Chapter 339: Where on Earth? (First Update)
After descending the stairs, he notified everyone, including the three-star exorcist Li Yue, that the woman in the black dress in the photo had been killed and would no longer appear.
Because all the people turning their heads in the photo had returned to normal, no one raised any further questions and everyone expressed their gratitude.
Li Yue and Huang Chen were particularly curious about how Yan Junze managed to kill the strangeness in his dream.
Li Yue mentioned that during his training in Huaying Great Capital, he had witnessed several exorcists join forces to strangle a dream strangeness.
This was because the scene where the strangeness appeared was very special--it took place in a dream, or what is known as the mind's magnetic field of the subconscious.
The Huaying Great Capital exorcist team had simulated a dream magnetic field beforehand. The person beset by the strangeness and several exorcists entered the magnetic field to rest and fall asleep together, then forcibly created a dream of that person.
In this dream, the strangeness was trapped, unable to escape, and was killed by the exorcists working together.
For exorcist teams that did not have the conditions to create a magnetic field and faced such peculiar dream strangenesses, it would be very troublesome, which is why Li Yue was so curious as to how Yan Junze, alone in a dream, managed to independently exterminate the strangeness.
However, what answered him was Yan Junze's silent smile.
Some time ago at Tianmeng, Li Yue had already heard about Yan Junze's deeds, and now it seemed indeed true. There were some very peculiar or special strangeness cases, where this guy's approach after getting involved was very different from other exorcists and couldn't be measured by normal standards.
After confirming that everyone in the hall was safe, Huang Chen informed everyone that it was okay to disperse and go back to their respective homes.
The man called Yang Zhijun, who was under Li Yue's personal protection, promptly fell asleep on the sofa, and when his family arrived, they threw him into the car and dragged him home.
The others who left were all listless and weak.
After talking with Yan Junze, Huang Chen, and Li Yue for a few words, Huang Chen finally closed the door of No. 7 Mansion before leaving.
When Yan Junze passed by Fantasy Photo Studio, he greeted Gu Bai and Lin Meng. By this time, Xia Ruolan and her husband Deng Bing had already arrived there.
Although Gu Bai and his wife were not at No. 7 Mansion the previous night, they were always concerned about their friends and the situation there and did not sleep well.
Gu Bai was supposed to go to work in the morning but took the day off to wait for news. Having received good news from Yan Junze now, they were very happy and felt that their efforts hadn't been in vain.
Xia Ruolan and her husband thanked Yan Junze again, mentioning they wanted to pay him a reward, but Yan Junze declined.
According to Huang Chen, they occasionally received benefits from those involved when dealing with strangeness cases, to varying extents.
This was unavoidable, although not known to their superiors, it was tacitly accepted by everyone.
The only difference was that if an exorcist who was too greedy forcibly or excessively demanded a large sum of money or goods, and someone reported it, or if it was discovered by their superiors, they would still be severely punished.
Having completed the task related to the people in the photo, Yan Junze had actually gained a lot, and these gains were not just in terms of money. Besides, he was not short on money now in terms of income, even the monthly remuneration given by Ku Zai's father was sufficient for the expenses of his family of three.
Aside from buying some clothes and perfumes and the like, Xiang Er didn't spend much money.
Upon leaving Fantasy Photo Studio, and with Huang Chen and Li Yue having already departed, Huang Chen made a call to Yan Junze, informing him that he could go to the squad office anytime to register with his badge and record the merit of eliminating the dream strangeness.
When Yan Junze returned to the intersection of Lion Awakening Road, Xiang Er was waiting for him on the street corner. Passersby would occasionally cast glances at Xiang Er, and of course, the meanings behind the looks from women and men were utterly different.
"Did you take care of it?" Xiang Er asked.
"Let's go, back home to rest," Yan Junze said with a smile.
The two hailed a taxi, and upon arriving back at FH Community, they hadn't even gone upstairs when they found Ku Zai perched on the balcony railing upstairs, looking down anxiously.
Clearly, he was very concerned about their safety; after all, they were the ones who could protect him from the invasion of strangenesses, and if anything happened to them, he might have to return to his old ways.
Of course, Ku Zai found it strange that he felt safe in FH Community, but he was not sure how long this situation would last.
After returning home and chatting with his parents for a moment, he informed them that he had helped the exorcist team eliminate a strangeness the night before.
Yan Daguo and Li Man had grown accustomed to such occurrences and only reminded Yan Junze to be careful with his safety.
After sitting down to a breakfast together, Li Man announced her decision to resign from the cleaning company.
Now that their son was earning money at an astonishing rate and they were not lacking anything, she felt there was no point in working overtime day and night cleaning; sometimes she would go out before dawn, which could be dangerous.
But Yan Daguo had no intention of resigning because he had just been promoted to deputy head of his factory's office.
After a lifetime of work, he had finally made it to the position of a department deputy head, which delighted him. In the past few days at home, eating or watching TV, he would sometimes laugh for no apparent reason, like a simpleton.
Now, there was no way he would retire and just enjoy his twilight years at home!
However, the family had no plans to move to a more upscale community. Given the current situation, they saw that the likelihood of encountering strangenesses was the same whether it was an upscale or an old-style community.
The difference was that some powerful and wealthy people lived in upscale communities, like those in the Spectacular Courtyard.