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Chapter 300 The Power of the Abyss, The Boy Who Controls Ghosts
After seeing Bai Hongtao's expression, the skinny man left with his men, satisfied.

"Hongtao, are you arguing with Zhu Gan again?"

When Chen Xin heard someone speak, he turned his head and saw what appeared to be the group of people Bai Hongtao had been looking for.

"I'm just bored, what the hell am I doing talking to him about? That old guy must have gotten incredibly lucky..."

After Bai Hongtao revealed that Zhu Gan had found a genius, the other two bureau chiefs both looked serious.

"It seems that Zhugan wants to go even further this time."

"What's he planning to do next? Does he want to join the Heavenly Gang?"

The bureau chiefs started chatting, one after another.

Chen Xin also learned from the conversation that the two bureau chiefs were from Shouyi City and Huaquan City.

The Shouyi City branch ranks twenty-fifth among the Earthly Fiends, while the Huaquan City branch ranks thirtieth.

Not far from the twenty-eighths in Mubei City, which explains why the three are so harmonious.

During the chat, it was inevitable that they would test each other's strength in this ranked match.

Chen Xin and Bai Bowen were fine; their approximate strength could be sensed at a glance, so they didn't attract much attention.

However, Bai Yi's existence has attracted considerable attention.

Bai Hongtao naturally wouldn't reveal Bai Yi's strength, so he just laughed it off and let the two of them guess for themselves.

In reality, this kind of pre-match intelligence gathering is not very useful, because you can't team up or conspire during ranked matches. At most, it can help your teammates avoid encountering those with significantly lower skill levels.

After all, the longer you 'survive' in the game, the more points you can get.

Chen Xin and the others stayed in the lobby for a long time. Naturally, they couldn't have listened to Bai Hongtao's conversation the whole time. During this time, Bai Bowen pulled him around the lobby.

While wandering around, Chen Xin overturned his previous assumptions about the strength of the newcomers in the rookie group.

His previous guess was a bit conservative; the number of people who practiced the fourth version of the exercise was not 20, but 40!
Fortunately, some of them are from the same team; otherwise, if Mubei City relied on Chen Xin, who wasn't giving his all, and Bai Bowen, who was overconfident, it's uncertain whether they could even maintain a top-sixty position.

Bai Bowen was unaware of Chen Xin's lament.

As Bai Bowen wandered around the hall, he felt that the five people posed a threat to him.

For example, the fat man from before, or a girl with a full head of white hair, and a little boy with glasses and a radish-shaped haircut.

There was also a pair of twins who always walked back to back, even when they were walking, one would move forward and the other backward.

The reason I felt these people were difficult to deal with was entirely due to the unpleasant experience I had with the fat team before.

That incident made Bai Bowen pay close attention to people with unusual appearances.

Surprisingly, this method of judgment is quite accurate; it was completely correct!
Besides these, during his wanderings, Chen Xin also met his uncle Wang Xingping, but the other party didn't seem to want to talk to him and sent him away after a few brief words.

However, the director of Lingyuan City looked at him with a strange gaze, and he didn't know why.

After that, Chen Xin saw some familiar faces, but only one-sidedly.

The other party did not know Chen Xin, but Chen Xin had seen the other party through the perspective of the Zhenwu.

It's quite a strange feeling to see a real person like that.

But this wonder completely vanished after Chen Xin saw Lu Shen's face.

When the clone of the leader of the Skull God Cult who had self-destructed on the mountain in Sanshan Village reappeared in his sight, Chen Xin's first reaction was whether he had been under an illusion.

On second thought, that's impossible; this is the headquarters of the Bureau of Public Opinion Research.

But if he wasn't under the illusion spell, why would he see Lu Shen?

With this question in mind, Chen Xin deliberately led Bai Bowen in the direction of Lu Shen.

As Chen Xin passed by unintentionally, he sensed the unique aura of the blood and qi emanating from Lu Shen's body, and this aura was not weak.

With these questions in mind, Chen Xin returned to the location of Mubei City.

He could accept that the leader of the Skull God Cult created a second Lu Shen, but why was the strength of this Lu Shen almost the same as the previous one?

If such a clone can be created in just over a month, then was the ten years of arduous cultivation in Lu Shen's memory a lie?

Chen Xin had no doubt about the ability of the money to ward off evil spirits.

So either that memory is fake, or the leader of the Skull God Cult has done something that Chen Xin doesn't know about.

"That's interesting."

Chen Xin looked in Lu Shen's direction, then looked away before Lu Shen could look at him.

……

Lu Shen, who was chatting with Director Gong Yuanshuang, inadvertently glanced at a spot in the hall.

Just now, he seemed to sense that someone was watching him.

But now, the feeling of being watched is gone.

Lu Shen looked away and stopped paying attention.

In this situation, it's likely that people from other departments are gathering information.

After all, the Bureau of Investigation has too many talented people, so it's not surprising that Yin Xiu has the ability to investigate.

His body resembled Yang Xiu even more than those who truly followed the Yang School, and he wasn't afraid of being seen through.

……

They stayed there from morning until afternoon, until there was little conversation in the lobby, at which point a few people from the Bureau of Public Opinion Research came out.

I thought there would be a long speech, but to my surprise, it was just two simple sentences, and everyone started following one after another, led by the people from the General Administration, toward the ranking area.

Bai Hongtao continued to give instructions along the way.

“Except for the top-tier competition area which is in the shadows, the veteran, ordinary, and newcomer competition areas are all different regions of the same place.”

"I won't talk about Bai Yi. Chen Xin and Bai Bowen, the two of you need to be careful not to exceed the boundaries of the rookie competition area designated by the General Administration."

"It would be such a shame if we were eliminated by the sneaky players from other regions, since we're already outside the rookie zone."

Upon hearing this, Bai Bowen became suspicious.

"Won't the referees stop you if you go outside the designated area?"

Bai Hongtao shook his head helplessly.

"The referees won't interfere, partly to make it more realistic, and partly to take care of certain people."

"For you, the rookie division is enough, but for some people, the rookie division is... a bit too easy."

Bai Bowen looked embarrassed.

It's like getting 100 points on an exam and tying for first place with the top student, and just when you're feeling happy, the teacher says on the podium that the top student only got 100 because there's only one hundred points in a row.

They were both dissatisfied and frustrated.

Lies are not sharp swords, truth is sharp.

After that, all the participants, except for the top team leader who was taken to another place, were led into a room and lined up to enter a 'door'.

This 'door' is just a transit point.

After entering, the group crossed from the area corresponding to the 'door' to other areas, and then left the Underworld from those areas.

This completes the transition from headquarters to the examination venue.

Although Chen Xin was already aware of the Bureau of Investigation's backing, the arrogant demeanor of leading hundreds of people to stroll through the underworld still made Chen Xin, the leader of a small civilian organization with only twelve members, somewhat envious.

What would it be like if members of the underworld could visit the netherworld as if it were their own home?
With mixed feelings, Chen Xin and Bai Bowen, along with 214 other people, stepped into the rookie competition area.

Upon seeing the rookie competition area, Chen Xin fell silent.

Because the venue used for this competition was actually... a city!
A modern city like Mubei!
"What's going on here?"

Upon entering the city, Chen Xin sensed the yin energy in the air, as well as the power of the underworld!
“I have heard my dad mention it.”

Bai Bowen watched as the others who had entered the competition area gradually disappeared into the city, but he wasn't in a hurry. In this kind of competition, being hasty won't bring any good results.

Moreover, gathering in such a place is not a good choice.

Two people might attract one ghost, but four people might attract two ghosts.

The more people there are, the more human it feels.

So Bai Bowen was happy to chat with Chen Xin and wait a while before going in.

"This city was originally called Yang City, but now it is just a dead city. More than 30 years ago, because a crack that appeared in the city was not dealt with in time, the evil spirits nurtured by the crack killed too many people and eventually evolved into a blood disaster."

"If it were just a bloodbath, the whole city wouldn't have been emptied out."

"When that Blood Calamity was about to be destroyed, it used some unknown ability to directly attract the strongest ghost from the Yin-Yang region on the other side of the rift."

"That's a black abyss!"

"As soon as the ghosts appeared, the three top team leaders of the Bureau of Investigation who solved the blood disaster were wiped out, and then the entire city was covered by the ghostly realm of the Black Abyss."

"By the time the Bureau of Investigation realized something was wrong and dispatched several temporary workers, as well as several directors and five-star specialists, everyone in the Ghost Realm was already dead."

"In the end, the Black Abyss was destroyed by the experts. In order to give the people of the city an explanation, these experts directly entered the Netherworld area on the other side of the rift. After three bureau chiefs and two five-star commissioners died, the main body of the Black Abyss was brought to the mortal world. Because the Black Abyss was gone, the Netherworld area there changed from blood-red to black after merging."

"Don't be afraid. Right now, there are experts from the Bureau of Investigation guarding both the entrances on this side and the other side of this crack. What happened before won't happen again."

After listening to Bai Bowen's explanation, Chen Xin gained a direct understanding of the Black Abyss above the Blood Disaster for the first time.

One Black Abyss, and an entire city is destroyed!
Chen Xin didn't know how many Black Abysses the Bureau of Investigation could handle, but it was absolutely impossible for them to face all the Black Abysses in the Underworld at the same time.

If the evil spirits in the underworld were no longer restricted and could emerge from the cracks, what would this world become?

This was not Chen Xin's guess, but rather some related memories that Chen Xin obtained from Zong Peng's memories.

There has always been a saying within the research department of the Bureau of Polls.

As more and more cracks appear in the underworld, and the concentration of yin energy in the mortal world increases to a certain level, the boundary between the mortal world and the underworld may become blurred.

Without the boundary between Yin and Yang, the evil spirits in the underworld would have no restrictions.

At that time, the mortal world may become a vast area of ​​darkness.

But what about humans living in the mortal world?
it goes without saying.

This speculation exists not only within the Bureau of Investigation, but also among the Ghost Slaves and Divine Messengers.

It is precisely because of this speculation that ghost slaves and divine messengers choose to become servants.

After finishing his reflection, Chen Xin looked at Bai Bowen.

"You seem to know quite a lot, even about the fusion of the Yin and Yang regions."

Bai Bowen smiled proudly, failing to notice the clue Chen Xin had given in his words.

"Having a top-notch team leader as a father naturally raises the bar for secrecy."

After saying that, Bai Bowen looked around and then said to Chen Xin, "Shall we go in?"

"Come in."

……

Just as Chen Xin and Bai Bowen's group entered, ordinary group leaders and senior group leaders also entered one after another.

In the same city, the assessment area for ordinary team leaders is closer to the central crack, while for senior team leaders it is the area directly centered on the crack.

Once all the examiners had entered, all the cameras throughout Yangcheng were activated, and the inspectors patrolling the assessment area began observing the participants within their jurisdiction using tablets.

Meanwhile, at the Bureau of Public Opinion Research headquarters, all 108 branch directors were seated, drinking tea and watching the surveillance footage.

"It would be great to be able to watch the live streams of the top regions."

"It's a pity," said one of the bureau chiefs.

"What are you thinking? If the signals of electronic devices can cross the Yin and Yang realms and can be used in the Yin and Yang realms, then exploring the Yin and Yang realms wouldn't be so difficult. We can just send drones in directly. It's better to lose drones than to lose specialists."

"Has the research department not developed any electronic devices that can be used in the underworld?"

"Who knows? Why don't you go ask them?"

"I'd dare to go, but I'd need people to give me face first!"

"Ha ha!"

"Huh, do the green dots represent newcomers? It's only been a short time, how come there are already newcomers going to the regular divisions?"

Someone noticed that at the junction of the green and yellow areas on the split screen, a green dot had crossed the boundary and was moving deeper into the yellow area.

The personnel from the General Administration also displayed the camera near the green dot on a small screen at the opportune moment.

"Huh... which bureau is this? Does he look about thirteen years old?"

The screen showed the little mushroom-headed boy with glasses, walking step by step along the street.

Suddenly, a cleaver flew out from a steamed bun shop next to the street, slicing through Mushroom Head's head with a whoosh.

Before the bewildered bureau chiefs could even gasp in surprise, they saw the little mushroom-headed figure that had been slashed vanish into thin air.

"Huh? It's fake?"

"This kid is a Yin cultivator? He's so young and already has a ghostly cultivation ability. Isn't he going to try the Yang cultivation path first?"

"Bang! Which bureau is this? You can't make a scene over a ranked match like this! How old is this kid?!"

One of the bureau chiefs frowned and patted the back of his chair, speaking quite loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, someone next to him laughed.

"Here, the Seventh Bureau of the Heavenly Gang, go and argue with them."

As soon as the words "Seven Bureaus of the Heavenly Gang" were uttered, the bureau chief let out a cold snort.

"Hmph, what theory? The people of the Heavenly Gang Bureau can't be that short-sighted. They have their reasons for doing this."

Before anyone could even laugh, the little radish head on the screen walked out of the steamed bun shop.

He was also holding a kitchen knife in his hand.

"Not bad, he finished off a vengeful ghost so quickly, this kid..."

Before he could finish speaking, the bureau chiefs saw the little boy grab a kitchen knife and swing it at the sneaky creature that crawled out of the convenience store.

A kitchen knife flew from Little Radish Head's hand, pinning the ghost to the ground.

Before the ghost could struggle, several more knives were plunged into its limbs and head, causing it to turn into green smoke and dissipate.

The branch bureau chiefs were stunned by what they saw.

"Why...why can he control ghosts?"

This is also something that other members of the Earthly Fiends Formation want to know.

Meanwhile, the director of the sixth bureau of the Heavenly Gang Bureau, sitting next to the director of the seventh bureau, was chatting and laughing with the director of the seventh bureau.

"How many ghosts can Mao Yan control at once now?"

"three."

"The director of the Seventh Bureau said calmly."

"Tsk, three wandering souls can be exchanged for one fierce ghost. Then, with one fierce ghost and two wandering souls, you can continue to catch fierce ghosts until all the ghosts on your body are replaced with fierce ghosts."

"If we're lucky, the three vengeful ghosts can be replaced by one fierce demon, and once this snowball starts rolling... Hehe, I really want to see how those veteran team leaders react when they see this kid appear in the veteran competition area, controlling three fierce demons."

Upon hearing this, the director of the Seventh Bureau of the Heavenly Gang also curled up the corners of his mouth.

……

P.S.: I'm going to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow. I'll arrange to add more chapters after I get back.

(End of this chapter)