I Am Your Natural Enemy

The Nether Soul Realm is within the monitoring range; after all, that Nether Soul Realm isn’t actually that big.

The place itself isn’t that much of a problem; you can only call it something that formed naturally. The real problem is that there might be something hiding in there making trouble, treating it as a lair and quietly growing stronger.

The corresponding Netherworld is the same; the Netherworld itself isn’t a big problem, what’s scary is someone using the Netherworld to pull something.

On top of that, the Netherworld is honestly a bit too big. Even now, no one is sure how big it actually is, or what exactly is inside.

The most important intel about the Netherworld—more than half of it—comes from Wen Yan.

And the hype around those players going to the Netherworld has already cooled by more than half.

It’s still because it’s just too empty, with nothing in it. No matter how much of a grind-freak you are, if you log in every night, burn through all your stamina, keep that up for a month, and all you ever see is wasteland, you’re going to lose interest.

Plus, the Scorching Sun Department records monitoring data on everyone who buys the set; the Crossbow Machine in particular is something they focus on. Not all, but at least more than half the people entering the Netherworld fall under the Scorching Sun Department’s monitoring.

Speaking of using the Netherworld, in the recent cases the Scorching Sun Department has tracked, the most common situation isn’t Different Races harming people, but people tricking other people into going to the Netherworld in order to scam them, or using the Netherworld to pass along some simple information.

Cases where Different Races get tangled up with the Netherworld are actually the fewest.

Recently there’s been constant arguing inside the Scorching Sun Department over law enforcement when it involves the living. Everyone knows the standards for dealing with the living and for Different Races aren’t the same.

When Wen Yan heard Men Xinsheng’s words, his first reaction was: if the place where those Ghost Wealth Gods intersect is in the Netherworld, how are they getting in?

At least so far, Wen Yan doesn’t know of a fourth method of entry.

One method is being dragged in, like how some things with yin attribute appear already inside; they just can’t get out.

There are only two methods that allow going in and out.

One is using crossing over to enter and exit; the other is like Wen Yan, not taking shortcuts, just crossing the river directly to get in and out.

”How do you get in and out?”

”As long as I want to go, I burrow under my own temple, and keep falling down, then I arrive there.

When I get there, there’s another little temple of mine.

I walk out of that small temple and I come to a place that looks like a small town.

Near my little temple, there are many other little temples; they belong to other Ghost Wealth Gods.

If we want to make progress, we have to use our own money, either to Upgrade the little temple there.

Or we go to the big hall in the center and exchange it.”

”The ’money’ you’re talking about is Soul Bodies, right?” Wen Yan interrupted Men Xinsheng.

Men Xinsheng immediately felt he’d said the wrong thing, and lowered his voice a bit.

”It’s not just condensed Soul Bodies; actually, True Nether Coins also work.

There are two kinds of True Nether Coins. One comes from places like Taoist Temples, slowly nurtured over time and effort.

The other kind of Joss Paper is actually what the living relatives and friends burn as offerings for Ghosts.

The latter is actually more valuable; you can exchange it there for quite a lot of things.

I heard the most capable Ghost Wealth God even exchanged for a body.

Not a corpse, but something that can live a normal life with a living person’s identity and appearance, without anyone noticing anything.

It’s just that this second kind of Joss Paper is very rare in quantity and all over the place in quality.

True Nether Coins of the second type with extremely high quality can basically be considered a kind of treasure.

The guy who exchanged for a body and got a living person’s identity used the second kind of True Nether Coins.

At least that’s what I heard. As for whether it’s true or not, I’m not sure.”

As Men Xinsheng said this, his form made up of just a single face began to distort. The black smoke behind his face started to churn, and faintly, that smoke seemed to turn into one hand after another, grabbing toward Men Xinsheng’s face.

Wen Yan’s expression darkened. He raised a hand and pointed; a wisp of Yang Energy, like a burning flame, flew out and Blessed Men Xinsheng’s body.

There are extremely few things his Scorching Sun cannot Bless; at least, Men Xinsheng in front of him definitely isn’t in that category.

With the Yang Energy Blessing, the surging black air behind Men Xinsheng’s face was forcibly suppressed.

Once Men Xinsheng stabilized, Wen Yan walked out of the underground room and went up to the surface to give Gauss a call.

”Hey, Gauss, you’re not busy, right? Put that game off for a bit; single-player can be paused. I’ve got something urgent and need your help.”

Gauss doesn’t sleep, and recently someone’s been egging him on, or rather, Gauss once again only listened to half of what someone said. ”This game is really torture to play” probably turned into ”This game is really fun to play” by the time it reached his ears.

After a minute, Gauss came floating over riding a bamboo broom.

”What is it? I was just about to kill that boss.”

”Something professional. I’m guessing you definitely know about it, so I want to consult you.”

He took Gauss back to his place. When they were about to go down to the basement, Gauss stopped at the entrance and refused to move another step.

”I can’t go down.”

”It’s fine, I’m asking you for a favor.”

”No, no, no, that would be way too disrespectful. I can’t step in there; that’s the rule.”

Wen Yan walked up, grabbed Gauss with one hand.

”If I carry you down, then you’re not ’stepping’ in.”

”Huh?”

Gauss froze and could only watch as Wen Yan single-handedly lifted him like a little chick, carrying him across the basement and toward the deeper underground structures.