A high-rise building in Cangnan City.
Creak.
The door was slowly pushed open, and Zhao Kongcheng walked in dejectedly, sighing from time to time.
"Old Zhao, what's wrong with you?"
The five people sitting in the room asked in surprise when they saw Zhao Kongcheng's appearance.
"Were you injured last night?"
"Looking at his expression, the possibility of a broken heart is quite high..."
"Fuck, Lao Zhao, is your wife going to divorce you?"
"Don't talk nonsense."
The five people started to speculate one after another. After a while, the silent Zhao Kongcheng sighed softly.
"Am I really... that unattractive?"
"… "
The five people rolled their eyes at the same time, pretending not to hear this, and continued to work on their tasks. Some sharpened knives, some cleaned guns, some played with their phones, and some took a nap...
"No, I'm asking you seriously!" Zhao Kongcheng was anxious.
Seeing that no one paid attention to Zhao Kongcheng, Hongying, who was cleaning her gun, sighed, "Brother Kongcheng, are you upset?"
"I guess so." Zhao Kongcheng paused, "I met the owner of the golden forbidden ruins last night."
After hearing the latter sentence, everyone looked up suddenly, stopped what they were doing, and their eyes began to shine.
"The guy who is suspected to be the agent of Seraph?"
"Um."
"Is he very strong? Who is he?"
"You think too much." Zhao Kongcheng shook his head. "He is just an ordinary high school student. The Klein-level power fluctuations should be the residual power left by the Seraphim on him. He is still a newcomer who has just entered the Lantern Realm."
Hearing this, a little disappointment appeared in the eyes of several people.
"I thought a Klein-level warrior had arrived in Cangnan City..."
"But it is also true that if that extremely dangerous god really chose an agent, and he grew to the level of 'Klein', the top management would not be unaware of it."
The man sitting on the sofa narrowed his eyes slightly. "Anyway, Seraph has chosen an agent and bestowed the Ruins of God. This is a big deal. We must report it to the top management immediately."
"By the way, Lao Zhao, since you met him, where is he? Didn't you bring back such an important person?"
"He ran away..." Zhao Kongcheng said faintly, "He told me to get his schoolbag, and then he ran away while I was distracted."
“…”Everyone was speechless.
Just when a few people were about to complain, the door of the room was opened again.
A man still wearing a dark red cloak walked in, with blood still on his face, and his steps were heavy as if they were filled with lead.
Seeing this man, everyone, including Zhao Kongcheng, stood up immediately.
"team leader!"
"Captain, are you okay?"
The captain waved his hand, took off his bloodstained cloak, and sat down on the small stool beside the door, with an indescribable look of fatigue between his brows.
"I'm fine, but... the Ghost Face King ran away."
The faces of several people suddenly became solemn.
The captain continued, "I chased the Ghost Face King all the way to the suburbs outside the city in the north last night. I fought with it and it was seriously injured. Later, it escaped at the cost of injuring its own essence."
"So, the Ghost Face King may have escaped from Cangnan City now?"
"No, not necessarily." The man sitting on the sofa suddenly spoke.
Everyone looked at him, and the captain's brows raised slightly, "Tell me, Shonan."
Wu Xiangnan stood up slowly, took out a map of the area around Cangnan City from under the sofa, and spread it out on the ground.
"Cangnan City is located in a remote area and is far away from nearby cities. The captain fought with the Ghost Face King in the northern suburbs last night. Apart from Cangnan City, the nearest city there is dozens of kilometers away." Wu Xiangnan drew a circle on the map.
"What's wrong?" Hongying's eyes were full of confusion.
At this moment, the captain's eyes gradually lit up, "The Ghost Face King was seriously injured. He can't cross such a long distance before he recovers his strength."
Wu Xiangnan continued the captain's words and said, "If the Ghost Face King wants to regain his strength, he can only rely on eating humans, which means..."
"It will definitely return to Cangnan City?"
"That's right."
Zhao Kongcheng frowned slightly, "But Cangnan City is so big, we have no idea where it will appear from."
"Sewer." Wu Xiangnan pushed his glasses and drew a curve on the map with a red pen. "The Ghost-Faced Man likes to go into the sewers, and the Ghost-Faced King escaped through the sewers before. There is only one sewer connecting the suburbs of the northern city, which means that the place where the Ghost-Faced King appeared is likely to be somewhere along this sewer."
"Immediately send people to search along this sewer. This time, we must not let it get away!" A cold light flashed in the captain's eyes and he gave the order immediately.
"receive!"
"Oh, there's one more thing." Wu Xiangnan turned to look at Zhao Kongcheng, "We must bring back the agent of the Seraph. His potential is too great and he must not fall into the hands of the Ancient God Church! In a sense, this matter has a higher priority than purging the Ghost Face King!"
Zhao Kongcheng immediately straightened his chest and said, "Leave this matter to me. I must catch this guy myself!"
"Didn't he run away? How can you find him?" Hongying muttered in a low voice.
"He's wearing the uniform of No. 2 Middle School. I'll block him at the school gate today. I don't believe I can't catch him!"
A confident smile appeared on Zhao Kongcheng's lips.
…
"Brother, why don't you go to school today?"
Yang Jin looked at Lin Qiye, who was not wearing a school uniform and had no school bag, and asked curiously.
"I have something to do today, so I won't go for now." Lin Qiye put on his shoes and opened the door, "Auntie is still sleeping?"
"She just got back an hour ago."
"I understand. Go to school early and don't imitate me."
"OK."
Lin Qiye closed the door, silently took off the black satin on his eyes and put it in his pocket.
His eyesight recovered, but he hadn't told his aunt or Yang Jin yet. One reason was that his aunt had worked the late shift the night before, and the two of them hadn't met at all.
As for the second point, Lin Qiye had just obtained this pair of eyes and was not able to control the power in his eyes very well. The golden light would sometimes suddenly emerge from the bottom of his eyes. Although it was not very obvious, if his aunt and others saw it, they would definitely force him to check his eyes again, which would be a waste of money.
He wanted to wait until he had full control over his eyes before announcing this.
But since he was going out, there was no need for Lin Qiye to wrap himself in black satin, as that would be too conspicuous.
Lin Qiye took out the sunglasses that Yang Jin had bought for him from his pocket, put them on, and strode towards the bus stop.
After more than an hour of bumpy ride, Lin Qiye finally arrived at his destination.
Sunshine Mental Hospital.
The last time Lin Qiye came here was ten years ago.
During these ten years, Lin Qiye had changed a lot, and this mental hospital had also changed a lot.
All the old walls were renovated, the gate was twice as spacious as before, two modern high-rise buildings replaced the original three-story building, and even the six big characters "Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital" were turned into gold-plated hot stamping!
Standing at the gate, Lin Qiye could no longer connect the modern hospital in front of him with the small building in his memory.
Perhaps the only thing that hasn't changed is the old man guarding the door.
But his body became more hunched and his hair became much grayer.
The old man seemed to have seen Lin Qiye, narrowed his eyes, raised his right hand and pointed at Lin Qiye...
Just when Lin Qiye thought the old man still remembered him and was about to say hello,
The old man shouted loudly:
"That stupid boy over there! You're blocking the car behind us!"