"Back when I was healthy, they said my nerves were abnormal. Now that I’m truly cursed, they can’t diagnose anything wrong!"
Xiao Ran let out a long sigh of relief, carrying the brocaded box from the passenger seat and walked into the pawnshop.
Having lost all faith in modern dicine, he had no choice but to place his hope in Bai Zhenjun. He couldn’t endure the tornt of the ghost eyes any longer; it wouldn’t be much longer before he truly suffered a nervous breakdown and went insane!
The pawnshop was the sa as always, cold and quiet.
The only light in the place had a low wattage, illuminating only the middle of the counter while the rest remained dim and gloomy.
At the counter,
Zhou Yi was busy scribbling and drawing, attempting to develop a base system with formation and prohibition, so that after success, he could completely refine his cell phone into a magical artifact, leaving no trace of modern technology.
Xiao Ran rubbed his face and walked over, asking, "What’s Bai Zhenjun busy with?"
"Waiting for you to co!"
Zhou Yi slightly lifted his eyelids and continued to study the formation and prohibition. A visit in the dead of night must be for a reason.
Familiar with the place, Xiao Ran sat across the counter. Previously, by selling four counterfeit cultural relics, he had made several million from Zhou Yi and had long since quit his job at the Cultural Relics Bureau.
He placed the brocaded box on the counter and opened it to reveal a nine-layered pagoda, which, by its patterns and shape, appeared to be an artifact of Buddhism.
"This Buddhist pagoda is a treasured collection of my teacher’s," he said. "Its age has never been pinpointed, but I pleaded for quite a while before he agreed to sell it to ."
"A Buddhist Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, what a treasure," Zhou Yi said, as his divine sense swept over the pagoda. The demons it once suppressed had long since dissipated over ti, and the pagoda itself had degraded into a finely made imitation antique.
Smiling, Xiao Ran said, "If Zhenjun likes it, I’ll give it to you."
Zhou Yi played with the pagoda for a mont and then took out his cell phone to make a transfer: "Two million. Cash and goods in full. For sothing that can be solved with re money, I certainly won’t owe favors!"
Xiao Ran’s face reddened slightly, a little embarrassed given his ti spent at Qingshui Yan, and he quickly changed the subject, "Ever since discovering that ghostly entity over two months ago, the Imperial Court has conducted a large-scale investigation and found several more..."
The modern state machinery, when set in motion, had mobilization capabilities far beyond what ancient tis could compare to, and had swept across the Cloud Continent in a short period of ti.
With its vast territory and billions of people, Cloud Continent inevitably had dead souls with lingering attachnts who were naturally attracted by spiritual energy and would congregate near the spirit vein to beco specters.
Zhou Yi made a ntal note of this and planned to set up formation and prohibition when he had ti, then asked, "Why ntion such matters to ?"
"Number Zero, the ghostly entity I discovered, is no longer the only subject."
After a mont of silence, Xiao Ran slowly said, "A few days ago, the Investigation Bureau authorized a destructive experint on it. Number Zero couldn’t survive the high voltage. Its soul shattered, and it dissipated into smoke and ash."
Zhou Yi shook his head slightly. He had divined that the outco for the ghost shadow would not be good but never imagined it would die such a miserable death.
"What is the Investigation Bureau?"
"The full na is the Kunlun Wonderland Traces Investigation Bureau, reputedly established over a hundred years ago with the goal of looking for the legendary Kunlun Fairy Mountain," Xiao Ran explained. "Because it had yielded no results in a hundred years, the bureau had beco a marginal Qingshui Yan, and was nearly on the verge of dissolution.
Now, the research on ghostly entities is entirely in the hands of the bureau, including all subsequent related incidents!"
"So it’s the legendary Dragon Group!"
Zhou Yi cracked a cold joke, but unfortunately, Xiao Ran looked blankly uncomprehending and shrugged before asking again,
"Has the Investigation Bureau researched you?"
"Of course, I’ve been at the research institute these past two months, where they’ve been trying to find out the secrets of the clairvoyant eye," Xiao Ran said. "It wasn’t until they sifted through a mountain spirit and tested millions of soldiers that they found two people with innate clairvoyant abilities, so I was no longer needed for their experints."
As he spoke, Xiao Ran could not help showing a helpless expression. He had thought he was a one-of-a-kind protagonist, but it turned out he was only special for two months!
"They certainly move fast, but they’re dood not to achieve anything," Zhou Yi shook his head slightly. "The Cultivation World has been studying the spirit root for thousands of years, whether it was to improve one’s talent or to guide relatives on the path, but all in vain."
Spirit Root was like the rules of heaven and earth, appearing randomly in people, without any special treatnt just because one’s father was a Divinity Transformation ancestor.
Technology, at least current technology, was seen as an interesting approach by cultivators!
"It’s not just fast, it’s extraordinary."
Xiao Ran snorted coldly, "Just as Zero’s soul was scattered, they released that person the next day without any cover-up process, completely disregarding the law!"
"Are there any laws regarding ghostly entities? How can ghost stories be considered as evidence in court?" Zhou Yi’s voice was somber and dark, "If they truly began ruling cases based on the words of ghosts, there’d soon be a precedent for judgnt. Those in high positions would never be able to sleep again, since even the dead would not be able to keep secrets!"
Xiao Ran frowned, suddenly realizing, "Does Zhenjun an that Zero didn’t die from an experintal accident?"
"Perhaps," Zhou Yi said. "Since Zero wasn’t unique and the lab had replacents, its demise was inevitable."
Recalling the ghost shadow’s look of despair, Xiao Ran clenched his teeth, "Such blatant retribution, just to kill Zero completely. Aren’t they afraid of being held accountable by higher authorities?"
"According to you, at worst it’s a testing error; after an investigation, at most a few electricians get fired," Zhou Yi shrugged and said, "Besides, with more and more fierce ghosts appearing, they won’t have the resources to capture them all. Who’d bother about just Number Zero?"
Xiao Ran was astonished, "Will there really be more ghostly entities in the future?"
Zhou Yi nodded, "Not only will there be more, they will also beco more violent and brutal, commonly racking up killings. They certainly won’t die as pitifully as that Number Zero!"
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