Eating bizarre things in public upgrades my status; the Special Affairs Bureau wants me to join them

"What's the situation with Qingshan Village?"

"The mastermind would specifically hide in that place..."

"Is there anything special about it?"

As they got closer to Qingshan Village, He Li asked Yu Ji about their destination.

Yu Ji had already investigated these matters.

"Special features? Yes!" Yu Ji said, "I just checked and found that Qingshan Village is the place where the family of a court eunuch from the feudal era was based."

"The people there are very xenophobic."

"They themselves have little contact with the outside world."

"There was a missing person case before, and the security officers from the nearby police station wanted to go into the village to investigate..."

"They were all turned away outside."

"Also, this village has a strong martial spirit."

"Most villagers know a little bit of martial arts."

"Now that spiritual energy has appeared, the number of martial artists in this Green Mountain Village has probably increased significantly. Apart from that... there's nothing else particularly special about this village."

Is martial spirit becoming the norm? He Li narrowed his eyes.

He roughly understood why the mastermind had chosen Qingshan Village as their hiding place.

"After the parasite sucks blood, the bloodworm can produce spiritual blood whose purpose is unknown."

"Moreover, martial artists are far more attractive to parasites than ordinary people."

"Because martial artists absorb spiritual energy for cultivation."

"Perhaps, martial artists produce more spiritual blood."

"From this perspective, the mastermind probably wants to use the village's martial artists to be self-sufficient and develop in the long term, so that even if his subordinates are arrested, it won't have much of an impact on him."

He Li then shared his guess.

Yu Ji nodded: "That's what I think too."

As the two were talking, He Li suddenly noticed something amiss at the village entrance not far ahead.

"Huh? What's going on up there...?"

"Why are there so many people gathered here?"

He frowned slightly.

Yu Ji, standing beside him, also shook his head.

"I'm not quite sure either."

"The Gu Master's insects stopped synchronizing with me after they arrived at the destination."

"The bugs are probably dead, so I can't see what's going on in the village right now, but... considering that the mastermind is hiding there, we need to be extra careful."

"Hmm!" He Li nodded.

Meanwhile, the car arrived at the village entrance.

Before He Li could even get out of the car, the villagers with unfriendly expressions had already surrounded him.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The old man leading the group questioned them sternly.

His tone was anything but polite.

They didn't even wait for He Li and Yu Ji to respond.

The old man said impatiently, "Go away, go away, our village doesn't welcome outsiders like you!" As he spoke, he waved his hand at the two of them as if shooing away flies.

Upon seeing this, Yu Ji frowned deeply.

She peered out of the car window and looked at the villagers: "We are investigators sent by the Bacheng Special Bureau."

"We're here to investigate a case."

"We suspect your village is harboring criminals."

"You'd better not block this spot..."

She tried to persuade them, but before she could finish speaking, the villagers' eyes turned fierce.

"What Special Bureau? I've never even heard of it!"

"And you said there are criminals here?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you little girl!"

"Our village is full of law-abiding citizens, where would a criminal come from?"

"Exactly, what kind of special bureau is this..."

"I think they might be involved in a pyramid scheme."

"Tell them to get lost. Our village is law-abiding and won't allow these kinds of random organizations to come in. Otherwise, if something happens, how can we ordinary people bear the responsibility?"

"That's right, get out of here!!!"

The villagers rebuked them with righteous indignation.

However, the mockery in their eyes had already revealed that they were not as ignorant as they appeared.

They did it on purpose.

They wanted to help the mastermind drive He Li and his group away.

As expected, seeing that He Li and Yu Ji were still sitting in the car and seemed to have no intention of leaving, the old man leading the group immediately turned his malicious eyes to the woman on the side and gave her a meaningful look.

The latter nodded with a wicked grin upon seeing this.

Immediately, she lunged towards He Li's car...

Snapped! ! !

With a thud, the woman's face immediately contorted with grief as she scrambled to her feet and lay on the hood of the car, wailing in despair...

"Ouch! Someone's been bumped into!!!"

"They hit me! They tried to kill me!!!"

"Waaaaah~ My leg is broken!"

"What are we going to do now? I have a ninety-year-old mother to support and a son who's still in elementary school. Waaah~ These beasts want our whole family to die!"

The woman was crying her eyes out.

He Li and Yu Ji were both shocked.

Huh? This works too?

Seriously, are you guys even professional?

Who tries to stage an accident like this?

We have to wait until the car starts moving!

He Li was speechless. He couldn't help but stick his head out the window to look at the wailing middle-aged woman: "Hey, ma'am, can you be a little more professional? My car didn't even move, how could I have hit you?"

The villagers sneered when he spoke.

"Just because the car wasn't moving doesn't mean you can't hit someone? Maybe you hit her first and then stopped?"

"We saw it with our own eyes."

"I can testify for her in court!"

"Exactly! Besides, if you hadn't bumped into her, why would she blame you? Why doesn't she blame someone else? You should look for the reasons within yourselves!"

"Hmph! You hit someone, and if you don't give us an explanation today, we're not letting this go!"

"Yes, we're not afraid of you."

"Our village is famous for its unity."

"If you don't satisfy us, you won't be leaving here alive today!!!"

"What are you two still doing sitting in the car?"

"Aren't you going to get down here, apologize, and pay up?"

The villagers twisted the truth and were self-righteous.

They even seemed to believe in their own motives, rolling up their sleeves and surrounding the vehicle with fierce expressions. If an ordinary person saw this, they would definitely panic and want to run away.

Among these villagers, the old man who was leading them also showed a satisfied smile upon seeing this.

Previously, some people from the public security bureau wanted to enter the village to investigate...

They drove us away in a rude and unreasonable manner.

In his view, this time it will definitely work too.

After all, the people who came this time were younger and looked like high school students.

"Young people like this, who haven't experienced much hardship, would be flustered if they encountered even the slightest problem, let alone when they encounter a group of unreasonable and domineering people like us."

"Hmph, I'll scare them a bit more later."

"They naturally fled in disarray."

The old man thought to himself.

He wasn't worried about He Li taking action.

The old man knew very well that the officials of the Great Xia Dynasty not only cherished their reputation but also valued their future; they would never actually lay a hand on ordinary people like them.

Because once this kind of thing gets out...

When public opinion rises...

Those people's futures will be affected.

Therefore, considering their future, they would only use kind words instead of taking direct action. Thinking this, the old man couldn't help but raise his head and look at the surveillance camera diagonally behind the village entrance.

And after the surveillance...

The white-haired youth, suspected to be the mastermind, nodded with satisfaction upon seeing the old house in the center of the village.

"What's the reason? This guy is quite talented."

There are also many rumors about him online.

"What do you mean by eating monsters raw, tearing criminals apart alive...?"

"You seemed to have publicly resorted to violence at the Honghe Hotel, completely disregarding the impact on public opinion, but..." The white-haired youth looked at the surveillance footage and smiled.

"But at the end of the day, you're a good person."

"A good person has a conscience."

"So all you did from beginning to end was intimidate ordinary people with your ferocity without actually taking any action."

"You can't actually lay a hand on an ordinary person."

"Because your conscience won't allow it."

At this point, the white-haired youth stared at He Li, who was getting out of the car as if preparing to speak kindly to the villagers, and asked calmly, "Since you can't bring yourself to harm ordinary people..."

"So, what can you do to me now?"

"Hehe~ You can't even get in."

"You'll have no choice but to slink away!"

"As for me... although it's a bit ahead of schedule, I'm about to finish what I need to do."

After saying that, the young man turned around.

However, the young man did not notice that, as he expected, He Li, who got out of the car, did not speak kindly to the group of villagers who were deliberately making things difficult for him.

He simply approached the woman who was throwing a tantrum and cursing him, and smiled slyly...

"You're saying I broke your leg?"

He asked, and the man seemed frightened.

Because she vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

However, looking around, he saw that his fellow villagers were giving him encouraging glances and words of support...

She nodded arrogantly.

"Yes, you're the one who broke my leg."

"If you don't..."

Snap!

Before she could finish speaking, He Li's eyes suddenly turned fierce, and he raised his leg and stomped heavily on the leg of the woman who was making a scene. Instantly, the crisp sound of bones breaking reached the ears of everyone present.

In an instant, everything fell silent...