The Social Life of the Supreme God

"Cockroach clay pot rice, please enjoy."

In the committee's interview room, the cafeteria auntie put a pot of claypot rice filled with cockroach meat in front of Li Ren. Then, the auntie looked forward to Li Ren's reaction after tasting it.

Looking at the cockroach meat still throbbing in the pot, Li Ren frowned and began to think: "To eat or not to eat, that is the question."

Beside Li Ren, there was a large mirror covering the entire wall. His hesitant expression was reflected in the mirror.

now.

Behind this one-way glass disguised as a mirror, Jiang Ye was quietly observing Li Ren's every move.

Behind Jiang Ye, Qingcai, who had changed into a loose white shirt, was holding Li Ren's resume and reporting neatly: "Li Ren, 26 years old, is the third child of a famous painter in his third marriage. He has three brothers and two sisters, but all his brothers and sisters died in infancy."

"After graduating from high school, Li Ren moved with his family to the city of Vinia, which is known as the 'World Music Capital'. He then applied for the fine arts major at the Vinia Academy of Art four times, but failed each time."

"On February 2th of a year ago, Li Ren returned to China alone. Soon after, he opened the Li Ren Painting Studio in the ancient town of Luoshajiang." Qingcai paused and said, "And February 29th, 2024, that day... happens to be an overlapping day."

Having said that, Qingcai and Jiang Ye looked at each other tacitly.

"Obviously, there are serious problems with Li Ren's resume." Qingcai continued, "During the Overlap Day and a long period of time after that day, our country was under secret blockade and martial law... Not to mention that before the committee was officially established, the damage caused by the uncontrolled taboos around the world almost reconstructed the entire civilization."

Then, Qingcai gave a conclusion: "That is to say... during that period, it was impossible for Li Ren to come back alive from abroad."

After listening to Qingcai's statement, Jiang Ye stared at Li Ren for a long time through the one-way glass. Then he slowly said, "...Lin Hen told me something about Li Ren."

"Lin Hen once called this child... a human being that appeared out of thin air."

To Jiang Ye's ancient taboo, Li Ren is just a newborn child.

"Yes." Qingcai nodded and took over the topic: "During the first invasion of the 'giant beast' concept, Minister Wave and Particle conducted a census of the humans and taboos living along the Luosha River. At that time, He discovered the existence of the 'Li people' and, at Lin Hen's request, listed them as a key focus."

"Based on Minister Bo's observations and the second invasion that just happened, I have summarized four abnormalities in the Li people—"

"First, Li Ren has not undergone any professional training, but he possesses top-notch fighting skills and combat awareness."

"Second, Li Ren suffers from a true auditory hallucination in which he can hear loud noises. According to his attending physician, Li Ren began to hear an exogenous auditory hallucination with a standard sentence structure irregularly since the morning of the second day after he returned home." "The above two points may be explained by reasons that are not beyond the scope of human common sense, such as talent and disease." Qingcai said, turning to the second page of Li Ren's resume: "But the remaining two abnormalities of Li Ren obviously involve the scope of taboos..."

"First, the Li people will unconsciously release a cognitive filter centered on themselves. According to Minister Bo's observation, the vision of humans within a radius of about one kilometer with the Li people as the center will be affected, to the point that they will be unable to see the taboos."

Qingcai paused and said, "But this power seems to be only effective for phenomenon-level and rule-level taboos. The basis for this speculation is... when the crab sea snakes and a large number of cockroach-like taboos created by the concept of 'behemoth' landed, ordinary humans including me at the scene saw their existence with our own eyes."

In this regard, Jiang Ye commented: "This ability is quite suitable for confidentiality work... He can be assigned to the logistics department. Huangqin just happens to be in need of an assistant."

"Well, considering the special operations that Minister Huang and others are about to carry out overseas, there are extremely high requirements for concealment. The power of the Li people will indeed be very useful." Qingcai nodded in agreement, but then changed the subject: "But before that..."

"There is something unusual about Li that must be discussed now. This is related to the committee's decision to recruit him or... to shelter him."

Qingcai pondered for a moment and said in the most concise way possible: "Li Ren also has the ability to transfer his own injuries to others. Or to be more precise... it is the power to transfer injuries to other taboos."

"Just yesterday afternoon, Li Ren tried to slit his throat in the studio. A phenomenal forbidden figure disguised as a human took his place in death just a hundred meters away." Qingcai talked about the intelligence she had obtained after a recent field investigation: "The disguised identity of this forbidden figure is... the proprietress of a jewelry store in the scenic area."

"Just now, Minister Bo discovered a cellar in Li's house that contained various torture instruments." Qingcai flipped through the documents and said seriously, "There are a lot of blood stains on these torture instruments. After testing... it was confirmed that they were the blood residues of Li himself."

"That is to say... Li Ren frequently engaged in self-mutilation for some unknown reason."

"What's even more confusing is..." Qingcai said, adjusting his crooked glasses: "In the past year, in the ancient town of Luosha River where the Li people live, there have been many taboos about settling nearby, and they have been reported and reflected to the committee-"

"From time to time, some inexplicable defects or wounds would appear on their bodies. Some of them would suddenly lose their legs when walking on the road and fall to the ground. Some of them would suddenly lose their arms when going to the toilet and could not get paper... Although these injuries were not fatal, they caused trouble to the peaceful lives of these taboos."

Hearing this, Jiang Ye's eyes twitched a few times. She already understood the seriousness of the matter.

Qingcai also made a timely summary: "Connecting all the above doubts and clues with Li Ren as the center, we can get a conclusion... The injuries caused by Li Ren's self-mutilation were also transferred to Taboo."

"This means... all the damage that Li Ren suffered, whether fatal or not, will be transferred to the taboo near him. And the taboo that died as a result will be transformed into a derivative controlled by Li Ren." Qingcai pondered and said, "A derivative that Li Ren calls a 'pseudo-human'."

"Therefore..." Qingcai gave the final conclusion: "The Li people are completely harmless to humans. But to the taboos... they are absolutely dangerous."

"He is like a taboo specially designed to kill other taboos." (End of this chapter)