Chapter 739 - 282: A Dog with a Sense of Good and Evil (Second Update)

After the secretary took the box away, the Governor finally smiled appreciatively at Ying Chenzhou. "Chenzhou, thank you for making the trip. Only when you handle this matter can we feel at ease."

The Governor stood up, walked behind the partition wall of the office, and took out a bottle of wine. "All the fugitives who have been on the run for years are now in custody. Care for a drink?"

Without waiting for Ying Chenzhou’s response, he took a sterilized glass from the cabinet, preparing to pour the wine.

"No drinking during work hours," Ying Chenzhou replied expressionlessly, "I have a report to make to the Alliance Hierarch." He turned and left, giving the Governor no courtesy.

The Governor maintained his posture of tilting the wine bottle, ready to pour, and frowned at Ying Chenzhou’s back before saying, "Still as unapproachable as ever."

Ying Chenzhou was an exceedingly competent and good dog in execution capability.

But this dog should not have developed its own consciousness and a sense of right and wrong.

A dog should be more obedient.

*

Ying Chenzhou took the elevator to the 27th floor, arriving at the office level of the Eastern Alliance Hierarch.

Seeing Ying Chenzhou, the first secretary of the Hierarch’s secretary office hurriedly stepped out and stopped him: "Director Ying, please wait. The Hierarch is in an international meeting."

Ying Chenzhou waited until nightfall to see the Hierarch.

The Eastern Alliance’s Hierarch was an elderly lady, known in the Divine Martial Realm as ’Lady Mo’.

She was two hundred seventy years old, with shoulder-length curly hair, graying at the temples, and three wrinkles fanning out from the corners of her eyes.

Wearing an iron-gray three-piece suit, she stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the densely built magical city below.

"Hierarch, I have a report."

Lady Mo, whose real name was Mo Dongjun, had a somewhat masculine name.

Mo Dongjun turned, staring at Ying Chenzhou for a while before speaking, "Just back from Beiwang Cape?"

Ying Chenzhou tugged at the somewhat wrinkled sleeve of his coat and replied, "Just arrived half an hour ago."

"Did everything go well?"

"All 170 fugitives have been brought back."

"Hmm." Mo Dongjun turned and walked into an office decorated in a cold and stringent style, picking up a packet of cigarettes from the surface of a black metal desk.

She lit a cigarette, walked to her office chair, and sat down, leaning slightly against the backrest, adopting a relaxed posture yet still exuding an intimidating aura.

Ying Chenzhou stood in the middle of the office with his eyes lowered, consistently displaying a respectful yet neither fawning nor flattering demeanor.

Mo Dongjun looked at him for a long while before speaking, "What is it?"

"I encountered that masked woman at Beiwang Cape." Ying Chenzhou flawlessly relayed Xu Xingguang’s commission to Mo Dongjun.

After listening, Mo Dongjun’s demeanor remained languid and relaxed, revealing nothing of her thoughts.

"Did you spar with her?"

Ying Chenzhou shook his head, "No."

Mo Dongjun remained patient, asking, "Since you met her, why not take the opportunity to get acquainted?"

Ying Chenzhou replied firmly and unyieldingly, "My mission was to clear out the fugitives. Investigating the masked woman’s identity is the job of the intelligence bureau."

He met Mo Dongjun’s gaze directly, unchanged in expression, and continued, "If one day, she murders innocents and endangers the citizens and the Alliance of the East Ocean Alliance, and if you instruct me to, I will eliminate her."

Mo Dongjun chuckled.

This smile deepened the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, adding an intimidating air akin to a smiling tiger. "It seems we can’t manipulate you easily now."

Ying Chenzhou: "The job of the Security Gate is to maintain the safety of the Eastern Alliance and protect the citizens of the Eastern Alliance. I assumed the Hierarch appointed me Director of the Security Gate because she recognized my professional philosophy and personal competence."

Mo Dongjun laughed again, "You’ve done well, living up to your profession."

Regarding Ying Chenzhou, Mo Dongjun was satisfied.

Though, this person was too rigid.

But Ying Chenzhou was the subordinate Mo Dongjun felt most at ease with. He wasn’t compliant, yet he remained absolutely loyal to the East Ocean Alliance Government.

Mo Dongjun worried anyone could be a spy, betraying the Alliance’s interests, but she never worried about Ying Chenzhou.

This man possessed a unique charm.

"What do you think of her strength?" Mo Dongjun finally redirected the topic back to Xu Xingguang.

"She seems very strong." Ying Chenzhou analytically stated, "I couldn’t sense any superpower aura from her, yet she gave me a very dangerous feeling."

After a slight pause, Ying Chenzhou said, "The sense of oppression she exudes is stronger than the Hierarch’s."

Mo Dongjun’s expression turned a bit grave.

"This person emerged out of nowhere, with a highly mysterious background." Mo Dongjun waved a hand towards Ying Chenzhou, "You may leave."

"Alright."

Upon exiting, Ying Chenzhou encountered the first secretary.

The secretary held a sealed document, with the words ’TOP SECRET’ stamped on the envelope, below which was a starry sky icon visible.

Ying Chenzhou recognized this; it was a top-secret document from the Eastern Alliance’s surveillance room.

And what is being monitored there is the entire mortal world.

"Alliance Hierarch, according to your instructions, the information on Xu Xingguang from the mortal world has been retrieved." The Number One Secretary placed the top-secret file on Mo Dongjun’s desk.

Seeing Mo Dongjun wave his hand, he turned and left.

Mo Dongjun finished smoking that cigarette, stubbed it out in the ashtray, and then opened the top-secret file, carefully examining it.

"Xu Xingguang, Huo Wen’an... it turns out he’s from the Huo Family."

The starlight surveillance is a network of monitors that the Eastern Alliance secretly set up in the mortal world more than two hundred years ago. Except for the core high-level members of the Eastern Alliance, no one knew that the mortal world was already under the Eastern Alliance’s surveillance.

Mo Dongjun, staring at the information, was a bit puzzled, "Why is this Huo Wen’an able to enter the Divine Martial Realm?"

"Xiao Zhi."

A child-like electronic voice echoed in the office: "What are your instructions, Alliance Hierarch?"

Mo Dongjun was using the Eastern Alliance’s most advanced and secure Intelligent Brain Terminal, called Xiao Zhi.

Mo Dongjun tapped his cheek with his finger and said to Xiao Zhi, "Call the Starry Sky Control Room."

"Please wait."

The call was quickly connected.

As soon as the call connected, Mo Dongjun asked, "What has Qu Yanling been doing recently?"

The person on the other end quickly retrieved Qu Yanling’s positioning system and answered Mo Dongjun, "She’s recently been active in Yujiang City."

The monitor locked onto Qu Yanling’s location, checking her recent activity trails and images in the surveillance footage.

A surveillance image of Qu Yanling was captured and sent directly to Mo Dongjun by the monitor.

Mo Dongjun stared at the photo of Qu Yanling for a while before hanging up the phone in a joyful mood.

With Qu Yanling helping them in the mortal world, soon all those children will turn into monsters. It won’t take long for the mortal world clearance plan to be successfully completed.

By then, the well-prepared Eastern Alliance warriors will be able to cross the barrier line and launch a massive takeover of the mortal world!

With fertile land and sufficient food, the Eastern Alliance would have no worries.

Defeating the Divine Hidden Alliance, taking over the Central Yu Alliance, and dominating the Divine Martial Realm would only be a matter of time.

*

Meanwhile, within the mortal world.

In broad daylight, the monitoring department of Divine Concealment Island detected a ’star’ in the sky flickering slightly.

Upon hearing the news, Zheng Lie came to the Pilot Mansion and informed Song Chi, "Young Helmsman, the monitoring department sent a message, detecting a surveillance head flickering in the sky."

Huo Wen’an had been gone just over a month, and Song Chi, acting as the Huo Family’s proxy pilot, had acquired an air of authority.

Upon hearing this, he remained calm and said to Zheng Lie, "No big deal, everything continues as usual. Remember to call the City Lord of Yujiang City and ask him if he can part with his treasured starry sky oil painting and sell it to me."

The purchase of the starry sky oil painting was a pretext; the real purpose was to alert Xiahou Shang that the starlight surveillance had been reactivated.

The reason for such caution was that they were uncertain about the extent of the Divine Martial Realm’s surveillance system’s infiltration into the mortal world and dared not disclose anything inappropriate over the phone.

In fact, the Divine Martial Realm’s surveillance system wasn’t so powerful as to be all-pervasive.

Since their equipment was over two hundred years old, they could only monitor outdoor open spaces in the mortal world.

Two hundred years ago, they disguised eavesdropping devices as various plants and hid them in the mortal world. But after more than two hundred years, many disguised eavesdropping devices were accidentally destroyed by people in the mortal world.

The Eastern Alliance had set a few ’special keywords’ for their eavesdropping equipment. There weren’t many special keywords, only two: ’Divine Martial Realm’ and ’Starry Sky Monitor.’

Last year, after Xu Xingguang discovered the existence of the Divine Martial Realm, he sat with Huo Wen’an on Divine Concealment Island stargazing.

For the first time, while looking at the stars, Xu Xingguang questioned whether those stars were real celestial bodies or starry sky monitors, triggering the special keywords.

When special keywords are triggered, in the Eastern Alliance’s surveillance building, it would set off a ’flower of alert.’

*

Zheng Lie, following Song Chi’s instructions, called Xiahou Shang to ask out of the blue if he could sell the starry sky oil painting to Song Chi.

Xiahou Shang immediately understood the meaning, he said, "That painting is a favorite of my wife, I cannot sell it as a favor to the Young Helmsman. In the future, if there’s a chance to find a better painting, I’ll make sure to win it at auction and personally deliver it to the Young Helmsman."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Xiahou Shang hung up the phone.

He frowned, looking up to see ’Zhang Zhiyi’ carrying a laptop bag walking into his office.

Once inside, confirming the environment was safe, ’Zhang Zhiyi’ collapsed onto the sofa as if boneless.

"Lord City Lord, why are you looking at me like that?" Zhang Zhiyi’s mouth uttered the voice of Chu Ziling.

Disguising Chu Ziling as Zhang Zhiyi and replicating Zhang Zhiyi’s daily life was a task given to Chu Ziling by the Divine Xia Country.

Chu Ziling, aware of the mortal world’s crisis, was particularly serious about fooling the Divine Martial Realm’s surveillance by playing Zhang Zhiyi.

Xiahou Shang pressed his forehead, sternly warning Chu Ziling, "They’re keeping a close watch on us, and they opened the surveillance again today, probably checking on you. Remember, under no circumstances should you expose yourself."

Chu Ziling nodded solemnly, "Rest assured, given that this concerns the safety of the entire mortal world, I will be extremely cautious."

"Yes."