Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 56: The Strange One Being Watched

Facing Pei Yan’s question, Wang Wenze dipped a dumpling from the lunchbox into vinegar, speaking without lifting his head: "Someone from the Daoist Plane."

"Ah! Weren’t they all supposed to be sent back?" Pei Yan took small sips of chicken soup and asked in bewilderment upon hearing the words.

Wang Wenze got up, went out, and returned a moment later with a small bottle of mustard oil. As he dripped oil into a dipping dish, he said, "Not everyone who crosses over gets sent back! This is exactly what I was telling you about the complexity of our mission."

Saying that, he touched the sauce with his chopsticks, put it in his mouth, tasted it, and indicated the man on the screen with his chopsticks: "Take him for example, he’s been here for about twenty years. It’s almost a rite of passage for newcomers to start by monitoring him."

"Why let them stay? Isn’t that dangerous to our world?" Pei Yan slurped the cooling soup loudly before continuing his questions.

After swallowing the dumpling in his mouth, Wang Wenze took a sip of warm water, moistened his lips, and answered, "There are many reasons, some related to their cultivation technique. For example, their soul might need reincarnation, which they call soul crossing. It’s said that souls become more resilient through such trials, and when they merge back with their original body, they elevate significantly."

"But when their soul is most fragile and they have many enemies in their original world, they come to ours, sealing their past life’s memories and completing a life cycle here. Others come seeking refuge after causing big trouble, nowhere to go, and their sect can’t protect them, so they self-destruct a large part of their cultivation and seal their abilities to hide in our world. Some seek to temper their mind in the mundane world for various other reasons. However, the prerequisite is the sealing of most of their cultivation, and they can stay only if they don’t break the current world’s laws."

At the end, perhaps because he used too much mustard oil, Wang Wenze started to tear up and Pei Yan quickly handed him a few tissues. He wiped his face, blew his nose, and joked: "People like them give some benefits to the country to earn the right to stay. Otherwise, where do you think such magical materials and equipment in your ring or Jiezhi Space come from? It’s all shady PY deals behind the scenes."

"What about him?" Pei Yan asked again, scrutinizing the man on screen after finishing his soup and starting on his boxed meal.

"I don’t know, the higher-ups didn’t specify, but I guess he’s no small fry. Continuous surveillance for twenty years, twenty years! I was only four back then, and you weren’t even born!" Wang Wenze remarked, clicking his tongue as he munched on complimentary garlic from the meal.

Hearing this, Pei Yan suddenly felt the man’s image heighten in his mind. Could he once have been a great king too, roaming the earth with a sword, sweeping the world with his aura, but now, abandoned by love, he had fallen into despair?

Seeing Pei Yan daydream about a fantasy novel while staring at the monitor, Wang Wenze called out to him twice with no response, then slapped him on the back, "What are you daydreaming for? Hurry and eat before it gets cold."

"This guy might have been a king, or maybe a lovesick person like Li Xunhuan." Pei Yan mumbled as he shoveled food into his mouth.

Wang Wenze, hearing this, showed a weird smile, shaking his head: "I don’t know if he’s a king, but he certainly isn’t lovesick!"

"Why?"

"Just watch for a few more days, pay attention to his house after ten o’clock and you’ll see!" Wang Wenze replied with a mischievous smile at the clueless Pei Yan.

"Alright!"

Four days later, leaning against the window frame, peeking through the curtain gap, it was still that shopfront room. The stickers for beauty and hair services above had long been battered by the weather, looking dilapidated with some words missing.

Pei Yan never paid much attention before, but this barber shop, never open during the day, was particularly lively at night. Through his observations, after nine o’clock, a scantily dressed, lovely woman would always emerge from the shop, leaning by the door, and one or two strange men would always enter his surveillance range, wrapping an arm around her soft waist and strolling into the shop with smiles.

Pei Yan was a novice in this regard, but as the saying goes, even if you haven’t eaten pork, you’ve seen pigs run. At first, he didn’t understand, but after seeing men with eager faces enter, light-footed and jubilant an hour later, even an idiot could figure it out.

"Brother Wang, she’s a... chicken, right?" Pei Yan dropped the curtain, stammering as he questioned Wang Wenze, who was reclining on the bed playing a mobile battle royale game.

Wang Wenze glanced at the surprised Pei Yan and chuckled: "Speak properly, no need to stutter. Want me to pay for you to try it out? Her fee isn’t cheap!"

"She’s really a chicken!!!" Pei Yan exclaimed, plopping into his seat, thunderstruck. Thinking back on the girl’s face and body, she was remarkably beautiful even among internet celebrities.

Wang Wenze’s eyes stayed glued to the screen as he humorously wiggled, "Yeah, don’t believe me? Want me to show you their live porn? I left some surveillance inside their room before."

"Damn, I didn’t expect that man was a pimp! Doesn’t the bureau care? Just because he’s from another dimension, he can do such things?"

"Why care! It’s voluntary on both sides!"

"Voluntary or not, it’s still unacceptable! Why should our girls support men from another world?" Pei Yan, filled with righteous anger, slammed the table and growled.

"Oh wow, look at you, Mr. Machismo. But I think you misunderstood. The person doing it willingly is actually the same man you saw during the day, he turns into that girl. He wants to sell himself, and you have no say in it."

Wang Wenze, saying the latter part, even stopped his game, sitting cross-legged. He had been waiting days just for this moment. Picking up his phone, he captured Pei Yan’s exquisite expression upon learning the truth and shared the photo with a group message in the bureau’s chat, titled "Pei Yan After Learning the Truth."

And a string of likes followed below!

"Ugh, ugh!" Pei Yan finally came to his senses after a while, realizing his physical attractions towards that person made him almost vomit his dinner.

"That guy is a Human-Demon! That guy is actually a Human-Demon! How could he be a Human-Demon??" Pei Yan’s reaction validated the human tendency to repeat things. freewebnoveℓ.com

After sending another video of Pei Yan in this loop to the group, Wang Wenze tossed his phone aside, raising his right hand, jeeringly reassuring: "Alright, calm down! I can assure you with my 8 GB of personal videos on my computer, she’s not a Human-Demon!"

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