become just like Yuffie, with a bountiful, snowy-white… well, she’d find out then.

At this thought, a chill ran down Su Ran’s spine.

‘Good heavens, I just like to look, but I don’t like it when people look at me!’

“System, get rid of the Weak Constitution Value on me! I’ve had enough!”

Su Ran decided she would be a pure admirer of beauty, and absolutely not be admired by others.

[Are you sure you want to eliminate the Weak Constitution Value? The physical changes need to be gradually removed; they cannot disappear suddenly.]

“Huh? What do you mean by that?”

Seeing the system’s pop-up, Su Ran couldn’t help but ask in return.

“You mean you can make it expand in an instant, but you can’t make it retract in an instant?”

Seeing the explanation given by the system, Su Ran immediately became anxious.

What kind of nonsense was this?

Although it was only a little bigger now, if it got a little bigger each time, wouldn’t it eventually be bigger than Yuffie’s?

For a moment, Su Ran was reminded of a certain mobile game she had played, with those balloon-like proportions.

If she replaced the paper cutout character’s head with her own, goosebumps would rise on her fair skin.

She absolutely did not want to become like that!

[Dear~ It’s only temporary. It will go back to normal after a while. We can’t let people see you suddenly growing bigger and smaller, can we?]

“I’d rather tell people I’m wearing padding.”

Su Ran secretly shot a glare at the system.

Compared to becoming a balloon, being told she wore padding didn’t seem like such a big deal.

Under Su Ran’s urging, the system obediently eliminated three points of the Weak Constitution Value for her.

With less than five points of Weak Constitution Value, the undulations on her chest could no longer maintain their previous height, but the residual effects still lingered.

The remaining part would take a few more days to return to normal.

To deal with the events in Tukulu, Su Ran chose not to eliminate the remaining two points of Weak Constitution Value.

Having one point before didn’t affect her much, so now, just two points was also acceptable for Su Ran.

Winnie called out to Su Ran, “Xiao Ran, Security Officer Li is here!”

While Su Ran was having a quiet chat with the system, Li Shanhai, having received the message, had also rushed to the scene.

“Security Officer Li, should I say we meet again?”

Walking toward Li Shanhai, Su Ran could only make light of the situation.

After all, she was constantly getting embroiled in cases, much like a certain grim reaper elementary school student.

“Today should be our first time meeting, right? From what I hear, the enemy was after the mutated Earl’s corpse?”

Hearing her, Li Shanhai waved his hand, putting an end to the pleasantries and bringing the topic back to the sudden appearance of the magic formation.

“The sacrificial formation that trapped me was likely after the mutated Earl.”

“As for what happened here, I believe we will have answers soon.”

The theory of a sacrificial formation could be verified by both the mutated Earl’s case and the current situation.

On this point, Su Ran had no need to worry.

“If the magic formation was set up for the mutated Earl’s corpse, then what role did Shen Yue play in this?”

After so much time had passed, the ice sculpture that Winnie had deliberately left untouched was also discovered by the staff searching for Ma Kun.

Before Li Shanhai arrived, Winnie had already informed him of the discovery of Shen Yue.

“Shen Yue was acting as the guardian of the magic formation. That much is an undeniable fact. But as for why she would do so, I still don’t know.”

Su Ran was also very surprised by Shen Yue’s appearance, but she couldn’t figure out her motive either.

After all, being inside a sacrificial magic formation would definitely have an effect.

Unlike herself and Old Ma, she had stayed here voluntarily to guard the formation.

What kind of magic could make her do that?

Was it just for the “evolution” she spoke of?

“Ahem, perhaps I can provide you with the answer.”

Turning toward the sound, they saw Ma Kun sitting in Su Ran’s original wheelchair, coughing as he spoke.

Seeing her wheelchair, Su Ran suddenly realized the effect of her painkiller potion was about to wear off.

To avoid any mishaps at this crucial moment, she took out her last bottle of the potion and drank it, then quietly waited for Ma Kun to speak.

Ma Kun had not been severely injured.

Aside from the aging of his bodily functions, there were no other particularly obvious wounds.

After being helped into the wheelchair, he had regained consciousness and was now looking towards the ice coffin, having understood the situation.

Ma Kun cleared his thoughts, confirmed what he wanted to say, and then spoke to the crowd, “There is a type of magic within the vampire race that allows one to split their spiritual power to control others. During the war against the vampires, this magic caused humanity to suffer great losses, leaking a lot of information about troop deployments. This is recorded in the materials regarding the vampire war.”

Hearing this, Winnie’s expression remained calm.

She hadn’t expected the Human Federation to still have records of puppet magic.

But this time, hearing Ma Kun’s explanation, Winnie also felt a sense of relief.

She had been looking for a way to tell Su Ran and the others about the existence of puppet magic.

Winnie had also seen the frozen figure of Shen Yue.

She could confirm that Shen Yue had been subjected to puppet magic.

“A person who has had puppet magic cast on them will have a black magic formation mark left on their body. And I saw this mark on Shen Yue’s shoulder.”

With that, Ma Kun took out his phone, which displayed a photo he had taken of Shen Yue’s shoulder.

A circular-like mark was composed of several complex patterns.

“This is the mark of puppet magic?” Su Ran asked softly.

“That’s right. This is the mark of puppet magic.”

Ma Kun nodded affirmatively. “I’ve seen the records in the research institute’s archives. It’s no different from the drawings there.”

The moment she saw the mark, Winnie knew the information Ma Kun spoke of was correct.

The last time she had dealt with Li Ming’s body, it was also to destroy the mark and secretly investigate the leaker.

But unexpectedly, that had led the investigation to a stalemate.

Now that the clue of puppet magic had been presented, she believed it would also let Su Ran and the others know who the most likely suspect was so far.