Hunting God Era

Chapter 109 Pollution? I'll treat it like a snack!

The news of the Demon Realm's appearance truly shocked Li Ye for a while.

However, he already had a plan: after the city martial arts competition, he would look for demonic realms to go and train in, so as to improve his cultivation.

Now one has suddenly appeared.
This is bad news for Jinze City, but for Li Ye, it's not so bad.

However, for the other martial artists in Ningjiang City who received the news, it was extremely bad news.

Normally, unless it's a mobilization, nothing is related to them; no one can be mobilized.

But Li Ye could still shout!
The local tyrants and gangs entrenched in Ningjiang County all received the call.

Li Longhu specifically ordered them to stand by at the pest control bureau to deal with the demonic domain that had appeared in Jinze City.

The sky is falling!

This has absolutely nothing to do with them!

This is not the kind of minor disturbance that usually occurs, at most causing a pollution-causing demon. Those demons are not handled by the extermination bureau because they are either too busy or not powerful enough. They can handle them.

But that's the Demon Realm!
The Demon Realm could be completely wiped out if things go wrong!

Even within Ningjiang, they have the right to refuse to do things unless it directly affects them, let alone in Jinze City, a neighboring city.

No matter how powerful the demons in the Demon Realm are, they can't kill their whole family right now.

Li Ye is acceptable.

So they have to come.

Kong Jing, a martial artist of the "Scar" level from the Divine Speed ​​Pass in the Second Realm of Xuanyue County, is skilled in leg techniques.

Qi Yuan, a martial artist at the "String" level in the Qi Meridian Gate of Jingpu County, wields a hook-and-sickle spear.

Bai Rongzu, a martial artist of the "Ying" level at Pojun Pass in the second realm of Yunlu County, wields two swords.

There were also other martial artists below the second realm, from the Eighth and Ninth Dragon Gates, and from the mixed-race martial arts circles within the districts and counties; they had all arrived at this moment.

Actually, there are some martial artists who are doing legitimate business, including a few at the second realm, but they are law-abiding citizens, so there's no need to make things difficult for them.

Of the martial artists who arrived, three were at the second realm.
Li Ye killed so many that only these three remained.

"Director Li."

"Director Li."

Whether they wanted to or not, these martial artists were all outwardly respectful as they called out.

"I don't care what you think. The Demon Realm has appeared, and I've been entrusted with providing support. You all need to do your part. If you do well, you'll benefit; if you don't, you'll either be killed by the demons or I will kill you."

Li Ye glanced at them, "Any problems?"

Everyone shook their heads vigorously, like rattles.

You, Li Longhu, are so high and mighty, so great. It's your duty to manage demons and monsters in the Extermination Bureau, but how come, in the end, they still have a share in this Demon Realm?
But no one dared to refuse, since everyone had already arrived.

Song Zhengyu of the Feipeng Gang gripped his spear even tighter and said with a fawning smile, "Director Li, rest assured, I will risk my life to ensure you are not disappointed."

"Why should I be disappointed? I want results."

Li Ye said, "Don't worry, we won't die if we're careful. Just make sure the demons on the outer perimeter don't escape. You don't need to worry about the demon realm inside."

These words finally put everyone at ease.

If you don't enter the Demon Realm, the level of danger is reduced considerably.

Sun Shun walked in at this moment and said to Li Ye, "Director Li, we've arrived."

Li Ye nodded, picked up his coat, put it on, and walked towards the door.

As soon as he arrived at the gate, he heard a buzzing sound in the sky. An armed helicopter was rapidly descending, its rotors whirring, and hovered above Li Ye's head, followed by several off-road vehicles with different paint schemes.

This surprised Li Ye. He thought a car was coming to pick him up, but he didn't expect to be on a helicopter.

The situation was more serious than he had thought.

"You all follow behind."

Li Ye said something to the martial artist behind him. As soon as the helicopter door opened, he moved in a blur, creating several gusts of air in mid-air, and flashed into the helicopter.

Just then, the soldiers in full military uniform were about to lower the rope ladder when Li Ye crawled in and plopped down in the back seat.

"You... I was hoping you could climb the rope."

The man retrieved the rope ladder, saluted Li Ye, and said, "The situation happened too suddenly. We don't have enough strength, but we can't let the demonic domain spread. We can only ask for help from the surrounding areas."

"But after searching around, only you have enough strength. I never expected that you were only at the Dragon Gate a few months ago, and now you are the director of the Extermination Bureau, and you are even at the second level of the Three Gates."

This person was Fan Tie, who had contact with Li Ye during the district martial arts competition.

Li Ye's name was known even in their small military camp.

A young man arrived at the Ningjiang City Disinfection Bureau. He was even more ferocious than Pan Guiwang, and he terrified Ningjiang City.

He had even asked Pan Zhengyang if he could give his men to their army, and he was given a good scolding for it.

"Tell me about the Demon Realm first, we can talk about catching up later," Li Ye said.

"It was meant to be shown to you."

Fan Tie handed over a tablet and said, "Currently, this demonic realm is probably not very large. It doesn't even cover the entire Tongguan Mountain; it was generated inside the mine. However, the pollution caused by the demonic realm has generated other demons on the periphery, and there are quite a few of them. It's a real headache, and we still have no clue what to do."

"No clue?" Li Ye opened the tablet.

"Yes, the data section of the Jinze City Disinfection Bureau saw the pictures and videos and found that it was contaminated. There was copper dust in the breath, iron lice on the spine, and the flesh and blood had varying degrees of metallization."

Fan Tie rubbed his forehead. "This information has been sent to the higher-ups, but it's been too short, and they haven't given me a detailed solution yet. But we can be fairly certain that this is a historical-style demonic realm descent."

"What do you mean?" Li Ye asked, puzzled.

"Demon realms appear in various ways. Some directly cover the landscape, while others expand the land. Many demon realms may originate from other planets, appearing in our history, or are mythological. The most famous one, you know Yancheng, right? Not the Yancheng in Jiangnan Province."

Sodom.

Li Ye replied, "I know that."

As he spoke, he looked at the video on the tablet and the pictures inserted beside it.

The location shown above is a mine, and in the surrounding area, you can see soldiers using firearms, even those carrying grenades, wearing gas masks, and drones that are constantly attacking.

The targets were varied, including a clump of wriggling coal ash and slag, but with a crack on one side, a rusty iron tongue emerged, enduring the sparks from bullets hitting the tongue, and split a drone in two.

"Dust Mine Demon".

With just one glance, Li Ye was able to determine the type of demon.

There was also a humanoid object, which looked like a weeping, hunched old man. It was indigo in color and had a metallic sheen. The tears it shed left obvious corrosive marks on the ground, like strong acid.

With a flick of its wrist, the teardrops that flowed down were flung out like shrapnel, corroding several large holes in the soldiers who couldn't dodge in time.

There were also flying demons, their central parts resembling copper coins but with four limbs, and their heads and wings like moths. With a flap of their wings, they would drop a cloud of dust, causing anything that came into contact with them, whether human or object, to develop coin-shaped, festering tumors. Objects would immediately lose their function, becoming filled with copper and iron. Humans, in particular, would lose their ability to move; no matter how much they tried to stimulate their vital energy, it was to no avail. They could only watch helplessly as their bodies grew numerous coin-shaped tumors, eventually transforming into half-human, half-copper inanimate objects that merged with the earth.

With their qi and blood surging, Li Ye even saw the qi and blood of the Four Dragon Gates pulsating.

The military and the disinfection department are different; they focus more on weapons, but now weapons are clearly not very effective.

There are also animal-like creatures, like mules, but their lower bodies are occupied by ancient mine carts. As they move, they extend several steel cables to shred drones, and when they attack people, they wrap themselves around the waist and tear them to pieces.

Just watching the videos made Li Ye feel unbearably itchy all over, short of breath, and physically sluggish; one can only imagine how those who faced the demons directly must have felt.

The demons in the Demon Realm were on a completely different level from those he encountered in Ningjiang City.

And this is just the outer perimeter, a demonic realm. Judging from the videos alone, quite a few people have already died.
He closed his eyes, his mind racing with thoughts of the documents and ancient books he had been reading.

Of these demons, apart from the Dust Mine Demon which has appeared in modern academic papers, there seems to be no record of the others.

History.
Those are ancient books.
Especially ancient books where the Dust Mine Demon has appeared.
"Have you read the local gazetteer?" Li Ye suddenly asked.

"I've checked. Only the Dust Mine Demon has appeared. This demon is most easily dealt with using ultrasonic weapons, but the equipment hasn't arrived yet."

Fan Tie said, "Moreover, the time span is too large, ranging from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty."

"Then let's look within these dynasties."

Li Ye then looked at the data on the tablet, not missing a single detail.

There must be talented people in the province who will eventually be able to identify what kind of demon it is or what its prototype is, and then come up with a solution.

While gunpowder can ward off evil, it now seems to be wasting too much resources, and it's clear that the support is inadequate and there's a lack of more powerful weapons.

We can't afford to waste any more time; every second saved means fewer deaths.

The weeping man, the copper coins, and the mule cart
Li Ye suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the silvery light that was revealed among the fragments that had been shredded by the mule cart's steel cable.

It looked like a broken spine, which fell to the ground like shattered silver.

Silver, mule cart.
"The Tragic Tale of a Miner!"

"During the Wanli era, when the mining supervisor was collecting mining taxes, thirty mules were killed. At night, mule bones dragged steel cables into the yamen, wrapped around people's waists and dragged them left and right, and the bones turned into tax silver ingots."

"Wanli was a ruler during the Ming Dynasty."

With this anchor in mind, Li Ye carefully considered the ancient Ming Dynasty books on demons and monsters that he had read.

“I’ve got it. The Donglin Party’s copy of ‘A Tragic Record of Mine Disasters’ records that mining mules died from exhaustion, their bones wrapped in blood-soaked steel cables. The cables were transformed from the whips of the mining tax collectors. At night, they dragged living people like animals, and after being broken into pieces, they turned into silver and filled the tax carts.”

"It's the Silver Mine Demon!"

Li Ye then looked at the other demons.

“In Jinze, copper liquid accumulates in the abyss. At night, a man in indigo robes walks across the fields, weeping for his lover. Where his tears fall, the soil forms blue armor, and the crops grow copper needles. The farmers eat it, and their bellies are like boiling cauldrons, and their bodies melt into the copper fields.”

From "The Records of Quanhe Engineering: The Chapter on Gallbladder Water".

It's also from the Ming Dynasty, specifically the Wanli era!

"That weeping demon is the Slave of Gallant Tears!"

"The 'Quanzhi·Yansheng Pian' states that privately minted evil coins attract evil spirits, which turn into moths carrying copper as a calamity. Their wings gather dust as they descend, and wherever they touch, copper coin sores appear. When the sores rupture, copper is revealed and the coins are transformed."

"That flying moth is a 'money moth'!"

Li Ye quickly said, "Stop using bullets and cannons. Use weapons like cryogenic hibernation on the Cobra Slave, use electronic pulses on the Money Moth, and suffocate and burn the Mining Mule, similar to foam fire extinguishing bombs."

The book "Tiangong Kaiwu" describes a neutralization method, which in ancient times involved covering the gallbladder with lime, but in modern times, low temperatures can suffice.

The method for dealing with the money moth in the book "Quan Zhi" is to cover the luster of the copper coin with ink; in modern times, a direct electronic pulse can do the same.

The Donglin Records describes a method to deal with the Silver Mine Demon: using glutinous rice to seal the connection between the steel cable and the body. The temperature in that area is very high, so glutinous rice can be used to "suppress boiling." In modern times, this is used to directly suffocate and retard flames.

This reminded Li Ye of a record he had once read.

Volume 351 of the Veritable Records of Emperor Shenzong of Ming states that in the 45th year of the Wanli reign, the Tongguanshan Mine collapsed, killing more than 200 miners. Afterwards, at night, one could hear the wailing of drums and gongs from the mine. If the mining was done too much, copper, silver, blood, and sand would gush out, and any worker who touched it would die instantly.

“This demonic realm dates back to the Ming Dynasty!” Li Ye confirmed.

But this place
"I saw a news report before summer vacation that Fu Yan killed a demon here, but now another demon has appeared."

Li Ye asked, "Is the demonic realm that appeared related to Fu Yan, or to the master of this place?"

Fan Tie shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with Fu Yan. He is a free man, like a mercenary. He works for whoever pays the highest price. The properties here belong to the Chen family of Jinze."

“We went to the Chen family immediately, but they denied it.”

"You guys are even more violent than us, aren't you? If you don't want to admit it, then so be it?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

The real institutions of violence are these military units.

"We need orders from our superiors. You have no say in this. Let's deal with the Demon Realm first."

Fan Tie sighed, then gave Li Ye a resentful look. "Besides, this should be your disinfection work, but not every place is your responsibility, Ningjiang. You should know that the disinfection in Jinze City is extremely poor."

Every place has its drawbacks. The military is a real institution of violence, but it requires orders.

The pest control department has a lot of freedom, but it needs force.

Li Ye narrowed his eyes, "What is the most powerful realm in the Chen family?"

"The Three Realms, like the Ren family of Ningjiang, are all of the Human Rank."

"Then I'll go ask myself."

It just so happens that he hasn't figured out his own niche yet, so Zheng Jun alone can't really test him out.

With a person in one of the three realms, you can freely try to find out where their ecological niche is.

"arrive."

Fan Tie then looked down and said, "Let's have our men retreat first, and wait for our Ningjiang troops to arrive, then..."

"Then we lost the excellent blockade situation that these people sacrificed for."

Li Ye stood up, pulled open the cabin door, and let the airflow blow through his hair and the coat he was wearing.

"I'll blockade it!"

Fan Tie froze, seeing Li Ye take a step forward, and hurriedly grabbed the gas mask that had been prepared to the side. "This..."

"Need not."

call out!
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Li Ye swung it downwards, turning into a straight line in the air, heading straight for the demon-infested mine below.

Why would he need a gas mask? Others might have contamination, but he doesn't.

The level of martial arts that has broken through the sixth barrier is a level of pollution that is child's play.

Besides...
This level of pollution is like eating a snack!
(End of this chapter)