Chapter 65 The second piece [Secret Cause of the Psychic]
Ji Xun didn't expect such a coincidence. He came over to look for clues and met the mysterious man who came to investigate before.
Thinking about it, it was probably because the other party was unlucky.
Since this old believer is using his profession as a doctor as a cover, he will naturally not hide in some shady place.
This guy probably didn't expect that he would be recognized when he went to the corpse collector's dormitory before, even though he didn't show his face the whole time and even used mental hypnosis.
The doctor was very alert. When someone walked by, he seemed to notice something immediately.
Ji Xun just took a casual glance at him when he was passing by and saw that the guy was already looking at him.
Seeing that he was wearing a mechanic's uniform, the doctor didn't look much further.
"What a strong intuition..."
Although Ji Xun was shocked, there was nothing unusual about his expression.
I was also glad in my heart that if I hadn't been prepared in advance, that glance just now might have been exposed.
He walked over directly without any unnecessary movement.
As he walked, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he thought to himself: "In this way, the plan can be put on the agenda."
The clues he had gotten before were almost all speculations, and Ji Xun didn't expect to find the right place right away. He had already thought about spending a few days near the redwood neighborhood. He didn't expect to encounter it on the first day.
Now that he saw the doctor, he was almost certain that this was one of the exact locations of the "Four Pillars".
Although he didn't know the specific address of the sacrificial ceremony, there was no need for Ji Xun to think about it.
He is still very self-aware.
A fight of this level is not something that little Karami like him can currently handle.
Now that the person has been identified, the location is accurate.
So...
The rest of the matter should be handled according to procedures.
This doctor is a mystical warlock, most likely at the second level. Ji Xun doesn't think he can beat him.
Besides, this guy definitely has accomplices.
Just because he can't do it doesn't mean that others can't deal with this kind of Old Day believer.
In the eyes of the spell card masters in this world, believers of God are just sewer rats that everyone shouts about and beats.
Last time Tailor Street was handled by field agents from Golden Oak Security Company, so we can be sure that people from Golden Oak can handle this kind of thing.
...
After Ji Xun confirmed the location of the "four pillars", he rode his motorcycle all the way to Beicheng.
He did not return to the East Fifth District, but came to the corpse collector branch in Beicheng and applied for employment with a new identity.
The reason for this is that Ji Xun wants to ensure that after the "four pillars" stronghold is destroyed, he will participate in collecting the corpses at the scene.
Only this method is the safest and least noticeable.
He is now very clear about the division of corpse collectors. This side of Sequoia Street is a civilian neighborhood. There are not that many corpses, and there is only one corpse collector team - Team 18.
Onboarding was also very smooth.
Ji Xun knew all the procedures of the body collector and joined the job on the same day.
He did not wander around, but observed the environment near the dormitory and formulated a series of subsequent plans based on the environment.
To Ji Xun's surprise, there was a huge underground structure and some monsters living in the dark downstairs of Team 18's dormitory.
This made his plan a little more solid.
.......
At midnight that night, the moon came out again.
It lasted a little longer than the day before.
This means that the Old Day Christian did not realize that he was exposed.
This is good news.
The next day, Ji Xun went on a mission with the team to collect corpses.
Similarly, the veteran players of these 18 teams also have a tradition of bullying newcomers.
Ji Xun's weak character who speaks little makes him once again become a "new guy" who handles dirty work.
This is exactly what he wanted.
When there really is a "cellar", he must be at the forefront of the scene.
After getting familiar with the working environment of Team 18, Ji Xun started writing a report letter that night.
The general meaning of the letter is that an enthusiastic member of the public discovered a secret stronghold of a cultist at the Yanbian Clinic at No. 354 Sequoia Street.
The doctors at the clinic are Old Believers.
That stronghold is also directly related to the "luminous sphere" that appears in the sky.
He writes very straightforwardly.
As for how he knew it was, that's for the people at Golden Oak to guess.
Anyway, the characters and locations are all real. As long as we send someone there, they can verify it immediately.
Even for fear that the person who received the letter would not pay enough attention to it, Ji Xun also wrote an extra sentence in the letter: He saw the suspected wanted criminal "Lone Wolf" Baron appearing in the clinic.
This guy is now a wanted fugitive from the Hunter Guild, and the amount of money currently on the bounty boards in various taverns has exceeded one million.
And Ji Xun didn't write it randomly.
After all, last time in the Tailor Street cellar, he guessed that the beaten corpses were the work of Baron.
This wanted criminal should also be related to the Old Moon Sect.
Report one more time to be prepared.
After writing the "report letter", Ji Xun checked the wording to make sure it would not reveal any unnecessary information.
But I always feel like something is missing.
Then after thinking about it, he took the initiative to leave a name on the letter - Chaoyang People.
The reason why I left my name is not for unnecessary reasons.
Ji Xun also has his own profound meaning.
...
Ji Xun had suffered a loss at the hands of the [Soothsayer] on Dark Rain Street before.
Later, I specifically learned about the extraordinary knowledge related to divination.
He also discovered that although abilities such as divination and prophecy can be called bugs, they are also very costly.
When it comes to difficult divination, almost all fortune tellers base their divination on their own life span, luck, and so on.
The directionality of clues, distance, target level... will all affect the cost of divination.
Ji Xun also guessed that when his plan was successful, someone might come to him through this report letter.
Ji Xun is confident that there will be no flaws in the logic of this letter.
Then it can only be a mysterious method.
Thinking that he would be divined anyway, I decided to make it more difficult.
If you do not leave a name, the other party will divine the source of the entire letter.
But if a name is left, it is a directional clue.
"Chaoyang Crowd" is the name of a place when you hear it. When a fortune teller gets started, there is a high probability that they will first do divination in this direction.
After all, there are directional clues, and the price of divination flowers is also smaller.
A large part of the principles of divination are based on mysterious logic, such as fate and the laws of the universe.
If it is a completely fictitious place name, it cannot be divined, and there is no price.
But "Chaoyang" is not made up.
This is a place name with complete logical direction.
Even Ji Xun didn't know whether the backlash of place names in different time and space would cause the fortune teller to die suddenly on the spot.
This is not a scam either.
Even if I report the evil organization with good intentions, you still come to find the whistleblower.
And if you want to find it no matter the cost, it must be the enemy.
That would be embarrassing.
...
Communicators are only available to large forces.
Communication for ordinary people in Sinless City basically relies on their legs.
There are postmen and newsboys in the city who are specially responsible for delivering letters. A dozen copper coins can make those half-grown men run around the city delivering letters.
In order not to have long nights and too many dreams,
After Ji Xun finished writing the letter, he found a reliable postman and entrusted the simply encrypted letter to him.
The postman will deliver the letter to the Golden Oak Security Company headquarters.
The moon only lit up at midnight, so the time he chose to send the letter happened to be in the evening.
Thinking that when the fight is over, the moon has not yet risen and the energy has not started to be consumed, so the timing is best.
.......
Before I knew it, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
In the morgue of Team 18, Ji Xun was handling the corpses, looking at his pocket watch from time to time and muttering something: "Normally, it takes one hour to deliver the message, one hour to assemble and travel... fight for a while, and clean up the battlefield.
The fight should be finished by this time, right?”
With the information in the report, the people from Golden Oak sent people to raid the old sect stronghold. This kind of battle will definitely not last long.
There is a shantytown over there, and the people are very dense. It is absolutely impossible for the corpses to be left for a long time, otherwise the consequences of the spread of contamination will be serious.
This requires the body collector to be notified as soon as possible.
Ji Xun estimated that news would come around ten o'clock.
But I waited until a quarter past ten.
He thought that if there was no news, he might have to go and see it in person.
However, at this moment, a message suddenly came from the communication copper pipe: "Everyone, we are on a mission on Redwood Street! Bring more body bags!"
When Ji Xun heard this, he immediately became energetic.
Sure enough, it came.
...
"The company sent a message saying that dozens of bodies were found in a basement on Redwood Street. We will be busy tonight."
"Captain, what's going on? There are usually very few deaths over there, so why are there so many dead all at once?"
"Who knows?"
"..."
In the car, Ji Xun listened to this conversation and found it inexplicably familiar.
At first he was confused and went to Tailor Street.
Now he knew what he was going to do.
The address and conditions matched, so it could only be the stronghold of that evil sect.
Those Old God believers deliberately chose civilian neighborhoods. The terrain structure is complex, making it easy to hide, and it is also easy to spread their faith and recruit believers.
The corpse collection truck of Team 18 was speeding along the road. After a while, they arrived at No. 354 Hongshan Street.
The truck is parked on the side of the road.
As soon as Ji Xun got out of the car, he saw a raging fire burning on the ruins of a building not far away.
As expected, the fight was not intense.
The Old Believers are just a bunch of sewer rats, and they can't possibly have the strength of the Adamant Oak Company to confront them head-on.
Walking over, there were four strong men in black suits standing outside the Yanbian Clinic. They were the company's field agents.
Last time it was two, this time it was four.
Probably because of "Moon", they are much more cautious than last time.
When the body collectors like Ji Xun arrived, the agents in suits obviously looked at him with scrutiny.
But nothing too long-winded.
The body collector entered the scene directly.
The location of this sacrificial ceremony is in the basement not far behind the clinic.
The situation was similar to last time. Several corpses were silenced above, and then there was a dark and smelly basement.
Ji Xun paid more attention and saw that this time the corpse above had its chest smashed.
The wounds were very small, and they were all on the chest, throat and other vital areas.
Ji Xun had a vague guess in his mind: "Is this... a wound caused by a scalpel?"
It should be that doctor's masterpiece.
...
The old team members were sneaking around behind, and as Ji Xun wished, he was immediately sent to the basement.
Ji Xun and the other two newcomers carried lights all the way down, and then saw the skinned corpse hanging on the ceiling shaking slightly in the darkness.
On the walls, you can still see the mysterious symbols of sacrifice everywhere.
There are more bloody corpses than in Tailor Street, more than thirty by visual inspection.
As always, the skinning craftsmanship is like a work of art.
The corpse seemed to exude a spiritual stench that made people feel sick even through the gas mask.
Ji Xun has already seen it once, so he is not surprised at all.
The clown mask is immune to the spiritual contamination of this sacrificial ritual.
The other two body collectors felt very uncomfortable. The extraordinary pollution here was very serious. But the work still had to be done, and the three of them began to collect the bodies.
Ji Xun didn't show anything unusual at first and carefully observed the situation in the basement.
After coming out of the maze, these sacrificial symbols were no longer unfamiliar to him.
The mysterious symbols on the "four pillars" in the maze are even more numerous and complete than those here.
After collecting several corpses, he quietly walked to the depths of the ceremony and saw the "?" symbol.
At this time, the expected enlightenment appeared.
"You listened to the demonic whispers from the abyss, mental confusion saving throw, you touched the 'Old Miracle'"
After touching the miracle, in the field of vision, the dark energy on the corpse converged on an inconspicuous wall tile like a thin line.
Just like a scene I've seen before.
When Ji Xun saw this, he also looked happy: "Sure enough, he's still here!"
I do so much just for this [Secret Cause of Psychic Mediumship].
Moreover, the quality of this piece of psychic medium can be seen by the naked eye to be much better than the one in Tailor Street.
Ji Xun felt the thick black threads overflowing, and a cautious light flashed in his eyes: "The extraordinary characteristics contained in this quick psychic are at least 50% stronger..."
Perhaps it was because one of the four pillars was missing, or perhaps they had plenty of time that allowed those believers of the outer gods to create this enhanced version of the medium?
This is a good thing for Ji Xun.
If you really want to absorb it, all attributes will definitely skyrocket again.
But if you really take it, the risk of the second piece is much greater than that of the first piece.
But this thought was just a flash. Ji Xun's thoughts had already deduced countless plans to deal with risks.
He came here just for this thing and had already made a prediction.
Ji Xunzang tried to put the piece of psychic medium into the storage ring, but found that it couldn't be put in, and neither could the storage card.
"Eh...can't actually contain it."
He thought about it and immediately realized that it might have something to do with the "divinity" revealed by enlightenment?
However, it has little impact.
While others were not paying attention, Ji Xun repeated his old trick and quietly removed the medium and stuffed it into a corpse.
Whether it can be contained or not is predictable, and the risks are similar.
Since I choose to hold this thing a second time, it must be hotter than before.
What he had to do was to devour it as soon as possible, otherwise it would not be safe anywhere he hid it.
.......
Half an hour later, the corpse in the basement was completely put away.
Several corpse collectors were seriously polluted, as if suffering from heat stroke, and all of them were in a daze.
The company's field agents used the antique camera again. After a brief inquiry, they performed another "memory cleansing" as usual.
Ji Xun already knew the procedure very well and did not reveal any flaws.
Dozens of corpses were stuffed into the car, which was packed to the brim.
The collection truck carrying the body left the Sequoia neighborhood.
In the car, Ji Xun sat in the corner and murmured: "At this time, the other two strongholds should also be fighting..."
In fact, in addition to the first report letter, there are two other letters that will be delivered to the Golden Oak Company headquarters by postman regularly around 11 o'clock.
This is Ji Xun's second piece of [Mithril Psychic] to share firepower and provide insurance.
It takes time to swallow this treasure, and this time carries huge risks.
Those Old Believers were definitely not stupid.
If your home has been stolen once, you will definitely be on guard.
If you really find that this second piece of psychic medium is missing, you will definitely realize that there is a problem in some link.
Only field agents and corpse collectors have been to the scene, and someone will definitely come to investigate.
I'm afraid this visit won't be as easy as last time.
So Ji Xun must buy some extra time for himself.
The other two reporting letters only pointed to a general location, but that was enough.
Golden Oak Security Company also has experts, so they will naturally investigate.
Even if it is just to arouse the enemy, the purpose has been achieved.
If the other two strongholds are discovered, the believers of the outer gods will not be able to take care of themselves.
The pressure on Ji Xun's side will also be much less.
He even felt that the Golden Oak Security Company could dig deeper along the three strongholds and maybe completely destroy the Moon Sect.
Then the future troubles will be completely gone.
Of course, even if no psychic is found on Sequoia Street, it can only be said to be bad luck. Anyway, if you report it, you can treat it as an enthusiastic citizen making a contribution to the city.
But the fact is, now the things are available.
What Ji Xun has to do is to digest the physical evidence as quickly as possible.
Even after making so many preparations, he had a feeling it wouldn't go well.
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