Chapter 20 Pear Blossom Lantern Festival
Chapter 20 Pear Blossom Lantern Festival (Part )
"no no no!"
"I keep asking you questions. It's really annoying! Don't you see how ugly your lantern is?"
Yue Shan finally ran out of patience and blurted out the words with a distorted face.
Wang Dongdong and Yi Chunxian were stunned. They didn't expect Yue Shan to be so rude.
Although Yue Shan usually has a hot temper, she would never lose her temper with someone she met for the first time.
The stall owner smiled with great satisfaction, and I don’t know how a smile could be seen on this lipless face.
"Since you don't want to guess, then stay and be my lantern!"
As they were talking, before they could react, a pair of dark blue hands reached out and tightly grasped Yue Shan's arms, and dragged her into the darkness inside the stall regardless of her struggles.
Then Yue Shan’s cries suddenly disappeared behind the blood-red lanterns.
The stall owner was still sitting there, grinning at Wang Dongdong and Yi Chunxian.
"run!"
Wang Dongdong pulled up Yi Chunxian, who was too frightened to move, and ran away.
Her mind finally cleared up.
This is weird!
Although she had followed her seniors from the Detective Patrol Department to deal with several strange things, she had never encountered a strange thing in an activated state. She always cleaned up the scene and helped to contain the strange things after a strange thing occurred, so she did not realize it for a while.
In addition, the strange rules will cause the creatures in the strange cave to fall into mental confusion, and even she, who has reached the fifth level of the initial realm, cannot avoid it.
Although she has woken up now, she has completely missed the opportunity to save Yue Shan.
Wang Dongdong felt very regretful.
But now is not the time to regret.
Because another riddle stall appeared in front of me.
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Liu Sheng was studying the function of the "world" in the warehouse by referring to the "Yi Yu Memory Notes" she had written, when suddenly the spiritual message on her waist beeped a few times.
"Please all colleagues from the Weaving Institute who are still in Li County come to visit the Patrol Office immediately after receiving this message!"
As soon as the spiritual message button was opened, Zhang Yuanzheng's voice came out.
Didn't they say they were taking a break these few days? Why was Director Zhang in the weaving factory at this time?
And why did he ask everyone to go to the Patrol Office, a place that even she had never had the chance to set foot in.
You know, the only interaction between her and the Inspection and Patrol Department was the handover of strange objects, and it was always the Inspection and Patrol Department that delivered the strange objects directly to the warehouse.
Liu Sheng was confused, but he also knew that there must be some major emergency that required such an order.
Then she quickly put the notes and the "world" into the storage bag, locked the door, walked out of the warehouse yard, passed through the corridors, and walked towards the Patrol Department.
These two things were far beyond this world, and she didn't dare keep them in the warehouse.
The courtyard of the Patrol Office is at the north corner of the Weaving House, and a warrant from the Patrol Office is required to enter or exit.
At this time, a colleague from the Patrol Department was standing at the door to meet him.
He had a serious expression, was of medium build, and was about thirty-five years old. As soon as he saw Liu Sheng, he took out his warrant and pressed it on the door. As soon as the door opened, he took her inside.
"It really happened suddenly. A large-scale strange incident broke out in the center of Li County. We will discuss the specific situation later. In short, we can only follow the arrangements of the hospital director."
Liu Sheng's heart tightened when he heard this. Li County was currently holding the Pear Blossom Lantern Festival, and there were huge crowds of people. If something strange happened, who knows how many people would be involved.
Moreover, she remembered that Wang Dongdong had also gone there, and she wondered how he was doing now. Now, only Zhang Yuanzheng and another colleague from the Training Department were sitting in the main hall of the Inspection and Patrol Department.
Zhang Yuanzheng saw Liu Sheng coming and motioned for her to sit down.
The colleague from the Inspection Department brought her in and then went out again.
The colleague from the Training Department was a gentle woman in yellow pine who looked to be in her thirties. She nodded and said, "I finally meet Liu Siku, the great contributor to our Weaving Institute. I am Song Haiyin, the deputy director of the Training Department. Nice to meet you."
The Training and Training Department is the department responsible for the personnel training and further studies of the local weaving institute. Its main function is to formulate daily training plans for the Patrol Department and prepare the venues, equipment and tonics required for training. It does not have much dealings with the warehouse on a daily basis. For Liu Sheng, the only contact was during the initial on-the-job training, and there was no contact afterwards.
Dean Zhang was using spiritual communication without even raising his head, seemingly trying to contact someone, but he wasn't talking to them.
After waiting for a while, a colleague from the Detective Patrol Department walked in alone and shook his head at Zhang Yuanzheng with a serious face.
Zhang Yuanzheng sighed: "Okay, it looks like everyone is here."
"During the three-day break, we either went home or went to the Lantern Festival. Who would have thought..." Zhang Yuanzheng was very worried, and then he said seriously, "The situation is critical now. I believe you have already known that something strange has happened in Li County, and it is so widespread that the entire county street area has been affected."
"Including the county government."
The last sentence emphasized by Zhang Yuanzheng is of great importance. You must know that when something strange happens, an important task is to evacuate and isolate the people, which requires the coordination of the local government.
However, there is no communication between the inside and outside of Gui Dun, which means that the entire Li County is leaderless now, and more innocent people may mistakenly enter Gui Dun.
"And according to the values Fu Ze detected at the edge of the strange cave, this strangeness should be extremely dangerous or above."
Fu Ze was the colleague who had just brought Liu Sheng in. He also nodded in agreement with what Zhang Yuanzheng said.
Song Haiyin took a deep breath and said, "This kind of weirdness is extremely dangerous and covers such a wide range. It should have never appeared in the Tang Kingdom in the past few decades."
"Yes, the last time there was such a large-scale and high-level incident was the Lin'an Incident 63 years ago, when more than 6,000 people died." Liu Sheng knew the strange history by heart, "The only thing to be thankful for now is that the population of Lin'an is thousands of times that of Li County."
"But it's the Pear Blossom Lantern Festival now, the population is dense and there are many tourists. A conservative estimate is that there should be thousands of people trapped inside." Fu Ze sighed.
"So now we in the Weaving Institute need to step forward. Although we usually belong to different departments and have different responsibilities, generally speaking, resisting the weirdness and protecting the people are the responsibilities of all the staff in our Weaving Institute." Dean Zhang said solemnly.
"If Fu Ze wasn't the only one left in the Exploration and Patrol Division, I wouldn't want Deputy Director Song and Treasurer Liu to risk their lives, but there's no other way now... Fu Ze obeys my orders!"
Fu Ze immediately stood up and replied "Yes".
"I order you to lead the team into the strange den, find the surviving members of the weaving house, work together to solve the strangeness, and rescue the people."
Zhang Yuanzheng then looked at Liu Sheng and Song Haiyin.
"Deputy Director Song, Treasurer Liu, you two are now appointed as members of the temporary patrol team to assist Captain Fu in completing the mission."
If the weirdness is not resolved in time, it will grow and spread rapidly as it devours more and more living beings. According to the current level, location and living beings involved of the weirdness, it is reasonable and necessary to arrange people to go in and fight, even though it is just a drop in the bucket.
Song Haiyin and Liu Sheng also understood this truth. Although they had never participated in a patrol mission, they could only obey the order: "Yes!"
"I have contacted the General Administration of Weaving, and they are arranging personnel to come and assist, so you don't have to worry too much. It is more important to ensure that as many people as possible survive."
Zhang Yuanzheng also knew that Song Haiyin's cultivation was not high and Liu Sheng had no cultivation at all. It was really dangerous to let them go in. He could only comfort them:
"I will first open the magic circle to prevent the people from mistakenly entering the evil den, and then I will go in to support you."
"Master Dean, you can't do that! It consumes a huge amount of energy to open a magic circle of this size. It might be dangerous if you come in again!" Fu Ze said in shock.
Especially when practitioners are empty inside and come into contact with strange energy, they are likely to fall into madness. He didn't say this out loud because everyone knew it.
"It doesn't matter. I'm the only one who can do this." Zhang Yuanzheng said as if he didn't care much.
Normally, if a formation of this scale is to be activated, at least five cultivators of the sixth level or above in the initial realm would be arranged. However, there is a shortage of manpower now, so only he, a cultivator in the Mingzhen realm, can take the stage.
"Captain Fu will take you to get the armor and equipment later. The situation in the strange cave is still unclear. I will leave first. Everyone please take care of yourselves."
Zhang Yuanzheng gave his final instructions.
(End of this chapter)