Yu Sheng carried Erin (Reinforced Steel), accompanied by Hu Li and Luna, and pushed open the door to No. 66 Wutong Road.
Outside the door, the once familiar street had now turned into a mist-laden landscape, with slightly distorted buildings transforming into wavering silhouettes in the fog.
Li Lin and Zheng Zhi were just pushing the door open, stepping out from the parcel collection shed, both raising their heads in bewildernt at Yu Sheng standing at the entrance of No. 66 Wutong Road.
Erin reached up and fiddled with Yu Sheng’s hair: "Did you forget about this parcel collection point situation again?"
Yu Sheng stiffened his neck: "This is all part of the plan..."
"Then you did forget."
Zheng Zhi also stepped up at this mont: "Brother Yu, what are you..."
"Your director just called , there’s an issue in Mist City," Yu Sheng imdiately said with a serious face, "I’m heading over there now."
Zheng Zhi responded with an "Oh," quickly opened his mouth: "Then I’ll go with you guys."
Yu Sheng suddenly hesitated a bit, he looked at his eager and sunny nephew, then raised his head and glanced at the foggy sky of Mist City. After hesitating for a few seconds, he spoke: "The density and abnormal environnt of this place are not like the outside, we are headed to the dense fog street, your constitution might be a bit too robust here."
"I know," Zheng Zhi nodded earnestly, "but I can’t just take my salary for nothing—the bureau sent over to assist you, I might be able to help out..."
"Ahem, the bureau sent us over to help No. 66 Wutong Road collect parcels." Li Lin coughed dryly from the side, sowhat awkwardly reminding.
Zheng Zhi was taken aback: "...Is that the case?"
"It’s no big deal, since you want to follow, then co with us, you might even find more clues," Yu Sheng thought of sothing and patted the still sowhat bewildered Zheng Zhi on the shoulder, "Then Li Lin, you stay here and keep an eye on environntal changes around No. 66 Wutong Road’s ’safe zone’, contact us imdiately if there’s any situation—the bureau has already installed communication nodes in most areas of Mist City, the phones will have signal. Rember to stay within the safety zone range, don’t cross the line of the parcel station."
Li Lin imdiately nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Yu Sheng acknowledged him with a sound, then turned to look at the Nine-Tailed Fox beside him: "Hu Li—"
Before he finished speaking, he saw the fox girl had already run a few steps forward, taking advantage of the montum to leap, with a "bang," transforming into a Silver White Demon Fox as big as two vans.
The large fox carried Yu Sheng and the others and charged into the fog.
The area where Xu Jiali’s team initially encountered the "Spider Silk" was not far from Wutong Road, and even if Hu Li was using a pace close to strolling (by her standards), she quickly arrived at the mist-covered intersection.
Yu Sheng carried Erin and jumped down from the demon fox’s back, first looking up at the surrounding environnt.
A sharply defined "fog wall" stood ten ters away on the street, covering the entire area ahead in dense fog, with warning lights at the edge of the dense fog district shining a glaring red light, highlighting the dangerous zone to Spirit Realm detectives and investigators who might intrude upon the street ahead.
The buildings within the fog were tilted and distorted, the edges of the high-rises trembled as if alive, occasionally seeing suspicious shadows strolling between those buildings, uncertain if they were entities ford within the fog, or strange illusions generated purely by the abnormal environnt.
Aside from that, there were no traces of black webs in the entire area.
According to Xu Jiali’s team report, they started encountering strange occurrences after encountering those webs in this area, but they also ntioned that those webs only appeared for a short ti before disappearing into thin air.
"Erin, do you feel anything?" Yu Sheng turned back, looking at the little puppet on his shoulder.
Erin’s head floated with the On Wandering Star used as an amplification pendant, as she raised her hand at that mont to summon strands of black thread, searching for traces of the sa source as herself within the surrounding fog, she frowned and shook her head upon hearing Yu Sheng’s words: "No, but it might be that this place is too chaotic, I need to look more carefully."
After saying, she jumped down from Yu Sheng’s shoulder, removed the On Wandering Star from above her head and held it in her hand, using the other hand to lead a few strands of black thin threads, walking around with a serious expression.
To be honest, Yu Sheng, watching her serious deanor, feared she might suddenly spout sothing like "Seeking the dragon and distributing gold depends on observing the entangled mountains," "Do not touch gold when the rooster calls and the lamp is extinguished," lest she look too much like a tomb raider with her temperant and the environnt around...
Then Yu Sheng turned his head to his nephew: "What about you? Have you noticed anything?"
Zheng Zhi, eyes wide open looking around, shrunk his neck upon hearing: "I didn’t notice anything like Spider Silk, but the fog seems rather lively, especially on the other side of the isolation barrier. In just this short while, seven or eight things that look like acquaintances popped out from there calling over—my great-grandmother alone appeared three tis."
Yu Sheng initially asked casually, stunned by this response: "My goodness... your constitution is indeed a bit too robust here! Really no problem?"
"No issue at all, compared to usual it’s just the frequency increased, nothing more outrageous erged. I’ll handle it as per experience," his nephew waved his hand, showing remarkably strong psychological qualities, even grinned, "Brother Yu, let tell you, I’ve gotten used to seeing them..."
Yu Sheng had a peculiar expression: "Even used to seeing great-grandmother?"
Zheng Zhi spread his hands: "How to say, after my great-grandmother passed away, I’ve seen her more frequently than when she was alive..."
Yu Sheng: "..."
After marveling at his nephew’s hardcore daily life, Yu Sheng decided to continue walking towards the East District, following the route Xu Jiali’s team had originally taken to find more clues.
Erin continued walking beside Yu Sheng, holding a ball in one hand and a string in the other, like a feng shui master (mainly because her body was too heavy for Yu Sheng to carry any longer).
Zheng Zhi pulled out a pistol for self-defense, and from his pocket, he retrieved a pocket watch, which he kept checking as he walked.
"This was issued by the Special Service Bureau, a kind of life monitoring device," he explained enthusiastically, noticing Yu Sheng’s curious gaze, "Sotis Exotic Realm environnts can cause chronic loss of vitality, or even make people unaware of their own death, so this thing gives alerts—when the needle stops, the person is dead; if the movent slows, it ans gradual life loss. Additionally, color changes on the dial can indicate potential ntal contamination..."
Yu Sheng looked at the pocket watch in Zheng Zhi’s hand with amazent, thinking about the mysterious gadgets the Special Service Bureau had, and couldn’t help but ask, "Can I have a look?"
Zheng Zhi handed over the watch imdiately: "Of course you can."
Yu Sheng happily took the pocket watch and glanced at the dial.
The needle was spinning backward.
After three backward rotations, it suddenly stopped and began erratically twitching, spinning in the correct direction.
Yu Sheng was montarily stunned, then saw the needle spinning faster and faster, until it was faster than a high-speed fan—
The next second, a light cracking sound was heard, and the dial of the pocket watch shattered, the needle escaping the axis, standing upright on the dial.
Yu Sheng: "..."
Zheng Zhi: "..."
"This thing..." Yu Sheng’s embarrassnt was palpable, "Did I break it?"
The nephew was on the verge of tears: "Seems like it... I just got it a few days ago."
"Does your bureau cover it?"
"They reimburse, but you need a valid reason—if it’s broken without cause, a report is needed."
"I’ll talk to your boss to get you a new one," Yu Sheng said, returning the pocket watch with the needle still upright, full of apology, "I’m kind of special myself, and it might have clashed with this thing... I’m really sorry."
Zheng Zhi could only sigh, sorrowfully taking back the watch, carefully pressing the needle back to its axis, staring as it spun forward, backward, then wobbled in place. From this pocket watch, he sohow saw a confused vibe seeping into the chanism. He sighed again, closed the cover, and put it back in his pocket.
The unlucky intern agent shook his head, continuing to pay attention to the surrounding atmosphere.
To the left was a silent street, shrouded in mist, dimly lit.
To the right was a brightly lit hall, with two strangers in white coats busily working around him.
Zheng Zhi didn’t imdiately react at first.
Once he realized what he was seeing, he instinctively yelped and leaped away: "Oh shit—"
Everyone in the team was startled, and by this ti, Zheng Zhi had already instinctively hid behind Yu Sheng, raising his gun reflexively as he quickly spoke, "Brother Yu, I saw two people there..."
Halfway through his sentence, he stopped abruptly—there was only fog in front of him, where were the strangers?
It seed to be a montary "dinsional slip."
If it were a regular Spirit Realm detective team or agent squad, there wouldn’t be much they could do; passing by abnormalities in a split second, and having soone in the team see that mont of clues is a gain.
Zheng Zhi thought just that.
But Yu Sheng’s side was clearly not an ordinary Spirit Realm detective team.
Just a few explosive roars of Fox Fire piercing the air, with Hu Li still maintaining a giant demon fox form, launching six oversized Fox Radish Missiles in the direction Zheng Zhi had pointed, followed imdiately by Erin casually waving her hand, sweeping large batches of Spider Silk towards the Fox Fire explosions as if they were unlimited. As the explosion’s smoke hadn’t even dispersed, Hu Li’s Fox Radish Machine Gun barrage followed, and before Zheng Zhi could process, Yu Sheng spat blood to the side, and almost simultaneously, a little puppet let out a "go", swinging its arm and sending the On Wandering Star flying...
Zheng Zhi was dumbfounded.
Then, he watched with wide eyes as vast cracks appeared out of thin air amidst Yu Sheng’s team’s ferocious bombardnt.
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