Chapter 121: Clear City

A certain parasitic caterpillar had just fallen into the hands of the Patrol Inspection Office, and the Su clan head already knew about it.

This new type of worm immediately drew the Su clan head's attention. He rushed straight to the Patrol Inspection Office to meet Director Bao Junyi. The Su clan head discussed with Bao Junyi the matter of the Su clan conducting another large-scale search, and the Su clan head also strongly requested that the Patrol Inspection Office's elites help with the search.

As long as the Patrol Inspection Office was willing to help, the Su clan would surely reward them handsomely.

Bao Junyi also took this matter very seriously. He immediately organized elite personnel to launch an investigation, and coordinated with the Su clan head to quickly restart the large-scale search of the entire Su clan territory.

After the Patrol Inspection Office's investigation, that little boy had entered Su clan territory under the pretext of visiting relatives.

Moreover, he had only just checked into his relative's home the night before.

If this time it had successfully eaten Su Jin, then it would have immediately begun hunting among the Su clan members and spreading its offspring.

Of course, even if it chose to go after Su Jin, even if it ate Su Jin's brain, it probably wouldn't survive.

Blood Xue Chiluo would not let it go!

However, Bao Junyi did not place all his hopes of eradicating this worm on Blood Xue Chiluo.

At most, he would let Blood Xue Chiluo go outside the city to search for another worm nest.

Ahem, because Blood Xue Chiluo only found one worm nest inside the city.

If there were a second one, Blood Xue Chiluo definitely wouldn't have kept quiet. (Are you sure Blood Xue Chiluo never thought about growing bigger himself and then eating that second worm nest?)

In any case, the Su clan's large-scale search was carried out in a timely and forceful manner.

The hidden dangers lurking within the clan territory were eliminated; from now on, they only needed to strengthen the control over outsiders entering Su clan territory.

But although the Su clan worked efficiently, that didn't mean the entire Xiancheng was safe beyond the Su clan.

On the contrary, the entire Xiancheng was now under the threat of the parasites.

Exactly how many caterpillars were still actively spreading inside and outside this vast Xiancheng, no one knew.

Big trouble.

Zhan Xiongying had also heard about his junior brother's big trouble. When he hurried over, his junior brother had just seen off the Su clan head.

The Su clan head not only delivered the generous gifts he had previously promised, but also said that if Bao Junyi needed his cooperation, he would gladly dispatch all the clan's young and able-bodied men to help for free.

With such a humble and enthusiastic attitude, let alone Bao Junyi, Zhan Xiongying asked himself, even he would find it hard to refuse, wouldn't he?

"Senior Brother Zhan, why are you here?"

"I also heard about that newly appeared white caterpillar, and was worried something might happen on your end, so I rushed back."

"Did you find that Feng San when you went outside the city this time?"

"I didn't find Feng San, but I did find a Feng Qi.

This fellow doesn't look very old, and seems a bit green in how he handles things. He runs a flying-car business outside the city, but he often gets into conflicts with prospective passengers, ruining his deals.

Yet he still does things his own way!!

Precisely because he does things his own way, and also used a name similar to Feng San's, he caught my attention.

I tailed him for several days, and finally saw through Feng Qi's cover.

This Feng Qi lives alone. But every night he disappears for a period of time.

My intuition is very accurate. Even if this Feng Qi isn't Feng San himself, he must be someone connected to him."

Bao Junyi sighed after hearing this. "These really are troubled times."

"Is that caterpillar very tricky to deal with?" Zhan Xiongying saw the expression on his face and knew Bao Junyi was in a bind.

"This new species of caterpillar, we know far too little about it.

We don't know how they hunt, and we don't know how they reproduce and spread. I'd like to carry out a full-city search, but I'm worried that directly alarming them would throw the entire Xiancheng into turmoil and chaos all at once. This is Xiancheng, after all — its massive population rivals that of a small human nation.

If chaos and turmoil break out, who knows how many people will have to die before it can be brought under control."

"I think you could first have each clan conduct their own internal inspection. Once they've cleaned up their own clans, have them help you clean up the inner city. After the inner city is cleaned up, divide it into districts and assign responsibility, letting them divide up fixed zones to clean up the outer city.

The main point is speed!

Once the outer city is cleaned up, even if parasitic outbreaks appear in those chaotic districts outside the city, you can first have them rescue themselves. Then, once you've swept clean the outer city districts, lead the army into the areas outside the city and directly purge those already contaminated districts.

That way our whole city will be cleansed.

Even if there's some loss, as long as it's not the essential parts of the inner and outer city districts, it doesn't matter.

The sect won't blame you either.

After all, given the situation we face now, completing the purge of the new worms without any loss is almost impossible."

Bao Junyi thought it over, and finally made up his mind.

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After the Su clan head returned from Bao Junyi's place, he immediately began arranging his clan members to clean up the various outer-city districts belonging to the Su clan.

He wouldn't feel at ease without cleaning them up.

What if those bizarre worms began parasitizing the Su clan's mortals in the outer city on a large scale?

The Su clan has quite a few cultivators, but far more mortals. And the mortals are the true foundation of the Su clan.

At least as long as the mortals don't go extinct, if the Su clan wants to restore the number of cultivators in the entire clan, it won't be that difficult. In about thirty to forty years, the number of cultivators in the entire clan could recover.

But if the entire clan is left with only cultivators, then it's over — without a hundred or two hundred years, the total number of Su clan cultivators would be hard to restore to what it once was.

There's no way around it. Cultivators not only have few children, but the intervals between births are too long.

As for the Su clan's mortals, as long as the subsidies are sufficient, to be frank, they'd be happy to have one child a year.

The total number of Su clan mortals already far exceeds the number of cultivators. If they had no limits and went wild having children, then in thirty to forty years' time, that would be two or three generations. With such a massive population base, it would be strange if the number of cultivators born were few.

The Su clan head worked with extraordinary decisiveness and vigor — he handled the inner-city clan territory in the morning, and by the afternoon was already cleaning up the outer-city districts where Su clan members lived.

It really was like dragging a net back and forth three times. He then reorganized a large number of clan patrol teams to strictly control all the entrances and exits throughout the outer-city neighborhoods.

By the time the other clans were called by Bao Junyi to arrange action plans, the Su clan had already finished cleaning up all the outer-city Su clan neighborhoods.

Over a hundred neighborhoods turned up more than a hundred parasites.

It completely refreshed the Su clan head's understanding.

After clearing the outer-city wards, the Su clan patriarch turned his gaze toward the Su family's residential wards beyond Xiancheng.

If they were to clear them, the work would have to be done overnight.

The area outside the city differs from the interior of Xiancheng; there, not even a high wall separates the wards.

Even if cleared several times, as soon as their group leaves, people will flow back in, the wards there will continue to rot, and continue to breed parasites!