My Job Is Quite Unique Chapter 90

Chapter 90 Su Chen’s Influence

“Truly, quite troublesome…”

Xia Hanshi gasped, his clothes tattered, revealing the close-fitting armor underneath. He held a golden, slender hammer, only a meter long, its faceted head emitting an amber glow.

The ground was a mess, either scorched black or ablaze with flames, covered in ravines. Fortunately, this area was already near the edge of the Outer District, quite desolate.

In the distance, Yuan Chenyang’s face was pale and he was tottering. Zhang Hongbo had fallen to the ground, Yang Yan was covered in blood, and Gu Bing lay on his back, panting.

In the center of the battlefield, the Heituo statue remained intact, its black eyes at the top facing them.

But the priest’s body was in pieces, his head rolling around, his eyes trembling slightly.

“What a pity, just a little bit short,” Xia Hanshi landed beside the head, his voice hoarse, “Thanks to that righteous person!”

With a light tap of the small hammer, the air compressed into transparent ripples, which erupted in a flash of light upon touching the ground. The priest’s head exploded. The priest had an extremely firm belief in the Guiding, so there was no value in questioning him.

“A Heituo statue, not a wasted trip after all.”

Xia Hanshi looked at the statue in front of him. If it weren’t for the Heituo power it contained, a Tier 4 professional would not have been able to contend with him for so long.

The priest himself couldn’t increase his strength; it was just a symbol of the strength of his faith. But the favor he received allowed him to use the power of the Guiding to help himself.

With a tap of the small hammer, golden chains burning with flames extended from the void, wrapping around the statue layer by layer.

………

When Yuan Chenyang and the others, dragging their exhausted bodies, returned to the Supervision Department, they immediately noticed a large number of Supervisory Guards patrolling around, as well as black smoke rising from the rooftop.

“The Supervision Department was attacked?”

Yuan Chenyang’s face changed drastically, “Luring the tiger away from its mountain?”

“Who would lure a tiger to their own den?” Zhang Hongbo, with a pale face, coughed twice, “It should be that the Heituo people discovered the priest was attacked and then attacked the Supervision Department?”

Yang Yan frowned, hesitating, “The Heituo statue is there. Even if the Heituo cultists had to go through fire and water, they would rush there at all costs.”

“If it’s those non-believers bought by interests, seeing that things have been exposed, they should hide even more…”

“Zhou顯…” Zhang Hongbo uttered a name, and Yuan Chenyang couldn’t help but exclaim, “Su Chen!”

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and Xia Hanshi had already disappeared.

Yang Yan and the others tensed, hurrying to follow. When they found Su Chen unharmed in the rooftop office, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Xia Hanshi was already in the room, hands clasped behind his back, his expression grim.

“How are your injuries?” Yuan Chenyang came over with concern, seeing the bandages wrapped around Su Chen’s upper body.

“It’s nothing serious, those people from the Emergency Department insisted on wrapping me up,” Su Chen explained helplessly.

He had to prove he’d done something, lest he incur the wrath of the notorious Chief Justice.

Sun Tai, standing nearby, mumbled to himself, his clothes also tattered and dusty, some injuries still untreated, even traces of dried tears on his face.

His own misery also needed to be seen by others.

“Damn Zhou Xian, he should be torn to pieces!” Yuan Chenyang roared, “Zhang Hongbo, what the hell are you doing? It’s been so long, and you still haven’t found him!”

Zhang Hongbo’s face was tense, and he frequently gestured to him with his eyes.

“My fault.” Xia Hanshi said with a cold face.

Su Chen tried to persuade, “Teacher, you let him go, and you couldn’t have foreseen what would happen later. It can only be said that Nanfeng City is too complex.”

Yuan Chenyang’s face stiffened. Zhou Xian was released by Xia Hanshi?

“Yes,” Yang Yan echoed, and couldn’t help but add, “Who would have thought that it would almost lead to a Guiding vessel in the end? Heituo is a type of Guiding that doesn’t like to fight, what exactly do you have in Nanfeng City?”

At this question, everyone present fell silent.

Zhang Hongbo, Yuan Chenyang, and even Du Jingming and Sun Tai were subconsciously thinking.

“No matter what, this is the best outcome now.” Zhang Hongbo broke the silence first. “Zhou Xian is already a stray dog. Lock down the four gates of Nanfeng, and he will be found soon.”

“I’ll go issue the order now.” Yuan Chenyang reacted quickly.

“Chief… City Lord,” Du Jingming called out, his expression somewhat strange as he said, “No need to look for him.”

“Hmm?” Yuan Chenyang frowned and looked over, only to find that Du Jingming glanced at Su Chen before saying, “He’s dead. His body is in the morgue.”

“Dead?” Yuan Chenyang was stunned, even somewhat disbelieving, but Du Jingming would never lie about such a thing.

Zhang Hongbo also looked on in surprise. Zhou Xian was a Tier 3 Intermediate Professional, a “Storm Shadow”, who had honed his skills for many years and had developed to the later stages, so his strength was definitely not to be underestimated.

The Supervision Department was almost completely deployed. The only one who could be seen was Du Jingming, but he was a crippled Tier 3, so he couldn’t be Zhou Xian’s opponent.

“Haha…” Yuan Chenyang couldn’t help but laugh, “Old Du, you really did me proud, good, good…”

“Many people had objections to you being appointed as department head. Now, you can shut them up, right?”

Yuan Chenyang spoke without much restraint, but Du Jingming’s face was a bit awkward, he waved his hands repeatedly: “I didn’t kill him, it was…it was…”

He pointed to a spot, and Yuan Chenyang subconsciously looked, his eyebrows twitching, “Su… Chen?”

He was speechless inwardly; Du Jingming’s act of giving away credit was too fake. Su Chen was only a Tier 2 professional, how could he kill Zhou Xian?

Du Jingming emphasized, “…Many Supervisory Guards saw it, I wouldn’t dare take the credit.”

Zhang Hongbo, who hadn’t paid much attention before, now looked solemn. Since Du Jingming said so, perhaps he wasn’t just giving up credit?

Could it be… he couldn’t help but feel incredulous in his heart.

Yang Yan and Gu Bing looked at each other. A Tier 2 killing a Tier 3 in a direct confrontation, that sounded too much like fantasy.

Su Chen explained helplessly, “Du Jingming helped a lot, seriously injuring Zhou Xian. Later, he fiddled with a strange contraption and even summoned a phantom of Heituo, but for some reason, he ended up killing himself.”

“I just took a few hits, didn’t die, I was pretty lucky.” “Summoned Heituo and then killed himself?” Yuan Chenyang looked bewildered.

Yang Yan hesitated as he looked at Gu Bing, “How did something like that happen?”

“Hmm…” Gu Bing pondered, then speculated, “If I’m not mistaken, Zhou Xian must have used some kind of item imbued with artificially created pseudo-divine power, which could make a believer unleash immense strength.”

“But this kind of thing can only be used by believers. Zhou Xian shouldn’t have been a Heituo believer, or his faith wasn’t very firm. Using this item, he was instead heavily backlashed and died.”

“So that’s how it is.” Su Chen suddenly understood, and probably realized how Zhou Xian was severely injured before. The battle between the Heretic God Cultists depended on whose faith was more steadfast.

Whoever was more steadfast, the Heretic God would help them.

Yuan Chenyang also muttered, “There’s actually such a thing.”

Xia Hanshi remained silent, standing by the French window, wondering what he was contemplating.

“However,” Gu Bing suddenly added, “Zhou Xian should have also known that he might be backlashed, but he still chose to gamble. At that time, he was probably at his wit’s end.”

“Perhaps he was afraid that you few would return too quickly and didn’t dare to engage in a prolonged fight.” Du Jingming speculated, and everyone nodded thoughtfully.

But the way they looked at Su Chen still changed slightly, no matter what, it proved that Zhou Xian was completely unable to harm Su Chen in a short period of time.

Even if he could only take a beating, it was astonishing enough.

Su Chen felt a tingling on his scalp from the stares of the several people. Not wanting their attention to be focused on this matter, he immediately asked, “What about that side?”

“Well…” Yuan Chenyang pondered slightly, and Sun Tai immediately said, “I’ll go down and see how things are being handled.”

Sun Tai left, leaving only Du Jingming, the lowest-ranking Supervision Department Head.

“The priest has been killed, and a Heituo statue has been seized.” Yuan Chenyang explained simply, and Du Jingming’s face changed drastically, horrified, “There was actually a Guiding priest in Nanfeng City? And even a Heituo statue?”

His clear apprehension was evident, yet no one had any intention of laughing.

Yuan Chenyang was also still shaken, “Just a little bit, the priest was setting up a ritual array. If it had been a bit longer, the entire Nanfeng City would probably have turned into hell.”

Du Jingming hadn’t known the details before, only guessing that the Heituo people seemed to have invested a great deal of power. Upon hearing the specifics, his throat gulped.

He couldn’t help but ask, “How did our Nanfeng City attract something like this?”

Again, it was a question no one could answer.

Zhang Hongbo skipped right over it: “Thanks to Chief Justice Xia, who led us directly to the heart of the matter, this disaster was avoided.”

Yang Yan also echoed, “As expected of you, you had already pinpointed the priest’s location.”

“I wasn’t the one who pinpointed the location,” Xia Hanshi said lightly, and Su Chen’s heart skipped a beat.

“It was a righteous person…”

A cold gust of wind blew, and everyone’s bodies stiffened. Old Xia had such a humorous side?

“Is that Heituo statue inside?” Su Chen looked at the silver-white metal box placed at the entrance, about one cubic meter, not large.

“Yes.” Yuan Chenyang nodded.

“Can I take a look?” Su Chen was quite curious.

Yuan Chenyang hesitated slightly, glancing at Xia Hanshi, who showed no reaction. He nodded uncertainly, “Sure, you can take a look.”

He hugged the box inside and placed it on the floor. He entered a few passwords into the lock, and with a click, the four metal walls split open, revealing the Heituo statue bound by golden chains inside.

“This is the Heituo statue?” Su Chen observed it. “Why is it bound by chains? Is it still dangerous?”

“Its power has been drained by us, this is just a precaution.” Yang Yan explained.

“Oh.” Su Chen suddenly understood, glanced at it twice, and didn’t feel there was anything unusual, so he asked Yuan Chenyang to re-close the box.

“Bringing back this Heituo statue is also a great achievement,” Yang Yan couldn’t help but sigh. At first, they also came to investigate the Guiding cultists, but they only thought there might be a nest of mantises, not expecting it to turn out this big.

Fortunately, there was no danger, and Old Xia’s methods were brilliant. They easily obtained the Heituo statue in the end, which was also an exceptionally good mark on their resumes.

“Are you preparing to go back?” Zhang Hongbo heard Yang Yan’s unspoken meaning and couldn’t help but ask.

“Probably.” Yang Yan contemplated, “After wrapping things up, this incident will come to an end.”

Zhang Hongbo’s face changed, and he finally turned to Xia Hanshi, gnashing his teeth, “Old Xia, can you take Zhang Hengyu with you?”

Even though no one had mentioned the Tribunal quota during this period, it was already tacitly assumed that the quota would automatically transfer to Su Chen.

Yuan Chenyang’s eyes narrowed slightly, and Yang Yan shook his head imperceptibly.

“Zhang Hengyu?” Xia Hanshi turned around and stared at Zhang Hongbo. After a long moment, he said, “Who is that?”

Zhang Hongbo’s already pale face became even more bloodless. How could Xia Hanshi not know who Zhang Hengyu was?

It merely expressed that his son was not worth mentioning.

If he hadn’t been very cooperative during this period and had contributed tonight, Xia Hanshi’s reaction might have been even more direct.

Little Zhang… Su Chen thought of “The Wise” and pondered, “Teacher, Zhang Hengyu is Uncle Zhang’s son. He’s quite diligent, has the Brilliant Silver talent, and is now a Tier 2 professional.”

“If possible, could he also go to the Tribunal?”

Zhang Hongbo’s eyes showed gratitude, which Su Chen ignored. His opening speech had nothing to do with Zhang Hongbo.

“Sure.” Xia Hanshi nodded, succinctly.

“But… yes?” Su Chen hesitated.

“It’s just one quota. Rules are dead, people are living, after all.” Xia Hanshi’s tone was indifferent. “Since you’ve asked, I still have this much influence.”

(End of this chapter)