"The Marquis is here!"

A voice came from the front of the house. The nineteen black-robed figures who were still whispering immediately stood up straight, staring at the direction of the house gate, their faces full of anticipation!

These nineteen people are all the ordinary members when the Evil Suppression Bureau was first established. Among them, six were the aliens who originally followed Huo Qubing, and the other thirteen were new members selected by Lin Qiye in the past few days.

The door of the study slowly opened. Lin Qiye, wearing a holly-colored Han Chinese robe, followed by Wu Quan and Chloe, looked towards the gate.

Except for Hu Jia, the cause and effect between him and these new members were all forged using [Unprovoked Causes], so in the cognition of each of them, Lin Qiye played a different role. However, this did not matter. After all, as long as Lin Qiye had a thought, these forged causes and effects would disappear, and they would completely forget the existence of Lin Qiye.

Squeak——!

The door of the house opened and several figures walked in. Leading the group was Huo Qubing, who was wearing marquis' robes, followed by Zhan Yuwu and Yan Zhong. Looking back, Lin Qiye exclaimed in surprise.

Behind the three people, Gong Yangwan was seen walking slowly towards them in an elegant green skirt and her long black hair was tied up with a jade hairpin. If you ignore the sharp look in her eyes from time to time, she looked like a gentle and virtuous lady from a noble family, completely different from before.

“Now, I feel a bit like that guy…” Lin Qiye couldn’t help but sigh.

As expected, clothes make the person look better. When Gong Yang Wan took off the dirty prison uniform, she was definitely a standard beauty. He had seen Gong Yang Wan wearing a court dress two thousand years later on the National Destiny Island. Although there was a big difference in their temperaments, they were already very similar... In these thousands of years, she had not aged at all.

Gong Yangwan's attendance in formal attire also showed that Huo Qubing had given up the idea of ​​killing her, which was undoubtedly a good thing.

"Meet the Chief Controller!"

"Meet the Chief Boss!!"

The nineteen members of the Evil Suppression Division present half-knelt and saluted at the same time. They looked at the young general in marquis's uniform with their peripheral vision, with admiration written all over their faces.

"Get up." Huo Qubing said calmly.

Everyone stood up quickly. Huo Qubing glanced at them and spoke in a deep voice:

"This marquis established the Suppression of Evils Department with the intention of gathering the strength of the world's extraordinary people to eliminate evil spirits and protect the well-being of the people..."

Huo Qubing's voice echoed in the courtyard. Everyone calmed down and listened carefully.

Lin Qiye and Wu Quan stood behind the threshold of the study, looking at the scene in front of them, feeling an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

"Brother Qiye, can we say that we are witnessing history?" Wu Quan couldn't help but ask.

“Well,” Lin Qiye smiled. “We not only witnessed history, but we were also a part of it… But, no one will remember it in the future.”

In modern society more than two thousand years later, who could have imagined that such a small house and just over twenty people were the original appearance of the night watchmen?

In this era, it is extremely rare to have the foresight to establish the Evil Suppression Department, and to achieve this, strong strength and extraordinary courage are indispensable... and the young Huo Qubing did it. This is why Huo Qubing is so respected in later generations. He can be said to be the ancestor of all night watchmen, and the title of the first ceiling is well deserved.

"...We are blessed with the power of heaven, and we should give back to the world." Huo Qubing clasped his hands in front of his chest and bowed slightly to the people in front of him.

"I ask you all to join me in suppressing the evil spirits in this troubled time and returning peace to the world!"

"——We swear to follow you till death, my Lord!!"

“——Suppress the evil spirits in this troubled time and restore peace to the world!!”

The crowd's voices were loud and clear, their chests heaving violently, and their eyes filled with excitement.

Behind Huo Qubing and others, Gong Yangwan's eyes calmly swept across these passionate figures, her expression without the slightest change, as if everything in front of her had nothing to do with her.

There was no fanfare, no loud gongs and drums. After a simple ceremony, this ancient organization that spanned two thousand years of human history was quietly established without anyone noticing.

"Yuwu, take them to collect their salary and weapons first, and you two follow me." Huo Qubing gave a brief explanation, then took Yan Zhong and Gong Yangwan and went straight to the study where Lin Qiye was.

The door of the study slowly closed. Seeing Huo Qubing's serious expression, Lin Qiye couldn't help but ask in confusion:

"My Lord, what happened?"

Huo Qubing took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Lin Qiye, do you remember that the giant willow tree released a large number of spores into the sky a few nights ago?"

"Remember, what's wrong?"

"The situation is not good." Huo Qubing said in a deep voice, "On the way back to Chang'an, I received an urgent report that willow monsters appeared in various places in the Han Dynasty... They should be the offspring left by "Him" before he died."

Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes slightly, "Offspring? Are your abilities the same as his?"

“Basically the same, but a little weaker. They can also release colored smoke, but the range is very small, and they can’t copy the abilities of aliens, they can only copy ordinary people… Their combat effectiveness is not high, probably equivalent to a third-level alien.

But the problem is that there are too many of them. Just according to the urgent reports I received in the past few days, there are at least fifty of them, not to mention those more remote areas where the letters have not yet arrived.

It is said that these willow descendants are now replicating ordinary people, causing great riots in various places, and even have the potential to form an army..."

Hearing this, the brows of the other people in the room suddenly frowned, and Lin Qiye asked in confusion:

"Strange. Logically, since his original body was killed by Chloe, these offspring should have disappeared as well..."

"This is what I'm really worried about." Huo Qubing's expression was extremely serious. "There are also urgent reports that... in places other than Chang'an, it seems that giant willow monsters have appeared. Whether it's size, the area covered by the smoke, or the ability to copy aliens... they are exactly the same as the one we encountered that night."

"You mean, there are other Kusuens?" Lin Qiye asked in shock, "How is this possible? Could it be that Chaos brought more than one? But if so, why didn't He bring them all to Chang'an to kill me?"

After Lin Qiye finished speaking, he suddenly froze in place as if he had thought of something.

"What did you think of?" Huo Qubing asked.

Lin Qiye wandered in the study room in silence for a long time, then slowly spoke:

"According to the current intelligence, Kusuen has the ability to reproduce a large number of secondary offspring. The offspring He spawned will have their abilities greatly weakened in all aspects... But we have overlooked a question. Is it possible for the offspring He spawned to reproduce another generation of offspring? Just like vampires?"

"Then is there a possibility... that the person Chloe killed that night was not Kusuen's real body... but the first generation offspring of the real Kusuen god?"

"Otherwise, this doesn't explain why Chloe, who has no laws, was able to kill that Kusuen?"

The more Lin Qiye thought about it, the tighter his brows furrowed. He kept wandering around the room, muttering to himself:

"Assuming that's true, then the ones you just mentioned who can only copy ordinary people should be the second generation descendants. They come from the first generation descendants who can copy the abilities of aliens... Based on this inference, does it mean that the real Kusuen can copy... gods?"