My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 359 News
Two days later.

Thirty miles southwest of Eagle's Sorrow Cliff.

Groups of gray-clad patrolmen, in small numbers, were scattered throughout the dense forest, carefully searching the area.

After a long while, Yu Liu, the newly appointed deputy director of the Inspectorate, quickly walked to a large tree.

A flash of spiritual light enveloped him, and he leaped to the top of the six- or seven-story-tall tree.

On the treetop, a middle-aged man in his forties stood quietly.

He stood on the tip of a leaf, and no matter how the tree canopy swayed, the other person remained still, like a reef in the sea.

Yu Liu stood firmly on a tree branch about the thickness of a finger, and respectfully clasped his hands in a fist salute.

"Elder Hu, the scene has been severely damaged, and nothing can be found."

"Vice Chief Zhao and those three patrol teams are probably in grave danger."

Hu Changqing twirled his beard slightly and muttered to himself, "Revenge, is it?"

He ordered Zhao Shaoyuan to investigate smuggling, intending to crack down on small-scale operators to facilitate his future consolidation of operations. But the moment he started, Zhao was gone.

"Are there other people in the villa interfering with the trade at Eagle's Sorrow Cliff?"

"Trying to steal my business?" A cold glint flashed in Hu Changqing's eyes.

This is like mixing sand into his territory!
"It's time to clean up Eagle's Sorrow Cliff."

Just as they were pondering a plan to eliminate and purge, a burly figure suddenly leaped up the tree trunk.

The other person had an honest and simple appearance. After bowing respectfully, he said in a deep voice, "Elder, Deputy Chief, we've made a discovery!"

As he spoke, he flipped his hands over and held up a bird the size of a sparrow.

The bird's feathers were gray and its body was shriveled. A piece of its hind leg had been gnawed off by a small animal, revealing its stark white bones.

Strangely, the muscles attached to the bones were neither covered in blood nor showed any signs of decay or stench. Instead, they were a bright brownish-red, like cured meat!
Hu Changqing's expression changed.

With a wave of his hand, he swiftly scooped the bird up in mid-air and brought it to his side.

"His vital energy and essence have all been drained away. The witchcraft and curse techniques of the Eastern Ridge barbarians?!"

He couldn't help but think of the more than ten bizarre deaths on Eagle's Sorrow Cliff.

"Could it be that Zhao Shaoyuan's disappearance wasn't due to trading at the border market, but rather that he encountered something he shouldn't have seen and was silenced?!"

Hu Changqing frowned immediately.

"Is someone plotting against Eagle's Sorrow Cliff? Just like they did with Misty Mountain back then!"

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.

The protective formation for Eagle's Sorrow Cliff is not yet fully set up!

"Yu Liu, leave one team to continue the search, the rest of you return to Eagle's Sorrow Cliff immediately and investigate those witchcraft and curse murder cases first!"

Zhao Shaoyuan's death is no longer important.

Hu Changqing valued the safety of Yingchou Cliff more.

As the head of the abbot, as long as Eagle's Sorrow Cliff is protected, how can I not earn money from the white jade?

Yu Liu immediately responded loudly, jumped down from the tree, and told people to leave.

Before leaving, he patted the honest-looking man's arm with satisfaction: "Yulin, well done!"

"Since you discovered the clue, the rest of the work is yours."

He then leaned closer and whispered, "The elders and I will investigate the murderer. Your main task is to find the bodies, especially the body of Vice Director Zhao."

"The most important thing is the magical artifacts on the corpse."

"There might be traces of the murderer's secret techniques on it. If you find it, be sure to hand it over to me immediately!" Yu Liu earnestly instructed, "And it must be kept secret. You can't let the news leak out."

"Don't worry, Chief, if I find it, I will hand it over to you immediately," Yu Lin said honestly and earnestly. His slightly clumsy demeanor made him seem trustworthy.

"Haha, good! I trust you with my life!" Yu Liu laughed heartily and led his group away in a hurry.

Yu Lin stood still, his face maintaining that honest smile.

Lu Ku and the others slowly approached Yu Lin's side, calmly watching the departing figures of the crowd.

"Our new deputy commander seems to have taken a fancy to that heart-piercing nail."

"Ah……"

……

Inside the wooden building beside a small waterfall on the mountainside of Eagle's Sorrow Cliff.

Chen Mu was restless and couldn't calm down for two days, fearing that his background would be discovered and attract Sun Jian's attention.

I always feel like a bolt of lightning is about to strike me on the head.

"We can't just wait like this." Chen Mu frowned.

The inability to obtain timely information from the outside world prevented him from assessing the situation.

"It's a pity that Hongxiufang didn't open a branch here. Even a restaurant or teahouse would have been fine."

He used to be able to gather intelligence from these places.

"The six siblings of Wushan?" Chen Mu seemed to be thinking.

He had no way of gathering information, but as the main figures in this incident, Lu Ku and the others would certainly try to keep an eye on the changing situation. If they could manage to obtain what the seven had gained…

Chen Mu's eyes lit up: "The Heart-to-Heart Mantra for Synesthesia!"

When synesthesia is activated, it can synchronize the five senses of seven people.

He can see and hear what the seven people see and hear.

"That's equivalent to having seven more pairs of eyes and ears!"

Moreover, among the seven, Shi Xianlian possessed the secret method of listening, and was the most adept at listening to all directions.

The higher the level of the Listening Method, the wider the scope of listening. Actively probing is easily detected, but passively listening poses no hidden dangers.

Just like Chen Mu's sixth-level listening technique, as long as you hang it on your ear, you can hear the sounds within a radius of 500 meters without being detected.

"Shi Xian's secret technique is only at the third level, and his passive listening ability is poor."

"But I can lend her my Listening Technique! Haha!"

Previously, when he returned the third-tier giant spirit god to Ai Ji, it carried a portion of his magical power, which allowed Ai Ji to temporarily use a secret technique across ranks.

Similarly, Chen Mu can now lend the Listening Technique to Shi Xian, allowing her to temporarily possess the power of a sixth-order Listening Technique!
Chen Mu immediately began to try it.

Before long, the sixth-order Listening Talisman was successfully sent into the Shixian Jade Seed.

Various noises then entered my mind.

"It's done!" Chen Mu was overjoyed.

But upon closer listening, he couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest.

"Shi Xian seems to be... at the Inspection Bureau!"

Something happened?!

He immediately focused his attention and listened intently.

But the more he listened, the stranger his expression became.

Are the six siblings from Wushan inspectors?
Is Yulin now under the jurisdiction of ten people?

The newly appointed deputy chief of staff tasked the six siblings of Wu Shan with leading the investigation into Zhao Shaoyuan's disappearance.
This... sends the murderer to investigate the murderer?!

Chen Mu: “…”

"That deputy chief has a really good eye."

"what!"

……

half a month later.

As the weather grew colder, snowflakes even began to fall on the summit of Eagle's Sorrow Cliff.

Beside a small waterfall on the mountainside, Chen Mu's wooden building is warm and cozy.

The flames roared inside the stove, heating the underfloor heating pipes to a scorching high.

"Although it's impervious to heat and cold, it's still more comfortable to be warm in the dead of winter," Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction.

He had previously worked on underfloor heating in Lengyue Mountain. Now, with the "pointing to the ground to turn steel" technology, you can easily make stoves and heating pipes by hand with just a little soil.

He walked happily to the window, his breath as crisp as a windshield wiper.

From top to bottom, the white water vapor condensed on the jade window was pushed aside, revealing the view outside.

Holding a cup of piping hot Hu-la-tang-flavored Huiyuan soup in both hands, Chen Mu looked down at the vast and open scenery below the mountain and felt a sense of joy.

Over the past ten days, the situation at Eagle's Sorrow Cliff has been constantly changing.

Elder Hu Changqing conducted a thorough investigation and indeed discovered some spies from the Dongling barbarians.

However, due to the sharp eyes of the Deputy Chief of the Inspection Bureau, the case of Zhao Shaoyuan's disappearance remained unsolved.

Even because Elder Hu took the mysterious deaths at Eagle's Sorrow Cliff so seriously, Yu Lin and others were dispatched to provide support two days ago.

The disappearance of Zhao Shaoyuan and others has gone unnoticed.

"It's good that no one is paying attention." Chen Mu felt completely relaxed.

"We have to thank those barbarian spies."

Through synesthesia, he also received some information about the barbarian witchcraft and curse incidents.

Most of the dead were emaciated, their vital energy and essence drained, an effect very similar to Wu Ruo's Soul-Seizing and Essence-Returning Secret Technique.

That's why the inspection bureau shifted its focus.

"I wonder what discoveries the inspection team has made today."

As in the past few days, Chen Mu activated the Heart-to-Heart Mantra to communicate with Shi Xian, and at the same time transmitted the Sixth-Order Listening Technique Talisman to Shi Xian.

"I guess this is my otherworldly listening spell version of a radio? Heh..."

Chen Mu took a sip of the Rejuvenating Soup with a smug look, then happily lay down in the rocking chair next to the stove.

"If Shi Xian were to travel around more and expand his listening range, he could be a simplified version of the All-Hearing Hearing."

(End of this chapter)