Chapter 91: Proof of Jealousy

Instance waiting hall, lounge.

Watching the pollution level of the quiet town drop lower and lower, the expressions of the group became increasingly excited.

Jianxing had been in the instance for less than an hour, yet he had already reduced the pollution level from nearly 80% to around 50%.

Just as they had predicted, being able to lower the pollution level by 10% in such a short time meant that Jianxing had completely taken control of the situation and had begun to exert his full strength.

With the rich instance experience of the few people in the room, they had already imagined that Jianxing had cracked the key puzzle and begun to frantically push the main storyline forward.

As long as he wanted to, clearing the instance, or even breaking the deadlock of the instance, was only a matter of time.

Let alone the Quiet Town, which was a Bureau-internal specification exceeding a standard B-rank instance, even for a normal C-rank instance, no one in the Bureau had ever cleared it this quickly.

Not even Leng Shan could do it.

What would the final completion time be?

Three hours, two and a half hours?

Thinking of this, the group's breathing began to quicken.

Could it be that he could get under two hours?!

This kind of scene was something neither Lin Jiang nor Director Gao had ever seen, and even Xu Dejun had never seen it.

They were all witnesses at this moment, witnessing the birth of a historical-level genius.

Xu Dejun, who was always calm and steady and was praised for not changing his expression even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, also had a look of anxiety on his face.

Although Jianxing was a good seedling, the Bureau was full of talent, and there were many geniuses who had been cultivated in a targeted manner since birth; missing one or losing one would at most be a bit painful, but it would never hurt the foundation.

So when he heard that Jianxing was being targeted by followers of the Evil God, he was only angry, not impatient; when Jianxing accidentally entered the Quiet Town, he was not impatient either.

Now that it was confirmed that Jianxing had broken through his own limits and soared into the sky, he was anxious.

If, and he meant if, Jianxing maintained his current momentum, achieving a perfect clear was not impossible.

By then, Jianxing would both possess a hidden profession and be a title player.

The Bureau was about to welcome its own monster newcomer.

But the more it was this moment, the more he feared falling short of success.

Xu Dejun asked, "Lin Jiang, where has the Negotiation Master reached?"

Lin Jiang said with a hint of hesitation, "She will be here in five minutes. I am wondering if, in the current situation, it is still necessary..."

"It is necessary!" Xu Dejun said decisively.

"That group of Evil God followers is like a poisonous snake hiding in the shadows; you never know when they will jump out and take a bite. We must be on guard!"

"You don't need to worry that the presence of the Negotiation Master will reduce the growth brought by Jianxing's breakthrough. If he can obtain a title, the benefits for Jianxing will far outweigh that tiny bit of extra gain."

Lin Jiang nodded in response: "Understood!"

He had thought before that Jianxing's progress in this instance was like a hot knife through butter and that he might be able to fight for a title, but the target was the Quiet Town after all, and the chances were slim, so he had dismissed it as his own wishful thinking.

Now that he heard Xu Dejun mention it, it instantly reignited his hope.

If Jianxing could really obtain a title, the right to speak for the Evolution Faction would be greatly enhanced; not only Jianxing, but even his own future would become bright along with it.

When people encounter happy events, their spirits are refreshed; even the reflective head of Director Gao, which he had always found very unpleasant to look at, had become festive at this moment.

After all, they had used five of his newcomer assistants as cushions; Jianxing's success today could be counted as two-tenths their credit.

Lin Jiang leaned over with a smile, "Director Gao, today's matter was our fault first, but the result is good in the end. Although you and I have different philosophies, we are all one family; there is no need to hurt the harmony."

"To express my apology, if the Quiet Town is broken today, I will pay out of my own pocket to offer two thousand Rotten Silver Coins to each of your branch's surviving assistants as a gift of apology, and I will find a way to additionally give them each one permission for a normal reward instance."

"If the Quiet Town can achieve a perfect clear, I will give them each a package of ten thousand Rotten Silver Coins as a gift of apology. Not just them, everyone present will have a share, so everyone can share in the joy. In addition, I will give them each one permission for an intermediate reward instance. What do you think, Director Gao?"

Jianxing's progress in the instance was so smooth that the survival probability of the assistants had greatly increased, and with Lin Jiang being so sincere, even if Director Gao and Meng Yawen and the others had been dissatisfied before, they could not pick any faults at this moment.

After suffering a big loss once, Director Gao had learned to be smart. He did not speak when Lin Jiang made his statement, but secretly activated the recording function in his attribute panel to avoid the other party reneging on the debt later.

After recording everything, he smiled and said, "Since you have said it to this extent, it would be a bit excessive for us to be relentless. In that case, we will wait for your victory banquet."

Inside the instance, the inner world of the Burning Town.

Wu Chang's True Self transformed into an 11-meter-tall giant whale-man, looking at the villagers swarming toward him with flames all over their bodies, just like facing a group of lit cockroaches. Except for the scene being uncomfortable, it brought no lethality.

He placed the sleeping Saintess on his shoulder, and the whole person was like a monster in a special effects film, destroying the town unscrupulously.

He first knocked down the bell tower of the cathedral, placed the spire, which was carved from a single piece of rock, on the ground, and threw it out like a giant spinning top.

The top smashed into the crowd, instantly clearing a whole open space, and all the burning townspeople in its path were ground into human-shaped black ash on the ground.

A true dimensional-reduction strike.

It was easy to kill the burning townspeople; correspondingly, the power gained after devouring them was far less than that of the mermen.

Devouring the vitality of every ten burning townspeople only brought 5 points of strength and half a meter of height.

Ever since he was almost tricked into the deep sea, Wu Chang had placed more importance on the Will attribute and had become much more restrained when using his abilities.

He tried his best to prolong the battle time, and with the help of the postman's bag to recover his Will, he only devoured the vitality of 80 burning villagers before stopping.

This brought his Strength attribute to 140 points and his height to 15 meters, level with the magnificent cathedral.

!

If he changed his True Self to be the boss, he was confident he could turn the Quiet Town into the next Moonlight Sanatorium.

He crushed the flames on all the burning townspeople; in the entire inner world, only the Bishop, whose mind had collapsed, remained in front of the statue of the Great Mother.

Affected by the Mental Image Echo effect, the Bishop was forced into a state of Will loss of control.

What Wu Chang did not expect was that the loss of Will control caused by the shattering of the Mental Image Echo did not just cause the Bishop's mind to collapse, but caused the Mental Image Echo to expand infinitely, turning into a prison like the inner world, locking the Bishop's consciousness inside.

The Divine Envoy inside the Great Mother statue wanted to attach itself to the Bishop as before, but did not expect to be hard-controlled in the Mental Image Echo along with him.

Let alone controlling the Bishop's body, it could not even leave the Bishop's spirit.

Wu Chang picked up the "top" from the ground and threw it toward the Great Mother statue.

Bang!

The rubble and the statue smashed together, shattering into dust all over the floor, and the collision affected the Bishop on the side, sending him to the second dimension just like the other burning townspeople.

Because the Divine Envoy was imprisoned in the Bishop's Mental Image Echo, it failed to resurrect this time, and with the disappearance of the Mental Image Echo, it was completely pulverized.

The death of the Divine Envoy led to the shattering of the Great Mother statue in the inner world.

In the shattered statue, Wu Chang found a chess piece similar to the Proof of Laziness, with a small person with eyes sewn shut carved on it.

"Item Name: Proof of Jealousy"

"Item Type: Special"

"Item Description: Holding the Proof of Jealousy allows free entry into the special space—Church of Jealous Fire. In the Church of Jealous Fire area, you will be regarded as a Divine Envoy and have the right to judge the sins of the target. If the other party's Good/Evil value is lower than 5, they will be judged as a sinner."

Until the inner world was cleared, the Saintess remained in a deep sleep, with no sign of waking up.

Wu Chang's True Self took out a black robe, covered the Saintess in it, and left the inner world with her.

The effect of "Blessing of the Great Mother" was very powerful; it really allowed the Saintess to win the resurrection match.

After the Saintess was brought out of the inner world by Wu Chang and entered reality, her state of existence remained stable, and there was no sign of dissipation at all.

Wu Chang could not help but take out the Poison of the Mortal and let the Eye of Leman see what "other people's children" were like.

Look at her, then look at you. If you had mastered this kind of black technology back then, relying on a blessed token and a piece of memory, you could have let the projection resurrect out of thin air; wouldn't you have avoided being made into a necklace at the Moonlight Sanatorium?

Wu Chang carried the Saintess and moved in a direction away from the town center.

The news of the Saintess's resurrection could not be let the townspeople know for the time being; he had to find a place to hide her first, as the reward for the hidden side quest was still waiting for her to settle.

On the other side, not far from Wu Chang, Hamster finished her overtime and walked toward the residence provided by the police station.

After working for a day, she needed to take a nap first and wait until the early morning to meet up with Jianxing and the others to check the instance progress.

But she did not notice that not far behind her, the bald man from the Iron Armor Group was quietly following her.

The bald man's eyes were dazed, and he muttered to himself: "I think I saw my first love."

(End of chapter)