96: Chen De's research!

After leaving the sect, Chen De immediately went to find the nearest spatial teleportation array.

Otherwise, if Chen De had to run back himself, it would probably take him at least a day and a night.

On the way, Chen De happened to run into the person who had previously tried to snatch his mission.

What a coincidence!

At this moment, Baba was still heading to complete a mission with a group of his companions.

This was a custom that had evolved over many years in the Way of the Sect.

With mutual assistance, the efficiency of completing missions was higher.

However, this also required that the mission locations and types chosen by several people be as similar as possible.

Because the mission Chen De had randomly selected earlier happened to be exactly what they needed.

That's why Baba chose to ask Chen De to give up that mission.

Because once a mission was accepted, it could only be completed by that person, until death.

If Chen De had actually taken it down, he might truly have no connection to it.

So, in a moment of urgency, he shouted at Chen De.

Chen De glanced at the group of people.

...

Thus, at this moment, inside the Outer Sect's Hall of Meritorious Deeds of the Tianyan Sect.

The yellow light beneath a dozen mission tokens turned red.

"That's strange, weren't these mission tokens just taken down by someone?"

"How did they die so soon after?"

"They shouldn't have gone far outside the sect yet, should they?"

...

Chen De knew that he was doing a good deed today!

They bullied Chen De, and Chen De didn't care, because Chen De had morals.

But would they stop there?

Of course not!

They would only become more aggressive!

Today they chose to bully Chen De, tomorrow they would choose to bully others.

Chen De's heart ached as if being cut by a knife when he thought of so many fellow disciples being bullied.

Suffering countless unfair treatments behind the scenes.

All of this was not because Chen De was petty.

Chen De knew that perhaps many shameless villains, upon learning of it, would misunderstand him and distort his actions.

But as the saying goes, 'the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom'; the kind of Chen De one sees depends on the kind of person one is.

In the eyes of kind-hearted people, everything Chen De did was good.

In the eyes of dark-hearted people, everything Chen De did was evil.

Anyway, for Chen De, he was upright and feared no shadow, so let others talk as they pleased.

He no longer cared about worldly gossip.

Soon, Chen De arrived at the spatial teleportation array he had visited last time.

...

Thirty days later.

At this time, in Tianfeng City.

"Lord City Lord, many pregnant women and newborn babies have gone missing in the city. What should we do now?"

City Lord Feng Zhe silently listened to the report from those around him, watching the countless Tianfeng City residents kneeling before him, pleading for action.

Feng Zhe immediately stepped forward, looked around at the people, "Everyone, rest assured, I have dispatched everyone from the City Lord's Mansion to investigate, and I have already issued a wanted order and a bounty order."

"Those people won't be able to jump around for much longer!"

"Lord City Lord!"

Suddenly, an old man in the crowd rushed out and knelt before Feng Zhe.

The surrounding guards wanted to act, but Feng Zhe restrained them.

Feng Zhe slowly shook his head and said, "Never mind, let's see what he wants to say!"

The old man kowtowed wildly to Feng Zhe, his head bleeding.

He cried to Feng Zhe,

"Lord City Lord, my daughter, my daughter..."

The old man was choked with sobs. Feng Zhe stepped forward to comfort him, speaking gently,

"What's wrong? It's alright, with me here, I will definitely help you solve it."

The old man cried and explained to Feng Zhe,

"Lord City Lord, my daughter's husband, some time ago, followed you to attack the Vortex Forest and died in battle."

"Not long after, when the news came back, my daughter couldn't bear the blow and wanted to commit suicide to join him."

"But at that time, she found out she was pregnant, and with my earnest persuasion, she chose to continue living, to give birth to the child and raise it."

"In the beginning, we endured such difficult circumstances."

"Later, Lord City Lord, you suddenly issued a series of convenient measures, and our lives improved a little."

"We originally thought life would get better and better, but not long ago..."

"Who knows which cursed person abducted my daughter, who was two months pregnant!"

"Lord City Lord, you must uphold justice for me!"

"I'm kowtowing to you!"

After the old man finished speaking, he kept kowtowing to Feng Zhe, as if he didn't even care about his life.

Feng Zhe quickly ordered someone to take the old man away for treatment. As the old man was led away, he kept shouting, "My daughter has a chrysanthemum-shaped birthmark on her neck! Lord City Lord! City Lord..."

His voice gradually faded, Feng Zhe's eyes were red, and he took a deep breath.

Then he solemnly assured everyone in the field,

"Such a heinous and inhumane incident has occurred in my Tianfeng City. I, Feng Zhe, am ashamed before everyone."

"Today, I, Feng Zhe, as the City Lord of Tianfeng City, promise and swear to everyone that I will definitely resolve this matter for you and give you an explanation."

And so on!

It took a while for Feng Zhe to deal with all the people before him.

After everyone had left, Feng Zhe went to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion.

He walked to a hidden spot and activated a mechanism.

The ground before him immediately split open, revealing a downward staircase.

Then Feng Zhe walked down the steps, and as his figure completely disappeared into the darkness.

The entrance on the ground slowly closed, leaving no trace of difference from the surroundings.

Feng Zhe walked a long way through the secret passage, and after a while.

A door appeared in front, with a sliver of light coming through the crack.

Feng Zhe walked to the door, opened it, and stepped inside.

The first thing that came into view were countless glass bottles and jars.

Inside were various kinds of demon beast larvae (infants) soaked in an unknown liquid.

Without exception, all these demon beast infants were strangely shaped.

Seven legs and eight feet, three mouths, eight 8=====D's.

All sorts of strange and oddly shaped demon beast infants.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of alcohol.

On the surrounding tables were a dozen crudely made microscopes.

Above the room, over a hundred fluorescent lights were installed, illuminating the room brightly.

In the center of the room, there were many metal square platforms resembling operating tables.

On one of these platforms lay a woman who had been disemboweled, and it seemed something had been taken out of her.

Her mouth also seemed to have been burned by something, with some parts even carbonized.

Next to the metal platform stood a man in a white lab coat and a mask.

He held a scalpel in his hand, and on a small cart beside him, there seemed to be something bloody and still moving.