All the evil beasts in the world, I feed on demons and monsters

Chapter 242 Causal Search for the Enemy
Qing City, night.

Ji Ran, dressed in a black leather jacket, walked out of the headquarters. Tonight was destined to be anything but peaceful.

All the travelers in Qing City were searching for clues under the cover of night. Any suspicious location would be immediately sealed off and thoroughly investigated by secret agents.

A second-tier walker can be extremely destructive, especially this cultist, who seems to be able to circumvent the rules of the world and kill people without the burden of cause and effect.

"Can we drive?"

"It's not a big problem."

Behind Ji Ran followed Sha Jiu. Although he was only level 1, he had many ways to protect himself. Besides, it was really a bit much to ask a black dog from ancient times to type on a keyboard.

"Okay, let's go to Haishan Crematorium first."

Ji Ran borrowed a law enforcement vehicle. Sha Jiu sat in the driver's seat, while he and his spirit pet sat in the passenger seat.

The wind-born beast perched on his shoulder, with a zashiki-warashi sitting on his head.

The Kamaitachi is very active at night, transforming into a gust of wind and moving around itself.

Sha Jiu started the car and set off. Ji Ran pointed out the way, and the car headed towards Haishan Crematorium.

Compared to the various formations in the Journey to the West world, driving is something that Sha Jiu can learn in a blink of an eye.

Ji Ran looked out the car window, where the lights of thousands of homes in the city converged into golden starlight, turning into fireflies in her eyes.

The trouble should end it.

To find Xu Cheng's true identity, we must look to Xu Cheng himself. If there is one person with the strongest karmic connection to Xu Cheng, it must be himself.

The coastal highway was still closed, and Ji Ran had to show his documents to pass through the checkpoint.

After a rapid journey, Ji Ran arrived at Haishan Crematorium.

Standing before Xu Cheng's corpse, Ji Ran still felt a sense of disorientation.

The person he had just met during the day was now a corpse. Moreover, his entire face and neck were missing skin, covered in blood.

The Way of Cause and Effect!
Ji Ran didn't waste any words, and seven-colored lines suddenly appeared in his eyes.

At this moment, wispy gray-white lines appeared on Xu Cheng's corpse. These lines were broken in countless places, unlike the ones that stretched into the distance when he looked at Xiao Xiangyun before.

When a person dies, their karmic ties end, and their cause and effect dissipate.

Except for a very few causal relationships, most will completely break down with a person's death.

At this moment, Ji Ran caught a causal thread, faintly tinged with purple and carrying spiritual fluctuations.

found it!
Ji Ran's eyes lit up! Sure enough, the causal link could help her find Xu Cheng's shameless face!
The direction is Qingdao!
"We need to take the body with us."

"Good... good!"

As a member of the Special Operations Department, Ji Ran's request was naturally met with immediate agreement from the crematorium staff.

Soon, under the cover of night, the law enforcement vehicle returned.

Ji Ran placed Xu Cheng's body in the passenger seat, fastened his seatbelt, and then sat in the back seat.

The path of cause and effect, even just "seeing" it, consumes a great deal of energy.

At this moment, Ji Ran took out the Kunwu Blade, preparing to use his remaining strength to recover when his energy was running low.

He intermittently applied the principles of cause and effect to correct his position.

When the vehicle reached the city's elevated highway, and a vast expanse of the city could be seen through the car window, he once again used the Path of Cause and Effect.

However, as his gaze followed Xu Cheng's gaze into the distance, his pupils trembled!
Xu Cheng's cause and effect penetrated the orange-yellow streetlights and flowed into the city.

Beside this stained, causal line, a second one emerges from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the opposite office building, like a startled firefly. Then comes the third, the fourth, and thousands upon thousands of luminous threads that awaken from the dimly lit buildings.

Their woven network stretches out in the night, each thread fluctuating and changing in ways that are beyond human comprehension.

This is the cause and effect of a city.

Ji Ran could sense the terrifying power surging within this web of cause and effect. Once one touched too much of this cause and effect, becoming entangled in those unseen threads, serious problems were bound to arise!
Just like the Buddhist concept of being entangled by karma.

That traveler must possess a treasure that shields him from karma! Otherwise, the karma he picked up on the cruise ship alone would have caused him a great deal of trouble!

Where can one still hide freely in the city?

At this moment, Ji Ran had already located Xu Cheng's human skin.

At the end of that causal chain was... the General Administration! Is it a case of the darkest place being under the lamp?

Ji Ran's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately contacted Lin Chi, saying, "Captain Lin, it's me."

"Anything discovered?"

Lin Chi's voice on the other end was excited; contacting him at this hour meant he had at least discovered some clues.

“Yes, I have a skill that allows me to sense the location of Xu Cheng’s skin through his corpse.”

"Where!"

"The General Administration."

Lin Chi paused, his voice becoming noticeably more serious, and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Confirmed, but I need to go to the headquarters to observe the exact location."

Ji Ran glanced at the time on the body camera and said, "I'll be there in about ten minutes."

"Okay, is it the location of the human skin?"

"That's right, it's not about pinpointing the cultist's location."

"enough."

After hanging up the phone, Ji Ran looked out the window, the wind making him squint.

In the distance, the rectangular General Administration building was brightly lit.

Ji Ran extended his hand and said, "Fifth Brother."

"squeak!"

The weasel immediately landed in his hand, its eyes shining as it looked at Ji Ran. Ji Ran knew that although this weasel couldn't speak, it could understand Chinese.

Thinking that he was called the Fifth Brother, and his strength was Level 4, and he was also his swordsmanship master for a short time, he called him "Fifth Brother" when he left the headquarters.

Unexpectedly, the Kamaitachi was extremely pleased with the phrase "Fifth Brother," and it acted as if it were a spell. After the call, the Kamaitachi would strike wherever it was pointed.

"Fifth Brother, if we encounter any danger later, we'll have to trouble you again."

"squeak!"

boom!
The Kamaitachi, head held high and chest puffed out, jumped onto Ji Ran's shoulder and kicked the Wind Beast into the windshield.

The Wind Beast gave the Sickle Weasel a resentful look before obediently jumping onto Ji Ran's lap.

However, the Kamaitachi was very gentle with the Zashiki-warashi. It picked up the little girl and let her sit on Ji Ran's ear.

After all, it's a demon that can bring good fortune. The Kamaitachi itself really wants to keep one in its den.

At this moment, the headquarters was almost at the front. Ji Ran glanced at Sha Jiu and said, "Don't go over there yet."

"Yes, got it."

Sha Jiu nodded; it wasn't like it wanted to die. It was already certain that the second-tier traveler was most likely here, so there was no need for it to risk searching for him.

It's not like there aren't any experts.

Ji Ran himself didn't care, as his physical body was already at the second level. Even if he really encountered danger, he still had the Zashiki-warashi to protect him from the immortality of the Wind-Born Beast.

A level 4 Kamaitachi was also following beside him.

At this moment, Lin Chi, dressed in a crisp military uniform, stood under the lights in front of the General Administration's gate. Beside him stood a man of similar height and with a thin face, wearing a Special Operations Department uniform.

The man was wearing silver-rimmed glasses, the lenses reflecting light and shadow in the lamplight.

Ji Ran's gaze swept past the two of them, and as Sha Jiu slammed on the brakes, a rainbow of colors spread across his eyes—

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Ji Ran frowned.

Cause and effect were blurred and diluted at the headquarters. Countless causal lines were intertwined with Xu Cheng, blurring and dismantling them, and merging them into a huge causal network, making it impossible to find the final direction.

However, the causal link is certain: the General Administration.

(End of this chapter)