I Am Your Natural Enemy

Wen Yan just needed to pick up his phone and search the Scorching Sun Department's database to directly find out he was talking nonsense.

As Wen Yan was still checking, the phone suddenly rang—it was Cai Qidong calling.

"Come to the department, to my office."

After saying that, Cai Qidong just hung up right away. Wen Yan frowned; what the hell was the Minister doing? His tone seemed a bit off.

He put away his phone.

"Seventh Great-Uncle Master, Eighth Uncle-Master Ancestor, Minister Cai is looking for me, so I won't go with you guys."

You just pick as you like—if you find a good seedling, just take them. As long as you can manage them, you don't have to worry about anything else."

"That's enough, don't overdo it. Too many might not even be a good thing." The Seventh Great-Uncle Master shook his head, calmly not going overboard in reaping all the benefits.

Though he wanted to give Fuyu Mountain some new seedlings and saplings, too many would surely mean not all could be taught well. Better to have fewer, just enough is fine.

This was his first visit himself, also to set an example for those who follow after.

So the younger generation wouldn't overstep, or fail to think things through, and really drag over hundreds of people in one sweep someday.

"Alright then, let Seventh Great-Uncle Master decide. I'll head over first."

Wen Yan arrived at the Scorching Sun Department station, greeting people along the way, and entered Cai Qidong's office.

No sooner had he come in than Cai Qidong produced an extra-thick box, at least ten centimeters deep.

"Phones and such, turn them off and put them inside."

Wen Yan glanced and saw that even Cai Qidong's own phone had been tossed in.

After putting all his electronic devices inside, Cai Qidong sealed the box and tossed it aside, then smoothly activated the signal-shielding light screen Wen Yan had seen last time.

Cai Qidong looked at Wen Yan, letting out a long sigh.

"I just received a message from headquarters through the top-secret channel."

"Headquarters sent an alert: a new World Boss is about to descend."

"This time, the World Boss is called the Pain Demon Lord."

"That fast!" Wen Yan was a bit shocked.

Aside from the Soul Devouring Beast, the last World Boss descent was three years ago, right?

This time, the Soul Devouring Beast hasn't even been fully dealt with yet.

From what Minister Cai said, real-time monitoring can still confirm that the main body of the Soul Devouring Beast hasn't completely disappeared yet.

So why is another one showing up?

No way, is the appearance of these things completely random?

But then, another question came to his mind.

Why was Cai Qidong telling him this immediately?

He felt a vague sense of dread.

"Minister, why are you telling me this?"

"Because the place of descent is Nanwu Commandery again."

Cai Qidong looked at Wen Yan, letting out another long sigh.

"And it's Virtue City, so there's no way you wouldn't know."

Because in Virtue City, the most powerful local force they could bring out was Wen Yan.

Now that Wen Yan knew, plus both his Seventh Great-Uncle Master and Eighth Uncle-Master Ancestor were here—

The people Wen Yan could rally could overwhelm Virtue City, and even crush the entire Wei State in terms of fighting power.

Also, that person Wen Yan recommended had already been looked into.

Nothing in the record showed any problems.

But it just so happened that Pei Tugou had once gone to Virtue City to collect a debt, and that very night, the deadbeat who owed wages got found hanging from a streetlamp.

Cai Qidong knew right away—this must have been Pei Tugou's doing.

But at the time, all records showed Pei Tugou was in Duanzhou—there was no indirect evidence, let alone direct.

As for what profession Pei Tugou was, he didn't plan to ask anymore.

He'd asked Director He, who said the man was truly honest, worked diligently and steadfastly, especially when paid by amount and difficulty—he'd work as if his life depended on it.

Looking over Pei Tugou's records himself, Cai Qidong felt that to push such an honest guy that far, so that someone ended up being hanged, that poor bastard really had it coming.

With someone like that, and with Qin Kun also staying in Nanwu Commandery now,

since it was happening in Virtue City, naturally Wen Yan had to be informed first.

"Virtue City..." Wen Yan's face went green, his voice even a bit dry: "Is it going to descend right in the city center? How are we supposed to evacuate so many people?"

"Even if it's not in the city proper, Virtue City's jurisdiction isn't that big. The outskirts are still close to the urban area.

The authorities are already discussing emergency evacuation—not whether to do it,

but how to do it without causing mass chaos, and to orderly complete the evacuation."

Cai Qidong's face didn't look good either, as he lay out some documents on the desk.

"Both World Boss descents so far had one thing in common—

the entities could be extremely large in size.

When the Flame Demon descended, it started out just the size of a Little Fire Seed, but soon after, its true body became massive.

The Soul Devouring Beast, according to estimates, was about seventeen kilometers long—huge as well.

And even the Soul Devouring Beast suffered some unknown weakening, so it could actually be harmed.

Looking at the patterns from last two times, all of them could cause catastrophic disasters.

Plus, after descent, they suffer unknown weakening—so possibly, at first, they won't be at full strength."

As he spoke, Cai Qidong pulled out some more files.

"This is from the little demon we caught earlier. He's dead—he dug out his own two hearts.

Our people are still analyzing the residue left behind.

But the time of the little demon's death almost exactly coincided with the moment headquarters received the alert.

And when that little demon was dying, he said something else which was all recorded.

Our guess is, that woman Liu Qiying has summoned devils more than once.

Although she's always extremely cautious, never letting any devil out—every time she only asks things."