Twenty-four hours after Si Qi's death, everyone involved in the encirclement operation waited for the outcome in terrified silence.
Si Qi had said that after his death, the eerie entities he controlled would go out of control. The news Chu Yining had brought claimed that Qi Si would return after Si Qi's death—like a monster hunter cutting open a monster's body, only to release an even more terrifying monster.
Over the past half month, Si Qi had cast too much darkness over this world as an unrestrained madman and an Evil God inhuman by nature. Even though he had died so unceremoniously, people still suspected it was merely the prelude to another storm.
But gradually, the investigators discovered that nothing happened.
Aside from bringing a rainstorm brimming with spirituality, the death of a god had also severed all eerie entities from the past and future. After Si Qi was trapped in Jiang City, he had naturally lost contact with the eerie entities he controlled and had no way to trigger their effects. The so-called "loss of control" had been nothing more than a baseless threat.
As for Qi Si, although most people could not understand what sort of relationship he and Si Qi had, resurrection still required a material basis. Si Qi's body had already been smashed to pulp in the car crash; no one could see any possibility of it recovering intact.
Chu Yining's deduction had no basis whatsoever. She had likely fallen into some sort of misconception. Worse still, because she had mentioned "Lin Jue," quite a few investigators suspected that she was working with Lin Jue to spread alarmist claims and prevent the Federation's upper ranks from settling accounts with him.
The downpour finally ceased after three days and three nights, and Jiang City and its surrounding