Grand Gesture

Judging by past occurrences, the ghosts inside the Lion Umbrella were truly weak. Every time it popped out to act up, it had to spend quite a long time before it could appear again.

Obviously, the Lion Umbrella was an extraordinary magical artifact, and at least the Yang energy inside it was abundant enough to suppress the ghosts firmly.

Perhaps because this place was a cemetery, however, the Yin energy and ghost energy were relatively plentiful, causing the ghosts' vitality to recover faster. Scarcely had a few days passed, and it was acting up again.

Clearly, it was still very weak, because this black figure flickered in and out, and was very blurry and chaotic, just like a layer of... pixelation.

It pointed downwards, as if hinting to Lu Yibai that there was more to this small bungalow than met the eye, with hidden depths beneath.

Lu Yibai looked at it, and after a moment said:

"Oh."

Then, he went back to doing whatever he was doing.

You say it's down below just because you say so?

Heh, I don't believe you!

Could I possibly trust you?

Every single time you pop out, you're just trying to scare me. Trust between you and me? Non-existent.

He even suspected whether the ghost had pointed with the wrong finger, and that it should have been a thumb-down instead of an index-finger-down. It was probably trying to mock him: "You really suck!"

The ghost watched Lu Yibai, who no longer paid any attention to it. Its black figure flickered a few times, just like a laggy video, sometimes dissipating and sometimes gathering, stuttering along.

A few seconds later, due to exhaustion, it helplessly dissipated.

It looked somewhat angry.

To be honest, this small bungalow was built by the Night Watchmen organization to provide a place for newcomers to rest.

Even if it truly had some special nature, it was intentionally arranged by the Night Watchmen organization, and it probably wasn't a bad thing.

Since it wasn't a bad thing, well... what the hell did it have to do with me?

Boss Lu's curiosity wasn't particularly strong, and he always maintained vigilance toward this ghost.

After all, careful sails last ten thousand ships.

The first time it appeared in a dream, it said: You're awake.

The second time it appeared in a reflection, it played finger-guessing with you.

The third time, the fourth time...

Anyway, not once was it serious.

However, Lu Yibai indeed had some inkling now.

This small bungalow was built by the Night Watchmen organization. Even if there really was a secret, he had to think about it according to the conventional methods of the Night Watchmen organization.

What did the Night Watchmen organization rely on to hide within the city?

Mechanisms!

Yes, mechanism arts were a major reliance!

Whether it was the Answer Bar or the Magic City's Night Watchmen branch office, all of them concealed mechanisms.

It was just that the mechanisms of the Answer Bar had been taken out by Boss Lu to use as a business gimmick, drawing in a wave of customers.

Lin Xiaoqi had told Lu Yibai that buildings related to the Night Watchmen across the country all possessed mechanisms to varying degrees.

Then what about here?

Idle is idle, so Lu Yibai started searching around.

He treated it as playing an escape room.

He gathered the energy light spots in his body into his eyes to see if there were any marks or the like.

Then, he saw a small arrow on the wall beside the toilet. The small arrow pointed to a circle, resembling a button, as if prompting: Come on, press me! That's right, just press here!

Damn it, was it really written so explicitly?

If he'd known, he would have used the energy light spots in his body to take a look earlier.

With such a blatant label, it shouldn't be any kind of forbidden area, right? This was completely informing all Night Watchmen.

Since that was the case, he might as well press it and see.

Before pressing, Lu Yibai didn't forget to first pick up the Lion Umbrella in the corner.

Bring the weapon along first; it gave a greater sense of security.

With an umbrella in hand, one could poke through anything in the world!

After he gently touched the dot, there was no reaction whatsoever. But when he slightly mobilized the little light spots in his body, that dot instantly lit up.

Then, a series of mechanical sounds rang out. They weren't particularly noisy, but could still be clearly heard.

Two meters away from Lu Yibai, a passage that wasn't very wide appeared, and this passage—

Led underground!

How awkward...

It really was fucking down below!!??

Lu Yibai stood at the entrance of the passage and could sense that the ghost energy and Yin energy below the passage were at least ten times more concentrated than outside!

Even dozens of times!

And this concentrated ghost energy and Yin energy gathered steadily deep in the earth like this without leaking out.

Well, it was as if something possessed leak-proof side guards.

He temporarily didn't know what was inside, but he could be certain that after he killed the ghost sha earlier, a large portion of the ghost energy and Yin energy gathered on the ghost sha should have poured into this place.

Inside was like having a vacuum cleaner, sucking in all of this overly concentrated ghost energy and Yin energy.

How bizarre!

Such a proper newcomer trial ground, why would it still have this kind of hidden door?

Lu Yibai felt that this hidden door wasn't prepared for newcomers; he suspected that the Night Watchmen organization simply found it troublesome, so they built the newcomer rest area right alongside it.

Walking down the stairs, it wasn't like in the movies where a candle was lit every distance one walked. They were just very ordinary steps, and they didn't even fucking install electric lights.

However, Lu Yibai's current physique far exceeded ordinary people's; even at night, his vision wouldn't be affected too much.

The stairs were very long, much longer than anticipated, making him unable to figure out where they led.

I feel like this pit was dug extremely deep! Boss Lu thought to himself.

After walking for a long time, Lu Yibai finally reached the end of the stairs.

It was no longer a narrow passage, and his line of sight suddenly opened up quite a bit.

At the dome, there was a huge object resembling a night-luminous pearl that emitted a dim glow, serving the function of a light bulb.

Should he pry it off? It might be very valuable...

Lu Yibai had initially thought it was a small secret room, but he hadn't expected the underground to be so huge!

Yes, it was about as large as the cemetery above ground!

It was like the first underground level of the cemetery!

He looked at the wall, which was relatively close. Engraved on it were lines of Taoist talismans, concealing Night Watchman power within them.

Every single Taoist talisman was written using energy light spots!

Densely packed, truly densely packed!

He sensed them slightly; although he couldn't understand these Taoist talismans, the Night Watchman power within them was extremely surging.

To his shame, with Boss Lu's current strength, if he were to draw this kind of Taoist talisman, his power would be completely exhausted after doing two or three at most.

And just how many mysterious Taoist talismans were there here?

They were simply countless!

And this was just a single wall!

What the hell kind of place was this? What a grand gesture!

He continued walking forward, only feeling that the surrounding Yin energy and ghost energy were growing increasingly concentrated.

Oddly enough, however, no ghosts had formed here!

That defied reason!

Could it be that they were suppressed by the golden Taoist talismans on the walls?

Walking for about five minutes, Lu Yibai came to a halt.

By the time he walked up to this point, he could see with exceptional clarity.

Before him lay another flight of stairs leading downwards. Gazing down, he could see small, bulging earthen mounds one after another.

The number of small earthen mounds was huge, completely no fewer than the graves in the cemetery.

"Wait, graves?"

Lu Yibai drew a sharp breath.

If a tombstone were erected in front of every single earthen mound... how would that differ from a graveyard?

Beneath the cemetery of Crow City, there was yet another pile of graves!

This was...

--A grave within a grave!