# 1889
Chapter 1882: None of My Business
Lin Qiye fell silent for a moment.
"Alright, I understand."
"Commander, where did you hear this name? Is it important?"
"...Perhaps."
Lin Qiye hung up the phone, his expression somewhat grave.
Min Junliang's investigation results were exactly as he had anticipated. There was no record of this name in either Great Xia or the Oath Society... Could it be that everything he had heard in the Fourth Universe was merely a chaotic jumble of words from their madness? But how did he explain the fact that they had uttered the word "Cthulhu"?
Or perhaps, at that moment, he hadn't been thinking clearly and had misheard? Was it actually a different set of four characters?
While Lin Qiye was lost in thought, a figure flew over from the distance!
"So he's here..."
Lin Qiye temporarily set aside his tangled thoughts and looked up to see a silver-haired figure swooping through the air in a half-circle before descending precisely toward the ground!
Jinian's feet touched the ground as she flicked a strand of disheveled hair from her temple, speaking helplessly, "I'm saying... even though I agreed to help you, it doesn't mean I can be at your beck and call like some hired hand, right? My butt had barely warmed up from sitting for a few minutes before I rushed over here in a flurry... So tell me, what do you want?"
"Haven't you always wanted to test the limits of the planet-killer cannon?"
"!!! You're willing to be my human target?" Jinian's eyes instantly lit up.
"...I'm not interested, but I've found you a place where you can bomb to your heart's content, and the bigger the commotion, the better."
When she heard it wasn't Lin Qiye himself serving as the target, Jinian's interest visibly dampened, but she still asked, "Where?"
"The Cthulhu Faction's old lair."
Jinian: ...
"I'm not saying I talk loudly with you normally... but you don't have to hate me this much, right?" Jinian practically had the word "absurd" written all over her face. "I'm a Chief God here! Bombing the Cthulhu Faction's lair? They'd tear me to shreds!"
"No need to get so worked up. It's not like I'm asking you to engage them in direct combat... The堂堂 Oath Society会长, the 'Human Enclosure Destroyer,' isn't running away when you can't win your specialty?" Lin Qiye said seriously. "You just need to draw their aggro and hold them off for a period of time... the rest I'll handle."
"Running away is indeed my strong suit... but are the Cthulhu Faction and those divine kingdoms really comparable?"
Jinian rubbed her temples. "Setting aside everything else, a single Black Goat could easily suppress me, let alone six Cthulhu Faction gods... If they all attacked together, I wouldn't even have anywhere to run."
"I didn't say you'd have to go alone. There will be people to help scatter their firepower and cover your retreat."
"Who?"
"You'll find out when the time comes."
Jinian:凸(艹皿艹)
"You want me to bomb the Cthulhu Faction's lair, but you won't give me a retreat plan... Are you asking me to risk my life with you?"
Lin Qiye's eyebrows lifted slightly. "What? No confidence in yourself?"
"..." Jinian gritted her teeth. "Of course I have confidence in myself. No one understands better than I do how to恶心 these divine kingdoms!"
"So this crucial task can only be entrusted to you." Lin Qiye's expression was utterly serious. "In this matter, even the Night Goddess and the Mortal World Sword Immortal can't compare to you... This is a mission only you can complete."
Jinian was taken aback. She was just about to happily clap Lin Qiye on the shoulder and say he had good眼光, but quickly caught herself:
"How do I feel like you're tricking me again?"
"I'm just stating the facts."
"Then... then your眼光 really is quite good."
Jinian scratched her head in dilemma for a moment before finally biting the bullet. "I'll go help you harass the Cthulhu Faction, but you have to agree to one condition!"
"What condition?"
"Life-threatening missions can't be done by me alone! You have to share the weal and woe with me!"
"You mean..."
"After it's done, let me blast you with the planet-killer cannon three times! The kind where life and death are not guaranteed!"
Lin Qiye: ...
"Alright, I agree." Even though Lin Qiye had countless unspoken complaints, he agreed to this.
After all, what he was asking Jinian to do was truly extremely dangerous. In truth, Jinian could have easily refused, but in the end, she chose to trust him. He had to show some sincerity in return.
"By the way, do you know the location of the Cthulhu Faction's lair?"
"I don't, but someone does."
"Who?"
Lin Qiye turned to look toward the distance. At the edge of the landing pad, a monk draped in clay statue robes stood with palms pressed together, motionless as a sculpture.
His eyes were lowered, his gaze fixed on his fingertip, from which a thread of karma drifted outward, extending all the way to some faraway place...
...
In the courtyard,
Lin Qiye's true body slowly stood up.
He glanced at the thread of karma flowing from his body, then quickly looked away and pushed open the door to step out.
While An Qingyu's mist wall was formidable for trapping enemies, it couldn't block karma. Even if he had initially used means to obscure Lin Qiye's perception when trapping him inside, it could only fool Lin Qiye, not the Fate Monk, who could see karma. As long as he traced the thread of karma, finding Lin Qiye's true body was easy.
In other words, even if Lin Qiye didn't know where he was, the moment Lin Qiye appeared here, the location of the Cthulhu Faction's lair had already been exposed.
But merely knowing a location was far from enough... What Lin Qiye wanted was much more than that.
Just as Lin Qiye was about to walk toward the mist wall, the surging mist suddenly stilled, then parted to either side as a black-clothed figure walked out.
"What brings you here?" Lin Qiye stopped in his tracks.
An Qingyu looked at him calmly.
"Yu San is dead."
"That's none of my business. It was Chaos who did it."
"I know it was Chaos." An Qingyu's eyes narrowed slightly. "I'm not here to find you either... I'm here to find Him."
"Him?" Lin Qiye blinked. "Want me to take you inside the asylum so you two can confront each other face to face?"
An Qingyu glanced at him. "If I went in there, would you really let me leave?"
Lin Qiye naturally knew that such a petty trick could never lure An Qingyu. He could only smile helplessly.
"Nyarlathotep." An Qingyu stared into Lin Qiye's eyes. "I know you're watching..."
Inside the asylum,
Chaos, who had been watching the scenes outside with great interest, narrowed his eyes slightly.
"The message you had Yu San bring me, I've received it." An Qingyu spoke calmly. "Here is my reply... I will not release Lin Qiye, and I will not let everything proceed according to your will...
You want to rot away in that asylum watching the show—I'm very supportive of that. After all, a lunatic like you, even if you got out, would only interfere with me and Nicholas. Without your malignant presence, we're perfectly comfortable.
As for what you want to see and whether it can please you...
What do I care?"