In the darkness of night, Lin Qiye, Lin Xi Chen and Nyx reappeared on the roof of the dormitory building.
Lin Qiye still had a faint smile on his face. He sighed and turned his head away...
They stood there, stunned.
Under the dark sky, Yuan Gang, gripping his knife, sat on the steps not far away, staring intently at Nyx.
Suddenly, he saw Lin Qiye standing next to Nix and froze on the spot.
Nyx glanced at Yuan Gang with surprise, then turned to Lin Qiye, "Is that also your friend?"
Lin Qiye: "...I guess so."
Lin Xi Chen: "....Define friends, mother...."
Yuan Gang slowly stood up, unleashing a powerful mental pressure. He walked step by step to Nyx's side and calmly spoke:
"Yuan Gang, deputy captain of the 006 squad of the Great Xia Night Watch stationed in Shangjing City, may I ask your name?"
"Nyx."
Nyx narrowed her eyes, and an inexplicable aura emanated from her. Even though there was no divine power fluctuation on her body, this aura alone was enough to firmly suppress Yuan Gang.
She looked at Yuan Gang with a faint air of condescension.
"So it is Your Excellency, the Goddess of the Night." Yuan Gang paused, then continued, "May I ask what brings Your Excellency to our Great Xia?"
Nyx tilted her head and thought for a moment. "I came to find my children."
Yuan Gang was taken aback.
This caused Lin Xi Chen, who was hiding behind Nyx, to cough a few times to signal Lin Qiye. He also coughed twice, his mind racing, and promptly added:
"She means... she's here to find an agent."
A knowing glint appeared in Yuan Gang's eyes. "So the goddess came looking for the agents... I wonder if she found one?"
"Found them." Lin Qiye spoke up again before Nyx could.
"Where?"
"Us?"
"..."
Yuan Gang stared at Lin Qiye in disbelief, his expression as if he'd seen a ghost. "You, you're not a Seraph and Lucifer...?"
"Ahem, we're playing both sides...."
"..."
Yuan Gang turned to look at Nyx, a questioning look in his eyes, "Your Majesty, what he said..."
"Whatever my son says goes," Nyx replied seriously.
Yuan Gang was dumbfounded.
After a long while, he finally came to his senses and slowly said:
"Your Majesty, now that the agent has been found, please leave the territory of Great Xia."
Nyx turned to look at Lin Qiye, who coughed lightly twice.
"Well, we've found an agent. You should... go home now."
"Alright." Nyx replied without hesitation, she planted a kiss on Lin Xi Chen's forehead and hugged her, feeling a lingering reluctance to part ways. "Thanatos, Hemera remember to come back home often..."
"Bye-bye, Mother..." Lin Xi Chen blushed slightly and mumbled the words, looking like a child being fussed over by a parent in public.
"Cough cough cough, don't worry! Goodbye!"
Lin Qiye waved his hand, and Nyx's figure gradually faded away, eventually disappearing completely into the night.
As the evening breeze swept by, only Yuan Gang and Lin Qiye remained on the empty dormitory building.
Yuan Gang silently sheathed his sword, his back completely soaked with cold sweat. Facing the terror of a god was more difficult than he had imagined.
He glared at Lin Qiye, "You brats... what's going on here?"
Lin Qiye scratched his head. "I was sleeping peacefully in bed when she suddenly dragged us here. We chatted for a while, and then she asked us to be her agent."
"Yes...!"
Yuan Gang:...
Judging from Lin Qiye's tone, it was as if he were casually saying, "My friend came to visit me, and we ended up having a meal together."
Please, that's the goddess of the night, not your little sister next door!
"Is it really that simple?" Yuan Gang couldn't help but ask. "Then what's with her calling you guys Thanatos and Hemera?"
"It's a foreign god, and I didn't like the way my Chinese name sounded, so they gave me a new name."
"...Wait, why are foreign gods speaking Chinese?"
"That's not important."
"So, what task did she assign you as her agent?"
Lin Xi Chen thought for a moment, then said with a serious expression, "Go home and visit often?"
"?"
"Ahem, I mean, she asked me to help her find a bracelet," Lin Qiye said seriously. "Her bracelet is missing, and she asked me to find it for her."
"The requirements for the lost and found category... are not too bad." Yuan Gang nodded.
"But...you guys really became the agent of two gods? Both of you?" Yuan Gang frowned as he looked at Lin Qiye. "This is something that has never happened before in the history of the Great Xia Dynasty."
"Now we have it."
"...Alright then." Yuan Gang sighed. "Go back to sleep. I'll handle the rest."
"Cya, stinky brother."
Lin Qiye nodded and walked down the stairs alone, secretly relieved.
It seems we can't just let the sick person out for some fresh air... Even if they do, they can't use their divine powers, otherwise the Night Watch will definitely find out, and then there will be a lot of trouble...
However, at least with this opportunity, I found a suitable excuse for my own Night abilities, and from now on I can openly use two types of Divine Ruin.
Thinking of this, Lin Qiye's mood immediately improved a lot.
At this moment, on the roof of the dormitory building.Yuan Gang sat back down on the steps, lit a cigarette, and dialed the phone again.
"Hello? How are things on your end?" Shao Pingge answered the phone instantly.
"The crisis is over. That human ceiling doesn't need to come anymore." Yuan Gang let out a long sigh, speaking wearily, "Damn, facing a god for the first time, the pressure was simply..."
"Did you have a direct conversation with them?"
"Yes, it's Nyx, the goddess of the night."
"...It seems that tonight, humanity will add another deity to its observed pantheon."
"Yes."
"Alright, you should get some rest. I need to report to the Commander-in-Chief."
"There's one more thing. That little boy named Lin Qiye Chen has become the agent of both Seraph and Nyx. And his sister become the agent for Lucifer and Nyx too."
"..."
Yuan Gang explained the situation to Shao Pingge in detail, then hung up the phone, looked up at the bright moon in the night sky, and remained silent.
On October 12, 2021, Yuan Gang, the Night Watchman, observed at the No. 039 recruit training camp in Cangnan City, Daxia, that the Goddess of Night, Nyx, was suspected of having her divine status damaged and was incorporated into the divine sequence, sequence 043.
—The Night Watch Gods' Sequence Files (Top Secret)
...
Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers away from Cangnan City.
On the vast and turbulent Yangtze River, an ancient horse-drawn carriage is traveling smoothly on the water, moving forward at an astonishing speed.
That ordinary, thin, chestnut-red horse, carrying a carriage made entirely of driftwood, seemed to have no weight at all. With each step forward, it drifted dozens of meters, its four feet treading on the rolling river as if walking on flat ground.
At the front of the carriage sat a boy dressed in hemp clothing. He held the reins, leaned lazily against the front of the carriage, and yawned.
Suddenly, his phone rang. Tongzi answered the call, chatted briefly, and then put the phone away.
"Master Chen, the commander said that the god in Cangnan has left, and we don't need to go there."
A moment later, an aged voice drifted from inside the carriage:
"Hmph, in the middle of the night, I've made another wasted trip..."
"Master, shall we continue on, or turn back?"
"As for Cangnan, that eerie place, it's best to avoid it if possible."
"Alright!" The boy flicked the reins. "Giddy up!"
The chestnut-red, thin horse abruptly changed direction, drifting on the Yangtze River with the carts on its back, and headed upstream against the current...