Nightmare Apostle

"That so-called Sheng Jingxuan from Yiling Academy, dares offend us, dares make a move on my brothers in the dark—nothing more to say, we’ll take him down!" Hong Anguo waved his big hand, aura flaring.

"Brother Hong, you’re hard-core!" Yang Xiao raised his glass.

"These Jianghu Sects are getting more and more out of line. The Han Family was like that, this Yiling Academy too. It’s about time we cleaned them up, or they’ll really forget how our Patrol Defense Office won this world back in the day." Hong Anguo let out a cold laugh.

He had always despised the overbearing style of these Jianghu Sects. In his eyes, officials are officials, civilians are civilians; everyone has to stick to their proper place if the world is to stay peaceful.

Only after food and drink were fully enjoyed did the two reluctantly part ways. After this drinking session, Yang Xiao knew his relationship with Hong Anguo had leveled up considerably.

The Han Family affair was closed; the Provincial Office would no longer pursue it, and Yang Xiao had paid a certain price for that.

Thinking you could get Hong Anguo’s support for free was pure fantasy. Yang Xiao understood what Hong Anguo meant between the lines—he also wanted to pick up some merit in the operation to take back Yiling Academy.

Inside the Jiangbei Province Office, the civil and military systems ran in parallel; among them the civil side was represented by Director Hong Anguo and Deputy Director Zhao Jingde.

The two of them, though also Angel Envoys, were not that strong compared to their positions. Zhao Jingde was at an Upper Ghost Level standard, and as for Hong Anguo, he was estimated to exceed the Peak of Ghost Level and be close to Half-step Nether Realm. Yang Xiao couldn’t quite get a read on him.

The military system was headed by Wu Qingcang; the other main cadres were the Second Law Enforcement Team’s Captain Yang Lao, and Yang Xiao, who concurrently served as captain of the Third Law Enforcement Team.

In fact, there had originally been another person in the military system, namely the former female captain of the Third Law Enforcement Team, Guo Mingrong.

This person’s nickname was Frosty Winter Rose, a fierce general under Wu Qingcang. Unfortunately, about half a year before Yang Xiao was promoted to the Provincial Office, she overused her Resentful Eye, got dragged into the Nightmare World, and never came back.

Originally, cadres at the Provincial Bureau level like them had a very, very low frequency of entering the Nightmare World. The General Bureau would regularly issue them medicine to suppress the backlash of their own Resentful Eyes, with frontline military officers getting special treatment.

Yang Xiao had also received some, but he hadn’t taken them, because they were useless for him; Dean Sheng had already warned him about that.

He was a one-in-ten-thousand special case in this world. Because of the existence of the Hundred Demons Coffin Clothes, he carried a huge number of high-rank Resentful Eyes on him.

And the backlash those Resentful Eyes brought was also astonishing.

At his current Level of strength, with the support of medicine and various resources, normal Angel Envoys might not step into the Nightmare World even once in five, seven, or eight years. But for him, it was every few months at best, half a year at most. All of it courtesy of his "good big sister."

Yang Xiao had once asked Dean Sheng: he obviously didn’t use the Resentful Eyes in any exaggerated way in battle; most of them he merely possessed and rarely activated. So why was he still being dragged into the Nightmare World so frequently?

Dean Sheng’s answer was blunt and painful. He explained that even if those Resentful Eyes swallowed by the Hundred Demons Coffin Clothes were not being used, they were still in standby mode—and low power consumption is still consumption.

That bit of consumption was nothing for peak experts like the Female Demon of Heavenly Water Pavilion, but for him it was fatal. The Hundred Demons Coffin Clothes were draining his life every moment.

What was worse, because an Innate Treasure like the Hundred Demons Coffin Clothes had a special connection to the Nightmare World, as its bearer, the Nightmare Worlds he got dragged into were all on the harder side, with a mortality rate far higher than ordinary Nightmare missions.

Yang Xiao had actually noticed this: when other people received Nightmare scripts, they could often use various resources in reality to dig up clues, even key hints to clearing the game.

This greatly reduced the difficulty and mortality rate of the Nightmare World. Take Zhuge Zhijie’s run, for example—he went in with clues in hand.

But not him. He, Yang Xiao, was like some stray kid nobody wanted. Forget finding clues—he couldn’t even have a happy birthday. The moment he made a wish and cut his cake, he hacked straight into a script box.

Yang Xiao still clearly remembered that the wish he made back then was for his future days to get better, and to receive Ghost Scripts later rather than sooner.

With that one slice, Yang Xiao’s heart went cold. And that wasn’t even an outlier. During the Jiu Mountain Family incident in Japan it was even more outrageous—the Ghost Script actually appeared inside a food box he had opened.

In that instant his brain completely crashed, and before he could react, two Ghost hands stretched out of the food box and dragged him mercilessly into the Nightmare World.

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