There was still one year left until graduation from Tianlan High School.
The Bo City disaster was drawing nearer.
People still went to and from work every day as usual, and students still went to and from school every day as usual; no one realized what would happen a year later.
Their closest relatives and best friends would be devoured by demons.
The city would be in ruins.
To prevent all this from happening, Jiang Yuan, Mo Fan, and Zhang Xiaohou stood at the entrance of the Hunter Alliance.
"So what are we doing here today?" Mo Fan asked, puzzled.
"Yeah, Brother Yuan, why did you call us here today? The captain didn't notify us of any mission," Zhang Xiaohou also wondered.
As for why he was calling him captain, it was because Jiang Yuan had pulled him into the City Hunter Squad some time ago.
Originally, the City Hunter Squad's roster was full, but Jiang Yuan and Mo Fan's mission results were too remarkable.
To outsiders, it seemed like Xu Dahuang's squad had almost cleared up most of Bo City's demon incidents.
In reality, only the squad members themselves knew that over ninety percent of the credit belonged to Jiang Yuan and Mo Fan.
The two of them tirelessly accepted missions, and their strength was extraordinarily powerful; they had never failed a single one to this day.
Therefore, Xu Dahuang, who had no selfish motives, had the idea of letting Jiang Yuan establish his own Hunter Squad, and he didn't say much about Zhang Xiaohou's joining.
He just considered him Jiang Yuan's future team member.
"I need you two to help me with something," Jiang Yuan said.
"What is it? Just say it. What are we, strangers?" Mo Fan patted his chest and said.
Jiang Yuan organized his words: "I want to conduct a sweep within Bo City."
"What kind of sweep? It's not sweeping up demons, is it?" Mo Fan asked in surprise.
Sweeping up the hidden demons within the city would definitely be a difficult and massive undertaking.
"Not entirely, listen to me first," Jiang Yuan shook his head and continued to explain, "You should know that the demons in the city all emerge from underground. Their exits are either sewers or holes they've dug themselves, and they're very hidden."
"Mo Fan, you've also seen those kinds of holes. Last time we went to Xin Xia's school cafeteria, the hole that Giant-Eyed Blood Rat crawled out of was one of them."
"Mm-hmm." Mo Fan nodded, while Zhang Xiaohou looked confused.
They had been listening until now and still didn't know what Jiang Yuan wanted to sweep.
Jiang Yuan stopped procrastinating: "The sweep I'm talking about is to find as many of the holes where demons can appear in the city as possible and record all of them."
"That way, when we're strong enough in the future, we can find an opportunity to destroy all these holes, and then demons won't appear in Bo City anymore."
This reason was sufficient, but Mo Fan still didn't quite understand.
"Then why don't we destroy them now?"
"It's simple, because with our current strength, we can't completely eradicate them. Even if we block them, the demons will dig new holes, and then it will be very difficult to find them."
"Right now, it's better to find the holes, monitor all of them, and the casualties will be greatly reduced."
With Jiang Yuan's explanation, Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou understood.
"I didn't expect your awareness to be so high, Jiang Yuan; you're already thinking about how to prevent future troubles for our Bo City," Mo Fan said with a smile.
If you knew what would happen to Bo City in the future, you would definitely have such a high level of awareness.
Jiang Yuan's true thoughts remained unspoken.
The Bo City disaster had always been a regret for people like Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou, who survived it.
Jiang Yuan had this plan eight years ago.
The plan made eight years ago was to spare Mo Fan and the others the pain caused by the disaster.
Now, he himself had lived in Bo City for eight years and had long developed feelings for the place.
Therefore, this plan was also to protect the city where he had lived for eight years.
Mo Fan suddenly remembered something and asked, "I remember you started recording hole coordinates a long time ago, right?"
Jiang Yuan nodded: "I did record them, but it's only about one-third of the entire Bo City. It's too slow for me to do this alone. So, I came to you guys for help."
"Oh~ No problem, but you have to pay me," Mo Fan said with a grin.
"Brother Fan, why do you still want payment?" Zhang Xiaohou said to Jiang Yuan: "Brother Yuan, I don't want payment. Just teach me some magic experience."
"Go, go, go, get out of here." Mo Fan pushed Zhang Xiaohou away: "I was just joking, why are you taking it seriously? What kind of payment do close brothers need? Jiang Yuan, you can't just teach Xiaohou and not me."
Mo Fan really wanted Jiang Yuan to teach him how to connect the Star Orbit.
For so long, Jiang Yuan's Star Orbit connection speed had always been many times faster than his own. Some time ago, he could even achieve One Thought Star Orbit.
One Thought Star Orbit!
He had specifically gone to the library to look up information, and One Thought Star Orbit was a casting speed that only a High-level Mage could comprehend.
Jiang Yuan actually learned it at the elementary level; it was simply outrageous!
I am so envious!
"No problem, I've gained quite a bit of insight into magic recently. Once all the coordinates are recorded, I'll teach you all my experience." Jiang Yuan made a guarantee; in fact, he wouldn't hide anything.
A large part of his strength came from his innate talent, and only a small part was experience he had summarized himself based on a solid foundation of magic theory.
The three planned where to search for holes, and from then on, they began a thorough, digging-three-feet-deep search.
… … … …
Time passed day by day.
It turned out that Jiang Yuan had thought things were a bit too easy.
There were too many holes in the entire Bo City, and they were too hidden.
They originally searched for holes outside the range Jiang Yuan had recorded, but the density of holes in the same area was about one-sixth more than expected.
When they went back and searched again, they found that there were some very hidden holes in the original area that they hadn't discovered.
No wonder so many demons appeared in the city during the Bo City disaster, and demons were emerging everywhere.
It was entirely because there were too many holes.
While searching for holes, they would also encounter Giant-Eyed Blood Rats, One-Eyed Magic Wolves, and some non-Servant-level demons lurking inside.
The three dealt with them easily.
If they hadn't actively discovered them, many people would probably have disappeared in the dark.
Thus, the three spent much more time than anticipated.
They searched from the first quarter of their senior year until the end of the second quarter before finally finishing.
"Ah!"
"It's finally over!"
At Jiang Yuan's house, Mo Fan let out a long howl, as if shouting out all the fatigue he had accumulated during that time.
"That's right, Brother Fan!!!" Zhang Xiaohou also shouted.
It was truly exhausting.
Aside from meditating, the rest of the time was spent either searching for holes or on the way to search for holes.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuan smiled and comforted them: "Even though it's tiring, our magic cultivation has also improved very quickly; it can be considered a form of training."
"You're not wrong," Mo Fan lay comfortably on the bed, closing his eyes as if feeling his magic Star Dust.
There were many ways to improve cultivation speed.
Using combat to promote it was one of them.
Mo Fan's Fire Star Dust had already reached level three more than three months ago, and its size had expanded to its limit, potentially breaking through to the intermediate level at any time.
One should know that originally, he was only supposed to reach level three on the eve of his duel with Yu Ang, but now he had done so more than three months in advance!
His Thunder Star Dust had also reached level three.
Zhang Xiaohou's Wind Star Dust also reached level three a few days ago.