Legend Management Bureau Chapter 130

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The legend was over.

Du Yu insisted on carving a bunch of screen names on the wall by the street. Chada tried to stop him a few times but failed, so she could only agree. She asked Du Yu who these people were, and Du Yu merely replied that they were the “big brothers.”

But looking at these screen names, they were incredibly bizarre.

There was “The Gorgeous Man Who Loves Facial Masks.”

There was “The Black-Clad God of Death from the Underworld.”

There was “I Forgot My Magical Treasure.”

There was “Exactly Exactly.”

There was “A Stronghold Leader.”

And “Do Not Call the Big Cat.”

After daybreak, Du Yu, Shiranui Asuka, Chada, and Lamla returned to the inn.

“What an unexpected outcome…” Du Yu breathed a sigh of relief. “I never thought ‘Jack the Ripper’ would be a group-buy project…”

He knew that “Jack the Ripper” was not a single criminal, but a representation of the “evil” in human hearts.

As long as the “evil” in human hearts remained, “Jack the Ripper” would never disappear.

“Mr. Du, you owe me four pounds. Remember to pay me back when you return to China,” Chada said to Du Yu with a bright smile.

“Huh?!” Du Yu was taken aback. “What four pounds? Did I borrow money from you?”

“Borrow money? No, no.” Chada shook her head. “I chose the second solution, so I can no longer continue earning money from Ms. Lizzie. I still have four pieces of information I haven’t sold, and four crime scenes I haven’t cleaned up. Each transaction is fifty pence, totaling four hundred pence, which is four pounds.”

“No, aren’t you being a bit unreasonable…” Du Yu muttered helplessly. “You clearly said yourself that you didn’t want to keep doing this… Isn’t it a bit unfair for me to owe you these four pounds?”

“Hehe!”

Chada suddenly laughed out loud. Only then did Du Yu realize that Chada was incredibly beautiful when she laughed.

“It’s not unfair, Mr. Du,” Chada said with a radiant smile. “If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t have changed my mind. Therefore, you are the one who should pay this money. It’s settled.”

“Sigh…” Du Yu let out a soft sigh. “I haven’t received a single paycheck since I joined the Legend Administration, and now I’m in debt…”

However, thinking about it carefully, this “Live Legend” seemed like it would earn a lot of money, which cheered him up a bit.

Because Chada was in a better mood, the entire team seemed much more cheerful. They chatted and laughed as they packed their bags.

“Sister Qianqiu, hurry up and bring us back,” Du Yu said.

“Alright, wait ten minutes. Once I confirm no other mortals will enter the room, I will begin the recall process,” Dong Qianqiu replied, simultaneously giving instructions to the assistants beside her.

Chada’s heart pounded rapidly in her chest. It was likely because she was about to see her daughter again. Once this job was over, she could return home and embrace Cathy.

‘What does Cathy look like now?’

‘Has she grown into a graceful and poised young woman?’

‘Or is she just as adorable as she was at six years old?’

As Chada was lost in thought, a portal suddenly opened right before their eyes. On the other side of the portal roared a blazing fire radiating intense heat.

Du Yu and the others were startled and hastily stood up from their chairs.

Five figures slowly walked out from the portal.

Du Yu recognized the man leading the group. It was the pale middle-aged man—Chada’s superior. He held an exquisite box in his hands and leaned on a cane with his left hand. A man and a woman stood on his left and right. The man was the driver Du Yu had seen earlier, while the woman wore black leather attire. She had pitch-black eyeshadow and dark lipstick, making her already pallid skin look even more eerie.

The two men trailing at the very back wore pure white masks devoid of any patterns. They seemed as eerily silent as corpses.

“Mr. Cavendish?” Chada stood up in shock. “And Mr. Howard, Miss Campbell, why are you here?”

“Oh, good morning, Ms. Chada Schwan,” the middle-aged man named Cavendish said to Chada with a faint smile. “We have been searching for quite some time. You are indeed here.”

“Looking for me?” Chada was slightly confused. “I do not understand, sir. Is there an emergency mission?”

“Oh, no.” Cavendish shook his head and said, “Ms. Chada Schwan, your current mission has failed. We temporarily have no further missions to assign you.”

“Mission failed?” Du Yu was taken aback. Could it be that Chada’s mission was…

“I cannot kill this gentleman,” Chada said. “He helped me; he is a good person. I will forfeit the bounty on him. I no longer need the money.”

Du Yu nodded. As expected, the reason Chada had come to China for this exchange conference was to claim his head.

“Oh? Is that so?” Cavendish slowly walked forward as the portal behind him closed. He gently placed the exquisite box he was carrying onto the table, then sat down and said, “How should I put this to you, Ms. Schwan… Why would you think you no longer need money?”

An ominous premonition washed over Du Yu. He hurriedly asked Dong Qianqiu, “Sister Qianqiu, how many minutes until the recall?”

“About seven minutes left.”

“Seven minutes…” Du Yu calculated silently. ‘I hope nothing goes wrong.’

Chada spoke to Cavendish, “Mr. Cavendish, because our company’s Controllers charge far too much, I had no choice but to hire a Controller from another company. You know how dearly I miss my daughter. If you feel this has caused you a loss, I am willing to forfeit all my salary up to this point. I can pretend everything that happened between us never occurred. I feel very content right now. I just want to move somewhere else with my daughter and live a good life.”

“Oh, first of all, I must congratulate you, Ms. Schwan.” He turned his head to look at Du Yu, then added, “This must be… the Controller from China, Mr. Du, yes?”

Du Yu slowly nodded.

“Mr. Du, I once asked you if you knew about the ‘Grandfather Paradox’?”

“Bro Cav, I also answered you before. I don’t know.”

“Oh? My surname is Cavendish, not Cav.” Cavendish smiled and said, “The French science fiction writer René Barjavel proposed the ‘Grandfather Paradox’ in 1943. Its core concept states that if you could travel back in time and kill your grandfather before your father is born, then theoretically, you would never be born. Correct?”

“That makes sense. And then?”

“Since you were never born, then ‘no one’ would be able to go back in time and kill your grandfather. If your grandfather doesn’t die, then you would be born again and could travel back to the past. This theory falls into an infinite loop of self-contradiction.”

“Oh, impressive,” Du Yu replied coldly. “Thanks for the lesson, big bro.”

“Mr. Du, I am not trying to educate you.” Cavendish flashed a wide grin, making his pale complexion look even more terrifying.

He glanced at the man behind him. The man immediately took out a very slender cigarette holder, inserted a cigarette into it, placed it in Cavendish’s hand, and lit it.

Cavendish took a gentle drag from the long cigarette and said, “Mr. Du, think about it carefully. Aren’t you currently caught in a ‘Grandfather Paradox’?”

“Me?”

Du Yu was stunned. ‘Why would I be in a Grandfather Paradox?’

“Mr. Du, if you saved Ms. Schwan’s daughter, then she wouldn’t have desperately tried to earn money, nor would she have accepted the mission to ‘assassinate the Chinese Controller’ for that money, and you two would never have met.” Cavendish slowly exhaled a plume of smoke and continued, “If you ‘would not’ have met, then she ‘would not’ have asked you to save her daughter. Therefore, her daughter would die again. Isn’t this a classic ‘Grandfather Paradox’?”

Du Yu finally understood. Thinking it over carefully, it was indeed true. If Chada’s daughter hadn’t died in the past, she would have absolutely no reason to be here. Right now, she should just be a happy, radiant mother.

But wait!

Du Yu gasped in shock. ‘Then why is Chada still here?!’

‘Could it be?!’

Cavendish slowly reached out and opened the exquisite box on the table.

Inside, resting silently, was the severed head of a little girl.

“Ahhhhhh!”

Chada screamed in pure agony upon seeing the contents of the box. Resting inside was none other than Cathy’s head.

Asuka and Lamla took a step back at the grisly sight. They never expected this matter to end in such a tragedy.

“Mr. Du, breaking this ‘Grandfather Paradox’ so that you and Ms. Schwan could meet here again truly took us quite a bit of effort,” Cavendish said languidly. “You should be thanking me. If it weren’t for Miss Campbell’s and my hard work, you would have already fallen into an infinite loop.”

“You bastard!”

Du Yu finally realized what his previous sense of unease was about. If these people could assassinate the girl once, they could do it a second time, repeating the act until Chada’s daughter was dead.

He cursed loudly as the green brush at his waist flew out on command, shooting straight toward Cavendish’s throat like a bullet. Yet in the next second, Cavendish reached out with blinding speed, catching the brush firmly in his grasp.

“What sort of magic is this?” Cavendish smiled, looking at the brush in his hand. With a slight squeeze, a multitude of cracks spiderwebbed across the brush’s surface.

“Oh no!” Du Yu felt a surge of panic. If Yingning’s vessel shattered here, he had no idea how he would bring her back to the modern world.

“Cavendish!”

Chada let out a furious roar, drew her rapier, and lunged at the man before her. Cavendish instantly dropped the brush and smoothly caught Chada’s blade barehanded. Whatever his flesh was made of, its toughness was terrifying.

Du Yu hurriedly recalled the brush and inspected it closely. During their previous battle at the Impermanence Hall, the brush had already sustained fractures. Now, those cracks were even wider, and Yingning’s verdant light was continuously seeping out from them.

Du Yu knew that a “brush” was never meant to be a weapon in the first place. Against an equally matched opponent, it clearly held no advantage in direct combat.

“Yingning! How are you holding up?”

“I’m fine. Du Yu, you need to be careful. I don’t know how these foreign devils classify immortal ranks, but the leader has the cultivation of at least a Great Luo Golden Immortal, and the other four are at least True Immortals,” Yingning warned. “If it’s just getting you out of here, I might still be able to manage it, but killing all five of them is completely out of the question.”

Before Du Yu could speak, a wretched scream pierced the air. He looked up to see Cavendish gripping Chada’s arm. With a light twist, her entire arm warped at an unnatural angle. The sickening crunch made it clear the bone had snapped.

“Hey! Let her the hell go!”

Du Yu bellowed furiously, but before he could charge forward, the young driver who had been standing on the sidelines delivered a flying kick squarely to Du Yu’s chest. Du Yu let out a muffled groan as he was sent flying backward, smashing through a table.

Seeing this scene, the Queen Mother of the West and the numerous other immortals shot up from their seats.

“A mere Great Luo Golden Immortal! How dare he lay a finger on our Chinese people?” the Queen Mother of the West roared in fury. “Someone! Find a way to send me over there right now! I’m going to bathe England in blood today!”

“Ah?!” Dong Qianqiu was startled. “Your Majesty… we don’t have any way to do that right now…”