After leaving Sunward Middle School, Jiang Chen wandered through some old alleys on the outskirts of town, hoping to meet a girl like a lilac.
No luck.
He went back into Jiangbei City and searched all sorts of secluded, sparsely populated places.
Mostly, it was because he hadn't exorcised a single ghost for a whole day since returning the day before yesterday. He couldn't muster any enthusiasm for anything, had no appetite, didn't want to look at girls or smoke, and honestly felt pretty miserable.
Unfortunately.
Apparently, in preparation for the major event coming up, the Netherworld had recently carried out a cleanup, resolving every Paranormal Incident in the city, big and small.
Jiang Chen spent half the day running around with nothing to show for it. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, so he pulled a stocking over his head, went to the Zheng Family and the Qin family, and beat up Zheng Shaoming's, Qin Ze's, and Qin Tiancheng's parents and siblings.
He felt much better when he came out.
By the time he picked up Xiaohai and returned home, the sky had just turned dark.
As soon as night fell, a notification sounded on his phone.
[The Dark Alliance is without principle. Let us slay them together.]
The publisher was the official Netherworld Jiangbei Branch Bureau account. The message was brief and to the point: effective immediately, every Unusual Person and Netherworld Messenger in the city was to drop everything and jointly hunt down the Dark Alliance members who had infiltrated the city.
Points would be awarded at five times the usual rate.
A batch of files was attached below.
After looking through a few, even Jiang Chen couldn't help feeling a chill down his spine. The Netherworld's methods were ruthless.
Until then, he