Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 423 Self-Contradiction
As Milo had expected.

Enid led a few people to cause trouble for the Duller family, but they were turned away with various excuses. The unspoken rule that law enforcement teams cannot easily take action against the nobility is still hard to break. In addition, the entire city of Nanwei is facing a huge mess of the opera house and hundreds of missing persons. Even if Enid really had some evidence, no one had time to deal with her causing trouble.

Moreover, she didn't have any evidence at all.

So after one phone call, Enid's team was withdrawn.

Being completely oblivious, she had no idea that her entire infiltration of the Dulle family the previous night was a hoax. Even though the fractal rules perfectly replicated every detail of the city, and the Dulle family patriarch's safe did indeed contain evidence of their evil rituals, Enid no longer had the chance to access those things.

She went to find the people who had been at the noble banquet the day before, including the young nobleman she had beaten up, but they were either missing or showed no recollection of what had happened the night before.

This caused Enid to fall into self-doubt for a time.

……

She remembers it very, very clearly.

She infiltrated the dinner party posing as Miss Kent, found evidence of the crime, and witnessed a truly filthy and depraved scene, but it seems that only she remembers these things.

Even when Yan asked him about it later, he claimed to know nothing.

Of course, Yan must have received instructions from Milo, which is why he remained silent about everything in the world of imitators.

So this "huge case" weighed heavily on Enid's mind.

She had thought that this time she could uncover some truths and perhaps find the missing members of the law enforcement agency's criminal investigation team, including the previous team leader, Theon. But now it seems that things are not as simple as she imagined.

Milo knew that no matter how he explained it, it would be impossible to explain clearly.

Standing in the atrium, I looked down at Enid, who was slumped over her desk in the office area below, looking troubled.

Eric's shadow appeared on the wall.

He quickly made several hand gestures.

Milo rolled her eyes at him, annoyed. "So what am I supposed to do? Do I have to go and tell her that everything you experienced was fake, fabricated by an evil god, and that the criminal investigation team members weren't killed, but turned into ghosts and stayed in the law enforcement office? Is that right?"

Henry appeared next to Eric and quickly gestured a few times.

Milo glanced at the other person, then continued to shake his head: "Of course I know she meant to help me, please, I have eyes and a brain."

He waved his hand, turned around with a sullen look, and left the corridor to return to his office.

Eric and Henry's shadows were left standing on the wall of the corridor, looking at each other.

Watching Milo's departing figure.

Eric muttered to himself:

"Why do I get the feeling that he's a bit irritable?"

"who knows."

Henry shrugged.

...

……

late at night.

Milo once again locked himself in the attic of his own rooftop.

This time, he did not open any of the books he had obtained from the University of Michigan. Instead, he sat calmly in the chair in the center of the attic floor, his eyes closed.

Imnar had expressed bewilderment and shock at Milo's promotion to the Shadow Order.

According to it, in addition to physically transcending the constraints of the existing order, a life form in order to enter the Shadow sequence also needs to completely cut off the most mundane part of its soul, which is the most complex and ever-changing human emotions.

Milo did indeed omit that last step.

But in fact, he did not think that he had "promoted" to become the Shadow at that moment. He had a vague feeling that it was not that he had broken free from the order, but that the order had abandoned him.

At first, it was just a feeling, which he thought was an illusion, but as time went on, this perception became stronger and stronger in his mind.

Indeed, he gained nothing from that battle, and even the Nath Chronicles, apart from giving him a new understanding of the power of fear, did not fundamentally change him. Only Milo himself knew this.

Imnar stripped away the order within the opera house at the time, triggering a series of subsequent upheavals, which seem to have inadvertently made Milo the shadow.

But that's not actually the case; it merely "verified" that Milo had become the Shadow.

Perhaps sometime earlier, or even a few years earlier, Milo had already been abandoned by the order of this universe.

……

Milo had many questions about everything that had happened to him. The biggest mystery remained how he had escaped his original world and arrived in this strange one.

It's as if a script had been written all along, with secrets inaccessible to ordinary people intertwining with Milo's life path one after another, in various ways, constantly swirling and intersecting, until finally, it became impossible to distinguish between what was real and what was illusory...

“Our vision is not broad enough, and we fear the blood of the old gods.”

However, according to the Church's proverb, Milo's vision was already broad enough, thanks to all the memories of the dead he had spied on over the past year, the reading of many evil tomes, and those experiences that should have driven him mad, including the ancient memories of Glaqi and the entanglements with many gods.

All of this has broadened Milo's horizons to an unprecedented degree.

However, this never helped him achieve a state of enlightenment. On the contrary, Milo felt that he was not achieving a promotion or transcendence in his life level. He did not feel that he was "moving up", but rather that he was sinking deeper and deeper into a quagmire.

He mocked Dillah as a pitiful wretch who was indecisive and always in a state of self-contradiction and struggle, but looking back, was his own carefree and casual attitude really genuine?

……

After the truth about his being the Shadow was confirmed, those things and emotions that had never troubled Milo in the past, or that had troubled him but which he had eventually gotten rid of or let go of, suddenly surged up like a rising tide, almost drowning and swallowing him up, and he was so powerless to resist them.

In a moment, Milo seemed to understand why the higher-level beings criticized the inherent emotions of humans, such lower beings.

Or rather, it's about emotions.

No one can be absolutely rational. If someone could, then that person would have transcended the category of "human" and become something else entirely, something that cannot be simply defined as good or bad.

At this moment, Milo seemed to be caught in a kind of self-contradiction in his thinking.

His body seemed to be urging him to discard these useless emotions, but all the knowledge he possessed, and even the power he had mastered, were not overcome by this instinct.

For example, his most crucial method of defeating Imnar was the power of fear. Isn't fear one of the emotions possessed by lower life forms?
……

Just as the self-contradictions and disorders of the human immune system can lead to various life-threatening illnesses, the problem Milo is facing right now is in his mind.

His strength, physique, and vitality all stemmed from the knowledge system he had thoroughly understood. However, at this moment, a self-contradiction had appeared within this knowledge system; to put it more bluntly, it had a bug.

This could be a fatal threat to him.

……

He locked himself in the attic and sat quietly for an entire night.

During that long night, Milo thought about many things.

He slowed his thoughts as much as possible, because at his level, "reckless thinking" was just as dangerous as running amok in the real physical world, and could lead to terrible consequences, or even worse.

Because if you close your eyes and recklessly charge through the streets of Nanwei City, the worst that can happen is that you will be trampled to death by horses or run over by cars.

But the realm of thought is far more dangerous than the real world. He could easily fall into an abyss from which he cannot save himself, and then he would face something far more terrifying than death.

Perhaps this is another interpretation of the phrase "even death will vanish" from the Necronomicon.

Or to be more precise, "disappeared" here should be translated as "died".

"In the wondrous eternity, even death is death."

……

Milo's mind was currently filled with countless chaotic and intertwined pieces of information and knowledge.

These things were like foreign substances that had invaded the human immune system. He thought he had completely digested, broken down, and absorbed them, but that was not the case. When they accumulated enough, knowledge interacted with each other, just like an uncontrollable chemical reaction between substances, triggering a series of unknowable changes inside the human body.

He knew that if he made even the slightest mistake, he could fall into the abyss.

Therefore, we must be extremely cautious.

Otherwise, madness and death would be the merciful end he could receive.

……

...

Milo thought he had been sitting quietly in the attic all night.

However, the truth is that when he pushed open the small door to the attic, went down the stairs to the living room and kitchen, he found that the date on the calendar was already April 3rd.

He turned his head to look at his reflection in the glass window and examined it carefully.

He noticed that apart from the outline of a beard, there were no other significant changes on his face. He even checked his temples to make sure there were no bullet holes before he was completely relieved.

Stroking the rough, prickly stubble on the lower half of his face, Milo muttered to himself:

"Everything seems to be fine."

(End of this chapter)