I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Lei Yu turned around and walked out of Shadow's office, striding steadily forward, but he didn't realize that the room behind him was collapsing into countless fragments, as if being pulled away from this world by a black hole.

Moreover, he didn't notice that he had no memory of talking to Shadow at all, nor did he realize that he was just mechanically repeating the actions of lifting and stepping forward out of habit.

He sat down in a daze, and then the scene in front of him became clearer.

Before him was a white round table, and sitting across from him…

…was a dead man.

Ma En pushed the glass of water on the table towards him:

"Do you need to rest?"

Lei Yu's eyes first showed incomprehension and doubt, then a flash of shock and fear, but immediately turned into relief and disappointment, because Ma En's still being alive could only prove one thing—his victory was just an unrealistic fantasy.

He closed his eyes and leaned back heavily, asking tiredly and with difficulty:

"Did you do all of that just now? I've fought more than one telepath before, but your combat rhythm was completely beyond my expectations. How did you do it?"

But Ma En wasn't interested in explaining it to him:

"Maybe because you haven't met me before."

Lei Yu narrowed his eyes and said:

"And the illusion you created just now, killing me wouldn't be difficult for you at that level, but so quietly digging into the secrets of my heart is definitely not simple. Are you really a Tier IV telepath?"

Ma En could see that he wanted a negative answer:

"What did the Moon God tell you?"

Lei Yu immediately replied:

"That's valuable information. What are you going to trade for it?"

That invisible figure was indeed the Moon God. Shen Zhi appearing with him could, to some extent, indicate that he and the Moon God were colluding, but that alone couldn't confirm that it was the Moon God. What really pushed Ma En's suspicion to the extreme wasn't what he saw in Lei Yu's mind, but on the contrary…

…the reason he dared to directly test him was precisely because he didn't see the Moon God's figure in Lei Yu's mind—and they had reached some kind of cooperation under these circumstances.

Ma En didn't answer his question:

"What are you worried and afraid of?"

Lei Yu was stunned:

"What are you talking about?"

Ma En asked:

"I saw the fear in your heart. It seems you're very afraid of the god who gave you power, but that feeling isn't a primal reaction to danger, but rather an emotion mixed with imagination.

"The thing you fear seems to have not happened yet."

These words completely pulled the newly awakened Lei Yu back to reality. He stopped thinking about the conversation with Ma En, and instead, urged by years of combat experience, began to brew thunder within his body, planning to transform into lightning and try to escape this place.

Lei Yu wasn't particularly optimistic. Ma En waking him up meant that they weren't afraid of him running away.

But he didn't expect what he was about to face.

Silence.

Lei Yu looked at Ma En with incomprehension and confusion:

"Am I still in an illusion?"

Ma En repeated the question:

"What exactly are you afraid of?"

The Thunder God put his hands on the table and stood up, then quickly looked around. The white walls and simple furniture weren't very common, but there was nothing else unusual.

"Don't be nervous," Ma En said, soothingly. "If you think this is an illusion, we can talk another day. I have plenty of time. You can slowly verify whether you're in a dream or not.

"But if we're really still in your mind, I wouldn't need to ask you directly."

Lei Yu immediately retorted:

"Then why don't you just take it yourself?"

Ma En said sincerely:

"Because I don't want to completely destroy your brain. This is one of the few things you're instinctively resisting. But I can imagine what you're worried about. You're afraid of the possibility of the Thunder Gods escaping the Cursed Land. In your opinion, that doesn't conform to the freedom you admire.

"You know what their situation is, right?"

Besides the fact that Lei Yu was indeed resisting this information, more importantly, this part of the information was incomplete in his mind, looking almost identical to the information that Shadow had taken away.

Lei Yu looked surprised:

"You also know?"

His answer proved that this information was still in his mind, but for some reason, he couldn't clearly perceive it, and this situation was completely different from what Shadow had done to Lei Yu.

It was more like that invisible figure.

"You and the Moon God have also talked about this, haven't you?" Ma En asked calmly.

Lei Yu didn't realize that Ma En was actually trying to trick him:

"That's right. He's using us to escape the Cursed Land, and although I'm not exactly a good person, I'm not a madman who looks forward to the apocalypse. If the gods really gain control of the world, the results for you and me won't be good.

"The gods are giving their people power now because they want something in return. But if the gods really return to the whole world, they can unscrupulously choose their servants all over the world, and our value will be gone.

"And even putting that aside, I don't want to see humans being ruled by other things, especially after seeing the current state of the world—the Federation openly rules this planet, while those so-called gods are trapped in the Southern Federation.

"In other words, between them and us, we are the victors.

"In that case, why give these losers a chance to challenge us?"

Ma En clapped his hands appreciatively:

"Well said, but you are a Son of the Gods."

Lei Yu said:

"This isn't something I can choose. These kinds of words aren't very convincing, but you've seen my heart. Although I'm unwilling to abandon the power within me, I'm also resisting him using us to escape here."

Ma En said:

"Then you shouldn't have cooperated with the Moon God."

Lei Yu said:

"She promised to use complex methods to ensure that I wouldn't continue to advance the Thunder God's process. This would also involve erasing parts of my memory, but only the gods know how to do it without turning my resistance into his power.

"If they can all stay in this land, that would be for the best, but if I had to choose, I would rather the other gods escape the Cursed Land first, because he is binding us.

"Then I'll ask directly…

"Do you also want to prevent them from leaving the Southern Federation?"

But Ma En's answer made him a little incredulous:

"Do you think we want the gods to stay safely in the Southern Federation until they find a chance to escape the Cursed Land in the future?

"No, what we want to do is completely eliminate the threat the gods pose to us."

Ma En met his shocked gaze and said:

"By the way, you said you didn't want to be manipulated by the Thunder God…

"But haven't you noticed that you are no longer bound?"