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

Chapter 358 Cause and Effect, General Mukuro

The black sedan sped along and stopped outside the old residential area, based on the location provided by Lu Zaiye.

Xie Yan went inside immediately and found the location of the snowdrift.

As an older residential community, the property management here is not very efficient, especially with Lunar New Year's Eve approaching. Aside from a few more rows of messy footprints and some trash, the entire site remained almost unchanged.

Da da da.

Behind him, Zha Hu carried a black suitcase, which was taller than a regular suitcase. The suitcase had wheels, and its surface was engraved with golden vines. In the center was a dark gold skull.

"The commander has arrived."

Zha Hu asked, "Should we wake him up?"

"Need not."

"He's busy right now, we'll wake him up once everything is confirmed."

Xie Yan looked at the bloodstains on the ground, collected some of it and put it into his storage space. His gaze swept over the snow and he walked directly into the apartment building next door.

“Ren Dongcheng hid here last night. Ji Ran and Lu Zaiye did not come back to clean up the scene, nor did they even ask the security guards to handle it.”

Before them lay a pile of cigarette butts scattered across a row of electric bikes.

"It is the Lingtai Dao."

This time, even the seemingly random "zha hu" (a type of winning hand) had a problem.

After learning about the oversight on the cruise ship in Qing City, Ji Ran became extremely attentive to the body of the traveler and its aftermath. He repeatedly checked Zhang Han's head, wondering how a scene covered in blood could have been left untouched.
Needless to say, Lu Zaiye, as the younger brother of the general, is extremely familiar with the various regulations of the Special Operations Department and would never overlook the handling of the situation on the spot.

“It’s not just Lingtai Dao.”

Xie Yan stood up and said, "Two level 5 Luan Ke and one level 4 Xi Guan had their memories altered at the same time. This is something that Zhang Han and a level 5 Lingtai Daoist could not have done."

"He is an apostle, a spiritual apostle."

"The reason why Zhang Hanyu is not worried about death is because his vitality is integrated into his spirit. Physical death is of no concern to him."

Zha Hu frowned slightly and said, "But boss, you said before that Zhang Hanyu's file was fine."

“Indeed, there is no problem. Zhang Hanyu is a true traveler.”

Xie Yan gestured to Zha Hu to clean up the bloodstains at the scene, saying, "But a spiritual apostle can use 'infection' to make Zhang Hanyu's life essence dissolve into his spirit."

"In other words, Ren Dongcheng is currently being parasitized by two spiritual entities: Zhang Hanyu and the Apostle. This also explains why Zhang Hanyu's professional skills are so strong, because that spiritual Apostle is constantly providing him with amplification."

Xie Yan pushed up his glasses and said, "We don't know the abilities of this mental apostle yet. We'll watch the show and let the general take the lead."

"Let's go."

Xie Yan walked outside and said, "Zhang Han knew that Ren Dongcheng's death was on file in the Special Operations Department, and he also knew that we would discover something unusual."

"Therefore, to avoid being hunted down by Xi Guan, there aren't many places he can go."

boom!
The two got into the car. Xie Yan clasped his hands in front of him, leaned back, and said, "To the Heavenly Garden."

hum!
As the vehicle started, Zha Hu asked, "Since they knew they would be exposed, why didn't they escape?"

"They are trying to escape."

Xie Yan closed his eyes and said, "But Ren Dongcheng, who was originally just a tool, has now become someone that the two spiritual entities must rely on."

"It's obvious that Ren Dongcheng wants to use the media company we found to guide public opinion and further enhance his experience. He wants to escape to the spirit world."

"Those two spiritual entities, although they can tamper with memories with the power of the Lingtai Dao, there are limits to this."

"Just as they can alter Ji Ran and Lu Zaiye's memories, making them ignore the scene after their success yesterday, they cannot alter their memories to 'abandon the pursuit' when facing a chase. Such a change, completely contrary to the characters' actions, can only last for a very short time, even a few seconds."

"Similarly, although they can influence Ren Dongcheng's actions by creating false memories, they cannot reverse Ren Dongcheng's own key intentions. If they did, Ren Dongcheng would discover the problem, and the situation would become uncontrollable."

The driver, who had just finished his business, sped towards the Sky Garden residential complex and asked, "Then why didn't the two spiritual entities escape?"

"It's very simple, they can't act independently."

Xie Yan seemed hesitant to say this, but he touched the box beside him, opened it with a "snap," and then said, "Although they possess powerful mental strength, they can only use it by relying on Ren Dongcheng's body."

"You can think of it as the apostles possessing higher-dimensional power. But for it to work in three-dimensional space, there must be a channel for its release—a physical life form. Otherwise, that powerful spiritual force is not in the same dimension as reality, so no matter how strong it is, it will not work."

"In this respect, the Shenke Realm is exactly the opposite of the real world. Our strong, third-tier practitioners, elevate their skills and power to a higher dimension to defeat the weak. But the strong in the Shenke Realm need to reduce their dimensions, releasing their originally high-dimensional power from a lower dimension."

After speaking, Xie Yan glanced at the box beside him and said, "General, the content just now exceeded the limits of the 'bomb' (a type of game), please replenish the materials when you have time." *Click!*

Inside the box was a neatly folded trench coat. At the neck of the coat, a pure white skull was visible, and at that moment, eerie green light emanated from the skull's eyes.

Snapped!
A skeletal arm emerged from the box, followed by a pair of skeletal legs wearing boots.

The skeleton stretched out of the box, glanced at Xie Yan, and without saying a word, took out a pair of black gloves from the side of the box and put them on. Then it took out sunglasses, a mask, and a baseball cap from the outer box.

After everything was tidied up, the skeleton, judging from its appearance, looked exactly like a burly and handsome man.

"Hu Qingyan can know these things."

The Lord of the Bones spoke calmly, saying, "He shed more blood for the present world than for the heavens."

With that, Mukuro pushed open the car door and got out, saying, "No need to turn off the engine."

"it is good."

creak-

Treading on the snow, the puppet of the skeleton master walked into the unfinished building.

The tattered cloth, letting in the drafts, made the ghostly flames behind the sunglasses flicker. The neatly arranged pots and pans touched the mortician's heart with pity.

He thought of one of the items Xie Yan reported—Zhang Hanyu, who had long used new media to incite public opinion and reap the benefits of his experience.

Perhaps this is something we need to pay attention to. The dissemination of information is completely different from before. If the benefits of harvesting emotions in this world can rival those in the heavens, which practitioner can resist the temptation?
The skeleton general walked silently, and when he went up another level, he saw a series of sinister figures standing there.

The cold wind howled through the drafty building, whipping the old man's mottled silver hair.

He held a kitchen knife, staring menacingly at the newcomer.

Women in thick coats, men in military overcoats, old men in down jackets a size too small, children wrapped in down jackets the size of adults...

All the residents of this unfinished building came out of their houses, holding all sorts of "weapons," and stared at the Skeleton General.

This is similar to the "human shield" that Zhang Han used when facing Ji Ran, designed to make the traveler hesitate to act rashly.

"Get out! Otherwise, all these people will die because of you, and you will bear the consequences of their actions!"

Everyone, men, women, young and old, let out a low growl in unison. In the dimly lit stairwell, the stiff crowd carried an eerie atmosphere.

Da da da.

However, the Skeleton King did not stop walking, but continued to walk towards the crowd step by step.

With each step he took, a spirit emerged from the shadows behind him.

One layer after another, each more terrifying and sinister than the last.

Until it enveloped the entire unfinished building.

Ordinary people who come into contact with the spirit immediately fall into a coma, and a transparent shadow pops out of their bodies, only to be swallowed up by the dark spirit in an instant.

But from within those shadows emerged pairs of pitch-black hands, lifting the unconscious people and carrying them into their respective rooms.

"His-"

A huge white lizard appeared on the roof, but it was clearly filled with horror and terror!

Its purplish-black tongue lolled out, and it said in a high-pitched, trembling voice, "I am—"

Click!

The skeleton leaped a spirit from beneath the master's feet into the lizard's body. The lizard was then molded into a bizarre humanoid shape with a single horn on its head, before its flesh and blood disintegrated and disappeared.

An almost invisible shadow was caught by the one-horned spirit, which then emitted a giggling laugh that only the Skeleton King could hear before disappearing into the shadow.

……

"That's outrageous... and this is just a simple skill release while he's under pressure."

Zha Hu and Xie Yan looked at the community. From the perspective of the traveler, the entire unfinished building turned pitch black after the skeleton entered, as if the building was instantly coated with a layer of non-light-absorbing black paint.

In less than two minutes, the figure of the Skeleton General, wearing a trench coat, appeared at the entrance of the building. As he stepped out, the darkness that enveloped the entire building shrank to his feet, transforming into a shadow that mimicked the movements of the Fate Puppet.

(End of this chapter)