My Job Is Quite Unique Chapter 92

Chapter 92: Corrupted Consciousness Invasion, Evolution of Believers (Three Chapters, Ten Thousand Words!)

Three days later, Su Chen finished packing and was driven by Sun Tai in a hovercar to the vicinity of the spaceport in the city center.

The usually echoing and empty space was now filled with people. There were Supervisory Guards watching the periphery, high-ranking city officials who came to join the fun, their descendants, and talented individuals carefully selected from Southwind Academy.

There were only three slots to enter the Tribunal.

However, Ying Feng’s influence extended beyond the Tribunal to include the Engraving Institute, the Artisan’s Office, the Emergency Training Academy, and various research institutions.

It was impossible for those who came from these institutions to aspire to positions like City Lord or head of major departments, but being mid-level management was certainly achievable.

Therefore, there were at least twenty people traveling to Ying Feng this time. At Yuan Chenyang’s request, Yang Yan simply took them all.

In the center was a spaceship, its dark silver hull glinting with a cold, ghostly light under the afterglow of the artificial sun. Some kind of carving was etched on its streamlined body, and the gangway had already been lowered.

Clang—a transport forklift carried a metal box onto the spaceship. Inside was a Heituo statue, and Su Chen instinctively dodged it.

Behind it were everyone’s luggage. Su Chen saw his own luggage, which was originally just a small box with some clothes, but now there was an additional waist-high metal box.

He couldn’t help but look at Yuan Chenyang in the distance, who gave an almost imperceptible nod.

“Junior Brother Su…” Zhang Hongbo walked over, seemingly having waited for a long time, followed by a visibly excited Zhang Hengyu and a complex-looking Zhang Yunqing.

“Senior Brother…” Su Chen was also somewhat speechless. He was now of the same generation as Zhang Hongbo, but calling him Senior Brother was indeed strange.

They had met a few times recently, and Zhang Hongbo insisted on being addressed that way.

“Call him Uncle…” Zhang Hongbo turned with a smiling face.

“Uncle Su…” Zhang Hengyu was a bit embarrassed.

“Uncle… Su…” Zhang Yunqing was even more so, her heart filled with annoyance towards Zhang Hongbo.

“When you get to Ying Feng, I hope Junior Brother will take good care of my two good-for-nothing children,” Zhang Hongbo said sincerely, “If there’s anything they do wrong, feel free to discipline them for me.”

Zhang Yunqing stared at her father, wondering what he was saying.

Jiang Rong had just walked over and heard Zhang Hongbo’s words, her face full of exasperation. In the end, she could only call out, “Brother Su.”

It’s a mess, a total mess.

Su Chen reluctantly replied, “Minister Jiang…”

This was the first time he had seen Jiang He’s father.

And the young people further away frequently looked here. Some of them had met Su Chen at the banquet, and now they couldn’t help but feel a myriad of thoughts.

Some of their fathers could only stand at the edge of the small group centered around Su Chen.

“Old Xia is really not going back with you?” Yuan Chenyang was chatting with Yang Yan, handing him a metal box.

“Old Xia has other things to do,” Yang Yan said vaguely, taking the box and opening it. Inside were Holy Word Stones and a stack of deciphered documents.

Yuan Chenyang hesitated, “It should be fine on the way, right?”

“Don’t worry,” Yang Yan said with some displeasure, “We’re taking the official air route. Ying Feng dispatches people to clear it twice a year. When I came, Old Xia cleared it an extra time.”

“Even if there are mutated creatures foolish enough to attack, I can handle them.”

“I was just asking,” Yuan Chenyang explained, looking at Su Chen, then at Bai Fengxi.

These two combined were practically his life’s fortune.

“You’ve only deciphered 30%?” Yang Yan frowned as he looked through the documents.

Yuan Chenyang shook his head, “What resources do we have here? We don’t even have a proper deciphering expert. It’s already good that we’ve deciphered this much.”

He then reminded, “When you finish deciphering, don’t forget to send a copy to us at Nanfeng.”

Yang Yan closed the box and handed it to Gu Bing, “You can ask the deciphering department yourself. I don’t want to deal with those guys.”

Everyone boarded the ship one after another, and Zhang Hongbo even got on, which surprised Su Chen.

“I need to go to the ruins for a rotation, and it’s on the way,” Zhang Hongbo explained.

“Ruins…” Su Chen realized, quite curious about these ruins.

Zhang Hongbo, noticing his curiosity, explained, “It’s not something you can explore yet. According to initial estimates, it should be a Tier 4 ruin, maybe even Tier 5. Ying Feng will send people over after the initial violent period passes.”

He further explained that the classification of ruins was simple and crude: the highest level of danger that appeared determined the tier of the ruin.

Su Chen couldn’t help but frown, “Tier 4, or even Tier 5, can Nanfeng handle it?”

Zhang Hongbo shook his head, “Just don’t go too deep. After a ruin appears, there will be a period of instability. During this time, many ruin creatures might rush out, but most of them are not too dangerous.”

Before boarding the ship, Su Chen saw Hu Xiang standing at the edge, seemingly wanting to squeeze forward but hesitating.

Su Chen nodded at him, signaling that he remembered the Mist Nightmare Pearl incident. Hu Xiang’s expression softened, and he bowed deeply to him from a distance.

Gu Bing had already arranged rooms for them. This spaceship was not a dedicated transport ship, and there weren’t many rooms on board.

Most were two or three people to a room. Only Yang Yan, Gu Bing, Su Chen, and Bai Fengxi received private rooms.

As for the temporary passenger Zhang Hongbo, he didn’t need to sleep anyway, it was only a few days.

Buzz—

The hatch closed, and the thrusters at the rear of the spaceship emitted a faint purple glow. The anti-gravity device released visible gravitational waves, stirring up the surrounding dust.

Yuan Chenyang couldn’t help but narrow his eyes, watching the spaceship disappear into the fog.

………

“Ying Feng, Tianqing, Lieyang, and Yuandu are the four cities that jointly govern Chihlei Star… Ying Feng’s strength is paramount… It presides over 125 cities, and the Elder Council collectively manages Ying Feng’s affairs…”

“The Tribunal is divided into inner and outer courts, all comprised of professionals, totaling no less than ten thousand…”

In his room, Su Chen lay on his bed, scrolling through the virtual screen before him. The journey on the spaceship was incredibly boring, and with no gravity room available, he could only meditate.

He used his spare time to review information from the ship’s database, which provided him with much knowledge that was previously inaccessible.

“Chihlei Star… this must be this planet. Besides Ying Feng, there are three other giant cities. It’s already recognized as a planet, and perhaps more…”

“Because of the appearance of the mist, everything was isolated, and the past was buried.” Su Chen couldn’t help but speculate, “Afterward, the current civilization began to unearth the past and revive technology, which is why everything I see seems so peculiar.”

Every time he accessed a new database or encountered a new high-level official, his primary goal was to find the origin of the mist.

In the spaceship’s database from Ying Feng, Su Chen finally found a clue: “…Ying Feng was founded 1,400 years ago, but that doesn’t mean the mist appeared 1,400 years ago. It only means that this place revived 1,400 years ago…” “…But before that, Ying Feng was also very weak. It only gradually developed, and the cities below often suffered dangers until 20 years ago, when Qiongguang, or the artificial sun, was invented. With the ability to broadly isolate the mist, it then prospered vigorously…”

“I’m just a bronze, gaining some experience in the Ying Feng Supervision Department, and then I’ll come back to be a section chief or something…”

Bored, Du Yu, who came to chat with him, leaned back in his chair and said casually.

He was Du Jingming’s son, and the two had met at a banquet before.

“However, Zhang Hengyu is definitely aiming for the City Lord position. Although his old man is down, his foundation is still there…” Du Yu continued to ramble:

“He’s changed a lot now. He used to be a lone wolf, acting like he didn’t want to talk to anyone, but now he talks a lot more and has started to win people over.”

Su Chen’s expression was strange. He guessed that Zhang Hengyu was simply exasperated from working with him in the sub-bureau through involution.

“Brother Su, I heard your teacher is a famous killer.” Du Yu lowered his voice, “And his intention for taking students isn’t pure.”

“Where did you hear that from?” Su Chen frowned.

Du Yu explained, “News from the Commercial Trading Depot. They often travel between various cities, so they are quite well-informed. Before, no one here had any connection with that Chief Justice, so no one paid much attention.”

“But since you became his student, I’ve heard a lot of news lately.”

“Rumors,” Su Chen shook his head, not caring.

“I think so too.” Du Yu agreed deeply, “I feel that Chief Justice is quite approachable.”

Su Chen gave him a deep look, listening to his rambling. Many messages between cities were not interconnected, only people from the Commercial Trading Depot could access them.

“I heard that this year’s Tribunal has an incredible fellow.”

Finally, Du Yu said mysteriously, “This is exclusive information, from Qinghu City. They even issued a lockdown order there.”

“They issued a lockdown order, and you still know?” Su Chen raised an eyebrow.

Du Yu was a bit embarrassed and explained, “The guys from the Commercial Trading Depot said so.”

“That’s not important. What’s important is that this year, there’s a guy with a Mo Cui talent.”

“Mo Cui?” Su Chen was surprised. Mo Cui was even above Crimson Gold.

“Is that real?” Su Chen couldn’t help but be suspicious, “Normally, even Crimson Gold talents are rare. If there are two or three in a year, it can cause quite a stir.”

“This year, there’s actually a Mo Cui?”

“It should be true, right?” Seeing Su Chen’s skepticism, Du Yu also became less confident, mumbling for a long time without being able to confirm.

“However…” he changed his tone, “he might become the Chief Judge. That’s one of the Elder Council members, who single-handedly controls the prosperity and decline of Ying Feng.”

“You know, the difference between people is greater than the difference between people and pigs.”

Su Chen shook his head, too lazy to listen to his idle talk, and continued to scroll through the virtual screen, pondering in his heart.

Mo Cui, he probably needed to find another profession similar to [Scholar] and [The Wise] to reach that level.

………

In the cargo hold of the spaceship, several accompanying Supervisory Guards stood around the metal boxes. They were temporarily dispatched from Nanfeng City and would return with the merchant team soon after arriving in Ying Feng.

Thump!

One of them’s expression changed slightly, and he suddenly turned around to look at the metal box behind him, looking uncertain.

His actions attracted the attention of the others, who raised their guns and became alert at the same time. “Zhao Hong, what’s wrong?”

“Didn’t you hear it?” Zhao Hong asked hesitantly, “A faint sound.”

The other three exchanged glances and shook their heads. “Didn’t hear anything.”

“Am I too nervous?” Zhao Hong also started to doubt himself. After a long deliberation, he walked to the metal box and pressed his ear against it to listen.

“What’s wrong? Is everything alright?”

Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, the nearby guard couldn’t help but ask.

“Nothing,” Zhao Hong shook his head, “Maybe I’m just tired. I’m going to wash my face.”

“Okay, we’ll watch here,” the others agreed.

“Thanks, everyone,” Zhao Hong said his thanks, slung his gun to his left, and went up the ladder.

“To find something so interesting, not an Abyssal God, yet able to devour my power.” A dark light flashed in Zhao Hong’s pupils. “I want to see what exactly you are?”

……

Thump! Thump! Thump!

A knock on the door sounded, Su Chen rubbed his eyes, guessing it was Du Yu, Little Zhang, or Old Bai…

“You are…” Upon opening the door, Su Chen was quite surprised. Standing before him was actually a Supervisory Guard.

“The Supervisory Guard responsible for guarding the metal box?” Su Chen recalled, “Why are you suddenly looking for me?”

But the other party did not speak, just stared straight at him.

Suddenly… Su Chen’s brows furrowed, and he saw a black streak flash across the other’s pupils.

He thought, “This isn’t good,” but before he could react, faint, overlapping voices reached his ears,

“…a very ordinary body, unremarkable… How can such a body devour my strength…”

“What in the world is this!?”

The voice suddenly exclaimed in surprise, as if it had discovered something incredible.

And in Su Chen’s vision, a panel appeared, displaying a large amount of information—

[Detecting invasion of corrupted consciousness, taming in progress…]

[Taming successful. Obtained pure Heituo faith power, being forcibly infused into believer. Believer yells, ‘I can’t take it!’]

[Believer evolved to—Fanatic: As an outstanding believer, can strengthen oneself with the power of the Abyssal God, can disguise as: Heituo Fanatic]

[Fanatic yells, ‘I can’t take it!’]

[Fanatic evolved to—Priest: Can preside over various Abyssal God rituals, and even communicate simply with the Abyssal God. Can disguise as: Heituo Priest]

(End of Chapter)