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Chapter 370 Honesty and Forgiveness, Two Hundred Cloth Dogs

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The phone rang, and Chu Xiu, who was working late into the night processing information from various local polling bureaus, answered it.

"what's up?"

"Chief, something has happened in Huaquan City. Huaquan City Chief He Lang suddenly issued the highest level of alarm. After that, we tried to use satellite positioning to check He Lang's location, but what we saw was... Chief, take a look for yourself. I've sent it to you."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Xiu opened the message sent by the General Administration's Information Management Bureau.

Those were several pictures.

The first picture is of a village at night, all blurry.

The second picture shows the same location, but with hundreds of bright spots illuminating the village.

In the zoomed-in area, you can also see people kneeling on the ground, covering their faces, with white smoke rising from some courtyards.

In the third picture, the entire village is bathed in a strong white light, revealing every detail!
Chu Xiu shifted his gaze to a spot outside the village in the photo.

There were corpses lying on the ground. Next to the corpses was Wu Na, whose body was covered in sores, raising her arms to try to block out the light. Not far away stood He Lang, who had a blank expression, and a person who was shooting away from the white light in the center, leaving a trail of afterimages.

In the fourth picture, the white light dissipates, Wu Na lies on the ground, her life hanging in the balance, and He Lang is still in a daze, but he is facing another direction.

In that direction, a rooster wreathed in pale flames pulled a heart from the chest of the man who had just fled.

In the fifth picture, the rooster has disappeared, the corpse remains, and everything has fallen silent.

After looking through all five photos, Chu Xiu looked at He Lang in the fifth photo, picked up the phone, and made a call.

The phone rang five times before being answered.

"what happened?"

After a long while, there was a response from the other end.

“When I encountered people from the Ghost Slave Ghost Heart lineage, Wu Na was controlled and killed my people. Then the Underworld Walker appeared… or rather, the Underworld Walker had always been there. Then, all the people from the Ghost Heart lineage, including the ghosts inside our bodies, were killed by the light emitted by the Underworld Walker.”

Hearing He Lang's tired and weak voice, Chu Xiu remained silent for a moment before asking, "What is that brightest point in the sky, and what are those hundreds of bright spots?"

"They're all... chickens."

"chicken?"

"The brightest of the chickens that appear in Zhuyeshi Town is a walker from the underworld."

"...Understood. After you've finished handling things at the bureau, come to headquarters as a three-star specialist. Leave Huaquan City to someone else to manage."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Xiu leaned on his hands and fell silent.

They're all in Zhuye Stone Town... So, can someone traveling through the Underworld control Zhuye Stone Town?
Even though he had been prepared for this for a long time, his heart still sank when faced with the reality.

"What exactly are these guardian spirits of the underworld...?"

Chu Xiu was a little envious.

If only the Bureau of Polling had these tools!

After staying in the office for a long time, Chu Xiu got up and walked towards Director Feng Jin.

……

Chen Xin looked at the more than fifty hearts laid out in front of him and showed a satisfied expression.

"Let's see how many of you can escape this time."

Chen Xin took out his mourning staff and pointed it at one of the hearts.

boom!
The heart exploded, and just like before, a wisp of energy appeared from the spot where the heart exploded, and then it was about to disappear into the void.

But this time, Chen Xin, who was prepared, was not about to let it slip away.

With palms open, the arm, empowered by the wrathful Vajra, flashed past, leaving a trail of afterimages.

After Chen Xin sensed the suddenly quiet aura within the Palm of His Hand space, he smiled.

Chen Xin had considered ways to deal with the Ghost Heart lineage before, such as taking the heart into the Netherworld and letting it explode, having a cloth dog bite the heart and then detonating it, or putting it into the Pot Heaven space.

Chen Xin felt that the Heavenly Seal he obtained by suppressing the God of Turbidity should be sufficient to deal with a God of Turbidity.

Now it seems that this is indeed the case.

This also served as a reminder to Chen Xin. If Chen Xin wished, it seemed that the turbid gods in the Netherworld could be smuggled into the mortal world through Chen Xin's Pot Heaven Seal, and they would arrive in their complete form without needing a carrier, container, birth, or anything like that.

Thinking about it this way, it's fortunate that Chen Xin's abilities are unknown to those turbid world gods. Otherwise, as soon as he entered the sixth level where the turbid world gods resided, they would have smelled the scent and come rushing over, vying to smuggle him in and fill him up.

But wouldn't that count as close combat?
Will the "Complete Guide to Town Statues" make a move?

Chen Xin fell into deep thought, wondering... should he release the news proactively?

shook his head.

Even if he wanted to release the information, he would need to know how to do it.

From beginning to end, he had not communicated with any of the gods of the turbid world. Whenever they met, either he wanted to kill Chen Xin, or Chen Xin wanted to kill him.

They seemed determined to fight to the death, unlike those who were divine messengers or ghost servants.

How exactly did they communicate with the gods of this corrupt world?

Chen Xin took out a talisman to ward off evil spirits, placed it under his pillow, and went to sleep.

When Chen Xin woke up again, he had some more memories in his mind, but he didn't get what he wanted.

From the memories of the Ghost Heart Pulse Master, Chen Xin learned that the Ghost Heart Pulse Master communicated through the Ghost Heart Ancestor, but this communication was entirely based on existing matter, namely the Ghost Heart Ancestor.

With the Ghost Heart Ancestor, one can communicate with the master of the Ghost Slave Organization.

But no one knows exactly why it is this way or why they can communicate.

Helpless, Chen Xin put away the curse-suppressing money and detonated the remaining hearts one by one, storing all their energy into the Pot Heaven space.

Afterwards, whether it's going to the Yin and Yang region to find the Ghost Heart Ancestor, or going to the Netherworld to find the Ghost Slave's master, these auras can be used.

From the memories of the Ghost Heart lineage leader, Chen Xin learned the location of the Ghost Heart Ancestor... Yinming!
However, it is unclear which specific area of ​​the underworld it falls into.

However, this did not affect Chen Xin's search for the other party.

Chen Xin summoned the Nine Suns and put them into the Pot Heaven Space.

After absorbing a wisp of energy within it, Jiu Ri was released by Chen Xin.

"How about it?"

“I have a general sense of it, but it seems too far away and the sense is not clear... Let the Raven Prophet take the offspring I bit to other Netherworld regions and search. We will surely find it eventually.”

Chen Xin nodded.

He has no shortage of Raven Prophet's Raven Feather clones, but he is still lacking in the number of Cloth Dogs for the Nine Days.

"A task was issued to collect materials for making a cloth dog."

Chen Xin suddenly thought of the families of the underworld officials who had already entered the Three Mountains' station in the underworld.

There will definitely be other family members moving in later, so it would be better to issue two more tasks.

Thinking this way, Chen Xin asked Jiuri to add two more tasks to the task list.

[Collection Task: Cotton, cotton cloth, black dog blood, and a dog made of yellow paper. Each item can be exchanged for 10 points of Yin Virtue. Required quantity (0/200)]

[Crafting Quest: Accepting this quest will automatically grant you the crafting recipe for the talisman 'Cloth Dog'. Each Cloth Dog crafted will reward you with 10 points of Yin Virtue. Crafting 100 Cloth Dogs will grant you all the information about the Cloth Dogs. Required quantity (0/200)]

After the mission was released, Chen Xin had Jiuri synchronize the mission information to all the underworld messengers who owned the cloth dog.

Therefore, all you need to do is wait for all the materials to be collected and the cloth dog to be made before you can begin.

……

At this moment, in the old residential area where the mission to clean up the Yin and Yang area was being carried out.

Ye Chang and his two companions reactivated the stickers and disappeared from the spot.

The instant they left, three enormous heads took a bite out of the spot where they had just left, but unfortunately, they all missed.

Frustrated, the three heads began to enter through one doorway marked with the number 4 and exit through another, constantly scanning all possible locations where Ye Chang and his companions might be found.

Meanwhile, Ye Chang and his two companions had already returned to their base at Sanshan.

None of the three of them smiled this time.

The first time they returned from the mission, after deducting the 100 merits from the stickers they used, each of them still had 300 merits left.

But on the second visit, after removing the stickers, each person could only accumulate 100 units of negative karma!
The long, human-headed snake we encountered the first time is gone. Now, it reappears only with heads as tall as a person.

The three of them had finally managed to advance to the Yin Marshal level in Zhuye Stone Town, only to be completely destroyed by those three heads.

This doesn't mean that the three heads have reached the level of Blood Calamity, but rather that the three heads are elusive. One second they were fighting the rooster that appeared in Candlestone Town on the left, and the next second they appeared on the right and bit the main body of Candlestone Town to pieces.

Without its original form, the rooster of Zhuye Stone Town could only leave the stage in defeat.

This is also why they are unfamiliar with the head's movement patterns.

If they knew, placing the three Candle Night Stone Towns back to back, or placing the Yin General-level Soul Binding Rope on the main body of the Candle Night Stone Town, might have been able to kill that head.

Unfortunately, they no longer have the Yin General-level Candlestone Town, so even with the Soul-Binding Rope, they cannot quickly kill those giant heads.

They have already missed their best opportunity, unless they can create a few more Yin General-level Candlestone Towns.

The fastest way to get the Yin-Hero level Candlestone Town is to go to that old neighborhood.

But if they go to the old neighborhoods, they'll have to face those giant heads.

This creates a vicious cycle.

For a moment, all three of them fell silent.

Just then, Ye Chang suddenly felt the cloth dog at his waist move.

I reached for my phone and saw two task notifications appear on the screen.

Looking at the information above, and then at the other two people in front of me.

Ye Chang hesitated.

The "0/200" markings clearly reminded him that these two tasks had an upper limit; once others had finished them, he couldn't complete them.

Moreover, compared to cleaning up the underworld, this task seemed to pose no difficulty for these two.

Do you want to say it?
Just then, he suddenly heard the underworld messenger surnamed Bai say, "Brother Ye, Lao Ji, if this continues, we'll never accumulate enough merit."

"Now that we no longer have Candlestone Town, we have fewer options available to us."

"So I thought about it and decided we'd go again later. I still have three paper cutouts of substitutes that I left behind. Even if those three-headed ghosts attack me, I can still survive. And during this process, I'll bind them with the Yin General-level Soul Binding Rope!"

"With mine and Lao Ji's two, three will be enough, Brother Ye. You might need to use all those Yin Shuai-level Wang Pen Ashes later."

"Focus on one and take it down. Once you've eliminated one, take down the next one. The fewer of them there are, the less threat they pose to us, and we can think of other ways to deal with them later."

What do you think, Brother Ye?

After listening to Bai Yongnian's activation, Ye Chang remained silent for a while before suddenly saying, "This matter is not urgent. Come with me."

With that, Ye Chang took the lead and walked towards the task bar.

Bai Yongnian and Ji Mo were still completely bewildered because they didn't have a cloth dog.

When they caught up and saw the two tasks in the task list, their eyes widened.

"This...this mission!"

"Why the hell are we risking our lives? Old Bai, I'll go back and collect the supplies. I may not have much else, but I have plenty of money! We'll meet up again by tomorrow night at the latest."

After Ji Mo finished speaking, he also added a comment for Ye Chang.

"Brother Ye, you don't need to prepare anything. I know a dog meat seller. I can get black dog blood. As for the rest, Lao Bai can get them too."

"Yes, Brother Ye, just wait for us to come back."

After Bai Yongnian and Ji Mo finished speaking, they went to the courtyard they had previously rented and left the underworld using stickers.

Ye Chang was left standing there, somewhat dazed.

Shaking his head with a self-deprecating smile, Ye Chang went to the exchange counter and changed the courtyard he had rented to a spot next to the two of them.

After thinking for a moment, he exchanged for another jar of Tusu wine and took it to the courtyard he rented.

Time flies by.

It wasn't even evening yet; around 5 PM, Ji Mo and Bai Yongnian returned.

After the two came out of the house, they headed towards Ye Chang's previous house.

But before they had taken two steps, they saw a middle-aged man walking out from next door.

"Brother Bai, Brother Ji, I'm here."

Both of them were taken aback when they saw Ye Chang, who was not wearing anything on him.

Afterwards, they also took off their raven feather raincoats.

"Brother Ye, I'm Bai Yongnian, I own a chicken farm."

"I am Ji Mo, a rich second-generation."

Ye Chang smiled as he watched the two reintroduce themselves.

Ye Chang, a novel editor.

Immediately, Ye Chang led the two into his courtyard and took out the jar of Tusu wine.

When the three went inside, they didn't notice that in the distance, an old man was watching this scene with a big smile on his face.

……

Chen Xin's task was completed in less than 24 hours, which was a result of his financial power. It was also because the Bureau of Investigation announced that Candlestone Town did not involve Black Dog Blood. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to complete the task.

After the Nine Suns bit each of the two hundred cloth dogs, the Raven Prophet controlled the two hundred crows to grab the cloth dogs and fly them in all directions.

Chen Xin once tried to have the Raven Prophet control the crows to fly outwards, using a carpet search method to explore the entire Underworld.

But he overestimated the Raven Prophet and underestimated the Underworld.

If we take Sanshan Village as the center and consider the four surrounding Yin-Yang areas as the first layer, then exploring the first layer requires four crows.

Then, taking the four areas of the first layer as the center, exploring all the dark and shadowy areas of the second layer requires twelve crows.

To continue exploring towards the third level, we need thirty-six more.

And so on, the fourth level requires 108, the fifth level requires 316... the ninth level requires 25,596, and the tenth level requires 76,788!
Just pushing outwards ten layers would require nearly 100,000 crows, and the entire Yinming realm could not possibly be limited to just ten layers.

Of course, the actual situation also involves areas that have already been integrated, but the differences are not significant.

So if they were to actually conduct a thorough search, not only would it be impossible for the Crow Prophet to do it, but Chen Xin's mind also couldn't possibly examine the situation in 100,000 Yin-Yang areas at the same time.

However, this time the situation is different; this time a thorough search is not necessary.

After obtaining the aura in nine days, they had a general direction, and two hundred cloth dogs would be enough.

Without thinking further, Chen Xin released the cloth dogs.

Next, all you have to do is wait.

Several hours passed, and of the two hundred cloth dogs released, only thirty-eight remained.

Even without exploring in depth, the dangers of the Netherworld are beyond the capabilities of those newly made cloth dogs.

Fortunately, among the remaining thirty-eight, some of the cloth dogs have developed stronger senses.

Another half hour passed, and when there were only ten cloth dogs left, Chen Xin saw the area through the cloth dogs.

"Got you."

Chen Xin took a step and entered the Netherworld.

When they emerged again, they were in another dark and shadowy region.

This is a cave, with interconnected passages. The cave walls are covered with various viscous tissues, interspersed with pulsating blood vessels.

As far as the eye could see, Chen Xin also saw two cloth dogs imprisoned by the inner wall of the cave.

Stepping forward, Chen Xin removed the two cloth dogs and placed them into the Pot Heaven Space.

Then, he walked deeper into the cave.

……

P.S.: I haven't been feeling well these past two days. I dozed off while writing last night, and then I was too tired during the day. I'll need to rest for a couple of days and will be taking a break from extra updates.

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