Chapter 69
Chapter 69
In the end, Cai Zeyu gave Yun Jianyue a blistering scolding. The gist was that she had watched ordinary people recklessly risk their lives without stopping them. Luckily, no one died in the end, or this matter wouldn’t have ended well.
“From now on, when you see civilians trying to get themselves killed, stop them immediately, got it?!” Cai Zeyu was practically spitting as he shouted.
Yun Jianyue jolted awake in her chair: “Ah? Got it. Can I go home now?”
Cai Zeyu: …
So she hadn’t listened to a single word he said, right?
“What I said is important! Yun Jianyue, listen carefully!” Cai Zeyu roared in frustration.
Yun Jianyue nodded like a chick pecking at rice: “I heard it clearly. From now on, when the masses court death, I definitely won’t stop them.”
Cai Zeyu: ???
“If they don’t experience life and death, they won’t know the value of life. You can’t stop them, but I’ll do my best to make sure they don’t die. If they do, then it’s their time to die.” Yun Jianyue grew more convinced that she was right with every word.
After all, they were the ones who had recklessly put their lives at risk. Her efforts to save their lives were already a great deed and merit.
Besides, people have a rebellious streak. The more you tell them not to do something, the more they want to. They only learn the hard way after suffering a loss.
Cai Zeyu’s forehead veins bulged: “You’re an employee of the Paranormal Bureau and a national public servant!”
“Just a temp, hehe.” Yun Jianyue giggled, shameless to the extreme.
Now Cai Zeyu regretted not getting Yun Jianyue a permanent position. If she had one, she wouldn’t be so brazen!
Seeing that Cai Zeyu was about to explode again, Yun Jianyue preemptively patted his shoulder and said in a worldly-wise tone: “Young man, don’t worry. The world always gets better, and all problems will eventually be solved.”
With that, Yun Jianyue slipped away.
Not until he was alone in the office did Cai Zeyu belatedly realize: “I’m almost thirty, and I just got lectured by a twenty-one-year-old girl?”
By the time she left the Paranormal Bureau, it was already 10:30 a.m.
Yun Jianyue checked the time on her watch and planned to take out her phone to call a ride to the hardware store to pay for the electric saw.
But she patted all her pockets and couldn’t find her phone.
Lu Changxue in the jade pendant whispered: “Just a thought-maybe your phone got swiped by your husband, Mo Chen.”
Yun Jianyue: …
Great, another reason to kill Mo Chen.
Her phone cost nearly four thousand yuan! Does Mo Chen know what four thousand yuan means?!
“Heh, dare to steal my phone? Let the Evil God learn the power of human technology.” Yun Jianyue smirked devilishly and went to a nearby service provider. She quickly reported her SIM card lost and bought a new phone with her card.
At that moment, in a remote border town.
In the inner courtyard of an antique-style mansion, Mo Chen sat on a pearwood chair. At his side was a cup of steaming tea worth a fortune. Before him knelt rows of dark figures-these were minor demons who had cultivated into spirits and vengeful ghosts with awareness.
The minor demons and vengeful ghosts didn’t dare breathe loudly. Mo Chen sat there playing short videos on speaker.
“Today we’re going to trim this donkey’s hoof, which can be called top-notch…”
The minor demons and vengeful ghosts were puzzled. They didn’t understand why this great figure had them kneeling here. Was it just to accompany him while he scrolled through short videos?
Just as Mo Chen was enjoying himself, his phone lost signal.
He shook the phone a few times, but still no signal.
Mo Chen casually pointed at a fashionably dressed little fox spirit. “Come here.”
The little fox spirit nearly died on the spot. With a miserable expression, she tremblingly walked over and knelt at Mo Chen’s feet. “My lord…”
“Why is there no internet?” Mo Chen held the phone out to her.
The little fox spirit: ???
Seeing Mo Chen’s solemn expression, the little fox spirit finally realized that the Evil God was genuinely asking her.
She cautiously accepted the phone and stared at its pink case before hesitantly asking, “This phone doesn’t belong to you, does it, my lord?”
“I don’t have an ID,” the Evil God declared as if it were the most reasonable thing in the world.
“Then the phone’s owner must have reported the SIM card lost. The card has been deactivated, so you can’t access the internet anymore.” As soon as the little fox spirit finished speaking, she was certain she was dead.
Because Lord Evil God’s face had darkened.
Mo Chen gritted his teeth so hard his molars nearly cracked. “Yun Jianyue, countless humans are begging for the chance to make offerings to me, yet you couldn’t even spare me a phone?”
After cursing Yun Jianyue, Mo Chen held out his hand to the little fox spirit. “Offer your phone to me.”
Suppressing her anguish, the little fox spirit presented her brand-new phone, which had cost her over ten thousand yuan, to Mo Chen with both hands.
Now that he had a new phone with internet access, Mo Chen was quite satisfied. He waved the little fox spirit away, sending her back to kneel with the others.
He glanced at the lesser demons and vengeful ghosts kneeling in neat rows, put away his new phone, and finally got down to business. “How much of my severed hair have you collected?”
The S-class vengeful ghost at the front replied shakily, “My lord, we have only found a portion of your severed hair.”
He presented a magical artifact filled with Mo Chen’s hair.
The Evil God’s Power coursed through the strands. If the artifact had not contained it, the pressure of the Evil God’s Power would have forced all the lesser demons and vengeful ghosts present back into their true forms.
Mo Chen took the artifact and swept it with a cursory glance. He immediately knew that half of his hair was still unaccounted for.
Every strand could be used as a conduit for a sacrifice. He could not allow any of them to remain out there.
He had later returned to his underground palace, but had detected no trace of any human, demon, or ghost. It was as if his severed hair had simply vanished into thin air.
“Keep searching. If you still haven’t found the rest within three months…”
Mo Chen left the rest unsaid, but the lesser demons and vengeful ghosts were already prostrating themselves in terror.
The S-class vengeful ghost at the front hurriedly promised, “We’ll do everything we can to find it! Rest assured, my lord!”
Mo Chen glanced at the ghost and casually pointed at him. A wisp of Evil God’s Power entered the ghost’s body. “Do your job well.”
The ghost was a thousand-year-old vengeful ghost who had been stuck at S-class for centuries. Even though he had cultivated to the point where he no longer feared sunlight and could live like an ordinary person, he had still been unable to break through S-class and become a super-S-class vengeful ghost.
Yet the wisp of God-Given Power the Evil God had just bestowed upon him allowed him to break through S-class in an instant!
Overjoyed, the ghost repeatedly slammed his forehead against the floor before Mo Chen. “Thank you, my lord! Thank you, my lord!”
Mo Chen vanished from the room. The ghost continued kowtowing several more times before finally climbing to his feet, his face alight with excitement.
The little fox spirit still wore the same miserable expression. “Boss, that lord had so much hair. How could we possibly recover every last strand?”
They had only found this much by working around the clock, and several of their companions had even died in the process!
The ghost hurriedly used his ghostly power to seal the little fox spirit’s mouth. “Do you have a death wish?”
He then carefully checked their surroundings. Only after confirming that Mo Chen had truly left did he release the seal on the little fox spirit.
“We’ll find as much as we can. If there are still strands we can’t find in the end, we’ll just say they were already used.”