I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

However, the moment she signed the contract with the evil god, she might have become no different from a madman.

Walking on the outskirts of Donghua City, Aicheng Hualian sorted out the capital he currently possessed.

Some skills were derived from the power of the evil god, and he could borrow some evil energy from the evil god. He could also extract psychic energy from his desire to survive, and some spiritual skills were created based on psychic energy. His total psychic energy reached the low level of C rank, and the quality of his psychic energy was among the best.

If an official investigator reaches rank C under the training of the Evil Response Department, he or she will have his or her own unique domain and spiritual weapon. However, as a private investigator who is not recognized by the department, she naturally does not have these things.

The so-called domain is a means of using one's own spiritual energy to open up a space around the body that is beneficial to oneself. It requires a large amount of spiritual energy support, so only investigators above rank C are qualified to touch a corner of the domain.

Even for official investigators, only geniuses with extraordinary talent have the opportunity to carve out their own field.

As a private investigator, Aicheng Hualian used most of his spiritual energy to feed the evil god, so naturally he could not create his own domain.

Of course, that's only now.

If one wants to enhance his own combat power and hunt evil spirits of the same level, then creating his own territory is a hurdle that he must overcome.

As for the production of spiritual weapons, it requires superb forging skills and carefully selected materials, which is also not something that a lone character like Aicheng Hualian can possess.

Fortunately, the time for the first stage of the evil god's hunting state is not tight. With Aicheng Hualian's C-level psychic power level, it is not difficult to hunt a C-level evil spirit within a year.

The difficulty lies in the fact that in the next two years, she needs to be promoted to a higher level every year and hunt down an evil spirit of the same level.

As a private investigator, it was very difficult to accomplish this.

"So I need to find other ways to hunt more evil spirits and speed up my growth."

"Otherwise, as a breeder of an evil god, dying from not enough food would be embarrassing to tell others."

"Besides, if the evil god starves, it would be considered a dereliction of duty on my part. I don't want to be seen as someone who breaks his promise."

“Ding ding… ding ding…”

The watch in her pocket made a beep. Aicheng Hualian took it out and saw that it was the dark mine investigator who was sending her a letter again, asking for a meeting with her.

However, this time, at the end of the letter, the Mine Investigator also included a message.

Qing Zhumin, the CEO of Xijian Company and the person behind this commissioned task, wants to meet her.

The other party had used the disclosure of private investigators' personal information as a bargaining chip to threaten all private investigators who accepted this commission not to withdraw from the mission, which naturally included Aicheng Hualian, but this threat was ineffective on her.

The other party's invitation to meet was within Aicheng Hualian's expectations.

As the only investigator who discovered the teleportation array, if Qing Zhumin really loved her daughter, it would be reasonable for her to find a way to contact her.

"Also, I guess Qing Zhumin has been secretly collecting my personal information. Since she found nothing, she had no choice but to meet me in person."

Her guess was right.

……

"Did Ye Xingwu send an invitation to that Investigator Chi Yan?"

In the office on the 88th floor of Xijian Building, Qing Zhumin answered the reply from the mobile phone.

In the past few days, in order to find her daughter, she has been working day and night, and has devoted all her attention to the search and rescue.

Her long black hair, which should have been neatly combed, was now standing in tangled strands, and her pretty face was now filled with fatigue. She leaned back in her chair, her phone in her left hand, and her right hand caressed a photo of her daughter. The CEO's business card was casually placed on her desk, and her mailbox was filled with various business letters, but she didn't even glance at them.

Other people in the company did not notice anything unusual about their boss.

In the eyes of others, she is still the strong woman who led Xijian Company from obscurity. Her behavior of running to the municipal government every few days is also misunderstood by her employees as negotiating business with the government.

Only her most trusted subordinates and personal bodyguards knew that she had been tormented by her daughter's disappearance for the past few days and had lost her appetite.

Especially when an investigator named Chi Yan discovered that human forces were involved in this kidnapping case, Qing Zhumin's eyes went dark and he almost fainted on the ground.

Simple evil spirits are not scary. After all, over the past few hundred years, there have been very few cases of evil spirits directly harming people. They just crave human emotions.

Simple humans are not scary. Kidnapping cases directed by humans are nothing more than the pursuit of money and sex, both of which she has in abundance. As long as the murderer gives the conditions, she will try her best to satisfy them.

But if evil spirits join forces with humans, things will become complicated.

As far as she knew, the human organizations in this world that had any connection with evil were all extremely vicious cult gangs. In the eyes of those lunatics, human life was no different from sacrificial livestock.

The desperate possibility that her daughter was kidnapped by a cult made Qing Zhumin frantically look for ways to find her daughter.

She didn't have enough power to influence the official investigators at the moment, but she heard that the mastermind behind Qing Zhulan's kidnapping was extending his claws to others. If these kidnappings caused more of a stir, perhaps they could force the official investigators to take action, but she didn't know how long that would take, and she couldn't wait.

Now, all she can rely on are the psychic guards under her command and the eleven private investigators who have accepted the missions she has entrusted.

However, Qing Zhumin did not have high expectations for those guys who did things for money.

The so-called private investigators have not undergone systematic training and combat drills, and they rely only on their own psychic powers that were awakened by chance. In terms of combat capabilities, they are not as good as the psychic guards under her.

In addition, the sudden evil attack on the first day caused the deaths of eight of the nineteen investigators who accepted the mission, which greatly reduced her impression of these private investigators.

Just as the situation was heading towards a point completely beyond her control, a turning point appeared.

Just a day ago, her men who had infiltrated the Exorcism Platform, the Dark Mine Investigator Ye Xingwu, sent her a message saying that an investigator named Chi Yan had discovered a teleportation array on the wall behind the Baiju Tavern.

The moment Qing Zhumin received the news, he made a prompt decision and decided to meet with Investigator Chi Yan, even at the cost of his status.

The time is agreed to be tonight.

Chapter 39 Plan

Years of business experience have made Qing Zhumin develop a habit. Whenever she meets with a business partner, she always uses her own resources to investigate the other party's background, understand the other party's living habits, preferences and current needs.

The information obtained from these investigations can become bargaining chips at the negotiation table, allowing her to get ahead of the other party at the starting line and pull the other party into her pace through her words and actions.

This time is no exception.

After learning that there was a person named Chi Yan among the private investigators, she immediately assigned her subordinates to investigate the information of Investigator Chi Yan, trying to find the other party's weaknesses so that she could take the lead.

But she didn't expect that no matter how she investigated, she couldn't find any valuable information about Investigator Chi Yan.

It was as if the other person had suddenly appeared in this world a year ago, and all his past experiences were blank.

Not to mention the residential address and real name, even the most basic information like Investigator Chi Yan's psychic level could not be found by Qing Zhumin's men.

She originally thought that her subordinates were too useless, so she severely reprimanded the intelligence personnel.

It was not until she personally paid to hire a hacker team and asked them to collect information about Investigator Chi Yan for her, and the other party replied to her a few hours later that "a senior hacker in her team had his brain burned by an unknown force while trying to track Investigator Chi Yan's IP address", that Qing Zhumin realized something was wrong.

A mere private investigator, could he go to such lengths to keep his information secret? He could even turn the tables and burn a hacker into a fool. Could it be that this Chiyan Investigator also possessed powerful anti-reconnaissance capabilities?

She actually misunderstood Aicheng Hualian. The hacker's brain was burned because when he was tracking Aicheng Hualian's IP address, he touched the computer that had gained self-awareness due to being infected by the evil god's aura, and as a result, his brain was burned by the computer along the network cable.

In the end, the only information Qingzhu Min could obtain was that Investigator Chiyan was very keen to accept commissions and would determine the amount of the commission based on the size of the evil spirit.

If the evil spirit is large enough, Inspector Chiyan will even give the client a free ride as a free exorcism service, so that many clients who are short of money will seek help from Inspector Chiyan.

"Evil spirits like large ones. Even knowing this alone is enough to deduce some information."

Tapping the table lightly with his index finger, Qing Zhumin rejected the two urgent orders and waited for a reply from Investigator Chi Yan.

"Drip..."

The phone made the sound she had been waiting for. She answered the call and the voice of the Dark Mine Investigator sounded on the other end.

"You agreed to meet me? That's great. What does Inspector Chi Yan want?"

"Do you want a higher salary or a more stable position? Tell her I can meet all these requirements."

"What, nothing?" Qing Zhumin was stunned by the reply from the Dark Mine Investigator.

"So what does she want? A face-to-face interview? No problem. The time is tonight. The location is the Tea House Tavern in Qingping County, which is where the investigators met before."

"I'm only allowed to bring three people?"

Hearing this request, Qing Zhumin fell silent.

On ordinary days, someone of her status would need to be surrounded by more than a dozen bodyguards to protect her safety when she goes out, not to mention the loud drums and gongs.

Now the other party only allows her to bring three people, which is already a safety risk.

"No problem, I promised her."

……

"I knew she would say yes."

Looking at the reply letter sent from her watch, Aicheng Hualian threw the flower she had just picked aside and looked at the pure lily lying quietly in the green bushes.

The suggestion to only allow the other party to bring three people is naturally to avoid too many people and too many eyes.

At the same time, this is also to test the other party. If Qing Zhumin is unwilling, then the other party will not agree to the request she wants to make to her.

"I just don't know who is behind this kidnapping case. It's so rampant."

It had only been a day since she received the commission, but Aicheng Hualian had already learned from the forum of the evil-eliminating platform that many children of powerful people had been kidnapped by unknown forces, causing chaos in the private investigator circle throughout Nanlingzhou.

There have even been conflicts between some city officials and the evil-dealing departments because they are dissatisfied with the attitude of official investigators who just sit in their offices and watch, and they demand that the official investigators come forward to look for their children.

The evil spirit response department will naturally not allow such a willful request.

"Anyway, I hope the guy behind this commission is quite capable."

At the moment when the evil god transforms from the condensed state to the hunting state, the opponent's hunger will swell to a terrifying level in a very short period of time. At that time, she will need to prepare a large amount of evil flesh and blood to satisfy the opponent's appetite.

"If you want Qing Zhumin to give you that kind of thing, you have to find her daughter first."

"But the clues are cut off at the teleportation array. I currently don't have the ability to use that array to track the caster's location. No one I know can decipher the teleportation array's destination."

If she could crack the teleportation array, she would know where Qing Zhulan was teleported to, and then she could follow the clues to search for her.

"However, just because private investigators don't have this ability doesn't mean official investigators don't have it."

“Maybe the answer lies where I work now.”

Evil Response Department, Intelligence Department.

It goes without saying that as the eyes and ears of the response department, the Intelligence Department must have some equipment that can meet Aicheng Hualian's needs to crack the teleportation array.

In Room 235 of the Intelligence Department, in the intelligence review room, a puppy named Xiaohei No. spit out a black ball, which quickly expanded to form a portal, and Aicheng Hualian walked out of it.

"I still have a few hours before meeting Qing Zhumin, so let's get some information from Miss Talina first."

Aicheng Hualian looked at the table, where the documents reviewed by Xiaohei No. 1 were piled up nearly half a meter high.

Yes, when she left the office through the evil god space, she instructed the black-haired puppy to take her place and review the documents.

As a creation formed from the flesh and blood of an evil god and his psychic energy, this black-haired puppy is naturally highly sensitive to all kinds of evil activities and is fully capable of performing the work of intelligence review.

"Well done, good dog."

"Wang Wang!"

Opening the door, Aicheng Hualian knocked on the door of the intelligence receiving room. Talina stuck her head out and saw that it was her. She couldn't help but smile and said, "Hualian, what's the matter?"

Aicheng Hualian immediately put on the curious look of a newcomer on her first day of work and asked Talina, "Sister Talina, today's mission is completed. While there is still time, I would like to learn more about our intelligence department."

"Okay, it's rare that you're so curious, so go ahead and ask, and I'll do my best to answer you."

"Thank you, Sister Tarina. What I want to know most is..."

"The functions of the various equipment and facilities in our Intelligence Department."

Chapter 40: Aicheng Hualian's Request

"Our Intelligence Department is responsible for investigating and searching for information on evil spirits throughout Donghua City. Many of our equipment is specialized in detecting signs of evil spirit activity."

"For example, there's a radar array three thousand meters away that can scan the entire Donghua City for psychic fluctuations and detect any anomalies within the city."

"As for the things stored in the warehouse here, there are naturally a lot of them."

Bringing Aicheng Hualian to a place similar to a database, Talina took out a book as thick as a palm from a drawer and placed it in front of the two.

Flipping open the cover, the words "Intelligence Department Equipment Encyclopedia" appeared before them. Talina patiently explained the uses of various devices to Aicheng Hualian, and an hour quickly passed with the sound of pages turning.

"Um, Sister Talina, I have a question." Seeing that the device she was looking for was still nowhere to be found, Aicheng Hualian took the initiative and asked, "Is there something that can detect those evil spirits that have the ability to teleport?"

"You mean a device that can track teleportation-type evil spirits?"

"Yes."

"Oh, that kind of equipment is quite sensitive. Only people at the captain level can touch it."

Talina said this, hinting that Aicheng Hualian should not ask about those special equipment.

Hearing this, Aicheng Hualian was delighted. Since the other party said so, it meant that it really existed.

She immediately put on a melancholy expression and said to Talina, "I see... Actually, I've always wanted to track down the whereabouts of the mind flayer from five years ago. I heard that the mind flayer is a creature that can teleport everywhere. Without the appropriate equipment, it's impossible to track down the mind flayer's activities."