My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 387: Descent

Hearing Li Shan speak, Feng Yixuan couldn’t help but interject: “Yeah, how come our deputy captain seems to have so many secrets.”

This “ordinary civilian” not only called Lu Bai “Heavenly Venerable Lu,” but also decisively twisted his own neck, clearly possessing some kind of supernatural power, which really made it hard not to feel curious.

Lu Bai didn’t say much else.

On one hand, he was too lazy to explain this kind of thing to them.

On the other hand, he actually didn’t know who this guy he encountered was either.

Although the other’s words made him realize that the other was a stowaway who had escaped from the previous deathmatch arena.

But the problem was, in the vast cultivation world, how could Lu Bai know everyone.

Basically, it was a state where he didn’t know others, but others knew him.

The only clue left was that the stowaway had a grudge against him, but this scope wasn’t small either, and there wasn’t even a reliable direction for guessing.

The bald middle-aged man withdrew his curious gaze from Lu Bai and pointed at the corpse in the corridor, commanding: “Within ten minutes, I want to know all the information about this person.”

Several technical operators gathered around the corpse and got busy, and the forensic team would soon provide the crime scene identification results.

The preliminary autopsy results showed that this possession, whose principle was temporarily unclear, did not produce any enhancement effects on the possessed person’s physical body; the deceased was still in the physical condition of an ordinary person, though the possibility of temporary enhancement could not yet be ruled out.

The collected information was quickly reported: this possessed male’s real name was Zhang Wei, and he lived on the twenty-third floor of this Yiju Building, which was the floor right below the one where Lu Bai and the others currently were.

“According to the surveillance records from the surveillance camera in the corridor, after Zhang Wei opened his house door at 11:21, he did not choose to take the elevator, but instead arrived at… through the emergency exit…”

The young security personnel was reporting halfway when he was interrupted by Lu Bai.

“Before that, had anyone else entered Zhang Wei’s house?”

“Uh…” The security personnel didn’t react.

The bald middle-aged man decisively slapped the back of this subordinate’s head, scolding: “Uh what uh, answer whatever Deputy Captain Lu asks.”

The security operator hurriedly said: “Yes, yes, oh, today’s surveillance shows Zhang Wei had been at home without going out before this, and we’ll immediately pull up the surveillance records from the previous few days.”

Li Shan didn’t just stand by watching; after all, nominally, he was the person in charge of this case.

He turned to the bald middle-aged man and said: “Immediately seal off the entire Yiju Building, no one allowed in or out.”

Based on his past experience handling cases involving death fighters, this kind of possession ability generally required close-range contact to activate, and in his view, the murderer should still be hiding in this Yiju Building.

Lu Bai was not as optimistic as Li Shan; he knew this actually wasn’t a death fighter’s doing.

If it were a cultivator’s means, most of the time it wouldn’t need to be so troublesome.

Moreover, this stowaway dared to come probe him, clearly not afraid of being found.

Li Shan naturally took over command of the crime scene.

“Send people to check door to door.”

……

Outside the yellow tape pulled up downstairs at the Yiju Building, quite a few onlookers had gathered.

The desire to watch the drama, hidden in human instinct, was unavoidable no matter what world it was in.

The civilians standing outside the yellow tape were increasing, gradually causing a small-scale congestion.

Although security personnel were guiding them, unless they took action, don’t expect much effect.

“Bro, I heard someone died upstairs in this building?”

A middle-aged man with graying hair felt someone patting his shoulder, and he subconsciously turned his head to look.

The one talking was a middle-aged woman, burly and clearly someone who often did heavy physical labor.

At least she was of the opposite sex, so the middle-aged man still replied: “Yeah, I heard he died horribly, completely drained dry.”

“Really? That’s pretty scary.”

The middle-aged woman showed a panicked expression, and the hand on the middle-aged man’s shoulder involuntarily tightened a bit: “Bro, I’m a bit scared, can you walk me home first? It’s not far, I live in that Yiju Building.”

The middle-aged man frowned and sized up the woman before reluctantly agreeing.

……

Squeak~

The pushed-open house door, being too old, made a harsh noise like a key scraping glass.

“Bro, come in for a glass of water, I live alone.”

After waiting for this middle-aged man to enter the house, the woman naturally closed the house door again.

“Little sis, how about we chat for a bit first, build some rapport or something.”

The middle-aged man walked straight to the sofa and sat down, patting the spot next to him, signaling the woman to sit here.

Unexpectedly, not only did the woman not refuse, but she even more proactively straddled onto the middle-aged man’s lap.

“Hehe… hey, so eager huh.”

Just as the middle-aged man was about to reach out and grope, a bone-chilling cold suddenly spread through his entire body.

He wanted to shout, but even with all his strength, his throat only produced some unclear whimpering sounds.

If someone were standing nearby at this moment, they would see the middle-aged man’s body shriveling up at a visible speed.

In less than two minutes, the woman stood up and casually tossed the now mummified middle-aged man onto the sofa.

“This spiritually barren land is indeed troublesome; refining this bit of essence blood isn’t enough. Before my realm regresses, I must push the blood swallowing sacred technique to great accomplishment.”

The woman was very dissatisfied with the current progress, but fortunately Yiju City’s population density was high enough, so there was no worry about lack of prey: “Heavenly Venerable Lu, just wait nicely for this old man.”

……

The room was pitch black, the only source of light being a white candle placed in the center of the room.

There was no wind in the room, yet the candle flame flickered wildly.

Under the flickering candlelight, figures could be seen vaguely in the shadows.

They all wore masks, devoutly lowering their heads, reciting strange prayers in a flat tone.

The large volume of recitation voices gathered together without sounding noisy.

Even without understanding the specific content of the recitation, one could still intuitively comprehend the purpose of the prayer—descent.

As the prayer continued, the candle flame flickered more and more distortedly, so intensely it seemed like it would extinguish on the spot the next second.

When the candle flame’s flickering reached its peak.

Whoosh~

The people’s prayers stopped.

The candle flame returned to a calm, still state.

“Hehehe…”

One of them casually removed his mask and looked around: “You’ve worked hard.”

Before the words finished, the surrounding masked people all knelt to the ground: “My lord, this is what your loyal servants should do.”

The man wearing the bandit mask dressed in a flashy purple suit; he crawled forward a distance and continued: “The thirty-second deputy president of Can Society respectfully welcomes the lord’s descent.”

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