I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

Several thick branches took advantage of her distraction and hit her waist hard, breaking several ribs. In the severe pain, she slipped and fell to the ground.

"Damn..."

What was even more terrible was that the green grass on the ground took advantage of the situation and instantly wrapped around her body, binding her limbs and trying to restrict her movements.

She summoned her spiritual energy to shatter the entangled blades of grass, but more grass rushed forward. Now, not only her limbs, but also her neck and waist were entangled by hundreds of blades of grass.

After a few seconds, Yang Qian, who was unable to struggle, was wrapped in the grass like a green dumpling.

The raging forest surged past her body, enveloping the entire weather observatory. Yang Qian was puzzled by the fact that the plants didn't launch another attack, but simply remained where they were, seemingly quietly waiting for something.

For a moment, the entire rioting forest suddenly became quiet, like a still picture.

"Bah…"

The sound of footsteps stepping on leaves came from the lush branches and leaves.

Yang Qian, tied to the ground by the grass, stared in the direction of the sound. Under the shadows cast by the treetops, a man wearing a purple mask and strange brown clothes walked out. The clothes were loose and looked like the leather suits often used in special effects films.

"I didn't expect that the powerful man who could cause such a strange phenomenon would be a coward who dare not show his face?" Yang Qian couldn't help but sneer.

"Being called a powerful figure by an official from the Intelligence Department is a great honor for a psychic criminal like me." Ai Cheng Hua Lian, beneath her mask, remained unfazed. "Besides, shouldn't you be thankful? Since I have no intention of revealing my true identity, it means you still have a chance of survival."

Yang Qian smiled and said, "I knew long ago that your target wasn't us, but the intelligence department's equipment. Unfortunately, your intention was ruined. The equipment here has long been moved elsewhere, and even I don't know where it is now."

"That's a bit regrettable indeed, but you don't know, the other guy might not be the same."

Before Yang Qian could react, the roar of an off-road vehicle sounded behind her.

"boom!"

The pitch-black steel beast broke through the wall made of tree branches and rushed towards Aicheng Hualian.

In the driving seat, the young man was sweating profusely, and his eyes were full of fear as he looked at Aicheng Hualian, which formed a sharp contrast with his desperate step on the accelerator.

"You are not allowed to hurt Sister Yang Qian!"

"Qingyi? You idiot!"

The person who came was Qingyi, the young man who drove the off-road vehicle to transport the intelligence department's equipment away.

Looking at the expression of determination and fear on the other person's face, Aicheng Hualian smiled in her heart.

A young man who has a crush on his senior is trapped by the feeling of self-blame during his escape. He can't stand the mental torture brought by desertion, so he drives back and tries to catch her off guard.

"It's okay, Sister Yang Qian. I hid all the equipment in the department. She can't find it!"

The SUV continued to rush towards Aicheng Hualian, forcing her to retreat repeatedly.

In front of her, trees continued to grow, blocking the SUV's progress. However, because they had grown so recently, these trees, no thicker than an arm, were completely useless.

"You bastard! Go to hell!" Qingyi stared at the mastermind in front of him and shouted.

According to experience, psychics who can perform such spiritual skills are usually not physically strong. As long as he can hit the guy in front of him, then he will succeed!

"boom!"

The more than two-ton off-road vehicle hit Aicheng Hualian hard, but that was not the end. The powerful inertia pushed the man and the vehicle into the forest, breaking several huge trees in half, and finally knocking Aicheng Hualian into a huge rock.

The violent bumps almost caused the SUV to fall apart. Qing Yi suppressed the dizziness in his head, turned on the SUV's wipers to scrape off the mud on the front windshield, and looked at the mastermind who was smashed by the SUV in front of him.

The other person was hit by the off-road vehicle and fell into the rocks. The blood flowing from his back dyed the rocks red. There was a big hole in his abdomen, and his white intestines were all leaking out and spilled on the hood of the vehicle. It looked like he was beyond saving.

"Hahaha! I succeeded! I hit this guy to death! Sister Yang Qian, did you see it? Hahaha!" Qingyi laughed loudly, and the previous fear quickly dissipated in the laughter.

"Hey, don't be too happy too soon." A teasing voice suddenly came from the front.

"What!" Qingyi's pupils suddenly shrank. In front of him, the mastermind behind the scenes suddenly raised his head and looked at him. Under the half-broken mask, a smiling mouth was revealed.

Ignoring Qingyi's terrified and desperate look, Aicheng Hualian stretched out her hands and pulled the intestines back into her stomach. The bowl-sized wound healed within seconds, leaving only a shallow scar.

"Hey."

Aicheng Hualian jumped up from the ground, stood on the hood of the SUV, smashed the front window glass with a punch, reached out and grabbed Qingyi's face, and lifted him up from the seat.

"It's courageous, but that's it."

"That's the end of the hero-saving-the-damsel scene. Now, where are the devices?"

Chapter 67 Success

Qingyi, who was grabbed by Aicheng Hualian, struggled and hit her with his fists. Seeing this, Aicheng Hualian kicked him in the stomach several times, which made him calm down.

"You won't say it, right? Okay."

Grabbing Qingyi's collar with his left hand, Aicheng Hualian dragged him to the front of the weather observation station and threw him together with Yang Qian.

"Sister Yang Qian, are you okay?"

Looking at Yang Qian, who was tied up like a dumpling, Qingyi quickly crawled to her side and asked with concern. In return, she angrily scolded him, "Why did you come back, you idiot? Now you don't even have a chance to ask for help from headquarters. You are so stupid!"

"This...I..." The rebuke from the senior made Qingyi lower his head and remain silent.

"Okay, let's talk about this after I let you go."

"Let us go?" Qingyi turned around and glared at Aicheng Hualian.

"Yes, as long as you tell me where the equipment originally placed here has gone, I will let you go. I never lie."

"Or, in your hearts, those dead things are more important than your own lives?"

"Sister Yang Qian, we..."

"Wait." Casting a questioning look at Aicheng Hualian, Yang Qian sneered and said, "Why should we trust a psychic criminal like you? You guys are always deceiving people!"

"That's right!" Qingyi on the side also shouted, "Damn psychic criminal, you still want to deceive us!"

"It seems you two have misunderstood something." Aicheng Hualian sighed, took out a new mask from his pocket and put it on his face. "We are not discussing any kind of deal. The reason I intend to release you is my charity, not a bargaining chip."

"You! Killing a member of the evil spirit response department is a serious crime!" Yang Qian was anxious and threatened: "You will face the pursuit of government departments and will never have a peaceful day. By then, it will be too late for you to regret it!"

"Wow, that's scary."

Aicheng Hualian pulled a dagger from his pocket and pointed the gleaming blade at Yang Qian. "If that really comes to that, you will already be dead, and you won't have the chance to see my regretful expression."

"As for you, Qingyi, right? If you don't tell me where those devices are in one minute, I will dig out your left eye, your right eye, your nose, and your mouth, then your beautiful senior."

"you!"

Staring at Aicheng Hualian as if he were looking at a demon, Qingyi looked at the dagger that was gradually approaching Yang Qian's face, grabbed a handful of stones from the ground and rushed towards Aicheng Hualian.

"You are really stupid. You are still thinking of launching an attack in this situation."

Whoosh!

The tree roots that emerged from the soil immediately bound Qingyi tightly.

"Forty seconds left."

The tip of the dagger was only ten centimeters away from Yang Qian's left eye. The black-haired woman was very tough and did not show any fear, but Qingyi beside her became more and more panicked and struggled to untie the restraints of the tree roots.

"thirty."

"Wait..." Just as Qingyi shouted, something strange happened.

"Gulu..."

In a place that no one else could see, the black vortex on Aicheng Hualian's chest shrank a little bit, and a powerful pulling force raged in her body, as if it was going to swallow up her internal organs.

"Uh!"

Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and Aicheng Hualian's expression immediately sank.

The evil god's speed of recovering power increased again.

With less than two and a half days left, the evil god would enter a hungry and dangerous hunting state, and yet she was still here arguing with two ants?

An uncontrollable anxiety surged through her mind. A few hints of blue flashed in her orange eyes. Her vision blurred, and her body suddenly lost control. Her left hand stabbed downwards. When she regained consciousness, the dagger in her hand had already cut a five-centimeter wound on Yang Qian's face.

Blood immediately gushed out from the wound, staining Yang Qian's face scarlet.

"Ahhh!!"

Yang Qian screamed, and finally Qingyi beside her relaxed.

"Damn it! I'm telling you! The equipment is buried three thousand meters underground. If we follow the tracks of the off-road vehicle for half an hour, we'll find it."

"Oh right, we have to stop three thousand meters from here. The wheel tracks in front are a deliberate camouflage I created."

Although he got the information he wanted, Aicheng Hualian did not feel any joy. Instead, he stared blankly at the blood-stained dagger in his hand.

Did I lose control just now?

She clearly didn't want to harm the human in front of her, and all her words were just empty threats.

After calming down, she recalled her previous trance and realized that she seemed to have been affected by the evil god's changes, which caused her to attack uncontrollably and hurt others.

This is not a good thing.

As a psychic, not being able to control your emotions is a big taboo.

"You should have said it earlier." She said after coming to her senses, continuing to maintain her persona as a robber.

Pulling out the bloody dagger, Aicheng Hualian reached out and pressed on Yang Qian's wound, channeling his spiritual energy.

A few seconds later, Yang Qian was surprised to find that the knife wound on her cheek, which was several centimeters long, had healed just like that.

Not only that, her broken ribs, the hidden ailments from long-term fatigue, and the scars from her battles with evil spirits were all healed by this miraculous spiritual energy from Aicheng Hualian. Her whole body felt like it was soaking in a hot spring, warm and comfortable.

What a powerful healing ability!

Even though the other party was an enemy, she couldn't help but admire him in her heart.

"These tree roots and grass leaves will wither on their own in an hour. Before that, I'm sorry to have you stay here." Resisting the urge to apologize, Aicheng Hualian turned and left.

Following the tracks of the off-road vehicle, she walked into the forest on the other side of Beacon Hill.

Half an hour later, Aicheng Hualian stopped at a spot with obvious signs of excavation. She bent down, placed her palms on the soil, and injected her spiritual energy into the ground.

With a rumbling sound of churning soil, several thick tree roots pushed some high-tech equipment out of the ground. Among them, a silver sphere fell down and hit the ground.

"This is the spirit-fixing instrument. It's smaller than I thought."

Aicheng Hualian looked at the palm-sized ball and took it in his hand.

She was about to leave, but after some thought, she decided to pack up all the equipment and take it with her. If she only took the spirit-stabilizing instrument, it would reveal a flaw.

It would be better for me to disguise myself as a robber. I will return the other equipment to the Intelligence Department when the time is right.

"I already have the item, but I just lost control..."

Aicheng Hualian whispered to herself.

She must find a way to prevent that kind of loss of control from happening again. Otherwise, if innocent people are hurt, she will have committed an unforgivable crime.

"Gotta talk to that guy."

Chapter 68 Destination

After placing the stolen equipment into the evil god's space, Aicheng Hualian walked towards the depths of the forest and changed into the clothes of Inspector Chiyan in an uninhabited bush.

Then, she used Donghua City's underground evacuation passage to come to a construction site a few hundred meters away from Baiju Tavern and crawled out of an abandoned underground pipe.

Her black robe was covered in dust, drawing disdainful glances from passersby. Aicheng Hualian didn't care and simply walked towards the Baiju Tavern.

At the same time, the flowers, plants, and trees on Bijia Mountain began to wither. These plants, having broken through their genetic limits, lost the spiritual energy supply from Aicheng Hualian and reached the end of their lives.

"Crack..."

With roots and leaves scattered on their bodies, Yang Qian and Qingyi struggled to their feet, supporting each other as they walked into the weather station. Looking at the unconscious soldiers, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there were no casualties.

Then, the two of them started to get busy.

"First, let's check if the surveillance cameras at this weather observatory captured any footage of the battle. If they did, that would be great. Even if not, we must compile the information we have and report it to headquarters as soon as possible."

"That psychic criminal is far too dangerous. Only the Investigator himself can eliminate her. No, that person's strength may even be stronger than our Minister."

"Sister Yang Qian...what should we do then?"

"Don't be afraid. The Investigators aren't the full strength of the Demonic Response Department. We also have a variety of powerful methods, no less powerful than those D-rank psykers. Furthermore, that psyker criminal only came to rob us and didn't kill us, which shows they're still wary of our department's reputation. Have headquarters pay more attention to the black market and see who's selling the Intelligence Department's equipment lately."

Aicheng Hualian's actions successfully misled Yang Qian's thinking, making Yang Qian regard her as a psychic criminal who values ​​money more than anything else.