The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

Su Qi was in the car, speeding along the highway.

It was, so to speak, the journey to the so-called headquarters.

City Security Bureau.

According to the young man, although this city boasted a population of several millions, with an immense scale and complete social functions, having intact systems for economy, politics, and culture,

the truth was,

they were all merely Mirrored Flower Water Moon, NPCs generated from the Old Days; it was them, the people from the Present World and the Abyss, who were the living beings truly fighting within.

However,

Su Qi found it quite interesting. It was a confrontation that didn't necessitate fighting, involving... urban security? Social governance?

Furthermore...

Su Qi looked at the countdown on his pocket watch.

The peace of the city by day seemed to determine the advantage gained by both sides amidst the chaos of the night, which was why these people were so desperately working in the shadows to maintain or disrupt the urban order.

The car continued its smooth drive.

Since the beginning, Su Qi had noticed all the various hidden patterns inside the vehicle.

The car had obviously been modified, emanating an aura belonging to Spiritual Energy.

"As long as ordinary people don't discover our power, it's not considered breaking the rules," the young man had responded in this way.

And he chatted with Su Qi sporadically.

Su Qi had also learned that the man's name was An Nan, and judging from his sequence, the man's original strength was merely Seventh Rank, his appearance in this land of slumber for countless extraordinaries and demigods.... was quite surprising.

Soon,

Su Qi saw the City Security Headquarters, which was also sizable, housing not only armed personnel but also bringing together an abundance of societal functions.

"Let's go."

An Nan led the way, seemingly familiar with every person there.

Of course,

Su Qi had noticed they were all ordinary people without powers, or in short, generated NPCs.

And as they walked, Su Qi's eyebrows raised slightly, for the first person with a fluctuation of Spiritual Energy aura, similar to An Nan's, appeared.

He was a middle-aged man, his expression solemn and carrying the dignity of a superior. Su Qi looked at his head, which had a [Demigod] question mark floating above it.

The man didn't look at Su Qi or An Nan, passing by calmly, but as he did,

a voice softly emerged.

"Lord An Nan, don't involve yourself tonight," a middle-aged man with a fierce scar on his face whispered gravely:

"The balance has already tipped today, tonight will become very dangerous, and with the arrival of those perilous Abyss beings... nothing is predictable, your safety..."

An Nan frowned but did not respond, calmly proceeding with Su Qi, "Let's go, it's time to get in the elevator."

Su Qi's eyebrows twitched slightly.

To be honest,

they were using a way of sound transmission, and although his own spiritual power was quite high, it was only at the level of Sequence 6. Moreover, given that the middle-aged man in front had Demigod strength, eavesdropping was impossible for him.

But that didn't stop the information from jumping out occasionally.

"A Demigod calling a Seventh Rank 'Lord'..." Su Qi looked at An Nan, who had entered the elevator first, with great interest.

Seeing a young, low sequence face in the Land of Old Days was strange in itself.

After all, in the last battle, those who could participate were at the minimum extraordinaries, with others engaged in large-scale battles in the countless lower worlds.

However,

it wasn't important.

Nowadays, any youth from the New Era entering the Ancient Gate came with various bloodlines, backgrounds, heritages.

Without such powerful labels, no matter how talented one was outside, they would pale in comparison here.

"It seems An Nan is also a Divine Son, and quite an extraordinary one at that."

Su Qi mused to himself.

There were differences even among Divine Sons.

Like Bei Shenxing, that guy... he wasn't comparable to Divine Sons like Du En at all, Du En was just a distant descendant of the Pigeon God.

Not to mention that the Pigeon God's power wasn't all that high among the Divine, the dilution and distance of the blood, it couldn't compare to the direct descendants of Divine Sons.

Furthermore, it appeared... Bei Shenxing was a Young Master from one of the powerful clans with many Gods.

An Nan also came from a background with a Demigod as a subordinate.

"Tch, in the end, this world is all about backgrounds." Su Qi couldn't help but miss the years when Evil God had pushed him up the ranks.

Of course,

this time it seemed not to be a ranking that was being beaten, but himself.

"Because we can't be discovered by ordinary people, the real place isn't on the surface top floor, but somewhere else"

An Nan reached out, waved his hand with Spiritual Energy, and slowly a new button emerged on the top level of the elevator.

He pressed it gently.

The entire elevator... roared downward, plummeting towards the ground!

Su Qi barely moved, but he thought that the Buxian headquarters could perhaps incorporate similar secret passages in the future; not for concealment, but for... a sense of ceremony.

It could be quite effective for impressing newcomers and showing off.

And soon,

after a muffled boom,

the elevator doors had already snapped open!

"Here, this is our place..."

As soon as An Nan opened the door,

this floor was... full of hidden departments, and people of all sorts walked back and forth, each with an aura of Spiritual Energy different from ordinary people, all busy and distressed.

As if in this place, it wasn't the extraordinaries, the High sequence, or even demigods who were present, but rather a group of frantic, troubled workers.

An Nan cleared his throat and said, "Follow me first."