Chapter 8: Dark Feather Secret Order
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The mist of Feather Gray Mountain had not yet dissipated, and Evelyn was taken to the "Silent Shadow Office" set up by the Alpha Inspection Bureau in the northern border area.
This is a monitoring agency built at the bottom of the cliff. It looks like the remains of feather bones dug into the rock layer. The entrance is hidden behind a natural wind-eroded gap. Only Alpha members with a specific "mental frequency map" can enter.
Evelyn stood in front of the door and felt the low-frequency hum coming from deep in the stone wall, like some sleeping ancient creature warning the intruder.
"After entering, don't look around or talk casually." Cyrus Raven walked in front of her, his tone as cold as ever.
"I'm just a 'contractor', not a prisoner." She followed his footsteps, with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"You are the 'Divine Seal Contractor'. Before you fully understand what you will bring, you are indeed an uncontrollable variable." Cyrus paused and added, "And Alpha never trusts variables."
The moment she stepped into the Jingying House, Evelyn's senses were pulled into a dry, cold, inorganic space. The walls were gray-white neural material, emitting slight biofeedback; in the middle of the corridor hung motionless feather-patterned chandeliers, and under each lamp floated a reddish "mental monitoring ball".
She knew clearly that she was being sensed and recorded in all directions.
In front of a door engraved with a silver seal, Cyrus stopped, put his palm in the sensor slot, and heard a low "click".
The door slowly opened, and an old man in a gray feather cloak stood in the room, his eyes sparkling.
"Cyrus, you brought her here." He had a hoarse voice, a thin face, and a typical Alpha family elder's appearance.
"Evelyn Helvia." He stared at her as if he was looking at an unknown specimen that had walked out of an old file.
"This is a member of the elders' seat - Enos Feng." Cyrus introduced briefly.
"Sir Feng." Evelyn reluctantly saluted.
Feng did not respond, but slowly raised his hand, and a gentle but compulsory mental wave surged, forcibly stripping away the closed layer of shallow memory in Evelyn's mind.
She suddenly felt a sharp pain in her brain, and the moment when the statue of the Feather Gray Mountain collapsed, the pain of the silver seal emerging, and the whisper from the "Divine Abyss" flashed before her eyes:
"I will seal the world with the feather feathers and bind your soul."
Feng retracted his fingers, his face changed slightly.
"Sure enough... it was that 'remnant of prophecy'."
"Are you sure?" Cyrus frowned slightly.
"The divine seal in her body is not simply awakened, but more like being activated - like some kind of legacy seal awakening in her body." Feng said slowly, "This seal... is not made by the Alpha family, but comes from the ancient 'Dark Feather Divine Vein'."
Cyrus's eyes narrowed slightly.
Evelyn frowned: "What is the 'Dark Feather Divine Vein'?"
"A forbidden name that has long been erased from the family tree by the Alpha Council." Feng murmured, "That bloodline once caused the collapse of divinity thousands of years ago, and almost swallowed up the entire spiritual realm of the southern region... You may be their last remnant."
The air suddenly turned cold.
Evelyn looked at the two people quietly, without retreating or panicking.
"So you are afraid of me because you don't understand me."
Feng sighed: "It's not that I don't understand, but that I understand too much. The divine seal is both a contract and a shackle. The divine seal in your body is not a complete contract, but a half-contract format that has been artificially 'cut off'. That means - it will continue to evolve."
"Evolve?" Cyrus said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Feng looked up, "and she is the core."
After a long silence, Cyrus finally spoke:
"Then continue to observe her and start the 'Dark Feather Monitoring Plan'."
"Plan number?"
"E-17." He turned and looked at Evelyn, "Divine Seal Contractor, number E-17, from this moment on, all fluctuations involving her must be recorded by me personally, and no external inspectors are allowed to intervene."
Feng nodded, his eyes complicated: "You are tying yourself to her fate, Cyrus."
"I have no choice." He whispered.
...
When Evelyn left the Jingying Institute again, it was late at night.
She followed Cyrus back to the temporary residence prepared by the Alpha Review Bureau for the "Divine Seal Contractor" - a gray-silver building built of special materials with mental suppression function, which looks like an unexpanded feather seed.
The room was clean but cold, and Evelyn sat by the bed, saying nothing.
"You should be thankful that you are still free." Cyrus leaned against the door.
"You call this freedom?" She looked up at him, "Even my dreams are being monitored."
"At least no one is handcuffing you." He took a few steps closer, "You have to get used to this state. Contractors are never chosen for 'enjoyment'."
"What is that for? To carry an out-of-control fate device for you?"
She sneered.
Cyrus did not answer, but threw a silver-black bracelet to her.
"Divine Seal Adapter, after forced binding, it can reduce the feedback on the mental side, so that you will not collapse when you dream."
Evelyn took it and looked down at the cold metal.
"Will you always follow me?" she asked suddenly.
"Yes."
"Even if I take a shower, sleep, and change clothes?"
Cyrus paused, but did not answer immediately.
"System synchronization will have an automatic shielding mechanism. I only receive your mental fragments when you have 'abnormal fluctuations'." He finally replied, "If you really don't want to be spied on, try not to cause trouble."
"Don't worry." She said coldly, "I'm very good at hiding."
The air was silent for a moment.
"Evelyn." Cyrus suddenly spoke, looking directly at her, "What did you see in the last moment at Feather Gray Mountain?"
She raised her head slightly, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her lips.
"Are you sure you want to know?"
"Sure."
Evelyn spoke slowly, her voice as light as a whisper:
"I saw a wing... covering the entire mountain, its feather tips were stained with blood, and... a blurry face, looking at me from behind the feather bones, as if saying - 'Come back'."
Cyrus' eyes suddenly turned cold, and his lips trembled slightly.
"... Impossible."
"Do you know what that is?" She suddenly approached, "You are afraid of it, right?"
He said nothing.
At this moment, a high-frequency disturbance suddenly came from the air, and a red beacon lit up on the wall.
[Detected the God Seal's frequency access, codenamed Black Crow. ]
[Emergency warning: Target No. E-17 is about to be connected without authorization. ]
Cyrus's face suddenly changed: "Someone tried to remotely invade your God Seal core!"
Evelyn's eyes flashed, and then she covered her head with a pale face, as if her body was forcibly dragged into a spiritual space-
It was an endless sea of feather ash, with countless black feather debris suspended, and an extremely low voice sounded in the ear:
"Return to Yuyuan... my contractor."
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