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Chapter 346 Empty Shell, Tracking Insect Envoy

Upon returning to Maple Leaf Street, Chen Xin's gaze did not fall on the site of the great battle, as the Bureau of Investigation had already thoroughly cleaned it up.

What Chen Xin wanted to see was the huge ball of mud that was being used as bait to lure other people's attention.

When Bai Hongtao and his group attacked the trees, the mud ball that served as 'bait' disintegrated.

This scene was quite reasonable, so no one paid attention to the mud ball anymore, and all their attention was focused on the grass and wood dwelling.

In fact, there was really nothing to pay attention to. The reason Chen Xin came here was simply because of the thing that Lin Mu had put in the mud ball, which had his scent on it.

With that item, Chen Xin felt he could try using the mourning staff to summon Lin Mu's soul.

In this way, we can get a glimpse into the secrets of the Divine Messenger organization.

Chen Xin was so focused on having fun with the members of the Divine Messenger organization he encountered before that he forgot to leave behind any personal belongings; otherwise, he might have been able to obtain some information.

Thinking this, Chen Xin took a step forward, and when he reappeared, he was already on the artificial river.

This is the advantage of having the ability to communicate with the spirit world and being in the underworld.

A sieve appeared on his face, and Chen Xin looked down at the riverbed.

Before long, his gaze was drawn to a small object that was faintly glowing under the sieve.

Its figure flickered and fell to the bottom of the river.

Chen Xin's hand emerged from the netherworld, transforming into black mist that appeared at the bottom of the river.

They caught that thing.

When he stopped, what appeared in Chen Xin's palm was a seed.

A seed covered in mud, sprouting a green shoot.

The silt is not incidental, but an inseparable part that is inherently wrapped around the seed.

"So what is this divine messenger called?"

Chen Xin summoned the Staff of Mourning and used the Soul Summoning Technique on the seed.

A phantom emerged from the shadows and transformed into a human form.

If it's not Lin Mu, then who else could it be?
Chen Xin was also a little surprised that he could successfully summon the soul on the first try.

He had originally planned that if he couldn't summon Lin Mu's soul from here, he would go to the Mubei City Investigation Bureau branch to see if he could find Lin Mu's two ghostly bodies and other items before trying to summon his soul again.

This saves a lot of trouble.

After suppressing Lin Mu's spirit with the talisman, Chen Xin returned to his room and entered a dream.

After a long while, Chen Xin opened his eyes, a strange look in them.

Chen Xin got up and walked to the table, picking up the seed that was covered in mud and placed on the table.

Chen Xin just saw something interesting in Lin Mu's memory.

Chen Xin summoned Huang Ying and gave the seed to the past.

As the Yin energy in Huang Ying's hand surged into the mud seed, the green sprout began to grow rapidly.

Of course, it wasn't just the green shoots that grew, but also the silt!

Huang Ying is now a complete Blood Calamity-level ghost, and his body contains a considerable amount of Yin energy.

Five minutes later, his Yin energy was exhausted, but the seed had already finished growing.

At this moment, the seed was gone, replaced by a humanoid object, or rather, a humanoid ghost, with vines as its skeleton and mud as its skin!

When he entered the dream, Chen Xin gained some of Lin Mu's memories.

The reason he was able to summon Lin Mu's soul so easily with the Sorrow Staff was not because he was lucky, but because the seed itself was Lin Mu's backup plan, something he had nurtured day and night with his essence and blood.

If the seed is given enough time to grow into a human-shaped body, the forest can be 'reborn' using the body that grows from the seed!
Although he will lose many memories and strength after being reborn, at least he can still live.

Lin Mu's actions reminded Chen Xin of the leader of the Skull God Cult.

It seems that these folk practices of yin cultivation are far ahead in transforming themselves into something neither human nor ghost.

Lin Mu's idea is good. If it's just the Bureau of Investigation, he might actually be able to be resurrected after a while.

Unfortunately, he met Chen Xin.

The soul left inside the seed was directly extracted by Chen Xin. In this way, the seed was successfully germinated, but without the soul, it was just an empty shell.

Looking at the empty shell in front of him, Chen Xin clicked his tongue in amazement, then threw it into the warehouse of Sanshan Village.

"So, the trees are called 'messengers of grass and wood,' implying that they will grow back after being blown by the wind?"

"Envoy of Plants and Trees" is a title Chen Xin obtained from the other party's memories.

In addition, Chen Xin also found the information he was looking for.

From Lin Mu's memories, Chen Xin discovered that there was indeed very little contact between the members of the Divine Messenger Organization. They would only be contacted when needed, and at other times the members of the Divine Messenger Organization would basically do their own thing.

Fortunately, Lin Mu recently came into contact with other divine messengers, and they left a deep impression on him.

From Lin Mu's memories, Chen Xin obtained information about another member of the divine messenger.

That member of the divine messenger group, the one who opened the rift in Mubei City, is known as the Insect Messenger!

Chen Xin remembered this name.

Previously on Chuanshan Mountain, the culprit that caused the deaths of two people from the Bureau of Investigation, the sudden death of the Ghost Scorpion Ancestor, and the dismemberment of Ye Shan by the rift was the Insect Envoy.

Chen Xin thought that the insect envoy had been killed by Monk Mo Pao with the Blood Yang Demon-Subduing Pestle that night on Chuanshan Mountain, but now it seems that the 'insect envoy' at that time was just a puppet or something.

"The people from the Divine Envoy Organization are actually quite difficult to kill!"

Chen Xin suddenly realized that his decision to throw the Nether Serpent Envoy into the Netherworld was actually quite good.

No matter how many methods one employs, once they enter the Netherworld, they cannot affect the mortal world. Moreover, in the eyes of those 'gods' in the Netherworld, any method would probably be as laughable as a child with dragon fruit marks all over their face claiming they didn't eat any.

"Insects, perhaps..."

Chen Xin then thought of something else about the insect messenger.

If he's not mistaken, there is a connection between this insect envoy and Bai Ying of the Ghost Slave Organization.

Ye Shan was clearly tricked by the insect envoy at the time, but it was Bai Ying who sent Ye Shan to Chuanshan.

The Insect Envoy is a member of the Divine Envoy Organization, while Bai Ying is a member of the Ghost Slave Organization.

The relationship between these two seems rather intriguing. Chen Xin wanted to find the Insect Envoy now, but Lin Mu's memories only included sending the Insect Envoy outside Mubei City; he had no memories of what happened after the Insect Envoy left.

But this is not a big problem.

With one step, one enters the Netherworld. As the surrounding black mist shifts, the scene changes to an abandoned courtyard in a village outside Mubei City.

This is where the insect messengers transit.

Upon arriving at the destination, Chen Xin emerged from the Netherworld and immediately summoned the Nine Suns.

"Try to see if you can smell anything here besides me."

Chen Xin said to Jiuri.

"Row!"

I was quite happy on the 9th.

During the time that Cloth Dog was promoted to Yama, he became quite idle, because the things that he used to have to do could now be handed over to the other Cloth Dogs that he had bitten.

All he had to do was sit in the underworld and collect the information gathered by his underlings.

He even had time to have his younger brother check on his parents' situation.

Now that Chen Xin has called him in to cause trouble again, Jiuri has a kind of "old man suddenly feeling young again" mentality.

With reddened eyes, he took a deep breath, drawing in all the various odors from the abandoned courtyard into his body.

After a moment, Jiuri said, "This courtyard is very clean. Apart from your aura, there are only two very faint traces of yin energy remaining."

Chen Xin nodded.

"That's fine. Follow the scent and look for it, but don't look in the direction of Mubei City. Look for another one."

"it is good!"

Nine days later, it shrank in size and disappeared from Chen Xin's sight as a black afterimage.

Chen Xin also took a step forward, turning into black mist and disappearing into the courtyard. His consciousness had already landed on Jiu Ri, following Jiu Ri in the pursuit of that aura.

……

Pink Cherry City.

In a dimly lit basement room, the insect envoy was sitting on a sofa in a small room of less than 50 square meters, converted from a warehouse, watching the 'performance' above his head.

A parrot flitted around overhead, pecking at the moths that were circling the light.

Spider webs shot out from the four corners of the room, connecting to the ceiling, as the spiders competed with the parrots for food.

On the ground, countless centipedes covered a human-shaped protrusion.

After the moths had been eaten, the parrot turned its attention to the four corners.

A few minutes later, the parrot with spider webs on its body landed on the wooden frame and looked down at the ground that was gradually becoming flatter.

Soon, the centipedes, having lost their target, crawled up the wooden frame toward the parrot.

The parrot remained unmoved as it watched this scene unfold.

As the centipede covered the parrot, a thin, blood-red line emerged from the parrot's eye and entered the centipede's body.

In the blink of an eye, the centipede turned into a gray, dry shell, and then blood threads emerged from the shell and fell onto another centipede.

And so on and on.

After an unknown amount of time, only gray centipede shells remained on the floor of the room.

The insect reached out, and a line of blood shot out from the centipede's shell, wrapping around his fingertip.

Despite seeing the even brighter lines than before, the insect envoy did not smile.

After being injured on Chuanshan Mountain, his strength never recovered.

In order to speed up the recovery of his strength, he had no choice but to take on the task of opening the rift.

The crack opened, but he was also injured again.

Now, he can only hide in the basement, avoiding the Bureau of Investigation's search, while waiting for the 'reward' sent from above.

A week has passed, but the reward still hasn't arrived, which makes him feel uneasy.

"Is the Bureau of Investigation's retaliation this severe...?"

The insect murmured.

He knew the Bureau of Polling would retaliate, so he kept a low profile these days, but it seems he underestimated the strength of the Bureau's counterattack.

I glanced at the time; it was 2 a.m.

"It's time to move to a different place."

As the insect envoy spoke, he got up and walked towards the door.

But just as he was about to open the door, his hand stopped in front of the doorknob.

breathe……

The only sound in the room was the barely perceptible breathing of insects.

Looking at the not-so-thick door in front of him, the insect wielder raised his hand and a blood-red thread worm emerged, shooting into the door lock.

Following the bloodworm that crawled out of the keyhole, I saw a small black dog crouching less than a meter away from the door!
After a moment of hesitation, the bloodworm arched its body and launched itself toward the black dog's body.

A meter is not a long distance, but even in that short distance, the bloodworm flying in the air saw the black dog turn its eyes and look at it.

Then, the black dog opened its mouth.

This series of actions took less than a tenth of a second.

Whoosh!
Puzzled, the bloodworm had already burrowed into the black dog's mouth and entered its palate. But just as it was about to absorb the flesh and blood of the black dog, it discovered that its location did not seem to be inside flesh and blood.

All around, there was an endless, scorching heat.

The sizzling sound of roasting came from the bloodworm. It turned around to escape, but there was no way back.

……

(End of this chapter)