Chapter 122: A Huge Disaster

The population of the entire Xiancheng has swelled over several hundred years; the city, once meticulously planned and orderly, now suffers from severe unauthorized construction in both the Inner City and the Outer City.

Even so, there are not enough houses.

Both the Inner City and the Outer City are built upon spiritual veins, so the number of such houses is always limited.

Thus, people from the Inner City began quietly encroaching on houses in the Outer City.

People in the Outer City could only helplessly pack up their families and move outside the city.

Although the spiritual energy is weaker outside the city, houses can be built larger. If there are more children in the future, there will be no fear of not having enough space.

Combined with people migrating from other places, the various neighborhoods outside the city now have many houses and a large population.

All sorts of troubles emerge endlessly.

Law and order are in chaos, and "heroes" appear one after another.

The way everyone ultimately solves problems is to evade the patrol teams and then kill their enemies!

The total population of the current settlement area outside the city has long surpassed the combined population of the Inner City and Outer City of Xiancheng.

Especially the number of rogue cultivators, a mixed bag of good and bad, far exceeds three or four times the total number of cultivators in Xiancheng.

Once a disturbance occurs, with the Su family's limited manpower, they truly cannot fight.

Moreover, whether directly organizing clan members to go outside the city to clear out the parasites or distributing large amounts of supplies to organize them for self-rescue, any move by their own family would make them the target of all.

Perhaps the parasites would strike first against their own settlement streets outside the city.

Seeing that the day was already passing and the sky growing dark, the Clan Leader weighed the options and felt they could not blindly send people outside the city to exterminate the parasites.

They could not go outside the city, but they could help nearby neighborhoods investigate and clear out the parasites.

Besides, once the Inner and Outer Cities of Xiancheng are cleared, Xu Chengzhu will still choose to target the areas outside the city; it will not be too late to act together with other great families then.

Thus, the Su family once again recruited a large number of young and strong adults, equipped them with various supplies, and quietly began helping surrounding scattered small-power neighborhoods exterminate the parasites.

Fortunately, the Su family has many new-generation cultivators.

Because the Su family took action, the surrounding small powers only then realized that a new type of insect had appeared in Xiancheng; not only do they eat human brains, but they can also parasitize within the human brain.

This is terrifying.

Who knows how many such insects have parasitized those around you?

If such an insect parasitizes a loved one by your side and you do not notice, the next one to be eaten is very likely to be yourself.

Because you have no guard against loved ones around you.

It is too easy for the insects to successfully ambush.

Therefore, even though night has fallen, the areas near where the Su family intervened are filled with bonfires and high-hung lanterns.

Most neighborhoods are brightly lit, all cooperating on multiple fronts to fully investigate the parasites.

Some neighborhoods conducted a net-like sweep and found none, but some neighborhoods were able to find dozens of people at once.

Many people from small families and small powers broke out in cold sweat.

If the parasites reproduce and reproduce again, the entire neighborhood is likely to be doomed.

Except for the Su family, other great families, after being summoned by Director Bao Junyi, also launched actions.

After getting the heads of each family to agree and fully convene to purge the interior, Director Bao Junyi went to report the situation to City Lord Xu Yi. The key point is that this major investigation requires mobilizing more City Guard and patrol teams.

Without negotiating with the City Lord, although he could mobilize the patrol teams, he could not mobilize the City Guard. He did not have the authority to do so.

Mobilizing the City Guard is either for suppressing rebellion or civil war.

This is a privilege only the City Lord possesses.

Based on the information Director Bao Junyi has obtained so far, he feels the possibility of needing to suppress a rebellion in the future has greatly increased.

Xu Yi was happily eating dinner when Director Bao Junyi arrived.

He immediately felt something was wrong and quickly finished his dinner.

Only then did he have someone let Director Bao Junyi in.

As soon as Director Bao Junyi entered the room, he exploded a huge bombshell on him.

"City Lord, a major incident has occurred."

Upon hearing these words, Xu Yi's heart gave a sudden thud.

"Speak in detail," he said calmly.

Then Director Bao Junyi recounted the cause and effect of discovering the new insect today.

"You are saying there is a new type of insect inside Xiancheng, and this new insect has been spreading secretly for a while? This new insect eats human brains and can also control parasitized humans to continue hunting and parasitizing?"

Xu Yi's face was now extremely grim.

He wondered if the City Lord's chair he was sitting on was a powder keg, one that explodes in succession?

An indescribable anger filled his chest.

"Director Bao Junyi, you have been in Xiancheng for over two years, and for these two years you have sat in the position of President of the Inspection Bureau.

Are you stupid, or are you foolish?

For over two years, you actually did not discover at all that there are two types of insects growing and developing inside Xiancheng?

Are you as useless as your predecessor?"

He questioned angrily.

Director Bao Junyi's predecessor was named Liu Hai, a person of high cultivation but low ability.

He promoted whoever he liked, and he was soft-eared; as long as someone persuaded him, he would easily change his mind.

Matters of the Inspection Bureau changing orders in the morning and evening happened constantly.

He turned the entire Inspection Bureau into a complete mess.

The Sect really could not stand it anymore, so they transferred him away. Then they threw Director Bao Junyi down here.

Director Bao Junyi looked at City Lord Xu with a resentful and complex gaze.

He thought to himself, "Between big brothers, no need to hide; we're both masters of cleaning up messes. Who doesn't know who?"

Xu Chengzhu was so angered by his look that he laughed.

"Since you've come, you must have already thought of a plan. Tell me your idea so I can see how to cooperate with you."

Only then did Director Bao Junyi rein in the resentful expression on his face.

Back when Director Bao Junyi first arrived, he came alone to take up his post.

At that time, the situation in the Xiancheng Patrol Office was complex; with no loyalists under his command, he could only cultivate them slowly, adjusting the personnel arrangements of the Patrol Office day by day, step by step.

In over two years, he had only brought the core departments of the entire Patrol Office under his control by fifty percent.

The Patrol Office was still undergoing internal cleansing and correction; he had originally thought it didn't matter if he moved a bit slower.

As long as no major incidents occurred temporarily, after another year or two, once he had smoothly passed through this transition period, he would be able to completely hold the Xiancheng Patrol Office in the palm of his hand.

Who knew that, starting this year, troubles would arise one after another.

Explosions kept going off inside and outside Xiancheng!!

What could he do?

"The white caterpillars discovered this time are different from the mutated black locusts found before. Their harm to humans is too great. We don't know when they started spreading, nor which groups of people are the main targets of transmission.

Moreover, I fear our Patrol Office has spies planted by those behind-the-scenes masterminds.

That is why, even after I've been here for over two years, I haven't discovered any signs or reports regarding these insects.

I suspect the problem lies either with the grassroots patrol teams under our Patrol Office, or there is a major issue within the subordinate Intelligence Office."