Paranormal Land

2024-08-11

Chapter 405 The Paranormal Land

[Paranormal] Luofeng City.

On the ground floor of a certain residential building, several people with gloomy demeanors were playing cards together. Under the enhanced vision of their spiritual energy, they could see some distorted ghosts wandering around them. They still had some human features, but they were all jumbled together in a grotesque and terrifying way.

However, despite being surrounded by such monsters, the card players showed no fear. On the contrary, the ghosts and monsters around them were cautious as they passed by, seemingly afraid of disturbing them.

At that moment, a short-haired girl with Smoky Makeup makeup suddenly picked up a cup beside her without turning her head. Just then, a gigantic monster whose head almost touched the ceiling was startled, then sent a tentacle down to the refrigerator, took out a large tub of cola, and respectfully filled the girl's cup. The girl's hand trembled slightly, spilling a little onto her hand.

"Ugh, how many times have I told you not to fill it so full! You useless thing!" the girl cursed angrily, then threw the cola at the giant monster pouring the water. With a tearing sound, the cola, like a highly corrosive acid, caused the terrifying monster to smoke and scream in agony. After struggling for a while, it dissolved into a puddle of black liquid, which then dried up and disappeared...

The other ghosts and monsters, seeing this, were terrified and fled, but they could never escape the room.

Just then, the basement door opened, and a tall, well-dressed, Bald Man walked out—it was Zhuge Lang!

"The boss is back!" Everyone else in the villa stood up to greet him. One of the young men, with long hair, took the opportunity to steal a glance at the girl with Smoky Makeup, only to be punched in the nose and squat there whimpering.

"This mission went pretty fast." The girl with Smoky Makeup stepped forward. "It's only been less than five hours... Hmm?"

The girl frowned. She noticed that Zhuge Lang's smooth head had many more wrinkles, and his skin had become much looser.

This indicates that Zhuge Lang used the Soul-Devouring Vengeful Ghost ability many times, and has aged considerably.

"Quickly?" Zhuge Lang coughed twice, and with one breath, he sucked in several ghosts and monsters in the room. Afterward, the wrinkles on his face smoothed out considerably, and although he did not fully regain his youth, his complexion improved a lot.

"What you consider fast, is quite a long time for me..."

Zhuge Lang's tone surprised the others. "What? Mission Difficulty?"

"It's not a matter of how big or small it is..." Zhuge Lang sighed, "This is a combat mission."

"Confrontation?" The girl with Smoky Makeup frowned. "Isn't that your forte? Your abilities are most efficient for killing, compared to other mission mechanics, right?"

Zhuge Lang shook his head. "One of our opponents is incredibly powerful... If it weren't for the resurrection mechanism in the mission, I wouldn't be back. Given time, the Main World might have another one Feather Transformation! No, I need to see the Apostle!"

As he spoke, Zhuge Lang opened the door to the room, and before leaving, he turned back and instructed, "Try to find out some information from Puhua Temple. Is there any newly promoted powerful figure in the Main World who wears Half-Face Mask recently?"

After saying that, he swayed and left the house.

The people inside exchanged bewildered glances, finally turning to the woman with the smoky makeup. "Xiao Yu, what do we do?"

"Didn't you hear what the boss said?" Xiao Yu sneered, "Let's get to work. Go and grab one of those guys from Puhua Temple and interrogate him!"

"But arresting them directly might expose our whereabouts..." the long-haired man who had been beaten earlier said, rubbing his nose. "If it attracts a siege from the Yuan Cultivation Society ..."

"Idiot, couldn't you have faked it as an accident!" Xiao Yu scolded, "With so many powerful ghosts and monsters, why can't a lowly Daoist priest have an accident while exorcising demons?"

... In the dormitory of the Ningdong Academy, Luo Jun, who was engrossed in cultivation, suddenly twitched his brow and awoke from his meditation.

Just now, the Master's Pendant on his chest sent a message from Ailongtan.

"My Great Master, I have been Kidnapping!"

"What's going on?" Luo Jun became alert. "Weren't you with Lu Fei and the others?"

In the relatively peaceful Main World, Cultivators rarely dare to resort to violence, especially not in Ningdong, the location of a major branch. Moreover, even if a situation were to arise, not to mention Lu Fei, Xu Yiming and Zhao Jian are not weak either.

Among Cultivators in the Main World, those at the Heart Refining Realm are one in a hundred, and those at the higher levels, the Foundation Establishment Realm, already exceed 90% of Cultivators.

"I wasn't with them..." Ailongtan replied, "During a break in the concert, I went to the restroom and then I was ambushed... Now I've been taken to a van, and I don't know where we're being taken..."

"You didn't resist?" Luo Jun asked curiously.

"I didn't dare..." Ailongtan continued, "The people Kidnapping me are all quite powerful. I know that my master's public persona is just that of a student who has just entered the Foundation Establishment Realm. I was afraid that if I resisted too fiercely, it would expose me and cause trouble for my master, so I didn't act rashly."

"Very good," Luo Jun praised. "Go with them and find out their purpose... What are the characteristics of the people Kidnapping you?"

"Characteristics..." Ailongtan hesitated for a moment, "They are all Westerners..."

"Westerners?" Luo Jun's first thought was of the Xiluo he had recently dealt with, and he suspected that Ye's identity had been discovered...

However, he immediately realized that this was unlikely. After all, he had just met with Ma Lei, and from her reaction, he could tell that Yuan Cultivation Society had not yet discovered his identity. How could the Xiluo people, who were thousands of miles away, be so efficient?

Then, he immediately thought of another possibility.

Federation!

A few months ago, at the beginning of the semester, two Federation agents searched his rented place in an attempt to find the Eternal Star that Gong Shiyue had stolen!

That's right, they're from the Federation, and most likely from the Hell Creek Family!

Those guys hadn't gotten anything before, but they were still unwilling to give up. It's just that they hadn't had a chance to act while I was at the academy, so they Kidnapping while I was out watching a concert!

This is getting interesting... Luo Jun has already obtained the Eternal Star, but it's inconvenient to bring it back to reality, so he's storing it at the Gathering Treasure Pavilion in the [Martial World]. He already knows its function: it's enough to control all life forms in all worlds infected by the Eternal Virus!

The creation of such a thing likely conceals a grand conspiracy by the Hell Creek Family, something that Luo Jun is quite interested in.

"Don't alert them yet. If possible, try to get some information out of them..." Luo Jun instructed Ailongtan using the Dominator's Necklace. "In short, don't make a move. I'm on my way!"

As he spoke, he secretly checked outside to make sure no one was watching, then quietly left the dormitory through the window...

(End of this chapter)