Chapter 1 初荫's Hesitation

Chu Yin hesitated and asked, "Then the current Mist Realm anomaly..."

"Is also because of the Shenlong."

Ji Jiu slowly said, "As a True Dragon, the Shenlong possesses innate divinity that transcends the mortal world.

The illusionary realm of mist it creates is absurd and false, yet real and reasonable. It can even deceive the entire world, creating an independent space completely isolated from the mortal realm.

It completely traps the demons, and uses the endless illusion to wear away their self-awareness, turning them into ignorant and unfeeling dead objects, eventually being ground into slag by the formations in the Qiumo Cave (Demon Imprisonment Cave), and transformed into fuel and nourishment for the Qiumo Cave.

Right now, the thick fog gushing out from the ground in the real world is merely the most insignificant edge of the Mist Realm on the outer layer of the Qiumo Cave."

"Hmm?!"

Ash was shocked. "You're saying that the Qiumo Cave is merging with Yin City in the real world?"

"Heh."

Ji Jiu glanced at Ash with some irony and said softly, "When the Extraordinary Association set up the Qiumo Cave, this place was originally a barren swamp, completely uninhabited.

After the Qiumo Cave was set up, the demonic aura constantly emanating from it completely destroyed the ecological illusion of this swamp area.

It was only because of the illusionary realm of mist created by the Shenlong that the Qiumo Cave was independent of the mortal world, reducing the negative impact of the demonic aura.

This allowed the ancients to settle around this area,

Creating Songjiang Prefecture, and the modern Yin City.

Rather than saying that the Qiumo Cave is merging with the real world,

It's better to say that the Qiumo Cave is returning to its original position."

Ash's face turned ashen as he asked, "Where are the physical coordinates of the Qiumo Cave in the real world?"

"Heh, don't you already know?"

Ji Jiu shook his head. "Right below Qianhua Road. Although I don't know how many demons are still alive in the current Qiumo Cave, but compared to the records on the bamboo slips from a thousand years ago, conservatively speaking, there should be at least tens of thousands."

"Huff."

Ash let out a mouthful of foul air, resisting the urge to run outside the spherical formation and transmit this information to the Mobile Task Force—he needed to get more information from Ji Jiu.

Moreover, now that the barrier had finished shrinking, he would probably turn into a madman due to running out of Sanity before he could run a kilometer away.

Standing next to him, Chu Yin glanced at Ash almost imperceptibly.

From this angle, Chu Yin could see the metal sphere in Ash's hand, specifically used for lie detection.

In fact, from the moment Ji Jiu began to reveal information, Chu Yin had already quietly taken out a palm-sized ultra-small drone from her backpack and turned on the drone's recording function to record Ji Jiu's words.

As a local of Yin City and a member of the Mobile Task Force, she also understood the importance of this information. She directly controlled the ultra-small drone with her hands behind her back, and it flew out silently along the ground.

She was determined to send the drone outside the spherical formation a kilometer away to transmit the information to her colleagues in the Special Affairs Bureau.

In a moment of silence, Li Ang opened his mouth and asked, "How long until the Qiumo Cave completely descends? Why is the anomaly happening, causing it to descend upon Yin City?"

Ji Jiu shook his head. "I don't know the specific time of descent. But I estimate it will be tonight.

As for the reason for the anomaly, according to the information I obtained from the Tanhua Organization (Epiphyllum Organization), I suspect that the agreement between the ancient Fangshi (alchemist) organization and the Shenlong has reached its deadline."

"Guess?" Li Ang narrowed his eyes.

"That's right." Ji Jiu said helplessly, "Although I am a member of the Tanhua Organization, I haven't joined for as long as my teammate, the Executive Duke. The information they reveal to me is also very limited.

If it weren't for the bizarre death of Zhuang Pengpai, the person in charge of Tanhua, in a scenario mission, I wouldn't have been entrusted with such an important task.

Moreover, I suspect that the information obtained by the Tanhua Organization itself is also incomplete, or rather, there is something being concealed."

"Where did you get this information?"

Ash couldn't help but ask.

As a member of the Mobile Task Force, he really couldn't understand why a high-level member of the Tanhua Organization could know so clearly about things that even the current Extraordinary Association didn't know.

Ji Jiu glanced at him indifferently. "In the past, the Extraordinary Association naturally possessed the largest and most comprehensive database of abnormal events in the world. But now, with the degree of the Extraordinary Association's inheritance being cut off, it's no different from starting over.

What's more, the Tanhua Organization is not as simple as you imagine.

Its birth is inextricably linked to another Fangshi (alchemist) organization.

That organization is called the Kuiyang Sect."

No one answered, and Ji Jiu said to himself, "That is a secret organization composed of Fangshi (alchemist) from roughly the same era as the Extraordinary Association, or even older.

The number of members in this organization is small, and their actions are secretive. They sometimes maintain order and sometimes disrupt the balance. It's hard to say whether they are specifically good or bad.

Behind almost all large-scale anomalies in ancient times, there were their figures.

Some views believe that

it was the Kuiyang Sect that deliberately guided the new generation of Fangshi (alchemist) to help them establish the earliest Extraordinary Association organization.

And on some ancient bamboo slips of the Extraordinary Association that were passed down to the Tanhua Organization, there are indeed records of the Extraordinary Association and the Kuiyang Sect jointly cooperating to capture powerful demons."

Ji Jiu coughed and slowly said, "Unlike what the outside world imagines, the Tanhua Organization is not that strict and orderly. Except for a very few senior personnel, no one knows the specific strategies and development direction of the Tanhua Organization in the future.

The middle and lower levels of Tanhua basically hold the idea of ​​making as much money as possible, and the middle and upper levels who have been bewitched and lured basically believe in Tanhua's idea of ​​'continuing to maintain the interests of vested interests in the changes brought about by the killing field game.'"

Liu Wu Dai still had no expression on her face. In fact, she also knew that her father, Liu Kejian, was probably infected with the Tanhua disease when he attended some high society gathering, and was actively or passively involved in the Tanhua Organization.

It has to be said that the Tanhua Organization's slogan of "maintaining the existing class and ensuring that the wealth and status of the upper class remain unshaken", coupled with the Tanhua Type 3 agent that can give people low-level extraordinary abilities, is indeed bewitching.

It can lure many upper-class people who know little about the killing field game, or who feel that their lives and property are threatened.

It is not difficult to understand why Liu Kejian was tricked.

"Before, although I was a member of Tanhua, I had no thoughts about Tanhua's slogan.

During my work for Tanhua, I used some players' special skills to obtain the true secrets of the Tanhua Organization - the Fangshi (alchemist) organization Kuiyang Sect from ancient times, in order to cope with the large-scale killing field game that is about to start in modern times, guided some mortals to establish the Tanhua Organization.

Tanhua is a subordinate branch of the Kuiyang Sect, a hidden chess piece set up by one or some members of the Kuiyang Sect.

The fundamental purpose of its establishment is to realize the Kuiyang Sect's plan for the Qiumo Cave."

Ji Jiu took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "They had already made sufficient preparations countless years ago,

prematurely burying various extraordinary items in order to promote the spontaneous formation of tasks related to the lifting of the seal of the Qiumo Cave at key time points in the killing field game.

And left a prophecy poem for the Tanhua Organization.

Ye Guang He De, Si Ze You Yu, Jue Li Wei He, Gu Tu Zai Fu, He Suo Bu Si, Chang Ren He Shou, Long Zhou Cheng Lei, Li Ku Dong Xing.

This is the prophecy poem left by the Kuiyang Sect to the Tanhua Organization, and finally handed over to me, about this mission.

The general meaning is:

What characteristics does the moon have that can be reborn after death?

What is the black spot in the moon, is it a rabbit hiding in its belly?

Where is the country of immortality, what do the long-lived species rely on?

The dragon carriage carries thunder and leaves the cave and heads east.

According to the understanding of the upper echelons of Tanhua, the anomaly in the Mist Realm means that the Shenlong is about to leave the Qiumo Cave and fly away on its own.

Their purpose is to let me use this Eight Directions Bright Moon Palace Lantern to enter the Mist Realm and ultimately control the Shenlong that is about to leave."