Ling Ping'an brought He Qi and followed the sound towards the factory that seemed to have been abandoned and collapsed.
Along the way, Ling Ping'an saw countless collapsed buildings.
Huge cast iron pieces fell into the weeds.
The rusty machine tools were buried in concrete, and weeds were growing all over them.
There were also countless collapsed and abandoned factories stretching into the distance.
Ling Ping'an even saw a very large parking lot ruins.
Inside, there were bicycles that had long been eroded and weathered to the point that only some wreckage was left.
One could imagine how prosperous this place was back then!
It was estimated that at least tens of thousands of people worked here.
That was more than a hundred years ago.
An industrial park with tens of thousands of workers!
It was abandoned just like that?
How determined did the cabinet at that time have to be?
What exactly happened here?
Ling Ping'an couldn't help but think.
"Could it be..."
"There was a pollution leak here?"
That was the only explanation.
More than a hundred years ago, if the industry of the Federal Empire could be described in one word, it would be 'devoid of conscience'.
And the science and technology at that time was far less developed than it was today.
Nowadays, all kinds of carcinogens, which were publicly recognized as toxic, could be added to food as additives in the past.
At that time, there was no concept of protection or anything like that.
There was also a lack of safety measures.
Therefore, it was possible that there had been a serious toxic leak here.
Thinking of this, Ling Ping'an felt relieved about many things.
The legend of the dangerous land of the Cross Slope.
Perhaps, it was a legend that the officials had deliberately created for more than a hundred years.
Because, if the officials told the people, "There's poison here, don't come here!"
It might be effective at first.
But soon, as time passed, the common people, driven by their curiosity, might continue to pour in.
If this place was rendered as a dangerous place with ghosts.
Under the deterrence of fear, the problem of outsiders entering at will could be greatly reduced.
After all, compared to the real visible danger.
Most people would be more afraid of ghosts, demons, and the like.
Moreover, as long as this legend was maintained.
Over time, the quantitative change would produce a qualitative change.
This place would cast fear in everyone's hearts.
After a hundred years, the fake would become real.
Ling Ping'an looked at the few fireflies that had always been surrounding him.
"Perhaps these little things are the victims of the poisonous substances here..."
"It's a mutated firefly …"
With this in mind, he was able to sort out all the logic and relationships.
More than a hundred years ago, a major pollution leak occurred in the Cross Slope Industrial Park.
The imperial cabinet held an emergency meeting and decided to immediately shut down the entire industrial park and set up a blockade.
At the same time, experts were sent to inspect the industrial park.
After the investigation, the experts submitted a professional report.
The report may have pointed out that there was a leak of harmful substances that would remain in the groundwater and soil for a long time.
The half-life of the substance could be extremely long.
Therefore, after some research, the cabinet came up with the plan of 'Legend of the Ominous Place'.
Drawing on people's fear of ghosts, the Cross Slope was turned into an urban legend in the capital.
Then, he used his administrative power to purposely turn the area around the cross slope into a 'funeral industry center'.
Then, he deliberately neglected the surrounding infrastructure.
It interfered with the street lights and signals.
In this way, people would naturally stay away from this place.
Without shedding a drop of blood, the government solved the problem of toxic contamination at an extremely low cost.
At the same time, he created a brand new name card for the Imperial Capital.
In this day and age, if a city did not have a famous danger zone or haunted house, it would be embarrassing to call itself an international metropolis!
Ling Ping'an, who was immersed in his own reasoning, did not care about anything in the outside world.
Or rather, he didn't care about anything here.
Until...
"Help..." He Qi's scream was heard.
The member of the poaching group turned his head and hid behind Ling Ping'an.
He seemed to treat Ling Ping'an as a meat shield.
Ling Ping'an frowned.
He didn't like people like this.
But he didn't have the time to care about this now.
The reason for that was because there was a black-robed man in front of him, and that black-robed man was currently swinging his fist at him.
"Go to hell!" The other party shouted.
Ling Ping'an frowned slightly, "Are the poaching criminals so bold now?"
"You still dare to punch in front of me?!"
He raised his eyebrows.
Then, he stretched out his hand and gently grabbed.
The other party's fist was grabbed by him. Then, he gently exerted force and threw him over his shoulder.
This was a fighting technique that Ling Ping'an had specially learned from an instructor during military training when he was in university.
And Ling Ping'an was born with divine strength.
In all these years, he had never encountered something that he couldn't move.
Whether it was a box or a sack.
He wouldn't even struggle to carry it.
Although he hadn't tested how strong he was.
However, it was naturally effortless to deal with a mere thief.
That was the truth.
Crack.
The other party was gently thrown by Ling Ping'an and fell to the ground.
Bang!
His head smashed onto the hard ground, causing the cement to crack.
Vaguely, Ling Ping'an seemed to hear the sound of bones breaking.
"I seem to have used too much strength!" He scratched his head, feeling a little regretful.
He looked at the guy who was thrown to the ground and was in a daze.
Ling Ping'an raised his head and looked ahead.
There were more than ten black-robed people there.
They should be on the same side.
Thus, he asked, "Um, where's your ancestor?"
"Call him out!"
Ling Ping'an felt that he could fight against ten of them now.
Therefore, if that ancestor still wanted to resist stubbornly, he didn't mind falling too.
A legal person.
It felt good!
However, the people in front of him were all shivering in fear.
"Sir..."
A hoarse voice said, "Ancestor, it's right under your feet..."
Ling Ping'an was stunned. He looked at the guy who had fainted from the fall beside his feet.
"This is the leader of this poaching group? The so-called ancestor? "He thought and recalled the feeling just now.
The feeling the other party gave Ling Ping'an was like a powerless drug addict who had taken drugs and damaged his body.
Therefore, with a light throw, he fell to the ground.
"That's it?"
"Have the criminals nowadays turned into comedians?" He shrugged his shoulders and looked at those people. He asked, "Do you want to be like your ancestor? Or raise your hands and surrender? "
Thus, he saw a dozen or so arms raised high in the air.
As expected, the criminals nowadays had all turned into comedians!
He sighed and took out his phone in disappointment.
He dialed the police number that he had already set up.
A moment later, the phone was connected and a sweet voice appeared on the phone.
"Hello, Imperial City Police Center..."
"Um... Hello..." Ling Ping'an said, "I want to call the police. I found a criminal group here..."
"Um..."
"There's no need..."
"Because they've already been captured by me!"
"Just send someone to collect them quickly..."
"What? Address? Oh... I think it's some cross slope here... "
Crack.
There was an exclamation on the other end of the phone.
Ling Ping'an put down the phone and shook his head. Then, he walked forward.
The people who were squatting with their hands raised and wearing black robes all looked very obedient.
However, when he passed by, everyone seemed to be extremely afraid.
Ling Ping'an walked over and saw a few people tied up with ropes in the corner.
"Hmm?" Ling Ping'an shook his head. "There's actually kidnapping..."
He looked at those people. "You're dead meat!"
Kidnapping was a felony!
According to the laws of the Federal Empire, kidnappers were not protected by any law during the crime.
In other words, anyone could kill them without having to bear any responsibility.
Thus, Ling Ping'an walked over and untied the few victims.
Then, he shook their bodies. "Hey... wake up..."
… …
"Hey... wake up..." Chu Wen heard a call in his sleep.
He slowly opened his eyes.
"Ah!" He screamed.
In his memory, he remembered that he was captured by the Yansheng School.
And the people of the Yansheng School would never let go of anyone who fell into their hands.
Their souls would be extracted and used as raw materials for talismans or as cultivation consumables.
As for their flesh, blood, tendons, and bones, they would be sold to the people of the Witchcraft Sect as feed for cultivating Gu worms.
For most people, if they fell into the hands of the Yansheng School, smart people should quickly think of a way to die.
That was because if they did not die quickly, then the Yansheng School would let them experience the most painful torture of those cruel spells in the world before they died.
It was said that the Yansheng School believed that only the incomparably painful soul before death was the best consumable.
"It's okay..."
A gentle voice sounded in his ears. "You're safe... I've saved you!"
Only then did Chu Wen open his eyes uneasily.
Then, he shivered in fear, and his entire body curled up into a ball.
The scene in front of him was too terrifying and horrifying.
Under the moonlight, a thick fog surrounded the surroundings, firmly surrounding a narrow area of about ten square meters.
A huge tiger head poked its head out of the thick fog and hung over this narrow and small area.
On the huge tiger head, three huge lantern-like eyes bloomed with an incomparably terrifying luster.
The ground seemed to have been bombarded by a missile.
The cracks that were like spider webs extended into the distance.
In the center, a person's limb was smashed onto the hard ground.
That person was smashed into pieces.
Blood, internal organs, and bones were everywhere.
But that was not the most terrifying thing.
The most terrifying thing was...
Above the severed limb, a black tentacle-like thing tightly wrapped around a grayish-white soul body.
The tentacle slowly curled.
Its head was completely open like a flower bud.
Drops of black viscous liquid dripped from the flower bud-like mouth.
It dripped onto the grayish-white soul body like nectar.
Every time it dripped, a colorless and lightless flame would ignite on the soul body.
In the flames, it was roasted until it howled miserably.
A human face screamed and wailed in pain in the flames.
When the flames gradually extinguished, the soul body had already been roasted until its body dissipated and became dim.
In the next moment...
A drop of golden liquid dripped from the flower bud.
When it fell on the soul body, it was like the legendary rain, causing the body to instantly solidify.
Then, another drop of black viscous liquid fell on the soul body.
Raging flames rose up.
Chu Wen looked at it and swallowed his saliva.
He only looked at the soul body wailing and screaming.
He couldn\'t help but shrink his neck.
He could imagine that it must be an incomparably painful and terrifying torture.
What was worse was that the strange tentacle had the ability to save the soul body at any time.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck..." Chu Wen\'s teeth chattered.
He didn\'t dare to look over there anymore.
Raising his head, he saw the figure in front of him.
The young man wearing glasses was holding a cat in his hand.
Under the cheap eye sockets was a pair of extremely dark eyes.
"Don\'t be afraid, don\'t be afraid..." he heard the young man say, "The criminals have been subdued!"
Chu Wen swallowed his saliva. He took a deep breath and calmed down.
He finally remembered why he was here?
Looking at the young man in front of him, he also remembered that he was here to look for him!
"You..." Chu Wen suddenly swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "Did you really come to the Cross Slope?"
The other party exclaimed, "You know me?"
Chu Wen lowered his head. "Young Master..."
"Didn\'t I suggest to you to come to the Cross Slope at the Yan Lou today?"
The other party was surprised. "Then what happened to you?"
"I was worried that you would be in danger..." Chu Wen sighed. "I didn\'t expect that I didn\'t recognize Mount Tai!"
At this moment, Chu Wen\'s heart was already bright.
Everything was linked together.
Why did he directly rule out the possibility that he was Master X when he met this person at the Yan Lou today?
At that time, he had no idea.
But at this moment, looking at the scene in front of him.
He understood.
It was this Master X!
He seemed to have some kind of incomprehensible domain or supernatural power.
It directly interfered with people\'s judgment, made people ignore his abnormality, and led them to another level.
In other words, if he didn\'t want others to know his identity.
Then, even if he had all the legendary characteristics.
Even if he had shown his photo to him in advance.
He probably wouldn\'t be able to recognize him in person!
This kind of supernatural power and spell that was directly based on the psychological level and mental logic was unsolvable.
So...
Chu Wen directly extinguished the thought of opportunities.
In front of such a person, he wanted to rely on simply kneeling and licking his thigh?
It was simply a joke!
Only if he was willing to give would he have an opportunity.
Otherwise, even if he stood in front of him, his understanding would be distorted and his thoughts would be changed by his supernatural power and spell.
And it directly started from the bottom of the mind.
To be honest, Chu Wen felt that the reason he was able to survive this time was probably related to his choice to come here.
Otherwise...
He glanced at everything in front of him from the corner of his eyes.
A huge tiger\'s head poked out of the thick fog.
Those three divine eyes stared intently at the people of the Yan Sheng sect.
As long as there was the slightest movement, the tiger\'s head would probably bite off their heads.
It would chew all these people into pieces.
And on the person who had been smashed into pieces, even the flesh and internal organs were mixed together. Chu Wen vaguely felt a powerful psionic power.
General!
A general was smashed to death by this Young Master X!
Not only was the person smashed to death, but even his soul was captured.
An unimaginably terrifying punishment was imposed!
So...
Chu Wen knew that if he hadn\'t come to the Cross Slope.
Then, he would probably be the same as that general.
After the body was smashed to death, the soul would be extracted.
Again and again, he would be tortured, cured, and tortured again.
Compared to the cruelty and terror of this person, the so-called torture of the Yan Sheng sect was as simple and ridiculous as a primary school student\'s game.
Thinking of this, Chu Wen lowered his head and said, "Thank you, Young Master..."
At this time, the people beside him also woke up.
They also saw the scene in front of them and were all scared silly.
The sound of a police car came from afar.
Drip, drip, drip...
For some reason, Chu Wen, who used to hate and hate the interference of the Blackguard, suddenly looked forward to the arrival of the Blackguard.
The image of the Blackguard in his heart had also undergone a 180-degree change.
He began to understand the various policies of the Blackguard.
Was the Blackguard only protecting civilians?
No!
They were also protecting all the transcendent being and foreign species!
If they really did things according to the thoughts of the transcendent being.
Then...
A low-level transcendent being like him would probably directly become a consumable of a crazy organization like the Yan Sheng sect.
Or, he would be captured and charged as a human-shaped battery and tool.
Thus, the fate of a person like him would probably be even worse than that of a commoner!
"If the use of power is not restricted... it will definitely lead to the exploitation of the weak by the strong..."
He thought of the inscription inscribed by Emperor Gaozong at the headquarters of the Blackguard.
In the past, he had always thought that he was a strong person.
But now, he realized that he was actually a weak person.
In front of the strong, he was a green leek, an energetic battery, and a human-shaped consumable.
So...
"Tomorrow, I\'ll go to the Blackguard to sign up... as a non-staff member..." he thought.
… …
Drip, drip, drip...
Sitting in the police car, Ning Qinghong looked at the thick fog on both sides.
Her psionic power could clearly sense that danger was lurking everywhere in the thick fog.
Those without permission could be mercilessly strangled as long as they stepped into the thick fog.
But now, she and her police car were unimpeded in the midst of all this.
She lowered her head and looked at the document she had prepared. She memorized the materials she had just prepared and practiced again.
"Hello... I\'m Ning Qinghong, the B-grade police chief of the Northern Road branch of the imperial city police department..."
"Thank you for your contribution to the security of the imperial city, young master!"
After practicing several times in a row, she was finally relieved.
Now, the Blackguard had some knowledge of that person.
Therefore, although they had never met, Ning Qinghong had already sketched out some of that person\'s outline in her heart.
He was a high-ranking existence with a mysterious background.
There were always countless unimaginable slaves and guards around him, carefully cleaning up the traces around him at all times.
And he himself had an incomprehensible and terrifying power!
At the same time, he also possessed unimaginable knowledge and secrets.
He would, intentionally or unintentionally, do something to reward or punish those who came into contact with him.
So...
"What will I get from this contact?"
"Reward or punishment?" Ning Qinghong thought.
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