"I'm dead... I'm actually dead, hahaha..."
Tian Lao Qi, laughing, began to cry.
His hollow eye sockets had no tear ducts, so blood flowed out.
No matter who it was, their mood would not improve upon learning they had been dead for a long time and were being used as a tool.
However, Tian Lao Qi's expression immediately turned vicious: "But, I was a tomb keeper when I was alive, and I am still a tomb keeper when I am dead!"
The body pinned to the wall by the black lightsaber began to melt, transforming into a thick, gray-black mist that merged into the surrounding environment.
Afterward, a young man who bore a resemblance to Tian Lao Qi emerged from the Sleep Mist. This was likely Tian Lao Qi in his youth.
Tian Lao Qi touched his face and squeezed his bicep, saying to Wen Wen with rapture, "I really must thank you. If I hadn't realized I was already dead, I would never have been able to return to such a perfect state, nor would I have realized how powerful I actually am."
"I am no longer a blind old man, but at my peak..."
"No, I am countless times better than my peak state. All the Sleep Mist in Muyuan Community is my power..."
"You simply cannot comprehend how powerful I am now."
Tian Lao Qi teleported next to Wen Wen, looking down at Wen Wen's small eyes, and sneered disdainfully, "For example, to kill you, I only need one..."
*Swish!*
From Wen Wen's eyes, a black saber suddenly shot out, piercing directly into Tian Lao Qi's skull. After the saber was withdrawn, Tian Lao Qi's head split in two.
Then, the white mist giant picked up Tian Lao Qi's body, flung it to the ground, and stomped on it repeatedly, turning him back into the Sleep Mist state, making it impossible to reform.
Wen Wen stared with his small, dead-fish eyes and spat in Tian Lao Qi's direction.
"Crazy bastard, all flash, no substance."
Of course, Tian Lao Qi was not truly dead. It was likely that he would only truly die when all the Sleep Mist dissipated.
However, it seemed his speed of reconstituting his body was not fast, and with the white mist giant present, he couldn't cause any more trouble.
Thus, Wen Wen followed Tian Lao Qi's previous directions to find the room, lifted the floorboards, and discovered a dark door of vermilion red.
As the saying goes, demon hunters never leave empty-handed, so before entering the dark door, Wen Wen released over thirty tiger-like puppets. These puppets were mere tools and would not be affected by the Sleep Mist.
Wen Wen's command was for them to clean up the place a bit.
What did "clean" mean?
It meant taking everything that could be taken, except for 'needle and thread'...
The best batch would be placed in the Containment Facility as public amenities, such as adding a few chairs outside the counters of the containment shops.
The rest would be piled up for the containment officers to choose from. Many containment officers' rooms were just empty spaces, and some couldn't even be lived in. With these pieces of furniture, they would at least have a place to stay within the facility.
After the containment officers had chosen, the jailers would pick, and finally, any remaining discarded items would be used to improve the living conditions of well-behaved monsters.
In the cells, though there were beds and toilets, they only met the most basic needs. Anything from a hotel, no matter how poor, was better than what the Containment Facility provided.
The accessories from just one large hotel could be easily absorbed by the Containment Facility.
Beneath the dark door were stairs leading to the cellar. Wen Wen first used his senses to confirm there were no traps before descending.
Although with his current strength, ordinary traps would be ineffective, caution was the mother of safety. Even if he were to become a disaster in the future, Wen Wen would still exercise caution.
Wen Wen did not want to become another person due to a change in his power.
After descending over thirty steps, the area opened up. It was a cellar roughly the same size as the hotel, about four meters high, with a passage leading to an even lower level.
However, Wen Wen had no intention of going further down, as he could see Tao Qingqing at a glance. Not only Tao Qingqing, but he could also see many other people.
All of them were bound by coarse ropes around their necks and hung from the ceiling, densely packed in the cellar, like so many pieces of cured meat!
Even Wen Wen felt his scalp tingle at the sight.
To alleviate his oppressive mood, he walked up to Tao Qingqing and poked her a few times, finding it rather amusing that she swung back and forth.
It was a pity she preferred to wear jeans rather than skirts.
In the front half of this level, many people were not actually dead. Tao Qingqing, as a vampire, would not have been hanged to death.
Although they all appeared to have hanged themselves, a strange power allowed them to maintain their vitality.
But this power was not omnipotent. Apart from those few who were still alive, many others had become mummified.
As for the stairs leading to the lower levels, a putrid smell wafted up, indicating that the situation there was much worse.
Wen Wen cut the rope around Tao Qingqing's neck and discovered that, like the residents of the graveyard outside, her body was not dead, but her soul had gone to another place.
To rescue her, all he needed to do was activate the connection between the Containment Facility and her, and summon her soul back.
However, rescuing the others was not so simple. At a glance, there were at least sixty to seventy people alive here, so Wen Wen could not ignore them.
Whether as a containment officer or a demon hunter, rescuing people was Wen Wen's duty.
Of course, if he tried and couldn't save them, Wen Wen wouldn't dwell on it.
After collecting Tao Qingqing, Wen Wen headed to the second level of the cellar. As he had expected, there were no living people here. All those hanging were blackened corpses.
But these were not mummified corpses in the conventional sense. Their fingernails were long and sharp, their canine teeth were mutated and protruding, and their bodies seemed to be stronger than those of normal humans.
Wen Wen had no doubt that if some stimulus were applied to these corpses, they might "come alive" and become monsters that posed a significant threat to ordinary people.
If these hundreds of black corpses were to rush out of the cellar, they would likely kill at least a thousand people before they could be controlled.
Therefore, Wen Wen took five corpses, stored them in the Containment Facility as samples, and then took out an ancient-looking book.
This was Lovcraft's Rune Book.
The Rune Book automatically opened to a page, and red runes lit up, releasing crimson flames that engulfed all the corpses on this level.
After the flames dissipated, all the corpses turned to ash, but the cellar itself remained undamaged.
Upon the activation of the Rune Book, the will of a powerful being in a certain inner world connected with the Rune Book.
In a pale forest, the Star God Lovcraft felt the connection with the Rune Book and was immediately overjoyed.
He had been waiting for the other party to use the Rune Book for a long time!