Han Bingjie, who once swaggered through the other floors as a purchasing agent, immediately changed his expression when he saw Zhong Shenxiu appear.

He had a mournful look on his face, seeming to want to run over and cling to Zhong Shenxiu's thigh:

"Big brother, save me!"

"I've encountered a team-building task again, people will die!"

Zhong Shenxiu disdainfully waved his hand and pulled out a chair to sit down, "Our convenience store also operates on a small scale, it's no use begging me!"

"We're not asking for credit or a discount, we just hope to purchase five supernatural items at once, you still have stock, right?"

Han Bingjie asked expectantly.

"Five items? Yes!"

Zhong Shenxiu nodded slightly and immediately brought a smile to Han Bingjie's face: "I'll transfer the payment to you right now!"

After hearing the notification of the transferred funds, Zhong Shenxiu nodded, turned around, and entered the security room, retrieving five items.

Three of them were those black wooden boxes that felt like holding a piece of ice when grasped.

"You guys are lucky this time. Based on previous usage reports, I've developed two new products..."

Zhong Shenxiu took out another little black pouch with a smile, "This contains a handful of ashes, when you encounter an intangible deceit, sprinkle it to reveal its form, with a certain dispelling effect..."

"Additionally, this bottle is filled with Deceit Blood... You can sprinkle it around, with effects similar to a one-time dispelling item, but if you encounter a parasitic supernatural entity, after confirming you've been parasitized or cursed, you can drink it as a gamble... It might dispel the curse, but you could also die outright, ingestion effect not guaranteed, still recommended to be used for sprinkling!"

"Thank you, Brother Gui, thank you, Brother Gui!"

Han Bingjie joyfully stored away the five supernatural items and casually asked, "Do you have any more stock?"

"None left!"

Zhong Shenxiu shook his head and unsurprisingly saw the dejected expressions on the faces of the other agents around.

But he wasn't moved at all: "Tell me about the content of your mission..."

"Sure, this time we need to go to Yue Shan's family mansion..."

Han Bingjie immediately spilled the beans, telling him everything.

"A mission concerning the Yue siblings?"

Zhong Shenxiu pondered for a while: "If company employees are themselves involved with other deceits, the company tends to issue targeted missions... This phenomenon is very worth investigating."

...

By noon, Chu He and the others had immediately set out.

Outside the All Places Building.

Inside the surveillance cabin.

"Another group has gone out, follow them, Team Two!"

The Observer put down the binoculars and calmly directed everyone.

A professionally trained squad, with extensive investigative experience, followed stealthily without a sound.

"So... is this why we've postponed dealing with the building?"

Another new recruit, curious, asked, "Because this company seems like a detector that keeps pointing out hiding spots for supernatural entities... By following its employees, we find dangerous locations one by one and then assess the threat level of the supernatural entities. If it's a fixed area entity, we simply block it off; if it's the moving infectious type, we deal with it?"

"That's just the least significant reason."

The elderly Observer shook his head: "If it were just for that, we would have tried dealing with it long ago, but the more we know, the more desperate it becomes... Once your security clearance increases, you will know that even our organization's 'capability users' are perpetually desperate against 'major supernatural entities'..."

"The first lesson as an Observer is to set aside your pride, whether it's logical reasoning, modern technology, or even your common sense... In the face of such terrifying beings, all can be manipulated at will!"

"If possible, our organization wishes we could remain forever Observers! But... recent events have changed... Not just the movement within the building of late..."

The elderly Observer picked up a surveillance photo that showed a mall, a young person facing a translucent supernatural entity, casting some blurry object onto the ground...

"These company employees have begun to master some supernatural powers, which the organization takes very seriously, enhancing our level of observation..."

"Why all the hassle?" The young recruit was puzzled. "Even if we can't storm into the building, can't we just grab a few employees and find out? Or... send an undercover agent into that company?"

"Let go of your arrogance, how many times do I have to say it?"

The elderly Observer's tone was filled with helplessness: "We are just Observers, only able to understand issues indirectly, it's best not to get involved with that building at all... Otherwise, if you touch upon a taboo, terrifying retaliation will follow... For example, generating a mission that targets us!"

"The previous division was wiped out for that reason..."

"If it weren't for special circumstances, we would not even deploy a tracking team, we can only hope to be forever Observers, that's the best outcome..."

...

The bus sped along.

As he watched the receding scenery on either side, a multitude of feelings swelled within Yue Shan.

He had thought he would never return to his hometown.

Yet here he was, on the journey back due to a company task.

'This time, I'm going to settle things!'

He clenched the small bottle containing 'Deceit Blood' in his arms, hoping it would give him courage.

Because the task was too far away, should things go south, it would be very difficult to escape back to the building, and they would undoubtedly be overtaken by supernatural entities on the road!

This was the last resort for saving his life!

And in Yue Qin's hands was an ordinary black wooden box, safely concealed close to her body.

He glanced at his sister next to him, and the lines on his face softened.

The journey was extremely dull, compounded by a poor night's sleep.

Yue Shan slipped back into a drowsy state.

He seemed to have that nightmare again.

He returned to the ancient mansion, witnessing a scene of utter bloodshed and brutality.

He ran incessantly, unable to control his body, forced to watch everything unfold from a third-person perspective.

In a certain old tower within the mansion, the sky was grey and murky.

A pitch-black silhouette was descending the stairs step by step, steadily approaching him...

Closer, even closer...

Yue Shan's eyelids trembled violently, and suddenly, his eyes snapped open, revealing Yue Qin's worried face: "Brother, are you alright?"

"I'm fine..."

Yue Shan took a deep breath, looking around as the scenery changed, now at a village akin to a southern water town.

They were getting closer and closer to the end of their journey!

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