After Chen Hai left, Zhao Jian walked into Lin Zhengying's consulting room. After the discussion, the appraisers had gone to collect their commissions. Now there were only the two of them in the consulting room.
"Master, what do you think of Chen Hai?" Zhao Jian asked.
“He is slick but has bottom line. He knows how to adapt and also knows when to advance and retreat. He understands the trade-offs and knows how to win-win. If such a person does not die in the mission world, he will definitely be able to stand firmly in the main god space.” Lin Zhengying has a good impression of Chen Hai.
"Yes, I think so too. Also, Taoist Priest, what do you think of the power behind it? Is there any possibility of cooperation?" Zhao Jian asked.
"I'm not sure. It's impossible to tell the situation of the whole by just looking at one person. Even the best of the group has its bad apples, and even the worst of the group has its kind-hearted people." Lin Zhengying has been catching ghosts and monsters for so many years that he can see this kind of thing very clearly.
"Okay, I understand. Let's wait and see after you've been there." Zhao Jian was thinking about the things that were discussed in the last meeting in China. Asgard represented by Thor has already left, so should they in China also consider leaving
"Captain Zhao." Lin Zhengying called out, looked into Zhao Jian's eyes, and drank a sip of tea. "Don't be impatient about some things. Tony Stark is a smart man. He knows that the general trend cannot be violated, but he is also a conceited person and is unwilling to follow the general trend. So, don't be impatient. It's always right to wait a little longer."
Zhao Jian looked at Lin Zhengying's calm expression and shook his head. He thought that his own practice was still not good enough. However, Lin Zhengying was indeed an old fox. He could guess the content of the meeting without even attending the meeting.
"By the way, Taoist priest, Chen Hai is also a smart man. Do you think he can see the push and pull in the valuation just now?" Zhao Jian changed the subject.
"Whether it's obvious or not, he has already owed me a favor, and he's not the kind of person who wouldn't repay a favor." Lin Zhengying was also happy to chat. It would still take some time to publish the description of the task and design the material rewards.
Ten minutes later, a new task was posted in the task hall. Lin Zhengying accepted the task without saying a word, without any delay.
In the safe house in Chen Hai's world, Ji Jie and Zheng Yiming stared at the air in front of them with their eyes open, waiting for Chen Hai's return. They didn't have much time left.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Hai and Lin Zhengying landed in the safe house.
The moment he arrived in the room, Lin Zhengying sensed the negative energy in the air, the concentration of which was enough to threaten the survival of normal life.
"Pardon!" Lin Zhengying shouted softly and stepped on the ground with his right foot. A magic circle expanded directly from under his feet, avoiding Ji Jie and Zheng Yiming very accurately and covering the entire safe house.
The light that shot up into the sky dispersed the lingering negative energy.
The sound of chains being dragged and tightened rang in Lin Zhengying's ears.
Open your third eye!
Lin Zhengying's eyes were filled with brilliant golden light. Under the shining golden light, he saw that the chains on Ji Jie and Zheng Yiming had begun to pull them backwards, and the other end of the chains were connected to the air one or two meters above their heads.
With a tremble of his hand, the peach wood sword slipped into his hand. He stepped forward with his figure swaying.
Zheng Yiming only felt his eyes blurry, and Lin Zhengying was already beside him. The peach wood sword in his hand passed through two chains and was directly inserted into the wall. Almost at the same time, a talisman was attached to the peach wood sword.
The chain continued to drag, and the talisman on the peach wood sword began to emit a faint light, intercepting all the power on the chain.
Ji Jie and Zheng Yiming looked at each other, and both of them felt the comfort in their souls, as if they had been tied up for a long time and suddenly the rope was loosened.
“Don’t be too happy yet. This is only a temporary solution. Your three souls and seven spirits are basically in the other party’s hands. The chain cannot be fixed for too long, otherwise the other party may directly attack your souls.” Lin Zhengying leaned over and looked at the two of them and said.
Ji Jie and Zheng Yiming turned their heads subconsciously and looked at Chen Hai. Even though Lin Zhengying saved them, when it came to trust, they still trusted their companions more.
"It's right to listen to the Taoist priest. I specially invited you to be a professional to handle this kind of things." Chen Hai said while looking at the two of them.
"Well, Taoist priest, how should we cooperate with you?" Zheng Yiming got to the point to save time.
“I will ask some questions next. If the answers will affect your life safety or trigger the rules of that place, then you don’t have to answer.” Lin Zhengying said. After coming here and having face-to-face contact with the other party, he felt that his initial inference in the main god space was a bit problematic.
"Okay, we got it. In addition, our briefcase contains ways to contact our superiors. It also contains the sum of information we have been able to provide in the past, which may be helpful to you." Ji Jie was referring to the black leather bag on the sofa. Lin Zhengying's words were consistent with the questions from his superiors in some aspects. In order to obtain and test out the rules, many of them died.
"Chen Hai, go and take a look. If possible, contact us directly. Take this with you while you look through it." Without even turning his head, Lin Zhengying threw a talisman in front of Chen Hai.
Chen Hai grabbed the talisman in his hand and jumped to the sofa in two steps.
"The first question is, do you know the physical location of that place? An approximate area is fine." Lin Zhengying began asking questions.
"Not sure. Some speculations are all at the headquarters. The most widely accepted speculation is that the place is not within the area that we can directly observe." Zheng Yiming said.
"Second question, how many people are there like you?"
"Not sure. Before we were given permission to go out for exercise this time, the most number of people we saw was twenty-four, including the two of us." Ji Jie answered. At the same time, she gave some additional information. This information could only be mixed in with this answer, otherwise there would be very serious consequences, which could easily kill her.
Go out for some fresh air... go to jail? Lin Zhengying's brain was spinning rapidly, using jail as a metaphor to represent having no freedom and needing to accept the arrangements of the other party, while being able to go out for some fresh air represented a chance to get a reward.
"The third question is, what kind of food do you like to eat?"
Zheng Yiming's mind was spinning, trying to give enough information to avoid some problems. "The tea cakes in Jiujiang taste good, especially the ones near the amusement park..."
The chains binding Zheng Yiming suddenly tightened. In Lin Zhengying's eyes, his spirit was still being pulled longer and longer. With a flick of his finger, the peach wood sword vibrated, and Zheng Yiming's chains returned to their original state. Within two seconds, the chains dragged him and disappeared from this place.
Lin Zhengying turned to look at Ji Jie. What did Zheng Yiming say wrong
"Ahem, there are no tea cakes there." Ji Jie thought for a while and said, after all, these days the amusement park and the place selling tea cakes are still quite far apart. In the judgment of that place, this does not count as being next to it, but is a forced missing question.
"Fourth question, how often do you have a good meal?"
"The good ones are more expensive. We usually only eat there four times a month. We have to eat the worst ones at the end of the month when we have no money." Ji Jie found that Lin Zhengying's professionalism was really beyond imagination. None of the questions raised so far were completely unanswerable.
"Come, look at my hand." Lin Zhengying stretched out his right hand and placed it in front of Ji Jie's eyes. The light on it was spinning. "You can tell me whatever you see and feel."
"It's just an ordinary hand, but it seems like there are five points rotating..." Ji Jie said as her chains began to move.
Lin Zhengying raised his right hand and picked up the peach wood sword from the wall. He clasped his hands together to compress the peach wood sword to a size of one or two centimeters, then put it into a small black box and stuffed it into Ji Jie's hand.
"If you feel it smells or is dirty, just throw it away." Lin Zhengying said at the last moment when Ji Jie disappeared.
"Master, what's wrong?" Chen Hai leaned over and asked.
"Things are much more serious than I expected." Lin Zhengying's face was full of solemnity. "The aura of those chains is somewhat similar to the soul-catching chains in the underworld or hell."
"You mean that place is hell?" Chen Hai was shocked.
"Is it worthy?" Lin Zhengying said with disdain, "It's just a poor imitator at best."
"Copycat?"
"Yes, you can understand it using the operating mode of the main divine space. Four times a month refers to things like missions. The poor food at the end of the month means the danger is high. The known number of people is only 24, which means the total number is likely not large. The unknown total number means that the personnel are severely separated. Letting them out means that their activity area is severely restricted when they are not on a mission, and it also means that there may be certain rewards for completing the mission."
After hearing this, Chen Hai's eyes lit up. This was simply a magical and smaller version of the main god's space.
"So what should we do next?"
"Go to the headquarters and get the information. The time is too short and I don't understand many things. Also, mark the location of the amusement park in Jiujiang for me. That should be the location of one of their missions." Lin Zhengying said quickly, "The location is in the real world. Doesn't this thing have the ability to create and travel through other worlds? I can't be sure. Maybe they don't know whether they have traveled through the world?"
Listening to Lin Zhengying's muttering, Chen Hai turned to look at the door, where the smart lock was still dim.
"Master, we may not be able to go out for the time being. The door lock is broken. We may have to wait for people outside to notice something is wrong and come to help us." Chen Hai said, holding a briefcase.
"No need to be so troublesome." As Lin Zhengying spoke, the magic circle on the ground instantly retracted into his body.
Summoning magic! Giant spirit god!
A sturdy shadow flickered behind Lin Zhengying, and Chen Hai could only observe a little bit of it with the special clairvoyance effect brought by the cow's tears.
Lin Zhengying pressed his palm on the door and exerted force suddenly. The inside of the door made a crackling sound of broken parts. Along with the sound, the door protruded outwards little by little until the entire door protruded completely from the wall.
With a bang, the door fell directly to the ground. Chen Hai looked at Lin Zhengying's relaxed expression and found that he was a little obsessed. He always applied the concepts of ordinary people to other people.
"Don't just stand there. Do you know the location and contact information of the headquarters? And you have to finish the procedures quickly. We are in a hurry. The mission time is only five days. We must seize every minute." Lin Zhengying reminded Chen Hai.
"Got it." Chen Hai nodded and walked out the door first. He had a lot of things to communicate with Secretary Sha. He at least needed to get an internal contact number, otherwise it would be difficult to get through to the headquarters.
At the same time, Ji Jie, who was in the dark, found that the small box in her hand began to heat up. With Lin Zhengying's words in mind, she threw the box out.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, dozens of chains extended from all directions, tied the box tightly, and then began to pull it in all directions.
The runes on the box kept flashing, and after a few seconds, the entire box completely collapsed. The peach wood sword inside seemed to grow in the wind, emitting a dazzling light in the darkness.
The light cut through many chains, but there were too many of them, and the peach wood sword was still tied up by the chains. After the light faded, black dried blood and various black stripes appeared on the peach wood sword.
Then it slowly fell in front of Ji Jie. After a brief surprise, Ji Jie thought again and again, reached out and grasped the hilt of the peach wood sword, and some information was transmitted into her mind from it.
Evil peach wood sword
Limit of use: Once per day
Consumption: 1,000 spiritual points
Description: This is an evil sword made by an evil Taoist after killing countless people. When held, it will constantly devour the soul of the user. After releasing its internal power, it will cause irreducible real damage to ghosts and monsters.
For sale: 10,000 spiritual points
Ji Jie almost laughed out loud after reading the description. It sounded just like the truth. Isn't this like being a whore and trying to be a virtuous woman? She was even threatening me. If you have the ability, just remove all the bloodstains and lines on it. If you have the ability, just let me bring the peach wood sword in intact.
Outside, Lin Zhengying was sitting in the car and suddenly looked up.
"Master, what's wrong? Do you want to stop the car?" Chen Hai asked, putting his foot on the brake.
"No need, it's just the peach wood sword that was destroyed." Lin Zhengying felt a little heavy in his heart.
That sword was made of wood that had been struck by lightning for a thousand years. The wood struck by lightning alone was not a big deal, as it was not impossible to buy in the main god space. However, that sword had been nurtured by him for several worlds and had killed countless ghosts. The power contained in it alone was enough to make an ordinary third-level ghost suffer excruciating pain if it got close to it.
Unexpectedly, it was completely destroyed in such a short time.
He felt a little sad, but as the peach wood sword was damaged, Lin Zhengying had a premonition that the opportunity for him to reach the fourth level should be in this world.
Taking out the spare wooden sword from the space, Lin Zhengying slowly closed his eyes. After so many worlds, two of his five dimensions had reached 20. To be honest, among the third-level ones, few people's data could compare with his. Even some of those in the fourth-level had individual attributes that were not as high as his.