Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 985: Three O'Clock

In response to Anna's question, the Shattered God on the television said, "I've found the memory-altering Anomaly that you need."

Anna stretched out her hand toward Gao Zhiming and pulled him closer to herself. "Good. Send someone to deliver it here. I need it now."

"We certainly want to do so, but it is in the hands of others. We'll need some time to obtain it," the bronze doll replied.

Anna was a bit annoyed as she replied, "We've had no contact for such a long time, and that's the news you have for me? It seems like I have grossly overestimated you."

Anna thought that their strength would at least match that of a Governor in the Subterranean Sea, but it seemed they couldn't even compare to some of the strong explorers back there.

"I don't understand why you think that your request is so easy to accomplish. Controllable Anomalies are already rare, let alone powerful ones that can alter memories. What are Anomalies in your eyes? Can they be found on the streets?"

Anna wanted to say that Anomalies could indeed be found on the streets of the Subterranean Sea, but she thought that it would be pointless, so she refrained from doing so.

"If you're here to deliver that news, then you're done. You can leave," Anna said, her voice carrying a hint of disdain.

The bronze doll on the television screen didn't disappear. Instead, it spoke once again, saying, "It's going to take us some time to obtain that kind of Anomaly, but we've fulfilled your other condition. They'll arrive at your city's port tomorrow morning."

"Are you talking about the ten Anomalies? You've collected them so quickly?" Tobba asked in surprise, spitting out his pacifier.

"If their threat level doesn't matter, Anomalies aren't that difficult to collect. As for how powerful they are, that's for you to judge—they're all difficult to handle, anyway."

With that, the bronze doll revealed a detailed map on the television screen. "Tomorrow morning at three o'clock, the container will be unloaded on Pier Two. The serial number is 59041."

The clown took out a camera and proceeded to take pictures of the map. Once it was done, the screen went black and white smoke drifted from the big-bottomed television.

"I finally got something to do. I was about to get sick from boredom." Anna stood up, accepting a black coat presented with both hands by a Fhtagnist.

Ten Anomalies each with an unknown special ability weren't that special back in the Subterranean Sea, but they were quite a significant force on the surface world.

At the very least, Anna could easily escape a pinch similar to what had happened on that ship with the help of those Anomalies.

The middle-aged man was going to be Charles' designated father, and Charles' "mother" was nearby as well. There was also a similar pair living on the other side of the city.

Anna had prepared the two pairs of designated father and mother for Gao Zhiming. Once the memory-altering Anomaly had arrived, Anna was going to alter their memories to perfectly replicate Gao Zhiming's life on the surface world.

Anna had been planning on taking it slow, but she had realized that the child was growing increasingly attached to her.

To make matters worse, her own feelings for him were deepening as well; she felt a tinge of reluctance at the idea of erasing their memories together.

Anna hated this feeling, and she felt like she couldn't no longer delay it. The longer she waited, the more difficult it would be to correct any mistakes. Moreover, if the Shattered God's Anomaly proved useless, they'd need some time to find something else.

Anna put her fingers together and pushed her sunglasses back up her nose.

"Let's go see the other pair," she said.

Upon checking the two pairs, Anna began her preparations for what was to come later in the night. Worried that something might go wrong, Anna had decided to make sufficient preparations.

Fortunately, her concerns had proved to be unnecessary. They had no issues retrieving the ten Anomalies, both in solid and liquid form, from the container on the pier.

The bizarre special abilities of these ten Anomalies varied greatly. The Shattered God hadn't provided any detailed explanations about their special abilities, unlike what the IMF would do, but it was fine, as Anna wasn't going to use them herself.

Inside a sealed warehouse, Anna conducted the fusion ritual and proceeded to fuse the ten Anomalies into the Fhtagnists.

One person died on the spot while someone else disappeared with a miserable howl, but the relic fusion ritual had succeeded perfectly with the remaining eight Fhtagnists.

However, the words "succeeded perfectly" weren't exactly apropos.

A blonde and blue-eyed Fhtagnist standing before Anna had absorbed an Anomaly in the form of a sculpture depicting a black demon with a grotesque face.

Upon taking in the Anomaly's Origin Essence, the blonde and blue-eyed Fhtagnist stood motionless in the sea salt that had been reduced to a pile of ashes. She was frozen, seemingly becoming a sculpture herself as well.