It made sense, but wasn't it too unreliable?

What were the two ancestral masters bringing Nie Xiaochun here for?

Just to please me and Ye Yang?

I said expressionlessly, "Are you the spirit of this incense burner?"

"No!" Nie Xiaochun almost threw the incense burner away. "Could such a broken thing as this even produce a spirit? Even if it could, it would only give birth to a katydid."

A katydid? Right! That thing had a big belly, and the incense burner had a big belly too!

Nie Xiaochun said, "If I didn't have nowhere to live, do you think I would live in this burner? It's too ugly!"

I asked curiously, "Then what kind of artifact did you originate from?"

The spiritual energy on Nie Xiaochun's body was extremely pure, and even faintly carried a trace of divinity. The thing that could nurture her was by no means ordinary.

Nie Xiaochun told me three words very seriously: "I forgot!"

While Ye Yang and I looked at each other in dismay, Nie Xiaochun had already opened her mouth and said, "Let's not talk about these things for now. This time, I brought a secret order from the underworld to find the earth soul of the death row prisoner He Haoyu."

Nie Xiaochun said, "According to the records in the Book of Life and Death, He Haoyu's lifespan can be divided into two numbers: thirty and ninety-two. When he is thirty years old, he will have a great tribulation. If he can't escape the tribulation, he will die at the age of thirty, and if he escapes the tribulation, he can live to be ninety-two years old and die peacefully."

"The ghost messenger who was ordered to arrest the soul saw He Haoyu being escorted to the execution ground to be beheaded in public, but his soul did not appear on the execution ground."

"After the ghost messenger reported back, the judge checked the Book of Life and Death and found that He Haoyu's lifespan was still there. Out of curiosity, he sent a ghost messenger to investigate and found that He Haoyu was working in the military governor's mansion at that time. After that, He Haoyu never appeared again."

I took the information and said, "Is He Haoyu a sorcerer?"

Nie Xiaochun shook her head and said, "Although the Book of Life and Death in the underworld is a divine artifact, it is not omnipotent. The affairs of the Yang world are managed by the Yang world. This is the general outline of the Yin-Yang secret agreement. Only after a person dies and enters the underworld will the Yin Division investigate his merits and demerits in detail. The underworld has never broken this precept. Therefore, it will not provide you with too much information."

"You have to find all the clues yourself, but I heard that a disciple of Yin Shuai (Underworld General) also wants to take over this task, so you have to be careful that the other party will trip you up."

I pondered for a moment and said, "You should know who the executioner who beheaded He Haoyu back then was, right?"

"This can be verified, give me some time." After Nie Xiaochun finished speaking, she drilled into the incense burner. A burst of Yin Qi also floated up in the incense burner.

If I guessed correctly, that incense burner should be Nie Xiaochun's magic weapon for contacting the underworld. She went in to find someone to ask questions.

I took advantage of this time to say to Ye Yang, "This mission has two lines, one in the Marshal's mansion and the other on He Haoyu himself. I guess, if that person is not a warlock himself, then the fact that he was beheaded and didn't die should be related to that executioner. Which line do you choose?"

"I'll investigate He Haoyu's line!" Ye Yang chose He Haoyu's clues without even thinking about it.

"Okay!" I nodded and said, "I'll go investigate the clues of the military governor's mansion."

I searched on the map on my phone, but there was no location marked for the military governor's mansion. It seemed that the place should have been destroyed in the war, or razed to the ground.

I stood up and said, "I'll go to the military governor's mansion to take a look first. You wait here for news."

What I didn't expect was that the military governor's mansion was still there, but the plaque in front of the door had been replaced with the Second Archives.

The sign of the archives was already quite old. Most of the white paint on it had fallen off, and the few remaining pieces looked like bald spots on a person's head, which were particularly eye-catching everywhere.

When I walked up to the plaque, I could smell a strange musty smell. Just as I was about to take a closer look at the name of the plaque, I heard someone shouting, "Brother, are you Lin Sihan?"

When I turned my head, a young man in his twenties had already walked over from a distance, stretched out his hand to me and said, "Brother, my name is Zhang Qiang. I'm Zhang Qiang, who came to report with you. I thought it was a girl when I saw the name, but I didn't expect it to be a brother! We will work together in the future..."

Before he could finish speaking, two strange lights flashed in my eyes: "Go home and rest for a week. Your reporting time is next week. Give me all your admission notice and ID card. Don't go out this week. If anyone asks, just say you remembered the time wrong."

"Oh!" Zhang Qiang nodded blankly, turned around and got into the car and left the archives.

Not long after Zhang Qiang left, a tall girl came. She was Lin Sihan who came to report.

Lin Sihan just greeted me politely and walked into the archives in front of me.

The lights were not turned on in the archives, and it was eerily quiet. Every step Lin Sihan's high heels took, an echo would rise in the corridor, sounding like three people walking side by side in the corridor.

After I took a few steps, I started to feel that something was wrong. Taking advantage of Lin Sihan's inattention, I stomped on the ground.

The sound of my stomping startled Lin Sihan: "What are you doing?"

"There are bugs on the ground!"

Lin Sihan glared at me and quickened her pace towards the second floor.

My face darkened, though—there was no echo from my stomp just now. Someone was really following us just now.