Chapter 38: Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival; arrogance is.

"I did not foresee it. With my spiritual abilities, I could only foresee it once, and that was when I chose the fork in the road and foresaw the correct path. At that moment, facing the two paths, I saw two different scenes.

One was the vision of the correct path, showing a safe passage and the eerie control of dreams, where Zhao Hao and I successfully escaped.

The other was the vision of the wrong path, where there were many hospital rooms with closed doors, and each room emitted an extremely terrifying eerie aura. Some doors were even open, and in this future, Zhao Hao and I were chased down and killed by a female doctor.

Therefore, I concluded that there were at least dozens of eerie entities within Qing Shan Mental Hospital.

"Dozens of eerie entities!?" Li Wenhao's voice rose several octaves.

"Mr. Fang, are you certain?"

Fang Xiu nodded: "My intuition never fails me."

Shen Lingxue scoffed: "Fang Xiu, do you know what you're saying? There have been numerous strange incidents around the world, but there has never been a precedent where a single strange domain contains dozens of strange beings!

In fact, under normal circumstances, a strange domain only contains one strange being. The strange domain is born from the strange being, and there may be cases where other strange beings accidentally enter the domain or where domains merge.

But what you're describing—dozens of strange phenomena gathering together—is simply impossible. Strange phenomena aren't like humans; they don't like to gather. When they do gather, they rarely coexist peacefully.

So, if you didn't misinterpret it, those aren't strange phenomena at all—they're strange slaves.

Powerful strange beings can often control many strange slaves. Strange slaves are typically humans or animals who have died and been forcibly controlled by strange beings. Though numerous, they are generally not very powerful.

You were likely terrified at the time and, combined with your lack of understanding of strange beings, mistakenly identified the strange slaves as strange beings."

Fang Xiu said nothing more, only calmly replied, " At your level, it's hard to understand what I'm saying. Just report the facts as they are."

He had read the Global Strange Phenomena Forum, so he knew what a slave of the strange was. He was certain that all the beings locked up in those wards were strange phenomena.

However, he didn't plan to explain further to Shen Lingxue. First, explaining too much would reveal his precognitive abilities, and second, arrogant women are impossible to reason with.

He believed that as long as he reported the facts truthfully, those above him would make the correct judgment.

"At my level?" Shen Lingxue sneered coldly, "You're a newly promoted spirit master. How many strange incidents have you experienced? Just because you say it's strange, does that make it strange? You've probably never even seen a strange slave before, have you?"

Fang Xiu took a sip of tea and said slowly, " Indeed, weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival; arrogance is."

Li Wenhao noticed the tense atmosphere and hurried to defuse the situation: "Mr. Fang, if I'm not mistaken, you were an ordinary person until yesterday. Yet your words show familiarity with the Mysterious Realm and Spirit Masters. How did you acquire this knowledge about the mysterious and Spirit Masters? Is it also through foresight?"

"The Global Mysterious Forum." Fang Xiu spoke these words calmly.

"By the way, this forum was given to me by your future self."

Li Wenhao was taken aback by this statement: "I gave it to you?"

"Hmph, playing mysterious. This forum is no secret to those in the know. Perhaps you have other Spirit Masters backing you," Shen Lingxue snorted coldly.

Li Wenhao didn't have time to be surprised and continued, "Mr. Fang, the ability to predict the future is crucial to the Investigation Bureau, so please come with us to the Investigation Bureau today."

"Hmm." Fang Xiu put down his teacup and stood up, walking toward the door.

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An hour later.

Fang Xiu was brought to the Investigation Bureau in Green Vine City.

The Investigation Bureau was located in an underground building, highly concealed.

However, there were still many strange phenomena here. Those illusory anomalies roamed the Investigation Bureau unconsciously, and no one noticed them.

Seeing this, Fang Xiu was even more certain that Spirit Masters couldn't see the strange phenomena on the streets either—only he could see them. Otherwise, the Investigation Bureau, which specialized in handling strange phenomena, wouldn't have so many strange phenomena wandering around.

Soon, he was assigned to wait in the break room, while Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao went to report to the director.

Director's Office.

Wang Dehai sat upright in his office chair, sipping tea while listening to their report.

However, as the report progressed, Wang Dehai had already put down his teacup, and his previously calm expression grew increasingly shocked.

"Are you certain it was a prediction of the future?" Wang Dehai asked, sounding somewhat disbelieving.

Li Wenhao nodded solemnly. "Fang Xiu did indeed predict that we would come to find him, and even knew our names and some other information."

Shen Lingxue nodded as well.

Neither of them mentioned the love letter or the pink obsession.

Wang Dehai paused for a moment and said, "Besides you two, who else knows about this precognition?"

"There's also Zhao Hao, who came out of the Strange Realm with Fang Xiu."

"Hmm, regardless of whether this is true or not, it should be classified as confidential for now. Zhao Hao's side should be kept under wraps. Precognition is a matter of great importance. Once it's confirmed to be true, no information can be leaked under any circumstances. Understand?"

"Understood!"

"What about the lottery numbers?"

"Here they are."

Li Wenhao hurriedly handed Wang Dehai the note with the winning lottery numbers written on it.

Wang Dehai examined it for a moment and said, "Accurately predicting the winning lottery numbers doesn't necessarily mean predicting the future.

It's possible that Fang Xiu has already arranged people at the lottery draw site to tamper with the results.

Li Wenhao, go arrange for two trustworthy individuals to oversee tonight's draw. Ensure that the results are completely random."

"Yes, Director Wang." Li Wenhao hurried off to arrange the lottery matters.

At this point, Wang Dehai turned to Shen Lingxue.

"Little Shen, you're a seasoned spirit master. Based on your experience, do you think Fang Xiu is lying?"

Although Shen Lingxue was dissatisfied with Fang Xiu's attitude, she still answered honestly, "I'm not sure. Although Fang Xiu initially omitted a digit, he was too calm, showing no signs of panic. If he's a fraud, he must be a fraud with exceptional mental fortitude.

Moreover, he has no reason to deceive us. The ability to foresee the future is different from others; it's too easy to expose. If he can deceive once, can he deceive again?"

"However, personally, I feel Fang Xiu is lying."

"Oh? How so?"

"A woman's intuition."

Wang Dehai: "...."

He took a sip of tea, paused, and said, "What is true cannot be false, and what is false cannot be true. We'll have to wait until the results are announced tonight to find out. Unfortunately, he's just a newly appointed spirit master with weak spiritual power, otherwise we could conduct some other tests.

By the way, he also mentioned that there are dozens of strange creatures in Qing Shan Mental Hospital?"