I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 155 - 155 147 Regarding the fact that I am an undercover

?Chapter 155: 147 Regarding the fact that I am an undercover agent (seeking monthly votes) Chapter 155: 147 Regarding the fact that I am an undercover agent (seeking monthly votes) Switching into house slippers, he washed his feet in the adjacent bathroom and walked in carrying the late-night snack he had left at the entranceway.

Lin An almost ignored Chen Xinmi’s piercing gaze, took the snack box out of the bag, placed it on the table, opened a chilled cola, and guzzled a big gulp, instantly feeling a refreshing shiver run through him.

He tore open the packaging of disposable bamboo chopsticks, bowed his head to pick up the bullfrog meat, and glanced at Chen Xinmi, “Do you want some?”

Chen Xinmi just stared at him coldly without speaking.

Lin An shrugged his shoulders and bent down to gnaw on the bullfrog meat. The food from the slaughterhouse cafeteria was certainly unique and top-notch in flavor.

Perhaps the spice got to him because he scooped up several large mouthfuls of rice before looking at Chen Xinmi contentedly, “Who did you say you saw just now?”

Miao Miao sat beside Lin An, looking down at the meal box, her nose twitched once, and then looked at Lin An.

“Meow~!”

——Miao Miao thinks you seem a bit different.

Really~
Miao Miao is so smart.

With his left hand under the table, Lin An gently scratched Miao Miao’s belly, making her comfortably squint her eyes.

“Heh~”
Chen Xinmi tapped the ash into a disposable paper cup and let out a cold laugh, “You!”

Lin An lifted his head to look at her, nodded noncommittally, and continued to eat.

After a busy day, he was starving.

Truth be told, he should be scared now, wracking his brain for an excuse, starting to plan his escape route…

But he did nothing of the sort, just appeared content and lazily munched on his midnight snack.

“Quite normal.”

Lin An picked up the cold cola again and took another large gulp, pulled out a napkin to wipe his mouth, and then looked at Chen Xinmi with a calm expression, “Do I need to explain to you?”

Chen Xinmi narrowed her eyes, filled with sharpness, but also confused by Lin An’s composed attitude, so she leaned back in the chair, scoffed, and watched him, “Of course.”

“Why?”

“Because you are a special investigator from the Shenhou City Witches’ Association, and as the president of the association, I have the right to know why you were present at the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order’s witch slaughterhouse!”

“You owe me an explanation.”

Lin An nodded, “Actually, there’s not much to it. The leader of the ‘Mad Warlock’s Hollow’ Organization, ‘Kapok,’ found out I was working under Lu Dexian, so they created an opportunity for me to go undercover in the Antler Organization.”

“???”

Chen Xinmi blinked, momentarily stunned.

“Undercover?” She looked incredulously at Lin An.

Lin An glanced at her, spreading his hands helplessly, “Is it so hard to understand that I became an undercover agent?”

Indeed…

These days, with everyone intertwined, it’s really hard to tell who belongs to which camp.

The leader of the Male Witch Organization, Mr. Liu, is actually learning the Deer Horn Breathing Skill, typically taught by the Antler Leader Lu Tingyu.

The female witches’ method for emotional grooming comes from the Soft Body Skill spread by the Antlers.

As far as Lin An knew, the Antlers had planted two undercovers in the Witch Organization, one was himself, and the other was the small boss’s mother.

And Chen Xinmi, the president of the City Witches’ Association, had also planted two undercovers in the Male Witch Organization, one was him, and the other was Mr. Liu.

Truthfully…

Lin An suspected that Chen Xinmi hadn’t actually infiltrated Antler Headquarters today. The level of spiritual awareness should be higher than that of witchcraft and the Deer Horn Breathing Skill; if someone had been observing, he should have been able to notice.

He even had such a suspicion that one of the Witch Hunter Knights within the Antler Order might actually be secretly communicating with Chen Xinmi.

As for why Lin An’s information would be passed on to Chen Xinmi, perhaps it was because Mr. Cao had become the Antler Leader.

Sometimes, human hearts cannot withstand testing, and it seems not every member of the Antler group cares about its future.

Who knows.

In such a complex situation, since things can’t be sorted out, Lin An decided to just deal with it calmly.

Let it be, at worst, he could transform into the Classic of Mountains and Seas monster Zou Yu and escape from this city.

He had truly had enough of compromising.

As he digested ‘suppression and numbness’ and ‘pursuit of excitement,’ his mindset had indeed changed a lot.

In this crazy and despair-filled supernatural world, living a bit more freely, a bit more carelessly, is always better than suffocating every day.

What’s the worst that could happen, death?

A heart at ease makes a wide world.

Moreover…

Since Chen Xinmi didn’t directly blow up his house, but patiently waited for him to return and then questioned him, it meant that she had a reason not to kill him immediately.

So, what was there for Lin An to worry about?

Seeing Chen Xinmi seemingly lost in thought without speaking, he simply couldn’t be bothered with her and bent his head to eat the supper.

To tell the truth, this monster Chen Xinmi was quite good-looking.

She actually possessed that kind of classic beauty in her facial bones, yet she also carried an air of cold arrogance and disdain for all things that came with holding a high position, which gave her a uniquely aloof and elegant demeanor of an older sister.

Yet under Lin An’s spirit perception, he could clearly taste that unique rhythm thumping within the coldness.

Under the warm yellow light, with such a beauty for company and the faint scents mingling with the light burn of medicinal smoke, the meal was particularly appetizing.

Lin An smacked his lips, savoring the food deliciously.

After having his fill of food and drink, he began tidying up the table contentedly, finding a rag in the kitchen and carefully wiping down the table until it was clean.

Last time Chen Shuyun came to his house, he even saw a rat at the stairs of the apartment complex, and he didn’t want the nuisance of rats being attracted to places that weren’t cleaned properly.

“If there’s nothing else, I’m going to get ready for bed,” Lin An said lazily, stretching himself.

Chen Xinmi was that kind of monster that one could only admire from afar and not play with, and besides, she didn’t fit his partner aesthetic preferences, so after the meal, he planned to send her away.

He wasn’t worried that Chen Xinmi would turn hostile.

First of all, he already had the ability to protect himself.

Secondly, Chen Xinmi still needed him to go undercover into the Male Witch Organization and investigate the matters regarding Dark Witchcraft, a task which he had deliberately been dragging his feet on doing properly, all to use it as leverage to save his life.

People always only have value because they are needed, and Lin An, who grew up as an orphan, understood this very early on.

Otherwise, under the scrutiny of Sky Drifter Eyes, if all efforts were really concentrated on this, how could it be possible to only know such a tiny bit of information?

Especially after she performed experiments on Mr. Liu, the source of information was indeed only left with Lin An.

“There is something,” Chen Xinmi stated.

Her attitude did not surprise Lin An, whose impression of him had always been ‘very good at showboating’ and ‘even outdoing me in pretense.’
Especially when his sister Shu Yun told her that Lin An was infatuated with her and that’s why he painted a black cat portrait with her aura, she figured she could largely guess what Lin An was thinking.

Ha~
Men!

Seeing that Lin An had finally finished his meal, she lightly blew a puff of smoke onto the table. When the smoke cleared, an old-fashioned wooden box appeared as if by magic.

“This is a data box I found at the headquarters of the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order,” Chen Xinmi mentioned, frowning a bit, “I tried the methods inside, but found that the experimental results did not meet expectations.”

Lin An nodded as he looked at the box, recognising it. Chen Xinmi had been carrying this same box when she left the slaughterhouse wearing a ghostly mask.

He even knew what Witchcraft materials it contained—Heart-to-Heart Skewer Fragrance Witchcraft.

“The more I used the methods in here, the more things seemed off, and my intuition was screaming that I’ve been led astray!” Chen Xinmi explained, and the black cat came over to peek at the box, meowing insistently at Lin An.

——Right, exactly, that’s what I told her, something about this item seems off.

Lin An nodded slightly.

He was actually quite curious about the relationship between Chen Xinmi and the black cat; sometimes they seemed to detest each other, setting traps for one another, yet at other times, they would help each other out.

Chen Xinmi once admitted that she disliked cats, even hated them.

The black cat also mercilessly exposed her secrets in front of Chen Xinmi, helping Lin An, an outsider.

The human heart is indeed complex.

Chen Xinmi continued, “So, I paid a high price to ask a wizard skilled in ‘divination’ to help me with this box. Sure enough, this box and the materials inside have different forms.”

Lin An understood, “You mean to say that due to the wrong way of opening it, the contents of the materials are also different?”

Poor Mr. Liu, used as an experimental subject by the wrong Witchcraft.

Oh?

If that’s the case, was Mr. Liu victim to a trap set by Lu Tingyu using the ‘Kapok’ version? Was the whole thing of using the Great Banyan Stone Treasure to practice the Knight’s Breathing Skill a sham?

If so, there seemed to be a reason why Mr. Liu practiced that outdated Furnace version.

Chen Xinmi nodded, looking at Lin An, “You said you were going to Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order as an undercover agent, did you learn their Breathing Skill?”

“Or rather, do you have mastery of it now?”

“If you do, I need your help to open this box in the state of the Deer Horn Breathing Skill.”