Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 1647: Chapter 958: Cloud City

"Do you know which prison he’s being held in?" Wu Qingcang asked.

"I don’t know, but he mentioned a number, 072134," Yang Xiao recalled.

As for Chen Nang, Yang Xiao only knew this much. Blame it on him for being so secretive.

Wu Qingcang vaguely remembered the name, but only a little. He couldn’t associate it with a specific person, nor could he remember what this guy did. Yet there was a strange familiarity about it.

Unable to figure it out, Wu Qingcang agreed to continue investigating the man and to inform Yang Xiao once he had results.

Wu Qingcang didn’t disappoint Yang Xiao; his efficiency was remarkable. Within half a day, he had preliminary results, and at 3:30 in the afternoon, while Yang Xiao was in the office familiarizing himself with work content, he received a call from Wu Qingcang asking him to come to his office immediately.

Upon reaching, he knocked on the door and entered only after permission was granted.

"The person you’re looking for has been found," Wu Qingcang stated directly.

"So fast? Where is he?" Yang Xiao asked in surprise.

"He’s in a special prison under the Nanzhe Province Public Office. I just confirmed it with Chief Zhou of Nanzhe Province; it’s definitely him," Wu Qingcang spoke with his usual convincing tone.

"Great!" Yang Xiao was now in desperate need of help, as he didn’t trust the surreptitious evil cultivators at all. "When can that... person be transferred to us?"

"Don’t rush; it’s a bit complicated. This Chen Nang... isn’t ordinary." Wu Qingcang signaled Yang Xiao to calm down and discuss slowly.

Yang Xiao also knew Chen Nang wasn’t ordinary, but if Wu Qingcang also felt this person was extraordinary, then this guy probably caused a major incident.

"Captain Wu, let me declare first, I’m not familiar with him. We’ve only bumped into each other once during a mission, and the cooperation was decent." Yang Xiao made his point clear: it’s best to rescue, but if not, he couldn’t risk himself. If this guy really committed some heinous crime, he couldn’t afford to ruin his own future.

The two were merely acquaintances, not friends—at best mutual admirers.

"But... did he kill someone?" Yang Xiao asked cautiously.

"Yes, killed several, in a village," Wu Qingcang replied.

"Many?"

"About... a few hundred," Wu Qingcang recalled. fгeewebnovёl.com

"Damn!" Yang Xiao was stunned. "A few hundred? Did he massacre a village?"

"More or less, there were no other survivors except him in the village."

"Malefactor!" Yang Xiao furiously distanced himself from Chen Nang, "Captain Wu, honestly, our Patrol Defense Office is too lenient. For such an evil cult leader, we should have administered clear and public justice. I say he deserves the death penalty ten times over!"

"Captain Yang, you seem a little tense," Wu Qingcang remarked, looking at the outraged Yang Xiao.

"Tense? Is it?" Yang Xiao asked awkwardly, "No, it’s just infuriating. I can’t believe I was blind to think of him as a talent. Beast! Bah! Undeserving of life!"

"Captain Yang, don’t rush; hear me out first," Wu Qingcang said calmly. "This person is indeed talented, no wonder you felt a connection."

Upon hearing Wu Qingcang associate Chen Nang with him, Yang Xiao’s face turned green. Even though he had briefly crossed paths with evil cultivation, in good conscience, he never committed village massacres—he only killed evil cultivators.

"Chen Nang has indeed slaughtered all the villagers, but with reason. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have let him survive this long. Our Patrol Defense Office isn’t as weak as you think."

"Seven years ago, Nanzhe Province experienced a supernatural incident. It was very unique, highly infectious, and extremely dangerous. The investigative team sent from nearby cities suffered heavy losses. The Nanzhe Province Public Office urgently recruited a group of experienced Angel Envoys to assist, and Chen Nang was among them."

"This person performed well on the mission. He discovered an escaping infected individual, but unfortunately, the person got away, leading him on a chase to a village."

"Based on various traces at the scene, this infected individual was hiding within the village. Unfortunately, at this moment, nobody knew how many in the village had been infected."

"Moreover, complicating matters, just a short distance west of the village was Cloud City, the capital of Nanzhe Province, with nearly ten million residents. Allowing even one infected person into the city would cause a disaster."

"Chen Nang couldn’t reach anyone; seeing dawn approaching, he made a decision to erase the village from the map."

"Post-event statistics revealed 481 bodies in the village. Several families that had lived there for generations were completely wiped out," Wu Qingcang spoke with a steady tone, as if a machine devoid of emotion. freeweɓnovel.cøm

Yang Xiao, having experienced a supernatural event himself, understood. More than a year ago in Mirror Bottle Village during the ghost phone supernatural incident, nearly no survivors remained there. Had it not been for Luming Bureau’s decisive action to completely shut down its office, Rongcheng would have been in danger too.

In terms of choice alone, Yang Xiao didn’t think Chen Nang was wrong. After all, he could’ve chosen to turn a blind eye and leave. Even if something happened in Cloud City, it wouldn’t be his responsibility, but he didn’t. Instead, he bore all the blame under the guise of village massacre.

Chen Nang was not only innocent but to some extent, meritorious. While this might seem unfair to the innocent villagers who died, it was reality.