Ghost World Office

After wandering around the venue, Lu Yi found the members of the Human World Office of S City who had stayed on Yuanxing Island, and brought them back to the villa.

On the way back to the villa, everyone looked solemn and said nothing.

The sea breeze was blowing, and the trees on both sides of the road inside the resort were twisted crookedly by the wind, as if both the sky and the trees were about to collapse at any time.

After arriving at the villa, Lu Yi closed the doors and windows tightly, and said to everyone:

"If you have any questions, you can ask them now."

Lu Yi's voice fell for a long time, and no one spoke.

In the end, Cheng Lijun hesitantly raised his right hand, opened his sleeve, and a red progress bar was imprinted on his snow-white wrist.

Seeing the imprint on Cheng Lijun's wrist, Lu Yi's eyes dimmed, and he asked the remaining two, "How about you?"

Cheng Qiangjun and Shen Zhu lowered their heads and opened their sleeves, and red progress bars appeared on their skins.

"Lu Chu, what's going on?" Cheng Qiangjun was the first to ask.

The situation on Yuanxing Island is far more serious than Lu Yi expected.

Although I don't know what the Dark Portal is planning, Lu Yi estimates that these red progress bars must have something to do with Mu Shen.

So he told the remaining three about the wooden god.

After listening to Lu Yi's introduction of Wood God, Shen Zhu frowned, stroked the red progress bar on her wrist, and said thoughtfully:

"That is to say, the Portal of Darkness has already controlled the Wood God, and used the Wood God to create today's chaos."

"That's right." Lu Yi's expression was as calm as usual, but his tone was a bit cold, "I still don't know what this progress bar represents, and I don't know what will happen after reading the bar."

"Since this is the case, what is the goal of the Dark Portal?" Shen Zhu's question was to the point.

Shen An never does meaningless things, since such a big effort has been made, it must mean that there is something they want on Yuanxing Island.

Cheng Qiangjun then said: "Who else can it be? It must be Brother Ye. Didn't all the actions before the Dark Gate go to Brother Ye?"

After finishing speaking, Cheng Qiangjun looked around, belatedly realized that Tao Ye was not there, scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Where's Brother Ye?"

"Tao Ye is missing," Lu Yi said flatly, "I searched around but couldn't find him."

Cheng Lijun looked worriedly at the leaden sky outside the window, and whispered:

"Could it be captured by the people from the Dark Portal?"

"It's not sure yet." Pretending to be anxious, Lu Yi raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, but he was thinking about what to do next.

Judging from the current situation, the Portal of Darkness probably used the characteristics of the wood god's soul to mark all the members of the human affairs office on Yuanxing Island with a red progress bar.

But Lu Yi remembered very clearly that there was no progress bar on Tao Ye.

Right now, their top priority is to figure out what the progress bar represents, so Lu Yi pondered for a moment, then said to the others:

"Now that Tao Chu is missing, we must have someone to take the lead in our actions."

The other three are not fools, so they naturally understand the deep meaning in Lu Yi's words.

When Tao Ye was the director, Shen Zhu was the person who assisted Tao Ye on the surface, and she was actually the deputy director.

But everyone knew that it was Lu Yi who really assisted Tao Ye in his work.

So Shen Zhu said to Lu Yi: "Lu Chu, I listen to you."

Lu Yi nodded, instead of continuing on this topic, he changed the subject and assigned the three of them a task:

"It's an emergency. Cheng Lijun and Cheng Qiangjun are going to collect useful information in the resort, and try to see if they can figure out the meaning of the progress bar. Shen Zhu is going to track down Tao Ye's whereabouts."

After speaking, Lu Yi raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist. It was two o'clock in the afternoon.

After taking a deep look at them, Lu Yi said:

"Before six o'clock in the evening, come back here to report to work. Go out and pay attention to safety, and contact us at any time if you need anything."

……

After the three left the villa, Lu Yi sat down on the rattan chair by the window, looked out at the rough sea, and fell into deep thought.

He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, which was the brand Tao Ye often smoked.

Taking one out of the cigarette case, Lu Yi pinched the filter sponge with his fingertips, and after a long time, he found a box of matches to light the cigarette.

From this point of view, the decision to send Tao Ye out of Yuanxing Island should be right.

Regarding the red progress bar, Lu Yi has his own guess.

The progress bar did not appear on Tao Ye's body, it was definitely not by accident.Thinking about it from another angle, the biggest possibility is that the Portal of Darkness can't leave any mark on Tao Ye, so it can't use the characteristics of Mu Shen to achieve the purpose of controlling Tao Ye.

That being the case, the target of the Dark Portal must not be Tao Ye, but someone else.

Among the members of the Human World Office on Yuanxing Island, the one who is most useful to the Dark Gate is Lu Yi.

Before sending Tao Ye away, Lu Yi also considered many factors.Lu Yi not only didn't want Tao Ye to get into trouble, he didn't want to put Tao Ye in danger.

Having gone through so many troubles together, Lu Yi knew very well that Tao Ye was not someone who was afraid of difficulties and avoided hardships.

If Lu Yi really regarded Tao Ye as a weak person, it would be a desecration of Tao Ye's character.

Now in Yuanxing Island, and even in the whole world, the only person Lu Yi can trust is Tao Ye.

Keeping Tao Ye on Yuanxing Island means that once Yuanxing Island is completely controlled by the Dark Gate, they will lose the opportunity to communicate with the secret joint team.

Sending Tao Ye out, on the one hand, can guarantee Tao Ye's safety, and on the other hand, Tao Ye can also help Lu Yi from the outside with the resources of the Ghost Realm Management Office.

……

Just after six o'clock, Cheng Lijun and Cheng Qiangjun came back first.

Cheng Lijun's complexion was very bad, his lips were bloodless, as pale as withered petals.

Cheng Qiangjun helped his sister, and hurried in from the outside, first settled Cheng Lijun on the sofa in the living room, then found Lu Yi, and began to report what he saw and heard outside.

After the two brothers and sisters left the villa, they first went to the venue of the opening ceremony.

Although the opening ceremony has been cancelled, there are still many members of Human World Office gathered there.

They randomly stopped a few people to ask questions, and found that not only the human affairs office in S city, but also the human affairs offices in other cities were trying to find a way to investigate the red progress bar.

As soon as the information was collected, the Cheng Qiangjun brothers and sisters quickly pulled out the timeline:

The red progress bar appeared at the earliest after dinner yesterday, and at the latest this morning, before the opening ceremony.

"Is there anyone who doesn't have this progress bar?" Lu Yi leaned on the back of the chair, flicked the cigarette ash into the ashtray with one hand, and tapped the armrest of the rattan chair with his fingertips.

Cheng Qiangjun shook his head and replied, "Almost everyone has."

Slowly exhaling the smoke in his chest, Lu Yi said calmly, "Continue."

Swallowing, Cheng Qiangjun turned his head and took a bottle of drinking water from the table, unscrewed the bottle cap, raised his head and took a few sips, and then said:

"However, we heard that the situation is different at Z City Human World Office."