Excessive ferocity due to caution

Caizhen Tower.

A human and a ghost stand facing the wind.

"You shouldn't have come."

"But I still came."

"Coming here to die?"

"Only fools come here to die."

"Oh? You're not an idiot?"

"I am a smart person."

In front of the building, the two men, with sharp gazes and powerful auras, confronted each other head-on.

Until a voice broke the silence between them.

Are you two sick?

"They've been blocking the entrance for twenty minutes straight, and haven't said a word! What the hell are they doing?!"

"Get out of my way, I need to go in and collect last month's salary!"

The two, who had been serious, broke down and made way for the honest and simple ghost outside. The ghost entered Cai Zhen Lou, carrying a roaring chainsaw, and went upstairs to collect its wages.

Chen Fei to Zhao Yidao:

"Shall we talk somewhere else?"

"OK."

The two moved to a shady spot where there were fewer people.

Chen Fei leaned against the wall.

"This place is not suitable for a living person like you to work. It's too dangerous. I can help you apply for resignation. You should leave as soon as possible."

Zhao Yi's expression suddenly turned serious.

"Actually, I'm a time-traveling special police officer."

"The world has undergone a dramatic change, and Valley Suspension Town is in imminent danger. The source of this threat is this factory, and its threat level is—Dragon-level!"

"We reverse time, traversing countless past timelines to conduct special operations, all with the goal of saving the past!"

"Operation codename: Tenet!"

Chen Fei was completely taken aback by Zhao Yi's words.

The surprise on his face was undisguised.

"Are you... alright?"

Zhao Yi said in a serious tone:

"Don't I look like it?"

Seeing that Zhao Yi didn't seem to be joking, Chen Fei still began to have some doubts, no matter how unreliable his words were.

"What proof do you have for what you're saying?"

Zhao Yi took out a property ownership certificate from the inventory.

"This is my ID card, A-level Agent 007."

"Code name—James Bonhard Old Man Liu!"

Chen Fei stared at the property certificate for a long time, feeling that something was not quite right.

After all, time-traveling special police and all that... is just too absurd!

And this name...

That sounds like it's going to be really difficult to get approved!

Seeing Chen Fei's skeptical expression, Zhao Yi sighed and took out the body shredder again.

I knew you wouldn't believe me.

"Look, I even brought the time-traveling machine with me!"

"Just throw the item in and set the timer, and you can travel to the past!"

Chen Fei carefully examined the strange machine in front of him.

Hmm... it doesn't look like a high-tech product that can travel through time at all.

It's more like... some kind of meat processing machine.

"Are you sure this thing can travel to the past?"

Zhao Yi replied:

"Of course, or you could try throwing anything in there and see?"

Chen Fei hesitated for a moment, then the iron chain on his left hand suddenly flew up, grabbed a dead tree next to him, and threw it into the shredder.

A series of loud rumbling sounds were heard.

The dead trees inside are gone.

All that remained were wood chips flying everywhere at the exit.

Chen Fei pointed to the wood chips on the ground and exclaimed in astonishment:

"Damn! This is clearly a body shredder!!"

Zhao Yi patted Chen Fei on the shoulder and said earnestly:

"Why!"

"Whether you say it or not, let's all be civilized!"

"Actually, these fragments... are another function of the time-space transporter—to mislead others, the Doctor specifically developed a function when building this machine..."

"It can analyze the materials of the objects it enters, and while sending the objects back in time, it also discharges debris similar to the materials of those objects, making others mistake it for an ordinary body shredder rather than a time machine..."

A glint appeared in Chen Fei's eyes.

"real?"

Zhao Yi shrugged.

"If it weren't for my mission, why would a human like me come to such a dangerous place and get involved in this mess?"

This reason seems to be more convincing than all the other reasons Zhao Yi mentioned earlier.

Chen Fei believed it.

It took a deep breath, and its expression became much more serious.

"You just said that a terrible disaster struck the future Valley Suspension Town, and the disaster originated from a steel processing plant... What happened?"

Zhao Yi continued to deceive:

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, but it's just too dangerous. It's better for a child like you not to know!"

Upon hearing Zhao Yi's tone, Chen Fei immediately became displeased.

"Whom do you look down on?"

"I'm one of the few employees in the factory wearing red!"

Upon hearing this, a glint flashed in Zhao Yi's eyes.

Employee in red.

Key words.

He had many questions, but he didn't ask them immediately, a hint of hesitation on his face.

"This is a top-secret mission... If you want to know, you must join us, and joining us... means you could be sacrificed at any time..."

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world?

Upon hearing this, Chen Fei was immediately excited.

Hold the grass!

Judging from Zhao Yi's tone, he must have a large organization behind him!

His childhood dream was to become a great hero who rode on a colorful cloud and saved the world!

Damn it, isn't this exactly what it wanted?

"I do!"

Chen Fei's words were firm and resounding!

Zhao nodded solemnly, then turned to Chen Fei and said:

"Comrade Chen Fei, stand at attention!"

Chen Fei straightened his chest, his eyes resolute!

"The organization is willing to accept you, but you need to swear an oath to the truth."

"Now, I'll read a line, and you read a line."

Chen Fei nodded:

"no problem!"

Zhao Yi made up a story in a serious tone:

"The long night is coming; I will keep watch from this day forth, and not until I die."

Chen Fei solemnly swore:

"The long night is coming, and I will keep watch from this day forth until my death!"

Zhao Yi continued:

"I will not marry, nor will I have land or children. I will not wear fine clothes, nor will I vie for glory! I will be utterly loyal and devoted to the cause until my dying breath!"

These words stirred Chen Fei's heart, and it read them aloud:

"I will not marry, nor will I have land or children. I will not wear fine clothes, nor will I vie for glory! I will be utterly loyal and devoted to the cause until my dying breath!"

Zhao nodded, his eyes sharp.

"I will be the sharpest sword in the twilight, piercing the darkness and questioning the light! I will dedicate my life to the organization, fighting to liberate the world from suffering! I swear by my soul that even alone, I will never retreat, fighting to the very last second, shedding my last drop of blood!"

Chen Fei trembled all over, and tears even streamed down his face.

To fight for the liberation of the world from suffering...

What a great and lofty ideal!

Who would believe that just a moment ago, he was an ordinary worker in a steel processing plant, and now he's fighting to liberate the whole world?!

It raised its right hand above its head and said in a resounding voice:

"I, Chen Fei, will be the sharpest sword in the twilight, piercing the darkness and questioning the light! I will dedicate my life to the organization, fighting to liberate the world from suffering! I swear by my soul that even alone, I will never retreat, fighting to the very last second, shedding my last drop of blood!"

My blood boiled in my chest, and I couldn't calm down for a long time.

The ghost craftsman 'Chen Fei' has increased your favorability towards you to 'Awe'.

The system sent a message.

After a brief silence, Zhao Yi looked at the ghost he had tricked and crippled, then reached out and shook hands with the chainsaw on its right arm.

"Comrade Chen Fei, congratulations on joining the organization!"

Chen Fei said excitedly:

"Comrade Zhao Yi... thank you!"

"By the way... what's the name of our organization?"

Zhao Yi recalled a document he had once seen that described a certain Eastern mythological world, and blurted out:

"The Intercepting Sect".

"The Intercepting Sect... the Intercepting Sect..."

Chen Fei muttered these two words to himself, memorizing them.

At that moment, it had no idea what those two words would mean in the future...

"Comrade Chen Fei, now that you've participated in this mission to save Guxuan Town, you must cooperate with me as much as possible!"

"no problem!"

"First, I'd like to ask you about the specifics of this factory... why the grass and people rust, and what the factory's rules are?"

Chen Fei remained silent for a moment, seemingly trying to organize his thoughts.

It carefully looked around, making sure there were no other ghosts or cameras, before whispering:

"According to the older brother who mentored me, the steel processing plant was originally a rather special laboratory."

"This steel processing plant has existed for so long that it was built even before Guxuan Town was established!"

"There is something in the steel mill... that can affect all living things around it. Within a certain range, as long as something is injured on the outside, it will be sensed by 'it'."

"It will eat rusty things and spit out a high-quality steel."

"After further processing, this steel will be purchased by construction teams in Guxuan Town."

"As for that thing... I think it's underground."

"After all, every time there's rusty material, it's transported underground."

Even after giving his confession, Chen Fei remained vigilant and attentive to his surroundings.

"As for the factory's rules... they were set by a machine left behind by the factory's developers."

"I heard that the rules can protect the employees here from mysterious forces."

"Do you remember the rules saying there are four colors of clothing?"

Zhao nodded.

"Remember."

"Regular employees wear blue uniforms, but in addition to that, there are also gray, red, and black uniforms in the factory."

Chen Fei lowered his voice once again.

"The employees' clothes are all custom-made; they look like ordinary clothes, but they are not."

"If an employee gets infected with rust, the color of their clothes will fade, and eventually, they will become an employee wearing gray clothes..."

"These types of employees are called 'rusty corpses' by managers. They look no different from ordinary employees, but they are actually very dangerous... If they ask to borrow something from you and you agree... a terrible accident will occur..."

"There was once an employee in the factory... who, although he didn't lend anything to the rusty corpse, engaged in a long conversation with it out of curiosity, and then mysteriously disappeared..."

Zhao Yi asked curiously:

"Don't you know where they ended up?"

Chen Fei shook his head, his eyes filled with deep apprehension.

"I haven't seen or heard of it since."

"And the existence of the red-clad employees... is to eliminate those potential people or ghosts who might become gray-clad employees!"

"By wearing red, we can clearly see which employees' blue shirts have faded, even if it's just a little bit!"

"Furthermore, the employee in red could also read the names on the employees in blue's clothes."

"The red-shirted staff are responsible for recording the names of these infected blue-shirted staff, reporting them all to the security office, or we can either eliminate them on the spot ourselves, or wait for them to be eliminated collectively at a certain time..."

Zhao Yi seemed to understand, lowered his head to think for a moment, and then suddenly asked:

"And what about the person in black?"

Chen Fei's expression was somewhat stiff.

"There are no people wearing black clothes in the factory..."

"I've worked in factories for decades and I've never seen anything like it."

"but……"

"I've heard my older brother mention it a little before..."

"It told me that a hundred years ago, a person dressed in black did indeed appear in the factory..."

Zhao Yi pressed further:

"And then?"

Chen Fei's body trembled almost imperceptibly.

"The older brother said... after that person in black appeared, because it wasn't reported to the security department in time, something extremely terrifying happened at the factory..."

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PS: This chapter has over three thousand words.

I'll stop here for now and continue tomorrow!

I still need to take a dump.

Thank you for watching.

good night!