With Ning Beichen's current strength, dealing with them was like a dimensional reduction attack, requiring no effort.
After eliminating these malevolent souls, Ning Beichen continued his search for the culprit within the black mist.
However, unlike before, there was no castle here. Ning Beichen's feeling was that this place was more like an abandoned alternate dimension.
Ning Beichen's main objective was to find the entrance to the Sun Goddess's location and, if possible, destroy this passage.
Only by doing so could he completely prevent the Sun Goddess from treating her world as a hunting ground.
Despite searching for a long time, Ning Beichen found no entrance or passage here. He also found no more malevolent souls or enemies, giving him the impression that this place was overly desolate.
This disappointed Ning Beichen. He had hoped to find a big fish here, but only found a few insignificant ones.
Just then, Ning Beichen suddenly heard a scream, and the sound of the scream felt somewhat familiar.
So, Ning Beichen flew towards the direction of the scream to investigate.
Meanwhile, Su Rui had just climbed down a steep mountain peak when she encountered several malevolent souls. Terrified, she screamed repeatedly and hastily drew her weapon, issuing a warning to the horrific monsters.
"I am official agent Su Rui, number 7513. I warn you… I warn you not to approach."
But the malevolent souls paid no heed to her weapon and lunged at her.
These malevolent souls were originally transformed from ordinary human souls and had lost their own consciousness, acting only on instinct. Therefore, Su Rui's threats were useless against them.
"Don't come any closer, or I'll shoot."
Su Rui clutched her weapon, unsure of what these entities were, her hand trembling as she held the gun.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Seeing that they ignored her warning, Su Rui gritted her teeth and fired three shots at them.
However, the bullets passed directly through the bodies of the malevolent souls, only causing them to pause slightly, inflicting no actual damage.
Su Rui gritted her teeth again and fired several more shots, emptying her magazine, but still could not stop the malevolent souls.
"Help! Is anyone there to save me!"
Su Rui felt close to breaking down. She didn't know where she was, nor what kind of monsters these were that bullets couldn't kill. She had never felt so helpless before.
At this moment, several malevolent souls had already closed in on Su Rui. Just as she was about to lose her life, a figure descended from the sky and landed in front of the malevolent souls.
With a few snaps and cracks.
These malevolent souls were torn apart by the figure with their bare hands.
"Agent Su Rui, didn't I tell you not to follow me? Fortunately, I heard your call, otherwise, you would have been waiting for death."
Ning Beichen said to her with displeasure.
"I… I didn't. I was pulled in."
Su Rui explained with some grievance.
"Forget it, the reason doesn't matter. Since you're already here, stay with me. Don't run around again, or no one will be able to save you."
Ning Beichen said helplessly.
"Okay… okay, Ning Beichen, wh-what is this place? It's so terrifying."
Su Rui asked with a tremor in her voice.
"Didn't I tell you? This is a non-natural world. Your weapons are useless here, which is why I told you to leave again and again, yet you still got caught up in it."
Ning Beichen told her.
"Ning Beichen, I'm sorry. I misunderstood you. Can you tell me about this?"
Su Rui pleaded with Ning Beichen.
"Alright, I can tell you. But it's best you keep this to yourself and don't report it to your superiors. They won't believe you, and it will only cause you trouble."
After warning her, Ning Beichen told her about the Sun Goddess.
The more Su Rui listened, the more her heart sank. She never imagined that such things existed in the world.
Indeed, as Ning Beichen said, these were not things an agent like her could handle.
"Ning Beichen, th-then, is there anything I can do to help you?"
As an agent, Su Rui still asked instinctively.
"Yes, be obedient and don't cause trouble. That will be the greatest help to me."
Ning Beichen told her bluntly.
Although Su Rui felt a little resentful in her heart, she could only obey obediently.
However, what made Su Rui even more curious was, who exactly was Ning Beichen? Why did he know these things and wasn't afraid of the monsters here?
"Let's go. I'll take you away from here first."
Ning Beichen grabbed her and soared into the sky, flying through the air.
Su Rui screamed in fright. In her life, apart from flying in an airplane, she had never experienced such flight.
In the blink of an eye, Ning Beichen brought her to a relatively safe place and then landed.
Currently, Ning Beichen couldn't take her away. It was easy to enter this kind of place but difficult to leave.
To leave such an alternate dimension, one either needed a flying vehicle, to find an entrance and exit, or to destroy the space itself.
Ning Beichen had not brought a flying vehicle, so that option was out. Destroying the space was not an easy feat either. Therefore, the most common method was to find the entrance and exit passage.
However, Ning Beichen's greater hope was to find the passage leading to the Sun Goddess's location, enter, and destroy her, or destroy the passage. Only then could he prevent such incidents from happening again.
Otherwise, no matter how much Ning Beichen did, he would merely be a patcher, unable to solve the problem at its root.
"Right, the red mud figurine..."
Ning Beichen suddenly thought of something.
When he entered, he came through a red mud figurine. This meant that the red mud figurine was likely related to the passage. Next, as long as he found that red mud figurine, he might be able to find the passage.
However, this place was not small, and finding a single red mud figurine would not be easy…
Just as Ning Beichen was feeling troubled, his gaze fell upon the souls present.
Ignoring Su Rui's shriek, he scooped her up and flew on his sword, searching for the souls everywhere.
Before long, Ning Beichen found some souls.
But these souls were dazed and muddled, unable to answer Ning Beichen's questions.
Ning Beichen suddenly remembered Haitang. Haitang was a Miao shaman; she would surely have a way.
Although Haitang was not here, the communication device she gave him was still functional.
This device worked across dimensional spaces, so it should not be a problem here.