Chapter 792: Chapter 449: Ineffable Strangenesses_2

The bald old man said, “I suggest you talk to the Ninth and, if possible, ask his grandson to come during the official summoning. If certain unpredictable accidents occur during the summoning process, we can use him to get out of those crises.”

“I was just about to do that,” the silver-haired old man obviously had this consideration in mind.

The two men conversed while heading toward another passage door on the central platform.

After the magnetic field enveloping them dissipated, other members of the Demon Hunter Group waiting below stood up and followed the two old men out in succession.

…

The Buddhist-style exorcism went very smoothly, and another week later, Yan Junze had almost cleared his way to the center of Tianmeng City.

During this process, he was able to gain 300 to 400 energy points from basically every strangeness.

Although he was obtaining less energy at each upper limit, Yan Junze’s current goal was to illuminate the Atlas as soon as possible. Even if he had to accumulate slowly, he needed to light up more nodes of the Atlas.

The further the Atlas was opened, the longer the segments between the nodes became, and more energy points were needed to fill them.

In other words, it seemed like the Atlas was more than half lit up with less than 60,000 energy points, but in reality, the energy demand for the later part had grown multiple times.

According to Yan Junze’s estimate, to completely charge the entire Atlas and fully light all the nodes, it might take about 150,000 Different Dimension Energy.

He was now not too worried about the quality, as long as he could resolve the Obsession, he would complete even the lowest level strangeness tasks and accumulate the energy limit bit by bit.

During the weekend of that week, Yan Junze received a message from Zhang Xiaomo, which was brief: I’m in trouble, come quickly!

The second message was a location address.

Yan Junze had intended to continue clearing from the city center, but upon receiving the message, he immediately contacted a rental company’s car and headed straight for Gaosheng City.

It took two and a half hours to reach Gaosheng City, and following the location, he arrived at the entrance of a school.

Looking up: Gaosheng City No. 3 Experimental Middle School.

He originally thought the strangeness was near the school, but it turned out to be directly inside this Experiment No. 3 Middle School.

It’s known that for schools and such places, exorcists respond very quickly. The pair Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di had arrived three weeks ago, but after so much time, they hadn’t finished dealing with it, and later Yan Junze heard Huo Zhisen say that four-star exorcists had been dispatched for support.

Not just one, but two four-star exorcists were sent, the only two in the entire Tianmeng.

Who would have thought that another week would pass and they still hadn’t settled it, and judging by Zhang Xiaomo’s message, it seemed to be sent hurriedly or in secret.

Therefore, Yan Junze guessed that Xiaomo might have wanted to call him sooner, and initially thought that the arrival of the four-star exorcists would settle the matter, only to find that for some reason the issue was still unresolved.

However, the situation might not be as bad as presumed, and it was very likely that after the arrival of the four-star exorcists, both sides fell into a stalemate, with neither able to suppress the other.

But the four-star exorcists did not want to give up, making Xiaomo feel troubled, thus she secretly informed Yan Junze.

Arriving at the school entrance, he saw the gates were firmly closed, and there were no security guards at the door.

A police cordon was simply stretched outside the gate.

At this time of day, students should be in class, yet not a single student could be seen.

At a glance, the school seemed to be entirely locked down, suggesting the strangeness issue was quite severe.

Standing at the school gate, Yan Junze sent a message to Zhang Xiaomo to let her know he had arrived and was waiting outside the school gate.

But after waiting for a moment, Xiaomo did not reply to the message.

Yan Junze suspected she might not be able to check her messages. He was not worried about Xiaomo being in danger, as it was likely that the situation inside was a stalemate.

After some thought, he released his “Perception of Strange Events.”

Shortly after, three messages popped up in his mind.

Two of them came from the nearby area of the school, but only one came directly from Experiment No.3 Middle School.

He took a closer look at the message from inside the school and then paused, muttering to himself, “This… must be the first time I’ve encountered this.”

[Coordinates have been determined: Gaosheng City No. 3 Experimental Middle School district.]

[Task Name: The Joy of a Single-Celled Organism;

Task Level: —-;

Task Background: Wandering and pausing, staying in a warm place, sleeping in comfortable soil, it longed for the most leisurely environment, the most peaceful life, a place suitable for resting, a place conducive to hunting, a place where it could play. At last, it found such a place, where the soil was fertile, the food was plentiful, the territory was expansive–a perfect place for movement.

Task Description: Its appearance is very bad news for the students, and it is constantly getting bigger, harder, stronger, but it’s not getting bald;

Task Reward: —-;

Task Penalty: Becoming part of its rich menu;

Task Tips: 1. The evil spirit cannot be locked down; 2. Don’t try to persuade it in the way you understood before, after all, it has only one-track mind; 3. Shovels, steel drills, chainsaws might be suitable weapons, but don’t use guns, because this guy really enjoys high-energy food.

Remarks: None.]

This was the first time Yan Junze had seen such a peculiar task introduction.

However, the task information was simple and clear. At a glance, he knew that the strangeness in the school was not a common human strangeness, but rather belonged to the category of “indescribable creatures” that he had seen in the Huaying District headquarters’ documents.

He had already encountered indescribable creatures before, but this was the first time Yan Junze was dealing with one on his own.

The first time he had encountered such a creature was in the Ghost Apartment with Jacob; after all, Jacob was originally a human strangeness, only he had become a strangeness because his body had been taken over by white long worms.

And now, the white long worm that resided in Yan Junze’s heart, which had already become symbiotic with him, must also be one of these “indescribable creatures”.

He also noticed that this task had no level assigned to it, indicating that this creature might not belong to the usual strangeness classification, which also resulted in no task reward being displayed.

Yan Junze guessed, however, that there must be a reward, just not a specific numeric value. This was probably related to the manner in which he completed the task or the attitude he took towards dealing with the indescribable creature.

Having no previous experience to draw on, he could only play it by ear.

Now he also understood why Zhang Xiaomo and the other exorcists had been indecisive here for so long, it turned out they were dealing with a creature that wasn’t a human strangeness.

No wonder it had taken so long.

But even if they had never seen this single-celled organism before, couldn’t they just kill it by force? After all, there were two four-star exorcists present.

With that thought, it seemed very possible that this creature was so bizarre that even four-star exorcists couldn’t kill it.

With this in mind, Yan Junze grew more and more curious. Just then, his phone chimed with a text message alert. He checked it and found a response from Zhang Xiaomo.

“Keep going forward, there is a side door around the corner ahead, I should be there in about five minutes.”

Yan Junze replied with a “Okay” and then continued walking forward, with the school’s surrounding wall on his right. After a while, he came to the corner where the wall ended.

At the corner, a small iron door came into view. This gate was not often used, as evidenced by the rust at the hinges.

He waited there for a moment and soon heard footsteps from behind the gate. Peering through the gap in the iron door, he saw Zhang Xiaomo’s shoes.

The lock clicked, the door swung open, and Zhang Xiaomo appeared.

Yan Junze was taken aback by her appearance; he almost didn’t recognize her.

Zhang Xiaomo looked disheveled, with dark circles under her eyes, her hair unmanaged, her skin pale and unhealthy–as if she hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for days.

She stepped aside to let Yan Junze in, then carefully locked the door behind him.

“Follow me.”

They walked towards a teaching building, one leading, the other following.

Xiaomo, leading the way, said, “I contacted you secretly. When you get here, just say you were in Gaosheng City dealing with other matters and happened to know I was here, and came because you were worried.”

“Is that necessary?” Yan Junze asked, puzzled.

Zhang Xiaomo stopped, turned, and looked at him, saying emphatically, “Yes! You don’t understand, those two four-star exorcists are almost out of their minds.”