Chapter 89 Helping the Evil God: Do you know what your followers are doing...?
Looking at Hu Feng, who was still diligently working on the abacus, Zhou Fangdong felt somewhat helpless.
Oh well, as long as we managed to rent out room 207 smoothly, that's all that matters.
After closing the door, Zhou Fangdong returned to the first floor and told the anxiously waiting Hong Zhong that Hu Feng had successfully checked into room 207.
Hong Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, unloaded Hu Feng's luggage from the car, and carried it up to the second floor.
Fearing the ghosts in the room might affect him, Hong Zhong didn't go in, but instead told Hu Feng to pack his own luggage. Afterwards, he went to the 104 convenience store, bought some food, and brought it upstairs, ordering Hu Feng not to go out that night.
After settling Hu Feng's affairs, Hong Zhong went to the apartment garden to switch the garbage station to night mode. He talked to himself for a while before returning to his room before dark.
Because he was increasingly influenced by the cat ghost, Hong Zhong could now clearly see the kittens jumping and running around in room 106, and his bed was even half occupied by a huge black cat.
When Hong Zhong returned, the big black cat simply stretched and lazily flicked its tail, showing no intention of moving its body at all.
Hong Zhong had gotten used to it... at least the big black cat still left him half a space.
Unlike the worried and busy Hong Zhong, Zhou Fangdong returned to his room early.
After checking his tenants' status and confirming that they were all safe, he opened the newly unlocked encyclopedia.
[The Strange Tenant & the Mentally Depressed, Erotic Investigator]
Illustration Description: A dutiful A-rank investigator, during a mission, forcibly transferred the curses of hundreds of people onto himself to prevent harm to civilians. Although he luckily survived, he suffered some problems with his thinking and cognition, and has now retired.
Trait: An incomprehensible mental state due to excessively rapid thought processes. Aside from 'madness' and 'chuunibyou' (adolescent delusions of grandeur), the system cannot identify any other traits. This tenant moved into Liwan Apartment under Hong Zhong's orders. Neither Hong Zhong nor this tenant will vacate room 106.
New Tenant Profile Unlock Reward: [S-Rank Sealed Artifact - Ordinary Router]
Seeing the prefix of the prop's name, Zhou Fangdong felt something was off.
The items rewarded by the system have always been of the following types: 'special items', 'cursed items', 'strange items', or low-level, mid-level, and high-level items. This is the first time he has seen an item that starts with 'sealed item'.
Zhou Fangdong checked the prop's instructions.
[S-Rank Sealed Item - Ordinary Router]
Item Description: This item can curse others via signal. It inexplicably appeared in a busy downtown coffee shop, and all customers who connected to its Wi-Fi that day were cursed. Just as the curse was about to erupt, an A-level investigator transferred all the spreading curses onto himself, ending this sudden paranormal event.
After being contained, the Bureau of Supervision's research team detected that the number of people cursed by the item was unlimited and that it spread extremely quickly. It was classified as an S-class supernatural item with extremely high danger and sealed in the Bureau of Supervision's underground, where it was forbidden to view, unseal, or use it.
Item effect: A group mind control curse item. The curse spreads according to the user's mental power. There is no limit to the number of people cursed. The curse mark will be activated one hour after it is successfully imprinted.
After the curse mark erupts, the mind of the mark carrier will be washed by a large amount of junk information. At best, it will cause cognitive confusion; at worst, it will cause the consciousness to dissipate and become an unthinking living dead puppet. (The success rate depends on the length of time the curse mark exists. If the person has a strong will, the effect will be greatly reduced.)
Note: Using this item will continuously and significantly reduce your mental state (the host's mental state bar can only use this item for one minute at a time).
The more Zhou Fangdong read the prop's instructions, the more serious his expression became.
What a dangerous tool! The method of cursing is inconspicuous, yet it spreads easily. I wonder how the Bureau of Supervision discovered its existence in the first place.
Furthermore, combining Hu Feng's character profile with the item description of this S-rank sealed artifact, Zhou Fangdong couldn't help but begin to suspect something...
Could this reward for unlocking the encyclopedia have been stolen from the Bureau of Investigation by the system?
Does the Bureau of Anomalies know that it has lost an S-class sealed artifact?
Although it's a terrifyingly powerful area-of-effect attack item, Zhou Fangdong has no intention of claiming it for the time being.
If he needs to control skills, he can directly use [Heavenly Eye], without needing to use such a dangerous item.
If this prop gets lost somewhere and is picked up by the Bone Inheritance Society, it will be completely destroyed.
Speaking of the Bone Inheritance Society...
Zhou Fangdong closed the tenant catalog and opened the [Evil God Disguise] interface.
Tonight, he plans to use the newly unlocked [Erosion Authority] feature to carry out a major purge of the Bone Society cultists.
There are very few kind-hearted people like him who offer free door-to-door cleaning services.
Zhou Fangdong opened the [Ritual Inquiry] function and began the tedious task of filtering through the densely packed dots on the map.
First, use the [Ritual Inquiry] tool to thoroughly search and see which place has the most important rituals and the largest number of cult members.
Whether it was because he was feeling dizzy from reading too much text or because his body was too exhausted from upgrading his skills, Zhou Fangdong actually felt sleepy for the first time while reading.
This feeling is like listening to a lecture in advanced mathematics class; the knowledge pours into your brain and has a good hypnotic effect. With each blink, an extra layer of stickiness appears between your upper and lower eyelids...
Zhou Fangdong rubbed his eyes hard, feeling somewhat unfamiliar with this drowsy sensation.
Since his resurrection in the Liwan Apartment, he has been in a state of not eating, drinking, or sleeping, but he suddenly felt sleepy at this time.
...He's not sleepy in the morning or at night, but he has to waste his time tonight.
Now is a crucial time. The matter of Fengrao Village was just resolved this afternoon. After the members of the Bone Inheritance Society discovered that the blood sacrifice ritual and the Fusu ritual in Fengrao Village to the north had been completely dismantled, they will definitely try to come up with other rituals.
Zhou Fangdong now only wants to kill more cultists to divert their attention, try to shift the blame to the main god or make them focus on the out-of-control 'evil god' so that they will no longer have the leisure to carry out any resurrection rituals.
These scumbags will stop at nothing to obtain offerings. If they are not restrained, it is unimaginable how many more innocent people will die at their hands.
But right at this critical moment, his body told him it wanted to rest.
Does being tired mean you have to sleep? What a joke! His body isn't something so inconvenient.
In ancient times, there were stories of people hanging their heads from beams and pricking their thighs with awls to stay awake. Tonight, he's going to cut himself to give his worthless body a good wake-up call...
Where's the knife?
Oh, and he stuffed the knife and other cursed items into the slime's body on the second floor.
Just as Zhou Fangdong was about to be teleported to the second floor, he heard the system's despairing electronic voice:
[Host, calm down. The shop sells stimulants that have an energizing effect. Why don't you drink one first?]
Upon hearing this from the system, Zhou Fangdong stopped teleporting and opened the shop for a look.
He didn't even need to search; the first item in the shop was the [Mental Elixir] that the system had mentioned.
[Mental Elixir] Price: 150 Ghost Coins
It can continuously increase the stamina bar (5% per minute) for one hour (it has an energizing effect).
With his current mental state, replenishing half of it would cost 500 ghost coins... Buying this mental potion is a good deal.
Although it's a bit slower than directly consuming Ghost Coins, it's much cheaper. If you're not in a hurry to replenish your spirit bar, you can keep using this potion.
After obtaining 6,000 Ghost Coins from those three dungeons, Zhou Fangdong now has 22,200 Ghost Coins.
He bought a bottle of [Mental Elixir], drank it, and then opened his character attribute panel to check his attributes.
Zhou Fangdong was stunned when he saw the task attributes.
Even after drinking the [psychic potion], his psychic bar continued to slowly decrease...
What's going on? He hasn't used any skills yet.
Just then, the system's electronic voice sounded again:
[The side effects of the skill upgrade will return to normal tomorrow. If the host is worried about their stamina bar running out, they can drink another bottle.]
Zhou Fangdong bought another bottle without hesitation.
He was about to use the [Disguised Evil God Descends] function, and he was afraid that if his spirit bar wasn't enough, the attack effect would be weaker.
Just as the system said, the psychic potion did indeed have an energizing effect. After drinking the potion, the drowsiness disappeared immediately.
Zhou Fangdong continued to look through the rituals.
Finally, he found a very suspicious place.
This place is located in the eastern suburbs of Linjiang City. The rituals here are performed very frequently, and they all require the use of the core of the evil god's clone to summon the evil god's clone.
Zhou Fangdong didn't know why those cultists summoned evil god clones so frequently in this place, but he did know that the place must have a large number of evil god clone cores stored up to maintain such a frequency of summoning.
A perfect resource point; if its core were completely absorbed, its [Erosion Authority] function would definitely be further enhanced.
He chose this location and carried out the [fake descent of an evil god].
The skill took effect immediately, causing him to feel dizzy for a moment. When his vision returned to normal, Zhou Fangdong found himself in an underground space.
Just like the previous disguised evil god's descent, in the initial stage he could only possess a cultist.
This cult member appeared to be an overseer, holding a ledger and constantly recording something.
After seeing the entire underground space through this person's eyes, Zhou Fangdong was stunned.
This space is an underground cave, and the cave walls are covered with familiar filth and silt.
The cave was transformed into a strange 'factory', and the cultist possessed by Zhou Fangdong stood in the core area of the factory.
The core of this factory is nothing other than a gigantic, constantly writhing and expanding sludge monster. Countless distorted human faces appear and disappear on the surface of the sludge, and the expressions of those faces are extremely painful—it is the aggregate of evil god clones summoned by cultists.
This clone is even bigger than the one that appeared in Penghu Homestead... no, to be precise, it's even bigger than the one hidden in the second-floor room of the apartment; it's almost the size of a small lake.
Many bizarrely shaped machines were built around the edge of the lake, and in addition, many cultists wearing special metal masks and protective suits covered with runes operated those machines.
Upon closer inspection, the devices resembled small water pumps, with runes engraved on their surfaces. They were inserted along the edge of the lake into the body of the mud monster in the center, continuously extracting something.
During their work, the huge mass of silt in the middle would occasionally extend its tentacles and randomly snatch away a cultist.
But the other cult members turned a blind eye to this, as if they had long been used to it. One 'worker' would be taken away by the tentacles, and a spare 'worker' would come to replace him. It was as orderly as a mechanized factory assembly line with a set program.
After the extracted sludge has been processed by those strange machines for a period of time, the cultists will take out seemingly normal, ordinary items from the exit... such as pens, paper cups, washbasins and the like.
There are also failed products. The failed one is a lump of mud whose shape is indistinguishable. Once it is taken out, it will directly envelop the cultist who is picking up the goods and drag him into a lake made up of a huge mud monster in the middle.
Besides being dragged away by the avatars of evil gods, cult members also suffer losses due to contamination caused by inadequate protection.
The solution was simple: just throw the person into the muddy lake in the middle, so that he could become one with their god.
That's so creative! If Zhou Fangdong weren't unable to control his body, he would have applauded these cultists.
In this underground cavern, the 'supreme' evil god's avatar was used as raw material for producing supernatural artifacts.
What a processing plant! I wonder if that evil god knew that its followers were so creative?
The low-level cultists Zhou Fangdong had encountered in the past all seemed very fanatical to him, always wanting to merge with their gods.
But unexpectedly, in the core area of the Bone Inheritance Society, this evil god was positioned in this way... The higher-ups of the Bone Inheritance Society completely regarded this evil god as a useful raw material.
Zhou Fangdong originally thought that these cultists only treated ordinary people as expendable resources, but he did not expect that they would treat their own gods the same way.
That was fantastic!
Zhou Fangdong felt that the evil god of the Bone Inheritance Society would definitely be angry if he saw this scene.
Since he's in a position to do his job, and he's currently in a state of [pretending to be an evil god], he should help that evil god deal with these rebellious followers.
There's no way around it; he's just that kind of warm-hearted citizen who likes to stand up for the weak and does good deeds anonymously.
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