Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 327 Wandering Souls Everywhere, Suppressing Items Distributed

Chen Xin had thought a lot about the Zhenyin seal, but he did not implement it.

On the one hand, I want to study it for a few more days to see if the seal will affect the original effect of the talisman.

Of course, more importantly, Chen Xin doesn't have enough merit points to conduct experiments right now.

Each printing costs 10,000 points of Yin virtue, which seems less than the amount of Yin virtue required to upgrade a Yin Si-level guardian artifact to a Yama-level guardian artifact. However, the upgrade from Yin Si to Yama-level only requires 100,000 points, while the guardian seal has no restriction on printing.

Putting aside his thoughts, Chen Xin left Sanshan Village through the Tongyou portal and returned to his room in the mortal world.

The first thing he did was find himself a new set of clothes.

There were no outsiders in Sanshan Village, so he wouldn't mind being naked, but reality wouldn't allow it.

After getting dressed, Chen Xin began to reflect on the gains and losses of this experience.

Overall, the result was good.

But the process was not pleasant.

Chen Xin narrowed his eyes slightly as he thought of Luo Da, who was still trapped in Sanshan Village.

"A divine messenger..."

Just as Chen Xin was pondering how to make use of Luo Da, his phone rang.

The Bureau of Polling sent a message asking everyone to return to the station.

Chen Xin was slightly surprised after seeing this content.

Although the message was sent to him, its content was intended for 'everyone'.

In other words, this is a mass message?
The most important thing is the current time.

At 7 PM, just as it was getting dark, everyone was summoned...

"what happened?"

Chen Xin's first thought was about the 'underworld' and the 'gods of the turbid world', but then he felt something was off.

The branch office should not have access to this information.

Unable to come up with a solution, Chen Xin got up to leave.

When he picked up the bag, he realized that he no longer needed to carry a book with him at all times.

With a chuckle, Chen Xin took out his keys, power bank, and other items from his bag, then waved his hand and stored them in his palm-shaped spatial storage.

After thinking for a moment, he put a set of clothes in his palm before opening the door and walking downstairs.

The apartment building Chen Xin rented was an elevator building, but because Chen Xin rented on the third floor, he rarely took the elevator.

The time he spends waiting for the elevator during rush hour is enough for him to walk back and forth.

After it became a habit, he would take the stairs even if the elevator was empty.

But as soon as Chen Xin entered the stairwell, he was stunned.

He saw an old man standing at the corner between the third and second floors, facing the wall, pacing back and forth.

Sweat was beading on his forehead, indicating that he had been walking for a long time.

Chen Xin frowned, went downstairs and walked behind the old man. He took the dead rat from the old man's vegetable basket, burned it with his blood and qi flames, and then continued downstairs.

Just as Chen Xin burned the rat, the old man stopped in his tracks, staggered back a few steps, and leaned against the wall.

His face was filled with terror.

……

Chen Xin frowned again as soon as he stepped outside the building.

In the pavilion opposite the building entrance, an old man was playing chess against thin air, cursing as he played, "This round doesn't count, let's play again, I don't believe I can't beat you."

Not far from the old man, a group of elderly men and women stood with expressions of surprise and uncertainty.

Chen Xin walked behind the crowd and heard their conversation.

"Is Old Li suffering from dementia?"

"What senile dementia? He was perfectly fine this morning, but by noon I found him playing chess alone. I initially thought he hadn't found any opponents, but... but..."

"What's the result?"

"As soon as I sat down opposite Old Li, I felt a chill run through my body, and Old Li's face turned ashen. He stared at me fiercely, as if I had killed his wife."

"Ah? What happened next?"

"Seeing him like that, I didn't dare sit down anymore and was about to leave. But as soon as I stood up, Old Li returned to normal and continued playing chess with thin air! If you ask me, Old Li isn't suffering from dementia, he's... having a nightmare!"

"Huh? You're talking nonsense. In broad daylight, where would you find such a thing? I think it's just Alzheimer's."

"Hehe, if you don't believe me, go sit across from Old Li and see for yourself."

As they were talking, an old man, who didn't believe in superstitions, walked over and sat down opposite the old man.

As soon as he sat down, he screamed and fell off the stool, crawling away.

When someone asked him what had happened, he didn't say a word and turned to run home.

Seeing him like this, the others became even more frightened and immediately moved more than ten meters away.

But apart from the old man who was frightened earlier, no one left.

Just then, Chen Xin stepped out from the crowd and walked towards the old man's location.

"Young man, come back quickly!"

"Yes, come back quickly. We've already called Old Li's son. You need to come back right away. It's one thing if something happens to you, but if something happens to Old Li, I'm afraid you won't be able to afford to pay for it!"

Chen Xin smiled and nodded at the old man speaking beside him, but did not stop.

After walking up to the old man and sitting down on the stool, Chen Xin said, "Grandpa, it's getting late, you should go home for dinner."

The old man sitting opposite Chen Xin looked bewildered.

"Have a meal?"

The old man glanced at the sky and immediately looked puzzled.

"It was daytime just now, how did it suddenly get dark?"

Seeing this, Chen Xin didn't say anything more, got up, and left the pavilion with a wisp of smoke.

Just after Chen Xin left, the old man's son arrived.

Ignoring the conversation between the old man and his son, Chen Xin was filled with many doubts.

He encountered two ghostly figures, almost like wandering spirits, on the short distance from the third floor to the first floor.

This would have been impossible in the past.

Even setting aside the fact that this place is close to the Bureau of Investigation, the fact that he himself comes and goes every day would not have allowed any suspicious activity to remain until now.

The old man in the stairwell is understandable; he probably encountered the rat while buying groceries. But what about the ghost hidden in the chess pieces in the pavilion downstairs?

Could it be one of the new ones generated in the last two days?
Just as Chen Xin was wondering, a screech of emergency brakes came from the road in the distance.

Turning my head, I saw a car brake in front of the pedestrian crossing.

The vehicles following behind didn't react in time and crashed into it with a loud bang.

Fortunately, the speed was not high, and no major traffic accident occurred.

Just as Chen Xin was watching, a burly man got out of the car that had rear-ended him and angrily rushed to the door of the car in front, pulling the driver out of the car.

"Are you fucking tired of living?! Why are you braking?!"

The bespectacled driver, who was pulled out, struggled, his face pale.

"Are you fucking crazy? There's a huge person on the sidewalk, if I didn't brake I would have run over him!"

The words of the driver in the car in front, who wore glasses, immediately enraged the burly man.

He slapped the bespectacled driver across the face, knocking him to the ground.

Immediately afterward, the burly man grabbed the bespectacled driver by the collar, pointed at the red lights on both sides of the pedestrian crossing, and then at the pedestrian crossing itself. "Are you blind? Where are the people? Tell me, where are the people?"

The bespectacled driver had initially intended to risk it, but when he looked at the empty zebra crossing and the few pedestrians who had swerved to avoid him because of his sudden braking, he was stunned.

"I clearly just saw..."

"Alright, stop talking and don't even think about running away. I suspect you're driving under the influence or on drugs. Wait for the traffic police to arrive!"

As the burly man spoke, he picked up the phone to make a call.

But just then, another screeching sound of brakes rang out.

On the road coming from the opposite direction, a car stopped again in front of the zebra crossing.

Immediately afterwards, a woman hurriedly got out of the car and rushed to the front of it.

But after searching around under the front of the car and finding nothing, she panicked and looked around.

"You, didn't you see the person here just now? The kid who was running on the zebra crossing?"

Upon hearing the woman's words, the bespectacled driver, who was being held by the burly man, trembled.

He yelled at the woman, "You saw it too, you saw it too, right? There's a little boy right there."

The bespectacled driver excitedly broke free from the burly man's grasp, seemingly angry about the injustice he had suffered.

But as he shouted, most of the people around him hurriedly left, leaving only a few curious people standing at a distance watching.

Feeling wronged, the bespectacled driver angrily pulled the female driver toward the burly man.

"Tell him, tell him if there's a little boy!"

After realizing what had happened, the woman shook off the bespectacled driver's hand, cursed, "You're sick, I only saw a girl," and then strode back to her car.

"Don't go, you have to prove it to me..."

Bang!
The bespectacled driver froze on the spot, staring at the female driver who had been thrown more than ten meters away after being hit.

At this point, the driver who hit the person had already stopped the car and gotten out, his legs weak.

The driver with glasses was closer, so he heard what the other person said.

"How, how did you hit someone? There was no one here, how could you hit someone? Oh no, oh no."

Looking at the driver slumped on the ground, the bespectacled driver could no longer utter a word.

Before he could even recover, he saw a scene that sent chills down his spine.

A pair of children's hands moved away from the eyes of the driver who was slumped on the ground and disappeared.

This scene deeply disturbed the bespectacled driver, who slowly backed up to stand in front of the burly driver.

"Did you see that? You saw that..."

The bespectacled driver turned to look at the burly man, then the words caught in his throat.

Behind the burly man, a little boy, pale as paper, was lying there.

The little boy grinned at the bespectacled driver, then reached out and covered the burly man's eyes with his hands.

"You...it...you...ah!"

The bespectacled man covered his head and ran away in the opposite direction.

But before he could run two steps, a hand grabbed his neck and pulled him back.

Swish!
A car sped past him like a blur.

The sound of screeching brakes rang out, and the bespectacled man collapsed to the ground, his body going limp.

Just then, he saw a hand wave past his eyes.

Then he saw the two pale little hands being pulled away from his eyes.

Turning his head, the bespectacled driver saw a young man with a furrowed brow and the wisps of smoke rising from his hand.

Meanwhile, another person grabbed the burly man's body as he lunged forward.

Seeing the terror in the burly man's eyes, the bespectacled driver knew that the man must now believe him.

……

Chen Xin and Bai Bowen together pried up two roadside pavers stained with brown marks and took them away.

The two ignored the man with glasses and the others.

How many did you encounter?

Before Chen Xin could speak, Bai Bowen spoke first.

"Bring these two, four."

"Yes, I encountered eight."

Bai Bowen's words cleared up some of the doubts in Chen Xin's mind.

It seems that he wasn't just lucky today.

“Let’s go. I think the bureau must have called us here because of this.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Bowen nodded and quickly headed towards the bureau with Chen Xin.

Upon entering the Mubei City Survey Bureau, the two headed towards the conference room.

On the way, they saw Bureau of Public Opinion Research staff walking briskly to and fro.

When they arrived at the conference room, other frontline staff were walking out of it.

The two, not understanding what was happening, suddenly heard a voice.

"Those who come in, look at the screen directly, and then do the work as instructed!"

The two looked up and gazed at the screen.

At the top of the screen are four large, blood-red characters: "Emergency Incident".
The following is the content.

"Because the Divine Messenger Organization arrested a large number of people in one day, in retaliation, they used special means to directly open the Netherworld Rifts in many cities within the Great Xia region!"
Nowadays, due to the influx of a large amount of yin energy and dark energy into the city, a large number of wandering ghosts and spirits have been bred.

This is a special notice: all frontline specialists at the Bureau of Investigation are to be on duty, and all staff in the Information Gathering Department are to focus on resolving the ghosts appearing in the city, eliminating the wandering spirits currently present in the city, preventing them from evolving into more advanced ghosts, and minimizing their impact as much as possible!
The following are the cities where the Netherworld Rift has been discovered: ...

Chen Xin and Bai Bowen were both taken aback when they saw the text on the screen.

While deeply moved, the two looked at the text on the other side of the screen.

"All Yang Xiu specialists should go to the logistics department to collect special equipment. Remember to use the special equipment in accordance with regulations, and do not use the special equipment in front of Yin Xiu specialists to prevent accidental injury."

After reading it, Bai Bowen said directly to Chen Xin beside him, "Let's go get the special equipment!"

After saying that, Bai Bowen hurriedly left the conference room, brushing past the other specialists who had just arrived.

Following behind Bai Bowen, Chen Xin checked on her grandmother and the others using the magic device. Only after finding everything normal did she feel relieved.

Looking at Bai Bowen, Chen Xin thought about the 'special equipment' mentioned in the text description, and he already had the answer in his mind.

Two minutes later.

Chen Xin smiled as he looked at the names of the special equipment on the list.

[List of Special Equipment]

[#1: Candle Night Stone Town, 48 remaining, how to use... usage restrictions...]

[#2: Soul Staff, 2 remaining, Usage method... usage taboos...]

[#3: Soul-Binding Rope, 28 remaining, how to use... usage taboo...]

[#4: Mesh sieve, 24 remaining, Usage instructions... Contraindications...]

[#5: Rising Sun Spirit Fire Basin, 68 remaining, Usage instructions... usage restrictions...]

……

PS: I still couldn't add an extra chapter. It's my problem. I'll send a 5000 Qidian Coins red envelope in the book club at midnight.

(End of this chapter)