Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'

Chapter 1062 556: Knife Labor Ghost of Yuezhou

The Judge's Pen burned the translation from the Ninth Room.

Li Banfeng didn't understand what the Judge's Pen meant, and the Phonograph was also curious: "Husband, what did the translation say?"

Before Li Banfeng could speak, the Judge's Pen answered proactively: "It's all nonsense!"

It was extremely rare for the Judge's Pen to speak on its own.

Not only did it speak up, but it even took initiative to do work: "Paper!"

The Gloves laid out the white paper.

"Ink!"

The Gloves ground the ink for the Judge's Pen.

"Photo!"

The Gloves held up the photo steadily.

Hong Ying was astonished: "What's gotten into you? Whatever he asks, you do it?"

The Gloves pondered for a moment and said: "Everything is for the master, there's no shame in that."

Usually bold enough to argue with the Old Man, the Gloves were obedient in front of the Judge's Pen.

Soon, the Gloves finished writing several sections of the translation while looking at the photo.

First section of translation: The Boundary originates from the annihilation of matter and antimatter. The source of antimatter comes from periodic fluctuations of dark matter.

Li Banfeng was startled: "Is this the research result on the Boundary?"

The Judge's Pen paid no attention to this and continued translating.

Second section of translation: The derivation and calculation process of triggering matter-antimatter annihilation.

Third section of translation: Error analysis during the calculation process.

The translation was just these three sections. After writing them down, the Judge's Pen returned to the shelf and shouted: "Cover me!"

With experience this time, Li Banfeng quickly took a silk handkerchief and covered the Judge's Pen.

The Judge's Pen turned over, and the handkerchief fell off.

"Too slippery, use newspaper!"

Disliking silk, Li Banfeng found a newspaper and covered the Judge's Pen.

Seeing these translations, the Phonograph was excited, "Husband, allow Little Servant to take these things and study them slowly."

Li Banfeng, holding the account book, went to the Judge's Pen: "Ah Bi, could you please translate this account book for us?"

The Judge's Pen turned over and ignored Li Banfeng.

Circling to the Judge's Pen's side, Li Banfeng continued: "Plenty to eat and drink, let's trade fairly."

After waiting for a while, the Judge's Pen seemed to have fallen asleep, so Li Banfeng had to put the account book away for now.

The magical treasures were still eating, with Miglov and over a dozen of his subordinates seated at the table.

Li Banfeng said to the Gloves: "Save a portion for Ah Bi, and find a chance to discuss translating the account book with him later."

The Gloves sighed: "Talented people are indeed hard to serve, Master, you shouldn't hold it against him."

Li Banfeng pushed open the door to the second son's room and looked towards the Ninth Room.

"Old Man, that one in the Ninth Room, is really a Literature Cultivator?"

The Portable Residence was researching the Mud Castle and didn't pay much attention to the recent events: "She should be a Literature Cultivator, but I reckon she doesn't recognize the Lavshan Text. Sometimes scholars boast, and if they say it long enough, they start to believe it themselves."

This doesn't seem to be just boasting. She's guiding me to do something, or perhaps guiding my wife to do something.

She can deceive me and even the Old Man, but not the Judge's Pen. Why is that?

...

At night, the Gloves successfully persuaded the Judge's Pen to help Li Banfeng translate the account book.

The account book featured over a dozen strange and awkward names, revealing that the Birch Tree Secret Cult collected payments from them regularly.

The next day, Li Banfeng arrived at the Dark Star Bureau and called in Dumpling: "There are a few people I want to ask you about. Have you heard of Green Moving Black?"

"Green Moving Black?" Dumpling shook his head and said, "Seventh Master, is that a person's name?"

Whether it was a person's name, Li Banfeng wasn't sure.

He wrote the three characters for Dumpling, who looked at them for a while and asked: "Could it be Nightwalker Green Shade?"

"What is Nightwalker Green Shade?"

"A dark ability enthusiast group that worships the God of Green Shades and likes to gather in the wilderness late at night."

"Does this group have any relations with the Birch Tree Secret Cult?"

Dumpling was stumped. Li Banfeng recalled the information provided by Chuuni, which mentioned the Nightwalker Green Shade organization was very closely linked with the Birch Tree Secret Cult.

Li Banfeng decided to call Chuuni over to show him a name, Huang Shuailuo.

This didn't seem like a person's name either. Chuuni thought for a long time and asked: "This likely refers to Brilliant Yellow Withered Leaves, another dark ability enthusiast group that believes decay and decline are the beginning of renewal. They particularly like using withered yellow leaves as ritual tools."

"Does this organization have interactions with the Birch Tree Secret Cult?"

"Yes, Brilliant Yellow Withered Leaves is a key dark ability group we're focused on, as they straddle the boundary between expert and layman,

they've mastered many destructive dark energy rituals, bringing many risks,

last year, they held a gathering in the city outskirts and conducted a ritual called Summoning Yellow Leaves. The ritual failed, causing dark energy to go out of control, which led to a large volume of surrounding crops ripening prematurely, resulting in significant economic losses,

the bureau severely punished the organization, placing it on a watch list, and the Summoning Yellow Leaves ritual originally came from the Birch Tree Secret Cult,

according to my investigation, over half of the dark energy rituals they perform come from the Birch Tree Secret Cult. Why the Birch Tree Secret Cult provides assistance to the group is unknown."

Actually, the reason isn't complicated, as this help wasn't free.

Li Banfeng looked at the account book and noticed the payment amounts. Brilliant Yellow Withered Leaves had to make substantial payments to the Secret Cultivation Conference every month.

The investigation proceeded much more smoothly, for during the translation process, the Judge's Pen had translated the names of these enthusiast groups into people's names, but with a slight adjustment based on context, the corresponding groups could be identified.