Chapter 636: Chapter 636: Becoming More and More Human

Scarlett Jennings was facing the smile on the small zombie doll’s face, silent for a moment, just about to speak when Liora Gold jumped out of her pocket and, without a word, plastered herself all over the doll’s face.

Though it had no expression or speech, Scarlett inexplicably understood what it meant.

Liora Gold: This doll is ugly, I’m blocking it.

Scarlett chuckled a bit as she peeled Liora Gold off the doll’s face. The small zombie doll still didn’t have much expression, continuing to grin at her.

“This is…”

Samuel Chalmers couldn’t help but inquire.

Scarlett finally explained,

“This is a Tracking Doll I asked Stella Gibson to try and make, infused with a trace of sinister energy from the Undying Bone; it reacts when near it.”

As Scarlett spoke, she quickly performed a hand gesture, channeling a trace of her own spiritual power into the doll to bind it.

The moment the small zombie doll was bound, it immediately sprang out of the box, eyes wide open, raising its small arm, pointing straight ahead in a certain direction.

Scarlett and Samuel exchanged a glance and quickly instructed the driver to start the car.

The car first arrived outside a residential building. After getting out, they followed the direction and saw the zombie doll pointing at a spot on the outer wall.

“Inside?”

The doll shook its head, still pointing at the outer wall.

Scarlett then decisively went to the third floor. From the window at the stairwell, she looked outside and saw a footprint half-embedded in the wall on the rain eave.

The footprint was clearly left recently and not the kind left on wet cement, but rather a depression made by the owner exerting too much force.

It wasn’t hard to guess who the footprint belonged to.

Scarlett still remembered being kicked away by the Undying Bone back then. If not for the amulet and Sophie Harper protecting her, she would have broken several ribs.

She wondered what he was doing there.

Just as she was thinking, she heard a man’s complaining voice from the adjacent apartment,

“Didn’t I tell you not to hang clothes outside the balcony anymore? My previous set of clothes was just stolen, and if this one gets stolen, I won’t have any clothes left to wear!”

“There’s no space inside the balcony, how would I know there are weirdos stealing men’s clothes in this day and age…”

Hearing the sound inside, Scarlett and Samuel exchanged looks and instantly understood the reason behind the footprint.

They remained silent for a moment, then turned to head down the stairs.

After a while, Scarlett returned and slipped three hundred yuan under the door of that household.

In the past, Scarlett wouldn’t have bothered with such gestures, but now she was part of the Security Bureau.

Post-incident compensation could be reimbursed.

Then, following the directions of the small zombie doll, Scarlett and Samuel went to several locations.

Fountain square, a quiet alley, and then to a little boy’s home.

After verifying their identity, they entered and saw the little boy. Scarlett’s gaze fell on a faint ring of black aura around the boy’s ankle, and she listened to the parents talk about yesterday’s “incident” at the square.

“The man who saved your child said he was called Greta?”

“Yes, thankfully for that young chap, otherwise my cheeky brat would have definitely gotten ill.”

The hostess spoke, somewhat uncertainly looking at Scarlett, “That young chap didn’t have any issues, right?”

You couldn’t blame her for thinking that. Scarlett, known online for what she did, showing up suddenly to inquire about yesterday’s events made her uneasy.

Facing the woman’s worried gaze, Scarlett merely smiled, “No problem, he’s a good person.”

Then glanced at the boy again, took out a peace charm from her bag, and handed it over,

“Let the child wear this for safety.”

The hostess’s eyes lit up upon seeing the charm, thanking profusely and exchanging pleasantries as she escorted them to the door.

When Scarlett and Samuel returned to the car, they carefully reviewed the information gathered so far about the undying bone’s transformation or, rather, Greta’s news.

“Changing clothes, exhibiting human behavior,

consuming animal flesh, feeling hunger,

and seemingly growing completely normal human flesh outwardly, according to the description and the appearance before death, around twenty-seven or twenty-eight or under thirty, capable of speaking…”

More importantly, he seems willing to mingle among humans.

With the clues gathered this day, Scarlett’s mind was forming a clearer picture of the current state of the Undying Bone.

But that image was moving away from her understanding of Undying Bone,

starting to resemble a… person.

“Just don’t know yet, what his goal is.”

The movement pattern of the Undying Bone had no apparent logic, but Scarlett felt he wasn’t merely trying to evade the Security Bureau’s pursuit.

So where does he want to go?

Listening to her, Samuel slowly spoke,

“If, as you say, he retains human consciousness, maybe he wants to go home.”

Renmants from that era rarely returned to their hometown.

For some, nobody even knew where they truly came from, let alone returning their remains home.

Yet for people from Cathay Nation, no matter where, feelings for their birthplace were always distinct.

If he were himself, he would go back.

Even if he can’t remember where his home is now.

Scarlett pondered Samuel’s words.

After a moment, she said,

“Then when we find him, let’s ask him first.”

She casually fiddled with the small zombie doll’s arm, saying, “If he remembers, we could let him go home for a short trip first.”

She spoke casually, seemingly forgetting their original mission.

Samuel glanced at her, his eyes softened,

“You don’t plan on striking him down immediately?”

According to the Security Bureau’s assessment of the undying bone’s threat level, their instructions were to eliminate him upon discovery.

Scarlett said,

“The Undying Bone isn’t something we two can just kill casually.”

Moreover, for those who can engage in reasonable dialogue, Scarlett was more willing to talk things through.

Especially after becoming aware of the Undying Bone’s current state, Scarlett had another idea in mind, though it was a bold one the Security Bureau might not agree with.

But that didn’t matter.

She could try it secretly before reporting to the Bureau.

Thinking this, she suddenly looked toward Samuel beside her.

Almost forgot, she now had a partner.

“If I violate some Security Bureau field operation regulations, would you report me?”

Scarlett asked this with her eyes tightly fixed on Samuel.

If he answered “yes”…

Looking into Scarlett’s intense gaze, Samuel seemed somewhat helpless yet amused.

After a moment, he earnestly countered,

“What exactly are the Security Bureau’s field operation regulations?”

As for regulations,

He hadn’t looked into them; he wasn’t clear.