Lingzhang

Chapter 20 Beast Roar
The funeral home on the edge of the city was the destination that Yue Hanzhang initially considered.

After all, all the gilded threads themselves originated from the deaths of martial arts practitioners.

The place where warriors gather in the base city, apart from the bustling city center, is the very edge of the city.

Warriors like the martial arts practitioner "Xiao Liu" who live in places like shanty towns and those who make a living outside the city are the main force of the dark side of this city.

Moreover, they make their living outside the thick walls of the base city. Without the protection of the seal array that covers the entire base city, they often have to face those alienated monsters.

Like the cultivators above the martial arts realm, they possess monsters with extraordinary powers.

Therefore, the warriors in the dark side of these cities have a much higher casualty rate than warriors in other places. Tragic experiences like "Xiao Liu" happen almost every day in this desolate and dark place.

And all the fallen warriors, no matter what touching stories behind them, all of them ended up in this funeral home on the edge of the city.

From the very beginning, Yue Hanzhang clearly understood the context behind this and then found the key point.

However, before Yue Hanzhang actually walked into the funeral home, he suddenly stopped, then naturally pretended to be in a hurry and turned to walk in another direction.

Gradually walking into the dark side of the city, what appeared before Yue Hanzhang's eyes was a silent hustle and bustle.

The silence is because there are almost no high-decibel sounds in this huge complex of buildings.

The noise comes from the dense crowd in such a depressing environment, with their low voices mixed with the dull and chaotic ambient sounds.

A unique atmosphere seems to infect everyone present.

Everyone was walking in the dark environment in different ways, with their heads down and in silence. Unless another person deliberately approached and kept an unsafe distance, they would be greeted with slightly hostile and scrutinizing gazes.

But when Yue Hanzhang tried to get closer to the funeral home, his figure was almost only exposed in the slightly empty view near the funeral home.

From the bright and dark corners around the funeral home, Yue Hanzhang could keenly feel the sharp gazes.

In an instant, Yue Hanzhang's body suddenly tensed up as if in response to stress.

This means that in terms of martial arts training, the sources of these sharp gazes are all beings that Yue Hanzhang is completely unable to contend with.

Such a protective force should not appear in a dilapidated funeral home on the edge of a city.

Abnormality often means more trouble.

As for these unnecessary troubles, Yue Hanzhang's choice was to avoid them.

Moreover, in fact, when he noticed the gazes and felt the environment near the funeral home, Yue Hanzhang had already rejected his initial thoughts.

Even without such an abnormal guardian force, the funeral home is obviously not a good choice.

You know, at this moment the blast furnace was still emitting black gray smoke, which was a symbol of burning flames, but when Yue Hanzhang was about to approach the edge far away from the funeral home.

Following those vigilant and sharp gazes, Yue Hanzhang also felt a biting chill.

This chill was eerie and terrifying. Yue Hanzhang felt very uncomfortable just in the instant when his body tensed up and relaxed.

This also made Yue Hanzhang realize that in the world of extraordinary Taoism, many of the groundless statements from previous lives would actually materialize.

Yue Hanzhang believed that what he felt was some kind of aura similar to yin energy.

And he felt such obvious discomfort in just a short period of time. If he was enveloped by such an aura for a long time, Yue Hanzhang's originally strong and solid physical foundation would definitely be affected more negatively.

This wouldn't work. So, after lowering his head and walking in another direction like the pedestrians on the road, avoiding the scrutiny of those people, Yue Hanzhang began to constantly look around this unfamiliar area.

Even though the funeral home was not an option, Yue Hanzhang felt that there was nothing wrong with his idea of ​​finding a place near the city wall.

At this moment, Yue Hanzhang saw cleaners holding wooden mops, carrying buckets and wearing protective clothing of the Daomeng Patrol Division through the slightly foggy streets after dusk.

So, Yue Hanzhang had an idea in his mind, and he turned and walked towards the station hall set up by the Patrol Wind Division in this area, and in the process, he took out his student ID from his pocket.
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A moment later, on the wide avenue in front of the second east gate of the base city.

A figure that was obviously more muscular than an ordinary man, wearing a patrol uniform that covered him from head to toe, a protective helmet and mask, holding a bucket in one hand and a broom in the other.

Following behind a slightly thin and hunched figure.

The burly figure was none other than Yue Hanzhang. His student ID easily proved his identity. The staff of the Patrol Wind Bureau were almost eager to have such a "sucker" looking for a job as a cleaner.

Moreover, when it was decided to hire Yue Hanzhang as a temporary worker in the evening, his work scope was arranged in the most "bustling" area, such as the street inside the city gate.

People come and go all the time, and those who come back from outside the city rush by like a swarm of bees, leaving the streets full of mud.

There are many such jobs, the workload is large and the tasks are detailed.

It is just right for a strong and aspiring young man like Yue Hanzhang to contribute.

Yue Hanzhang very "naively" agreed to this arrangement which was exactly what he wanted.

Apart from the fact that the heavy protective clothing seemed a little stuffy in such weather, everything seemed to be a very satisfying start for Yue Hanzhang.

Of course, it would be even better if the incessant chatter of Uncle Zhou could be blocked out from the built-in earphones in the visor of the protective helmet.

Even Yue Hanzhang didn't expect that he would meet Uncle Zhou from the community at the Xunfeng Division.

There were no people passing by at this moment, so the two of them stood on the side of the street, each leaning on a mop.

Seeing that Uncle Zhou was constantly explaining to him the dangers of the suburbs, Yue Hanzhang was warned not to come here again after finishing today's work.

As a last resort, Yue Hanzhang finally found an excuse to prevaricate.

"Master, the Xunfeng Division is looking for temporary workers. The weekly salary is 100 gray seed talismans. I eat and drink at school. If I save up for five months, I can buy myself a low-grade Qi and Blood Pill from Tengxia Company."

Yue Hanzhang said this calmly, but when he finished speaking, Uncle Zhou on the other side of the headset fell silent.

But Yue Hanzhang could hear Uncle Zhou's increasingly short breathing.

But before Uncle Zhou could build up his emotions and say something else.

Suddenly, in the distance, a loud bang was heard at the edge of the quiet city, followed by a slightly shrill and ferocious roar of a wild beast.

Yue Hanzhang just looked in the direction of the sound, and then he heard Uncle Zhou's voice again through the earphone.

"Don't look at things you shouldn't be looking at! Come to work with me from now on, I'll keep an eye on you!"

"Ah."

Upon hearing this, Yue Hanzhang agreed and indeed no longer looked towards the place where the incident happened.

But he remembered it clearly, that was the direction of the suburban funeral home.

(End of this chapter)