Shocking! The young educated youth had just arrived and was already clashing with spies.

Chapter 836 This matter cannot be explained; otherwise, it will only make things worse.

Unfortunately, Pei Zhengyang seemed to be deliberately concealing himself, his face looking as if it were welded to the ground, and he even wrapped his arms around it, so you couldn't see anything at all.

Chu Xin was also annoyed by his crying, so she straightened up and scolded him, "Alright, stop crying!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Zhengyang's crying stopped abruptly.

Not only that, all the wails and cries of pain disappeared at the same moment, and they could no longer feel the excruciating pain. Pei Zhengyang knew that Chu Xin had let them go, and he kowtowed even more gratefully.

Apart from Old Gu, who had already fainted, everyone else rushed over upon seeing this, saying, "Thank you, thank you..."

This scene amazed Yang Zheng and Ge Shaoting, who couldn't help but turn their inquisitive gazes to Chu Xin.

Chu Xin completely ignored them. Of course, she wasn't a saint. The reason she didn't kill Old Gu was because of what Pei Zhengyang had just said.

"A mission? Or is it related to Japan?"

Pei Zhengyang hadn't expected her to be interested in this, and fearing she might change her mind, he quickly recounted the entire incident in one go.

"Yes, yes, we came here because of a supernatural event deliberately planned by Japanese spies."

"In the rural areas here, people have always believed in the procession of gods, which can be said to be a relatively long-standing folk belief. However, due to national policies, no one dares to hold it on a large scale anymore."

But people's reverence for the gods has never diminished.

In early May this year, a strange thing happened in Lanshi Village, Xijiang. Some villagers claimed that they saw the true form of the wandering god that should have appeared in the first month of the lunar calendar at night. The god was wearing black clothes and riding on black clouds. He wandered around after everyone closed their doors and turned off their lights at night.

Upon seeing this, they were extremely devout and convinced, without the slightest doubt. They not only went door to door to inform others not to go out at night so as not to offend the deity and displease him, lest he steal the soul of anyone they encountered, but also widely proclaimed that any village where the deity had appeared would be blessed.

This has led to more and more people tacitly accepting the existence of that thing and helping it roam around.

At first, the news spread only in a small circle, but later people began to secretly worship the god even in the riverbanks and coastal areas outside the village. At this point, it was no longer a question of whether the people believed or not, but that everyone was watching the so-called god wander around the coastal and military stronghold of Guangzhou without reporting it.

It should be understood that this area controls key sea areas such as the South China Sea and the Pearl River Estuary. Such a situation, in which the entire population helps to cover it up and not report it, is extremely dangerous.

So after receiving the secret message, our team immediately set off for this location. After a long period of surveillance and tracking, we discovered that the procession was a ruse; someone was actually trying to exploit the people's faith for their own gain.

Hearing this answer, Chu Xin was both surprised and not surprised. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "They haven't caught them after all this time? Are there any other suspects? For example, are the two possibly connected...?"

Matsumoto Ken's group entry into the country was recent and time-limited, so it shouldn't be related to the fake god incident three months ago. However, a well-intentioned conspiracy often starts from a very early stage, and no one knows exactly how many people are involved until the very end.

Chu Xin felt that since they were both from the country of cherry blossoms, it was not impossible for the two sides to join forces to investigate.

Pei Zhengyang was a little embarrassed by the question. They had indeed been working on this for quite some time, but there were reasons for it.

“When we first arrived, everyone who had been fooled refused to cooperate with the investigation. At first, we couldn’t figure out the time and place of their appearances or the patterns. In addition, the area was too large, so it was naturally time-consuming and manpower-intensive to investigate and explore on our own. It wasn’t until we found local officials to do ideological work on those people that we finally got some clues.”

Also, because the other side is too cunning, some of their own supernatural beings use their abilities to create miracles to bewitch the locals and interfere with our progress, so our progress has been somewhat slow..."

Chu Xin raised an eyebrow; this "forced ideological work" was quite something to ponder.

Ge Shaoting was more direct, saying, "Why don't you just say you're incompetent? You're very efficient at bullying honest people."

Pei Zhengyang felt awkward. He glanced at the oblivious old Gu and instinctively felt that this matter could not be explained, otherwise it would only make things worse.