Chapter 1 The Beginning

Lei Yibing had been missing for four years... Chen Yuanjun's scalp tingled, his pupils dilated, and a sense of panic surged uncontrollably within him.

He felt like he had encountered a supernatural event and was listening to a ghost story.

Lei Yibing, who disappeared from a Hangzhou University dormitory last April, had actually disappeared four years ago? No, the accurate number was three years and six months.

Then who was the Lei Yibing at Hangzhou University?

Dongze and Xie Anna also looked surprised and shocked. Obviously, Aunt Zhou's response exceeded their expectations.

No one expected that the missing person file was created in 2019.

No wonder the person who deleted the file couldn't be found. The person who handled it back then had either resigned or been transferred to another position. There were too many possibilities.

Chen Yuanjun hurriedly said, "Ask her where Lei Yibing disappeared."

Xie Anna asked the question in a gentle, ethereal tone.

Aunt Zhou said dreamily, "In, in Hangzhou... He was admitted to Hangzhou University and went to Hangzhou for a summer vacation. Then, then he disappeared..."

She suddenly frowned, a slight look of pain on her face, and muttered, "I didn't call the police... I didn't call the police."

Her voice became increasingly urgent and intense, her eyelashes trembled violently, as if she would wake up at any moment.

Xie Anna thought to herself, "Not good, her mind is about to collapse. My hypnosis seems to have triggered the resurgence of the power within her. An ordinary person's spiritual body cannot withstand the entanglement of two forces and may collapse at any time."

In the dreamscape, the Chunyang Zhangjiao looked at the dreamscape that was sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, and listened to the musician's words outside. He sneered, "Self-righteous!"

He examined the dreamscape and the middle-aged woman, pondered for a few seconds, and took the initiative to withdraw from the dreamscape.

It wasn't that he cared about the middle-aged woman's life or death, but valuable clues should be "protected" properly. He would wait until he found more clues and figured out more details before coming back to get to the bottom of it.

Chen Yuanjun felt anxious and hurriedly said, "Soothe her, let her forget what happened today."

Xie Anna nodded and comforted Aunt Zhou, who was in an extremely unstable state.

After she had completely calmed down and fallen into a deep sleep, they tiptoed out and closed the security door.

After leaving the residential building, Chen Yuanjun and Li Dongze lit a cigarette. Chen Yuanjun said in a deep voice, "What do you think?"

Li Dongze sucked on the cigarette, then exhaled a puff of white smoke, and slowly said, "Three and a half years ago, Lei Yibing disappeared in Hangzhou. His family reported the case to the Kangyang District Security Department, and then the missing person file was deleted... After that, Lei Yibing should have been found, until he disappeared again last April. There are two unusual things about this case."

"First, why was the file from the Kangyang District Security Department deleted when he disappeared in Hangzhou? Second, since Lei Yibing was found later, wasn't deleting the file redundant? They could have just revoked it directly."

Speaking of this, Li Dongze suddenly remembered something, "A colleague once discussed Lei Yibing's disappearance with me. Lei Yibing's personality was impulsive and reckless, but not solitary. During his three years at Hangzhou University, he lived alone and rarely interacted with his classmates."

"The contrast between before and after is puzzling, but we didn't come to any conclusions back then."

Chen Yuanjun habitually frowned, the lines between his eyebrows becoming more obvious. He was now considering whether to continue investigating, because Lei Yibing's disappearance was clearly related to a Lingjing Xingzhe (Spirit Mirror Wanderer) event.

Yuanzi was just an ordinary person, and it wouldn't be good to involve him in it.

Li Dongze came back to his senses, looked at Chen Yuanjun who was also in deep thought, and said, "The Hangzhou Security Department is a direction. You are responsible for checking it one by one. I can sign a document to give you authority. In addition, I will also investigate this matter in the organization's internal database."

In a spacious and bright office, Tianya Jianke (Wandering Swordsman) leaned back in his high-backed chair, falling asleep.

He saw the Chunyang Zhangjiao in his dream.

"Choosing to communicate with me in a dream... it seems you've discovered some valuable information," Tianya Jianke said pointedly.

"Help me check Lei Yibing's information. Your officials handled his disappearance case, so there should be records," the Chunyang Zhangjiao said.

"Is it related to Yuanshi Tianzun (Primordial Lord of Heaven)?" Tianya Jianke asked.

"Can't be sure, but this person is indeed strange." The Chunyang Zhangjiao chuckled and said, "His mother was hypnotized by a high-ranking musician. I used your colleague's hypnosis to ask for some information in the dream."

"I will help you check," Tianya Jianke said, "Actually, if you want to know Yuanshi Tianzun's real identity, that Li Dongze is the best breakthrough point. Yuanshi Tianzun followed him before he made a name for himself."

The Chunyang Zhangjiao scoffed, "I don't want to accurately locate Yuanshi Tianzun's identity in reality. What I want is to lock down a few suspicious targets, and regardless of whether they are real or fake, directly kidnap his family."

Directly locking down Yuanshi Tianzun's identity would only lead to another cycle.

"Why?" Tianya Jianke asked.

"You don't need to know..." The Chunyang Zhangjiao's figure quickly disappeared from the dream.

At the Huancheng Building Spa and Health Club, Uncle, wrapped in a bath towel, lay on the massage bed, enjoying himself with his eyes closed.

Wearing light-colored hot pants and a semi-transparent silk top, Foreign Minister Diana gently kneaded Mr. Hui Zhang's shoulders and back with her slender hands.

About half an hour later, Annie, wearing a women's suit, knocked on the door of the private room.

She held a stack of documents in her hand and stood beside the massage bed, saying, "This is Mr. Yuanshi's latest strategy progress. I've compiled it all."

Mr. Hui Zhang opened his eyes, sat up, and took the documents that Annie handed him. He couldn't help but laugh when he just glanced at them, "Elf Forest?"

"The first dungeon he chose was the Elf Forest... Diana, why didn't you remind him?"

Diana smiled, and said softly, "B-grade dungeons don't need reminders. Anyway, he won't suffer. Moreover, the difficulty of the Elf Forest is a bit much for the Eros class. It may not be a bad thing to ask him for help with the strategy."

Many years ago, she had entered the Elf Forest, but after understanding the dungeon mechanism, she used a teleportation jade talisman to leave the Spirit Realm, for which she dropped a large amount of experience points. The Eros class has two routes: "Love" and "Lust". The former remains chaste, enhances their charm, and waits for a good price, serving big shots with their perfect bodies.

Unless they are amazingly talented geniuses or powerful figures, they will never be taken seriously.

The latter is the indulgence type, constantly seeking pleasure from men, sleeping with one and manipulating another, not talking about love, with countless men under their skirts, also known as queens.

Diana's strategy target has always been the only demigod of the Void class, how could she lose her virginity in a B-grade dungeon?

And Eros classes who take the "Lust" route, after entering the Elf Forest, cannot resist the effects of the aphrodisiac gas at all, and eventually become beasts controlled by bounty hunters, becoming tools for venting lust.

Or they resist and are killed by the bounty hunters. After the first clearance of the dungeon, the difficulty will drop sharply. Although the experience reward will also be reduced, safety is always higher than leveling up for Lingjing Xingzhe (Spirit Mirror Wanderers).

Diana smiled and said, "After discovering that there are gender-bending dungeons, he readjusted the types and numbers of dungeons he strategized. What Annie compiled is the updated dungeon strategy route."

Mr. Hui Zhang grunted twice and continued to read the documents.

[Cleopatra]

[No. 66 Lingjing Xingzhe (Spirit Mirror Wanderer) introduction: After the king's death, the beautiful and unparalleled Cleopatra took control of the country. She was jealous of beautiful girls, cursed all the girls in the kingdom to be covered with freckles, and kidnapped handsome boys back to the palace, living a life of indulgence every day. The ministers and soldiers in the kingdom are all followers of Cleopatra. It is said that every thirty days, Cleopatra will reward them with her body in the palace.]

Diana said, "This dungeon does not involve gender-bending. According to the dungeon strategy he gave, Yuanshi's identity in the dungeon is a melancholy teenager. Cleopatra loves him very much and wants to have pleasure with him every night."

Yuanshi said that Cleopatra has a special method of collecting yang, which almost sucked him dry.

Mr. Hui Zhang sighed, "So lewd, no wonder my successor likes it so much."

Diana glanced at him, "I think you can learn more from your successor."

Mr. Hui Zhang pretended not to hear and turned to the next page.

[Number: 81]

[Difficulty Level: B]

[No. 81 Lingjing Xingzhe (Spirit Mirror Wanderer): Introduction: Once upon a time, there was a beautiful witch who wanted to marry the king of the Dala Kingdom and become the queen, but the king preferred a kind and innocent girl and rejected the witch. The witch angrily cast a curse, causing the king's descendants to engage in promiscuous acts for generations. Their children were as stupid as pigs and as ugly as monsters.]

[Banshee Valley:]

[Number: 341]

[Difficulty Level: A]

[Main Task: Escape Banshee Valley]

[No. 34 Lingjing Xingzhe (Spirit Mirror Wanderer) introduction: In the mountain valleys, there lives a group of powerful banshees. They can drive hungry wolves, transform into bats, and control evil dragons. Their anger can easily destroy a kingdom. They are powerful and beautiful, have a strong desire to reproduce, and like to plunder teenagers from neighboring countries, raising them in the valley as slaves for their entertainment.]

Diana said, "This dungeon seems to have created a very strong psychological shadow on him. He said that after entering the dungeon, he became a slave, and his level and item bar were sealed. The banshees in the valley are not only lustful but also brutal, and will be killed if they are not careful."

Mr. Hui Zhang shook his head, "My successor has the unique skill of bowing down at the first encounter. Even the most ferocious banshees will like him. I am not worried about his safety at all."

Diana said helplessly, "After leaving the dungeon, I felt that the way he looked at me was a little bit disgusted, as if he had developed misogyny."

Mr. Hui Zhang was shocked: "In this case, it is true that his body and mind have been severely damaged. But..."

He quickly flipped through the follow-up materials and said: "According to the level of these dungeons, he should be close to level eight. What stage is he at now in his strategy?"

"It has been twenty days since Yuanshi entered the dungeon of the American Gods Association. During this time, he has been steadily strategizing seven B-grade dungeons and three A-grade dungeons, interspersed with several D and C-grade dungeons as vacations."

"Yuanshi Tianzun (Primordial Lord of Heaven), who originally had 50% experience, should be close to level eight. In fact, if based on the difficulty of Mount Shu Nanyuan or the Fallen Monarch, three A-grade dungeons are enough to advance to level eight. But the former corresponds to an eighth-level A-grade dungeon, not seventh-level. Yuanshi is alone in the dungeon, and it is impossible to encounter such a rewarding instance again."

Diana replied, "The last time he left the dungeon, his experience value was 97%. Just yesterday, he entered the S-grade dungeon 'The Submerged Island of Paphos'. If all goes well, he can leave the dungeon within half a month."

Mr. Hui Zhang "mm" a sound, put down the information, and asked, "I heard that the evil organization in the first district has been a little restless recently?"

Diana nodded, her beautiful face no longer charming, turning into a serious discussion of business: "According to the information passed to us by the Department of Defense, and the situation detected by extraordinary means, the members of the Eternal Night Church frequently appear in the slumbering place of the Eternal Night Pope."

"I don't know what they are plotting."

Mr. Hui Zhang pondered for a few seconds and said, "It may be that they are not plotting anything at all, but just deliberately attracting your attention, putting a layer of protection on their real plot."

Among the three major evil organizations in the first district, the Eternal Night Church is the most peaceful. It is not that they are kind, but that their professional characteristics determine it. The higher the rank of Eternal Night, the easier it is to enter slumber. When the Eternal Night class steps into the demigod realm, the characteristic of annihilating everything will cause the Eternal Night Pope to fall into slumber, pulling himself and everything around him into annihilation that will never wake up.

Of course, with the current rank of the Night Emperor, he cannot achieve the degree of annihilating the whole world.

But it is almost impossible to wake up the Night Emperor. At least for decades, the Eternal Night Church has never successfully awakened the Night Emperor.

Hitting a nuclear bomb did not wake him.

"Has the Five Elements Alliance been putting pressure on you recently?" Diana asked.

"Of course, but they can't find my life." Mr. Hui Zhang sneered.

Diana smiled bitterly: "But the Heavenly Punishment has put a lot of pressure on the American Gods Association. The Heavenly Punishment and the Five Elements Alliance should have reached some kind of agreement and chose to support the Taiyi Sect Master. They want to open the Sun Dungeon as soon as possible, and don't want to experience another moral value disappearance event."

Mr. Hui Zhang got up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and slowly said, "Moral values are not that important."