Chapter 1 The Beginning

Da Jing City.

The outskirts.

The gate of a villa hidden in a dense forest slowly opened. Ten seconds later, a car drove up from a distance. The guards in black suits immediately removed the camouflage net roadblock.

It was an ordinary black sedan, but the roar of the engine indicated that this car was not as ordinary as it looked.

The vehicle didn't slow down at all, only braking sharply after entering the villa.

There was only one person in the driver's seat. A middle-aged man with a resolute face got out of the car and walked towards the villa without looking back.

Before he reached the door, a young man with gold-rimmed glasses and a white suit hurried out, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Are they still inside?" Gong Zhe asked with a gloomy face.

"Yes, they are." The young man who looked like a butler replied, then lowered his voice and said, "They have a warrant issued by the Night Watcher Executive Department. We wanted to stop them, but we couldn't."

"This is the Xia family's territory. It's not their turn to interfere." Gong Zhe pushed the door open and strode in.

"That's what I said too. After all, we withdrew from the Night Watchers many years ago. But they said that since the Xia family participated in the Night Watcher Executive Department's highest council not long ago and voted, it means that the Xia family still recognizes the Night Watcher Declaration of that year, and the 12 iron laws in the declaration must be observed."

"The Night Watcher Executive Department has the right to thoroughly investigate any member family." The young man adjusted his glasses and quickly followed Gong Zhe.

This villa was a secret stronghold of the Xia family, used to detain important or extremely valuable people.

More precisely, it was an impenetrable prison.

The series of arrangements around this area were all set up around this prison, and the guards were all carefully selected elites.

"I've seen their warrant. They suspect that some of the people we're holding are extremely dangerous individuals who are about to lose control."

"The number of paranormal events has surged recently," the young man said. "They're worried that some of our prisoners are also about to lose control."

"They demanded that we open the detention rooms and examine every prisoner." After speaking, the young man lowered his voice very carefully, "It's very strange, they seem to be very familiar with this place. As soon as they entered, they went straight to our underground secret room and even found the mechanism."

"There's nothing strange about it. They have the layout of the entire villa. They wouldn't have come so easily without such a thing." Gong Zhe frowned, "And before they came, they lured me away."

Hearing this, the young man was stunned, "Are you saying that the paranormal events in Yecheng were deliberately created?"

A day ago, a stronghold of the Xia family in Yecheng was attacked, and everyone disappeared overnight, with no sign of life or death.

At the same time, news of paranormal events spread nearby. The person responsible for sorting out the information determined that a door there had lost control.

"Codename: Yecheng Bouncing Head Incident."

"Paranormal event level: B."

"Threat level: ☆☆☆"

Since this incident involved a part of the Xia family's layout in Yecheng, it was decided after judgment to ask Gong Zhe to solve the matter.

But just as Gong Zhe arrived in Yecheng and began to solve the problem, the Executive Department's investigation team arrived. Even the Xia family's hidden stakes in the Night Watchers had not heard any news beforehand.

This was too much of a coincidence, wasn't it?

Walking to the stairs, Gong Zhe stopped and looked at the young man, "How is that person?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, then quickly replied as if he had suddenly remembered something, "Don't worry, I have arranged for him to be placed in the forester's hut on the mountain according to your instructions before you left. We have people watching him 24 hours a day."

"You mean... they're here for this person?" The young man's tone was full of disbelief.

That person had been sent here three days ago. He looked fat and cowardly. When his blindfold was removed, he immediately knelt down, scaring the guards who were escorting him. They thought it was some new fighting technique.

He kept his head down, not daring to open his eyes, and shouted, "Don't kill me! I didn't see your faces! My parents raised me to be so big and strong, it wasn't easy!"

Hearing that the fatty was fine, Gong Zhe's expression relaxed a lot. He was willing to take in the fatty, partly because of the deal with Jiangcheng, and partly because he had his own ideas.

"How is the interrogation going?" Gong Zhe asked. "Is it going smoothly?"

The young man smiled wryly, "To be honest, I haven't met anyone as cooperative as him since I started this job."

"Oh?" Gong Zhe seemed a little surprised.

"It's true. He knows everything about the situation in Jiangcheng, and he tells us everything he knows. At first, we gave him a few sheets of paper and asked him to write down everything he knew. But later, he actually took the initiative to ask us for paper, saying that the few sheets we gave him weren't enough, and he had a lot of information to report."

"Bring me what he wrote," Gong Zhe ordered.

The young man quickly had someone bring an e-ink screen and after tapping a few times, a section of scribbled handwriting appeared on it.

Gong Zhe swiped a few times and randomly stopped at a page.

"Jiangcheng, how should I put it, he's just especially petty. If you trick him once, he won't be able to sleep if he doesn't trick you ten times. He'll just keep thinking about how to trick you back."

"He's also especially long-winded, the kind of person with OCD, you understand, right?"

"Once I was wiping the table, and then he started nagging, I was using paper, the kind we put in the bathroom to wipe our butts with. I thought this stuff isn't expensive anyway, there's so much of it at home, it'll just go bad if we leave it there, might as well take it out and use it."

"But he just kept nagging, not letting me use it. Hey, I'm not someone without a temper. Why should I put up with his crap? So I threw the toilet paper down and asked him what he wanted."

"He was probably scared by me, because after being together for so long, he knew my temper to some extent, and then he was a little scared, you know, and told me to use a rag to wipe it, not to use toilet paper, because it was a waste. But when my temper flared up, I didn't! If you don't let me use it, I'm going to use it anyway. Later I used it, and then he wouldn't let me use it, hey, I just used it anyway..."

Gong Zhe flipped through several pages, all scenes of the fatty and Jiangcheng arguing. They argued over a roll of toilet paper for more than 20 pages.

"This is what you call telling us everything he knows..." Gong Zhe looked at the young man, veins popping out on his forehead.

This was clearly nonsense!

"Don't get excited, Mr. Gong." The young man seemed to have expected this and pointed Gong Zhe to the content behind, "Here are all the things that the fatty confessed about what happened with Jiangcheng in the Nightmare Assault (E'meng Jingxi), we studied it and think it's very credible, he didn't lie."