Chapter 3091: Dealing with the InvestigationEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Fang Heng was busy assisting the zombie clones in digging out new passages and clearing construction debris when suddenly, his phone buzzed with several notification pings. He received a message.

The message was from An Qian.

An Qian reminded him that a faint ripple of Black Fog aura had been detected in the domain of his villa.

Coincidentally, a strong Black Fog aura fluctuation had also appeared in the spawns’ corporate district, so he might be subject to inspection. She asked if he would prefer to change residences.

"Anomalous ripple..."

Fang Heng frowned and looked up at the basement.

It seemed the Black Fog had still been detected after all.

He had to reinforce the sealing magic array to ensure the aura didn’t leak out at all.

Fang Heng sent a message back to An Qian, telling her there was no need—he was very comfortable living here—then continued with the basement expansion.

If it was only a routine investigation, it shouldn’t trace back to him.

Whatever. Keep going!

Fang Heng stood up and left the basement, beginning to reinforce the outer sealing magic array to ensure not even a trace of Black Fog aura could escape.

...

Another full day passed of grinding work.

Once Fang Heng had fully sealed the entire underground domain of the villa using alchemy magic arrays combined with sealing arts, and confirmed that not even the slightest aura was leaking out, he finally stopped to rest.

"There won’t be any problems now."

Fang Heng checked everything once more, nodded with satisfaction, and casually tossed his alchemy brush aside.

Abe Akaya’s vines quickly extended, coiling around the alchemy brush and returning it neatly to the table.

"Thanks."

After spending the whole day setting up alchemy magic arrays, Fang Heng rubbed his sore wrists and headed toward the basement.

The zombie clones’ excavation work had also made great progress.

At this point, with tens of thousands of zombies working nonstop, the seventh basement level beneath the villa had expanded dozens of times. If not for the harsh conditions, the area alone already qualified as a medium-sized underground garage.

But it still wasn’t enough.

They had to continue expanding outward to provide enough grinding space for leveling.

Huh?

Fang Heng re-entered the basement. As soon as he opened the door, he made a small sound of confusion.

What was going on?

The entire underground space of the villa was now filled with a thin layer of Black Fog aura.

Due to the influence of the sealing magic array outside the room, the aura was blocked by a light screen on the door and couldn’t pass through.

"Something’s not right."

Fang Heng already had a premonition and muttered to himself as he walked toward the seventh basement level, where the zombie clones were gathered for work.

Seventh basement level.

The same thin layer of Black Fog.

The Black Fog here was even denser than the upper levels.

In the light mist, the zombie clones held iron shovels, tirelessly digging and expanding the underground passageways. Abe Akaya’s vines extended along the walls, using large roots as structural supports to stabilize the basement, greatly shortening the construction time.

Fang Heng observed the zombie clones and fully expanded his perception, scanning the entire underground domain with a thoughtful expression.

The Black Fog aura that filled the basement actually originated from his zombie clones.

After spreading out his perception, he clearly noticed faint traces of Black Fog aura continuously leaking from the zombie clones.

Though extremely weak—so weak that even he couldn’t detect it without using perception—it was still present.

Previously, there had only been a few thousand zombie clones in the basement, and the space hadn’t been fully sealed, so the aura could dissipate naturally, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

But now, the number of zombie clones had increased dozens of times, and the entire space had been sealed off, causing large amounts of Black Fog to accumulate.

After an entire afternoon, the aura had finally gathered into this visible mist.

"This won’t do."

Fang Heng rubbed his chin.

He was very confident in the alchemical sealing magic array he had set up and was sure it could lock the Black Fog aura down completely.

There wouldn’t be any problems in the short term.

But as time passed, the Black Fog would only continue to accumulate and would start putting pressure on the outer seals. Once a critical threshold was reached, it would leak.

If such a high concentration of Black Fog were to leak out, it would definitely be traced.

He had to come up with a solution to this problem.

...

Outside.

The spawns’ prism detection system had indeed picked up faint traces of Black Fog aura within the villa district where Fang Heng lived.

But the concentration was too low.

Moreover, the spawns’ attention had mostly been diverted by the attack on their headquarters building the previous night. So the investigation into Fang Heng’s villa district had been cursory at best. Once they confirmed no anomalies, they quickly wrapped it up.

Most of the spawns’ elite forces were still focused on the headquarters building.

The sudden outburst of Black Fog and the emergence of the Seed of Ouroboros had given them a huge scare, and it had caused actual losses—more than ten administrative personnel had died.

Even the Seven Realms Martial Capital had never encountered something like this since its founding. The Seven Overlord Factions were furious and immediately formed a joint investigation team, led by the spawns and the Evil Clan, to get to the bottom of the incident.

But the investigation hit a dead end from the start.

There were absolutely no clues!

On the night of the incident, the mutant worm creatures seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. No one knew how they had suddenly emerged from the sewers and launched a frenzied assault on the spawns’ building.

The investigation team spent great effort reviewing surveillance footage from that night and arrested over a dozen suspects, but still found nothing.

So a few days later, the team began a more detailed and thorough investigation.

Fang Heng’s villa was also subject to a home visit from the investigation team.

Before carrying out the investigation, the team had already learned that the villa was occupied by a warrior from the Noel Clan.

So they only planned a routine check.

The investigators never imagined that right beneath this neighborhood, hidden in the basement, there were hundreds of thousands of zombies releasing Black Fog!

"Have you been home the whole time?"

"Yes, I’ve been staying home to cultivate," Fang Heng nodded lightly. "I’m a warrior."

"Alright. Have you noticed anything unusual recently?"

"No."

The investigators didn’t suspect anything.

Warriors, after all.

They usually acted arrogantly like this.

If this guy were enthusiastic, that would be suspicious.

"Thank you for your cooperation. If you notice anything out of the ordinary, please call the emergency line and contact our special investigation team."

"I will."

Fang Heng casually replied, closed the door with an expressionless face, and headed back into the basement.

In the past few days, he had reinforced the basement domain with more than ten layers of sealing arts and alchemy, making sure no Black Fog aura could escape.

At least for the next week, there would be no problems with the Black Fog aura!

Fang Heng proceeded to the seventh basement level.

At this moment, over two hundred thousand zombie clones were practicing Occult hand seals.

Just half an hour earlier, the Alchemy skill had already been fully trained, so he had switched to grinding Occult.

The switch to Occult had started last night.

Fang Heng once again surveyed the basement.

Black Fog filled the air.

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