Chapter 247 Hei Qing Gui

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Captain Wu stopped and turned back.

"Alright, then let Qing Si prepare. I don't have any money for now, but if Qing Si County is in trouble in the future and needs help, you can call on me at any time."

After a pause, Captain Wu looked at Fang Yue. "Also... I want to see Lord Han of Guyue Village. I wonder where Captain Ye is currently staying?"

"I'll take you there in a moment."

Fang Yue walked to Captain Wu's side, stared at Hei Ya for a while, and asked, "Hei Ya, do you know what's happening outside right now?"

Everything that guy could reveal about the Phoenix Organization, he already had.

So what Fang Yue wanted to ask now was something else.

Or rather, if Captain Wu hadn't suddenly appeared, they would have already started interrogating Hei Ya.

"Outside? What's happening? How would I know..."

Hei Ya looked blank. He had been so frightened by Captain Wu that he had become very honest.

"The fire-patterned token you traded to Xiong Duoduo of the Liehuo Sect caused Dou Baiyi to be possessed by a strange entity, and the Qingluan Tower was burned down. After that, just last night, most of the survivors of the Qingluan Tower incident were all possessed by strange entities, which then revived strangely and attacked the people around them."

What?!

Something like that happened!

Hei Ya was stunned, completely dumbfounded, and then suddenly woke up and hurriedly touched his body.

"No, nothing's wrong. I'm fine..."

Huff, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "And then, were those people killed by you Qing Si?"

"No, the problem lies in what happened after that. Those who were possessed by the strange entities all returned to their original state, as if they had suppressed the strange entities within their bodies. The fire-patterned token—the source of everything—was brought in by you. Do you have any clues about this matter?

"Think carefully before you answer. Captain Wu doesn't necessarily need to protect your life. Taking your corpse to Shadow Village should have the same effect. I don't think the horse-head masked man cares whether you're dead or alive, right?"

Under Fang Yue's threat, Hei Ya's face turned pale and ugly.

But he really had no clues about this matter. If he had to say something...

Hei Ya said tremblingly, "I didn't feel it at the time, but now that you're questioning me, I've thought about it carefully again.

"I feel like the strange entity hidden in the darkness that made me pick up the fire-patterned token gave me the feeling of communicating with a mountain range, endless and bottomless. It's just like... the legendary Hei Qing Gui..."

Hei Qing Gui?

The legendary one?

Fang Yue looked blank.

But behind Fang Yue, You Sisi and Tian Erjun both constricted their pupils, widened their eyes, and exclaimed in shock on the spot.

"Hei Qing Gui?!"

"Impossible!"

The two spoke almost simultaneously, their faces full of disbelief, their whole bodies trembling.

"You know Hei Qing Gui?"

Fang Yue asked blankly, and Captain Wu next to him also looked blank.

Obviously, he didn't know what Hei Qing Gui was either.

Hearing Fang Yue's question, You Sisi and Tian Erjun exchanged glances and said in a low voice, "Let's go back upstairs and talk."

The four of them, with the miserable-looking Hei Ya, left the underground prison and returned to the ground.

Tian Erjun immediately sent someone to take Captain Wu to the inn, and also implemented their previous plan on how to deal with the Qingluan Tower survivors.

One order after another was issued, and the entire Qing Si began to operate.

This was the largest organization in Qing Si County, and also the most powerful!

Under the cooperation of the Qing Yi's highest command, it was like a tight machine, cooperating in a graded manner, controlling the entire situation in Qing Si County.

After finally waiting for all the orders to be sent out, Tian Erjun still needed to be busy dealing with the aftermath.

After all, it was his idea to keep these people who were possessed by strange entities, and he had to do his best.

On the other side, Fang Yue was in the next room, discussing a problem with You Sisi.

"What exactly is this Hei Qing Gui? Why are you so scared?"

"Hei Qing Gui is a legend circulating in the Hei Qing Mountain Range.

"Legend says that the endless Hei Qing Mountain Range is actually a transcendent strange entity. Its endless body forms the entire Hei Qing Mountain Range, all in one go, connected as one!

"The cliffs on both sides of the Hei Qing Canyon are the head and tail of the Hei Qing Gui.

"The endless mountain range is the body.

"Anyone who steps on the Hei Qing Mountain Range is stepping on the Hei Qing Gui's body, so all those who enter the Hei Qing Mountain Range to explore will eventually be swallowed up, and no one can come out.

"But... this is just a legend, a legend I heard when I was a child. It's just a legend made up to scare those outsiders and prevent them from entering the Hei Qing Mountain Range!"

"So I think Hei Ya is just lying to us, just trying to scare us with the legendary Hei Qing Gui."

Is that so…

Fang Yue looked at You Sisi, who was usually quite calm, now shaking a little, and couldn't help but ask, "How likely do you think it is that the strange entity Hei Ya encountered is the Hei Qing Gui?"

"There's no possibility at all! I said, that's a legend, a story! It can't be true!"

"Assume, I'm saying assume, if it's true, if it's really the Hei Qing Gui, if the Hei Qing Gui really exists, and it let Hei Ya bring the fire-patterned token into Qing Si County... what do you think its purpose is?"

"... I don't know, or rather, if all of this is true, then the legendary Hei Qing Gui is too petty. If it wants to destroy Qing Si County, with its legendary transcendent strength, it can destroy Qing Si County in an instant, and even destroy the entire Hei Qing Mountain Range, all the villages, all the areas of human activity!

"So, it can't be the Hei Qing Gui! Hei Ya must be lying to us!"

Fang Yue didn't speak, just thinking about predicting everything in the worst possible direction.

Then... he's probably going to have to run.

A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall!

He had never heard before that the entire Hei Qing Mountain Range was actually a transcendent strange entity.

If everything is true, the lives of everyone in the Hei Qing Mountain Range area can be extinguished with a single thought of the Hei Qing Gui!

No! I have to talk to Lord Han!

He knows Fairy Meiyu, an Era-level old grandpa. He must know more inside information.

Just as Fang Yue was thinking about this, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Come in."

The flustered You Sisi immediately shouted.

The person outside the door paused, then braced themselves and pushed the door open.

Unexpectedly, the person who came was actually Yu Baiyi, who had been sent to investigate the special-class bloodstain case file *Wuyu Clan Serial Village Extermination Case*.

"Lord You, Captain Ye."

"You're back? How's the investigation going?"

"After our investigation, it can be basically determined that Captain Ye's matter is all true. More manpower is needed for the follow-up details to restore the case in detail. In order to ensure that the news can reach Lord Qing Yi as soon as possible, I came back to report first."