First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

If he couldn’t act alone, then shaking it off might as well not have happened.

Director Chu understood that too.

“Alright, then you go on your own. I’ll just walk in like an ordinary person. You scout the village and get a live read on the situation. Once it’s confirmed—”

“Issue the order immediately. Full assault.”

“Don’t worry, Director Chu. I’m heading out.”

As Lu Ding spoke,

a residual shadow lingered, slowly dissipating.

Inside the village.

Feng Shang felt something.

He turned his head, and his gaze seemed to cut through space, straight to the outside of the village.Sensing someone walking in slowly.

He frowned.

Someone came up beside him and asked, “Third Bro, what’s wrong?”

Feng Shang’s name, “Shang,” when mispronounced, sounded like “San.”

So those close to him all called him Third Bro.

Feng Shang’s eyes were thoughtful as he said, “Just now I felt like two people came in. But now I only see one marker heading toward the village.”

“Oh come on, Third Bro, you’re just too on edge. You’ve been so tense lately over the Calamity Star thing, you haven’t rested. Maybe you’re just exhausted.”

“After tonight, get some proper rest for a while, you’ll feel better.”

“Besides, with your technique, unless it’s someone specialized in that—like a Heaven Observer—no one can get past it.”

“There are fewer Heaven Observers in Yunhai than endangered animals. If one of them were here, they’d have already shown up at our doorstep. It’s nothing.”

Feng Shang looked coldly at the one speaking.

“You really think that made sense?”

The smile on the man’s face slowly froze.

Feng Shang continued, “You know why I didn’t cut you off? Because I wanted to hear you say: ‘I’ll take someone to check.’ But you never said it.”

“Hallucination? Since when are hallucinations so common?”

“Guessing a thousand times isn’t worth seeing it once. You’re hopeless. Get lost!”

The man slowly backed away, feeling a little wronged.

Feng Shang’s technique had never failed before. Sure, he might’ve exaggerated a bit,

but it wasn’t that far off...

After cursing him off, Feng Shang waved at someone in the crowd.

Another young man walked over.

“Third Bro.”

“I suspect someone slipped in. Go, spread the brothers out. Use the method I taught you—check who’s marked and who’s not.”

“Make sure to activate the heart-link. If anything seems off, everyone pounces. Make it loud. Kill on the spot if possible.”

If no one was there, then it’s nothing.

If someone was there, stir up a big scene.

Then Feng Shang could use the excuse to blame the Tianli Cult—if they left loose ends.

Either way, it’s a win-win.

The young man paused and asked, “Third Bro, what if it’s 749?”

Not pleasant words, bit of a jinx—but something that had to be considered.

“Kill them too.”

“If it’s 749, then we’re exposed. The hearth can’t be moved, the Tianli Cult can run, but we can’t. That means we’ve got to tie them to us.”

“If 749 are wolves, tigers, and leopards, we don’t need to outrun them—we just need to outrun the Tianli Cult.”

“Most of them are already wanted cultists. On the surface, we’re at worst just accomplices. In terms of who’s more dangerous, they’ll look worse than us.”

“Even if 749 finds out more, at most they’ll charge us with raising monsters under their ban. No one knows we’re raising the Four Pillars Fate Gods.”

“Long ago, I even released the Mourning Garb to test 749. No one recognized it. Their vision is still limited.”

“No matter how bad the situation, even if victory isn’t on our side, there will still be success for us.”

And one more thing—Feng Shang needed the chaos to buy time.

Drag things out until midnight passed. Once the Calamity Star was complete, he could leave Huokang Village.

If 749 really showed up, Huokang Village’s Cultivators of Qi couldn’t hold them off alone.

At that point, one more Tianli Cult body was one more delay.

Once midnight passed, Feng Shang would take his people and run. The village had so many tunnels and backup plans—wasn’t that what they were for?

If he could,

Feng Shang would go personally.

But he couldn’t right now.

If he made a move,

the Tianli Cult would notice for sure.

And if those panicky birds turned and fled, leaving Huokang Village to face 749 alone...

Feng Shang didn’t want to imagine that outcome.

“Then I’ll head out now!”

The young man said that and turned to walk off into the crowd.

Over a hundred Cultivators of Qi from Huokang Village began a sweeping search of the village.

The Taiji and Imperial Rank cultivators, sensing something might be wrong, came over and asked, “What’s going on?”

“Nothing, just a precaution. The Calamity Star’s almost ready—we can’t risk anything.”

Imperial Rank looked skeptical. “Aren’t you being a bit too cautious?”

“No choice. Working with you lot—we have to be cautious.”

Another line with a hidden jab—this time hitting Tianli Cult’s sore spot.

The two instantly fell silent.

Feng Shang’s words had hit them where it hurt,

leaving them speechless and suspicious no more.

Elsewhere.

Lu Ding had activated his law enforcement recorder, flying around every corner of Huokang Village.

Come on, what era is this?

Sketches? Notebooks? Cramming it in your head? Voice reports?

No, no, no.

Flip on the law enforcement recorder, sync it with the Bureau’s supercomputer—

analyze, simulate, strategize.

Find the best positions for battle,

the most efficient attack routes,

and the lowest-risk plans.

Pinpointed strikes.

Every 749 investigator’s recorder on their chest was a battlefield intel collector.

Scanning data, storing data, running simulations.

That was home field advantage.

Voices kept coming through Lu Ding’s earpiece:

“Target inside village. One thousand meters west. Based on the last population and terrain records, the west side has slightly sunken ground. Combined with the eastern terrain’s elevation, suspected underground tunnel. Marked as high-priority. Pushed to all investigators’ phones.”

“Target inside village. One thousand six hundred eighty meters north. Based on terrain records, the northern hill shows a 10% terrain change, 50% ecological change.”

“Suspected internal structure. Marked as high-priority. Pushed to all investigators’ phones.”

“Target inside village. Two thousand one hundred meters east…”

Aside from the AI, there was also the human input.

“Relaying from the Info Division—Feng Shui team’s calculations show air leak and water shift. Flow redirected. Overall results suggest Huokang Village has dug extensive tunnels leading to various exits. Estimated locations are…”

Lu Ding listened, thoughts spinning.

Well, well.

The whole village was shifting.

Tunnels everywhere.

These guys were digging like rats.

Seriously cautious.