Lin Ruo slept deeply.
When he opened his eyes again, the sky was already tinged with the colors of dusk.
Still groggy, it took him three seconds to fully wake up. He stretched lazily, feeling his extraordinary abilities fully restored. Then, he went to the kitchen to make a simple dinner with the available ingredients. As he ate, he pondered his plans for the evening.
He wasn't going to recklessly hunt down Kapin tonight. Instead, he planned to gather information about Kapin to devise a detailed hunting plan. Although the original story's intelligence could be referenced, he needed to verify it since the current timeline differed from the original.
If suitable, Lin Ruo could also hunt down a few scumbags while collecting information to practice his extraordinary abilities. This would help him master his abilities, play the role of a hunter, and digest the potion, achieving multiple goals at once.
After finishing his dinner and washing the dishes, Lin Ruo stood in front of the full-length mirror often used by the original owner for disguises.
"I am not a Sequence 6 Faceless, this is a fallacy!"
Lin Ruo murmured. Almost instantly, he mastered the abilities of a Faceless without conflicting with his Sequence 9 Hunter abilities.
Lin Ruo guessed why. The extraordinary abilities he gained through fallacies were not obtained by taking potions but were more like simulations. Naturally, they wouldn't conflict with his original abilities.
Now, Lin Ruo could simulate the abilities of a Sequence 6 Faceless for thirty minutes.
However, his purpose in simulating the Faceless ability was merely to change his appearance, which didn't take thirty minutes. In just a few seconds, he canceled the simulation, and his reflection in the mirror showed a completely different person, both in body and face.
An ordinary-looking person, easily forgettable.
Lin Ruo couldn't help but smile at his reflection.
…
That night, in the East District—
"Mom! Help!"
"Mmm—"
The girl's cry for help was abruptly cut off. Two experienced human traffickers, one covering her mouth and the other holding her legs, lifted her and headed towards a carriage waiting outside the alley.
Their goal was clear: get the girl into the carriage, and their job would be done.
As they carried the girl through the alley, a very faint voice suddenly sounded:
"The end of this alley is passable, this is a fallacy."
The traffickers didn't hear the voice clearly. When they reached the end of the alley and tried to rush out, the leading trafficker seemed to hit an invisible wall, getting dizzy and bleeding from his head.
The second trafficker, following closely, tripped and fell, causing the girl they were carrying to fall to the ground.
The fall hurt the girl, but she ignored the pain and instinctively crawled away, trying to stand up after a few meters.
The second trafficker, recovering, saw the girl trying to escape and lunged to catch her. At that moment, a clear voice whispered in his ear:
"You don't want to catch her."
The trafficker's movements stopped instantly. He felt that the voice was speaking the truth.
Of course, he didn't want to catch the girl. Why would he want to catch her?
—[Fallacy] Mind Distortion!
"What are you doing? You let her go?" The first trafficker, recovering from his collision, saw the second trafficker letting the girl escape and was both angry and confused, momentarily forgetting the strange situation he had just experienced.
At that moment, the voice spoke again, loud enough for both traffickers to hear:
"You are all loyal to me!"
With this command, Lin Ruo, now disguised, appeared beside them.
Instantly, both traffickers' eyes filled with fanaticism, as if Lin Ruo was their only master.
Seeing this, Lin Ruo was not surprised. He calmly said, "Tell me everything you know about Kapin, including the situation in his villa."
The [Fallacy] Mind Distortion ability was not very effective against transcendents, making it difficult for Lin Ruo to fight them head-on in his previous life. However, it worked well on ordinary people and weak-willed extraordinary individuals.
Of course, this ability had its limitations. Maintaining mind distortion consumed energy, and unlike the absolute nature of truth, mind distortion was influenced by the target's strength and willpower. The stronger and more determined the person, the harder it was to distort their mind.
Additionally, the [Fallacy] Mind Distortion required the target to clearly hear Lin Ruo's voice, making it ineffective against those who knew about his ability and were cautious enough to avoid listening to him.
But it was more than enough to deal with these two traffickers.
"Master, I can't tell you what you want to know."
Hearing Lin Ruo's command, one of the traffickers spoke, his expression showing that he wasn't unwilling but genuinely unable to speak.
Lin Ruo raised an eyebrow but wasn't surprised. He knew that capin was backed by a Beyonder from the Black Emperor sequence, who excelled at contracts and oaths, making it easy to bind an ordinary person.
If an ordinary person faced this situation, they might be at a loss, but Lin Ruo could simulate the abilities of the Black Emperor pathway.
The Black Emperor pathway and the Arbiter pathway were similar, one focusing on using rules and the other on distorting them.
"Your secrecy should only apply to outsiders, and I am not an outsider, am I?"
Having successfully simulated the semi-divine abilities of the Black Emperor pathway, Lin Ruo spoke. He understood how to make the traffickers reveal everything without alerting the person who had imposed the secrecy order.
And all this took him less than two seconds.
At this moment, the night was still young.