G City.

After sending off Xiao Yezi, Zhong Shenxiu continued to transform into the Midnight Demon Extermination Driver, letting the eerie forces aid his cultivation everywhere.

With the convenience of the Spirit Car, he didn't even need to travel to other places. He could use No. 81 Zhenyin Road as his headquarters and roam around the world.

Even venturing into bizarre spaces in search of strange entities to devour.

At this point, what prevented his progress was not the number of strange entities or rationality points but merely the speed of his own refinement.

"The fourth layer..."

Inside the haunted house.

Zhong Shenxiu sat cross-legged, with the unpredictable shadow of the Dharma Body looming behind him.

His Dharma Image was like a piece of the deepest darkness, surrounded by points of light like stars.

Touching one at random, it seemed as though through a mysterious connection in the void, he saw Xiao Yezi praying.

And to his surprise, a few Believers had already gathered around her.

'Has she just arrived in Japan and already started to advance the cause of Esoteric Buddhism?'

'At this rate, could it become too conspicuous...'

'I named it Esoteric Buddhism to mean it should be developed secretly...'

While he was pondering this, the phone at his side rang.

Zhong Shenxiu glanced at the screen and saw it was Angel calling.

"Hello, Mr. Gui..."

The person on the other end started with a few pleasantries, mentioning that Wan Xiaolou and Wen Wanqing had successfully completed training and become interns at the Foundation.

Zhong Shenxiu had no interest in the two girls, offering some perfunctory responses, and then Angel finally came to the main point.

"Mr. Gui, our investigators have discovered that the go-everywhere company has released its annual event tasks!"

"Oh? So it has finally begun?"

"Yes, and unfortunately, there have been casualties right from the start. Mr. Chu He has already requested our support... The Council is very cautious about this matter."

Angel's reply didn't surprise Zhong Shenxiu.

Too much contact with the strange was indeed not a good thing.

Especially with a grand strange entity like the go-everywhere company, one might wake up one day and find oneself inexplicably dead during a task due to an unforeseen incident.

"However, given the strength of the Foundation, since they decided to connect with Chu He, they must have been well-prepared, right?"

Zhong Shenxiu asked with a smile.

"The Foundation is indeed prepared to pay a price, but combating ordinary strange is already the limit...and according to the Foundation's previous observations, the company's annual event tasks might trigger a joint reaction with other grand strange!"

Angel disclosed this piece of intelligence.

Grand strange!

This was the apex class of the strange.

Even the ancient mansion owner who descended last time, even in full form, fell just short of being classified as such.

The entire Foundation itself was built on the curse of a grand strange.

To those beings, common sense and laws were mere playthings!

No wonder the Foundation was so cautious.

"Ah, ordinary tasks correspond to ordinary strange, team-building tasks correlate with more formidable strange, so annual event tasks indeed involve grand strange."

Zhong Shenxiu nodded: "What are you planning to do?"

"Out of respect for you, sir, we will provide Chu He with one last piece of informational support, and then we'll sever all ties... May the gods bless them!"

Angel said gravely.

"Mm, let it be so then."

Zhong Shenxiu understood that Angel's call was also to express the Foundation's stance and difficulties, not wanting to incur his displeasure.

After all, based on his previous actions, he seemed to care about people like Chu He.

However, this might also be Angel acting on her own initiative.

And those real big shots in the Council, they viewed him as a personification of the company.

What he was truly thinking was hard to say...

After hanging up the phone, Zhong Shenxiu pondered, "A major deceit? It's so different from the common deceptions; the taste must be much better..."

"But, I've already made a deal with Chu He and the others; only if they get through the annual meeting will I lend a hand..."

"It's not great to break the rules and go back on my own word, is it?"

Zhong Shenxiu thought about it for a moment, got up to organize himself, took his large black umbrella, and headed to the underground garage.

His garage was exceptionally spacious yet housed only one vehicle.

It was a luxurious private vehicle that could transform into any shape, just like it was made of paper—the Spirit Car!

Zhong Shenxiu took the driver's seat and, as usual, used his large black umbrella as the gear shift to start the Spirit Car.

Rumble!

The sound of the engine roaring to life filled the space, and a fog materialized ahead.

He didn't open the garage door; instead, he drove straight into it.

Whoosh!

A hazy aura surrounded the Spirit Car as it slammed into the garage door and melded into it as though diving into a lake.

Beep Beep!

Zhong Shenxiu honked the horn, having entered an alternative space.

This place was desolate; gravesites in disrepair surrounded him, with not a single ghost to be seen.

The territory in the alternative space was immensely vast, perhaps even more expansive than the real world.

Without road signs or guidance, stumbling across a ghost tide by chance was no easy task.

Plop!

After moving a distance further, a pale hand burst through the soil ahead, as if an evil spirit was trying to re-enter the world.

Then, Zhong Shenxiu mercilessly ran it over.

By now, a mere common ghost was no longer worth his attention, not worth stopping the car to deal with.

With the aid of the bridges in the alternative space and a kind of mysterious connection, Zhong Shenxiu drove past a river of blood and plunged into the fog.

Beep Beep!

The next moment.

City D.

A red taxi emerged from an alley and blended into the traffic on the main street without drawing special attention.

Save for... it still bore the appearance of a taxi from City G.

The entire process, spanning over a thousand kilometers, actually took less than a few minutes.

"Oh? I forgot."

Zhong Shenxiu, noticing the pointing and murmurs outside, realized something was amiss and turned the taxi onto another street.

By the time it re-emerged, it had transformed into a luxury racing car from the phantom series.

While still flashy and eye-catching, it was better than the taxi before.

After all, the area was teeming with wealthy second-generation kids who loved to flaunt their luxury cars.

But to drive a taxi from thousands of kilometers away to this spot? That wasn't a wealthy feat, that was just bizarre.

After all the commotion, dawn was gradually breaking.

Zhong Shenxiu parked the sports car by a roadside stand and got out, starting his breakfast under the watchful eyes of rich kids trying to experience life.

Right then, his phone rang again.

"Mr. Gui..."

Angel's voice, tired and somewhat bitter, said, "Through big data analysis comparing the background of the collected death forewarnings of employees, we've located the mission site..."

"Oh? Where is it?"

Zhong Shenxiu's expression shifted.

"It's the abandoned City Z," Angel answered after a pause.

Lines of information rapidly surfaced in Zhong Shenxiu's mind: "Code name—Deceit City!"

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