I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

After the "sparring" ended, Shadow introduced him to Kang Shouxing, who was in charge of this operation, and asked him to arrange accommodation for Ma En during the time he waited for the duel to begin, to prevent retaliation from逍遥 Daoren after Shadow resolved the matter.

Of course, the reason Ma En agreed was definitely not because he was really worried about any retaliation.

It definitely wouldn't take Shadow long to resolve the problem, and he stayed here more to observe the Federation from the inside, preferably to understand how they operated. At least for now, the Federation wouldn't attack him, and staying here meant he didn't have to worry about safety.

What he wanted to know was how the Federation restrained those high-level ability users, and what powerful forces they possessed. Of course, the most important thing was to see if there was anything particularly suitable for the Control Bureau, which he could secretly steal if he had the chance.

In fact, Ma En's biggest hope was to be able to come into contact with a sufficiently powerful Rank Ⅴ item during this mission. As long as he had the chance to touch it, he could take it away. However, the prerequisites for doing so were very harsh.

First of all, it required that the thing he obtained was powerful beyond measure. Secondly, he had to understand the level of power the Federation would use to retaliate against ability users who did such a thing. After comparing, he had to ensure that he could use this thing to escape safely.

So what he had to do was find the Federation's reliance on ruling the world and find a way to obtain one of them.

However, there was no need to rush this matter. Now he didn't even know what the Federation could do. This wasn't a plan that could be completed in a short time. Moreover, the Federation members basically treated him as a guest, and he had no opportunity or channel to access things related to the Federation itself and high-level anomalous entities. They were definitely wary of Ma En.

So Ma En planned to start with the Atlantis aspect, and his chosen direction was quite reasonable, which was Alice, the Rank Ⅲ ability user who had appeared in front of him last time. After all, Shadow said that the Federation now regarded her like 神霄 (Shenxiao) in her childhood.

Although Alice herself said that she was far inferior to Shenxiao, and Shenxiao was already Rank Ⅴ at her age, being highly recommended by Shadow was enough to show Alice's extraordinariness.

If she was really a genius valued by the Federation, then she must have extremely high value, and now was a good opportunity to contact her.

And most importantly, she was also likely to help him understand the Federation. Judging from the impression of their last meeting, Alice seemed relatively naive. Although she might not be as simple as she looked, she was clearly not the typical Federation member who kept her mouth shut.

Since she was highly valued by the Federation, she probably wouldn't care so much about the details, because she had the qualifications to do so.

So, with malicious intentions, Ma En took the opportunity to inquire about Alice's residence when discussing the details of the duel with Kang Shouxing. Although the middle-aged man glanced at Ma En a few times when he asked, he seemed to have expected it.

"She is now living right across from the room we arranged for you. She usually receives our training and guidance during the day. If you want to find her, you can do so at seven in the afternoon, but I want to remind you that she is not as easy to approach as she looks."

Ma En was not surprised by his warning. It was impossible for Alice to be so simple if they valued her, and he still remembered the girl's strange behavior last time they met, and he had not forgotten Shadow's reminder.

Even from the most naive point of view, assuming that Alice was a pure and kind girl before the Federation found and brought her back, then after being cultivated for several years with this identity, it would be difficult for her to live like a child. After all, she was now serving the Federation.

What really surprised Ma En was that she actually lived across from him. Was this specially arranged by the Federation?

With this thought in mind, Ma En knocked on the door across the hall at nine o'clock on the third night of his stay in this Federation building.

After nearly two minutes, a girl's puzzled voice came from inside the door:

"Who is it?"

He replied:

"I'm Ma En, that..."

Before he could finish speaking, Alice opened the door.

The girl who appeared in front of him was wearing light blue pajamas and seemed to be ready to go to bed. Observing her expression, she didn't seem to have just been woken up.

However, out of politeness, Ma En asked in a somewhat apologetic tone:

"Did I wake you up?"

The girl shook her head:

"No, I usually don't sleep until ten o'clock. Is there anything you want from me?"

Ma En nodded:

"I want to ask you about Atlantis. Shadow and the others don't seem to be planning to tell me about it these days. I thought of you and I both have to fight them, so I wanted to see if you know what we have to do."

The girl quickly replied:

"I've been warming up for the battle these days. They want me to get used to fighting with others first, but for you, you may have to wait a while. They may not have prepared the preliminary work yet, so you don't have to do anything now."

"And actually, they seem to have said that you are the least important in terms of winning or losing. The Federation doesn't seem to have any way to ensure the outcome of that Rank Ⅳ battle, so the main energy is on me and Uncle Li."

Hearing her say this, Ma En continued to ask:

"By the way, last time you mentioned my hat..."

Speaking here, Ma En slowed down slightly, but Alice didn't reveal any intention to explain.

"...I want to ask, what exactly is the hat you're talking about?"

But these words made the girl show a puzzled look:

"What else could a hat be?"

Ma En narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to understand her meaning:

"Are you trying to say that I'm wearing a hat on my head that you think looks good?"

The girl immediately nodded:

"Yes, it looks quite good on you."

Ma En then asked with a puzzled expression:

"But I'm not wearing a hat?"

The girl just looked at him with a normal expression, without showing any intention to answer this sentence.

Ma En continued to ask:

"Is this some kind of metaphor? Or did you see something we can't understand?"

A dozen seconds of silence.

The girl suddenly said:

"Where did you buy your hat?"

After saying this, the girl yawned sleepily.

Seeing this, Ma En changed the subject and asked:

"You said last time that Shenxiao hasn't come to see you for a long time."

The girl suddenly regained her energy, and then immediately said:

"Yes, yes, I haven't seen Sister Shenxiao for a long time. You are her friend, right? Can you give her a message for me?"

Ma En paused, and then asked directly:

"Wasn't she arrested by the Federation?"

The girl still looked at him with an expectant expression, as if waiting for his answer.

Seeing this, Ma En nodded again:

"I will ask her for you."

After saying this, the girl showed a grateful smile:

"Thank you."

Just now, she suddenly said she wanted to go back to sleep, probably because in her eyes, he had just fallen into a long silence, so she politely said that sentence because she mistakenly thought Ma En was still waiting for her to make a statement related to the hat.

But what is this for?

Could it be that she is worried that she knows the truth about Shenxiao, and the Federation prevented her from accepting this information through some method? But if that were the case, he probably wouldn't have the opportunity to meet her.

"I can guess what you're thinking, but I've already told you the real answer." Shadow's voice suddenly came from behind him. "I told you she's a little crazy. You might have understood it as a description of her personality. In fact, I'm saying that she has some mental problems. She can only perceive what she wants to perceive. For example, she can't hear what you and I are talking about now."

After saying this, Shadow said to Alice again:

"You go back to sleep first. You have to get up early tomorrow to warm up."

"Okay, Uncle Shadow." Then, at this time, the girl seemed to notice his existence, and after answering, she looked at Ma En again, "You can come to me anytime if you want to know anything."

After Shadow watched Alice return to the room, he said to Ma En:

"We are very good at finding those who can change the world in advance. Shenxiao may be our most successful case. You can't expect other geniuses we find to be as perfect as her, not to mention that Shenxiao also has unrealistic flaws."

"But compared to Alice, her problem is nothing at all. Shenxiao just has some arrogant ideas, and we are already using our own methods to correct this. But Alice is different. We haven't found a way to cure her problem yet."

Ma En said:

"She looks quite normal."

Shadow said with a calm expression:

"Don't look at the fact that you seemed to be talking just now, but in fact you can't understand each other at all. She doesn't know what the reality in your eyes looks like at all, just like you can't see her absurd and crazy world."

"Although I know she definitely can't hear what I'm saying, I can't always be sure what else she can't hear."

"I once went into her mind, wanting to see and understand the scene in her eyes. Of course, I did this because the Federation wanted to establish direct communication with her through me. This is definitely not dangerous for me, but I still have no way to understand what she sees."

"The scene I saw has no connection with reality. I can't use pure logic to correspond it to the real situation. People who see those things shouldn't be able to talk to others at all."

"A guy like her should have spent his life in a mental hospital, and if he was unlucky, he might have starved to death on the side of the road."

"But she has a talent that surpasses curses."

Ma En asked:

"Is she a reality warper?"

Shadow smiled:

"Otherwise, what do you think the Federation found her for? Do you think it's easy to take care of this kind of mental patient? We still haven't mastered any effective communication system with her. Only a few people can barely communicate with her in depth, and Shenxiao is one of them."

"Don't look at the fact that we usually say that reality warpers are crazy, but our statement is more like a metaphor, and Alice is really crazy. She is not very dangerous most of the time, but it is difficult to communicate with her."

"Of course, even if she really loses control, it's okay. After all, she is a Rank Ⅲ ability user, Alice can defeat most Rank Ⅳ ability users, but she herself can't reach Rank Ⅳ, which makes us not have to worry about her having any problems."

Ma En said:

"It sounds like she is not suitable for this kind of complex work."

Shadow nodded:

"If we didn't happen to need a Rank Ⅲ ability user, she should still be in a special sanatorium. It's just that we can't tolerate any possibility of failure in this matter, and she can guarantee that we will definitely win a victory."

Ma En asked:

"You said she can't reach Rank Ⅳ, do you mean she can't be promoted?"

Shadow looked at her room with a serious expression:

"Yes, the actual situation is that she has trapped herself."

"Reality warpers can tamper with reality with their own will, and some mental patients have crazy ideas. These two points form a terrible positive cycle in her. As she becomes crazy, the surrounding reality is gradually approaching her delusions."

"In fact, this is a good thing for us. If she could reach Rank Ⅳ, we might have secretly executed her. It is precisely because she is now trapped by her own abilities and mental illness that we have time to find a way to cure her."

Ma En asked:

"Didn't you say that she usually doesn't cause any harm?"

Shadow said in an icy tone:

"We are the Federation, not the Salvation Alliance. Although you have performed very well among your companions, I still have to remind you that you should not bring the problems you developed with Shenxiao here. I suggest you don't have too much emotion when working here."

"And she is not as safe as I just said. To be precise, Alice will not harm others, but she has a 'friend' named Lilith, who will only appear when she feels Alice is in danger, but she will do some very cruel things when she appears."

"What I just said is not multiple personalities, or that may have been the case, but she is a reality warper, so now it is no longer a simple mental problem. Only the Federation can handle her problem."

"Anyway, she is still alive now, isn't that great?"

Ma En asked:

"Can you control her?"

Shadow said:

"Of course, not every reality warper is Shenxiao. Some of them are strong and some are weak. We have also killed many reality warpers who are a threat to the Federation, and haven't you seen that we have already defeated Shenxiao?"

"Alice can even be said to be the most pitiful of them. Her ability is like a spider web that has entangled herself. She is slowly killing herself with her own reality warping ability. If it weren't for our help, she would have been killed by her own ability now."

Ma En said:

"So the genius you value most is a poor girl trapped by her own abilities."

Shadow said:

"That's right, but we are trying to heal her. Strictly speaking, she has a better chance of becoming one of us than you do. Moreover, when she reaches Tier V, she will surpass ordinary high-level ability users like you and me. This is a joint opportunity for the Federation and her."

"Anyway, there's no harm in trying, is there?"