Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

"Once this matter is resolved, I will use Jiang Zhengyi's [Ghost Sword] to make a copy, and then I will find a new place to stay so that the other party cannot track my whereabouts."

Just then, he noticed a message coming from the system.

Upon clicking, it was a message from Jiang Zhengyi:

"Brother, where are you? Are you alright? We just discovered that the ancient town's instance has been unsealed, and we can contact the outside world again. Also, the bureau's reinforcements have arrived, and we're clearing out the remaining enemies in the ancient town."

Qi Xie looked at Jiang Zhengyi's message, let out a soft breath, and replied:

"I'm in the northwest corner of the ancient town. I'm not injured. Come and get me."

He originally did not plan to contact the authorities at this time, intending to slip away quietly once official support arrived. After all, he also had many secrets, and he wanted to avoid being noticed as much as possible when his actions were related to the supernatural.

But now he has changed his mind.

The enemy's target was Jiang Zhengyi.

If he can figure out why this is happening, he might be able to get some clues from it.

After replying to the message, Qi Xie looked down at the headless "Red-Eyed Demon".

At this moment, the other person's body was convulsing like a zombie, struggling as if trying to get up.

This is the strange thing controlled by the other party—the illusory, pitch-black figure began to stir after the host's death, wanting to take control of the corpse.

"Not bad, it's actually a complete, ferocious-level monster..."

Qi Xie muttered to himself, raising his hands high, where a huge iron-gray phantom appeared.

Immediately, the huge steel coil crashed down!

Pfft—!

Scraping the minced meat into the shadow space, Qi Xie picked up a withered right arm from the side, in which he held a ceremonial dagger with a curved blade and a handle wrapped in human skin.

"Um?"

It was fine if he hadn't looked, but once he did, Qi Xie frowned.

From the perspective of the now almost passive [Spirit Sight], this ritual dagger did not reveal any blood-tinged black mist representing eerie energy. Instead, its surface was covered with a hazy gray mist, making it difficult to see clearly.

Moreover, the Traveler System did not respond.

This situation did not shock Qi Xie, because he had already found similar items before.

He flipped his right hand, and a bronze plaque the size of a palm and two fingers thick appeared in his palm.

From the perspective of the [Spirit Sight], this thing also seemed to be hidden behind a hazy gray curtain, making it difficult to see clearly.

"What exactly is this...?"

Qi Xie murmured softly:

"What is that...?"

……

……

The Mysterious Special Operations Bureau, Guyuan Branch.

This usually ordinary municipal branch office was now bustling with activity.

Inside the hall, four people dressed in special black uniforms and a young man with a fairly ordinary appearance were sitting around a table drinking tea and slowly chewing on the snacks brought by the logistics lady.

In addition, there were many people escorting members of the Black Saint Guild who had been captured from the ancient town into the hall.

"Let's go! Hurry up!"

"Stop dawdling! Are you itching for a beating?"

Having personally experienced a life-or-death ambush, and given that the Black Saint Guild itself belongs to the dark forces, the official travelers naturally didn't have a good temper with these prisoners, either cursing and swearing or kicking them directly.

Among the crowd, members of the Black Saints Guild, their faces bruised and swollen, could no longer bear it and shouted loudly:

"We have surrendered! We deserve to be treated kindly! We deserve warm humanistic care! You can't do this! This is violent law enforcement! I'm going to file a complaint against you!!"

After he finished speaking, the hall fell silent for a moment.

The two official travelers, dressed in ordinary uniforms, exchanged glances:

"You said you'd file a complaint against us, do you have any evidence?"

The man who had been shouting suddenly felt emboldened and pointed at the small black boxes hanging from the collars of the group:

"Wow! This is a huge body camera!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a person took off a small black box from his collar and turned it to show him a completely black screen:

"We've been in the ancient town all day, and the power's long gone."

"this……"

The noisy Black Saints guild members turned around and looked around, discovering a security camera in the corner:

"There! There are security cameras there! They're recording everything!"

Another official traveler shrugged:

"The station had a power outage today, and all the surveillance cameras stopped working. Didn't you see the indicator lights aren't on?"

"A...power outage? Even your Weird Special Operations Bureau experiences power outages?"

The members of the Black Saints Guild suddenly had a bad feeling:

"Nothing has power?"

"No."

Another person reached into their waistband and pulled out a specially made stun gun designed for pedestrians. They pressed a button, and the gun crackled and sparked.

"This has electricity."

Before the stunned members of the Black Saint Guild could recover, he turned and shouted:

"Get a few more brothers here, throw this prisoner into the interrogation room, and let's give him some humane treatment!"

"Wait...wait! Don't do this! I won't complain! I won't complain anymore, ahhh..."

The pig-like screams disappeared into the depths of the hall.

Qi Xie and the action team leaders, who were gathered around a table drinking tea and eating snacks, finally looked away.

"So, what will happen to these people?"

Qi Xie asked curiously.

Sitting next to him, Jiang Zhengyi poured him tea while explaining:

Those who refused to surrender were shot dead on the spot.

Those who are willing to surrender will be captured and convicted based on the cases they have committed in the real world. Those with minor offenses will be imprisoned, used as experimental subjects, or assigned to various unimportant but manpower-starved miscellaneous tasks.

Those guilty of heinous crimes were either thrown into near-fatal experiments, killed outright, or used as training material to strengthen members within the organization who needed it.

"Oh~"

Qi Xie nodded thoughtfully.

Just then, a young woman working in an office suddenly approached and whispered:

"Captain Jiang, you're in charge of this mission, so we need you to come here first to give a brief report..."

"Okay, okay."

Jiang Zhengyi nodded upon hearing this, got up, walked to a secluded spot, dusted himself off, and then called out to Qi Xie:

"Brother! I have some important business to attend to, I'll be right back!"

"Go ahead, go ahead."

Qi Xie nodded and slowly drank the tea that Jiang Zheng had poured for him.

He had already put his disguise back on, wearing black contact lenses, and his ordinary appearance made him inconspicuous in the crowd.

But the person sitting opposite him was now squinting, looking at him with a slightly unfriendly gaze:

"You are Qi Xie?"