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Chapter 303 The Thief Who Stole the Relic, The Mirror Maze (Bonus Chapter 1432)

"Hmm? Zhenlong Temple? The Zhenlong Temple in Mubei City?"

Zhang Ran turned around in surprise.

"Naturally, it's Zhenlong Temple, where our bureau's temporary workers are located!"

Seeing that Zhang Ran was attracted, and since she had nothing better to do, Wei Tianrong started chatting with him.

"Among the non-governmental organizations that maintain good relations with our Bureau of Investigation, Zhenlong Temple may not be the most mysterious or the most powerful, but it is not something that just anyone can covet."

"I had only heard a little bit about the Buddha statue in Zhenlong Temple before. After all, the existence of such a 'salvation of all living beings' sounds very impressive."

"It wasn't until this time that I learned that the so-called universal salvation is actually the relic of a holy monk on the top of the Buddha statue. By chance, the relic turned into a spirit object, and then, under the management of Zhenlong Temple, it bestows blessings upon every believer who comes to worship."

"In the past, it was fine because there weren't many supernatural events in reality, so the so-called blessing effect was hard to exert. But in recent years, the concentration of yin energy has increased, and supernatural events have increased. The blessing of the Buddha of Zhenlong Temple has gradually taken effect, which is why Zhenlong Temple has become somewhat famous in the Great Xia."

Hearing such secrets and gossip, Zhang Ran also became interested.

"I see. I was wondering how a Zhenlong Temple could have such power. I was planning to find out more, but now I can save myself the trouble."

Kui Tianrong gave a thumbs up.

"You're awesome, you even dare to think about exploring it. As for me, even if I knew there was something on the Buddha's head, I wouldn't dare to explore it. If that monk Mo found out, I'm afraid I'd be... I'd be busy dealing with it again."

Upon hearing the words "Don't run away," Zhang Ran felt a moment of helplessness.

While the Bureau of Investigation's temporary workers are all somewhat eccentric, Mo Pao is definitely one of the more unusual ones.

"Continue, how did that relic get stolen? Could it be that all the masters from Zhenlong Temple left that day?"

Zhang Ran's urging made Wei Tianrong smile. He didn't keep him in suspense and said directly, "With an expert here, Monk Mo Pao is here too."

"Huh? How could it have been stolen?"

"It's precisely because they're all there that this is so sensational! I heard that when they discovered the relic on their Buddha statue was missing, eight great monks with fierce Vajra-like expressions appeared at Zhenlong Temple!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ran's eyes widened immediately.

"Good heavens, the Eight Vajras! Zhenlong Temple really knows how to hide them!"

Zhang Ran wiped away non-existent cold sweat. If he had tried to test that relic before, would he have been smashed to pieces by Vajra?
Thankfully, I've had too many things to do and haven't had time to go.

"Who can argue with that! But despite all that, the relic still hasn't been found."

"Didn't find it? How is that possible?"

"Why is it impossible? Although the Wrathful Vajra is strong, it can't withstand the many methods of Yin cultivators! I bet the person who stole the relic must be a Yin cultivator with a Blood Calamity-level ghost, and the kind who prefers to hide and escape!"

Kui Tianrong offered his own guess.

"What happened next? What happened next?"

Zhang Ran urged.

"And then? They couldn't find the relic. I heard that Monk Mo ran to the headquarters to ask for help."

"Who are you looking for?"

"Who knows... Hey? Your roller coaster started moving."

Wei Tianrong's sudden remark made Zhang Ran turn around immediately.

Under their gaze, they saw the figure sitting in the first row of the roller coaster.

"Which bureau is this from?"

Kui Tianrong thought for a while, but still couldn't remember who it was.

"Oh, him? I do have a vague impression of him... from Mubei City, I think. I was chatting with a friend before and heard that someone in Mubei City sealed a second ghost inside his body and exchanged some things from the headquarters to save his life. After that, I started paying attention to Mubei City, and that's him."

"Huh? A second ghost?"

Wei Tianrong looked at the figure on the roller coaster, but it was too far away to sense. Just as she was about to throw a paper spider at it, Zhang Ran stopped her.

"Hey, hey, hey, this is my territory. Can't you mind your own business?"

Kui Tianrong gave an awkward smile and put away the paper spider.

"I was just bored."

"Go, go, go chat with the guys over at the Ferris wheel, I'm busy."

After Zhang Ran waved his hand to drive Wei Tianrong away, the ghost inside his body began to spread towards the past.

Seeing Zhang Ran's attitude of denying everything after pulling up his pants, Wei Tianrong was so angry that she gritted her teeth.

I should have only told him half the story, and kept him in suspense!
With a cold snort, Wei Tianrong turned and returned to her post.

Just as they were wondering whether to go check out the Ferris wheel, another person suddenly walked into the mirror maze.

Duty dictated that he had to stop and throw a paper spider at the man.

After the paper spider landed on the top bureau chief's trouser leg, Wei Tianrong left.

But he came back after only two minutes.

It's not that the guys on the Ferris wheel don't like gossip, it's just that something's happened on the mirror maze side!

……

After entering the mirror maze, Lu Shen went straight to one of the entrances and entered.

He had been preparing for this day for more than ten years.

He hasn't been idle over the past ten years.

Over the course of more than ten years, he has obtained a great deal of information about the Gray 76th District.

While not as powerful as the General Bureau, which has always held the entrance to the Gray 76th District, they certainly know more than the other top leaders who have entered the Gray 76th District.

The mirror maze was one of his targets this time.

Top team leaders who can enter the mirror maze all have a certain understanding of it, knowing that apart from being troublesome, the mirror maze is not too dangerous and can be very rewarding.

As for the reward from the ghosts after passing through the maze, they didn't care.

But Lu Shen is different. Lu Shen... came specifically for that reward!

What most of the top officers from the branch offices didn't know was that the final reward from the ghost in the mirror maze was not so simple.

Once, a bureau commissioner who had navigated the maze, after enjoying the reward from the ghost, suddenly discovered that a ghost had escaped from the mirror of the ghost's true form in the mirror maze.

And that ghost was the same ghost from a dark, shadowy area that the commissioner had once encountered.

This bureau commissioner was slightly different from the other commissioners; when the others faced the mirror and received their rewards, they were lost in various wonderful illusions.

But his illusion was a dark and gloomy place!

It wasn't that the ghost was the problem, nor was it that the ghost was targeting him.

Instead, this General Administration Commissioner was enjoying the stimulation that the underworld brought him.

The illusion created for him by the mirror ghost was the blood-red underworld area he had once entered.

He almost died inside that time.

It was precisely because of this experience that he both longed for and feared that blood-red, dark region.

Although his hobbies differ from others, he is not mentally impaired and knows what he should do.

So when he learned about the Mirror Maze in Gray District 76, he thought he would come and experience it to see if it could quench his thirst.

In fact, the mirror ghost did indeed trap him in the illusion he had experienced before, replicating everything he had gone through and making him relive the feeling of almost dying.

However, this experience caused a problem for the mirror ghost.

This ghostly figure from the General Bureau's illusion was actually taken to Gray District 76!

Although it was just a vengeful ghost, it was enough for the General Administration to take it seriously.

After studying it many times, the State Administration of Radio and Television has finally figured it out.

The situation with the Mirror Ghost is somewhat similar to the ink painting that the Stone City possesses.

Under certain circumstances, it can communicate with the corresponding underworld area and bring out the ghosts and spirits from that underworld area that corresponds to the illusion.

It can only be a dark or shadowy area, and it can only be ghostly or elusive; it cannot be people or other things in a real-world setting.

Moreover, this situation does not occur every time, and the evil spirits brought out cannot exceed the level of the malevolent spirit in the Mirror Maze.

This caused the General Administration to lose interest.

In the end, they didn't take the Mirror Ghost with them, but left it in the Gray 76th District, where it became a welfare project and performance evaluation item for the Bureau of Investigation.

Lu Shen only came up with his own plan after learning about this situation.

If he hadn't been unaware of the location of the painting at the Mubei City branch, and hadn't been afraid that stealing it would attract the attention of the Bureau of Investigation's top experts, he would have brought the painting with him this time.

After weighing the options, Lu Shen chose a more conservative approach.

If they can't achieve their goal through the mirror ghost this time, they'll have to choose a more risky method.

As for continuing to wait, that's impossible now.

After all, he didn't know how long it would take for those people from Zhenlong Temple to find him.

If this attempt fails, I fear this body will be unusable again.

Recalling the damage to the body, a cold glint flashed in Lu Shen's eyes.

If it weren't for that time, even if he fails this time, he can wait three more years until the next ranking competition.

There's a lot that can be done in three years.

pity……

Lu Shen looked coldly at the dead end blocking his way.

The mirrors in front of him, to his left, and to his right all reflect his current appearance.

Suddenly, the reflection in the mirror in front of me blinked abruptly.

Then the surrounding mirrors began to blur, and the scene changed.

The surroundings darkened, and soon a dim lamp was lit, illuminating the table and the wine bottles and belts placed on it.

A rough hand grabbed the belt, and looking up, one could see a slurred-eyed, bearded man. The man, clutching the belt and muttering curses in some unknown language, staggered over.

Whoosh... slap!

The belt was pulled off and landed on Lu Shen's arm.

Feeling the long-lost pain, Lu Shen looked down at his body.

Thin, scarred, and frail.

"You brat...waaaaa (If I don't go earn money, how will I drink?)!"

The drunk man pulled off his belt again.

When the pain struck, Lu Shen smiled.

"Those are such distant memories."

Lu Shen stood up and found that all the power in his body had disappeared. He now seemed to really be just a teenager.

"Uri wa la? (You still disagree?)"

Snapped!
The belt was pulled down, and Lu Shen tried to grab it, but failed.

Looking at his body, now bearing yet another wound, Lu Shen chuckled.

"Since that's the case, let's have some fun. Consider it... fulfilling a dream from back then."

His gaze shifted to the bottles on the table.

He lowered his head, bent over, and rushed towards the man.

As the man lifted his foot, he turned and bypassed the unsteady man, grabbing the wine bottle on the table.

Clap!

Lu Shen smashed the wine bottle on the ground, leaving only the part he was holding in his hand.

Then, he turned around.

Snapped!
The belt buckle struck his face, taking away one of his teeth.

After spitting out his teeth with a "pui" sound, Lu Shen grabbed another intact wine bottle and smashed it at the man.

The man, startled by Lu Shen's actions, had just dodged the bottle when he realized his hand holding the belt was in pain.

Let go, and the belt will fall to the ground.

The man gripped Lu Shen's bleeding hand and cursed him.

But what awaited him was the belt that Lu Shen swung around.

The boy didn't have much strength, but the metal buckle on his belt still hurt when it was swung around and hit him.

The man's eyes flashed with terror as he turned and fled.

But he forgot how much he had drunk.

After staggering a few steps, his right heel was pierced by a bottle.

Bang!
The man fell down, trying to cover his bleeding heel, but he only had two hands.

One wrist is bleeding, and the other is holding the bleeding wrist.

"Ura ura, ura la! (I'm your father, please let me go!)"

Looking at the man begging for mercy, Lu Shen stopped and gave a self-deprecating smile.

"So killing him was that simple, yet I've been terrified for so many years."

She lunged forward, plunging the bottle in her hand into the man's neck.

Cracks began to appear in the man's bulging eye sockets and wide eyes.

The cracks quickly spread to the man's entire body, then to the entire room, including Lu Shen's own body.

Wow!

Lu Shen returned to the mirror maze.

Before him was a shattered mirror.

Turning his head, Lu Shen looked at the mirror on the side, a smile on his face.

A genuine smile.

Turning back, stepping on the shards of mirror, Lu Shen continued towards the next dead end.

The surroundings blurred again, and as the scene shifted, Lu Shen found himself in a KTV private room.

Snapped!
The bottle shattered on his forehead, and the liquor mixed with blood flowed down his forehead.

Following the spilled liquor on the ground, Lu Shen saw his own face.

This is his face when he was a little older.

He looked up and saw the three men in the private room.

Each of them was strong and powerful, much stronger than the previous drunkard.

He was just a thin, weak boy.

"Hahaha...Wali-wa-la! (Kid, come on, drink this pee, and I'll pay for the bottle of liquor we just smashed.)"

A man walked up to Lu Shen on the ground and took off his pants.

A jet of water fell into an ashtray, filling it to the brim.

Looking at the cigarette ash in the jar, Lu Shen drank the urine mixed with cigarette ash in one gulp before the other person could speak.

"Hahaha... Waaaaah! (Hahaha, go get two more bottles of wine, I want to drink like this again!)"

Lu Shen remained silent, got up and went out to get the wine, behind him came unrestrained laughter.

Once outside, Lu Shen muttered to himself, "Back then, I must have drunk two more buckets of urine, then I got a broken leg and an arm, and lost my job... Heh."

Lu Shen turned and left. Five minutes later, he took a can of gasoline that he had sucked out of the car and poured it into three bottles of liquor.

Carrying three bottles of wine, Lu Shen re-entered the private room.

"Wah la wah...waa! (If you dare to run away after all this time, I'll kill your whole family! Bring me the wine!)"

Lu Shen looked at the three of them, smiled, opened the bottle, and then smashed the two bottles on the table and wall in front of them.

The last bottle landed two meters in front of him.

pat.

He lit the gasoline in front of him with a lighter, blocking the person's path.

He threw the lighter, and flames spread.

Amid the noise, Lu Shen put his arm into the doorknob and blocked the door.

Outside the door, there was a constant banging sound.

Lu Shen's arm made a cracking sound, so he put his other arm in as well.

The fire quickly grew larger.

Three figures with their clothes and hair burned rushed across the flames and stood in front of Lu Shen, kicking and punching him wildly.

Then they started coughing.

The pleas for mercy and angry curses grew fainter and fainter as the flames engulfed the three corpses, swallowing Lu Shen whole.

Wow!

Another mirror broke, and Lu Shen, a smile playing on his lips, stepped inside.

"Will the next one be seventeen?"

……

Outside the mirror maze, Wei Tianrong stared wide-eyed at Lu Shen's speed of breaking a mirror in less than a minute, watching through the spider.

Of course, what shocked him the most was not this, but the smile on Lu Shen's lips.

"Could it be that the ghost in the mirror maze made a mistake and moved the reward forward?"

Kui Tianrong was full of doubt, but when he saw the other top team leaders who were also in the maze, he knew that there was no problem with the ghost.

Therefore, the only problem lies with people.

"Which bureau is this guy from? He's definitely not from the Heavenly Gang Bureau. I remember all the people from the Heavenly Gang Bureau. So it can only be from the Earthly Fiend Bureau."

"Hiss, another ruthless person has emerged from the Earthly Fiends this year?"

After sighing, Wei Tianrong continued to observe Lu Shen through the paper spider.

He wanted to see if Lu Shen could keep breaking through to higher realms so quickly!
Fifteen minutes later, Wei Tianrong was speechless as she looked at Lu Shen who appeared in the core area.

"Aside from those who broke through with brute force, this guy has probably broken the General Administration's record, right?"

Just as Wei Tianrong was about to add this to Lu Shen's record, she suddenly noticed that Lu Shen glanced at the paper spider on his trouser leg.

Immediately afterwards, a flame ignited on the surface of the paper spider.

Having lost her perspective, Wei Tianrong stood frozen in place.

He wasn't stunned by the fact that the spider had been burned, but rather by the life force emanating from the burning paper spider.

If he wasn't mistaken, there was a Buddhist flavor in that Qi and blood, a flavor reminiscent of the Zhenlong Temple's Zhenlong Gong.

It smelled exactly the same as when the monk Mo Pao had used it before, and even stronger.

This guy is also connected to Zhenlong Temple?

……

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