Chapter 495 Bad news outside the city

"Ah, the forest!"

The blue waves rolled and the branches swayed.

In the forest, a breeze blew by, and suddenly it transformed into a human form and fell to the ground.

Zhou Ming stretched out his hand to hold down the tree next to him and said: "Forests in the real world are rare."

Although the world in the previous life also did not have any supernatural power, it was very free. If a person wants to leave the city and travel to the wilderness to relax, then he can really go.

In this world, although there are main gods and the extraordinary power they bring, there are also monsters, so it is very dangerous outside the city. Except for the patrol personnel of Jin Yiwei, others are not allowed to leave the city.

Before Zhou Ming entered the main god space, he could only stay within Xishan County and was not allowed to leave the county.

For more than ten years, everything you can see is high-rise buildings and artificial creations. Forests like this are not allowed to exist in cities because they can easily breed dangers.

Later, when I entered the space of the Lord God, I was often in the world of reincarnation, where I could see various wild scenes.

Although I went out of the city a few times, they were all for missions, but I was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery.

Of course, when Zhou Ming left the county this time, he didn't want to see any scenery - he just wanted to go out and see it on a whim.

As for why he suddenly had such interest, it was because Jin Yiwei had a day off.

Recently, the peace in Xishan County has been a little too peaceful. Even the Demon Slaying Department, which is responsible for daily patrols, has become leisurely during this period.

In addition, today happens to be September 9th, the Double Ninth Festival.

On this day, there is a custom in Su Lai to invite friends and go on a high-altitude autumn outing. However, because of the monsters, this so-called high-altitude autumn outing is, needless to say, impossible.

Therefore, this custom has disappeared four hundred years ago.

If it weren't for the fact that there are still old people who have lived for more than 400 years, few people would know that this custom still exists during the Double Ninth Festival.

But it’s not possible to go hiking in the autumn, but it’s still possible to gather friends and have fun together.

It happened that no trace of monsters had been found recently, so Jin Yiwei seemed to be overdoing it, so he simply took a day off on this day.

But Zhou Ming is very unlucky. Both of his friends have been incorporated into the patrol team and will conduct daily patrols today.

As for friends from the Intelligence Department...you know, the Intelligence Department is so busy every day that they have to keep flowers, plants, cats and dogs in the office to pass the time.

Therefore, the activities of calling friends during the Double Ninth Festival are actually the daily routine of the Intelligence Department.

After finally taking a vacation and not having to go to work, who would hang out with the guy you see every day without looking up and down? Of course, you should find other friends to connect with you.

And except for Zhou Ming and the two newcomers... well, they shouldn't be considered newcomers now, the others are generally in their twenties and thirties, and they all have male and female friends.

After finally taking a vacation, you still have to find your boyfriend and girlfriend to spend a romantic Double Ninth Festival?

This left Zhou Ming alone, so bored that he wandered around the city. When he reached the outskirts of the city, he suddenly became interested and wanted to go out of the city.

He just got the Book of Transformation and was directly promoted to the full level.

And in the past few days, he has also mastered this skill through time acceleration in his own exclusive cave.

Now, with just a few changes, he can turn himself into a gust of wind, easily passing through the defense of the city wall and reaching the outside of the city.

However, when Zhou Ming came outside the city, he realized that there was really nothing to see outside.

He had seen the so-called wilderness and the so-called beautiful scenery countless times in the world of reincarnation.

There is not much difference between reality and the world of reincarnation.

"Um?"

Zhou Ming suddenly felt something and immediately turned into a leaf, placed on the tree next to him, and swayed in the wind.

After a moment, several shuttles flew in from a distance. There were several people standing on the shuttles, wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Guards. They were the people from the Demon Slaying Department who were responsible for patrolling outside.

Daily patrol inspections are essential. Even on a holiday like today, someone must stick to their post.

Zhou Ming saw that the Jinyi guards on the shuttle all had solemn expressions, and his heart sank slightly.

Could it be said that a large number of signs of monster activity have been discovered?

Out of curiosity, he turned into a gust of wind and flew near the shuttle, looking down at the panel projected from the front of the shuttle.

If the patrol team of the Demon Slaying Department discovers a reaction of demonic energy during their work, the first thing to do is not to exorcise it, but to record it and report it.

Because no one knows how many undiscovered monsters are hidden behind that small reaction of demonic energy.

At the same time, the corresponding intelligence will also be sent to the maps used by other patrol teams to prevent other patrol teams from alerting the enemy without knowing it.

But now, Zhou Ming saw that there was no record of any demonic energy reaction on the panels projected by these shuttles, and there was no sign of it on the map.

"No reaction of demonic energy was found? Then why do these people all look solemn?"

It can't be because others are on holiday and they don't have a holiday, right?

When entering the Demon Slayer Patrol Team, you should have been mentally prepared for this.

Moreover, precisely because the patrol work never stops, the Demon Slaying Department always patrols on alternate duty. There is no holiday today, will you also have a holiday?

Not bad for this day.

But people in the patrol team have said that professional training is not the kind of guy who chats about mission information during the mission. Occasionally chatting a few words is just a petty matter, and there is no mission information at all.

But this professional attitude had a huge impact on Zhou Ming.

After following it for a long time, I really didn’t get any information at all.

Zhou Ming was really bored, so he thought he had nothing to do today, so he might as well just follow him until the end.

So I followed the patrol team until they completed their day's patrol and turned around to return to the county town, when they heard someone in the patrol team say something.

"Hey, I don't have any demonic energy reaction today."

It's just such a sentence, there is such a tiny bit of information.

But this sentence really made Zhou Ming think of something else.

Judging from the interface display on the patrol shuttle and the words spoken by the patrol member, they have been patrolling recently and there is indeed no demonic reaction.

This is something extremely abnormal.

You know, a full month has passed since the last monster war.

Based on the pollution speed of demonic energy, this month may not be enough to contaminate some creatures and form a sufficient scale, but it is absolutely impossible to say that there is not even a tiny bit of demonic energy reaction.

Within a month, there will always be some snakes, insects, rats, ants and the like that are contaminated with demonic energy and then transform into monsters.

The key point is that if these creatures with extremely low IQs really become monsters, they will not hide their own aura, and their demonic reaction will be extremely conspicuous.

But now, the patrol team has not detected any reaction of demonic energy.

If it were a few days or even ten days after the great monster war, it would be considered normal for this situation to occur.

But one month... is too long, and it is already considered abnormal.

According to past experience, after a monster war, no demonic reaction was found in the battle zone of the monster war for up to eighteen days.

The shortest one is only two days.

Now, no demonic reaction has been detected in Xishan County for more than a month, which has set a new record and directly extended the record by twelve days!

The monster disappeared?

Absolutely impossible!

On the other side of the ocean, monsters have always existed, and have been very active recently, so on the mainland, it is impossible for monsters to disappear.

No wonder these patrol members all looked solemn.

Under such circumstances, it is not a good thing to not find the slightest reaction of demonic energy. On the contrary, it means the calm before the storm.

The longer it takes for the demonic reaction to disappear, the greater the potential for action from the demonic side.

How can anyone be happy in this situation?

Those who can be happy are probably the ordinary people in the city who have no idea of ​​the real situation.

After all, in their opinion, monster incidents only happen once every few months.

But in fact, outside the city, demonic reactions can be searched every day, and monster incidents also occur every few days.

It's just that these incidents are blocked outside that city wall, so ordinary people will only hear about monster incidents once every few months.

Heard...

That's right, even if a monster incident occurs only once every few months, it usually only affects a very small area. For the people in other areas, they just hear about it.

If it weren't for a large-scale monster incident or a monster war, many people might not encounter a monster incident for three to five years. If they were lucky, the time would double or triple.

"In this case, I hope these monsters can prepare for their big moves for a while, right? Hey, the next world I enter is the forty-sixth floor. Even if I keep skipping levels, it will take nine worlds to reach high-level combat power.

More than sixty days, two months."

For Xishan County, a small county town, the reincarnations of more than 40 levels can be regarded as top-notch combat power.

Even considering that Zhou Ming's strength surpasses ordinary reincarnations of more than 40 levels, he can be said to be invincible in the county.

But if we take the entire human world as a whole, the forty-plus levels can only be considered a mid-level combat power. It must reach at least the sixty-plus levels, or even the seventy-level level, to be considered a high-level combat power.
To be continued...