137: This is a burial ground!

Over at Sun Feifei's side, she had finally stopped the compass at the CEO's office and continued to hoodwink the big bosses.

Meanwhile, Lu Chen took the opportunity to start organizing the archives of the Tianyong City Construction Group; he had already discovered that the load-bearing wall blueprints overlapped with a Formation from a hundred thousand years ago.

Ignis, who was the first to come looking for him, spoke from behind him:

"Hey, Lu! Little Skeleton? What about the takeout you promised? You didn't even come to pick us up."

"Stop thinking about food, I've found something!"

Lu Chen's gaze was cold.

Before him was the very thing he was looking for.

A Formation from a hundred thousand years ago.

—The Soul-Extinguishing Formation!

And it was left behind by an evil cultivator—an Eastern evil cultivator, no less.

As the moon began to rise, the five of them gathered on the rooftop of the office building.

Ignis munched on semi-charred dried mango, while Shelley carried a takeout bag, distributing food.

As for Morning Dew, she was even holding a Pomeranian in her arms!

Presumably, she had adopted it.

Ning Xiwei yawned, looking at the city night before her; she didn't find it beautiful at all.

In front of everyone, Sun Feifei spread out the building's floor plan, pointed at it, and said:

"Little Skeleton made a good discovery. I've looked into it, and the layout of this entire building secretly aligns with the river map and book of luo. There are even abnormal energy fluctuations on the third basement level."

As she spoke, she pointed toward the fire escape. "Brother Chen, you came out from here today, right?"

Lu Chen tossed his employee card and chuckled, "Indeed. Thanks to having connections, I'll officially join the engineering department tomorrow. Plus, I've used an illusion to disguise my face."

The anti-counterfeiting pattern on the back of the card in his hand was a variation of the ancient Kui Dragon pattern.

Ignis suddenly noticed something. She snatched the card away and examined it closely under the moonlight, saying in surprise:

"Isn't this... also in my family's ancestral hall?"

...Midnight arrived. Lu Chen stood on the 23rd floor of the office building, where the scent of bronze rust drifted from the central air conditioning vents.

Lu Chen's ID badge shimmered with a faint light in the darkness.

The gold-stamped words 'Tianyong City Construction Group Intern' were fading; it was a fake to begin with.

This card was actually a duplicate card he had obtained from the Old Dean.

It could transform into any form of identification.

Now, the seal script inscription 'Tianyong City Garrison' was revealed on the base layer of the card.

The Old Dean had been in the military back in the day.

"There's something wrong with this building." Sun Feifei pressed her compass against the wall of the fire escape. After the needle spun wildly, it pointed toward the underground parking lot. "It's built upon a Soul-Extinguishing Formation, and above it is the 'Nine Palaces Dragon-Locking Formation' recorded in ancient Formations. But how could it appear in a modern building? Even after a hundred thousand years, it shouldn't still exist, unless..."

"Unless someone is maintaining this Formation," Lu Chen finished Sun Feifei's sentence with certainty.

This was also his suspicion.

These evil cultivators.

Nine times out of ten, they are lackeys of the Heavenly Dao.

This was the key reason Lu Chen was paying such close attention.

The Pomeranian in Morning Dew's arms suddenly pricked up its ears.

This prompted Morning Dew to gently stroke the puppy's head.

Just then, Shelley noticed something. She turned her head toward the distant elevator entrance and said coldly:

"There's the sound of crying in the elevator shaft on level B3!"

Instantly, Shelley summoned an ice crystal bird and set up an ice mirror, which transmitted the images seen by the bird in real-time:

—A black slime was seeping from a crack in a load-bearing wall, and the liquid, which contained bronze fragments, was condensing into a humanoid shape.

Ignis chewed on a chocolate bar, and her Flame Demon tattoo suddenly glowed blood-red!

"How about I burn through these walls and take a look?"

"Don't!!!" Lu Chen didn't have time to reach out and stop her.

Mars flew from Ignis's fingertips!

Suddenly, the smoke alarms on the entire floor began to blare in unison.

Suddenly, a voice sounded from the side.

"Everyone? Working overtime?"

A department manager dressed in a suit walked out from behind a side door, looking at everyone with a face full of confusion.

His gold-rimmed glasses reflected the cold light.

He looked puzzled.

However, in the next moment, he was knocked unconscious.

Ignis gave him a hand-chop.

Without hesitation.

In the engineering department office, Lu Chen used a computer to pull up a 3D architectural model of the place.

He discovered some unusual areas underground.

As Lu Chen and the others rotated the model to the seventh basement level, the blueprints in his hands had already transformed into a Formation star-track operational diagram.

Even inside the ventilation ducts, one could see the names of star officials from the Ganshi Star Scripture carved and marked with Spirit Stones.

Just as Lu Chen and the others were searching deeper.

A programmer in an office on the top floor suddenly began to twitch.

A bronze taotie pattern appeared on his body.

When Lu Chen and the others reached the basement.

They found that it was actually a vast, empty underground parking lot.

But there wasn't a single car.

Just then, many footsteps could be heard from overhead.

It seemed the security guards had arrived.

He didn't know how they had found out.

After all, Lu Chen had avoided all detection equipment along the way.

After thinking it over, he decided now was not the time to alert the enemy.

With a wave of his hand, Lu Chen set a coordinate for a teleportation magic spell.

Then, leading the girls, he stepped through the teleportation portal and left the place.

The next day.

In the employee cafeteria during lunch break, the five of them disguised themselves as ordinary white-collar workers and shared a table.

Ignis's ID badge was labeled 'Catering Department Food Taster'... Looking at this thing, the corner of Lu Chen's mouth twitched slightly!

On Ignis's tray sat a medium-well filet mignon. At the same time, she whispered the intel she had gathered this morning, "Yesterday in the cold storage, I found an ice coffin with the corpse of an ancient person wearing Hanfu frozen inside. I'm certain it's an ancient person; they've been dead for a very long time, and it's all preserved by magic!"

"It should be an ice crystal energy pod," Shelley said with certainty, her ID badge glowing with the words 'Refrigeration Consultant.'

Lu Chen's mouth twitched even more!

Was Shelley also this absurd?

They really were Young Misses who had no contact with the common folk.

What kind of positions were these?

Shelley continued:

"According to thermal imaging, there is a spherical space a hundred meters in diameter deep underground."

Morning Dew was applying Holy Light to her hands, healing Sun Feifei's strained neck. She lowered her voice and said:

"Today, when the medical team was performing check-ups on female employees, they discovered that the hearts of all employees who have been here for over ten years... have bronze-colored crystals. Yet, the medical team acted as if they hadn't noticed at all! It's very strange!"

Ning Xiwei chimed in, "At two o'clock, that female supervisor eating salad—the reflection on her fork has no face."

Hearing this, Sun Feifei quietly took out an Eight Trigrams Mirror and stealthily angled it toward the female supervisor. Instantly, a terrifying scene was reflected:

Beneath the skin of the female supervisor's neck, countless bronze gears were meshing and turning.

Lu Chen's chopsticks picked up a piece of meat from the soup and put it into his mouth. He whispered:

"We strike at the third quarter of the Shen hour."

...In the fire escape during the Shen hour, Ignis used her Flame Demon power to melt the electronic lock.

When the group infiltrated the seventh basement level, the ventilation ducts suddenly spewed out dark green mist.

Just as Shelley's ice crystal mask condensed into shape, she saw that the mist was filled with pitch-black evil Qi!

At the same time, Lu Chen paused. For a moment, he seemed to see an army of white bones fighting against a bronze giant!

A blood-colored vertical pupil even split open in the sky.