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Chapter 489 Murder in the Snow! (Please Subscribe)

I don't know if it's because of the resurgence of the supernatural, but the weather has gotten colder earlier this year than in previous years.

Even though it's only October, some people on the street are already wearing winter clothes.

"I'm not saying this to be mean, but your body is way too weak."

Wang Xiao, who is 180 cm tall but weighs nearly 220 kg, said with a joking expression.

Wu Chao glanced at his best friend, who was only wearing a long-sleeved shirt and trousers, and retorted, "All that fat on you is like wearing an extra down jacket compared to me, of course you're not cold!"

"A lie is a lie, don't make excuses!"

Wang Xiao said with a disdainful look, then looked at the shops and pedestrians on both sides of the street, as well as the patrol police that could be seen everywhere.

"This Dachang City is really different. There are so many armed police officers. It's like we're in a foreign country."

It's no wonder Wang Xiao said that. As the country with the strictest gun control, many ordinary people in the Great Dragon Kingdom have never even touched a gun in their entire lives.

Even grassroots police officers are only allowed to carry firearms when they encounter major cases.

It's no wonder Wang Xiao was shocked to see so many fully armed police officers.

"What do you know? This is called professionalism!"

Wu Chao, on the other hand, looked excited: "The spiritual energy is reviving, and the day of change is coming. The whole earth is going to be in chaos. The stronger the military preparedness of Dachang City, the safer it is."

"It was worth the special trip we made here!"

Since encountering the terrifying sound of death in Dawu City a month ago, Wu Chao realized that the world had changed.

To be precise, many people who are sensitive to these messages have realized this.

First, Da'an City was locked down due to some kind of heavy metal pollution, and then the situation in Dawu City followed.

As someone who experienced it firsthand, Wu Chao knew all too well that a similar horrific incident had occurred in Da'an City.

The problem is even more serious, considering that so many people have died in Dawu City and it hasn't been locked down.

"I specifically asked around and found out that there is an incredibly powerful big shot in Dachang City. As long as we stay here obediently, we won't encounter any danger."

"You mean by 'specially asking someone to help'? You didn't just mean searching through posts on forums and online communities, did you?"

Wang Xiao surely knows his best friend well; with his tendency to cry and whine when dumped, how could he possibly have such connections?

Wu Chao's biggest connection is his good friend!
"What do you know? Don't underestimate the Haijiao Forum. People who frequent this circle are all big shots from various industries. If you can figure this circle out, you might become a successful person in the future."

Wang Xiao pursed his lips and said, "I don't know if we'll succeed or not, but I do know that if we can't find jobs, we won't be able to stay in Dachang City for long."

Wu Chao also felt a little melancholy upon hearing this.

He's not the only smart person in the world, and the special circumstances of Dachang City have never been a secret.

Especially after Mu Sheng single-handedly suppressed dozens of top-tier ghost tamers at the headquarters base that day, many people turned their attention to Dachang City.

Given the known resurgence of supernatural phenomena, a city with such a powerful figure in charge naturally becomes the first choice for many upper-class people to seek refuge.

These people naturally couldn't place all their hopes on Mu Sheng, but buying property or even investing in a business in Dachang City in advance was an easy choice.

As a result, prices in Dachang City have increased significantly.

What Wu Chao and Wang Xiao are currently grappling with is the irreconcilable contradiction between the ever-rising prices outside and their own dwindling savings.

"What's the rush? We're here to solve this problem, aren't we?"

Wu Chao quickly led his good buddies to a building with more than twenty floors.

Foodway Group Co., Ltd.

A few hours later, when Wu Chao and Wang Xiao walked out of the building again, they had become members of the company.

"Seriously? I have a bachelor's degree, and you want me to raise pigs?"

The interviews went smoothly for both of them, but Wang Xiao was somewhat dissatisfied with the job positions they were offered.

"I strongly suspect that the interviewer was racially discriminating against me!"

"You're being racist?"

Wu Chao was initially puzzled, not understanding where Wang Xiao's words came from. Then, after looking up and down at his friend's burly physique, he immediately understood his thought process.

Without any hesitation, I gave him the middle finger.

"Racism for someone earning $8,000 a month? I'd rather he discriminate against me a few more times!"

In this era where academic qualifications are devalued, college graduates are no longer worth much.

Those female college students with some good looks are alright; as long as they let go of the shackles of morality, there are always three ways to get rich quickly.

Those equally good-looking men also have two paths to quick wealth, and one path to a life of riches forged through hardship.

As for others, let alone 8,000 a month, there are plenty of college students willing to raise pigs for 5,000.

Stop looking so gloomy!

Wu Chao, pulling his best buddy along, headed towards the subway entrance: "To celebrate finding jobs, let's go for a massage tonight, it's on me!"

"Really? Then I'll order the 1998 set meal!"

"Holy crap! 1998? You might as well just order from me directly, I'll give you 688 at most."

"688 is fine too, then I'll take two!"

"Mu Sheng, are you planning to use supernatural powers to grow crops?"

On the top floor of the Yama Building, Wang Shanshan asked with some curiosity.

More than two months ago, Mu Sheng arranged for her, Su Lei, and Miao Xiaoshan to use several earth-attribute vengeful spirits to cultivate a large area of ​​land around Dachang City.

"Wouldn't food grown using supernatural powers cause problems for ordinary people?"

"Having problems is better than starving to death!"

"Starve to death?" Wang Shanshan was stunned when she heard this word.

Since the invention of hybrid rice, the people of the Great Dragon Kingdom have not experienced hunger for a long time.

Has it really come to this?

Wang Shanshan knew that Mu Sheng wouldn't speak without reason; if he said that, it meant the situation was already very dangerous.

"Ok!"

Mu Sheng nodded and patted Wang Shanshan's bottom to signal her to get up: "The speed of the supernatural resurgence is faster than I expected!"

Wang Shanshan obediently stood up, frowned, and hissed softly: "I remember you said before that it would be two or three years before the supernatural fully revived, so what about now?"

"Two years? A little over a year? No way, it hasn't even been a year yet?"

Mu Sheng flicked out a golden light, straightened his and Wang Shanshan's clothes, and walked to the French windows with his hands behind his back.

"If nothing unexpected happens, three months!"

"What!?"

Wang Shanshan was immediately shocked: "Three months? How could it be so fast?"

Yes! How could it be so fast?
Looking out the window, Mu Sheng had many questions in his mind.

If his memory hadn't been faulty, the paranormal resurgence shouldn't be progressing this quickly.

Since his main consciousness awakened, he has changed many plots, saved many people, and also caused many people to die because of his butterfly wings.

However, the main theme of this world is ghosts, not people, so this change is not enough to affect the process of the paranormal revival.

[Golden Ghost Prison (Level 4, 35%)] Mu Sheng glanced silently at the thousands of ghosts in the Golden Ghost Prison that had been completely digested.

Is it because of this?
It shouldn't be. For the entire mysterious resurrection world, this number of ghosts is not even a drop in the ocean.

If Mu Sheng couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. Anyway, with his strength, even if the supernatural were to fully recover, he would still have enough power to carve out a territory.

We'll deal with whatever comes our way, and we'll see what happens when the time comes!

With that thought, Mu Sheng felt no pressure anymore. He turned around and waved his hand at Wang Shanshan, saying, "Tell Su Lei and Miao Xiaoshan to go to the Caesar Hotel to run a dungeon!"

Musheng has organized this kind of event many times in the past month.

He turned what should have been a haunted place into a team-building activity venue.

Mu Sheng even planned to find more haunted places to develop into game instances after completing the Caesars Hotel game.

Just as Mu Sheng was leading his harem on a dungeon run, supernatural events around the world were escalating.

Dajiangzhou, a coastal city!

A strong cold front blew in from Mao, and the clouds over Bincheng condensed into hexagonal white crystals under its influence.

Snowflakes, as fine as goose feathers, drifted slowly down from the sky.

"It's snowing. That makes sense. It's already October, so it's about time for it to snow."

"It got cold so early this year, I thought it was going to snow last month!"

"It's only the 7th and it's already snowing, but the heating won't be turned on until the 20th. People are going to freeze to death."

At the market on Guoyuan Street, the residents of Bincheng were used to the snow in October, but they were worried about the heating problem.

There have been incidents of people freezing to death in Bincheng in the past, so the relevant departments should pay more attention to this matter.

However, the same applies to all crows; the same problems exist in this city: delayed heating, phased heating, avoiding excessive heating, and even premature termination of heating.

"Boss, three vegetable buns and two flatbreads, please."

Shen Chunhua carried several bags in one hand and took out her phone to scan a QR code with the other.

The snow fell heavier and heavier, and in just a short while, Shen Chunhua's shoulders were covered with a layer of white.

Snapped!
A hand patted Shen Chunhua's shoulder, and the old lady instinctively turned around to look.

"Who is it?"

Then there was no one behind her, or rather, no one she knew, only a few passersby.

"strangeness."

Shen Chunhua frowned and looked around, but still couldn't find the person who had patted her shoulder.

"Your vegetable bun and pancake cost seven yuan and fifty cents in total."

At this moment, the vendor's voice diverted Shen Chunhua's attention. After scanning the code to pay, the old lady left with her things.

"With such heavy snow, the temperature is expected to drop in the next two days. I should have installed an air conditioner."

As Shen Chunhua watched the snow fall heavier and heavier, she couldn't help but mutter to herself.

Summer in Bincheng is short, lasting only a month, and it's not particularly hot, so people here don't have the habit of installing air conditioning.

Even some large supermarkets do not have air conditioning installed.

Snapped!
Shen Chunhua felt someone pat her on the back again.

"Who is it this time?"

The old lady turned around, trying to grab the person who was joking with her.

However, on the street behind her, apart from the increasingly heavy snow, there wasn't a single person in sight within a few meters.

"Nobody's here? Am I just imagining things?"

Shen Chunhua looked at her shoulder and saw a clear handprint there.

The owner of the handprint should be quite thin, with slender and distinct fingers, and it looks like a woman.

"Whose kid is playing a joke on me?"

Shen Chunhua focused her gaze on a few pedestrians not far away, suspecting that someone had taken a picture of her and then run away.

He couldn't recognize any of these people, so he could only continue walking home, feeling somewhat annoyed.

This time, Shen Chunhua's pace slowed noticeably, and her eyes darted left and right from time to time, clearly paying attention to her surroundings.

Snapped!
With a soft sound, Shen Chunhua felt that familiar touch on her shoulder once again.

The old lady's eyes lit up immediately, and she turned around to look behind her.

This time, she was determined to see clearly which mischievous child was playing tricks on her.

But the next second, Shen Chunhua's expression froze.

There was still no one behind her.

But it can't be said that there was nothing at all; amidst the goose-feather-like snowflakes, a transparent human-shaped silhouette was slowly dissipating.

"Oh my god! What the hell is this thing?"

The old lady was terrified; her body went limp, and the bag she was carrying fell to the ground.

Several steaming hot vegetable buns and flatbreads were scattered all over the ground.

Even more terrifying, it seemed that her actions triggered something, and the fading humanoid outline gradually became clear again.

The originally transparent humanoid figure also gained color.

White, as white as snow, but with an added sense of deathly stillness.

In the blink of an eye, a pale and sinister humanoid figure appeared in front of Shen Chunhua.

The humanoid face lacks eyes and a nose; only a thin slit exists in the lower third of the face.

The crack continued to widen, then split open, revealing a hollow, pitch-black interior.

Under the old woman's horrified gaze, the gaps on the human-shaped face grew longer and longer, and the dark void grew larger and larger.

Until it swallowed up all of her vision!

“Plop~!”

A moment later, a headless body collapsed onto the snow.

Steaming blood mixed with melted snow flowed into the distance through the cracks in the bricks.

The blood seemed to possess a life of its own, flowing further and further along the filthy road, across the road and across the street.

Then, at a certain intersection, it merged with other blood mixed with snow and soil.

As the field of vision gradually rose, one could see thin streams of blood extending along the crisscrossing streets of Bincheng.

It looks like a giant blood-red spider web!
At each node of this blood-red spider web, there is a headless corpse, seemingly prey that has been captured, or perhaps part of the web itself.

And Bincheng is the next prey in this blood-red spider web!
Okyo City, Interpol Headquarters.

A message from Oeju Island was like a nuclear bomb exploding in the sky, shocking everyone's minds.

Two-thirds of the land north of Oezu Island has become a ghost town!

(End of this chapter)