This actor is full of tricks.

Although Akin only had a head left, his B-grade bizarre vitality was astonishing, so this could only be considered a serious injury.

"This is your new partner." Lin Jue finally smiled when he saw A Jin.

Akin was taken aback; he remembered that this condition wasn't in the deal they had reached before.

"I..." He opened his mouth, but when he recalled the scene of the old man protecting Lin Jue under his body, his expression was somewhat moved, and in the end he did not say anything to refute.

The person in front of me is definitely completely different from the Black General, otherwise the old man wouldn't have risked his life to protect him.

Lin Jue took Ah Jin over and told him to stay in the raincoat and recover properly.

So far, there are already three Children of the Mist inside the raincoat, and each of them is a B-rank, controlling different ghost realms. Lin Jue is confident that even if he encounters an A-rank Li Gui, the three Children of the Mist can work together to kill him.

Bai Yao walked over and patted Lin Jue on the shoulder: "Although the process was arduous, the result was good. You did us a great favor. Chen Fu and I will definitely do our best to help you if needed in the future."

"Okay." Lin Jue nodded. Although he had revealed all his trump cards, he had also gained even more powerful ones as a result. Overall, it wasn't a loss. Just taking in Ah Jin was already a huge profit.

"Chen Fu and I will be leaving now. We'll treat you to drinks in a few days." Bai Yao said, looking around as he tried to find Li Changming, but the other party had already left with the Ghost Bride.

Bai Yao hesitated, and Lin Jue knew what he wanted to ask. He shrugged helplessly and said, "I do know where he is, but I promised him I wouldn't tell anyone his whereabouts."

"Alright then." Bai Yao sighed. Li Changming joined the Inspection Department in the same batch as him. He was very capable and a good person. If it weren't for the accident when he broke through to the fourth level, he would probably be the head of the Sanjiang Inspection Department now.

The Sanjiang Inspection Division is currently facing a staff shortage, and if the other party could be brought back, it would greatly alleviate a significant portion of the pressure.

"However, I will go to see him later and tell him about the current situation of the Sanjiang Inspection Division. As for whether he comes back or not, that is his own business."

Lin Jue planned to take some time to visit the Village of No Sound. After all, Li Changming and the group of ghost brides had helped him for free this time, and had even suffered heavy losses. He couldn't just leave them without giving them an explanation.

I'll take the opportunity to visit Yaya in Quming County.

"Alright, then I'll trouble you." Bai Yao finally smiled. He seemed to have thought of something and lowered his voice: "What happened here definitely won't be hidden from headquarters. They will definitely send someone to investigate. It will most likely be that fifth-level expert guarding Jiangdong Province. That guy is very shrewd and may ask a lot of questions without any limits."

This was a reminder to Lin Jue that they might be unable to keep some things from him any longer, and that Lin Jue should be careful. It was already very rare for Bai Yao, given his status, to say such a thing, which showed that he had truly regarded Lin Jue as one of his own.

“We’ll be leaving now. This chaos is too great, and the people are panicking. We need to go and calm them down.”

After Bai Yao and Chen Fu left, Lin Jue stayed quietly in place, waiting for Brother Wang and the old director to finish their conversation.

Thirty minutes later, Lin Jue approached the old director. The old man looked at his face, which was covered in paint, with tears glistening in his eyes, and tremblingly reached out to touch Lin Jue's cheek.

The old director, who had been hiding in the amusement park all along, couldn't possibly not know that Lin Jue wasn't Sun Jiankang, nor could he not know that Sun Jiankang was dead. This old man was merely looking at his unfortunate son through his face. Lin Jue let the other man stroke him and sighed, "I'm sorry."

“Child, you have nothing to apologize for. From the moment I became like this, I already knew the fate of Health. Becoming a monster was his destiny. Even though I intervened for several years, I couldn’t stop his death.” The old principal shook his head slightly: “He was just a stranger to you, but I saw everything you did for him. If it weren’t for you, he might have died long ago.”

The old principal's words startled Lin Jue. The old principal's words were worth pondering because the old principal's strength was definitely greater than He Wen and Bi Zheng's, but the other party's words were full of helplessness, and even after Sun Jiankang died, the other party did not show up.

Furthermore, the other party stated that they had intervened for several years but still could not prevent the inevitable death, which means that the other party should be aware of the information about the Children of the Mist and may know some things.

Lin Jue has never believed in fate. If one has to say that the death of the Child of the Mist was beyond intervention, then there must be some unknown force influencing everything.

"Director, do you know anything about this? For example, the inevitable death of the Children of the Mist?" Lin Jue asked tentatively.

The old headmaster gave a soft "hmm": "A year ago, I ventured deep into the mist to see what this so-called lock really was."

"It was on that occasion that, although we didn't figure out why the Child of the Mist died, we did understand some things. The so-called lock is actually just a relatively easy concept to understand. In fact, the entire fog zone is a cage."

Is the entire foggy area a prison?
why?
This statement completely overturned Lin Jue's previous understanding of the dense fog area. In everyone's current perception, the dense fog area is the most dangerous and terrifying place in the entire fog, but according to the old director, the dense fog area is a prison.

"That is a prison for the most heinous criminals, and I suspect that the fog we are seeing now originated from the fog zone."

The old headmaster's words made Lin Jue's expression turn serious. The other party was very strong and the information they knew was definitely closer to the truth. According to the old headmaster, the foggy area was the source of the fog.

Therefore, there is no such thing as dense fog or light fog; all the fog is just a part of the dense fog area.

"Why do you think that?" Lin Jue wanted to know more.

The old headmaster replied quietly, "I once walked around the foggy area and also stood high in the air to look down at the entire foggy area. Do you know what the foggy area looks like from the air?"

Lin Jue was naturally unaware that all his knowledge of the foggy area came from other people.

"Like a heart, a black, huge heart, as big as a mountain."

"The so-called surging fog is actually the contraction and beating of the heart, just like the human heart. The fog is the blood squeezed out of the heart to complete the circulation."

The old headmaster's words were astonishing. Lin Jue couldn't even imagine what kind of heart it was that could imprison such a vicious criminal and cover the entire world with mist.

(End of this chapter)