My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange-Chapter 22 - Citywide Search

His qi fluctuated slightly, causing his face to flush, he lowered his head, raised his hand, and stuttered in a low voice, “Shop…shopkeeper!”

“Hmm?”

Xiang Ji, who was finishing up his final instructions, looked at Wang Zijia in the crowd. Out of nearly 20 people in the talisman and charm area, he was the only minor.

“Do you have something to say?” Xiang Ji asked.

Everyone turned their eyes on him.

“The…the dog is acting strange!” Wang Zijia, with his head down and his face flushed, said in a low voice.

“Dog?” Everyone was taken aback, and Xiang Ji asked with a frown, “What’s wrong with the dog?”

I encountered Brother Meng Bei from the Law Enforcement Team subjugating a demon on my way to work the other day.” Wang Zijia took a deep breath, trying to stay calm.

At the mention of this, all the miscellaneous workers became interested.

“At that time, I noticed that a dog was barking madly at us from two blocks away. That’s how I discovered the battle,” Wang Zijia explained.

“Are you saying that a dog detected the fight or the demon before you, a congenital martial artist did?” Xiang Ji asked, his eyes shimmering.

“Yes! Brother Meng Bei from the Law Enforcement Team also noticed it!” Wang Zijia added.

Xiang Ji frowned upon hearing this, “Are you sure the Law Enforcement Team noticed it too? Why wasn’t this mentioned during the investigation yesterday?”

“Well, they must have noticed it because I ran into him!” Wang Zijia responded.

Xiang Ji paused to think about what Wang Zijia was trying to convey and then he looked surprised at the young boy with a flushed face in front of him.

The boy seemed not to be ignorant but just a little shy, and certainly not stupid!

“I understand!” Xiang Ji nodded and then said, “I take back my previous words. Your father has taught you well!”

After speaking, he looked at the people with different expressions and said, “Alright, that’s all for today, go back to work!”

Upon hearing this, everyone dispersed like birds scattering.

“Wang Zijia, think more about my proposal,” Xiang Ji said to Wang Zijia, who was about to leave, before turning away.

All the people who had already scattered looked at Wang Zijia with strange expressions. Some even wanted to joke about it. After all, there were no secrets among the first-floor workers, let alone in the talisman and charm area.

Everyone understood his proposal.

Wang Zijia’s face was almost bleeding, he fled the front hall and returned to the warehouse.

When he got to his rest area, he took a deep breath. It was quite stressful to pretend to be naive in front of so many people.

He hoped it was worth it!

…

It was another day of idling on the job. On his way home from work in the afternoon, Wang Zijia noticed that the City Guard Team was going door-to-door looking for dogs.

However, Wanyu City was a cultivation city where life was difficult for ordinary people, and as there was no need for guard dogs, there were even fewer pet dogs.

Even though they had searched all day, they hadn’t found much!

Wang Zijia ignored this, he took all his money, received seventy spiritual materials from the warehouse, and went home to process the spiritual materials.

He didn’t finish processing them until dinner was ready.

After dinner, he processed for a while longer before he finally finished processing all the materials. He then adjusted his status and started making talisman cards.

The effect of last night’s cultivation kicked in at this time, allowing him to produce more than ten cards at a time before feeling exhausted. The recovery time, however, was longer, but the overall efficiency had improved quite a bit.

It was midnight before Wang Zijia had finished using forty to fifty parts of the materials, with a success rate just over eighty percent.

Knowing that it was already midnight, Wang Zijia stopped making talismans. He stored the talisman cards and remaining materials in the secret room, changed his clothes, and went out again.

“Woof woof!”

“Whine!”

It was a strange night, with dog barks occasionally echoing through Wanyu City. There were wild barks, frightened whimpers, creating a rather lively atmosphere.

Wang Zijia stealthily moved around the city.

However, he had changed his direction tonight. For the past two days, he had mostly been wandering around West City, and the Law Enforcement Team had been doing the same since the pollution source was there.

But Wang Zijia felt that West City was too lively tonight, and after two days of searching, most of the remaining were hiders, who would require a certain method to draw out.

So he just went to East City, where there were the least problems, to start searching. After all, since it was all about drawing out the people in hiding, the lesser patrolled East City was a better option.

…

Transformed into a shadow, Wang Zijia swiftly navigated through the city. The patrols were noticeably less after leaving West City District.

Even because the personnel were mainly skewed towards West City District, some areas in the East City District had even less patrols than usual.

This made it much easier for Wang Zijia to infiltrate.

But after searching for half a day like a carpet-bombing, he found nothing. He neither encountered a battle nor met any polluters that made his qi fluctuate.

“Strange, there was such a large audience that day, even if East City is a bit far, there must have been people who went there. It can’t be such a coincidence that no one in East City has been polluted, right?”

“Does pollution also discriminate by area?”

“Or has East City already been thoroughly searched these past two days?”

While engrossed in his thoughts, Wang Zijia continued his search. Thinking of the bustle of West City just now and the quiet of East City.

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It was the same city, but different areas felt like two different worlds.

With these doubts in mind, Wang Zijia, refusing to give up, searched for another half an hour. Just when he had covered about half of East City, he suddenly stopped.

An inexplicable irritation crept up from his heart, making him unconsciously want to get away from this area. At the same time, his innate True Qi, which had been whitewashed many times, began to become active again, evoking a familiar feeling of pleasure.

The emergence of two conflicting emotions caused Wang Zijia’s eyes to flicker.

Following this contradictory feeling, Wang Zijia silently slipped away.