I Am Your Natural Enemy

Feng Wei and Tong Si didn’t dare approach. The outermost perimeter of the detention center, extending out for a full kilometer, was all within the suppression zone. It was obvious some powerful figure had taken action here and left things behind; for different races, the oppressive force was especially intense.

Wen Yan made a call, and someone immediately came to pick him up.

When he stepped into the area one kilometer outside the detention center’s outer wall, he finally saw, for the first time, a prompt aimed at a specific location.

”Evil Suppression Detention Center.”

”Ash from multiple Demon Suppression Towers, Monster Suppression Towers, and Evil Suppression Towers that were once burned down has been added as material.

Assisted by the power of modern technology, with a Daoist dungeon as the foundation, drawing on the earth’s energy, a new cage is constructed.

Within the Evil Suppression Detention Center’s range, abilities such as phasing through walls, opening paths, possession, mental control, illusion, levitation, etc., will all enter a sealed state.

With the corresponding special summoning talisman, you can immunize against negative effects.”

”You possess the Heavenly Bestowed Treasure Talisman; negative effects are reduced by 50%.

When you use Scorching Sun to bless the entire detention center once,

the negative effects caused to you by the detention center will be further reduced by 50% from the original base.”

Wen Yan looked up; this was probably a massive undertaking.

If he treated it as a complete whole, with his current level of blessing, he probably wouldn’t be able to bless a building complex of this size.

In the end, he’d inevitably have to separate it and bless it section by section.

Otherwise, the effect would be too diluted, and it would be pointless.

If there’s no real effect, he wouldn’t waste time just to handle that remaining 50% of the negative impact.

Handle the main business first.

He was escorted into the detention center. With his high clearance, upon entry he was only requested to temporarily deposit his personal phone, while the Scorching Sun Department-issued phone wasn’t confiscated.

He waited at the meeting spot and checked over the current information first.

The previous case was technically closed; the black box made for it also hadn’t been taken away. If Wen Yan wanted information, he just got handed the black box directly.

The information that’s been uncovered so far—no one knows how long that crack inside the Qinling Mountains has existed.

Based on testimonies from Scholar Tu and other tomb robbers, cross-verified, plus on-site samples collected by Scorching Sun Department personnel for testing—

The initial statements actually aren’t very reliable. That crack might have been there for a long, long time.

It’s possible the crack didn’t appear only in recent years.

Wen Yan carefully reviewed the updated files, then looked at Scholar Tu’s and others’ statements.

All the statements were recorded word-for-word, unchanged, to prevent any misunderstanding in interpretation.

Via this form of statements, professionals can analyze and infer plenty of things.

After reading, Wen Yan more or less understood what Scholar Tu had in mind.

Seems he planned to confess a bit today, a bit more tomorrow, using that to drag out the time.

Based on the current information, the Doll Master is as good as dead for sure.

That guy’s mentality is really like remote-controlling game characters, without any feeling about killing people.

The people silenced after helping them work were all controlled by the Doll Master. He’s even become skilled at making deaths appear completely natural.

Just like that guy at the seaside last time—his death was fully captured by cameras, all in a bid to save a child, ending up drowned in the sea.

All information was made public and spread online, yet nobody knew it was him controlling someone into suicide.

Currently the Doll Master has been brought back, all the dolls are being recovered one by one. After due process, he may be headed to the Luxury Furnace.

But this Scholar Tu—his whole role has just been that of a middleman dealing in ming qi.

Little Mustache would tell him which place might have a wondrous item, or where something might be buried, and then Scholar Tu would follow Little Mustache’s ”predictions” to try and scoop up the goods ahead of others.

Scholar Tu has always been very adept at this job.

This guy can even dig a thirty-some-meter-long tunnel, with only about thirty centimeters in diameter, at an angle.

Such a tunnel could be precisely aimed to open into the burial chamber holding the tomb master’s coffin.

What’s even more impressive is that this guy can actually crawl inside.

A tunnel of this size, even if discovered, wouldn’t easily be suspected as a tomb robbery tunnel—people might just think some small animal made it.

Wen Yan went through the files and more or less figured out the issue.

If Scholar Tu were sentenced according to normal law, his crime would probably land him in manual labor for a few decades.

Considering he was a member of a gang, even if he hadn’t killed anyone himself, he’d probably get a suspended death sentence.

Plus, since he’s a tomb robber, with other tomb robbers under him, he’d likely be judged as the ringleader.

By then, as long as any of the other tomb robbers had blood on their hands, the head guy would have to take the blame too.

He called Feng Yao to ask and got it straightened out.

The Scorching Sun Department’s opinion is that Scholar Tu is most likely headed for death as well.

Scholar Tu himself knows this too. So, today he confesses a bit, tomorrow some more, just to live one more day.

By regulation, he can actually drag things out this way. As long as his confessions have value, he can buy himself an extra day of life.

So, Feng Yao wanted Wen Yan to have a chat with him, since Wen Yan knows a lot of details that others don’t.

Letting Wen Yan talk can give the guy a bit of hope, coaxing him to cooperate and provide more intel; afterwards, due process—he’d get a free upgrade to a Luxury Furnace.