Mountain Patrol Military Officer-Chapter 68 - Citywide Ascension (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 68 -68: Citywide “Ascension” (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 68 -68: Citywide “Ascension” (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

And as more and more people fell,

A star-like spark of fire

Shot up into the sky.

In the dark of night, like shooting stars,

They gradually formed a river of stars,

Drifting towards the outskirts of Qingshan County.

The scene was spectacular!

Before long, outside Qingshan County,

A loud airburst suddenly sounded.

Immediately after, a figure rapidly condensed in the air.

It was Chen Yuan!

Chen Yuan’s eyes burst with silver light as he observed the swirling fog and rising sparks in the distance within Qingshan County,

His pupils contracted sharply.

Under his Heart Eye View, those tiny specks of light were clearly ethereal little figures.

Souls!

Damn it.

How could so many souls be drawn away at the same time?

Chen Yuan burst into action, rushing into the fog.

As soon as he entered the mist, he felt a sense of disorientation.

It could disturb one’s mind.

Immediately following, Chen Yuan’s sleeves shook.

The bronze lamp responded.

Could that ship have appeared?

Chen Yuan flipped his hand, and the green lamp appeared.

“Whoosh,” it ignited,

And a bright flame burst forth.

When the fire lit up, the surrounding fog seemed sentient.

Wherever the light shone, the mist scattered.

The next second, Chen Yuan’s figure violently moved,

Rushing into the city.

Along the way,

His Heart Eye scanned,

Finding people collapsed on the ground.

He rushed forward, grabbing one person by the wrist,

Their heart was beating; there were signs of life.

But their Divine Soul had left the body.

Soul disassociation!

He then flashed away.

Moving incredibly fast, he reached a place just swept by the white mist.

From a household, two star-like sparks of fire flew out.

“Capture!” Chen Yuan ordered in a low voice.

Two frightening beams of silver light shot from his eyes,

Grasping those two sparks firmly.

Then, breaking through a window, he barged into the house.

He pressed the two sparks into the foreheads of a young couple.

The couple, who had previously passed out, slowly regained consciousness after the fire entered them.

When they saw Chen Yuan, they were startled,

But before they could even cry out,

Chen Yuan had already leapt away.

Continuing on, Chen Yuan captured souls with his Heart Eye View, waking up several households along the way.

But when he arrived at Old Wu’s tavern,

He found Old Wu’s spirit had already been taken.

Old Wu lay on the table, with bowls and dishes shattered on the ground, seemingly in the midst of tidying up when he lost consciousness.

Chen Yuan’s brow furrowed, and he vanished.

Moments later, his figure appeared in his own courtyard.

His gaze flickered as he swept his eyes around.

Two children, along with the widow next door and her son, were gone.

Included among the missing was the green lamp filled with lamp oil.

Chen Yuan looked up at the sky, observing the scattered starfires, and took a deep breath.

Unsure where the error had occurred.

He looked at the green lamp in his hand, akin to a beacon in the long night.

Then he turned towards the northeast outside the city.

His eyes intensely flickered.

His figure then thundered forth,

Rushing frantically towards the northeast of the city.

With the guidance of the green lamp,

After half a cup of tea time,

Chen Yuan thunderously landed at a riverbank embankment.

His eyes emitted beams of shock, piercing through the fog, observing the faint outline within the mist.

It was unmistakably a large ship!

At this moment, within the mist, it was as though demons were whispering in his ear, as if Buddha himself was chanting sacred hymns, thunderous and discordant, disturbing the spirit.

“Silence!”

Chen Yuan roared furiously.

Like the lion’s roar of the Buddhist, the sound was vast.

Suddenly, his surroundings cleared.

Chen Yuan squinted at the “Star River” flying from Qingshan County, pouring into the silhouette of that ship.

“I want to see what exactly this thing is.”

His eyes blazed, his hand holding the green lamp.

He stomped his foot,

Charging forward.

Swiftly, he disappeared into the mist.

Minutes later, the white fog whirled back like a reverse deluge, surging back from Qingshan County.

After being engulfed by the river’s surface, it vanished in an instant.

Shortly after, under the cover of night, a series of urgent hoofbeats could be heard coming from the south of Qingshan County.

Two great horses, their hoofbeats thunderous, traversed hills and valleys as if treading on flat ground.

They reached the banks of the Nu River to the northeast of Qingshan County.

“The last time I sensed that boat was nearby, I have no idea how the connection suddenly broke.”

“Damn it!”

An exasperated voice sounded.

It was the visitors from White Emperor City who had appeared at the base of Jing Mountain.

Liu Ming-faced gloomy, his eyes glinted as he watched the torrential river flowing eastward, empty of any vessel, then turned to stare at the extinguished bronze lamp he held aloft.

He urged it fiercely with his hand.

But no matter how much he tried to activate it.

The bronze lamp remained unresponsive.

This left him feeling frustrated, as his success had slipped through his fingers.

Originally, by activating the lamp, he had sensed the boat, but for some reason, the boat had turned and left for another direction.

He hurriedly chased after it on horseback but lost the sensing mid-way.

He could only be certain that the boat’s last known location was somewhere near this stretch of the river.

But now, there was nothing here.

“Someone has been here.”

At this moment, a faint voice transmitted through the air.

A figure leapt from atop a great horse and landed dozens of meters away.

Standing on the edge of a collapsed riverbank.

The collapse encompassed an area of about thirty to forty feet.

In the center, there was a pair of clear footprints.

Qin Hu stood at the edge of the pit, his gaze flickering.

Soon, Liu Ming’s figure also arrived at the edge of the pit, his expression suddenly darkening.

“Could someone have beaten us here?”

Upon seeing his archenemy in a predicament, Qin Hu sneered and couldn’t be bothered to respond.

However, Liu Ming furrowed his brows, thought of something, and looked towards the south-west direction, where the silhouette of a city could be seen in the darkness.

“It looks like that’s Qingshan County,”

“If that boat appeared near here, there must have been some anomalies, or something that drew it here.”

“Qin Hu, I want to see that Colonel from Qingshan County.”

“You understand what I mean!”

Qin Hu glanced at him and harrumphed coldly.

He hoped this mad dog wouldn’t go biting people randomly when the time came.

Otherwise, he might end up capsizing in the gutter.

Quickly, the sound of hoofbeats rose again in the woods.

Rushing towards the south-west.

Minutes later, these two Mountain Patrol Military Officers from White Emperor City arrived inside Qingshan County.

But they soon detected something amiss.

The entire county town was too quiet!

With a flash, Qin Hu dashed into a two-entry house on the street side.

Soon,

He saw people scattered about in disarray, in various positions.

He hurried over to check.

He found that all these people were still breathing.

But they wouldn’t wake up no matter how he shook them.

By this time, Liu Ming had followed, pressing his hand against the forehead of these people.

His brows furrowed.

“These people are missing the human soul from their heavenly, earthly, and human souls—could it be the work of demons?”

“No!” Qin Hu sharply shook his head with gravity.

He then leapt into the neighboring courtyard.

The same situation prevailed there.

Further exploration revealed the same situation in the three households.

Suddenly it dawned on him, and he drew a sharp breath.

Could the entire county town have become like this?

Soon, his figure dashed frenetically through the town, entering household after household.

Without exception.

The entire county town had fallen into a deep slumber.

Just as Chen Hu was increasingly realizing the seriousness of the situation, he heard a noise at a family’s home.

In a household, a young couple was whispering to each other,

“What was with the fog outside just now?”

“It’s like we suddenly passed out.”

“Then, we suddenly felt like we were flying.”

“Yes, flying, and I saw everyone in the entire town seemed to be flying as well!”

“After that, a young master appeared and woke me up!”

“It scared me!”

“This dream was really strange.”

“Me too, strange.”

And at that moment,

With a “bang”.

The door was kicked open.

Qin Hu stormed in, his eyes fierce with intensity, each word deliberate.

“I am investigating on behalf of Sky Patrol Department.

Repeat exactly what you just said!”

The couple jerked in fright, huddling together and backing away.

Facing the imposing, beard-mustached Han man, they cautiously recounted their earlier experience.

“…Suddenly, a mist filled the room…”

“After that, I felt myself flying up, soaring over the town.”

“I even saw everyone in the town, just like me.”

“How do I describe the sensation?

It was as if drifting with the immortals, ascending to the skies!”

“Then a handsome young master woke me up.”

“But the feelings in this dream were so vivid.”

Upon hearing this, the beard-mustached Han man’s voice deepened.

“This was not a dream!”