Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly of their own accord.
"So be it. He is, after all, a City God guarding one region. If I, the Mighty Martial Virtue General, do not go make contact with him, that would hardly be justifiable."
But after what had happened with the Prefectural City God, Lu Chen found it difficult to feel any goodwill toward this Li City God.
After mulling it over, Lu Chen rose and left the South City precinct, intending to return to the factory and wait for news.
Yet just as he stepped out of the office, his heart suddenly skipped a beat for no apparent reason.
Lu Chen abruptly stopped and warily scanned his surroundings.
There was clearly no one around.
Yet that strange, inexplicable feeling in his heart refused to go away.
"Feels like... someone is watching me?"
He looked left and right, up and down.
At last, his gaze settled on a tiny surveillance camera mounted on the wall by the door.
"Uh... I was wondering what was staring at me. So it was this thing."
Lu Chen laughed at himself, then quickly left the precinct.
Little did he know that, in the precinct's surveillance room at that very moment—
Within the camera footage—
The space behind Lu Chen seemed to faintly boil.
As though something was following him...
But it had not followed for long.
That strange, roiling thing came to a halt.
Then it moved in another direction...
Without looking closely, no one would have noticed its trace at all.
The Netherworld.
The sky was still shrouded in that same gray haze.
Inside the Hall of Yama.
Bang!
With a crisp crash, a wine cup was hurled viciously to the floor and shattered.
Below the hall, Xie Qingyi, Fan Rusong, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the