Coffin

The woman stood outside the door, holding a phone in each hand.

One was being used as a timer.

The other was for rapid typing.

"I'm interviewing the fifth batch. If anyone is accepted, I'll let him know immediately."

Creak~

But before she could finish typing, the meeting room door behind her suddenly opened.

Fang Qingyu smiled and held out his hand.

"Hello. I suppose I was accepted, right?"

The woman stared blankly at him. Suddenly unwilling to believe it, she stuck her head inside and took a look.

Nothing inside the meeting room had been damaged.

A group of people looked as if they had fallen asleep.

They were sitting in their chairs.

It was very quiet.

And very strange.

"I won by force. If you don't believe me, you can check the surveillance footage."

Seeing that the woman's expression was off, Fang Qingyu pointed at the surveillance camera on the ceiling.

Hearing that, the woman glanced at her phone.

Only a little over twenty seconds had passed since the recording began.

"Congratulations."

Suppressing the shock in her heart, the woman displayed an extremely strong sense of professionalism and reached out to shake Fang Qingyu's hand.

The bodyguard job was his!

By the time Fang Qingyu left the manor,

it was already evening.

As he had imagined, the main duty was to protect the target's safety during those two hours, while the secondary duty was to prevent anyone else from approaching.

However, he had not seen the target today.

He only knew that she was the daughter of the household's owner.

But whoever it was, it made no difference to Fang Qingyu.

If this job could be unlocked,

what he was most tempted by was actually the work schedule.

He could practice martial arts in the morning, work as a bodyguard in the afternoon, and hunt Life Spirits or do whatever else in the evening.

The schedule was incredibly comfortable.

Still, he would have to see what Old Jiao had to say later.

Fang Qingyu got into the car and headed straight for the bar.

The two of them were waiting for him there today.

"Fourth Brother."

Fang Qingyu was still accustomed to entering through the back door. Xiao Si was still the one standing at the entrance.

"No, no, no. Just call me Xiao Si. Brother Jiao is waiting for you in the office."

Xiao Si immediately panicked when he heard that and led Fang Qingyu toward the office.

Others might not know, but as Brother Jiao's personal subordinate, he knew a little about the situation.

"Qingzi is here. Sit!"

When he entered the office, Old Jiao and Lu Chen immediately welcomed him with smiles.

There were also several other people he did not know.

"Let me introduce you. These are the team from our chamber of commerce that hunts Life Spirits."

"Little Five, Big Foot, Mosquito, and Vajra."

Old Jiao introduced them one by one with a smile.

Fortunately, their nicknames were easy to remember too. After Fang Qingyu nodded to them, he had more or less memorized who was who.

"They've all stayed in Elite Class."

After finishing the introductions, Old Jiao added that.

That gave him a rough idea of their strength.

At the very least, they had entered the Contemplation Method.

"You all know this one, right?"

Next, Old Jiao pointed at Fang Qingyu.

Hearing that, Little Five chimed in with a smile. "That video has gone viral throughout the martial artists' circle."

"In my entire life, I've only seen two people who could kill a Life Spirit alone without cultivating the Contemplation Method."

Mosquito also nodded seriously beside him.

Seeing that everyone acknowledged Fang Qingyu's strength so thoroughly, Old Jiao clapped hard, drawing everyone's attention to him.

"Since that's settled, let's stop wasting time and get started on tonight's plan."

Old Jiao dragged over an electronic screen from the side.

He opened a map of Qingjian City.

He zoomed in on the old urban district and marked off an area.

"Today, it's our turn to patrol the area between Wan'an Street and Yifu Street in the old urban district."

"Qingzi is new, so according to the rules, I'll stay in the middle with Qingzi and Old Lu tonight. Little Five and Mosquito, you'll guard Wan'an Street. Big Foot and Vajra will stay at Yifu Street."

It was just like a sandwich.

"Once you detect Life Spirit fluctuations, everyone immediately heads to the location."

"Yes!"

The others had clearly experienced this kind of situation many times.

"Okay, let's go. Qingzi, come with me!"

With that, everyone left the office in a brisk, decisive manner.

Fang Qingyu followed closely behind Old Jiao.

"Take the radio."

Old Jiao handed him an earpiece.

"Okay."

Fang Qingyu took it and put it on.

Everyone went out through the back door and set off in three cars.

Lu Chen drove.

Old Jiao and Fang Qingyu sat together in the back.

"I didn't expect you to reach 300 kilograms of strength so quickly, so I didn't have time to tell you about many things."

"Let me first introduce you to the most important thing for hunting Life Spirits."

As he spoke, Old Jiao took out a bead from his clothing.

But it was different from a Life Orb.

It was a fist-sized bead that was particularly conspicuous, with bright light flowing across its surface.

"Its full name is the Barrier Breaker Type I Field Generator."

"It can isolate areas containing Life Spirit aura. Martial artists can only activate it and enter once they've reached the entry level of the Contemplation Method, while cultists can enter at any time."

"Inside, the world is the same as outside, but no matter how badly things are damaged within the field, it won't affect the outside."

"This is... a modern item?"

Fang Qingyu listened with a look of astonishment.

"I'm not sure. That's just what it's called. It's also a disposable item. A first-level one costs 100,000." Old Jiao did not understand the item's principles either and scratched his head.

"Understood."

After experiencing all kinds of supernatural phenomena, Fang Qingyu's ability to accept things had greatly improved.

"But..."

"This thing has another nickname."

Fang Qingyu asked curiously, "What?"

"Coffin."

Old Jiao spoke with a calm expression.

"Once the field is activated, no one who opened it can leave unless every Life Spirit inside is dead. Even if you die, as long as your corpse remains inside, the field won't be easily destroyed from within."

"But the last sentence in the Life Spirit files says to run if you encounter one you can't defeat?"

Fang Qingyu frowned.

Old Jiao and the others were all from Elite Class, so they had definitely read it.

"That sentence means that if you encounter a transcendent Life Spirit, everyone else must run without hesitation."

"You included."

Old Jiao nodded calmly and looked directly into Fang Qingyu's eyes.

"..."

Fang Qingyu fell silent.

He had previously thought that Life Spirits were merely nourishment for martial artists and cultists.

Even if they could not win, they could still run.

He had not expected it.

Hunting Life Spirits

was far more brutal than he had imagined.

"Don't be too pessimistic. We patrol low-risk areas, and the ones that appear are generally only first-level Life Spirits. It's rare for one to go out of control."

The car sped along the street.

Seeing that Fang Qingyu had remained silent the entire time, Old Jiao offered a word of comfort.

"I'm not really being pessimistic."

Fang Qingyu turned his head with some curiosity.

He had never been afraid of Life Spirits, because he had absolute confidence in himself.

"I was wondering—so many people, are they really willing to stay inside and wait to die?"

Old Jiao shook his head and chuckled when he heard that, just about to speak.

Suddenly, a voice came through the radio in all three men's ears.

"Boss, about 300 meters inside the entrance to Ziling Pedestrian Street, we've detected Life Spirit fluctuations."

"Turn around!"

Old Jiao immediately gave the order.

The tires screeched against the asphalt as Lu Chen spun the steering wheel hard.

In less than five minutes,

the car stopped outside the pedestrian street.

The crowd jostled beneath the neon signs, while all kinds of snack stalls lined both sides of the street. The atmosphere was thick with the bustle of everyday life.

"Go."

Old Jiao, who had originally been sitting in the security room flirting with women, seemed to become an entirely different person.

Without a word, he grabbed the guitar case and got out of the car first.

The three of them hurried about 300 meters forward through the crowd.

Then, amid a sudden roar from a shop beside them,

Old Jiao turned around and grabbed Fang Qingyu.

"Let's go!"