CHAPTER 589: STEREOSCOPIC MAGIC FORMATION

Ling Ishikawa nodded and said with a smile, "It seems this Tanaka Fuji is quite cooperative, he has confessed everything so directly. But apart from this information, did Tanaka Fuji mention anything else?"

Zhang Wenbing shrugged and said, "That’s about all Tanaka Fuji knows because Tanaka Fuji can’t really be considered a member of the Deep Diving Society. Although Oyamaya appeared to be close to Tanaka Fuji, he actually kept a certain distance from Tanaka Fuji. So Tanaka Fuji didn’t have access to much information related to the Deep Diving Society. He only mentioned that there was a Deep One statue for worship in his home, but that Deep One statue has probably already been taken away by the Deep Diving Society’s people since they’ve gone to sort out Oyamaya’s, or rather, Ooyamakaze’s belongings."

Liu Xing nodded. For the Deep Diving Society, a Deep One statue held extremely important symbolic significance, so they definitely wouldn’t let it fall into the wrong hands.

Although Liu Xing still wanted to ask Zhang Wenbing if Tanaka Fuji knew whether the Deep Diving Society would dispatch followers to take over the Tokyo Comprehensive University branch, after some thought, the answer to this question was already quite obvious – Tanaka Fuji wouldn’t know the answer because he had essentially been expelled from the Deep Diving Society and had become an ordinary person.

Time soon passed to midnight. After some disguising, Liu Xing and the others arrived behind the Sea-Buds Cafeteria.

As the information they had gathered suggested, there was still a significant flow of people around Tokyo Comprehensive University at this time, and the nearby izakayas were almost packed.

However, according to Miguel’s observations, no one was paying attention to their group at the moment.

So Liu Xing and the others quickly climbed over the wall and entered Tokyo Comprehensive University, arriving behind the Sea-Buds Cafeteria.

This area was a "sacred ground" for Tokyo Comprehensive University students to enter and exit the school by climbing over the wall. Additionally, since the university was concerned about potential issues arising from students climbing over the wall, they turned a blind eye to this section of the wall. As such, it was just an ordinary brick wall about two meters high, without any spikes or other deterrents at the top.

However, the old ways still held some spice – such acts of climbing over the school wall were certainly punishable, and there was also a need to guard against potential trespassers and thieves. Therefore, Tokyo Comprehensive University had installed multiple surveillance cameras at the main entrance of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria. Anyone attempting to climb over the wall would definitely be spotted... Of course, if one were to act like Liu Xing and the others, entering from the back door of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria, there would be no need to worry about being captured by surveillance cameras since there were no visible cameras at the back door.

This was quite understandable because the Sea-Buds Cafeteria was the designated office location for the Deep Diving Society’s Tokyo Comprehensive University branch. Therefore, some unsavory activities were bound to occur at the Sea-Buds Cafeteria from time to time, and the Deep Diving Society certainly wouldn’t want Tokyo Comprehensive University to discover such things. As such, the Deep Diving Society must have taken advantage of this blind spot behind the Sea-Buds Cafeteria.

However, directly requesting Tokyo Comprehensive University not to install surveillance cameras at the back door of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria would have been unrealistic. So the Deep Diving Society came up with a simple, crude solution – they arranged for people to throw stones from outside the wall to damage the surveillance cameras at the back door of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria. After more than ten cameras were damaged, Tokyo Comprehensive University eventually gave up on installing surveillance cameras behind the Sea-Buds Cafeteria.

After all, if the surveillance cameras at the main entrance of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria were damaged, Tokyo Comprehensive University would still have a chance to find the culprits, who were most likely students of the university and could be identified through room inspections. However, if the cameras at the back door were damaged, it would be much more difficult to catch the perpetrators due to the high flow of people around Tokyo Comprehensive University.

"Be careful, there are still three people inside the Sea-Buds Cafeteria, and they seem to be resting," Miguel said in a low voice, wearing a Noh mask.

To guard against the possibility of the Deep Diving Society secretly installing surveillance cameras at the back door of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria, Liu Xing and the others had already donned Noh masks before climbing over the wall. After all, Noh masks were a popular commodity in the Island Nation, so even if the Deep Diving Society discovered them, they wouldn’t be able to trace their identities through the masks.

Initially, Ling Ishikawa had planned to simply buy some masks from nearby stores for the occasion, but Zhang Wenbing objected, saying that masks couldn’t be chosen carelessly. Zhang Wenbing had once known a friend in the module who got demerited for buying the wrong mask.

The story was quite simple: Zhang Wenbing’s friend and his teammates were preparing to infiltrate a mansion to gather intelligence, so they randomly bought some superhero masks from a nearby store. After successfully infiltrating the mansion and collecting information, they were arrested by the local police the next day. The reason for their arrest was the superhero masks they wore, which were only sold by that particular store in the area, allowing the police to easily trace them.

With this lesson in mind, Liu Xing followed Zhang Wenbing’s advice and had Honekawa Suneo arrange for someone to purchase some trendy Noh masks from tourist spots in Tokyo. This way, the Deep Diving Society wouldn’t be able to trace them through the masks.

However, speaking of which, it’s unexpected that there are still three people staying in the Sea-Buds Cafeteria. It seems the Deep Diving Society is quite cautious.

At this moment, Miguel had arrived at the back door of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria and began to hack the door lock.

As a product of a secret cult, the door lock used by the Sea-Buds Cafeteria would definitely not be an ordinary one, but a professional lock designed by the Deep Diving Society itself, and it would be of the highest security level. Under normal circumstances, such a high-level lock could withstand hacking for five or six hours.

Liu Xing remembered an anecdote he had seen online. A person once lost their keys and called a locksmith, who managed to open the door in about a minute. The person then asked the locksmith to replace it with a top-level door lock, claiming that even the most professional locksmiths would need half a day to open it... Then, the person forgot their keys inside the house, and they ended up pondering life together with the locksmith in front of that top-level door lock.

While the Sea-Buds Cafeteria’s door lock was almost invincible to ordinary locksmiths, it was not enough for someone like Miguel. In just a few seconds, Miguel could analyze the internal structure of the lock, then simply inserted his little finger into the keyhole and opened it.

Upon entering the back door of the Sea-Buds Cafeteria, they immediately arrived at the cafeteria’s warehouse, where a strong fishy smell greeted them, and it was pitch-black, so dark that one could say they couldn’t see their hand in front of their face.

"Ling Ishikawa, it’s your turn," Liu Xing said in a low voice to Ling Ishikawa.

Ling Ishikawa nodded and began to use the night vision spell on Liu Xing and the others.

As the name suggests, the night vision spell allows one to see in the dark, and this was a magic spell that Ling Ishikawa had only started learning two days ago. Fortunately, it wasn’t too difficult, and Ling Ishikawa had now mastered the night vision spell.

With their vision restored, Liu Xing and the others saw that their surroundings were filled with glass fish tanks of various sizes, containing all kinds of fish, shrimp, crabs, and shellfish.

Seeing this scene, Liu Xing finally remembered something – among the Deep Diving Society’s numerous industries, the largest was a seafood company, which happened to be the number one seafood company in the Island Nation...

A beauty ruined by her own misdeeds.

Couldn’t you, the Deep Diving Society, just be a respectable seafood tycoon?

While silently mocking them in his heart, Liu Xing carefully observed the ground because magic formations were generally engraved on the floor.

However, due to the glass fish tanks holding various seafood products nearby, the warehouse floor tiles had been given some non-slip treatment, but it was just ordinary lines, not the magic formation patterns Liu Xing had imagined.

At this point, Miguel pointed to a small room on the left and said, "That small room is the Sea-Buds Cafeteria’s staff rest area. The three people I mentioned earlier are sleeping in there. Although they’re asleep now, for safety’s sake, we should all keep our voices down and not make too much noise or carelessly touch anything."

Liu Xing glanced at the staff rest area and noticed that it was only about twenty meters away from them. At this distance, even with the door to the rest area blocking some sound, louder noises could still draw the attention of the Deep Diving Society followers inside.

So Liu Xing lightened his footsteps even further.

The Sea-Buds Cafeteria warehouse was quite large, but due to those glass fish tanks, it was like a maze, and Liu Xing had only walked a few steps before realizing he could no longer see Zhang Jingxu and the others. After all, while the night vision spell restored some of their vision, it couldn’t fully restore normal vision in the dark.

However, there was no need to panic. Although he couldn’t see Zhang Jingxu and the others at the moment, Liu Xing knew they were nearby, and there was no real danger in this warehouse. After all, this wasn’t a cartoon – the seafood in the fish tanks wouldn’t jump out and slap him in the face.

Liu Xing walked for a few more minutes but found nothing, only seeing various kinds of fish, shrimp, crabs, and shellfish, some he could name and others he couldn’t.

If I didn’t know in advance that this was the Deep Diving Society’s territory, Liu Xing would have mistaken it for an ordinary seafood market.

So, did Tanaka Fuji provide incorrect information, and the Sea-Buds Cafeteria was actually just the official designated dining place for Deep Diving Society followers like Ooyamakaze?

Liu Xing shook his head and decided to contact KP Bamboo Rat: "KP, can I attempt an Investigation Judgment or Inspiration Judgment now?"

KP Bamboo Rat’s reply was very quick, "Of course, but since your vision is currently impaired, Liu Xing, your Investigation Judgment would need to reach an extremely difficult level to obtain valuable information. As for the Inspiration Judgment, you only need to pass a difficult one."

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and immediately ruled out the option of attempting an Investigation Judgment because an extremely difficult one would be too hard to succeed. For safety’s sake, it was better to choose a difficult Inspiration Judgment.

So, Liu Xing chose to attempt a difficult Inspiration Judgment.

Liu Xing, 11/35 (70), success.

It seems my luck is still decent.

"Good, since you passed a difficult Inspiration Judgment, Liu Xing, you suddenly realized a possibility - that the Deep Diving Society may have arranged these fish tanks to form a three-dimensional magic formation!" KP Bamboo Rat said with a smile.

A three-dimensional magic formation?!

Liu Xing was dumbfounded, with only one thought in his mind - there’s such a thing?!

Of course there was.

Although in most cases, magic formations need to be drawn on relatively flat surfaces, in special circumstances, creating a three-dimensional magic formation is not impossible. However, it requires an extremely high level of skill from the person drawing the formation, and better materials are needed to maintain the connections between the different parts of the formation.

So these staggered and seemingly randomly arranged fish tanks could indeed potentially form a three-dimensional magic formation. Unfortunately, there was no way to turn on the lights and investigate further.

But Miguel or Hu Li should be able to confirm this.

Liu Xing quickly found Miguel and Hu Li and told them his idea.

Miguel nodded, directly scanning the placement of all the fish tanks in the warehouse, and then took out paper and pen to draw it.

Although Miguel’s drawing looked like the random scribbles of a bored student on a blank sheet of paper, Hu Li leaned over and erased some of the lines, revealing what appeared to be a proper magic formation to Liu Xing and the others.

"Wow, the Deep Diving Society is quite creative, huh? They even came up with this three-dimensional magic formation," Ling Ishikawa said with a smile.

Zhang Jingxu nodded and said, "I can confirm that this should be a sacrificial magic formation because I just passed by the center point of this formation. There’s a very tall fish tank there with only water inside."

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