Chapter 1 "Missing Person Case?"

Fu Qingyang left the Slaughter Dungeon two days later than Zhang Yuanqing. Subsequently, due to promotion, transfer, job handover, personnel arrangements, and other reasons, he did not pay attention to this case.

But upon hearing that it concerned the "Lustrous Divine General," his tone turned serious, and he asked directly:

"Tell me your address."

"Sijiao Field residential area, main entrance, in Li Dongze's business car." After Zhang Yuanqing finished speaking, the other end hung up the phone.

Putting down his phone, Zhang Yuanqing leaned back in his seat, closed his eyes to rest, his brow furrowed, calming the surging anger in his heart. Li Dongze leaned on his cane, watching the brightly lit street, waiting silently.

The atmosphere in the car was a bit oppressive.

After half a minute, Li Dongze suddenly said:

"Yuanshi, what did you see in the target's memories?"

Zhang Yuanqing opened his eyes, not understanding what the Squad Leader meant, "Everything I saw, I already told you."

Li Dongze nodded, leaning on his cane, scrutinizing him, and said:

"If that's all there is, why are you so angry? It's not that this matter isn't worth getting angry about, but you should be more composed."

Zhang Yuanqing rubbed his brow, and said with a sigh:

"Squad Leader, don't lecture me at a time like this. Normal people would be angry to see something like this, right? I was even more furious when I handled the Bronze Sparrow Tower case."

"I'm not lecturing!" Li Dongze shook his head, his expression extremely serious, "Precisely because you've handled the Bronze Sparrow Tower case, you should be more composed and mature. Yuanshi, you've only been a Lingjing Xingzhe for a short time, but you've experienced more life-and-death crises than I have. Having experienced so much, how have you become more extreme?"

"More extreme?" Zhang Yuanqing said in astonishment, "Squad Leader, what do you mean by that?"

Li Dongze chose his words carefully, and said: "Do you remember when Guan Ya was responsible for searching your room during the investigation of Lei Bing's disappearance case?"

Zhang Yuanqing nodded, "I remember warning her not to look at my web browsing history. I don't know if she followed my advice."

Li Dongze: "Her evaluation of you at the time was that you appear optimistic and cheerful on the surface, but are actually deep and introverted, and don't like socializing."

Zhang Yuanqing was stunned, thinking, so that's how that woman saw me back then.

Li Dongze continued:

"Deep, precocious, worldly, with a sense of justice, extremely adept at handling interpersonal relationships, and having your own understanding of society and human nature... This is my assessment of you. As a scout, I believe I'm accurate in judging people. Therefore, in my understanding, you should handle such cases calmly."

"But today, your emotions, your expression, your eyes, all tell me that you are extremely angry right now, and can't wait to kill the Lustrous Divine General. I've discovered that you haven't become more mature, but have instead become more extreme than before."

"I haven't worked with you for a while, so the contrast is very obvious."

Zhang Yuanqing frowned deeply at what was said.

He didn't feel anything himself about what Li Dongze said, but the Squad Leader was a scout, and wouldn't speak without reason.

"But, why didn't Guan Ya and the Centurion mention this to me?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

Li Dongze shook his head:

"So-called insight requires phenomena to be observed, but people's emotions and personalities are usually hidden. Since they're hidden, how can they be observed? If it weren't for today's case, I wouldn't have noticed your change. 5"

"I've told you before, many Night Watchers will gradually become twisted in their hearts when clearing solo dungeons, and the price of many items will also gradually twist their personalities. You have too many items, and you may have been affected by one of them without realizing it."

"Yuanshi, perhaps you should go to Tang's Hospital and see Sun Zhishi about psychological issues."

But none of my items have a price that makes people's personalities become extreme... Zhang Yuanqing took the Squad Leader's advice and carefully examined his items, but couldn't find one that matched.

Instead, it reminded him of an almost forgotten matter: the curse of the Evil Eye Heavenly King!

It shouldn't be... the curse of the Evil Eye Heavenly King is more like a verbal attack. Elder Dog checked it, and I wasn't cursed. Besides, even if there really was a curse, I used the power of the Sun God so many times later, it would have been purified long ago.

At this moment, there was a soft knock on the window.

Zhang Yuanqing and Li Dongze turned their heads at the same time, and through the car window, saw a tall figure in a white suit, standing beside the car at some point.

Li Dongze immediately opened the car door and said, "Elder Fu, you're so fast?"

Fu Qingyang got into the car and sat in Li Dongze's seat, while the latter had already tactfully moved to the back row.

"After being promoted to Ruler, I can fly with my sword," Fu Qingyang explained simply, then turned his head, his bright and deep eyes looking at Zhang Yuanqing, "Tell me about the case."

Li Dongze briefly explained the course of the missing persons case, and Zhang Yuanqing re-described the intelligence he obtained from spirit channeling.

After listening, Fu Qingyang had already made a decision in his heart, and said:

"Go to that bar and rescue the victims. The Lustrous Divine General should have already evacuated by now."

Zhang Yuanqing thought thoughtfully: "Because of that chrysalis?" Fu Qingyang nodded:

"As the number of missing people continues to increase, the case will inevitably attract the attention and investigation of the authorities. Then, the person responsible for finding the prey will be very likely to be exposed."

"So, the chrysalis that the Lustrous Divine General had him take most likely has the ability to 'detect' the target's condition. Once the target dies, he will be able to sense it."

Li Dongze said with regret:

"I was not thoughtful enough. We should have played a long game."

Fu Qingyang said indifferently:

"The result wouldn't be any different. The fact that the Lustrous Divine General has survived until now is enough to show that he is cautious enough and experienced. The chrysalis won't be all of his methods."

"Playing a long game is not very meaningful."

Zhang Yuanqing immediately told the driver the address of the bar. The business car sped along the street covered with goose-yellow lights. After entering and exiting the elevated road twice, it took a total of half an hour to finally reach the bar street in the memory fragments.

The bar at the deepest part of the street had colorful signs hanging high, and the lights inside the bar were bright, but it was empty. The glass door had a lock on it.

Just as Fu Qingyang said, the Lustrous Divine General had already evacuated.

"Crazy Love Bar."

Zhang Yuanqing looked up at the shining and dazzling sign. The name of the bar shone brightly in the night.

The three got out of the car. Fu Qingyang pointed his fingers together and pressed them against his forehead. A light white halo spread out like ripples, radiating to the surroundings.

He turned to look at Zhang Yuanqing and nodded.

Zhang Yuanqing was still not at ease. He took out a makeup mirror and looked at his face. There was no sign of bad luck, so he strode to the locked glass door and kicked it.

With a loud "crash," the door made of tempered glass fell apart, and glass shards splattered like a blizzard.

The three entered the bar. Unfinished drinks remained on the round tables. One could imagine that before they arrived, this place was full of customers.

Passing through the outer hall and following the corridor deep into the bar, a double iron door as tall as two people appeared at the end of the corridor.

Just as Zhang Yuanqing was about to push the door open, Fu Qingyang said in a deep voice, "There's poison on the door!"

Poison on the door? Colorless and odorless? Zhang Yuanqing scrutinized the double iron door, but found nothing unusual, but Fu Qingyang would not lie to him.

So he took two steps back and kicked the iron door.

"Break!"

The door lock was forcibly kicked open, and screams immediately came from behind the door.

Behind the door was an extremely spacious hall. In the center was a swimming pool, and long tables covered with white tablecloths were set around the pool, filled with fruits and food.

To the left of the swimming pool was a water bed four meters long and two meters wide.

All of this was the same as what Zhang Yuanqing had seen in the memory fragments of the Scarface man.

The women wearing swimsuits, some standing by the tables and some standing in the pool, looked at the door with horrified expressions.

"Who are you?"

A mature woman near the door mustered up her courage and scolded, "Daring to break into the master's wine pool and meat forest is a capital crime!"

They're still alive. Zhang Yuanqing silently breathed a sigh of relief, then noticed the woman's strange words, and frowned, "Master? Do you still remember who you are?"

The mature and enchanting woman immediately raised her head, saying with a proud face:

"My name is Xu Jiao, and I am the master's slave. This is where we serve the master. You trespassed without permission. Are you looking for death?"

The other women did not speak, looking over with a few points of fear and a few points of hostility.

"They've been bewitched, and their cognition is off. With the Lustrous Divine General's level, this kind of influence is irreversible. They'll never forget their identities as slaves," Fu Qingyang said in a low voice.

"There's no way to resolve it?" Zhang Yuanqing's heart sank.

"Ordinary people's spirits are too fragile," Fu Qingyang walked to the table, picked up a small plate, and smashed it on the ground, "Some things, it's easy to break them, but you can never restore them to their original state."

The Lustrous Divine General did not kill them, but was even more vicious than killing them.

Even if these victims are rescued, they will not be able to return to a normal state. The rest of their lives are ruined.

Zhang Yuanqing did not feel the joy of saving people, but instead felt heavy in his heart.

Fu Qingyang added: "It's impossible to restore them to normal, but there is a way to suppress the effects of the bewitchment, so that they can continue to live like normal people."

Amidst the suddenly brightened gazes of his subordinates, Fu Qingyang said

"Musician hypnosis, fight poison with poison."

Using hypnosis to forcibly reverse the wrong cognition, and let them immerse themselves in hypnosis for the rest of their lives? Zhang Yuanqing smiled wryly. It was indeed fighting poison with poison.

Remembering the missing person, Lychee, from the Zhisheng Palace, he searched through the crowd, but none of the women matched the beautiful girl in the memory fragments.

In the end, Zhang Yuanqing found Lychee on the huge water bed. The water bed was very soft, and she was covered with a quilt, her body sunken, making it difficult to notice that someone was lying there if you weren't careful.

Zhang Yuanqing lifted the quilt, first seeing a pale face, eyes wide open, pupils dead, and a distorted expression on her beautiful face.

Zhang Yuanqing's hand, which was lifting the quilt, paused for a moment, then slowly lifted it a little more, and then saw her naked upper body, her fair skin covered with bruises, obviously having suffered abuse and humiliation before death.

He did not continue down, released the quilt, gently stroked her no-longer-beautiful face, and closed her eyes for her.

A woman in a swimsuit by the water bed said:

"She didn't obey the master's orders, offended the master, so she was given death by the master."

When she said this, she didn't realize anything was wrong at all, as if the master should dominate their lives.

Li Dongze, leaning on his cane, walked to the bed and frowned:

"She was killed by the Lustrous Divine General?"

"She's from the Zhisheng Palace, an orderly profession," Zhang Yuanqing said.

Li Dongze suddenly understood. The Lustrous Divine General didn't kill these women, not because he was kind, but because his moral value didn't allow it. But killing orderly faction practitioners would not only not lower his moral value, but would instead increase his reputation.

Since he couldn't continue to enjoy her, why would he let her go when leaving?

While the two were talking, Fu Qingyang had already inspected the hall, not letting go of any details. He walked to the bed and instructed:

"Li Dongze, call the Kangyang District Security Department and have them come to clean up."

After speaking, he turned and walked out of the hall.

He was going to use his scout abilities to try to track down the Lustrous Divine General.

Zhang Yuanqing sat on the bed, took out his phone, and dialed Qingdian Dasheng's number.

After the other party answered, he only said an address and hung up the phone.

More than twenty minutes later, hurried footsteps came from the corridor outside. Then, a middle-aged man with a big belly and a frizzy hairstyle barged in.

He rushed into the hall, looking around anxiously in the crowd, finally looking towards Zhang Yuanqing by the bed, and said:

"Yuanshi Tianzun? Dangzhi, where's Lychee?"

Zhang Yuanqing did not answer, but instead cast his gaze towards the thin quilt beside him.

Qingdian Dasheng seemed to understand something, his face changed, he strode to the bed, grabbed a corner of the quilt, hesitated briefly, then was about to lift it.

Zhang Yuanqing pressed his hand and shook his head.

Qingdian Dasheng's lips trembled, and the hand holding the corner of the quilt also trembled slightly, sometimes exerting force, sometimes loosening it. Finally, he still lifted the quilt little by little.

He soon stopped, knowing the reason why Yuanshi Tianzun was stopping him.

"Who did it?"

A look of sorrow flashed in Qingdian Dasheng's eyes. "The Military God Sect, the Lustrous Divine General," Zhang Yuanqing said.

"Lustrous..." Qingdian Dasheng muttered to himself. After a while, he said:

"I'm taking Lychee away, thank you!"

He rolled up Dangzhi's body in the thin quilt, picked her up horizontally, and left in silence.

Fu Family Bay, second-floor conference hall.

Fu Qingyang sat at the head of the long conference table, listening to Li Dongze's report.

"The operator of the Crazy Love Bar is an ordinary person. He was bewitched by the Evil Eye Heavenly King and gave the Evil Eye the right to use the bar. The Evil Eye used the bar as a place to open a black market for the Military God Sect."

"The Evil Eye sent someone to transfer the bar's profits every night to the operator, until the Lustrous Divine General took over the bar, and only then did this behavior stop."

"We didn't find any POS machines, remittance codes, or other payment methods in the bar. The evil practitioners should be trading in cash. We have collected quite a few fingerprints, which are currently being compared to the fingerprint database."

"The Security Department arranged for the thirty-two rescued women to undergo physical examinations. Unfortunately, we didn't find any deoxyribonucleic acid from the Lustrous Divine General in their bodies. It should have been dealt with in advance."

"Those women are currently arranged in a hotel outside the Kangyang District Security Department, waiting for a Saint-level musician to hypnotize them. Their families have not been notified yet."

After Li Dongze finished reporting, Fu Qingyang nodded slightly, glanced around at the team leaders in front of the conference table, and said:

"The Lustrous Divine General is lustful by nature. He can endure it for a while, but not forever. As long as he is still in Songhai, he will continue to commit crimes sooner or later. Next, let the Security Departments of each district pay attention to missing persons cases."

"If there are any discoveries, report them immediately. I will personally keep an eye on them."

Searching for evil practitioners at the Saint level is a long-term task, and it will be difficult to make progress in the short term.

Bai Long and the others nodded in agreement.

Fu Qingyang added: "Qingteng, Bai Long, and Guan Ya, don't go out alone in the near future. It's best to have colleagues with you when you go in and out. Later, I will post an announcement on the forum, warning all female colleagues in Songhai."

The three beauties all had rather ugly expressions. Thinking of those captive victims, they felt a chill in their hearts.

Compared to enemies who kill like flies, what the Lustrous Divine General did was even more disgusting to them.

The next day, at half past eight in the evening.

On the television, the Songhai channel was broadcasting a news report:

"Recently, the Security Department has cracked down on a criminal gang that specializes in organizing women for prostitution. They were extremely rampant and rescued thirty-two female victims. There are still many fugitives from this organization lurking in Songhai. Please be vigilant about strangers flirting with you, and please be vigilant about anyone who has been out of contact for more than 24 hours. Please report them to the Security Department immediately..."

Jiang Yu'er squatted on the sofa, hugging her knees, and said with disgust, "Ew!"

"Mom, I'm not going to work from today. I'm scared."

Grandma "said" in a hoarse voice:

"You just want to be lazy, but Songhai's security is getting worse and worse. First there was the terrorist attack at Pingtai Hospital, then the massacre at the financial company, and now there's some prostitution ring."

"Okay, then let Yuanjun take you to and from work from now on." Grandma was very dissatisfied with this world.

"I don't want him to. I want Yuanzi to take me." Auntie leaned her body, resting her head on her nephew's shoulder.

Zhang Yuanqing gently pushed his aunt away, "I'm going back to my room." Auntie looked at his back, and said blankly:

"Mom, was Yuanzi dumped by that Guan Ya?" "Nonsense!" Grandma made a gesture to hit her.

In the bedroom, Zhang Yuanqing lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling.

In the near future, he wasn't actually worried about the Lustrous Divine General causing trouble again. The other party would definitely choose to keep a low profile and avoid the limelight. Even if his addiction flared up, he would find a professional milkmaid to solve it.

But over time, it would definitely revive.

"The Lustrous Divine General hasn't been in Songhai for long, and he's already harmed so many innocent women. He usually operates in the north, so one can imagine how many people have suffered at his hands. It's too bad, this guy is too bad..."

"I have to find a way to get rid of the Lustrous Divine General. I hope he hasn't left Songhai yet. Right, Xiaoyuan often participates in black markets held by the Military God Sect. I wonder if she has any clues."

Zhang Yuanqing grabbed his phone and sent a message to "Magic Aunt Xiaoyuan":

"Xiaoyuan, can you find the whereabouts of the Lustrous Divine General?" After the message was sent, he didn't get a reply for a long time.

For some reason, Xiaoyuan hadn't been paying attention to him lately.

Should I ask my life mentor? Zhang Yuanqing subconsciously clicked on Ling Gou's avatar, saw the big red exclamation point, and remembered that he had been blacklisted by the great mentor. Well, I still have to find a way to appease Ling Gou first. "Ding!"

At this moment, a text message entered the inbox.

Zhang Yuanqing clicked it open and saw that the sender was an unknown number, and the content was a short sentence: "See you at the old place!"

Just by looking at the content of the text message, Zhang Yuanqing knew who was looking for him.

The Palace Master of the Zhisheng Palace!

This was the first time the Madwoman had looked for him since he cleared the Slaughter Dungeon.

It should be for the death of Dangzhi.

PS: Fixing typos first, updating later.