Chapter 75: The strategist joins the game with his own strength and wins half the battle
After a quick breakfast in the hotel cafeteria and filling up the car with gas, the group set off on their journey again.
"If we are not delayed along the way, we will enter Yulang City tonight, and the local Special Management Bureau will be responsible for receiving us."
The old section chief Zhang Wenlin was looking at the map in the passenger seat while speaking to the three people in the back seat.
But the atmosphere in the back seat is now full of tension.
This time, Li Muhan sat on the left, while Xia Yue and Hati sat together. She kept looking at Hati with hostility, while Hati seemed to be completely indifferent, and would occasionally give Xia Yue a disdainful smile.
"well."
The old section chief sighed.
"It reminds me of when I was young, I seemed to have had this experience as well."
"Section Chief, when you were young, you also dated someone of a different species?"
the driver asked in shock.
"Hammer, I'm talking about attracting a lot of girls at the same time!"
There were no minor incidents on the journey that day. Around 2 pm, they ate and refueled in the rest area. After resting for about an hour, they continued on their journey and finally entered Yulang City in the evening.
Yulang City is different from Tianhai City. It is a small town on the northwestern border. Of course, there is also a Special Management Bureau here.
It's just very small. From the outside, it looks like a three-story office building.
The director of the Yulang City Special Management Bureau is a bald uncle with a big belly, which fits Li Muhan's definition of a leader.
Finally, it has the flavor.
The bald director and Zhang Wenlin seemed to be old acquaintances, and he respected Zhang Wenlin very much.
"Teacher, I haven't seen you for many years. You are still in good health."
Zhang Wenlin's attitude towards him was somewhat cold.
"You've changed a lot. Your belly looks like it's three months old. Eat less greasy food. Be careful not to get any grass growing on your head."
The bald director smiled apologetically and invited a few people into the Special Management Bureau. Li Muhan found that there was a huge difference between this place and the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau.
Most of the staff looked very lazy, and some even played games during work hours.
Of course, after the director came in, several people immediately restrained themselves.
"Excuse me, everyone. This is a small town on the northwest border. The conditions aren't very good, and there aren't many entertainment activities, so... no one is in high spirits."
"Bad conditions? I think it's very suitable for fattening up."
Section Chief Zhang was not polite at all to the bald director, so Li Muhan quickly changed the subject.
"Are there no aliens here?"
He looked at the bald chief and asked.
"Hey, little brother, you probably don't know much about this place. How could there be any aliens here?"
Li Muhan still didn't quite understand the bald director's answer. Generally speaking, aren't such border areas more prone to strange phenomena?
"Xiaohan, you probably don't know."
Zhang Wenlin pulled Li Muhan aside and spoke in a low voice.
"The Yulang City Special Management Bureau may not be good at other things, but it has one thing in common: it leads all other special management bureaus throughout the year."
Li Muhan became even more curious.
"That means there will definitely be no evil spirits causing trouble here."
"Why?"
"Because we have the Ghost General of Yumen Pass here."
The bald director sighed and gave the answer on behalf of Zhang Wenlin.
There is a pass on the road leading from Yulang City to the outside of the pass, called Yumen Pass. Thirty years ago, evil spirits were rampant at Yumen Pass, harming many local people.
Although the former director of the Special Management Bureau of Yulang City was physically weak, he was proficient in the art of driving away ghosts and gods. He used his own life as a medium to invite the ghost generals from hell to play chess with him at Yumen Pass.
The ghost general who responded to the former director is a chess fanatic and loves the game, so he was invited to Yumen Pass. During the game, the former director suggested that the ghost general could guard the peace during the game so that the game would not be disturbed.
The ghost general thought that he could defeat the mortal in a few moves, so he readily agreed.
Unexpectedly, the former director was a master of chess. He set up all kinds of traps to make the ghost general like a trapped beast and unable to break the situation no matter what.
He transformed this anger into murderous intent. Whenever the chess game reached a stalemate, he would pick up his long sword to kill ghosts and monsters to vent his anger. Once he started killing, the sky would turn dark and the ghosts would wail.
After he had a good kill, he would come back to continue playing chess. In this way, the former director used his body to drag out the chess game for a whole year.
Eventually, this ghost general wiped out all the evil spirits around Yulang City, and even the two aliens from the Yulang Special Management Bureau at that time were almost killed. It was because of this that the Yulang City Special Management Bureau urgently transferred the aliens elsewhere.
There are no more evil spirits inside the pass, but the evil spirits outside the pass are endless.
But as long as the ghost general is here, no evil spirit will be able to pass through Yumen Pass.
But the former director knew that he had little time left and it was almost difficult for him to even stay awake.
So in the last move, the former director used all his skills and magic tricks learned throughout his life to completely put the whole game into a situation that seemed unsolvable but also seemed solvable.
Neither let the ghost general admit defeat nor let him break the game.
After leaving this trick, the former director passed away, and the only one left at Yumen Pass was a ghost general from hell who killed ghosts and monsters because he couldn't crack the chess game.
“Awesome.”
After listening to Zhang Wenlin's explanation, Li Muhan only uttered these two words.
"The previous director, Xie Chengtian, was also a member of your Tianhai City Special Management Bureau. Due to health reasons, he couldn't be reused despite his great talent. He was transferred to this remote place, like a dragon in shallow water, unable to display his talents at all."
The bald director personally made tea for several people in the office and said with a sigh.
"He's my senior, and the person I respect the most... I often wonder if Director Xie had been in better health, would he have become a key training target for the Special Management Bureau?"
"Huh, so this is how you repay him now? You're fattening yourself up and giving up on yourself?"
Zhang Wenlin said unhappily.
"...I'm just a mediocre person, incomparable to Director Xie. Look at me, I'm just an ordinary person. The peace in Yulang City is only due to Director Xie's sacrifice. Sigh...what can I do?"
Hati sat by the office window with her chin in her hand, her eyes looking into the distance. In the northwest shrouded in the night, there seemed to be some kind of powerful aura spreading out.
"As expected of a ghost general from the ancient Chinese nation, his murderous aura is truly terrifying."
This should be the highest evaluation given by Hati so far.
"Teacher Zhang, I actually want to ask you for a favor..."
The bald director personally brought tea to Zhang Wenlin and said.
"I'd like to ask you, everyone... to help us retrieve Director Xie's body when we pass through Yumen Pass."
Snap——
Zhang Wenlin slammed the table and glared at the bald director.
"After all these years!! You're still letting Xie Chengtian's body rot there!?"
The bald director was so frightened that he quickly bent down and said.
"Teacher... Teacher, don't be angry. Think about it, we are all ordinary people here. Who would dare to approach the ancient Yumenguan Tower?... And after all these years, the ghost general still can't break the chess game. I'm afraid he has long been possessed by a demon. Now I'm afraid he wants to kill everyone and every ghost he sees."
The ghost general is guarding Yumen Pass, so these evil spirits naturally cannot cross the forbidden area.
But because of this, the murderous aura in Yumen Pass is extremely heavy, and all the evil spirits and demons are detained in Yumen Pass by the ghost general.
The Yumen Pass is now filled with evil spirits, and ordinary people who approach it will either die or be injured.
Therefore, the Yulang City Special Management Bureau also designated Yumen Pass as a restricted area.
If you think about it carefully, what the bald director said is right, but Zhang Wenlin can't make a decision.
Although their destination was outside the Great Wall, they could have bypassed Yumen Pass, and their mission objective was very clear: to recover cultural relics, not to collect Xie Chengtian's body.
"I can't make the decision on this matter. I also asked the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau to send someone to escort me."
Zhang Wenlin looked at Hati and said.
"This lady is the main person in charge of this escort team. You can ask her."
The bald director was about to turn around and talk to Hati, but as soon as he made eye contact with Hati, he was so frightened by his powerful aura that he didn't dare to raise his head.
"Director Xie is truly a hero. He used himself as bait to lure the demon general into the game. I have to admire him."
Hati spoke Chinese very well and could even quote some ancient texts, which Li Muhan found interesting. In fact, Li Muhan was more inclined to retrieve Xie Chengtian's body.
It can be said that he single-handedly maintained the peace in Yulang City.
Such a chivalrous man should not be left to die in the wilderness.
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