My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 145 Trouble
He caught the three-legged incense burner with his left hand and grasped the gold-threaded white jade ring with his right.

Chen Mu couldn't help but sigh: "This is troublesome."

Even after death, a person can still have contact with key members of the Yinming Silk network. This will definitely cause a stir.

Chen Mu looked at the objects in his hand: "Two troublesome things."

The jade ring was plain and unremarkable, like an ordinary ornament.

The incense burner contained a green fluorescent liquid, and a wisp of black, dark silk floated slowly within it.

Chen Mu looked for a long time but couldn't find the unusual 1.2-meter-long thing.

"They can actually merge into one?!"

It can grow, it can divide, and it can merge.

“The Yinming Silk is like chives, and the labor camp is like a field of chives.” Chen Mu understood this clearly, but he couldn’t help but feel a chill.

"It can't be seen in the light of day for a while."

With a flick of his hand, the incense burner and jade ring vanished.

The nine people who were standing upright inside the tent suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thud.

……

Chen Mu also lay back down on the floor.

Five ghostly paper figures emerged from the tent.

After taking off into the air, it immediately transformed into a ghostly form and scattered into the camp.

"Fortunately, the Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Spell has broken through to the seventh level." The five ghosts in their Yin spirit form have broken through the limitations of paper figures, and together with the Soul Locking Spell, their detection range has been greatly extended.

On the shores of Crescent Lake, the bright moonlight bathed the camp, and the vast labor camp was eerily quiet. The regular patrolmen had vanished.

The five ghosts floated in mid-air, invisible. They soon spotted several men in black who resembled gaunt old men.

A black hooded cloak, a three-legged incense burner shimmering with green fluorescence, and a white jade ring with gold thread that occasionally makes a tinkling sound.

"Does everyone have a fixed area?" Chen Mu carefully examined the details.

It was discovered that each of the men in black was responsible for a considerable area.

They all acted alone, without any companions.

Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief: "The area is large, so it won't be directly locked."

"If he acts alone, no one will know the old man's movements."

After thinking for a moment, Chen Mu summoned back a ghost named Qiu.

Let it carry the bronze incense burner, the white jade ring, and a fragment of the old man's cloak, and wander around the camp.

They would occasionally sneak into certain tents.

Whenever the incense burner gets close to the laborers' tents, dark threads will sneak into them.

Before long, he had toured the section belonging to the thin, elderly man.

At the same time, a several-dozen-meter-long Yin-Yang silk thread was also obtained.

"Now, even if someone tries to track me by scent, they won't be able to find me here." Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Knowing that doing too much would only lead to more mistakes, Chen Mu didn't dare to make any more moves.

They retrieved the paper figures, leaving only one to stick on the top of the tent, to secretly monitor the surroundings.

……

At midnight, more than a dozen dark figures rushed into the labor camp.

“Father, the Yinming Silk has been taken away. There are no signs of a struggle either. Uncle Wu’s accident must have happened outside the camp,” Shangguan Yu said, frowning.

"Try the indeterminate ring." Shangguan Ji remained unmoved.

Shangguan Yu hesitated for a moment, then raised her right hand, revealing the gold and white jade ring on her wrist, and then quickly recited the incantation.

buzzing...

A soft, buzzing sound, like a mosquito flitting about, emanated from within the white jade ring.

"It seems to be here, yet it also seems not to be," Shangguan Yu wondered.

"Right here." Shangguan Ji squinted at the quiet camp.

"It can block out random loops; I wonder which rat did it."

"Starting tomorrow, we'll investigate twice a day, turning the Dingzibu labor camp upside down," Shangguan Ji said calmly.

"The other party is likely from another powerful family, and their strength is probably extraordinary," Shangguan Yu hesitated.

"It's alright. As long as we scare him out, that's fine." Shangguan Ji waved his hand and then said, "From now on, when collecting Yinming Silk, it must be done in groups of three. No one should act alone."

"Yes!" More than ten people beside him bowed and accepted the order.

"Yu'er, take your men and set up an ambush around the perimeter. Arrest any suspicious individuals. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without exception."

"Yes." Shangguan Yu nodded solemnly.

"Niece Bai, I'll have to trouble you to cover for Yu'er." Shangguan Ji turned around and said gently to the burly figure standing behind them.

“Okay,” Bai Miaojin said calmly.

The group arrived quickly and left just as quickly.

Only five or six men in black remained, concealing themselves and guarding the outside of the laborers' quarters.

Bai Miaojin also stayed behind.

“The Ding section? Sun Dawang seems to be in the Ding section. Did he do this?” Suddenly, a girl in a bright green dress appeared beside Bai Miaojin.

"Don't cause trouble," Bai Miaojin said calmly.

Cui Cui grinned, "No trouble, no trouble, hehe..."

……

The thin, elderly man has gone missing.

It caused some fluctuations, but it seemed that nothing really changed.

Apart from checking the wristband twice a day, morning and evening, nothing else has changed.

The Tangshan army continued to go into the mountains to collect spirits for training.

The laborers continued to work, eat, and raise leeks.

In the afternoon, after dinner, the cooks of the Dingyou Battalion lined up to go to the center of the camp for inspection.

Chen Mu popped a fasting pill into his mouth, maintained the Cloud Mirage Breathing Technique, and slowly moved forward with the group.

Snapped!
A short, muffled thud came from Chen Mu's chest.

The rhythm that had just been set was disrupted.

Chen Mu's lips twitched.

Zheng Yuanman looked back with suspicion.

Chen Mu raised his hand and slapped his chest, stunning the silverfish he had caught the night before, then calmly said, "It itches."

"Why do you get itchy every time we're in line?" the short, stocky man asked, puzzled.

Chen Mu's eyelids twitched. "I didn't want to either."

Who knew the Yinming Silk would be so domineering?

A silverfish that is on the verge of death will immediately become lively and energetic once it is parasitized.

"Why does it smell fishy?" The short, stocky guy's gaze towards Chen Mu changed.

"Did you sneak out again?!" Zheng Yuan exclaimed in astonishment.

With daily inspections and constant patrols, the T-shaped supervision system is a veritable net of heaven and earth!
Even so, how could the other party still sneak out to catch fish?
Da Wang is really capable!

"That's not right. We're together every day, and I haven't seen you go out," the short, stocky man said, puzzled.

Of course I didn't go out; it was the ghostly paper figure that went out.

"I'll treat you to dried fish tonight," Chen Mu said casually.

"Okay!" The short, stocky man immediately beamed with joy, without asking any questions.

……

For five consecutive days, the searches continued, and they even began to become a regular occurrence.

The Dingyou camp was quiet in the dead of night.

The cook's tent was completely silent.

Chen Mu stared at the tent top, his face full of confusion: "That shouldn't be the case."

Why are they so certain that the killer is still in the T-section?

Chen Mu couldn't help but look at the Five Ghosts Bag.

"Is the isolation incomplete?" Chen Mu began to have doubts.

"Then these things can't be kept," Chen Mu said regretfully.

He had originally intended to keep it for Jiejia to see and ask him what it was.

pity……

"Finding the Thousand Machine Token is more important."

"Throw away what needs to be thrown away; we can't leave any hidden dangers."

My gaze fell upon the Five Ghosts Bag. The incense burner, jade ring, and iron ring all lay quietly in a small compartment.

Beside them was a silverfish, which was now dancing with a splashing sound.

They were fished out last night, and they're still alive!

"I must say, this Yinming Silk is quite something."

With a thought, the incense burner, the jade ring, and his iron ring were all taken out.

Without the suppression, the Yinming Silk flew out instantly.

Whoosh!
The once lively silverfish instantly turned into dried fish.

"The flesh remains tender and springy, but most of the water in the body fluids has been drawn out and evaporated. So it looks like it has been drained." Chen Mu fiddled with the silverfish.

"He did not die from dehydration, nor from any physical injury."

"Instead, something is removed, and it instantly loses its life characteristics."

Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine when he thought of what the thin old man had done: "If he can kill a fish with a whip, can he also kill a person?"

"Tens of thousands of laborers, their lives entirely in the hands of others?!"

"That's fucking ruthless..."

(End of this chapter)