Hanya quickly gathered her thoughts and stopped focusing on Nero.
"I've asked Miss Guinaifen to create an account on a certain website. Under the pretext of investigating strange and supernatural stories, it will provide information sources for everyone's operations."
Hanya's voice, lacking much emotion or enthusiasm, drifted through the room. Guinaifen's eyes immediately lit up with excitement. She grabbed Sushang's hand and said excitedly:
"Sushang, did you hear that?! This time I'm more than useful, I'm incredibly useful. Getting the chance to help everyone as a hound of the Ten-Lords Commission is wonderful!"
"Uh..." Looking at the excited Guinaifen, Sushang twitched her lips. "I may not be very educated, but isn't 'hound' kind of a bad word?"
"Doesn't matter. As far as the heliobi are concerned, your ghost-hunting squad is just the Ten-Lords Commission's hound squad anyway," Cirrus suddenly chimed in from the side.
Although it was difficult to scheme or do anything bad around Nero, she could still make sarcastic remarks and throw in some snide comments.
Over the past few days, Cirrus had already noticed that Nero generally didn't care when she mouthed off at people. She could say whatever she wanted.
As things stood, she could barely accept the situation. Although she had been captured, at least she could still fly around freely. That was much better than lying inside the Creation Furnace.
"Judge Huohuo has been assigned to coordinate all of you," Hanya continued. "When it comes to professional matters involving heliobi, you must cooperate with her leadership. Unless you have extraordinary methods like Nero..."
"I-I understand. Huohuo will definitely not fail her mission." Before anyone else could speak, Huohuo said this first, as if encouraging herself.
Afterward, Hanya gave some additional instructions related to the ghost-hunting squad before leaving.
The Fyxestroll Garden incident had only recently ended. Although the gourd army had helped, there was still plenty to deal with.
For example, Huyan was still very unwilling to accept things.
Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do about it, because those gourd monsters were practically his natural enemy.
"Lady Huohuo, shall we begin our operation?" Sushang asked after Hanya left.
As a Cloud Knight, she had received professional training and entered work mode quickly.
Huohuo, however, despite also being a professionally trained judge, found it difficult to get into the right mindset in this situation. Judging from her personality, she probably rarely encountered situations where she had to lead a team herself.
"L-Lady? You can just call me Huohuo."
"Oh, just accept being called Lady! You little scaredy-cat. If you're always like this, how are you ever going to become an official?" Tail scolded her in a tone of disappointment.
Huohuo shrank her neck under Tail's shouting before quietly saying, "Miss Hanya asked me to lead everyone... I was surprised too..."
"Tsk..." Tail grunted and stopped talking.
After Tail fell silent, Huohuo let out a sigh of relief. Then she noticed everyone looking at her. She took two deep breaths before finally speaking, "Back to the topic... Besides Huyan, who was subdued in Fyxestroll Garden earlier, many heliobi escaped after the Creation Furnace broke apart."
"Based on the Ten-Lords Commission's understanding of heliobi habits, they'll most likely head toward densely populated areas to look for hosts. Wherever they go, there will certainly be many unexplained 'supernatural incidents.'"
"Miss Guinaifen, could you show everyone that website?"
Guinaifen nodded, took out her device, and introduced her account along with a paranormal enthusiast website called Luofu Curiosities.
"That's your personal account, right? Is that really okay?" Sushang noticed that Guinaifen was using her own account and sounded a little concerned.
Guinaifen, however, didn't care. She demonstrated the same fiery drive as her red hair.
"The Ten-Lords Commission has to stay secret, but I don't. My mission is to gain a ton of followers."
"Right now, I just registered, so I don't have many followers. But based on my experience on other platforms, once the follower count grows, lots of people will start sending in reports of supernatural incidents."
"What if they're just rumors?" Stelle asked.
Guinaifen nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, that's actually pretty difficult. Some information is obviously fake at a glance, but other reports... it's hard to judge from a few words online."
"Some people will make up absolutely anything just to attract traffic."
"So that means we'll have to investigate in person. We're familiar with that kind of work!" March said.
That wasn't wrong.
After all, Nameless were basically a type of interstellar drifter.
"Mm... Actually, it's not just us." Huohuo said. "The Ten-Lords Commission's spirit wardens will also be conducting investigations in secret."
After thinking for a moment, Sushang said, "Drawing attention... Guinaifen is pretty good at that."
"She often uses me to perform acrobatics and things like that. But on a paranormal enthusiast website, how do you gain followers?"
"Easy." Guinaifen answered confidently. "We'll upload recordings of our ghost-hunting, uh, I mean heliobi-subduing operations!"
"We're working for the Ten-Lords Commission now. Who could possibly have more explosive material than us?"
"Besides, don't we have Nero? Even if I don't have followers, Nero does. As far as I know, Nero's followers may be a little unusual, but most of them are pretty normal."
"So are they normal or not?" Stelle was confused by Guinaifen's explanation.
"Uh... well... their behavior is normal. Rational and restrained. But some of them aren't very normal in how they express themselves. They like acting crazy online... I think that's what it's called?"
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As soon as Guinaifen said this, the streaming Siberian Duck froze for a moment.
"Guys, I suddenly thought of someone."
[Dan-heart Eternal: What a coincidence. So did I.]
[Wind-Boy Solo-Stan: Me too.]
[Aha's Emanator: Are you all thinking of the same person?]
[I Use Pantene: I doubt it's just the few of us.]
[Belobog Savage: That's right. I thought of them too.]
[Glue Man: In my opinion, we might as well all @ the person we're thinking of.]
[Boiling Snow: Excellent idea.]
[Putting Nero's Feet in My Mouth: Why are all of you acting mysterious? As if I wouldn't know who you're talking about? You're obviously talking about me!]
[Putting Nero's Feet in My Mouth: The story is calling me out, and now you're calling me out too. Do you think I'd feel embarrassed? Of course not!]
[Putting Nero's Feet in My Mouth: What does that mean? It means I've made it! There's someone like me in the game world too. Maybe they're even my structural isomer!]
[Putting Nero's Feet in My Mouth: Hehehe... I wonder if the me in that world will ever get the chance to hold Nero and take a good bite... If only he could tell me what Nero tastes like. Definitely delicious and tasty... hehehe...]
[Pom-Pom: Um, did you mean a parallel counterpart?]
[Putting Nero's Feet in My Mouth: Same thing.]