Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 57 Is It Necessary?

"You’re saying that he’s a bona fide man during the day and a bona fide woman at night! And these two people are actually the same person?" Pei Yan asked after hearing Wang Wenze’s account, gesturing with both hands for a long time and finally bringing them together.

Wang Wenze shrugged and spread his hands helplessly, saying, "From the current observations, that seems to be the case!"

"How does he do it?" Pei Yan rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling ponderously.

Wang Wenze picked up a pack of cigarettes from the bedside, pulled out two, and tossed one to Pei Yan. "How would I know? Maybe it’s some kind of secret technique from the Daoist Realm!"

Pei Yan took the cigarette tossed by Wang Wenze and held it in his mouth, then thoughtfully asked, "Is she considered selling? Doesn’t the local police station care?"

"They care, why wouldn’t they care!" Wang Wenze lit the cigarette in his mouth, picked up the phone beside him, and tossed it in front of Pei Yan. "Call the police now, and they’ll immediately come and arrest her! Then she goes into detention for a few days for education, gets released, changes places, and continues selling. We have to move the monitoring point, rent a new place, and relocate equipment. If you don’t mind the trouble, go ahead and report."

Upon hearing this, Pei Yan put down the lighter he raised in surprise and said, "Good heavens, so dedicated? Doesn’t she have any other source of income? After all, she’s from the Daoist Realm, it shouldn’t be like this!"

"Yeah, not only you, even people in your department are puzzled! Several of them have visited, and even Elder Lin personally came to talk to her. From initially offering a simple, well-paying job to telling her she didn’t need to work, just stay home and we’ll pay her monthly, she insisted on ’earning her own living’ and sticking to selling herself no matter what!"

Wang Wenze, with the cigarette between his fingers, excitedly gestured and said, "Really committed, that damn guy is almost unstoppable, working all year without a break! Jiumu, the Commander — ah, the Commander is another buddy of mine, a funny nerd, I’ll introduce you later — the three of us, you know! We took turns surveilling her for a whole six months, during which she didn’t rest at all, do you know what that means? She doesn’t even have a physiological cycle, taking guests all year long."

He exhaled a smoke ring, nostalgically marveling, "If there were a model worker award for the prostitution industry, she’d definitely deserve it! Her arms are a thousand pillows, her lips a delight to tens of thousands of guests. Within the bureau, she and Liu Xiantong are dubbed the ’two wonders’!"

"Who is Liu Xiantong?" Pei Yan asked in puzzlement.

Wang Wenze casually replied, "A cultivator pursuing the ambition of being a crime lord in the Daoist Realm for nearly six hundred years."

"Oh! I know him! I saw Ye Jiumu catch him once. Wait, no! Jiumu said he came to our world twenty years ago, how could it be six hundred years? Are they not the same person?" Pei Yan recalled his findings from that day and asked.

Wang Wenze slapped his thigh and pointed at Pei Yan, "Exactly! The timing is correct! You don’t know, our timeline and that of other planes are different. Do you remember the myths from our ancient tales about heaven and earth?"

"Ah, I remember, a day in heaven is a year on earth!" Pei Yan nodded in response.

"In reality, it’s quite the opposite. Although the time flow between us and the Daoist Plane isn’t as exaggerated as a day being a year, it’s roughly like our one day equates to a month there. Twenty years, deducting Liu Xiantong’s chaotic period here, when he’s caught and imprisoned back for cultivation, translates to about six hundred years."

"There are such things!" Each in-depth conversation reveals new insights, growing Pei Yan’s intrigue about the hidden mysteries within this vast world.

"Yes, otherwise why would our human civilization develop in just a few thousand years while they casually spend hundreds cultivating," Wang Wenze flicked ash and continued, "That’s also why some so-called experts from that world seal their cultivation here to avoid heavenly tribulations and misfortunes. They hide here for decades, and perhaps their enemies in the Daoist Realm would naturally die of old age, then they could happily return."

"Ah, this world truly has every kind of person! Even those voluntarily selling themselves! Brother Wang, do you think they’re cultivating some sinister cultivation technique, absorbing Yang energy or something?" Pei Yan stood up, cigarette in mouth, returned to the window, and sighed while gazing downstairs.

"Stop imagining! If that were true, the bureau would have noticed earlier! Although it might be the case, who knows? But it has nothing to do with us! We just need to diligently monitor them, ensuring they don’t disappear from our sight!"

"Alright!"

A week later, having completed his first mission, Pei Yan appeared exhausted in the headquarters’ Teleportation Array. Seeing the three waiting outside the array with news, Pei Yan walked out, head lowered, not in the mood.

"Wow, back from a task and so grumpy! Not even saying hello! Officer Pei, how was the task?" Xia Yu playfully asked, walking backward in front of Pei Yan with hands mimicking a microphone.

Pei Yan sighed helplessly, spread his hands, "Is it necessary? Is it necessary?"

"What? What’s necessary? We don’t understand!" Ye Jiumu, standing behind Xia Yu, restrained his laughter, pretending to ask seriously.

"Taking pictures was bad enough, but turning my face into memes!" Pei Yan recalled opening the bureau’s WeChat group to see it full of memes featuring his photos, expressing bewilderment, shock, disbelief, suffocating operations, horrified yet gracefully smiling, and was instantly dumbfounded!

There was even a photo of him, eyes deep with intent, smoking while looking downstairs, paired with the text ’lonely night, where should my heart rest,’ he swore to God he didn’t know when Wang Wenze took that photo!

"Oops, it’s the feeling of heartache!"

"What! That guy is a Human-Demon! That guy is actually a Human-Demon! How could she be a Human-Demon??"

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Pei Yan looked expressionlessly at the three drama queens in front of him, surrounding him, vividly acting out Pei Yan’s words from that night with exaggerated gestures and tones, causing colleagues passing by the parking lot to hide their faces while laughing, sneakily taking pictures of Pei Yan’s amused expression.

Unfazed by the three, Pei Yan strode quickly towards the elevator. Xia Yu hurriedly followed, pretending to plea in grievance, "Why so angry? Oh, look at the cute face, come on baby, don’t be mad, be good! Let’s take a group photo to celebrate the successful completion of your first task."

Saying this, Xia Yu pulled out her phone to take a picture, but found it wouldn’t open. She turned to look at Liang Qian and Ye Jiumu, realizing they had the same issue. She soon understood the reason and looked up to see Pei Yan already stepping into the elevator.

"You brat! Turn my phone back on!" Xia Yu shouted while holding her phone, pointing at Pei Yan in the elevator.

Pei Yan stuck out his tongue, made a face at the three, and just as Xia Yu was about to rush into the elevator, snapped his fingers and smiled, closing the elevator door.

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