I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

Her eyes swept over the layout of the room, and a look of confusion appeared between her eyebrows.

Aicheng Hualian looked at what the other person was looking at, and her expression changed involuntarily.

Because what the evil girl was looking at were private photos of Qing Zhulan and other girls, the kind of... um... records of love.

This room seems to be the exclusive private room of Qing Zhulan, the daughter of a wealthy man.

The other party used money and tricks to play with young girls, and filmed the process, placing them in various corners of the room like trophies.

Among those photos, there are some very excessive and exciting scenes, and those bizarrely shaped props. Even Aicheng Hualian, who has been on the verge of life and death, couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed when seeing them, and her legs trembled slightly.

"Oh my god, what the hell are these?!"

She hurried forward and covered the evil girl's eyes with her hands.

"Don't look at it, don't learn bad things!"

"..."

The evil girl slipped out from under her hands, mumbling something, then floated to the door of the room and motioned for Aicheng Karen to follow.

Following the girl, Aijo Karen discovered some evil energy floating in the air.

The evil energies were so weak that they were connected like silk threads, extending to the back of the tavern.

These are the traces left by evil spirits. Under normal circumstances, they are evil remnants that need to be eliminated, but at this moment they are important evidence.

Following the thread, the man and the god came to the back wall of the tavern. Aicheng Hualian pushed open the security door in front of him and walked to the back of the tavern.

This is a dim street, with damaged street lamps struggling to emit weak light. The threads of evil energy are broken here and disappear without a trace.

"Those investigators probably ran out of leads here, and then they formed a small group on the top floor of Shoyi Bank."

Aicheng Hualian looked around and didn't find anything. The evil spirit and Qing Zhulan seemed to have disappeared from the world.

She turned around and saw the black-haired girl facing the load-bearing wall at the back of the tavern. After a moment's thought, she placed her left index finger on the wall.

"Pfft..."

A circle of light black ripples spread out, and a circular pattern suddenly appeared on the originally ordinary wall.

The pattern was magnificent and complex, consisting of three concentric circles, each connected by silver patterns, resembling an ancient compass. In the center of the pattern was a six-pointed star, from which wisps of pale golden light drifted.

"this is?"

Aicheng Hualian walked to the front of the diagram and found that the air above it had faint distorted fluctuations.

"Teleportation skill, a very basic one."

"Hey, could it be that the evil spirit used this teleportation skill to abduct Qing Zhulan?"

This is a strange thing.

How could such an evil spirit without any intelligence actually use something like the teleportation technique?

You know, building a teleportation technique requires a tremendous amount of effort and requires a high level of psychic control from the builder. And how could a demonic being that only acts on instinct possibly use something as sophisticated as teleportation? It's like a pig calculating the 30,000th decimal place of pi mentally.

"Is it that a highly intelligent individual has appeared among the evil spirits, or is it..."

"Oh!"

Just as Aicheng Hualian was guessing, a sharp golden light suddenly flashed out from the center of the teleportation spirit skill array and pierced towards her eyebrows.

There are actually traps set up in this teleportation array!

Chapter 19: Recruiting

The golden light was so fast that it flew in front of Aicheng Hualian almost the moment it appeared.

Looking closely, the light was condensed from spiritual energy, almost solidified into a solid entity, and pierced towards Aicheng Hualian's eyebrows like a sharp steel needle.

If you get stabbed by it, it's no different from being shot in the head by a heavy sniper rifle.

What's even more terrible is that the spiritual energy in her body is now repairing the internal organs in her chest cavity. It can be said that she has lost all means of counterattack and can only watch the thorn pierce into her head.

But Aicheng Hualian did not panic, instead she showed a confident smile.

Just as the golden light was about to pierce her brow, a hand grabbed the center of the light.

It was a hand as white as jade, which lightly grasped the ray of light, making it stop three centimeters away from Aicheng Hualian's eyebrows, unable to move forward an inch.

"Crench!"

With a slight pressure from his fingers, the psychic spikes wailed and exploded into golden powder. Several black tentacles entwined the powder, swallowing it into the darkness.

"What the hell? They actually hid a trap inside the teleportation array. How insidious!"

Walking to the front of the formation, Aicheng Hualian looked at the place where the golden light spike came out.

It was a depression no bigger than a fingernail, located in the very center of the diagram.

Inside the depression is a miniature version of a triggered spiritual skill array, with each of those densely packed lines as tiny as a hair.

"Well, it looks like this commission will have to involve a human element."

The moment she saw this miniature array, Aicheng Hualian knew that this commission was no longer a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

Only humans, and psychics at that, could carve such a sophisticated spiritual technique array in such a small space.

Given the speed of that golden light, only D-rank investigators and above could have escaped unscathed. And a D-rank investigator could easily destroy an entire city block, enough to serve as the guardian of an entire city.

Of course, this insidious and cunning trap is nothing but a joke in front of the gods.

"Thanks, Evil God. You helped me a lot. So, how does that light taste?"

The evil girl chewed on it for a moment, then said, "This spiritual skill indeed comes from those of your kind. They are very weak, about the same as your neighbor. I can crush them with just one finger."

The neighbor the other party was referring to was Tsuzaki Mahiru, a D-rank compassionate investigator.

"There's no need to make such an analogy." Smiling somewhat helplessly, Karen Aishiro looked at the cold evil girl, not knowing why she had such a strong hostility towards Mahiru Tsuzaki.

"You too, must always be aware of your surroundings. If I hadn't been there just now, you would have been dead."

"I don't think I'm capable of keeping watch." Aicheng Hualian touched his chest, where the organs inside hadn't fully recovered. "Because of the noise someone made when they woke up, my chest cavity has become a ruin. It's still being rebuilt."

“…” The evil girl naturally knew that Aicheng Hualian was referring to herself.

After a moment's silence, she spoke, "That's because you're too weak. You must work harder to improve your strength and do your best to keep up with my progress, or you won't even be able to serve as a vessel."

"Oh my god, is this how you talk to your breeder?" Aicheng Hualian clutched her heartless chest, her face filled with sadness. "I've fed you so many evil spirits in vain."

"Someone is coming, be careful."

After she finished speaking, the evil girl turned into a black cloud and then disappeared. Aicheng Hualian's left eye, which had turned black and blue, also returned to normal.

"Oh, I didn't expect you to come out already. I was still outside wondering how long it would take you to discover those fel threads floating in the air."

A charming voice came from the other side, and a private investigator named Hua Liu walked up to Aicheng Hualian.

The other party looked at her standing in front of the wall in a daze and couldn't help but laugh: "Is there anything special about this wall?"

Aicheng Hualian turned around and looked at the girl. Instead of answering, he asked, "Well... let's not talk about this for now. I'm actually quite curious, why are you following me?"

"Not only that, I've been thinking about a question ever since. I've never seen someone like you on the Donghua City Exorcism Platform."

"You must be coming from another city, right?"

Aicheng Hualian stared at Hua Liu's face, but could not see anything from the other person's smiling expression.

"Smart." Investigator Hua Liu stepped forward and said with a smile, "I am indeed from another city. The reason I accepted this commission was simply to see if there are any talents worth paying attention to in Donghua City."

"Oh, you are a headhunter?" Aicheng Hualian said directly.

The girl's face froze, and then she replied angrily, "The word 'headhunter' is an insult to me. I only serve myself!"

"Okay, but you still haven't explained why you're following me."

"If you want to find talents or companions, those investigators gathered on the top floor may be more suitable for you." Aicheng Hualian pointed to the top floor of Shouyi Bank, where the group of private investigators were still gathered, discussing the next action plan.

Duanmu Xue and Wusun Yun, whom I had met in the private room before, were also among that group of people.

"They don't meet my requirements." Inspector Hua Liu made a decisive conclusion, labeling all nine investigators on the rooftop as mediocre.

"Then I qualify?" Aicheng Hualian tilted her head and pointed at the bloodstain on her chest. "This wound was left by the attack of that evil creature earlier. In your eyes, I'm not considered a strong person, am I?"

"But you are special."

"How to say?"

"I can't sense any spiritual energy from you, not even a trace of spiritual energy."

"Forehead…"

Aicheng Hualian didn't expect the other party to say such a thing. After all, no one had ever become interested in her based on the fact that she "had no psychic power", because there were countless ways to conceal one's own psychic power fluctuations.

She immediately reacted and said, "Isn't it a simple matter to hide one's psychic powers?"

"It's very simple, but you can't hide it from me." The girl said this with confidence and quietly hid the mysterious instrument behind her.

This instrument, resembling a small radar, was given to her by a family elder. It has the power to detect the psychic fluctuations of others. Any psychic below Rank C cannot escape its detection.

Just tonight, she stood outside the tavern for several hours, using the instruments in her hands to detect the psychic fluctuations in the Baiju Tavern, watching the investigators come in and out.

The spiritual energy fluctuations from them were all captured by the instrument in her hand.

But there is one exception.

That is the Inspector Chi Yan in front of him, wearing a mask and a black and red robe.

No matter how she increased the power of the instrument, the result of the investigation by the Chi Yan Investigator in front of her was still "an ordinary person without psychic powers."

This immediately caught her attention.

"So, are you interested in working for me?"

Chapter 20: Tsuzaki Mahiru's Phone Call

"Sorry, I have no plans to change jobs for the time being."

Without hesitation, Aicheng Hualian rejected Investigator Hualiu's invitation.

The other party's origin is unknown, his strength is unknown, his purpose is unclear, and he doesn't seem very reliable. How could she become his subordinate?

Inspector Hualiu wasn't angry either. He simply handed a business card to Aicheng Hualian and said, "It's your choice whether to join or not. I won't force you. I just wanted to give you a contact number. If you're interested in joining in the future, just call me."

"Well, thank you in advance, Inspector Hanayagi."

Putting the other party's business card into his pocket, Aicheng Hualian watched the girl's back gradually disappear into the distance.

Then she turned around, stretched out her hand and slapped the wall. A dark blue circular light pattern spread out, making the teleportation array on the wall appear.

She picked up her watch and sent a text message on the forum.

[Investigators, I've discovered a teleportation technique array on the wall behind the Baiju Tavern. If anyone is knowledgeable, please come and investigate.]

As soon as this message was sent, it immediately received some responses.

[Are you Inspector Chi Yan? Is your news true or false?]

"That's not right. I remember that at least three investigators, including myself, have explored that wall. There's no so-called teleportation array at all, is there?"

[Indeed, even a peak E-rank Dark Mine Investigator couldn't find anything suspicious on that wall. Did Investigator Chi Yan see it wrong?]

"Tsk, really..."

Aicheng Hualian had never expected that after selflessly sending out this message, most of the feedback he received was questioning.

Could it be that because I didn't join the small group formed by the Dark Mine Investigators, they started to exclude me?

"Inspector Chi Yan, we meet again."

An investigator in a green shirt came up to her. Aicheng Hualian took a look and saw that it was the ghost hunter Wusun Yun whom she had met in the private room before.

Not only that, another woman covered in snow also walked in front of her with a smile on her face.

Others don't believe in Aicheng Hualian, but Wusun Yun and Duanmu Xue are different.

In that private room, those who had witnessed Ai Cheng Hua Lian's psychic power knew that this Investigator Chi Yan was not as simple as he seemed.

They bowed to Aicheng Hualian, then came to the wall and opened their eyes in surprise.

"That is!?"

In front of them, a teleportation array was rotating slightly on the wall. The array was golden and composed of three concentric circles with gorgeous and complex patterns inside. The air around it was still trembling slightly.