I slay evil in the Department of the Supernatural

"Dong-ge is here! The trick you taught me about stove ash last time was so useful, I have to treat you to a meal later!"

"Dong-ge, you've done it again! Help your little sister out, will you?"

"Ah Dong, well done! You're the best among the newcomers this year. Your name will be on the list of supernatural beings sooner or later."

Inside the Department of Supernatural Phenomena, Xu Lindong smiled and nodded in response to each of his colleagues who greeted him.

"Uncle Gu, you flatter me. I still have a lot to learn from you seniors."

People are afraid of famous pigs.

Since he recently gained fame, most people in the company seem to have "suddenly" come to know him. They greet him as soon as they see him and their words are full of praise.

If it were any other young person, they would probably have become arrogant from all this praise.

Even though Xu Lindong didn't like flattery, he had to admit that the feeling of being valued was indeed quite nice.

The world is realistic, let alone the supernatural world that values ​​strength even more.

When he first joined the company six months ago, he was a nobody.

Everyone calls him "Dongzi," there's no polite way of addressing him like "Brother Dong" or "Ah Dong."

A short while later, he arrived at the Hall of Merit and saw Lu Qian waiting there.

Lu Qian, sporting big wavy curls, wore an incredibly sharp special forces uniform today, which accentuated her stunning figure.

As Xu Lindong approached, she turned around, her long hair billowing, revealing a bright smile, and greeted him:

"Here you are! Let's register your merits this time. I've already collected the two Level 3 Extraordinary Potions for you."

As she spoke, she waved the two vials of medicine in her hand.

"Two bottles of level 3 potions this time too? So many?" Xu Lindong was a little surprised and stepped forward.

"Originally, there wasn't one, but your reminder allowed the department to trace that evil cult members a second time. It's because of you that the department locked onto that underworld official twice..."

Lu Qian patted her chest and said with a smile:

"As the team leader, of course I have to fight for as many resources as possible for you."

Xu Lindong's gaze unconsciously swept over the spot that trembled slightly with the movement, then met the gaze directed at him from the other side, and he quickly straightened up and said solemnly, "Thank you, Captain!"

"What are you thanking me for? You're now one of my most capable men. Whether I can take over from Captain Jiang in the future depends entirely on you."

Lu Qian laughed without any attempt to hide her laughter.

Xu Lindong was taken aback. Could someone really say that to someone's face?

Before he could react, Director He from the Merit and Honors Department coughed and pointed to the table:

"Xiao Xu, hurry up and register your merits."

"Okay, go register first, then I'll take you to the training room!"

Lu Qian reached out and patted Xu Lindong on the back.

"To the training room?" Xu Lindong asked as he walked toward the table.

"You're going on a cleaning mission the day after tomorrow. I'm your team leader, so I need to give you some extra combat training before you go into the sinkhole area and pass on some experience to you, so you don't go in completely clueless and suffer losses."

Xu Lindong understood, bent down to sign, and accepted the 1,500 merit points. He casually asked, "Is this a team practice?"

"What routine?!"

Lu Qian rolled her eyes at him. "You have the most potential in my team. Do you think I'd let anything happen to you? Let's have a one-on-one match, and I, the captain, will personally train you!"

Xu Lindong felt a warmth in his heart and stood up with a smile, "Thank you, Captain! You've worked hard training me!"

"Stop talking nonsense and get to the training room. I won't hold back, you'll get what's coming to you later."

Lu Qian turned and left swiftly, her long hair billowing behind her, its fragrance lingering in the air.

Xu Lindong immediately followed, only sending a text message to Yi Qianxun along the way, reminding her that he wouldn't be picking her up that night, and also asking Sister Xun for a little more help.

Lu Qian is a Humanity Sequence 9 [Pavilion Chief] with formidable strength. Her spirit and energy level are at least 150. Even if the opponent doesn't use powerful sequence abilities, he is no match for her.

Moreover, she has been to the sinkhole area more than once and is now willing to share her experience and teach him how to survive inside.

Xu Lindong couldn't have been more eager for this opportunity, but he could only ask Xun Jie to suffer for the time being.

...

The training rooms of the Department of the Supernatural are all specially made, and come in two sizes.

Lu Qian had clearly booked a large training room in advance.

At this moment, only the two of them were in the spacious training room.

Lu Qian picked up the remote control and pressed a button.

The entire training room suddenly plunged into complete darkness, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. A chilling wind blew around, and a sense of oppression washed over you.

Xu Lindong was taken aback: "Captain, you're going this far? You used your merit points to exchange for the scene simulation function?"

Lu Qian's voice rang out in the darkness: "This is to let you personally experience the threat of the underground sinkhole field."

You've been inside the domain of that evil object before.

The area of ​​malevolent entities is actually more dangerous than the outer perimeter of the underground sinkhole, but it is smaller in scale, and one can escape as long as one sees through the illusion.

"The area of ​​the sinkhole is extremely large; once you fall into its depths, it could be fatal."

"The simulation function in the training room can only restore a part of the realism. In reality, the outer area of ​​the sinkhole field of the ancestral hall in the ancient town you are going to is not this dark, and there is still some visibility."

"My main goal is for you to gain combat experience in this environment..."

Xu Lindong was able to pinpoint Lu Qian's location using his intuition.

He sniffed the air, only smelling the stench of corpses carried by the eerie wind, but unable to detect her familiar scent of hair.

The scene simulation is quite realistic.

He snapped his fingers, and the stove fire suddenly lit up.

But the darkness was so thick and dark that even the firelight couldn't penetrate it, and everything beyond five meters was already a blur.

"Whoosh!"

A cigarette butt had somehow ended up in his mouth; he lit it and exhaled a smoke ring.

"good!"

A brief praise came from the darkness.

Suddenly, the sound of wind breaking came from the left!

call! !

The smoke rings dispersed into mist with a loud thud.

With his control over the "smoke from the stove," Xu Lindong almost instantly pinpointed the direction of the threat in the darkness.

Vision has failed here.

But the smoke from the stove that filled the surroundings became his eyes like countless tentacles, making it impossible for anyone to escape.

He quickly stepped back to dodge.

But before the attack from the left could arrive, a sharp gust of wind came from the right, as if he had run into the enemy's attack and brought trouble upon himself.

"So fast!"

Xu Lindong was startled; it was too late to dodge now.

He suddenly raised his hand, and the fire in the stove suddenly lengthened.

"boom!"

A ring of blazing flames formed, protecting his entire body, while simultaneously sweeping horizontally to the right.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang like a match exploding, the firelight scattered and flew everywhere, vaguely revealing the outline of a human figure.

A tremendous force slammed into Xu Lindong's palm, making his arm go numb and causing him to stagger backward.

The figure flashed and pounced again.

While parrying, Xu Lindong shouted, "Captain Lu, is it really that bad? Isn't the sinkhole area full of zombies? Zombies don't move this fast!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Lu Qian's voice came through the fierce battle:

"Was that old man slow when you ran into him at Qinglong Temple last time?"

Xu Lindong, recalling the robust old man who had forcefully crawled out of the mud, replied without stopping his work:

"He is not slow, but he is a Sequence Nine ghost. He mainly uses zombie abilities because he fears the agitation of supernatural matter."

Lu Qian's offensive intensified, using both hands simultaneously and her long legs in a cross-legged attack, causing Xu Lindong to grimace in pain.

"Real zombies aren't slow to begin with, they're just a little stiff in their joints."

Do you think they're all like the zombies in movies, wearing official robes and only able to jump around? Or clumsy and slow zombies?

Their movement routes and speeds are very unpredictable, and after advancement, they can even use ghostly steps, appearing and disappearing without a trace...

Its fangs and claws are even more deadly.

"Now that I've only simulated the force, you can't handle it?"

She had barely finished speaking when she suddenly started coughing violently, choking on a cloud of thick smoke as she spoke.

In that instant, Xu Lindong, who had been on the defensive, suddenly made a move, as if he had planned it all along.

His figure sprang up like a cheetah, his hand, covered in the firelight of the stove, slashing straight at the figure in the darkness.

"not good!"

Lu Qian was startled and was about to dodge, but her body suddenly froze.

Before anyone knew it, her legs and feet were covered in grayish-brown stove ash.

This was clearly something that was done to her when she kicked Xu Lindong with both legs.

Although she instantly dispersed the ashes with her humanitarian aura, she still took a blow to the chest.

"Bang!"

Flames exploded on her chest, sending a distinct burning sensation through her.

The scorching fire was instantly suppressed by the illusory figures emanating from her body, and Xu Lindong's palm strike was also repelled.

Lu Qian groaned and took a step back, looking down at her still slightly burning chest. Although she was not injured at all, her cheeks were slightly flushed with embarrassment and annoyance.

From the darkness came Xu Lindong's innocent question: "Captain Lu, are you alright?"

Lu Qian gritted her teeth, suppressed her emotions, flicked the ash from her cigarette, and said coldly, "You think you can hurt me with such a paltry trick? But you are indeed clever, managing to distract me with the smoke from the stove while I was talking. You do have some fighting talent..."

Xu Lindong chuckled from the shadows: "Captain Lu, you're too strong. Ordinary zombies aren't as powerful as you..."

He said this, but inwardly he breathed a sigh of relief, and his hands behind his back trembled slightly.

That touch just now... was definitely not right. He couldn't see clearly in the dark, and when he made a casual slap, he didn't expect to hit the wrong spot.

Fortunately, Captain Lu is broad-minded.

They probably...didn't take it seriously...

"Again!"

Suddenly, the sound of wind breaking came from the darkness.

This time it was even more intense and faster.

"broken!"

Xu Lindong immediately cried out in distress and hurriedly tried to defend himself.

Captain Lu is petty; he's probably holding a grudge.

...

Meanwhile, deep within a desolate, abandoned factory outside the city.

Two disheveled figures met here. One of them held a parchment scroll, wore a hood, and spoke in a chilling voice:

"It's a complete failure. If we go back like this, that Rank 6 lich from the Federation... will surely turn us into ghosts!"

The other person exuded a chilling aura, standing in the shadows as if one with the darkness, and spoke in a hoarse voice:

No, there is still a chance.

As I said, we've found that kid; there's a high probability he has something wrong with him, and the device is very likely on him.

"So what if you've locked onto your target? We're already like stray dogs; going back to Jiangcheng would just be suicide! Those captains from the Mysterious Bureau... they're not to be trifled with."

"Don't forget, we have an inside man in the company."

He just sent word that a cleaning team would be leaving the city in a few days, and that kid, who just got promoted, would be joining them to carry out the cleaning task in the ancient town.

"No!"

The hooded man suddenly turned cold. "That inside man is even more important than us. We absolutely cannot let him risk being exposed. He has a more important mission."

"He doesn't need to expose himself; he just needs to issue a normal command at the crucial moment. I can create opportunities myself!"

"Han, you're already seriously injured. Can you really handle an entire cleaning squad?"

"I only need to deal with that kid."

Wang Zhan, you go first. Go to the ghost market and find the owner of that ghost pawnshop. Agree to his conditions and get that evil object as a substitute.

Only in this way... can we have a glimmer of hope.

If I can actually find the daughter device here...

The hooded man remained silent for a few moments, then said in a deep voice, "Judging by the timeline, the strange changes in the ancient town have already begun..."

This truly is the last chance.

We had no other choice.

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