517: Chapter 517 Dragon God

"According to what's written on here, we should be looking for some office now."

Zhou Yan held the employee rules, checking them off line by line.

At this moment, Zhou Yan was wearing an employee uniform he had picked up randomly, walking aimlessly through the Aquarium with Li Hua, who was also in uniform.

Li Hua didn't know what was wrong, but he constantly felt like something was staring at his back. Yet, throughout their walk, they hadn't seen a single ghost, or even a living creature.

Clearly, there had been some monsters, ghosts, and ordinary tourists before, but here, not even a shadow could be seen.

"Brother Ai, is this really normal... isn't it too quiet?"

Zhou Yan shook his head and said,

"Just like those guys we saw—we can see them, but they can't see us."

"It's the same logic as how you could see the location of B1 before, but I couldn't."

"There must be certain rule restrictions here; you can only see more once you've violated something."

"For all we know, the area around us might be crowded with people, and you just can't see them."

Hearing Zhou Yan's casual remark, Li Hua trembled even more violently. Not only did he stick closer to Zhou Yan, but he also continuously prayed to the Taiyi God in his heart.

Although Li Hua was terrified, he had to admit one thing: the Taiyi God was truly effective.

Every time he felt fear, making a prayer would make him feel much better, and it seemed the more devout he was, the better the effect.

This caused a heart of faith to rise within him, even though he usually didn't believe in such deities.

It seemed he should really consider changing his faith after returning. Even if this deity wasn't powerful, in gratitude for this life-saving grace, he would spend his entire life and beyond providing for Him!

At this moment, Zhou Yan had no idea that his convenient actions had somehow gained him a believer.

It was only natural that Li Hua's prayers received a response every time.

After all, the deity was right in front of him. After the Power Of Faith was credited, Zhou Yan would conveniently package it and send it back. It was entirely Li Hua's own self-produced and self-consumed faith; Zhou Yan merely charged a processing fee.

Zhou Yan wasn't thinking about that much; it was just that this place was too eerie. If he didn't use the Power Of Faith to neutralize Li Hua's state, Li Hua would probably start clucking and quacking before turning into seafood.

"According to the prohibitions in the rules, as ordinary staff members, we cannot step into the Marine Museum Manager's room."

"So, we'll go straight to the manager's room. That way, we'll surely be able to see more. Even if we can't face the mastermind directly, we should at least learn the truth about this place."

Since he had already saved Li Hua, Zhou Yan had few concerns and was basically heading straight for the final boss.

As for promising Lv Yang not to be too crude to avoid making any innocent people who might still be alive suffer—Zhou Yan was doing that. He hadn't used a Body Integration strike like a firecracker to blow up this hotel, which was already quite restrained.

Not to mention, the cost of resurrecting ordinary people was low. Although it sounded a bit unethical, rather than anxiously trying to solve puzzles to rescue them, it was better to use 'Russian-style rescue'—save whoever can be saved, and for those who can't, spend a little money to let them wait out their respawn cooldown.

"We're here. The manager's office. It was actually quite easy to find."

How could it not be easy to find? To find this place, you treated the rule taboos like burning incense to fulfill a vow, and who knows how many bottles of water you snatched from those ghosts.

However, this really didn't seem as terrifying as imagined. Could Ying Yu being attacked by that female ghost really have been a hallucination? But then where did they go?

"What are you thinking about? Get in here quickly, or else if something goes wrong outside in a moment, a door might separate us."

"Oh, right!" Reminded by Zhou Yan, Li Hua hurried into the room and closed the door, terrified that what Zhou Yan said might actually happen.

Although not being able to see those things now had calmed him down a bit, if another one really jumped out, it would definitely knock him back to his original state of terror.

Zhou Yan glanced at Li Hua casually.

Even though he was absolutely certain this guy was truly afraid of ghosts, he still found it a bit hard to believe.

He knew many people who, despite knowing an escape room was fake, would still be scared under the influence of the environment once they went inside.

But he really couldn't understand why a Cultivator would be afraid. Could it really be as this kid said, that his original family had some Heaven-Defying practices?

He seemed to be a Prodigy as well. If he was a Prodigy, then it seemed somewhat reasonable.

However, Zhou Yan didn't have time to think too much. After instructing Li Hua to help look for clues, he also began to look around the place.

The space was fairly large, seemingly a combination of an archive room and an office.

Inside the room were four filing cabinets. There were lights above the ones on both sides, but none above the middle one.

To his right was a desk, a chair, and a small cabinet, also with a dim little light above it.

There were only three lights in total in this room, so it was overall quite dim.

Because he was afraid of a ghost jumping out at him, Li Hua instinctively walked toward the filing cabinets; after all, being further inside gave him some sense of security.

Therefore, Zhou Yan investigated the desk, which was closer to the main door.

"Why is the desk covered in useless magazines?"

" 'What Should a Cultivator Do About Hair Loss?', 'One Hundred Formulas for Kidney-Tonifying Spirit Pills', 'Architectural Styles and Appreciation of the Southern Desert'... what is all this nonsense?"

After checking that there were no hidden layers or special information in these magazines, Zhou Yan tossed them all aside and turned to examine the desk itself.

《Manager's Duty Log》

Zhou Yan's furrowed brows relaxed.

"As expected, there is some good stuff. Let me see what's written inside."

The first page said: Everything is normal.

The second page said: Everything is normal.

The third page said: Everything is normal (with a typo).

The fourth page said: (Incoherent scribbles).

Zhou Yan closed it with a face full of black lines and covered his face with one hand.

There were no anomalies, only the stench of being overworked. The handwriting on the later pages became more and more illegible, with no useful information at all.

"It's those bastards from the Truth Cult again. Why am I not surprised at all?"

Hearing Li Hua's voice, Zhou Yan looked over and saw him holding a file, his face full of uncontrollable disgust. Sensing Zhou Yan's gaze, Li Hua quickly explained.

"Don't misunderstand, Brother Ai, I'm not talking about you guys."

"Although I heard your Taiyi Sect recently merged into the Truth Cult, in reality, the Truth Cult is the Truth Cult, and we are us. It's not quite the same."

"I have elders in my family who are part of the Truth Cult too; if they deserve to be cursed, they'll be cursed. We generally only recognize our own faction, not the Truth Cult as a whole."

"And these factions are often like 'new king, new court'—no different from those Dynasties. So it's normal for us to curse our own."

"Of course, Brother Ai, if you don't like it, I won't curse them anymore."

Zhou Yan stood up and walked to Li Hua's side, waving his hand nonchalantly.

"It's fine. Our Taiyi Sect's merger into the Truth Cult was just a formality anyway. We don't really have any feelings for the Truth Cult; after all, we just joined, didn't we?"

"I'm just curious—what did you mean by 'it's them again'? Is there something special about that document in your hand?"

Seeing that Zhou Yan wasn't angry, Li Hua pointed at the document and said,

"This is a document preservation method previously used by the School of Life. Of course, it's not the work of the School of Life that you guys just joined."

"After all, King Dong has only been in power for about a hundred years. This method is clearly from the previous generation of the School of Life."

As he spoke, Li Hua tapped the document a few times and then pulled on its edge. One side of the file folder opened up like a zipper.

Li Hua pulled out a piece of paper from inside, which read:

["Dragon God" Observation Project Proposal]