In China, in the Ten Rings Headquarters.
There was a man sitting on a throne.
Watching a video of a young man who tore through a bunch of people…
Date: February 10th One month ago…
He first somehow got through the border patrol around the mountain, and then he started to, one by one, break the cameras that had an eye on him…
He was fast, but he did not really hide himself… Before my agents got to him… And, well, he incapacitated most of them without killing them, and then he used their own guns and the jeep…
He got in that jeep, and somehow the jeep moved faster than it could have… to the point it flew through the walls… right inside the main hall…
Then the fight with Death Dealer was just as I expected, but that second where that boy grabs Death Dealer's head… How he improved like a monster; his fighting style itself was weird, a mix of a lot of things. He could be trained by some army, military, or maybe some other secret organization, but still, he seemed to lack one thing: real-life experience…
But he grew... mid-fight like a monster...
But once I myself started fighting him, he was no match for me before he turned into a 4-armed monster… He was on par with me… No, he was stronger… Especially when he got his hands on me, I felt myself getting weaker…
Not only that, he took me out of my own kingdom in front of my army… stole my most powerful weapon and made me a deal I could not say no to…
And what do I know about him? Other than his name, James Lee, nothing… There is no one on earth who has the name James Lee and looks like that young man or shows the powers he showed. I have looked everywhere—nothing… well, close to nothing. There was a 'James Lee' who did fly to China from the USA… But the background? Passport? Nothing… How is that even possible? Unless he has someone in the system who pretty much hooked him up with the plane ticket...
But one little thing: James Lee reached China on January 8, 2006, but he attacked ten rings on February 10th. What does this mean?? What was he doing for one month? in China? He surely was not just hanging out… But again, I see no sight of him. He does not show up on the cameras like a ghost…
Or someone is deleting all the camera footage that he has been seen in, but that will mean he has a team of people behind him… But he fought alone. This does not make sense… He does not make sense. How did he even come to China? The plane ticket does not make sense, and once he got here, he was not seen on the cameras… The only proof there might be is eyewitness accounts, but…
It's a fucking airport… How can you trust an eyewitness at an airport…? It's truly impossible. He does not make sense. He must have a way to fly or become a ghost…
Because if he can't do things like flying or becoming something like a ghost, then, well… he might as well be a 无面人. (Faceless Man)
But that's not even the worst part; the worst part is how he brought Ying Li out of her grave… It's impossible to explain by normal science. But with magic, it's explainable. Even with my own eyes, even though I saw him, I could not read him. He was like a piece of paper full of flaws, but at the same time, flawless…
And what he promised me was something so tempting that even the devil himself could not offer…
Bringing someone back from the dead—it's magical. I have only heard about it being possible in places like Ta Lo… That's the only thing I have, the only possible lead. He could be from Ta Lo, but he himself denies it. And he should have no real reason to lie. A person with that much power does not need to lie…
Hmm, the task he gave me is weird, to say the least: to gather the information about pretty much everyone in this world… every organization, and even the Ten Rings itself…
Which is weird. He seemed to know me and everything about me, but he wanted to know more? No, it was different. He did not seem too eager for knowledge; it's almost like he only wanted to confirm whether what he knew was true or not…
Or maybe this is a test?
Anyway, whatever it was, this world is much bigger than I thought. Huh, some of the things my information network found out even I myself did not know about… But again, I did not know someone like him existed, so all of this info is tame compared to his existence.
I turn off the video and look outside the window. It was the dawn, and the sun was rising…
Where could he be? He did not give me anything, no way to contact him… I have gathered information from all around the world… But how do I give it to him?
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While Xu was thinking about thoughts and one man, there was someone else who was also thinking about the same man, but she knew him by a different name…
Huh, Leo did not come to college today… I was going to actually go up to him and try to chat, but he did not come today… Was that a coincidence? that she was going to chat with him, but he just happened to not come to college the day she thought of talking with him…
At this point Jessica did not know just in days this unknown dude had taken over her mind… And even things like this felt like more than coincidence…
But Jessica laughs a little to herself and shakes her head. She thinks, 'Oh, this is a coincidence. I am just overthinking…' And as Jessica laughed at herself, she also casually once again looked up 'JD.' Again, why? Because, well, Jessica was bored in class, but what she found on her phone, she almost screamed out loud…
There was actually no new news about this, but under 'JD's name there was another new company now… Mojang? What? No, no…
If Leo not coming to college because Jessica just happened to think about talking to him was a coincidence, then what the hell was this? This was fucking proof! Leo just happens to not come to college, and on that same day…
JD opens a new company!
This is undeniable proof!