The projection images on the walls are all familiar supernatural stories from all over the world, with not only text but also accompanying pictures.
"..."
Li Guanqi looked at those horrifying pictures and felt a little hairy in his heart. He touched his arms with goosebumps and looked at Lin Xianbai in surprise, "Why are you showing me these? They're scary."
"Scary?"
Lin Xianbai was even more surprised than him, "Isn't it right? Are these things scary to you? If we really meet face to face, I guess... you should be the one who scares the other person to death."
Li Guanqi was stunned.
Yes.
All fear comes from lack of firepower.
And his current "firepower" is very sufficient. If he really encounters these messy and unclean things, he will be scared if he opens his three-headed and six-armed body and blasts six third-level spells!
"So why are you showing me these?"
Li Guanqi became increasingly puzzled.
"Do you think these are true or false?"
Lin Xianbai sat at the head seat of the silver round table, stroking the high-tech ring on the index finger of his left hand with his right hand. The corner of his mouth was slightly raised, and he looked at Li Guanqi with a half-smile, "Is this history that happened, or is it a scary ghost story made up?
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"..."
Li Guanqi hesitated for a moment, then smiled helplessly: "If someone had asked me this in the past, I would have told him to wear a red flag and study more. But now that the weird world has arrived, I am not surprised by anything that happens."
"That's right."
Lin Xianbai looked at the numerous supernatural events on the wall and squinted his eyes slightly, "It is undeniable that these stories certainly have elements of artistic processing. After all, after being passed down by word of mouth, all kinds of messy versions will naturally appear."
"but……"
"These ghost stories are not just false."
"Are these supernatural events real?!"
Li Guanqi looked at Lin Xianbai in shock. Although he had expected it, he couldn't help but be surprised after receiving the other party's affirmative answer.
"No, no, no, I didn't say that."
Lin Xianbai smiled meaningfully, then clicked the high-tech ring on his left hand, and then all the projection images on the wall disappeared.
Instead, there is a complete world map with countless small dots marked on it and information introduction next to it, more or less for each continent and country.
They are all places where those supernatural events happened just now.
"These places are called by us-'the origin points of spiritual energy recovery'!
In fact, no matter whether the ghost stories are true or false, the truth of the matter is not scary or scary, they are just simple..."
Lin Xianbai looked at Li Guanqi and said in a deep voice: "The spiritual energy is revived!"
Li Guanqi raised his eyebrows slightly, "So the reason why those supernatural events happened was actually because of the emergence of extraordinary power caused by the resurgence of spiritual energy. People at that time did not understand spiritual power, so they found it scary?"
"That's the truth." Lin Xianbai nodded.
"But why?"
Li Guanqi was a little confused, "Before this, the weird world didn't come, right? I thought that the reason why the spiritual energy in the real world revived was actually 'leaked' from the weird world."
"I personally think so too."
Lin Xianbai rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, "As for why... why... I'm sorry, Li Guanqi, can you stop saying the word 'why'?"
I've heard enough these days.
I continue to receive all kinds of questions from all parties, all kinds of questions... But they, you, all have a lot of questions they want to know the answers to.
In fact, we in Penglai also want it.
But we haven't found any answers so far.
Li Guanqi."
Lin Xianbai looked up at him and said seriously: "Actually, I came to you tonight not to discuss problems with you, nor to ask you to ask questions. I just want to solemnly request you to help us... solve the problem.
!”
Li Guanqi was startled for a moment, then smiled, "Tell me about it? But even you can't solve the problem, can I?"
"Maybe."
Lin Xianbai didn't say anything too absolute. He just tapped the high-tech ring on his left hand and changed the projection screen on the wall again.
The world map marked "Origin Point of Spiritual Energy Resurrection" disappears.
Instead, there is a dossier record with pictures.
The picture is of an old mountain village that looks a bit gloomy in the middle of the night. I don’t know if it’s due to humidity or some other reason, but there’s a gray mist filling the area, making the whole village unclear.
I could only barely see... It was a village where every household was closed. The doors and windows of all the houses were closed tightly. There were no lights or people. The silence was a bit eerie.
Next to it is the transcript of the dossier.
[Case 078 - Paper Wedding Dress]
[Case level: S level]
[Affected by the case: 426 people missing]
[A summary of the case is as follows]
1Since the Extraordinary Era, January 12 to the present...
"etc."
Before Li Guanqi finished reading the words, he couldn't help turning his head to look at Lin Xianbai, wondering: "What do these terms mean? Case 078? S-class case? January 12th in the extraordinary era?"
"The Extraordinary Era is the calendar used internally by Penglai."
Lin Xianbai leaned back on his chair and answered one by one with a calm expression: "In the new era, there should be new things. The new calendar we adopt has special significance and practical effect.
Counting from ancient times, we humans have experienced many eras.
Such as the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Agricultural Age, Industrial Age, Information Age... So, what about now?
Now is the extraordinary era of spiritual energy recovery!
Within Penglai, we designate the day when the strange world comes as the first day of the extraordinary era, which is January 1st.
The serial number of the [Paper Wedding Dress] incident is [078], which means that this is the 78th extraordinary incident discovered in China that has reached a certain degree of harm since January 1st of the extraordinary era.
As for the ‘s’ of the case level...
We in Penglai divide extraordinary events into seven levels: f, e, d, c, b, a, and s, from low to high.
There are of course specific standards for the first six levels, but you don't need to know the content of these standards.
There is only one standard for the highest level, S-level cases.
That is - 'In the early stages of the crime, Penglai was powerless to do anything'.
In other words, every S-class case means that in the early stages of the case, Penglai was completely helpless and had no ability to solve the case.
Li Guanqi, you just need to know the standards for this S-class case.
Because only for extraordinary events like S-class, which we Penglai can't do anything about, we will ask you... ah no, we are asking for the help of the 'Extraordinary King'."
After saying that, Lin Xianbai looked at Li Guanqi with complicated eyes, he hesitated to speak, and finally sighed softly, "I don't force you to help, but I hope you can consider it."
Li Guanqi looked solemn and turned to look at the information on the wall projection, "Case 078. In just 12 days, there have been 78 extraordinary cases across the country."
"Actually, it's much more than that."
Lin Xianbai shook his head, and then said: "Only those whose harm reaches a certain level will be recorded in this level of case files.
But you don’t have to worry about these. No matter how many incidents there are, we in Penglai will handle most of them. It’s just S-class cases like this that we can’t do anything about... Well, watch the game, you’d better finish it first."
"good."
Li Guanqi continued to focus on the wall projection.