Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations

Zhao Yao was left speechless as he continued watching him cry his hearts out, “Why do you have to cry?” He took a glance at his mission panel and realized that he had already completed the mission, netting him 1000*2 experience points.

Actually, Mike was a rather powerful apostle on his own. However, he stood zero chance against Zhao Yao and his gang of supercats.

“How am I supposed to know …” Mike wiped off the snot dangling from his nose before continuing, “I … I just feel so unhappy!”

Lin Chen and the rest began laughing when they heard his silly remarks before Zhao Yao interrupted them abruptly, “Why are you guys even laughing? You were trounced by this man here and you still have the cheek to laugh at him?”

The smiles instantly evaporated from their faces as awkwardness clouded their features.

Zhao Yao then switched his attention back to Mike and asked, “Do you have any companion or some sort of mastermind supporting your operations? What is your real intention behind this wide-scale power failure? Speak!”

Lin Chen suppressed a smile when he heard the headless horseman’s words. True to the rumors, he loved prying the culprit for his accomplice or mastermind.

Mike continued sobbing non-stop as he struggled to reply, “It’s pointless asking me! I …. I cannot tell you anything!”

Zhao Yao’s eyes immediately sparked with excitement. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Just when he was about to resort to his most unscrupulous method to elicit a response from Mike, Mike’s face immediately collapsed with terror as his expression revealed abject fear and despair, “No! No! No!”

The next moment, all the bolts of electricity circling his body escaped from him like an uncaged beast. With pairs of eyes staring at him, the electricity Mike had been absorbing for the past few days finally broke free from him before impaling right through his body, burning him to a crisp.

Zhao Yao’s forehead creased together when he saw this unexpected turn of events, “Did the supercat take back its power?”

He knew that was the only logical explanation behind this phenomenon. Without the power to control electricity, such amount of current was simply too much for any ordinary human which explained his demise.

“So this apostle here is just a tiny little pawn? Instant death awaited him the moment his identify was exposed?” Zhao Yao observed the body that had already been burnt charred as a tinge of sympathy crossed his face.

Electrocution by this amount of electricity would certainly spell instant death. With half his body burnt to this extent, there was a high chance that his brain was in the same state. Even Lucifer’s power of super-regeneration would not be able to revive Mike.

Zhao Yao’s heart sank when he realized that there was a scheming and evil mastermind behind all of it. This meant that Jiangmen City was simply moments away from the next wide-scale power cut.

At the same time, the mission panel had reflected a new mission.

Mission: Capture the mastermind!

Objective: Capture the man behind Mike’s death!

Reward: 2000 experience points

Punishment: Nil

Zhao Yao secretly nodded his head when he accepted the mission. He had already set his mind to exact revenge for Mike even before the mission appeared.

This mastermind was simply killing and causing power cut according to his whims and fancies. It was preposterous. Zhao Yao would never rest in peace if that man continued lurking in the shadows.

“Let’s go!” Zhao Yao screamed at his supercats telepathically before getting ready to leave.

Lin Chen immediately reacted to him and interrupted Zhao Yao by screaming, “No Brain, wait!”

“What?”

Even though Lin Chen could not see Zhao Yao’s hear nor expression, he could vividly sense the murderous aura swarming in his direction. He immediately changed his choice of words, “Headless horseman, can I seek a word with you?”

“What’s there to talk about?”

Lin Chen dangled a bait in Zhao Yao’s face, “Aren’t you a chivalrous man? If you act alone, you will not have enough intel. On the other hand, we have some information to share with you which will save you lots of trouble.”

This was the plan which Inspector Ho and Lin Chen had agreed upon after analyzing the intel regarding ‘No Brain’.

‘No Brain’ was no ordinary man, especially the way he thought. They knew that ordinary baits such as money or benefits would pay no dividends to this man. Instead, they had to act according to his interests.

Since he loved to restore peace and prosperity to the society, they would offer this exact opportunity to him.

Lin Chen continued, “You can work with us while remaining anonymous. With the information from the government, you will be able to know everything that you wish to know …”

Zhao Yao considered the proposition carefully and found it rather enticing. If he was able to obtain some information from Inspector Ho’s side under this guise, it would be far more efficient than blindly searching for missions.

With it, Zhao Yao immediately shot out, “Have you watched Batman?”

Lin Chen was flabbergasted by his weird question.

“If you wish to contact me, just project a light on the roof of the police headquarters. Do it the same way as Batman.” By using his power, only Lin Chen could hear Zhao Yao’s voice, “When I see the light in the sky, I’ll come over immediately. Only one person can come up and speak to me.”

As he spoke, Gaia had already activated his power as Zhao Yao began submerging into the depths of the concrete.

….

“You? He wants us to call him over using the bat signal?” Inspector Ho slammed his arms onto his table as he stared at Lin Chen in disbelief, “You actually believe his words? You’ve simply watched too much Batman!”

Lin Chen replied, “But you can’t compare ‘No Brain’ to an ordinary human’s behavior, maybe he was really telling the truth! This gives us an opportunity to establish contact with him with minimal opportunity costs! I think there’s no harm trying at all.”

“Also, have you even read the report that I submitted? No Brain is far stronger than we have imagined.”

“Nonsense!” Inspector Ho shook his head and replied, “We are an official government organization. How can we maintain contact with criminal using such methods?”

…

Two hours later, on the rooftop of the police headquarters.

“D*mn it, I’m really stupid.” Inspector Ho squatted by a giant floodlight as he shivered violently against the winter winds.

He had carefully placed a few metal plates on the floodlight to project the letter ‘h’ in the air, just as promised.

He could only inch towards the floodlight for warmth. He began rubbing his bald head impatiently as he continued shuddering and lamented, “Why is that nutcase still not here yet?”

The second night, Zhao Yao came over with his plate of delicacies, conjured by his illusions. He slid Inspector Ho a weird glance before asking, “Look at your dark circle! Rough night?”

Inspector Ho was fuming with anger after the entire night spent on the chilly rooftop for nothing, “I met a dumb fool and caught a cold.” Similarly, he slid Zhao Yao an equally weird glance and asked, “Your dark circles are pretty serious as well.”

Zhao Yao spent the entire night completing new missions and replied with a shook of his head, “I spent my night taking care of the people.”

He took another glance at Inspector Ho and thought, “I should just depend on myself for intel for the time being.” He had already established a rather close relationship with the government officials. Using headless horseman’s identity would simply create opportunities for mistakes.

His reason for creating this alias was simply to avoid trouble and he had no reason to divert from his original purpose.

Days whizzed past as Zhao Yao spent his time completing more missions, watching anime and preparing cat rice.

The date of the first cat king competition also inched closer, day by day.