What evil intentions could an evil god possibly have?

"The surname Huai is not very common."

Cha Shao spoke softly, glanced at Lin Mushi, and added, "Of course, 'pine syrup' is also a very special word. It must have been invented, right?"

Lin Mushi hummed in agreement, thinking to herself, "You guessed right."

On the very first day she met Gu Yuqiu, she asked him what the white cat's name was. Her thoughts at the time were exactly the same as Cha Shao's—she was puzzled.

Cha Shao walked ahead, heading towards the window of the banquet hall, and said, "Let's go."

Lin Mushi subconsciously glanced at Gu Yuqiu, only to see that her expression remained calm and she showed no sign of refusing, so she followed her.

"This dream... or rather, the name of the sacred object, is quite interesting."

Before Cha Shao could finish speaking, he stopped at the window, made way for the two of them, and gestured for them to look outside.

The bright moon hangs high outside the window.

The moonlight falls on the water, and although it is the deep of night, it looks whiter than during the day, just like snow.

The stars in the sky were dim, like specks of dust on a black curtain, inconspicuous.

At that moment, they were actually on a boat sailing on a river.

"The Ship of Fools".

Cha Shao smiled and said, "This is a sacred object made from the skull of a grey-robed bishop of the Church of the Sleeping Souls. It sails through dreams and is also one of our safety guarantees tonight."

Lin Mushi stood by the window, looking at the distant scenery, wondering how to get this message out.

There is a gap between dreams and reality, and this dream called the Fool's Ship is undoubtedly more powerful and harder to pinpoint than Mr. Zhuo's original dream.

Moreover, the faces of everyone attending the banquet were blurred, so she couldn't recognize anyone at all, and even the path of rote memorization was blocked.

Just then, a sentence reached her ears.

"It would be best if it were as you said, otherwise if the Special Affairs Bureau really gets the intelligence, we'll all be in trouble, and I don't know how many of us will be able to escape."

At some point, a tall man came to the window and said those words to Cha Shao.

Gu Yuqiu seemed not to have heard anything, her expression remaining calm as ever.

Lin Mushi was mentally prepared for this, but hearing these words suddenly still made her a little nervous.

You can rest assured.

Cha Shao turned around, looked at the man, and said, "You can doubt other things, but you have to believe in the Church of the Sleeping Souls' ability to survive."

The man snorted and said, "But I just heard some news. Something happened to the Church of the Sleeping Spirits last night. One of the bishops died."

The sound carried in all directions, and the scattered superhumans gradually gathered together, waiting for what was to come.

Such extraordinary individuals who cannot be seen in the light are ultimately a tiny minority on this land. It is difficult to meet even one like-minded person on ordinary days, so such a gathering tonight is truly rare.

In fact, the most important reason why most extraordinary individuals were willing to attend the gathering tonight was to exchange information.

It's normal for people to attract attention when they take the initiative to speak up.

Thus, Gu Yuqiu and Lin Mushi, standing in the corner, became inconspicuous.

Of course, all of this is on the premise that Gu Yuqiu does not reveal her face.

"Another death in the Church of the Sleeping Souls? What happened? Didn't Mr. Zhuo just die recently?"

"Given the usual practices of the Church of the Sleeping Souls, they would typically just leave. Now they're actually investing resources into New Chu. Could the rumors be true?"

"But Blackstone has clearly shown signs of backing down. Ever since they fought a battle with the Special Affairs Bureau in Nanshan a while ago, they have changed their strategy and have been stirring up trouble all day without taking any real action."

"The Divine Will Walker does the same thing. I think that person's relics are in Xin Chu, and this news is very likely a trap."

"What's the point of using these two examples? Do you think one of them is at the peak of the fifth rank?"

"The problem is that the Pope has long since stopped interfering in affairs and is clearly focused on breaking through to the sixth rank."

A sigh of emotion rose in the banquet hall, where the lights flickered softly.

Most of the extraordinary individuals began discussing the matter and expressing their opinions.

Lin Mushi had never seen anything like it before, but she wasn't particularly interested; in fact, she found it rather boring.

Gu Yuqiu naturally didn't react, but when she heard the word "breakthrough," her eyebrows seemed to twitch slightly, as if she had heard a joke.

"These things are too far removed from us, they're meaningless."

Someone interrupted the conversation and said seriously, "For us, the most important thing is to find out how Mr. Zhuo and the people who came after the Church of the Sleeping Demon died."

A well-informed person said, "I don't know about the latter, but I heard that the former is a new recruit from the Special Affairs Bureau."

"A newcomer?" someone said in surprise.

"He was a newcomer. Mr. Zhuo's death was even a beheading, the scene was extremely bloody, and most importantly, that newcomer was only at the second level."

The man was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "I heard that the newcomer wasn't injured at all. Such a terrifying person, I hope we don't run into him, otherwise we probably won't even have a chance to survive."

People couldn't help but gasp, thinking that killing people by beheading in this day and age was too terrifying.

Seeing this, Lin Mushi found it somewhat amusing and forced herself not to look at Gu Yuqiu.

In her opinion, apart from having a terrible personality, her good friend actually had a pretty good temper and couldn't possibly be the kind of pervert who would disregard human life.

At that moment, someone proposed a hypothesis.

"The most practical thing for us to do to defeat this monster is probably to get lucky and obtain his relics."

After he finished speaking, people fell silent again.

After the topic was raised, Cha Shao, who had been listening silently, smiled and stepped into the crowd's view, saying gently, "I invited you all here tonight for that person's relics."

Lin Mushi looked at him, her expression equally focused.

The reason why Xin Chu has been in turmoil these days is because of this rumor that has not yet been confirmed.

"Since that person's fall, all sorts of information have emerged, but they have all been proven to be rumors. Only the one about Xin Chu is considered to be true."

Cha Shao smiled and said, "However, what is puzzling is that the person had no connection with this land during his lifetime, so why would he leave his belongings here? It's too strange."

At this point, he suddenly lost his smile and said seriously, "I have always been very curious about this. Just a few days ago, I heard some news about that person, which was confirmed to be closely related to this relic."

A gasp of surprise rang out from the audience.

Lin Mushi looked at Gu Yuqiu's profile and suddenly asked, "Miss Huai, what do you think?"

Gu Yuqiu smiled and said, "I'm quite curious."

Of course I'm curious.

Because even she herself didn't know such a thing existed.

Chapter 48: What is your relationship?

Lin Mushi was surprised by this statement and wondered if the news about Cha Shao was true.

For some reason, she had developed a strange trust in Gu Yuqiu, and had become accustomed to obeying him, too lazy to think about anything else—except for what to eat tonight.

She couldn't help but feel a headache coming on, thinking that the price of such information must be high, and she definitely couldn't afford it. What should she do then?

The next second, she remembered that her mission tonight was to capture all the people around her and bring them all back to the Special Affairs Bureau for tea, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

However, this kind of post-event encirclement and suppression operation seems to resemble the double-cross plot of an auction in traditional cultivation novels, and she is undoubtedly on the villain's side.

Thinking of this, Lin Mushi's emotions became subtle.

"Miss Huai..."

She leaned close to Gu Yuqiu's ear and whispered, "Do you want to buy this information?"

After saying that, she blinked cautiously, indicating that she could get reimbursed by the Special Affairs Bureau later, or that they could just take advantage of each other later!

Gu Yuqiu knew what she was thinking and said, "Idiot."

Lin Mushi was already used to being scolded, so she smiled indifferently and wondered curiously what he planned to do.

The gasps and exclamations from the audience had completely subsided.

Cha Shao arrived at the end of the banquet hall, stood on the stage, and came into everyone's view.

Just as the extraordinary individuals present assumed that the purpose of tonight's gathering was to auction off this information, and were silently calculating what they could offer...

Cha Shao spoke up.

"This information is free."

His gaze swept across the crowd below the stage, pausing for a moment, presumably to look at certain people more than once, before he continued, "For me, the most important thing tonight is to make friends with everyone."

Lin Mushi thought to herself, "This is too fake, isn't it?"

Even she thought it was fake, so naturally the people present wouldn't believe it either. However, since listening to such things wouldn't cause any problems, no one questioned it.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, Cha Shao smiled again and said, "I believe you all know that he has many nicknames, one of which is 'Calamity of the Heavens'."

“Nickname is the most straightforward description. ‘All Heavenly Calamities’ refers to the one who can create all kinds of natural disasters.”

He paused, then continued, "So what's interesting is that Xin Chu doesn't usually get much rain in winter, but this year it's been raining non-stop and exceptionally cold."

There was no applause from the audience.

The unusual weather in Xinchu has been discussed repeatedly online. Those present were just trying to avoid the light of day, not that they were afraid to go online, so they were naturally aware of it.

"These are common-sense platitudes, so why am I saying them to you? The reason is simple."

Cha Shao said softly, "According to the information I received, that person's belongings were not in the rain, but in the snow after the rain stopped. In other words, the time when the snow fell was when the belongings appeared. This may mean that the truth has come to light."

Someone said, "The whole of Xin Chu is so big, and the weather is so unpredictable right now. Who knows where the first snow will fall?"

Lin Mushi glanced at the man and thought to herself, "You seem too much like a shill, don't you?"

By proactively steer the conversation toward the falling snow, it should be Cha Shao who speaks up next, proposing that everyone present reach an agreement to watch over each other.

As expected, Cha Shao said with a smile, "This is indeed a problem. What's more troublesome is that this is the Special Affairs Bureau's home ground, so we are naturally at a disadvantage."

The ensuing conversation was as expected, but Lin Mushi listened for a while and then found it uninteresting.

She looked at Gu Yuqiu and asked curiously, "Miss Huai, what do you think now?"

Gu Yuqiu said, "You can change one word for 'snow,' but there's nothing else to say, because it's all fake."

Lin Mushi was startled by these words, thinking to herself, "How could you say something like that?"