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Zhang Xiaomo's words startled Yan Junze, his face changing as he asked, "A whole village of people, all dead?"

"Yeah." Zhang Xiaomo nodded.

Then Yan Junze asked, "What is... a Spirit Bridge?"

Instead of answering, Zhang Xiaomo glanced at a table about two tables away where a young man in black was sitting, wearing sunglasses and sipping a cup of cappuccino iced coffee alone.

Yan Junze also turned his head for a look.

Zhang Xiaomo said, "You don't need to be suspicious of him; he's your colleague now. He came here with me. His name is Zhang Di."

"Is he your brother?" Yan Junze asked.

"Just because he has the surname Zhang, he's related to me? Then is Confucius's disciple Yan Hui your ancestor?" Zhang Xiaomo gave him a look.

Yes, the ancient history of this parallel world was basically the same as the one in which Yan Junze was reborn. So there was Confucius, and there was Yan Hui.

Yan Junze showed an awkward but reasonable smile, "After getting to know you, I've found you somehow become more and more hurtful when you talk?"

"Sorry." Zhang Xiaomo realized, but her next sentence almost choked Yan Junze on his own saliva, "You'll get used to it later."

Then, glancing at Zhang Di not too far away, she introduced him, "He is like you, a Semi-spirit. Initially, a strangeness wanted to devour him, but it just so happened that due to a previous mission, he had been accumulating corpse qi from a Corpse Spirit for about two months, which he couldn't get rid of temporarily.

Later, the dense corpse qi ended up melting that strangeness, turning Zhang Di into a Semi-spirit."

Yan Junze listened, puzzled, "What is a Corpse Spirit?"

"A creature that becomes a Corpse Spirit after a zombie eats a strangeness," Zhang Xiaomo said. "It inherits the strangeness's powers and has the characteristics of a zombie; it's very troublesome. And its Obsession is complicated. The method you used before, relying on Obsession to solve strangenesses, basically won't work with Corpse Spirits because they have more than one Obsession.

While you have not resolved the first, the second may have already killed you."

"I see," Yan Junze nodded, "So what's the main diet of this elder brother Zhang Di?"

Zhang Xiaomo laughed, "What do you think?"

"Forget it, I won't guess," Yan Junze shook his head, "What's this Spirit Bridge you just mentioned? It can cause such massive destruction, resulting in the death of all the villagers!"

"We call the Spirit Bridge a bridge that connects hell to the mortal world, because once the shadow of a Spirit Bridge appears, people who once died in that place will be selectively summoned as strangenesses. That means, it could cause a person who died there a hundred years ago, or even a thousand years ago, to appear," Zhang Xiaomo explained.

"Damn, then we're dealing with old strangenesses!" Yan Junze couldn't help exclaiming, "Are there any stronger than Sculpting Spirits?"

Zhang Xiaomo shook her head, "So far there's been no discovery of any above the Sculpting Spirit level; they all fail to reach Ethereal spirit status. But once they appear, there are several, a dozen, or even dozens of old Sculpting Spirits, which are very troublesome.

Moreover, our Exorcist squad suspects that it might be the Ethereal spirits causing the appearance of the Spirit Bridges, leading to dangerous strangeness events threatening an entire area."

"You just said that Huaying's Great Capital has seen the emergence of four Spirit Bridges so far; we're the fourth one. Where are the other three?" Yan Junze curiously asked.

Zhang Xiaomo replied, "The other three, one is in Huaying District, one in Tianyi District, and another in Yannan District. The one in Yannan District is the largest and has been sealing off the surrounding area up to now. The fourth one here by Tianmeng side is the smallest Spirit Bridge, but we have still sealed the outskirts exit that leads to West City."

"What impact did the large Spirit Bridge in Yannan District cause?" Yan Junze couldn't help asking.

Zhang Xiaomo was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I can't talk about it for now, but it's very serious. The information is being blocked. So I suspect that the business of strange videos is going to become a sunset industry soon, because once the Spirit Bridge outbreak occurs, all these strange videos will be immediately banned."

"Tang Zhengyi will have to change his line of work," Yan Junze nodded, then asked the question on his mind, "If I keep using the power of a Semi-spirit, will I turn into a 'True Spirit Body', and then it will be game over for me?"
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Zhang Xiaomo patted his shoulder and gave him an encouraging look, "That's why I said, this is one of the many advantages of you choosing to join the Exorcists. It's the same with the hexagonal medal; it can suppress the state when your Semi-spirit power bursts out. You can exert the abilities of a Semi-spirit while effectively preventing your body from being damaged.

Of course, if you really want to go all out, you can fully unleash it, but you must stop at the right moment. This kind of thing shouldn't be overdone."

Yan Junze listened, dumbfounded. He always felt like Zhang Xiaomo was messing with him, but he had no evidence.

"Aren't you going to issue me any weapons? Like your magnetic knife or those Hidden Buckles?"

Zhang Xiaomo shrugged, "You're not really a three-star Exorcist, so you can't handle the magnetic knife. I don't have any Hidden Buckles here, but you can use the medal to get them at this address, which I'll send to your phone."

After saying that, she tapped on her phone a few times and sent Yan Junze an address in the eastern part of Tianmeng.

After sending the address, Zhang Xiaomo finished her coffee in one gulp, stood up, and gave a signal to leave to Zhang Di, who was sitting not far away. She said to Yan Junze, "You'll pick up the tab later, alright? I also ordered two cups of espresso to take away. I have to pull an all-nighter on duty tonight, so I'd appreciate it if you could take care of it."

Yan Junze: "..."

Zhang Xiaomo hurriedly went to the counter to pick up her to-go coffees, and when she came back, she said to Yan Junze, "By the way, these past few days nearly all the Exorcists from Tianmeng went over to the Spirit Bridge, so there might be no time to deal with the strange incidents in the city or it might take some time to handle them. You need to be careful on your own."

"Finally, a word of human wisdom," Yan Junze took a sip of his coffee and looked up at Zhang Xiaomo.

Then Zhang Xiaomo added, "Because we're going to directly assign you some missions."

Pff!

Yan Junze spat out a mouthful of coffee onto the table.

That Zhang Di also went to the counter to pick up a cappuccino to go. Before leaving, he didn't express any gratitude to Yan Junze, only gave him a deep, friendly look.

Yan Junze could only think that the Exorcist team must be behind on paying their staff. They were all poorer than him, a mere student.

However, this meeting with Zhang Xiaomo did provide him with a lot of crucial information, and he had sort of been formally recruited.

Well, not exactly. It was compulsory.

But for Yan Junze, this status was much better than joining the Exorcist team through normal medical examination, at least his many secrets would not be exposed.

Being externally hired is like being specially appointed, at least there are far fewer restrictions compared to being a formal employee.

After sitting for a while, Yan Junze settled the bill, got up, and prepared to go to the Exorcist's rendezvous point to collect blood.

Having just obtained the official right to take blood, he had to make good use of it. He planned to get several bags of blood. He came out with a black backpack, and he figured he might as well fill it up.