Under the same night sky.
Located outside the edge of the city.
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen stood in a small alley, their eyes piercing through the rain-shrouded dark alley, examining an apartment building not far away.
Bai Zhenzhen asked, "Are you sure this is the place?"
Fu Ji said, "Hmph, how can a minor god mixed in with the general population like this compare to my control over rituals? Besides, I used his Shadow Gu to find him, so there's absolutely no problem."
"If you're going, hurry up. Although I've lured those people away with false information, they'll be back soon once they realize something's wrong."
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Then I'll go first."
He flexed and vibrated his muscles, and soon his entire body slightly contracted and twisted. Then, the muscles in his face also changed, turning into a completely unfamiliar appearance.
Then, Zhang Yu put on the courier uniform he had prepared beforehand and arrived at the dilapidated apartment building.
Dilapidated exterior walls, dim lighting, and corridors filled with junk.
Zhang Yu glanced at the moss growing in the cracks of the steps and felt a faint, almost imperceptible stench in the air.
The entire apartment building gave him a feeling of being old and decaying.
Even the surveillance system had been broken for a long time due to aging lines and intentional damage by the evil god's followers.
However, because the rent was relatively cheap, the entire apartment building was filled with people from all walks of life.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, "The evil god probably deliberately chose such a dilapidated and old apartment, right? It's convenient for our actions today."
Zhang Yu arrived at the door of Room 606 and pressed the doorbell, but there was no response.
So, he pressed the doorbell again and said, "Hello? Your delivery is here."
"I'm in a hurry, so I'll just leave it at the door. You can come out and get it yourselves later."
After speaking, Zhang Yu stood in place and took a picture of the delivery package, then left in a hurry like an ordinary courier.
Not long after he left, Li Quan opened the door, looked left and right, and after confirming that no one was around, he looked at the delivery box in front of the door with a wary expression.
Seeing that the address on it was indeed correct, Li Quan took it into the room and asked, "Master, it seems like a package you ordered has arrived."
"Oh?" Huo Shan hopped over and shouted, "Is it the new mouse I ordered online? Hurry up and open it for me to see."
At this moment, in addition to the evil god Huo Shan and the believer Li Quan, there was also a dark-faced burly man quietly inhaling a Dao Heart Buffer, lying on the sofa with an expression of enjoyment.
Li Quan and this dark-faced burly man had both graduated from high school many years ago and were already at the peak of Qi Refining. They were also the two most loyal followers of the evil god Huo Shan, protecting his safety all along.
Even today, when Song Xu led people to plot for that ten million, they still guarded Huo Shan's side.
At this moment, after Li Quan tore open the package in a few strokes, he saw that inside was a high school general knowledge math book.
"What the hell?" Huo Shan said angrily, "Did the merchant send me the wrong thing? I'm going to complain!"
Just then, the sound of police sirens came from afar, and soon it was getting closer and closer to the apartment.
Hearing this sound, Huo Shan and his two followers were slightly startled and quickly opened the window to look down.
As an evil god and evil god followers, they were always very sensitive to this kind of movement.
And when they saw the police car parked downstairs, they became even more nervous.
"Could this be coming for me?"
Just as Huo Shan was worried, Li Quan said, "In addition to the police car, there is also the Xianyun Group's security team. It should be related to company matters and has nothing to do with us."
Huo Shan breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Until the sound of the constables knocking on the door rang out, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Huo Shan's mind.
The paralysis of lying flat and playing for a long time had not completely eroded his vigilance as an evil god, allowing him to suddenly grab the math book next to him.
Huo Shan quickly flipped through it and immediately widened his eyes.
He saw that a martial art called Spring and Autumn Endless Zen was copied in this math book.
"Damn it! Who's trying to harm me!"
At the same time, the voices of the constables and the company security team sounded outside the door: "Routine inspection, please open the door and cooperate."
Li Quan grabbed the math book and wanted to throw it out the window, but was stopped by Huo Shan.
"Haven't you seen the news or the movies? There must be company dogs staring at our windows downstairs taking pictures! Throwing it down is like actively sending them the evidence!"
"It has to be burned! Quickly burn this book!"
Huo Shan repeatedly urged, "Burn it! Burn it!"
The two followers lit the book and brought an iron bucket, but found that the material of this book was extremely tough and burned too slowly.
Just then, the knocking on the door became louder and louder, and the constable said, "As citizens of Songyang City, you have an obligation to cooperate with the investigation. Please open the door immediately."
One of the company people said, "Did you smell something burning?"
The constable's voice became more and more urgent: "We now suspect that you are related to the illegal spread of cultivation methods. If you don't open the door, we will break in!"
Hearing these words, the three of them were terrified and anxious like ants on a hot pot.
"I'm fucking..." Huo Shan cursed in his heart, while suppressing his voice and saying, "Pour some oil on it! Take it to the gas stove and light it!"
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! If we get caught, it's going to be a sky-high fine!"
"Burning one more word can reduce the fine!"
"Li Quan, you go deal with them first! Delay them!"
As the knocking on the door became louder and louder, the warnings from the constables and the company security team became more and more urgent.
Feeling the strong fluctuations of magic power surging outside the door, Li Quan said to the room with a head full of sweat, "They're about to come in."
At the same time, the entire book finally burned fiercely.
Huo Shan looked at the math book that was thrown into the bucket and gradually turned black, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
With a loud bang! The door was directly broken open.
Watching a large team of constables and members of the company security team walk in, Li Quan and another dark-faced burly man quickly raised their hands, not daring to resist in the slightest.
Huo Shan also lay quietly on the sofa like a real teddy bear, without a sound.
The leading company security personnel looked at Li Quan and said, "Why did it take so long to open the door?"
Li Quan said nervously, "I... I don't know who you are, why should I open the door?"
Just then, a team member said, "Officer, they just burned something."
Everyone immediately looked at the iron bucket full of scorch marks.
Looking at the company people searching through the burning residue, all three of Huo Shan tensed up at once.
And the company people searched through the charred book for a while, and finally shook their heads helplessly: "I can't make out the contents above."
Just as Huo Shan completely relaxed, another company person suddenly reached into the iron bucket to dig for something.
Then, to everyone's surprise, a palm-sized piece of iron was dug out by him.
Seeing this scene, Huo Shan immediately understood that someone had clipped the iron piece in the book. He cursed in his heart, "Who's so ruthless? To harm me like this? Damn it, I'm going to be fined to death this time..." Looking at the two followers on the scene, he was already considering whether to abandon these two guys.
The company person glanced at the writing engraved on the iron piece, and his expression changed: "It's Spring and Autumn Endless Zen, top expert-level cultivation method."
Hearing these words, the constables immediately retreated, fearing to see the contents on the iron piece.
And the company people immediately surrounded it and sealed the iron piece.
"You two, we now suspect that you purchased pirated cultivation methods, please come with us and cooperate with the investigation."
...
In the alley downstairs.
Zhang Yu, who had already taken off his courier uniform, leaned against the wall and quietly watched Li Quan and the two being taken into Xianyun Company's car in another unfamiliar appearance.
Watching the company and constables' cars drive away quickly and disappear into the night in the blink of an eye, Zhang Yu sighed, "Anonymous phone reports are so useful? It's better than I imagined."
Fu Ji said, "After all, what was leaked was a cultivation method of the Spring and Autumn Endless Zen level. These company people are definitely as active as dogs smelling shit."
Zhang Yu recalled the two people who were taken into the car in his mind, and thought to himself, "These two people should be followers, right?"
Fu Ji chuckled, and then said, "This is the advantage of information asymmetry. Just such an information asymmetry where we know his address, but he doesn't know that we know his address, is enough to play him to death."
Zhang Yu was not relaxed at all.
After the company arrests the two followers, as long as they are fined enough money, they will naturally be fine.
Or even if these two followers are sacrificed, the other party's evil god is still there.
Zhang Yu looked at the apartment building and thought, "In theory, the followers in that room should have been taken away by the company."
"But..."
After thinking about it, Zhang Yu decided to try again.
So, he picked up his phone and ordered a takeaway.
More than ten minutes later, as a residual image cut through the air, a takeaway delivery man was already carrying a drink, appearing like a ghost at the door of Room 606.
Looking at the violently broken door, he was slightly stunned and asked, "Is anyone here?"
No one responded.
Looking at the remarks on the takeaway order, the delivery man sighed helplessly. As his figure flickered, bringing up a gust of wind, he had already swept around the room.
Then, he walked out of the room, picked up his phone, and typed a message to the customer: I looked around, there's no one here, what should I do with this order?
The customer replied: Thank you for your hard work, it's okay if he's not there, please drink this drink.
Not long after the takeaway delivery man left, the bear doll on the sofa moved slightly, jumped off the sofa, and wanted to run out.
But at the next moment, he suddenly stopped.
"No, what if... what if the other party's real target is me, this evil god, maybe they are guarding outside right now, waiting for me to throw myself into the net."
"I can't just go out like this."
"The current me is without the protection of followers, it is the most dangerous time, what I should do is..."
Thinking of this, the bear doll sent a message to Song Xu and others.
"At their speed, they can arrive in twenty minutes at most."
"And all I need to do is not be found in these twenty minutes."
Thinking of this, Huo Shan came to the wall behind the sofa, slowly opened the secret door inside, and disappeared into the room.
