I Am Your Natural Enemy

Upon arrival at the command center, the director smiled and said, ”Rest assured, this place is very safe. The core of the entire Evil Suppression Detention Center is right here. If those people have the ability to break through to this point, then no matter how cautious we are, it actually wouldn’t do much good.”

”Are we not going to capture those guys underground?”

”It’s not so easy to catch them underground. Our men are all very precious. Let’s try other methods first.”

The director led Wen Yan to a machine and nodded at the person sitting in front of it. ”Begin the release.”

The director looked at a button that rose on the console and slapped it down.

In an instant, dozens of miles away, two knife switches at an ultra-high-voltage substation began to slowly lower. Electrical arcs pierced the air, accompanied by incessant buzzing. In a flash, over five hundred kilovolts of ultra-high-voltage electricity surged along the power transmission lines, directly toward the Evil Suppression Detention Center.

The terrifying current, channeled through a pre-prepared route, poured into the earth beneath the entire Evil Suppression Detention Center like a torrential flood. Underground, within a radius of several miles, numerous metal rods had been crudely embedded, resembling scattered branches. These branches were spaced far enough apart to act as lightning conductors. Some things are said to be insulators, which is true, but that also depends on how high the voltage and how strong the current are.

The entire Evil Suppression Detention Center was a single, integrated unit, akin to a super-sized Faraday Cage, protecting everyone inside from this terrifying danger. But for several miles around the Evil Suppression Detention Center, including underground, there was no hope for a good outcome.

Especially when the horrific current surged, activating a critical function within the Evil Suppression Detention Center that had just completed its most vital Upgrade today. Not only did the current itself course through various underground mediums, but moreover, the released energy triggered a terrifying surge of Yang Energy, sweeping through like a tsunami.

Wen Yan felt the immense Yang Energy immediately, almost mistaking it for the arrival of the Tuoba Martial God. The vast Yang Energy swept through the underground. Unlike the current, it wouldn’t be significantly weakened. Yang Energy would sweep forcefully through the fissures beneath the earth with hardly any significant attenuation.

In the excavating underground team, the Ghost drawing the route with a pencil suddenly saw the line on the paper transform into a U-turn, extending into a long, straight mark. The moment he was taken aback, his hair stood on end; he had sensed the tsunami of Yang Energy. He turned and ran, and the Ghosts and Demons following him did the same, each one faster than the last.

However, in less than a second, the tsunami of Yang Energy swept over them. All the Ghosts were obliterated as if by a shockwave, instantly turning to ash and leaving behind only two Ghost Bones. All the Demons also suffered severe trauma in an instant, forced to revert to their true forms. Then they began to burn from the inside out one by one, turning to ashes.

Of the Demons following, only two survived the initial blast. One was a digging Demon, curled into a ball, its body charred black. It was still twitching, indicating it was alive. Another, a Spirit whose original form was jade, reverted to its true form after being struck. It turned into a Jade Carving, charred both inside and out, and toppled to the ground.

The speed was too great; the Ghosts had no time to react.

In the command center, the director also seemed to sense the effects, grinning from ear to ear. Once the switches were opened again, various detection devices began to sound alarms, revealing the underground tunnel. It was detected only tens of meters from the outermost part of the Evil Suppression Detention Center’s dungeon.

The director took Wen Yan to the office, still smiling broadly. ”I should thank you for this. I actually wanted to invite you over a few days ago, but it wasn’t quite appropriate then. I had planned to ask you to come next month, but as it happens, you arrived just in time today.

”Are you curious why the Evil Suppression Detention Center has this capability? It didn’t before. It was designed to function as it does now. Some of the key elements, in fact, required you to activate them. I thought we wouldn’t need them, but then you showed up.”

Wen Yan’s expression shifted as he instantly recalled a previous hint. ”Monster Suppression Tower, Demon Suppression Tower, Evil Suppression Tower?”

”Oh, you know about them? The Three Town Pagodas left behind were almost entirely destroyed. Those were from your Fuyu Mountain’s Thirteenth Ancestor, specifically designed to suppress Different Races. Unfortunately, while the construction methods and crafting techniques for the Three Town Pagodas were passed down, the core was lost. The current Evil Suppression Detention Center is an improved version based on the Three Town Pagodas. The energy supply, which was the biggest problem back then, is now the easiest to achieve. A dedicated five hundred kilovolt ultra-high-voltage power transmission line runs directly here. If I can’t initiate it from here, there are three backup activation plans. Those creatures underground are probably mostly dead by now. According to regulations, jailbreakers are to be killed on sight.”

”Once the cleanup is done, let me know. I’m quite curious as to why they came.”

”Okay, do you still want to meet Scholar Tu now?”

”Since I’m here, I might as well see him.”

Wen Yan looked at the paper the director handed him, which was filled with Scholar Tu’s writing. It seemed this fellow, fearing he wouldn’t remember or be able to clarify things properly, had started writing from the very beginning. An uninformed person might think he was trying to write a book titled ’My Seventeen Years as Scholar Tu.’

What he had written today detailed when he first encountered tomb robbing. He came from a family with a long history in the business. His grandfather was a Tomb Robber who had worked with Warlords, and his father, a longtime Run Person, had been a Tomb Robber abroad. Oh, over there they’re called Treasure Adventurers. In Scholar Tu’s generation, he had caught the Spiritual Qi Resurgence. He possessed a talent for it and the willingness to endure solitude for research. At a young age, he had already surpassed his predecessors. And a crucial item in his professional career was a wondrous item: a Human Skin Book called the Burial Scripture.