Wucheng Night Watchmen

So far, the Night Watchmen organization had left Lu Yibai with a very unreliable impression.

In his eyes, the Night Watchmen organization was simply an improper organization where some mysterious people and demons gathered.

Up until now, he had only come into contact with three Night Watchmen.

One was KFC, one was Lin Xiaoqi, and one was little loli.

To be honest, he felt that none of them were particularly normal.

Especially Ji Dekeng!

Damn it, he had made him come guard a grave in the middle of the night, only for him to stumble into a marvelous tomb within a tomb!

The Yin energy and ghost energy inside were so dense that Lu Yibai felt rather uncomfortable for a moment.

Judging from the number of little earthen mounds here, there should be even fewer of them than the graves in the public cemetery. But why was the Yin energy and ghost energy they gave off so much denser?

Could it be...

Boss Lu was genuinely curious this time, but people were still wary of unknown things.

So he did not continue down the steps. He hesitated.

Just then, the Night Watchman Mark in his left palm reacted. The sensation was very faint, but it felt strangely familiar.

It had sensed a demon—and one Lu Yibai had encountered before!

The rat demon and the Illusion Demon!

Yes, Lu Yibai had sensed the auras of the rat demon and the Illusion Demon!

Although they were much fainter than before—so faint he could hardly compare them—it was definitely them!

He walked a few steps farther down the stairs. Instead of rashly going straight to the earthen mounds, he closed his eyes and carefully sensed his surroundings.

"Here!"

He opened his eyes and looked toward two of the little earthen mounds near the outer edge.

The auras were coming from inside them.

If nothing unexpected had happened, the corpses of the rat demon and the Illusion Demon were buried in those mounds!

Lu Yibai had previously asked Lin Xiaoqi how the corpses of those two demons had been dealt with. Lin Xiaoqi had replied, "The Assistance Department will handle it."

It seemed that Li Youde and the others had buried them here.

Now, the question was—

How had Li Youde gotten in?

The mechanism door to the underground mausoleum could only be opened after Night Watchman power was infused into it. Although Li Youde was in charge of Crow City's Assistance Department, he was an ordinary person through and through.

Could it be that he had something like a "student card" or a "bus card"?

One "beep—" and he could come and go freely.

Well, perhaps that was how it worked. He must have had some kind of pass, or it would not make sense.

With that thought, Lu Yibai boldly walked down the stairs.

An ordinary person like Li Youde had been coming and going here without the slightest concern, even digging pits and burying corpses. As a Night Watchman and the dignified Wucheng Steward, if Lu Yibai continued acting so timidly, it would be rather embarrassing.

Lu Yibai followed the stairs downward. The farther he went, the closer he came to the area of the little earthen mounds, and the more things the Night Watchman Mark on his left hand sensed!

Demons. Demons. Demons.

Demons everywhere!

Deep beneath Wucheng Public Cemetery, a large number of demons were buried!

If nothing unexpected had happened, the countless demonic remains here had all been left behind by demons executed by successive Wucheng Night Watchmen!

No wonder the Yin energy and ghost energy here were so dense. The things buried here were not ordinary people at all!

He understood now why the ghost energy and Yin energy released after Ghost Sha dispersed had quietly been drawn here.

This was a burial ground for demons, as well as a place to contain the remains of dispersed ghosts!

The runes on the walls were meant to absorb and suppress those things!

Perhaps it was precisely because so many demonic remains were buried here that, even though their flesh and blood might have already vanished, the faint pressure still affected the low-level demon Ye Yiyi.

That was probably why she had felt afraid.

At the very center of the entire cemetery, there was a path paved with bluestone slabs.

Lu Yibai followed the path. The farther inward he went, the more things the Night Watchman Mark in his left palm sensed, and the stronger the sensation became!

Normally, whenever he encountered a demon, the most his left palm would feel was a slight warmth.

But now, he even felt a burning sensation!

There were too many. There were simply too many demons all around him!

Even if they were only remains, and the demonic power he sensed was not even one-tenth of what it had been in life, their sheer number was enormous!

Moreover, it was obvious that the farther inward he went, the stronger the buried demons became!

The rat demon and Illusion Demon Lu Yibai had personally dealt with had been buried at the very outer edge. They were not even qualified to be buried in the inner circle.

Following the bluestone path, the burning sensation in Lu Yibai's left palm grew stronger and stronger.

The earthen mounds before him were clearly becoming fewer. There were far fewer in the inner circle than the outer circle, yet the demonic power there was so vast!

It was clear that the demonic remains buried in the inner circle had been incomparably powerful in life!

Moreover, it was obvious that the demons granted the exceptional privilege of being buried here could not have been demons like Ye Yiyi who lived harmoniously with humans!

They were the kind that had been personally dealt with by the Night Watchmen!

Lu Yibai had only walked halfway, but the ghost energy and Yin energy surrounding him were already more than a hundred times denser than those in the public cemetery outside!

Without suppression, it would indeed have been easy for something to go wrong.

"Strange. They're dead already, and there are still ranks?" Lu Yibai grumbled inwardly.

He did not think the Night Watchmen organization had gone out of its way to rank the demons and bury them accordingly.

Taking responsibility for killing and burying them was already generous enough. Surely they would not say, "You were stronger in life, so I'll give you better treatment and bury you in the inner circle"?

Perhaps there was some other reason.

Could it be that the farther inward one went, the stronger the suppressive force became?

As he followed the bluestone path farther into the inner circle, he sensed something unusual in his Night Watchman Mark.

Apart from the intense burning sensation, a coolness also surged into him.

Could this be the legendary... ice/fire/two/heavens?

All right, Lu Yibai knew very well that the cool sensation was appearing because his Night Watchman Mark had sensed something else.

What it sensed was—the surrounding Night Watchman power!

Yes. Apart from demonic power, the Mark had also sensed Night Watchman power!

Although they did not come from the same lineage, they could be said to have reached the same destination by different paths. That sensation was intimate and familiar.

Lu Yibai walked forward step by step. He moved more and more slowly, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

Before him was already the innermost circle.

If the entire cemetery was a circle, then he had already approached its center.

He did not need to enter to know what lay inside.

The remains of the Wucheng Night Watchmen's predecessors!

Surrounded by demons, the remains of those predecessors silently guarded the very center!

Those buried inside might have been human Night Watchmen or demon Night Watchmen.

The inner circle still held one little earthen mound after another. The difference was that each mound had a gravestone in front of it.

Lu Yibai hesitated for a long time. After taking a deep breath, he bowed slightly, then stepped inside.

He looked at the first gravestone. Unlike ordinary gravestones, it did not have a name or a date of birth and death written on it.

The second one was the same.

The third one was the same.

Lu Yibai went all the way around, but not one gravestone had the predecessor's name or date of birth and death written on it.

Were they nameless?

Of course not!

They had all once had names and surnames! And they had all once been the most powerful beings in Wucheng!

Every gravestone bore only five solitary characters:

—Wucheng Night Watchmen!!

(P.S. First update.)