Chapter 1207: Chapter 696: Taboo ACE-039, Beyond the Three Realms

Qing Chen felt a little uneasy.

He always felt that there were still some oversights in all the links.

"Master, do you think it’s possible that the one who died wasn’t Jindai Chika?" Qing Chen suddenly asked, crouching beside Jindai Chika’s corpse: "When Jindai Chika died, everyone thought Jindai Yuncang was beside him, so the one who was possessed must be Jindai Yuncang. But what if it wasn’t?"

The surrounding shouts of Xiao San and others attacking the rat swarm continued. After Jindai Chika’s death, the rat swarm became chaotic, seemingly returning to their nature of just running away without biting people.

In this noisy environment, Qing Chen pondered.

What could be confirmed now was that the deceased was indeed Jindai Yuncang without a doubt. First, the deceased was A-Class, and Jindai Yuncang was also A-Class. Secondly, Unfalling and Fei Touman were shikigamis Qing Chen had seen, belonging to Jindai Yuncang.

This was like buying a ’max-level account with equipment and pets.’

There were two scenarios for Jindai’s account resetting. The first was when both A and B were Onmyojis, and A possessed B, directly acquiring B’s shikigami. For example, if the Jindai Family Master possessed Jindai Yunlo, they would directly acquire the Hundred-Eyed Demon along with the eyeball collection progress.

The second was when A was an Onmyoji, and C was not. After A possessed C, they inherited C’s body, having no shikigami inside, and needed to summon anew from the Divine Bridge of Jindai, with a random outcome.

This was a ’max-level blank account,’ almost like a complete restart.

So, whether or not Jindai Yuncang was possessed, the person who died now was certainly Jindai Yuncang.

Uncle Li Dong looked at Qing Chen: "Are you saying now that he didn’t possess Jindai Yuncang, but someone else? Jindai Chika might not even be dead?"

"According to the Spy Bureau’s information, after the century war, the floating airship Jindai Chika was on landed at the Northern Air Force Base, and then Jindai Yuncang emerged to announce Jindai Chika’s death," Qing Chen said. "Logically, it seems Jindai Yuncang was most likely possessed; he’s A-Class, direct bloodline, with legitimate power to inherit Jindai authority. From a benefit maximization standpoint, possessing him is obviously the most correct choice."

Qing Chen: "But thinking from another angle, since everyone believes Jindai Yuncang was possessed, the Jindai Family Master wouldn’t spare Jindai Yuncang... So why would such a cautious person like Jindai Chika do this? Isn’t Jindai Chika just making himself a target in plain sight?"

Qing Chen continued: "I don’t have evidence, it’s just when the answer is too easy to guess, it always makes people uneasy. Also, there were quite a few people on that floating airship; strictly speaking, Jindai Yuncang wasn’t the only one who could be possessed. Of course, I’m just guessing."

While on Whale Island, Qing Chen once put himself in Jindai Chika’s position to consider the problem. If he were Jindai Chika, he definitely wouldn’t possess Jindai Yuncang because it was too easy to guess.

Moreover, when everyone thought Jindai Yuncang was Jindai Chika, once Jindai Yuncang died, everyone would think Jindai Chika had truly perished.

Feign death, shedding the golden cicada shell!

Qing Chen himself had experienced escaping through a fake death, so he naturally thought along these lines quickly.

Thus, the person Jindai Chika possessed was not Jindai Yuncang.

Jindai Yuncang, this direct line grandson, was just pushed out by his grandfather to be a target.

Following this hypothesis, there are two possibilities:

The first possibility is that Jindai Yuncang, as Jindai Chika’s grandson, had deep feelings for his grandfather and was willing to impersonate his grandfather to create a fake death to evade the Jindai Family Master’s pursuit.

Currently, it seems the Jindai Family Master’s pursuit of the ancestor is a dead-set attack. Having lost his demigod power, Jindai Chika would indeed struggle to deal with such an opponent.

Feigning death to escape is a very good choice.

The second possibility is that Jindai Yuncang was unwilling to cooperate with this plan and wasn’t so loyal to his grandfather. Then Jindai Chika could have his most intimate and loyal death warrior possess his grandson, letting this trusted death warrior help execute the fake death escape plan.

Before the floating airship landed, perhaps, possibly, two possession surgeries were conducted.

One was Jindai Chika possessing a certain body, the other was a trusted death warrior possessing Jindai Yuncang.

Previously, among the 12 security personnel, 6 death warriors were used as pawns, showing no doubt about the motive of their ancestor.

This level of loyalty was comparable to an epic-level mastermind in brainwashing. At this level, Jindai Chika could secretly send a death warrior to execute a fake death plan and sacrifice, having someone willing to die for him.

In any case, if Qing Chen himself were Jindai Chika, whoever he possessed, he wouldn’t choose Jindai Yuncang.

The target was too obvious.

Continuing along this line of thought, if it was indeed a stand-in, there would be three objectives.

The first was to control the rat swarm, making it Jindai Chika’s greatest support.

The second was to fail in control and be bombarded by missiles. But nobody knows he’s hiding underground. They all think he died in the missile bombing, hence he can vanish and scheme in the shadows.

The third was to be discovered hiding underground, whereupon the death warrior poisons themselves and Jindai Chika remains vanished, scheming in the shadows.

The most loyal death warriors surviving would be ideal, but if they truly died, so be it. One must vanish to recuperate and gather strength.

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