Next day, early morning.

Han Zhan woke up from his sleep.

His left arm was being used as a pillow by Xia Youwei, who was curled up in his embrace like a sleepy kitten, lazily stretching.

His right arm was being held tightly by Li Lingzhen.

Seeing this, Han Zhan suddenly felt like he was living the life of a winner.

He quickly and discreetly withdrew his hand from Li Lingzhen's embrace, feeling a bit guilty, and glanced at Xia Youwei.

After a while, the other two also woke up.

"Let's go, it's getting late. From today, we officially investigate the Erosion Insect incident." Han Zhan said, speeding up and walking out of the room first.

As soon as he stepped out, he bumped into Li Shutong, who was having breakfast.

Li Shutong looked at him meaningfully and said, "You young ones really know how to have fun."

"Master...? What are you talking about?" Han Zhan looked completely puzzled.

"Don't pretend, I came back last night. The noise from your room was so loud, I'm not deaf, you know."

"Kid, treat Lingzhen well!"

Hearing this, Han Zhan suddenly understood that Li Shutong must have misunderstood last night's events. Just as he was about to explain, Xia Youwei and Li Lingzhen came yawning out of the room.

"Ah, so tired, we messed around all night last night."

"Yeah, I've never been this exhausted, my waist is about to break."

With their words, the misunderstanding only deepened. Han Zhan felt the way Li Shutong looked at him change.

Finally, he patted Han Zhan's shoulder and sighed.

"Young man, take care of your body, don't overdo it."

With that, he left without looking back.

"This..." Han Zhan was speechless, on the verge of tears.

Last night, through testing, they concluded that the Shennong Cauldron could refine up to thirty Elixirs a day.

After refining thirty Elixirs, the Shennong Cauldron temporarily loses the "Refining Essence and Returning to Truth" ability.

It completely recovers the next day.

These thirty Elixirs were divided, ten per person, and Han Zhan himself tried ingesting them to feel the effect; each Elixir could increase 1% of his Spiritual Power.

This meant that just by swallowing a hundred Elixirs, Han Zhan could attempt to break through to Tier Three!

How long would a hundred Elixirs take? Only three days!

This is an unimaginable speed, whether for refining material into Spiritual Power or breaking through realms, it's unprecedented.

If the Longevity Company found out about Li Lingzhen's Contracted Spirit Talent, they would only do two things.

Mobilize the entire company to invite Li Lingzhen to join them.

Or, mobilize the entire company to kill Li Lingzhen!

So the fewer people know about Li Lingzhen's Contracted Spirit Talent, the better.

"What should we do now? Where do we investigate?" Li Lingzhen asked eagerly.

"Currently we're not sure. All we know about the Erosion Insect comes from our missing 0527 team members."

Li Lingzhen leaned over and took a look at Bai Shuang's photo.

She suddenly let out a small sound of surprise.

"I think I've seen this person. Doesn't she often go dancing at nightclubs?"

"How do you know?"

"Because I often go to that dance hall?" Li Lingzhen said, seeing Han Zhan and Xia Youwei confused, and continued to explain, "Breeze Dance Hall, the biggest dance hall in Deep Blue City. Don't you know?"

"The number one nightclub all the City Guardians choose for nightlife entertainment. The girls there, each one, tsk-tsk-tsk."

When Li Lingzhen said this, she clicked her tongue several times, looking just like a lecherous old man.

It was quite the performance.

"Then why do you go to places like that?" Han Zhan asked, confused.

"For material, of course. Novels come from life, don't you understand? I am a writer focused on realism. If I don't gather enough life material, how can I write immersive articles?"

Li Lingzhen spoke with confidence.

Not remembering at all that her best-selling book had been banned online.

Young lady, there's nothing wrong with gathering material, but couldn't you gather more positive material?

"Then how do you know Bai Shuang?"

"Ah? She's called Bai Shuang? I only knew her as Red Iris, is that her stage name?"

Li Lingzhen shook her head, "It was a coincidence, really. I went to Breeze Dance Hall in March looking for material, and happened to see her on her first day as she was scolded by the manager for not wanting to wear revealing clothes."

"A beautiful young woman, becoming a dancer to make a living, what a great material."

"I remembered her and made her the heroine in my book. That's why I remember her so well."

After listening to Li Lingzhen's recount, Han Zhan and Xia Youwei looked at each other.

Isn't this the clue we needed?

"Let's go, set off immediately to Breeze Dance Hall!" Xia Youwei stood up first and said.

She was about to move when Han Zhan stopped her.

"Wait a minute."

"Before going to Breeze Dance Hall, we need to make some preparations."

Han Zhan mysteriously pulled Xia Youwei upstairs.

When they came down again, Li Lingzhen suddenly caught a special scent and wrinkled her nose.

"No way, you two, doing it even in broad daylight? The smell is so strong!"

"You can smell it?" Han Zhan asked.

"Of course I can, eww, stay away from me!" Li Lingzhen backed away from Han Zhan with a disgusted look, "Couldn't you take a shower after doing that? The smell is so strong, it's disgusting!"

"Also, based on my findings, guava, maca root, dark chocolate, avocado, blueberries increase quantity; walnuts, beer, wine, honey, ginger, cucumbers, sweet peppers, etc., might make it taste better; wheat, kale, cilantro, spinach, and other leafy greens could enhance health and vitality;

Avoid garlic, onions, broccoli, cabbage, alcohol, asparagus, meats, dairy, coffee, and other caffeinated drinks; these might make it taste worse, more bitter..."

Li Lingzhen suddenly rattled off a long list.

What kind of terrible knowledge have you accumulated?!

"We didn't." Xia Youwei quickly explained, "It's not that thing... it's the scent of stone pear flower."

"Stone pear flower?" Li Lingzhen was taken aback.

"It's really not that?"

"What are you thinking, do you think we're all like you, with nothing but raunchy thoughts in our heads?" Han Zhan tapped Li Lingzhen on the head.

He and Xia Youwei indeed sprayed themselves with the juice extracted from crushed stone pear flowers.

The reason Han Zhan did that was simple.

Because the Erosion Insects have a weakness, or rather, a method to determine if someone is parasitized by them.

Which is: Erosion Insects are very sensitive to the scent of stone pear flowers. When they smell it, their emotions become extremely irritable, even frenzied.

The Breeze Dance Hall is where Bai Shuang works, who knows if there are any other parasitized people keeping watch. So Han Zhan found this method in Lin Jingxuan's notes.

After spraying Li Lingzhen with the stone pear flower juice as well, the three of them were prepared.

Target, Breeze Dance Hall!

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