135: Chapter 135 Technological Added Value

In the kitchen of the back courtyard of the Funeral Shop, waves of rich herbal diet aromas wafted out.

The bitter fragrance of angelica and astragalus mixed with the meaty aroma of black-boned chicken, spreading through the slightly cool night breeze.

Lin Ye leaned against the wide leather sofa in the reception hall, his eyes slightly closed.

Leng Yue's slender and pale hands were slowly pressing along the acupoints on the side of his neck.

"Husband, that Yellow Springs Market..."

Leng Yue spoke softly, her cold voice revealing a trace of unmelting chill.

"The administrator hidden behind it dares to obliterate your prey within the territory of Jiangzhou City. This is equivalent to a provocation. Do you need me to follow that lingering trace of nether fire aura, drag him out, and burn him to ashes?"

Lin Ye didn't even lift his eyelids, just lazily waved his hand.

"Never mind it."

The corners of his mouth hooked into an arc, calculating the profits of this business in his heart.

"For a mess like this that involves large-scale cybercrime and carries a bit of a cyber-cult nature, just leave it to The Ninth Bureau of the authorities to get a headache over."

"We are a legitimate Funeral Shop, charging by the piece. Since that female ghost has already had her soul scattered, Zhao Xue's order is considered settled. As for the subsequent matters where pulling out the radish brings up the mud, that's a different price."

Lin Ye was clear about the style of work of those people from The Ninth Bureau.

If he rashly intervened in this kind of bizarre cyber event involving the whole city or even the whole country,

not only would it be thankless, but he might also get sucked into the official power vortex.

Therefore, it was better to directly sell the clues at a high price to Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan, letting her take this intelligence to claim credit from the bureau director while he sat in the back counting money. This was a profitable business with a guaranteed win.

"Hehehe, the chicken soup is here——!"

Accompanied by a somewhat comical cry, Fatty Wang carried a steaming purple clay casserole from the back courtyard into the front hall.

The string of little-leaf sandalwood around his neck swayed back and forth with his pace, and his face was piled with a flattering smile.

"Big Boss Lin, the black-boned chicken stewed with century-old wild ginseng and top-grade angelica is ready."

"I specifically added a few drops of juice boiled from century-old sunken wood that that kid Bai Yu got, guaranteed to suit the appetite of little ancestor Frost Star."

Frost Star, who had been sitting obediently by the table, heard this, and her heterochromatic pupils instantly lit up.

Barefoot, she stepped on the soft carpet, ran to the tea table with "da da da" sounds, and stood on tiptoe to look into the casserole.

The chicken soup in the casserole presented a weird dark red color, with a layer of faint black chill floating on the surface.

If an ordinary person were to drink a sip, their stomach would probably freeze on the spot and they would die from the nether Qi entering their body.

But for Frost Star, the Nether Corpse King who had devoured the bone marrow of the Unfading Bone, this was simply a supreme delicacy.

"Big Fatty is a good person."

Frost Star issued a good person card without hesitation.

Then she directly stretched out her tender white hands, ignored the scalding edge of the casserole, and grabbed a whole stewed, tender black-boned chicken.

She opened her small mouth, revealing two rows of neat, white, yet exceptionally sharp teeth, and took a bite out of the chicken leg with a "crunch".

Skin, meat, and the hard leg bone were chewed to pieces in her mouth like crispy biscuits.

Accompanied by a scalp-tingling sound of bone fracturing, Frost Star let out a satisfied "whoo" sound.

A trace of dark red soup overflowed from the corner of her mouth. Matched with her yandere loli face, the picture exuded an indescribable thrilling contrast cuteness.

Ayugu, who was awakened by this burst of bone cracking sounds, rubbed her messy hair and sat up from the sofa.

The Miao silver ornaments on top of her head made a "clinking" collision sound.

She lowered her head and glanced at the mobile phone screen on the ground showing "Defeat", and scratched her hair irritably.

Then she sniffed, and her gaze locked onto the half chicken in Frost Star's hand.

"Fatty Wang! Playing favorites, right? You stewed herbal diet for this little zombie, where is my midnight snack?"

"You have to remember, you haven't compensated me for my Gu worms yet!"

Ayugu jumped down from the sofa, put her hands on her hips, looking aggressive.

Fatty Wang happily took out an unopened pack of spicy strips from his apron pocket and threw it over:

"I really give up. Your living human physique can't drink the soup boiled from sunken wood anyway. Here, just stocked from the supermarket yesterday, extra spicy version."

Ayugu steadily caught the spicy strips, rolled her eyes, tore open the packaging bag and took a bite, then moved close to Lin Ye, plopping down on the sofa armrest.

"Boss, you went out for a trip tonight and earned 500,000? This money is way too easy to earn."

"The half piece of Unfading Bone you fished out from the Ten Thousand Gu Demon Cave almost cost me my little life."

Ayugu chewed on the spicy strips while looking at the transfer contract on the table, her tone full of envy.

"This is called technical added value."

Lin Ye opened his eyes and smoothly sat straight up.

Leng Yue immediately withdrew both hands, pulled out a pure white handkerchief from her trench coat pocket, and wiped away the non-existent sweat on Lin Ye's forehead.

Then she quietly retreated to the side, like a perfect shadow.

Lin Ye stood up, stretched, and his bones made a crisp "crack" sound.

"Fatty, early tomorrow morning, make a call to Captain Chu of The Ninth Bureau."

"Just say that I, Lin Ye, have a piece of core intelligence regarding a new type of cyber ghost in my hands, priced at one million. Ask her if she wants it. If she does, bring money to the shop for tea at ten in the morning, and I won't wait past the time."

"Got it! I am best at this kind of extorting the authorities." Fatty Wang agreed readily.

Having finished arranging daily affairs, Lin Ye did not stay any longer.

He walked straight through the front hall, heading towards the hidden elevator in the back courtyard that led directly ten meters underground.

"I'm going down to seclude myself for a while. Do not come to disturb me unless it's urgent."

The elevator door slowly closed, isolating the hustle and bustle of the ground outside.

As the elevator descended, the surrounding temperature began to drop cliff-like.

Ten meters underground was the [Mysterious-grade Yin-gathering Quiet Room] composed of obsidian and a century-old lightning-struck wood array disk.

The concentration of nether Qi here was dozens of times that of the outside world. An ordinary person would hallucinate after staying here for five minutes, but for Lin Ye, who possessed the Pure Yang Dao Body, it was an excellent place for refining artifacts.

Walking out of the elevator, Lin Ye pushed open the heavy stone door of the quiet room.

The merman oil lamps on the wall sensed the aura of a living person and automatically ignited ghost-blue flames.

Lin Ye walked to the stone platform in the center of the quiet room, sat cross-legged, and then took out two things from his tactical backpack.

The first piece was the [soul-fixing mirror fragment].

The edges of this dilapidated bronze mirror were covered with patina, and the mirror surface was split into three irregular pieces, with a corner missing in the middle. A mesmerizing, heart-palpitating profound aura flowed across the surface.

The second piece was the [Primary Magical Artifact Repair Scroll] rewarded by the system after slaying the drowning female ghost tonight.

This scroll looked like neither gold nor wood, its surface covered with intricate golden cloud patterns, exuding a warm touch when held in the hand.

"The so-called administrator behind that female ghost can cross the entire territory of Jiangzhou City to obliterate karma. Their methods are definitely not low."

"Open spears are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are hard to guard against. Although my Funeral Shop is as solid as gold, going out to handle matters always carries the risk of exposing one's whereabouts. This soul-fixing mirror, which can shield heavenly secrets and karma, must be repaired immediately."

Lin Ye took a deep breath, calming the Pure Yang True Qi in his body.

He bit the middle finger of his right hand and dropped a drop of pure Dao body true blood onto the repair scroll.

"Hum!"

The moment the scroll contacted the Pure Yang True Blood, it burst out with a dazzling dark golden light.

Those golden cloud patterns seemed to come alive, turning into strings of golden filaments that peeled off the surface of the scroll and intertwined and coiled in mid-air.

Lin Ye did not hesitate, grabbed the shattered [soul-fixing mirror fragment], and threw it directly into that halo of golden light.

"Heaven and earth are natural, defiled Qi disperses, the mystery in the cave, bright and vast Taiyuan. Mighty gods of all directions, make me natural. Regather the remnant treasure!"

Lin Ye's hands formed seals at lightning speed, casting orthodox Taoist incantations one after another.

These incantations turned into substantive gang qi, slamming fiercely onto the golden light, compressing and hammering it.

The golden light wrapped around the bronze fragments, making a fine "crack, crack" sound.

That was the cracks being forcibly stitched together by some supernatural rule power.

The originally missing corner, under the padding of the golden light, gradually grew new bronze material.