"Whew, is there a new person coming?"

Putting down his phone, the emaciated man sitting in a cluttered room let out a long sigh.

Opening his squinting eyes and tossing the half-smoked cheap cigarette into the ashtray, he slowly stood up, grabbed the black jacket from the hanger at the door and draped it over his body. Then he fumbled in his pocket and pulled out a key.

"Is there still electricity......" he muttered as he looked out the window at the dirty electric car in the carport.

-- The electricity bill at home has been urgent, and I have been short of money recently, so if the electric car runs out of power again, I am afraid that I will have to walk over.

Miss Frankenstein doesn't laugh at herself, but she always feels guilty about being late. And......

"I have something to ask her for this time, and I have to make a good impression on her." The man clenched his fists secretly.

Pushing open the paint peeling off the door, the man stepped out of the dilapidated rental house and rode his long-overdue electric car.

Even though he looks like an extremely down-and-out loser, he is actually a shining star in the industry, known as a genius that is rare in a thousand years, enough to rival the existence of ancient myths!

The only problem is ...... He chose the wrong profession.

His name is Li Wenchong, and he is the 497th graduate of Maoshan Taoist Academy, and the only graduate of this last class.

This person was abandoned by his parents at the gate of the Maoshan Taoist Academy when he was a child, and was picked up by Zhang Tianshi of the Taoist Academy.

And the talent shown by Li Wenchong did not live up to Zhang Tianshi's expectations of him.

When he was fifteen years old, his ability to draw talismans to subdue demons and eliminate demons had completely surpassed Zhang Tianshi. He was even praised by Zhang Tianshi as a genius who "if he was born a thousand years early, he would definitely be famous in history"!

The problem, however...... He was born too late.

When Li Wenchong officially graduated from the Maoshan Taoist Academy and went down the mountain with his bags on his back, he found that this world was completely unsuitable for Taoist priests to survive.

――I don't know anything other than Taoism-related things. It took nearly a year just to adapt to modern society.

At this time, the "entanglement" that the Celestial Master gave himself before he left had already run out, so he could only start looking for a job, but the problem came......

-- My "academic qualifications" are completely unreliable.

Although there is a book of heaven handed down by Zhang Tianshi, no employer recognizes his "Maoshan Taoist Academy" academic qualifications, and the result is that he has been blasted out by the interviewers of the employer countless times. There were even a few times when the other party called the people from the psychiatric hospital very considerately, and he was almost captured by those big men.

I finally found a manual job as a porter in a factory on the outskirts of the city. On the second day of his employment, Li Wenchong found that there were ancient unjust souls in the boss's office, so with a wave of his hand, he made thirty self-made Taoist talismans and pasted them at the door of the office, completely expelling the unjust souls.

The next day, the boss, who saw the scene through surveillance footage, called him to the office. This conversation ensued:

"You posted these talismans?" The boss asked.

"Yes." Li Wenchong puffed out his chest proudly.

"Why?" The boss continued to ask.

"Exorcise the souls of injustice." Li Wenchong explained.

"Oh...... Thank you very much. The boss nodded meaningfully.

Hearing this, Li Wenchong waved his sleeves in a dashing manner and said with a smile: "Don't thank me, it is our duty to kill demons and demons, as long as I am here for a day, there will be no place for demons and monsters in the factory!" ”

- As a result, he didn't make it to the next day, and he was fired from the factory.

After that, Li Wenchong finally gave up trying to find a job completely. Instead, he continued his job - slaying demons and demons.

It's a pity that the first "demon" he encountered was the "person" who couldn't be defeated at all......

"Buzz!"

The angry whistle in front of him made Li Wen rush back to his senses, only to realize that he was riding an electric car in the wrong direction, hurriedly returned to the original route, and shook his head with some annoyance:

"Do you remember the past again......" he shook his head helplessly.

- All in all, after a series of complicated experiences, he is now Frankenstein's subordinate, the head of the "Strange Tales Research Society" in this area.

The reason why Frankenstein established a branch of the "Strange Tales Society" in this city is because the city is located in a spiritual vein, and the probability of supernatural events is much higher than in other places.

There are also legends that suggest that the underground is likely to be inhabited by demons from the primeval era. So, when that thing wakes up, it's time to slice it.

Thinking of this, Li Wenchong couldn't help but sigh again:

"That young lady is really amazing."

If you don't say it, no one will associate that quiet and well-behaved little girl with the legendary mad scientist "Frankenstein".

But he had to admit that Frankenstein was definitely the strongest "demon" he had ever seen!

Absentmindedly riding an electric car to the outskirts of the city, Li Wenchong turned a corner at the fork next to the winding mountain road and drove down a winding path.

The path leads to a wastewater treatment plant that had been abandoned for many years, which had ceased to work long ago after the environmental authorities decided to ban the discharge of sewage into the river.

In such a deserted place, even if the sewage treatment plant is demolished, there are not many other facilities to build. Because of this, after all the equipment was removed, the treatment plant was abandoned here, and no one wanted to bother to dismantle it.

-- It's a good place like this to build some secret facilities.

Parking the electric car in the dusty courtyard of the treatment plant, Li Wenchong walked to the main entrance of the treatment plant with a familiar car, took out the key to open the door, and walked straight into the empty office building.

As soon as he walked into the empty office building, the dust on his face choked him and coughed repeatedly, Li Wenchong covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, squinted his eyes and took out his mobile phone, and continued to move forward with the bright light from the screen.

-- Naturally, the facilities of the "Strange Talk Research Society" cannot be located directly in the office building. His destination was the basement of the building.

Striding through the corridors of the office building, which had been unattended for a long time, Li Wenchong went straight to the storage room in the corner of the first floor and removed a heavy wooden box inside. Then he bent down, grabbed the inconspicuous handle on the ground, and pulled open the secret door in the basement.

"Whoa!"

With the sound of heavy metal grinding, the secret door, which was originally the same color as the ground, slowly rose, revealing the deep passage below.

Li Wenchong did not go down directly, but stood by the door and folded his arms.

"Well, now just wait for Frankenstein and them to arrive."

No sooner had the thought come to him than he heard the sound of a car engine outside the building.