I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 543: Lieyang Monument, Thirteenth Ancestor (5k)

The tracking of the black box did not produce any results in a short period of time. Wen Yan prioritized confidentiality and only allowed the black box to use a portion of the idle computing power under the existing authority to do this.

Fortunately, the Huai River has always been a target of key monitoring. Since decades ago, there seems to be no major movement in the water conservancy projects here, and there are no large projects that are known to the world.

However, there are many small and medium-sized projects, and the coverage area is not small at all. The main stream of the Huai River and its large and small tributaries have a very large horizontal coverage area.

Although surveillance cannot achieve full coverage, it can cover key river basins, so at least there are cameras there, regardless of whether they are old or not.

But Suicune couldn't give a specific time. He didn't pay attention to time at all. Expanding the time range for screening, coupled with the fact that the territory itself was large, trying to screen out suspicious targets was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

After thinking about it, he thought of the black seed again, which seemed to have been carbonized.

If the external appearance to which this seed is attached is indeed a carbonized seed, then it must have been unearthed by archaeologists.

He added another task to the black box, which was to track the whereabouts of the carbonized bean seeds unearthed in the past ten years, no, thirty years, and who could intervene in the related research.

Then take a look at the people he could get involved with and see who has appeared in the area he has defined in the past month.

This is not easy to check either. If you rely solely on records, you will definitely miss someone.

However, Wen Yan didn't expect to be able to screen it out. He just wanted to try his luck and hope that he could narrow the scope and find some clues.

Moreover, he felt that since the other party dared to use such means to trick him, he would most likely pay special attention to the subsequent events and pay some attention to the Huai River.

In this process, the black box may be able to capture it.

He didn't tell anyone about this, nor did he borrow the power of the Lieyang Tribe.

There are many situations within the Lieyang Tribe that are faced by ordinary people, and it is impossible to expect all of them to be reliable in all matters.

Maybe some people leaked information themselves without even knowing it.

There are also some people who, when leaking information, may not care that they are leaking information.

Wen Yan had also seen quite a few cases, and he knew clearly that one should not overestimate the vigilance and professionalism of some people, especially those who never went out on field duty and had no contact with the front line. It would be difficult for them to be as sharp as some elite field agents.

The Lieyang Tribe itself is aware of this, so often when going out on a mission, only a few people know what to do specifically. Most of the time, this specific information is only part of the actual execution steps of the mission, and these people are not allowed to know the overall situation.

For some people, the first thing they have to do to carry out a mission is to hand in their personal communication tools. There are reasons for this.

If Wen Yan wanted to investigate now, he could conduct a large-scale investigation and look for various surveillance cameras that were not connected to Skynet to watch the videos. There would definitely be no problem.

But he may not have the resources.

But someone is planning to target Suicune. No matter what method is used, it will make Suicune fly into a rage and lose control. Using this incident as a starting point, there will be absolutely no problem in conducting a large-scale investigation covering three counties.

As long as this thing starts, that person or the alien will definitely know it first.

Most likely, the person ran away before we even found any clues.

Anyone who dares and is able to do this can never be a lone wolf.

After alerting the enemy, the people behind it will most likely cut ties with them immediately.

The people in the previous chat group have not been arrested yet because it is very difficult to identify who they are.

If they use violent tracking, they can only catch a few more people at most, and the rest will most likely completely give up their original contact methods and disappear.

It would be better to do as we do now, capture some of the cannibals, destroy the main transportation line, and then use it as a source of intelligence.

Wen Yan put away his phone and tried to be patient for the time being. It would be boring to kill one. If he really wanted to do it, he would have to pull out a bunch of them at once to sacrifice to the gods.

He wanted to see what these people were trying to do.

He felt that this might be a precursor to a version update, and it might not have been so fast. Inside Shenzhou and outside, there might be people stepping on the accelerator in various ways, and the progress was obviously being accelerated.

He could feel it both inside and outside, and he even felt that the madness outside was much more crazy than that in Shenzhou, it could be described as a dance of demons.

After returning from the South China Sea, Wen Yan stayed at home and did not go anywhere. He practiced with peace of mind and prepared to open up the last mountain.

On the other hand, he was also studying the Xihe Talisman, experimenting with his other powers, and actively integrating these powers.

The first thing I felt was that after the eighth stone gate was opened, the power obtained was obviously more than just integration.

He could also feel a new vitality, and after experimenting for a long time, he was sure that he needed something to support this power.

If you have no idea for now, then just work hard on your practice, consolidate your foundation, and take the initiative to integrate your strength.

Three days passed in a flash and Wen Yan didn't go out, but it became very lively outside.

The bodies of the killed behemoths were pulled back. Some of them were directly cut up and fed to the Dahlia as food. Some that were not suitable for eating were hung there as trophies to deter other behemoths.

The body of the giant beast was taken back for further research. This can be said to be the first time that a very complete body of a giant beast was captured, and it has high research value.

A lot of people are waiting to get samples to start research, and some people have written several pages of paper titles.

There were no giant beasts coming to Nanhai County for the time being, so the Dahlia followed to carry out the mission and go out to sea for escort.

A few days later, the director of headquarters called and asked Wen Yan to take time to come to the headquarters.

He didn't say what it was about, but it should be something that required an interview. Wen Yan had breakfast early in the morning and came to the headquarters.

After arriving, I waited for more than an hour before I saw the general manager who had just finished a meeting.

After not seeing each other for many days, the director's face showed a hint of fatigue.

"Director, what's going on?"

"What do you mean by 'there are more again'? There have always been some, but there are more and more after the New Year."

The director brought Wen Yan to the office and opened the map on the wall, which was densely marked with a large number of key points.

“Each mark on this map is actually a case that the local authorities are unable to handle on their own.”

The director took a laser pen and pointed at one place, and the marked point became larger.

A monster with a monkey head and four arms appeared in the picture.

“This is a case from Tianfu County three days ago. Something that had not been recorded before appeared. It looked like a demon, but according to the classification, it was classified as a beast.

After this thing appeared, it killed a bear and thirteen sheep raised by the shepherds, all of which ate its internal organs and swallowed its blood.

There was also a herdsman who lost half of his liver after being injured. If he had not been rescued in time, he would have died at the hands of the monster.

When the local Lieyang tribe members were trying to capture the monster, the wire mesh was torn apart by the monster, injuring three people.

Then local professionals also went to help, but also failed to kill him.

It was two Taoist priests from Mount Qingcheng who brought a great demon living in Mount Qingcheng and killed it."

The director clicked on another one. Wen Yan recognized this picture. It was the Night Wanderer that he had seen before.

“This appeared in Guanzhong County five days ago. This time it is not in the field. Guanzhong County has mobilized artillery.

Although this guy is huge in size, he has strong vitality and ordinary bullets have little effect on him.

Even if it is artillery fire, it will not have much effect unless it hits directly.

These guys are pretty smart. When they are injured by the weapons carried by the drones, they will just crush a piece of stone, covering a large area and shooting down the drones.

After being hit a few times, I learned to dodge when I saw airdropped shells.

It took three short-range precision-guided missiles to severely injure it and render it incapable of action.”

I randomly clicked on another one, and it was a case in Jingchu County.

The picture shows a dark room, and the shadow of a ghost can be vaguely seen.

"This is a very strange ghost. The old man didn't get along with his children during his lifetime, and he was unwilling to leave his inheritance to his children after his death.

There is no one left in his previous generation, and his spouse is no longer alive.

He originally wanted to donate the house, but then he heard from somewhere that after his death his property would be divided among his children.

Before he died, he ate up all the property certificates.

The children didn't notice it and hurriedly sent it to the crematorium to be burned.

Then his house caught fire that night. When the firefighters arrived, they found that the fire was difficult to put out. It continued to burn after it was extinguished. One firefighter was burned and was transferred to the Lieyang Department.

The people in the local department, one was stunned and the other was burned, before they figured out what had happened.

The old man wanted to take the house away as well, but was stopped.

All the methods used were useless against the old man, who was far from being comparable to ordinary ghosts.

In the end, we had no choice but to evacuate the people upstairs and downstairs, and reinforce the place in advance, fulfilling his wish, and that was the end of it."

The director opened the information and found a picture inside.

The building was six stories high, but the apartment on the fifth floor seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, along with the ceiling and floor of the fifth floor.

Fortunately, the building is not tall and only one house is missing. The reinforcements made in advance by the Lieyang Tribe are sufficient to ensure the stability of the building structure.

If a building with more than 30 floors suddenly lost one floor at the bottom, part of the load-bearing structure would be gone and it would definitely collapse immediately.

Wen Yan looked at the things marked on the map. There were all kinds of small dots densely packed together, at least hundreds of them. These were the cases that were being worked on recently. They could not be handled locally and needed support from the headquarters.

"Director, you don't even have enough time to rest, and you're not in a good mood.

You called me here specifically, wouldn't you just show me these?

I do have some free time recently, which case do you want to work on?"

“I’m not looking for you to do the case. Although we don’t have enough manpower, it has always been like this, and many cases are also being done by others.

There are too many cases, and it is impossible to use resources immediately after each case occurs.

If we do this, more than 90% of the cases here will not need to be handled because we simply don’t have that many resources.

I came to you to tell you that there are more and more strange ghosts recently.

Some obsessions can be easily solved once they are found, but others are more troublesome.

In addition, there are monsters that appear on land, giant beasts in the sea, and so on.

There are also some people or outliers who have different thoughts and do things without considering the consequences.

The times have changed far beyond our expectations, so we can only let you come early."

"Director, we've already talked face to face, could you please stop asking riddles?" Wen Yan was helpless. He could hear that the situation was not good, probably much worse than he expected.

"You come with me."

The director brought Wen Yan to the underground. When they came out of the elevator, they saw the old Taoist priest was also there. They just didn't know whether this was the old Taoist priest himself or the incarnation of the magic sword.

The head of the headquarters came to a big gate and completed the verification. After the old Taoist priest cast a spell again, the gate opened.

As the door opened, extremely huge amounts of yang energy roared out from inside the door.

In the huge hall, there was only a stone tablet with two words written on it in a flamboyant style.

"The blazing sun."

The yang energy was as hot as fire and had condensed into swirling flames that were spinning around the stone tablet.

The extremely huge Yang Energy affected the flow of air and turned into strong wind, which continuously blew out from the gate.

The director brought Wen Yan in, looked at the stone tablet and said.

"This is the Fiery Sun Tribe's No. 001 rare item, the Fiery Sun Stele. I haven't seen it for a few months. The power on the Fiery Sun Stele has at least doubled."

The director general introduced the origin of the Fiery Sun Monument, then stepped aside and made way.

"I brought you here just to let you see this Fiery Sun Monument. Go ahead. No matter what you do or what you choose, I will support you."

"Go ahead." The old Taoist priest also smiled and motioned Wen Yan to go forward.

Wen Yan felt the blazing yang energy on the Fiery Sun Monument. It was indeed the smell of the Fiery Sun, but this fire was a little different from his. As the contemporary Fiery Sun, he could feel it most clearly.

This is the Fiery Sun Stele left behind by the Thirteenth Ancestor. As the spiritual energy revived, its power gradually began to revive.

He walked forward step by step, and the flames around him began to grow more and more intense and dense, until everything within sight was enveloped in flames and shrouded in the blazing yang energy.

He couldn't even sense the general manager and the old master behind him.

The flames seemed to be sinking, and he seemed to be walking on a flaming sky, with the background color all around him being red.

Not far ahead, a person was sitting cross-legged, looking at Wen Yan with a smile on his face.

The other party looked at Wen Yan and gestured for him to sit down.

The next moment, a straw cushion appeared above the flaming sky.

"The contemporary Lieyang is very different. It is quite strange that you can be ordained twice."

“I can’t practice Taoism.”

"How can you have two scrolls if you can't practice Taoism... Hey, two scrolls bestowed by heaven?" The other party was a little surprised. He looked at Wen Yan carefully and laughed out loud: "You, Lieyang, actually got the scrolls bestowed by heaven on the water path. It's really bizarre."

"lucky."

"No divine scroll has ever been given by luck."

Wen Yan looked at everything around him, and then looked at the young Taoist in front of him. This should be the thought or obsession that the Thirteenth Patriarch left behind before his death.

"Grandmaster, is this your obsession? Or is it your intention?"

"It makes no difference. I am already dead, and I left something here. I think it was just my last thought. I benefited from the revival of spiritual energy and revived along with it."

"I have seen my aunt in my old dream, and I have also seen Aunt Gan in Fuyu Mountain. The little zombie that Aunt Gan brought with her left with me and now lives in my house. Like Aunt Gan, it likes to eat cherry tomatoes."

Everything that the Thirteenth Patriarch was about to say paused at this moment.

When he first heard it, he didn't understand who his aunt was, but later he understood who Wen Yan was talking about.

He closed his mouth, said nothing, and continued to listen to Wen Yan.

"The first time I saw my aunt was in the underworld. There was a guy who wanted to summon his former homeland, but he unexpectedly summoned my aunt. My aunt wished me to never get lost again..."

"The little zombie is very cute, but she just doesn't like going to school. I originally said that I would send her to school in two years, but she was very unhappy..."

"Aunt Gan is now a flying zombie, very powerful. So far, I have only seen her fly. She is listening to my aunt and reading in the zombie cave..."

Wen Yan talked a lot, but most of it was about the Thirteenth Ancestor's family.

If he were in his shoes, Wen Yan would think that if he died one day, he would leave behind a little bit of his consciousness, which would be activated by the revival of spiritual energy.

He probably wouldn't care too much about the situation at the time, nor would he care about whether the sun was scorching or not.

He doesn't have such a big picture, and he may continue to do what he has to do, but the news he wants to hear most may be whether the silly cat is still alive, how old the little zombie is, how his stupid son is doing, etc...

When Wen Yan talked about this, the Thirteenth Patriarch stopped talking and just listened quietly. Wen Yan knew that the Thirteenth Patriarch must also want to know this.

When he heard that Wen Yan had given a photo to his aunt and specifically explained what the photo was, the Thirteenth Ancestor felt relieved, started laughing, and looked much more friendly.

It's not like when I first met you, when I looked like an NPC on a quest, with a sense of alienation, like a fake person. I was just about to say, "Hurry up and click on the plot, and get out of here. I'll continue to be an NPC here and wait for the next scorching sun."

"Thank you." The Thirteenth Patriarch raised his hand for the first time and bowed to Wen Yan.

"You're welcome."

"Since you are here, are you ready to carve the scorching sun into the heaven?"

"No, it's just that the people from the Fiery Sun Department, oh, that is, the department of the court that specializes in managing aliens and professionals, their immediate superior, asked me to come and see the Fiery Sun Monument."

"Hey, you haven't made up your mind yet? Why did you come here to see me?"

Hearing this, Wen Yan's thoughts moved, and he suddenly understood the subtext.

"Thirteenth Ancestor, you actually didn't think it through back then, right?"

"No, I had thought it through at the time. Being engraved into the heaven is the best outcome."

"Times have changed, and I don't really want to carve the scorching sun into the Heavenly Palace." Wen Yan raised his left hand, revealing the Xihe Talisman on his left hand: "Especially when I found out that there are talismans that don't belong to the Heavenly Palace, this feeling is even stronger."

"There is actually a divine talisman that comes from outside the Heaven?" The Thirteenth Patriarch was a little surprised, even more surprised than when he heard that Wen Yan could not practice Taoism.

But after just one look, the Thirteenth Patriarch gave up looking closely. He didn't want to know what the talisman was.

"From the wilderness?"

"should be."

After chatting for a while, the Thirteenth Patriarch stood up, looked at Wen Yan, and laughed.

"Well, warriors have become the mainstream. You are right. Times have changed.

I thought it was another person who had been taught a fool and only knew how to talk foolishly about inheriting the legacy of their ancestors, but in the end could only copy others.

I wonder what you would do.”

As he spoke, the Thirteenth Ancestor stretched out his hand and patted Wen Yan on the shoulder.

In an instant, the entire background turned red, and the world with endless flames underfoot began to collapse towards here.

(End of this chapter)