Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Settlement Street

North District.

Shrouded in mist all year round, even during the day, the streetlights here never go out.

Recently, official departments have been strictly investigating the chaos in the North District, and some vibrant social organizations have been dismantled. Ordinary families huddle in their homes to avoid being accidentally harmed.

Along with the seven pillars of light outside the city that turned the entire sky red, everyone knows something serious happened in Linjiang.

This made people even less likely to go out.

Settlement Street in the North District.

Everywhere, one can see complex and dilapidated tall buildings, fences made of fiberglass tiles, planks, cardboard, and plastic.

The street ground is laid thick with garbage.

Occasionally, a few ragged children would peek out from a corner, only to quickly retreat into the shadows.

This is a street that stretches a kilometer long.

Its main road is almost filled with all sorts of debris.

Besides large amounts of trash, there are various billboards and inexplicable objects, making it impossible for any vehicle to pass through.

The crisscrossing side streets of Settlement Street, with various alleys, holes, and narrow lanes, make one think this is not a place for humans to live, but a stronghold for animal mole communities.

Yet, on such a small turf, thousands of people live.

Chaos, disorder, poverty.

These are the first impressions it gives.

Sights like this Settlement Street can be found everywhere in the North District.

Due to the management’s laziness in naming, they are simply called Settlement Street No. 1, No. 2 in sequence.

However, it’s precisely those living here on Settlement Street, who died without anyone noticing or lived without anyone noticing, that create the bottom layer of the entire North District’s ecosystem.

They are dying every day.

They are also coming from everywhere every day.

If the North District were a heart, these people would be the flowing blood.

Qian Xue stood before this street that could be called a ruin, with a wide range of thoughts emerging in her mind, she couldn’t help but sigh, “Sister Lin Shan, after this incident, please report to the higher-ups and have them renovate the North District.”

Lin Shan understood the girl’s thoughts and nodded, “I’ve been working on it for a long time, but many wealthy people don’t take it seriously.”

Qian Xue’s expression was a bit helpless, “This place is a breeding ground for negative emotions, a hotbed for aberrant forms. Those wealthy people are shortsighted, ruthless when it comes to exploiting, but turn into shrinking turtles when it comes time to pay up.

They only know how to exploit and oppress.

If this place isn’t dealt with properly, one day it will lead to their downfall.”

Possibly, a normal person with a sane mindset visiting such a Settlement Street would feel anger and oppression in their heart; this is a human instinctual emotional resonance.

But as a student who has studied mysticism, the rare Sequence Nine can influence the mind Extraordinary.

Qian Xue, however, could sense more things.

Negative emotions.

To be specific, it’s the despair and evil thoughts fermenting in people’s hearts.

During this period, she had been rushing around, resolving the incidents in Linjiang City, using her ability as a Mind Interventionist to help people solve problems, rather than blindly using Extraordinary Abilities to harm others.

This is her cultivation.

Blood Qi, knowledge, and so on are not the most important.

The teachers at Linjiang Second Middle School believe that honing her mind, understanding the various uses of her Extraordinary Abilities, and stabilizing her mental state are the primary goals.

And indeed, in two months, Qian Xue had gained a lot.

“Let’s go, let’s finish the inspection task first before talking about other matters.” Lin Shan also had no way to deal with the chaos in the North District slums; they could only first complete the task handed down from above.

In recent days, both the Armed Department and the Anomaly Bureau, as well as the Church, have deployed all their forces to conduct a comprehensive search and investigation in Linjiang City.

Over at the Church.

Allen defected, Tang Xiaoyu got injured at the mine.

A large force was inexplicably lost, so the burden on other departments naturally became heavier.

Lin Shan and Qian Xue had to be responsible for inspecting several Settlement Streets nearby.

As an Investigator, Lin Shan surely had to follow orders.

Though Qian Xue was a temporary worker, the special training arranged by her teacher was to let her exercise more and reach out to the base level, naturally, she couldn’t escape.

…

The two walked into Settlement Street.

Secretly, gazes continued to fall on them.

Emotions such as fear, worry, curiosity, and more, aptly demonstrated the human psyche.

Their incompatible aura with the entire Settlement Street, stunning appearance, along with the guns at their waists, made it clear to others that these two were not to be trifled with.

“House by house, there’s no shortcut for this kind of thing.”

Lin Shan pushed open the first house.

The stench of mold hit them from behind the wooden door, the long-missed sunlight illuminated the room, and a few startled rats scurried into the wall holes.

The room hadn’t been occupied for a long time.

The original owner here might have died under an overpass or by the side of the road, or perhaps left Linjiang.

“Let’s keep going.”

Lin Shan was expressionless.

The two continued to scour the remnants of all secret organizations.

By now, the Abyssal Ascetic Association was already in its final throes, and with another Assistant Priest killed by a Bounty Hunter yesterday, the entire organization was in a state of anarchy.

The remaining task was to beat the heck out of a drowned dog, to peel back the layers and find the remaining pests.

One room at a time they inspected.

With Qian Xue present, ordinary people naturally told all they knew.

After a day’s work, they indeed captured several members of the secret organization, and their fate was to be killed on the spot.

As it was now the time for the final reckoning, there was no need to think about leaving any alive.

Direct extermination is always the simplest and most effective method.

The two women’s ability to act wasn’t weak, and with coordinated efforts, they quickly swept through the entire street.

Apart from a few periphery members of the secret organization, nothing major was discovered.

However, there was one perplexing point.

Usually, such a large Settlement Street accommodates at least thousands of people, squeezing together like mice daily, forming the area with the highest population density in all of Linjiang.

But now they had inspected the whole street.

Most of the rooms were deserted.

Neither bodies were found nor any signs of others moving in.

Some rooms hadn’t shown traces of people for a long time, while others clearly had people living in them a few days ago.

This was the most confusing part.

The two asked the nearby residents, and Qian Xue even used her Mind Interventionist ability to confirm they weren’t lying.

The residents didn’t know either.

There was just a rumor about a monster that eats people at night, many people disappeared inexplicably during this period, and others escaped out of fear, nowhere to be found, resulting in the current situation.

The two women were even more puzzled.

Almost all of the Abyssal Ascetic Association had been eradicated, with two Assistant Priests dead, and countless members shot down, unable to stir up any major storm.

The Demon Race couldn’t have caused so many people to disappear either.

They were more interested in opening channels to the Spirit Realm for their own gain.

After reporting the situation to headquarters, Qian Xue and Lin Shan decided to find a relatively clean vacant room to stay overnight to see what was really happening.

At this time, no point of anomaly could be taken lightly.

As security maintenance investigators, even more so.