Chapter 91: Chapter 91: All Upgraded, Heading to the Wilderness

The Investigation Bureau’s investigations and searches have already resulted in a relatively mature pattern.

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There might be slight differences in various places, but they are generally the same.

In places like Baijiang, there are always investigators patrolling, patrolling different areas, and paying special attention to those remote and rarely visited places.

Sites like abandoned buildings, garbage dumps, and under bridges… areas like defunct amusement parks and schools are also key areas for the investigators to patrol.

If a powerful Mysterious Evil were to emerge, investigators would most of the time detect it promptly… A powerful Mysterious Evil has a wide range of influence, and once it enters busy public areas or residential neighborhoods, it becomes a disaster, but also easier to discover.

Common Mystic Evils are different.

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It relies on the coordination of different departments that promptly report any anomalies, which are then summarized, analyzed, and judged by the Investigation Bureau.

An area’s official investigators might not be numerous, but there is a large number of staff working behind the scenes and assisting, with many of the trainee investigators being selected from these people.

Through numbers and experience, this is how the Investigation Bureau investigates.

But many times, the discovery of abnormal events also means… that an incident has already occurred.

Baijiang being awarded the title of the safest city in the country, Director Huang wasn’t the first to consult them, nor would he be the last.

Ember probably has a special means of searching, but Ember is only special in finding people or mysterious creatures.

There are limits to everything.

No matter how strong, in the grand scheme of things, it is still negligible.

Director Zhou’s private phone suddenly vibrated, displaying a text message from a sender with garbled code.

“Spam message?”

“How could I possibly receive spam messages on this number.”

He opened it to see.

There were no words, just several images.

Director Zhou recognized at a glance that these were maps of Baijiang City, North River City, Qingshui City, and Lindong City, but what was different were the glaring red dots marked on them.

There were very few red dots in Baijiang City, just a handful.

But the other three cities, especially North River City, had a not insignificant number of red dots, some shockingly so.

This is…

Director Zhou’s brow raised, and he suddenly spoke up, “Old Huang, how many Common Mystic Evils do you still have unhandled in Jiangbei right now?”

“How could there be any unhandled ones? If we find them, we’ve already banished them long ago. It’s just that some are hard to find… Ah…”

“So you mean to tell me, at Wealth Plaza in your Tianshui District, on the second floor, in the ladies’ restroom, the very last stall… get someone over there fast!”

Could a place with still quite a bit of foot traffic like Wealth Plaza be harboring Mystic Evils?

Though Director Huang was skeptical, for safety’s sake, he still sent an investigator to check.

Fortunately, there was a female investigator nearby.

It wasn’t long before,

on the video call, Director Huang’s expression was peculiar as he glanced at Director Zhou.

How can you be so precise, down to the exact toilet stall in the ladies’ restroom?

Director Zhou wanted to know the answer to that question too.

…

Director Zhou’s special number, naturally, came from An Jianyou.

Having sent those few maps, Fang You didn’t bother with it any further.

How to handle it was the Investigation Bureau’s own business. He believed that with this intelligence, at least the number of common people in the surrounding cities who had died at the hands of Mystic Evils would be much fewer.

That was enough for him, and he felt at ease.

He no longer cared about ordinary Mystic Evils – such creatures that only provided 0.3 or 0.4 destiny points weren’t worth his attention, even those within Baijiang City. Going out for half a day could only yield two or three kills.

Better to spend that time on training.

This mission required venturing into the wilderness outside the city.

Fang You opened the game interface.

‘Destiny Points: 185.9’

‘Mystic Crystals: 182’

The sixth card draw was not far off, and upgrading the map range to Level 4 was also coming soon.

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After practicing his swordsmanship for a while longer, Fang You stepped out of the base, to see Black Pupil engrossed in reading novels once more as he exited the door.

Unfortunately, despite the many days that had passed, he had still not managed to teach it to write novels.

This cat wasn’t particularly bright.

Black Pupil: “(￢_￢)”

It twisted its bottom and turned its back on Fang You, continuing to stare intently at the computer.

Just then, a newly spawned little Mystic Evil crawled in through the window and made its way toward a nearby statue.

Black Pupil meowed impatiently, turned its head, and a flash of light burst from its pupils, glaring fiercely!

The little Mystic Evil, as if struck by a massive hammer, revealed its true form, and in the next second, burst apart with a loud boom, dissipating into smoke.

Not bad.

Since Black Pupil is still working, I won’t activate the anti-addiction system for it.

Fang You walked up to the faceless statue, crouched down to take a close look, and used ‘Mysterious Evil Tracking’ and ‘Detection’ to continue fiddling with it, still unable to figure anything out.

The only information detected was the four characters ‘faceless statue’.

Unable to figure anything out, let alone the statue’s second ability, this was really beyond the scope.

It’s better to just stick to the game.

‘Faceless Statue’

‘Mysterious Storage: 15.1’

Seems pretty fast?

He checked Black Pupil’s panel again, the magic claw picked up this silly cat and brought it in front of the faceless statue; the cat’s face of resignation was opposite the cut-off face of the statue.

Slap~!

Face-to-face guidance!

The faceless statue could store mystery and transfer mystery, of course, all within limits; if you let an ordinary person with zero mystery embrace too much mystery all at once, it could easily lead to mental instability.

But Black Pupil was fine, this cat couldn’t be corrupted.

The mystery flowed in continuously; even with some loss, it soon reached the limit of 20 units.

As expected,

Once it exceeded 20 units, an “↑” symbol appeared on Black Pupil’s panel.

It wasn’t called awakening, it displayed “can be upgraded”, and the success rate was…

Uh, 99.9%?

This silly cat is that strong? Is this reasonable?

Black Pupil: (￢_￢)

…

After a while,

Black Pupil didn’t scream or roll back and forth; it just casually seemed to have taken a nap, and woke up having broken through.

No discomfort at all, as if it was naturally adapted to the surge in power.

Fang You pulled up Black Pupil’s panel.

‘Physique: 5.9+6.0’

‘Spirit: 6.5+6.0’

‘Life Energy: 12.26’

‘Mystery: 0’

‘Abilities: Delusion Dispelling Manifestation, Giant Spirit Transformation’

He was taken aback.

This increase…

Fang You picked up Black Pupil again and looked it over, prying open its paws, but before he could take a closer look at any changes in Black Pupil, the cat broke free from him.

It showed him a look of feline disdain.

This cat… the savior himself won’t lower himself to squabble with a silly cat, and it has nothing to do with possibly not being able to beat it.

Silly cats always like to play on computers.

Alas, they don’t understand the fun in weightlifting, training, and fighting monsters.

…

It wasn’t long before,

An Jianyou and the other two returned; she said she had caught two three-star Mysterious Evils, and had also partially replaced the previous two-star ones, making them more suited to ‘troop composition’.

Now they had already gone to the training ground for a good integration session.

Black Blade and Silver Bell also made progress respectively.

Black Blade had improved his basic swordsmanship to expert level yesterday, and now his physique had been raised to 15.6, further enhancing his combat power.

Silver Bell had improved all his skills.

Among them, basic boxing and Healing Stream had broken through to ‘proficient level’, and he saw improvement in two dimensions.

Oh, and Xing Jing Lei from the neighboring state had improved as well.

In total, including himself, they had used 49 white-grade training cards in these days.

But he still had 40 left.

… Oh, he was just that wealthy; if it weren’t for human limitations, Fang You really wanted to upgrade his Palm Thunder to ‘master level’ in a single day.

Upgrade, train, prepare supplies.

When the next day came, An Jianyou drove them out of the city.

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PS: Went out in the morning, so I timed two updates together; thank you very much for your votes(✪ω✪)~