Chapter 151: Please Take a Trip

At the edge of the wasteland, isolated from the outside.

Gao Feng quickly steadied his mind. Seeing that Du En seemed to want to finish everything in one go, he interrupted again: "Why did you dare to investigate? Shouldn't the normal choice be to flee?"

Du En responded with ease: "The situation at the time was unclear. Blindly fleeing might only have made me a plaything for the evil cultivators, so I needed to determine the basic situation before I could make a proper move."

"That makes some sense."

"I didn't see the Camp Master's corpse, and the evil cultivators left no living people behind, so I judged that the Camp Master must have been in a bitter struggle. But because I couldn't find the specific battlefield, and, well, one more person like me wouldn't have made a difference..."

"A mid-stage Foundation Establishment isn't 'not making a difference'? You don't need to be so modest. To have another breakthrough in just two years, plus the anomalies during your Foundation Establishment, your strength cannot be judged by normal standards. You are a top-tier talent, likely possessing strength comparable to a normal late-stage Foundation Establishment of the second or third rank. In that outpost camp, you would also rank in the top four."

"Fine, I will make this trip. Also, you don't need to overthink it; the innocent will clear themselves. I imagine the Inner City Affairs Office is still better than the Outer City Affairs Office."

And then.

"It's still enough. I learned a bit of artifact refining from the previous supervisor, so I managed to figure out some tricks. With the Southern Border demonic beasts providing materials, I can be quite extravagant in being self-sufficient."

However, Du En felt that this was a development where the situation was turning for the better.

"My apologies, Patrol Guard Du. Because there are some discrepancies and omissions between your statement and the facts of the investigation, I must ask you to come with us."

Du En even spoke up to comfort the others who had just woken up.

Sure enough, as long as he found a loophole, he would plug it!

The Inner City elites were also a bit confused at this moment, thinking that Du En wanted to distract them, so they became even more tense and guarded.

And as long as it was buried, Gao Feng would easily be able to find it upon later investigation.

Listening to Du En's inquiry, the Inner City elite responsible for speaking looked deeply at the still-calm man. Invisibly, the others behind him had silently surrounded him, forming a closing formation that appeared ready to strike at any moment.

Only then did he speak, answering slowly.

"When I returned to the inner side of the border, I suddenly felt a chill down my spine. A sense of terror rose uncontrollably, like bubbles rising from a thick, foul-smelling swamp. I immediately realized I was being watched by something, so I didn't care about hiding my tracks. I flew with my artifact in a self-detonating manner, fleeing north all the way until I finally arrived here, and that was how I escaped a disaster."

Unable to find a loophole, he could only question him like this.

He didn't have any suspicions; mainly because if Du En had killed anyone, there would definitely be corpses. With the inside and outside isolated and unable to cast spells, they would either be buried, or smashed and then buried.

Gao Feng stared intently at Du En's unchanging, calm, and composed expression. He became increasingly guarded in his heart, yet he had to admit that everything he said and did fell within the scope of a qualified patrol guard.

"I don't know. I never looked back. However, I think it might be that 'Superior' of theirs, or of course, it could just be a stronger evil cultivator."

But Du En vaguely saw that he was actually putting on an act. Although he intended to intimidate, he actually seemed quite apprehensive in his heart.

"Because I was helping my old subordinates who were looking after me."

"Why is his expression different from the others? Did he see something that terrified his soul?!"

After all, only the dead would not argue.

Du En's gaze watched silently until they disappeared, then returned to the Inner City elites who remained here to "look after" things.

"Oh? This method of isolation, Manager Tang should have only taught it to the Corpse Affairs Steward He Bo. Although his judgment of the situation was flawed, even if he was tortured to death by evil cultivators yesterday, he shouldn't have rashly activated such a sealing method. But, speaking only of the current situation, since only he could activate it, how could he let you in? You two should have had old grudges!"

"Guarded, apprehensive, so they follow the rules... Is it because of Ren Li? Looking at it this way, am I, the one who rose abruptly, being treated as a pawn of that side?"

"And then?"

"Inner City Forbidden Prison!"

The current world is under the absolute high-pressure rule of the Immortal Sects. Even if one goes outside the borders, there are still resentful spirits and evil cultivators lingering and spying...

"Uh, well, just like that."

When the natural isolation of the wasteland disappeared, a command from Gao Feng arrived.

Gao Feng steadied his mind, frowned, and asked: "Speak clearly!"

Listening to Du En's explanation, Gao Feng couldn't help but cast a very wary glance at the wasteland.

So Gao Feng didn't say anything. His gaze flicked to the others and stopped on Li Jian, the corpse-transporting supervisor, and he suddenly asked: "Why is he here?"

"Where is he?!"

"You don't know?!"

"..."

Because Gao Feng clearly had misgivings and would still follow the rules with him, as long as he couldn't catch any strong evidence or loopholes, it was impossible to punish him for a serious crime.

Gao Feng, having completely confirmed this, suppressed the slight sense of competition that had emerged in his heart and couldn't help but sigh that the younger generation was formidable; it was just a pity.

"Well, to tell you the truth, last night was also my first time spending the night on the wasteland. Without realizing it, I, like the others, fell asleep lying on the ground. It was just that, vaguely, I seemed to hear some movement, so I opened my eyes abruptly, only to find that it was already morning. He Bo had already disappeared by then, and along with him, another corpse waiting to be buried had also disappeared."

While answering, he had already tensed his nerves; if Du En dared to resist, he would subdue him and forcibly drag him away!

"... Reasonable and within the rules."

Then, he chose to leave twenty people here to "look after" Du En and the others, while he himself took the rest, flew up, and rushed toward the south.

"Regardless of whether it is or not, the situation is clearly not too bad. Of course, it definitely isn't good either."

"I will confirm it one by one next."

"The Manager is too kind. My foundation is insufficient, and I have been treated with exclusion. Also, the methods of the evil cultivators are exceptionally bizarre, so I calmly judged at the time that rather than trying to find the battlefield of the Camp Master and the others, it was better to choose to head north to report the enemy situation."

"Go where?"

Du En's main attention was not on these things; he just asked calmly: "Is that just it?"

Listening to Du En's words, Gao Feng immediately became nervous.

Airtight, indeed!

Gao Feng only felt it was thorny; he hadn't found any strong loopholes in Du En's words at all. Even if he kept grasping at those minor details, he feared that Du En could find a way to fill them with excuses. The more he asked, the more he would only reduce his own room for maneuver.

Du En pondered, waiting silently.

They did not have the slightest slack, as if they had received some secret order, and were staring fixedly at Du En's side with the posture of treating a great and evil enemy.

Gao Feng narrowed his eyes. If Du En dared to say that he had killed the other party, he would likely ignore the reasons and directly punish him for a serious crime.

Although he had a premonition, only now could he be completely certain that the one hunting Du En was not an evil cultivator!

However, because the place where the resentful spirit manifested and lingered happened to be within the range affected by the wasteland, no matter how one observed it now, there were no traces left; everything was unnaturally normal.

As the saying goes, when one is under the eaves, one has to bow one's head.

If it were Tang Yiping instead, I fear that guy would ignore right from wrong, directly shove his own blame onto others, and anxiously want to kill to silence the witnesses.

Gao Feng seemed lost in thought, frowning as he spoke, and was about to turn and leave, but suddenly he spoke up out of the blue: "Right, is your magical artifact still sufficient for use?"

Of course, no matter what, the answer here had long been prepared: "He didn't intend to let me in to hide, it's just that my artifact-piloting speed exceeded his expectations, and he almost blocked me outside the door."

"That is how it is; he saw the existence that was hunting me, and I even knocked him unconscious at one point; the others were all knocked unconscious by me for that reason as well."

Their Qi auras were connected to one another, all at the late stage of Foundation Establishment; even if Xiang Tao were to face this lineup, he would likely meet his end on the spot!

There is no third possibility.

"I don't know."

Since Du En had previously worked as a corpse-burier, he certainly knew there were methods here to monitor burial matters, so it was impossible for him to tell a lie that could be exposed at any moment.

Better to keep it!

And so.

Upon hearing this, they immediately relaxed.

The Inner City elites looked at each other in secret, then, without doing or saying anything more, simply took Du En toward the so-called forbidden prison in the city.

(End of this chapter)