<h4>Chapter 338: The Truth</h4>


    After assessing the situation, Adam turned his attention to Rabbit.


    "Are you alright?"


    "I''m fine."


    All psychic mutants possessed superhuman psychic recovery abilities, so she had alreadyrgely recovered.


    Rabbit stood up as she spoke, and after giving the man a punch, she turned her gaze toward the woman, who was still hanging onto life by a thread.


    "Please... kill... me..." the woman implored, and Rabbit picked up a knife before plunging it into her neck to put her out of her misery, then stepped over her body to arrive by Adam''s side.


    Mole had been standing on lookout duty, so he had no idea what had happened, and he asked, "What happened? Was the guy too strong to beat? Are we alright to just leave like this?"


    "I''ll tell you about what happened in thereter. Let''s get out here for now."


    With that, Adam and his group left the booth, taking care not to attract any attention to themselves.


    Even after arriving in the hall, Adam was still extremely alert. If that man were to go back on his word, then he and hispanions would have to get ready for battle at the drop of a hat.


    However, the man did keep his promise.


    In other words, he chose to keep silent as he didn''t want to face potential retaliation from Adam''s backers.


    "What should we do from here?" Shae asked. "Do we stay or do we leave?"


    "Let''s get out of here. That woman upstairs has been dead for a while now, and the party''s also progressed past its halfway mark. On top of that, our cover''s been blown, so it would be too risky to stay here any longer."


    "But it''s such a shame that we only managed to hunt down one anomaly."


    Shae was very greedy as she had an intense yearning for power.


    "It is indeed a shame, but we have to cut our losses. We can hide in ambush on the way out to see if we can capture a few stragglers."


    "That''s a brilliant idea!" Mole said as he patted Adam on the shoulder. "As expected of a brother of mine."


    Thus, after a brief discussion, Adam and his group left the cannibal club.


    No examination was conducted on them on the way out, and they were able to leave without a hitch. At this point, it was already veryte at night, and Adam and his group departed from the ind on a small boat.


    The gentleman who was still in the club finally heaved a sigh of relief as he watched Adam and the others leave the clubhouse, and there was still a hint of lingering fear in his heart from that near-death experience.


    The older I get, the more I fear death,?the gentlemanmented internally.


    Thinking back to when he was 30 years of age, he had been an avid adventurist, often going on long voyages by sea.


    He had almost lost his life countless times during the violent storms out at sea, but never had he been fearful for his life.


    However, as an old man, all he wanted was to be able to survive and find a path to immortality.


    Regardless of whether it be injecting a young person''s blood into his own body, taking different medications, or switching to a different body altogether, he was willing to do anything as long as he could live.


    Right as the gentleman was caught up in his own thoughts, a hand suddenly appeared on his shoulder.


    He was quite startled by this sudden contact, and he hurriedly turned around to find aplete stranger standing behind him.


    "Are you with those people from before? We''ve already made an agreement, so please don''t bother me any further."


    "No, I''m not with them. In fact, I''m an enemy of theirs, and I wanted to ask you some things."


    "My apologies, but I have no interest in getting involved in your conflict," the gentleman said with a shake of his head. "If I had known that this meal would be such a troublesome affair, I would''ve nevere here. I was very much looking forward to this, but now, I''m in a terrible mood."


    "Likewise, I''m in a foul mood myself." Indeed, having eaten so much human meat to fit in, Thn''s stomach was currently churning violently, and he had a feeling that the first thing he would do after returning home would be throw up everything in his stomach. "Hence, I don''t want to leave this ce empty-handed. If I don''t get the information I came here to find, no one gets to leave!"


    Thn lifted his jacket slightly as he spoke, revealing the special psychic police badge inside.


    "I''m a special psychic police officer, and there are more of my colleagues waiting outside. If you don''t cooperate with me, then all of the psychos in this club, including yourself, will be sent to rot away in Darvaza Prison for the rest of your lives!" Thn threatened in a cold and menacing voice.


    The gentleman heaved a heavy sigh upon hearing this, then asked, "Will you spare me if I tell you everything?"


    "That depends on whether you have sufficiently valuable information for me to justify letting you go. Let''s talk in the booth."


    Thn led the gentleman into the nearest booth as he spoke.


    Through inspecting the man''s memories, Thn was quickly made aware of everything that had just happened, following which he fell into deep thought.


    Getting stronger through battle is indeed the fastest way for an adapter to improve, but why did hee here of all ces?


    Thn recalled thatst time, Adam had gone to Darvaza Prison and sought out several inmates suffering from mental problems to conduct an investigation, ultimately resulting in the death of one of those inmates.


    Right as Thn was pondering the situation, amotion suddenly rang out outside the booth.


    He rushed outside to see some people gathered on the second floor, and spurred on by his inquisitive personality, he immediately made his way upstairs before squeezing his way through the crowd, upon which he discovered a woman holding onto the lifeless body of another woman while yelling furiously at surrounding clubhouse employees.


    "Why is my friend dead? I was wondering why I couldn''t find her! This club has to take responsibility! This ce can''t even ensure the basic safety of its members! Where''s that man who came up here with her? We have to find him!"


    ……


    By listening to themotion that was taking ce, Thn was able to make sense of the situation.


    This woman was most likely a friend of the woman who had been killed. They hadn''t arrived together, but they had agreed to meet up at the club at an agreed-upon time. However, after arriving at the club, the woman was unable to find her friend.


    After receiving ess to the security footage, she discovered that her friend had entered a room with another man. Initially, she didn''t pay much heed to this, merely thinking that this was another one of her friend''s flirtatious flings. However, the footage showed that the man left the room not long after they entered it, but her friend remained failed to emerge.


    She was unable to get through to her friend viamunicator, so she made her way up to the room on the second floor, and upon discovering the state of the locked door, she knew something was terribly wrong.


    Thn strode forward to examine the woman''s cause of death, and he quickly determined that she had most likely suffered brain death.


    After making this assessment, Thn was all but certain that Adam had been responsible for this.


    So he targeted another psychic deviant before that man from earlier. Is he able to somehow rapidly improve himself through battling these psychic deviants?


    After connecting all the dots, that was the conclusion that Thn had arrived at.


    At this point, he knew Adam very well, and he knew that Adam was a pragmatist.


    He hade all this way and taken quite a significant risk, and the only usible exnation for his actions was that he could somehow benefit immensely from this trip.


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    I feel like I''ve heard of this self-improvement method from somewhere else before...


    Thn pulled out hismunicator, and after some thorough research, he finally found what he was looking for in an old news article from several decades ago.


    Back in his younger days, the ruler of Shadow City also had a simr period in his life where he went around seeking out and killing psychic deviants. During that period, his powers were?elevated very quickly, bringing him to the top of the adapter pyramid in just two short years. Could it be that Adam has some type of connection to the lord of Shadow City?


    The more Thn uncovered, the more excited he became. He felt like he was already very close to the truth.