"Ah?"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Zhang Xiaoxia snapped back to reality, looking back at Ye Ling with confusion in her eyes.
"Did something happen?"
"Sense your surroundings carefully," Ye Ling said softly as he walked to Zhang Xiaoxia's side.
As Ye Ling approached, Zhang Xiaoxia's heart beat faster, her chest feeling like a startled deer.
She forcefully suppressed her excitement and sensed her surroundings.
"Resentment?"
When she sensed the resentment in the small town, her face completely changed.
"Such dense resentment, how did Longdao Town become a cursed place?"
Zhang Xiaoxia realized the gravity of the situation, quickly put aside her selfish thoughts, and prepared to use her phone to report to the Heavenly Masters on the mountain!
This Longdao Town was located at the foot of Longdao Mountain and was protected by the Zhengyi Sect. Even if those evil spirits had the guts, they wouldn't dare to act under the Zhengyi Sect's watchful eyes!
"This... no signal!"
Seeing that her phone had no signal, and she hadn't brought any talismans with her because she was delivering food, Zhang Xiaoxia had no way to contact the Zhengyi Sect.
"The Wuhou Sect is here to demand an explanation, and the Zhengyi Sect is already struggling to cope. Don't add to their troubles," Ye Ling said, pressing Zhang Xiaoxia's head. "I'll deal with the evil spirits here. You lead the way and deliver the food."
With Ye Ling's hand on her head, Zhang Xiaoxia finally realized that the person in front of her was a monster who could even deal with the Heavenly Luo Ghost King!
For Ye Ling to deal with an unknown evil spirit would be a piece of cake, wouldn't it?
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoxia was immediately relieved. She extinguished her lantern and headed towards the old woman's house.
Longdao Town was a tourist town. Tourists visiting Longdao Mountain who stayed out late would usually lodge in Longdao Town.
Therefore, Longdao Town had complete entertainment facilities, whether it was taverns or bars, and the commercial district was basically a city that never slept.
But strangely, there were few pedestrians on the road today, and all the houses were closed. With only the streetlights, Zhang Xiaoxia could barely see the way.
"What on earth is going on?"
Out of desperation, Zhang Xiaoxia relit her lantern and scanned her surroundings with confusion.
Unknowingly, the sky grew darker, and the few pedestrians on the road had all disappeared.
Although Zhang Xiaoxia had only walked a few hundred meters, it felt like a century!
"Master Ye..."
Zhang Xiaoxia was a little scared and looked back at Ye Ling, afraid that Ye Ling would disappear as they walked.
Seeing Zhang Xiaoxia's fearful expression, Ye Ling chuckled and shook his head, "Aren't you a disciple of the Zhengyi Sect? Why are you suddenly scared again?"
Zhang Xiaoxia pursed her lips and whispered, "Longdao Town is where I grew up. I'm very familiar with this place... but the atmosphere today is too strange, making me feel like Longdao Town is so unfamiliar."
"It is indeed strange," Ye Ling said noncommittally. He had scanned the houses by the roadside with his divine soul. Whether it was taverns, inns, or private homes, everyone was fast asleep, motionless, as if they were dead.
If Ye Ling hadn't been able to sense their breath, he would have thought he was looking at a pile of corpses.
"So sleepy... I want to go back..."
Suddenly, Zhang Xiaoxia became groggy. Her eyes quickly lost their luster, and she walked directly towards Longdao Mountain.
Seeing Zhang Xiaoxia's state, Ye Ling's eyes narrowed slightly. He injected his spiritual power into Zhang Xiaoxia, making her sober up.
"What did I just do?"
Zhang Xiaoxia woke up, feeling as if she had had a very long dream, but she had no memory of it.
Ye Ling didn't know how Zhang Xiaoxia had been affected. He spread out his divine soul and carefully scanned the surroundings.
After a while, Ye Ling discovered that there was a trace of colorless and odorless gas in the air.
The gas mixed with the various gases in the air. Absorbing a small amount would have no effect, but if one breathed it in more, the gas would replace oxygen and invade the brain, causing people to fall into a deep sleep.
Ye Ling was naturally surrounded by a spiritual energy field, and since he no longer needed to rely on oxygen to survive, the gas did not affect him, and he did not discover the special gas for a moment.
"The person who attacked the town is quite something. Let's not walk so openly. Let's leave here first." Da Feng Novel Network.
Upon discovering the gas, Ye Ling realized that someone might be monitoring the town. He said to Zhang Xiaoxia, then led her back the way they came, leaving Longdao Town.
In a corner of the town, beneath a certain manor.
A man in black stared blankly at the computer screen, watching Ye Ling and Zhang Xiaoxia leave Longdao Town.
Seeing Ye Ling leave, the man in black picked up the walkie-talkie on the desk and said, "All units, attention. The disciples of the Zhengyi Sect have left Longdao Town. The alert is lifted. Please return to your posts and apprehend the target."
As the man in black finished speaking, some of the people who were asleep in the inns or houses slowly woke up, jumped onto the rooftops from their rooms, and headed in one direction.
"Who are those people?" Zhang Xiaoxia, suspended in the air by Ye Ling's spiritual power, asked curiously as she looked at a group of people in black darting across the rooftops below.
Ye Ling stood beside Zhang Xiaoxia, his gaze shifted to the manor in the corner of the town, and his eyes narrowed slightly. "It should be people from the Hongchen Pavilion... I didn't expect them to hijack China's SkyNet surveillance and use those cameras to monitor us in advance."
Since Ye Ling had only recently returned to Earth, he was not very familiar with modern surveillance equipment. Moreover, with SkyNet surveillance everywhere in China, Ye Ling usually didn't pay attention to it.
However, when Ye Ling left the town, he deliberately covered the entire town with his divine soul, monitoring every move in the town.
Walkie-talkies essentially communicate through radio waves, which are also a form of energy.
When the man in black was speaking, Ye Ling sensed that the place beneath the manor was the only place in the entire town that emitted radio waves.
Without hesitation, Ye Ling took Zhang Xiaoxia and instantly arrived beneath the manor. He happened to see the man in black staring intently at the computer screen.
Beside him was a walkie-talkie that was constantly speaking.
"Who's there?"
The moment Ye Ling and Zhang Xiaoxia entered the room, the man in black sensed Zhang Xiaoxia's presence from behind and suddenly stood up. But before he could do anything, he was knocked unconscious by Ye Ling.
After dealing with the man in black, Ye Ling instructed the stunned Zhang Xiaoxia, "Go guard the door."
"Oh..."
From beginning to end, Zhang Xiaoxia didn't understand what had happened. She could only blankly follow Ye Ling's instructions and guard the door.
Ye Ling grabbed the man in black's head and extracted his memories.
"It is indeed people from the Hongchen Pavilion..."
Ye Ling threw the man in black to the ground, then sat down in the chair, switched to the surveillance screen, and opened the program the man in black used to hijack the SkyNet surveillance.
After recalling some knowledge about computers from the man in black, Ye Ling transmitted a message to his demonic blade Blood Fiend, "Blood Fiend, did you control a hacker organization before?"
"Your Majesty, you can finally use me. I'm so bored I'm going to sprout eggs!" Soon, a flippant voice from Blood Fiend echoed in Ye Ling's mind, speaking at an extremely fast pace.
"I control a hacker organization called 'Dark Night.' According to them, they have gathered the top hackers in the world. However, I see their core members playing games online every day and not doing anything important, so I have some doubts about their skills."
"Why, Your Majesty? Do you want to use those useless nerds?"
Ye Ling chuckled, "Stop joking. I need a hacker's help with something. Have them remotely control my computer and talk to me."
"Alright! Your Majesty, please wait a moment!"