The immortal is beside me

Chapter 20 Enemy
This question has been bothering her since the first day she learned about the existence of the supernatural.

According to what Li Yulan said at the meeting, Zhou Qing had never used any extraordinary means before, but a month ago he suddenly killed several evil cultivators passing through Liangzhou. That was why he came into the sight of the Environmental Sanitation Bureau.

Based on her impression of Zhou Qing, he was the type who would rather sit than lie down, appearing sleepy all day long. Even if he truly possessed immense power, it was hard to imagine him going out of his way just to attack a few passing evil cultivators.

"They weren't just passing by." Zhou Qing shook his head and answered under her surprised gaze, "They came here for me."

"At the time, I was about to go to the duty office on the outskirts of the city to get a stamp. When I reached a deserted spot, those people suddenly appeared around me. There was a clear malicious intent in them. They must have been targeting me from the beginning."

He suddenly felt malicious intent, so he glanced at those people from a distance. The moment their eyes met his, the attackers' minds collapsed, their spirits shattered, and their souls scattered on the spot.

"And then you killed them." Qin Jiajia whispered. After this period of beating, she was no longer overly sensitive to "killing" and only focused on the matter itself. "Could there be someone else behind these people?"

"Maybe." Zhou Qing did not comment.

Ever since he faded out of the world of immortal cultivation, there have been many people in this world who want to find him, countless of them with good intentions and quite a few with bad intentions.

Judging from the way those people acted, they must be enemies - but he could be said to have enemies all over the world in his life, many of whom he had never even heard of. If he made a list of the names of those who wanted to kill him, the number of words would probably be enough to write a complete set of "Twenty-Four Histories".

But if you open this set of history books and look for someone who is equally powerful, the search results will show that there is no such person.

Although his mind was still unstable and not at its peak, this didn't have much impact on the search results. He was too lazy to look through the list of enemies for such a trivial matter.

"Perhaps? You're being targeted! Aren't you afraid they'll find out your location and send someone to secretly attack you?"

Qin Jiajia seemed much more anxious than him: "Shouldn't we quickly investigate the mastermind behind this and take them down before it's too late?"

"If I were a few hundred years younger, I would probably do as you said."

Zhou Qing leaned back on the stone chair, one hand on the backrest, and said, "But I have more important things to do right now. It would be too troublesome to get entangled in this matter. It's better if they don't come to bother me. I'll kill them when they come."

"Something more important?" Qin Jiajia was startled. What could be more important than finding the mastermind behind this? Could it be related to the "great changes in the world" he just mentioned? Or...
"There's a chess tournament in the neighborhood next week. They pushed me to participate, and I have to practice with others these two days."

Can this be put together?!

Qin Jiajia had a mouthful of complaints stuck in her throat. She looked at the paralyzed figure of the old man in the chair in front of her, and felt that her dead memories were gradually reviving, and the long-lost evaluations were returning again.

He had indeed turned into a capybara.

I would only get up occasionally to slap the mosquitoes around me, then turn over and continue lying down.

"It's not going to work this way."

She held it in for a long time, but couldn't help but want to pull the capybara: "I know you are very powerful, but they say that those who are good at swimming drown in the water, and those who are good at fighting die in the army. If you don't take it seriously, what if you get ambushed one day?"

"I've seen many cases in the bureau where masters were caught in a loophole due to negligence. Some were even killed by those with lower cultivation levels. Some were seriously injured or even killed!"

Zhou Qing looked at her and realized that what she said was correct.

Back when he was still at the Jindan stage, a Yuanying cultivator came seeking revenge on him. After several chases, he finally caught him by surprise and killed him with a single blow. After killing him, he followed the trail back to the cultivator's sect and executed the entire clan within a single day.

He used the Golden Elixir to kill the Nascent Soul, used the Nascent Soul to kill the Spiritual Transformation, used the Spiritual Transformation to kill the Void... He did a lot of similar things.

Over time, all the major forces reached a consensus - be careful about killing people of higher levels.

"To be on the safe side, we should check the other party's movements and at least find out where they come from! Otherwise, no one can guarantee that there won't be any unexpected situations."

Qin Jiajia continued to speak tirelessly. As she spoke, she seemed to be frightened by her own words. Her expression grew more serious, and she seemed to be genuinely worried about his safety.

She was always like this, always maintaining a sense of crisis, never resigned herself to anything unless she was absolutely certain. "In that case, then you can help me check it out."

"Help you check?" Qin Jiajia was stunned, obviously not expecting Zhou Qing to say this out of the blue. "I can indeed apply to check the monk database in the bureau. But I just joined the company not long ago, and I can't read high-level files."

"It's not you, it's you all." Zhou Qing said, "Didn't the Environmental Sanitation Bureau send you here this time to ask me what I need? Report this matter and let them investigate it separately for me. That way, you can get your job done."

"???"

Qin Jiajia was stunned. Is this possible?

If the Environmental Sanitation Bureau wants to start an investigation, it must go through at least three levels of approval, from the department to the province. If the level is higher, it must be reviewed by the headquarters leaders. A slightly larger project will involve various departments in the city and tens of millions of funds.

However, when Zhou Qing said this, his tone was as if he was asking someone to get some onions from the vegetable market, and his words sounded like it was a matter of course.

Are all of you cultivators so casual?

Qin Jiajia was silent, and for a moment she even doubted whether there was something wrong with the world she understood.

"It's almost time. Let's go report back to those people from the Environmental Sanitation Bureau." Zhou Qing threw the empty plastic cup into the trash can. "I'm going back to sleep too."

After he finished speaking, he stood up and pretended to walk towards the park gate, just like every time they agreed to take a walk together and finally parted ways.

Qin Jiajia stood there in a daze for a long time, but in the end she had no choice but to follow in his footsteps, saying nothing all the way.

A quarter of an hour later, traffic control within a ten-mile radius centered on Liangzhou Park was lifted, and thousands of restricted sky eyes returned to normal authority. The roads that were once red on the real-time monitoring map all turned green within a few minutes, and traffic on the city's highways began to surge again.

The sound of speeding cars crossed the road, and several official-licensed cars were sandwiched in the rolling traffic, rushing towards the direction of the Environmental Sanitation Bureau.

Two hours later, at the Environmental Sanitation Bureau building.

".Help him investigate the origins of the evil cultivator who attacked him earlier?"

Li Yulan leaned against the corridor, listening to the report from her subordinates, her expression subtle.

Due to the failure of several previous negotiations, she did not have high expectations for Qin Jiajia's actions this time, but she did not expect that major progress would occur like this.

Zhou Qing's willingness to raise his concerns with the Environmental Sanitation Bureau was a significant sign that he harbored no ill will toward the authorities. With these words, at least hundreds of people within the bureau could finally sleep soundly.

This is the right of the strong. When he asks for help, it is the one who provides the help who should be grateful.

In addition, the attitude he displayed in the negotiations is also worth savoring.

It is nonsense to expect a powerful immortal who has lived for thousands of years to develop deep feelings with others in just a few years. But at least he has shown kindness to Qin Jiajia, which shows that he is not an extremist who treats mortals as grass. This is another layer of insurance.

Regardless of what he had done in the past, at least he was now a gentle, non-confrontational, and friendly person. For the authorities, this was already the best outcome.

The only remaining question was whether he had any conflicts with other immortal cultivation forces. This required further indirect investigation.

"Captain Li, the interrogation with Commissioner Qin is over." The subordinate who was walking towards him reported in time.

"Okay." Li Yulan withdrew her thoughts and walked towards the interrogation room.

She has already thought about her next step.

(End of this chapter)