The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

Wu You strolled through the clouds, his right palm facing upwards, with wisps of pure white or silvery-white energy swirling and gathering on his hand. His gaze pierced through gaps in the clouds, overlooking the entire city of Dayun.

In Dayun City, the cleansing operation is proceeding in an orderly manner.

At each of these gathering points, large numbers of wild ability users were continuously sent in.

Furthermore, the Daiyun City Investigation Bureau is very effective in allocating its manpower.

By this point, the operation to clean up the furnace had been underway for nearly two hours, but their support team had not received a single request for help.

The Dayun City Investigation Bureau can basically handle those wild ability users clearly and efficiently using its own resources.

The reception room on the first floor of the Da Yun City Investigation Bureau building.

A man wearing a black trench coat with a gold badge and slightly sparse hair on his head was sitting in a chair.

He was relaxed, leaning back in his chair with one leg crossed over the other, holding a freshly brewed cup of hot tea with wisps of steam rising from it.

In front of him stood a dozen or so men and women dressed in various colors, some in suits and ties, others in casual clothes, clearly brought from different places.

Lin Manteng, with her long green hair, and Li Liebiao, with his bald head, were also among them. At this moment, the specially made handcuffs on their hands had been removed.

Clearly, almost all the prominent and well-known wild ability users in Dayun City are currently in this room.

Liu Musheng slowly picked up his teacup, blew on it, and then leisurely glanced at the dozen or so people standing in front of him.

"As sixth- or even seventh-tier ability users, you must have been awakened for quite some time."

Liu Musheng placed the teacup back on the table, making a soft clinking sound: "Regarding the matter of colluding with the corpse race..."

What are your thoughts on this?

His tone was very flat.

Upon hearing this, Li Liebiao, standing in the crowd, spoke up almost without hesitation.

"Who! Who colluded with the zombies?!"

"Director Liu, tell me, our New Leaf organization will be the first to not let him off the hook!"

As he said this, his face was filled with righteous indignation, and his eyes blazed with the flames of justice.

After he finished speaking, a group of men in black suits with leaf patterns immediately echoed in unison, "Our New Leaf Organization will be the first to not let him off!"

Lin Manteng, standing to the side, glanced at it and sneered, a hint of undisguised mockery on her lips, as if she were watching a group of clowns putting on a show.

Seeing this, the Minister of External Relations, one of the four ministers of the New Leaf Branch of Dayun City, who was standing to Li Liebiao's right, stepped forward.

"Lin Manteng, what are you laughing at! What right do you have to laugh!" His voice was shrill. "You're not the president anymore!"

"Now! Lord Li Liebiao is the president of the Dayun City branch! Remember your place!"

Li Liebiao didn't stop her, he just looked at Lin Manteng with a smile.

That smile hanging beneath his bald head looked unsettling no matter how you looked at it.

He added, "What, Miss Lin, do you have a problem with what I just said? Or are you—the one Director Liu referred to as 'colluding with the zombies'?"

Lin Manteng was immediately disgusted and retorted without any politeness.

"Although I don't know how you broke through to the seventh rank."

"But, being treated like a dog isn't pleasant, is it?" She paused, narrowing her eyes. "Oh, wait, whether it's even human is another matter—"

"You agree, right, Chairman Lee?"

Upon hearing this, Li Liebiao's smile vanished, and his smiling face instantly transformed into a cold mask.

A cold glint flashed in his eyes: "A defeated opponent can only remain here..."

Seeing this, Liu Musheng smiled.

He raised his hand, palm down, and gently pressed it down.

Seeing Liu Musheng's action, Li Liebiao immediately stopped talking.

Liu Musheng seemed to ignore the conflict between the two, and continued speaking as if he hadn't heard anything: "Of course, I am happy to believe you all. After all, you are all prominent figures in Dayun City."

He paused, then slightly changed the subject.

"But the necessary checks are still essential. After all, there are regulations from the bureau."

He paused for a moment, his gaze sweeping over everyone present once more.

"Coincidentally, a new batch of equipment also arrived at the bureau."

"It can check the aura of the Corpse Species on each person."

As he spoke, he clapped his hands, and two crisp applause echoed in the reception room.

The door was pushed open.

Two torchbearers with bronze badges carried in an instrument that was entirely silver and resembled a door frame.

The instrument is about two meters high and one meter wide, shaped like an arch, and its silvery-white metal surface gleams coldly under the light.

Liu Musheng stood up from his chair, walked to the instrument, and patted the silver-white metal frame.

"Don't worry, everyone. This instrument is very accurate."

"If it's just a chance encounter with a zombie, or a few zombies that you happen to kill, there won't be a false positive. After all, everyone here is a high-level ability user. Who hasn't killed a few zombies? That little bit of residual aura simply doesn't reach the detection threshold of this instrument."

He turned around, facing the crowd, with a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth.

"Only those who spend a long time with the Corpse Species, or who absorb energy stones containing the Corpse Species' aura, will trigger a reaction from the instrument."

Upon hearing Liu Musheng's description, a hint of gloom flashed in the eyes of everyone except Lin Manteng and the other two sixth-level ability users.

He took in everyone's expressions.

He smiled slightly and then tilted his head towards the instrument.

"Come on, everyone."

The room fell silent for a moment. A dozen people stood there staring at each other, no one moved, no one spoke, and even their breathing became lighter.

Then, Lin Manteng stepped forward.

"I'll do it."

All eyes immediately turned to her.

She was wearing a somewhat tattered dark gray women's suit, with scorch marks still visible on the sleeves, and a makeshift bandage wrapped around her arm. Her long green hair was loosely draped over her shoulders.

She walked towards the silver detection device without pausing or even glancing at it.

She strode over and walked through the silver-white archway as if she were passing through an ordinary door.

The moment her figure passed completely through the instrument, the instrument remained silent, without making a sound, and the indicator light did not light up.

No abnormalities occurred.

Liu Musheng nodded, his expression showing no surprise: "Miss Lin has no problems."

then.

"I'll do it."

"I'll do it."

The two sixth-tier ability users with clear, unwavering eyes also stepped forward and quickly passed through the detection device, one after the other.

There was still no response.

Liu Musheng nodded again and looked at the group of people who had not yet been tested.

However, no other ability user dared to step forward after that.

The remaining people stood together, looking at each other in silence. There was no verbal communication between them; only their eyes met and collided in the air.

Liu Musheng wasn't in a hurry either. He just watched them quietly. He even sat back down in his chair, picked up the cup of tea that had cooled down a bit, and took a sip.

Time passed by, second by second.

The air in the reception room grew increasingly heavy.

A moment later, finally.

One person gritted his teeth and stepped forward.

"I'll do it."

He took a deep breath and strode toward the silver detection device.

He walked very fast, almost like he was running, as if he could dodge something if he was fast enough.

The moment he passed through the detection device, the instrument made no sound and the indicator light did not light up.

Everything was quiet, as quiet as if nothing had happened.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, his shoulders relaxed almost imperceptibly, and his lips parted slightly, as if he wanted to exhale the breath that had been stuck in his chest.

Seeing this, Liu Musheng's smile widened even further.

then.

Beep be ...

A sharp beeping sound rang out in the reception room, and at the same time, the indicator light on the detection device lit up.

The fireworks club president, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly had his pupils shrink.

His eyes were wide open, his eyeballs bulged slightly, and the blood vessels in his eye sockets became clearly visible in an instant.

His lips began to tremble violently, and all the color drained from his face.

"Director Liu, I accidentally absorbed the energy stone that carried the aura of the Corpse Seed!"

"It was completely accidental!"

"I didn't collude with the zombies! I really didn't!"

His voice grew louder and more urgent.

Liu Musheng smiled.

He didn't speak, but simply raised his hand to adjust his glasses. Behind the lenses, his eyes were as calm as a stagnant pool, without any ripples.

then.

A transparent, colorless flame ignited from beneath the feet of the Fireworks Branch Minister.

The flame was silent, colorless, and invisible. If it weren't for the cracks appearing on the floor tiles beneath the minister's feet, or the sudden rise in air temperature, it would have been difficult to detect its existence.

The flames were like the wind, an invisible, scorching wind, rising silently and irresistibly from the minister's feet and enveloping his entire body.

"ah----!!"

The head of the fireworks division let out a final scream.

His body trembled violently within the transparent flame, like a leaf swept up by a gale.

The scream lasted for less than half a second before it abruptly stopped.

then.

He was burned to ashes.

A living, breathing sixth-tier ability user was reduced to a pile of grayish-white powder with no discernible shape in less than two seconds.

The pile of grayish-white powder lay quietly on the floor tiles, and the reception room was extremely quiet.

Then, a gust of wind blew in from somewhere, gently brushing over the pile of powder, lifting it up and swirling it in the air for a moment before drifting toward the half-open window on one side of the reception room.

The powder drifted further and further away, becoming more and more scattered, until it finally disappeared into the light outside the window and into the afternoon air of Dayun City.

In less than two seconds, a sixth-tier ability user was reduced to ashes, leaving no trace of his body.

Liu Musheng shifted his gaze from the pile of ashes that no longer existed and returned it to the remaining people.

"It seems there are still some dishonest children."

He took another sip of tea, then looked past the top of his glasses at the remaining people who had not yet passed the test.

"Who's next?"