I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

"It is my honor to serve you, Master. However, Master, it is already late at night, and most people in that mountain town are already asleep. If you go there now, you may not be able to find any information."

"No, it's better to go there late at night."

Aicheng Hualian tore open the air in front of him, revealing the black and purple subspace inside.

"Taking them by surprise is the best option."

"But Master, the location you obtained is only the destination of the teleportation array. The kidnapper couldn't have stayed there after teleporting the victim. Perhaps he had already left Bangshan Town and hidden away somewhere."

"Of course I know this." Walking in the subspace, Aicheng Hualian gently pushed away a purple cloud in front of her. Her body was covered with a layer of black tentacles. It was the "protective suit" given to her by the evil god to protect her from being eroded by the evil energy of the subspace.

Of course, some tentacles are not very honest. They always stick out of Aicheng Hualian's body and penetrate into the clouds of the subspace to absorb energy.

"But this is the only clue I have so far, so I can only follow it."

"I just didn't expect that this first clue would result in a loss of life."

Stepping out of the subspace, Aicheng Hualian looked at a small village in front of him, and a faint light flashed in his eyes.

"Now, let me see what monsters are in this town."

Chapter 82: Meeting Inspector Hualiu Again

The Bangshan Town in front of us looks no bigger than a block in Donghua City. Hundreds of low houses are dotted among the hills, surviving in the gaps left by the mountains.

The highest peak in this mountain range is Tianyu Peak. It is the beginning of autumn, but the mountains in the south are still lush green.

Of course, this is a view that can only be seen during the day. Now it is late at night and the weather is not very good. Dark clouds are in the sky, blocking the bright moon, making the small village with few lights even more desolate.

"It's only about fifty kilometers away from Donghua City, but the difference is so huge."

One is a second-tier city with a population of millions, and the other is a small village with a population of no more than 10,000.

"Yes, this place is surrounded by mountains, with inconvenient transportation. There is neither suitable land for farming nor attractive tourist attractions. It is natural that it is poor and backward."

It is no exaggeration to describe this place as poor and barren.

It is hard to imagine what the first group of people who came here to settle down were attracted by this place.

Especially when Aicheng Hualian walked forward a few hundred meters and saw a huge collapse mark on the side of Tianyu Peak, she became more convinced of her evaluation of this place.

"What is that trace of collapse?"

[Master, that was caused by Tian Yufeng's previous mining accident.]

"A mining accident?"

[Yes, about fifty years ago, the Nanling State government discovered a mineral vein here in Tianyufeng, which contained large reserves of high-quality anthracite. The state government encouraged people to come here to mine the mineral vein and even funded the first group of people who settled here to establish a collectively owned mining company.]

"and after?"

Later, about twenty years later, or about thirty years ago, the collectively owned company ran out of money and was sold to a private company by several of the most powerful board members. However, after the private company took over the mine, production conditions deteriorated rapidly, with accidents occurring every few days.

Twenty-seven years ago, due to improper production processes, a major mining accident occurred. According to records, it was a serious explosion accident, and nearly 400 miners were buried alive in the ore vein. The private company declared bankruptcy shortly after the disaster.

"Tsk, what a serious accident."

Wearing a black and red mask and full combat uniform, Aicheng Hualian walked into the town.

Her outfit was too eye-catching, but she didn't know any disguise techniques and couldn't change her appearance, so she had to use this mask to cover it up.

Although there is a way to tear off your face and use a bloody face to disguise yourself, that is too scary and you might be caught as a demon.

Most of the roads in Bangshan Town are paved with stones collected from the mountains, as are the buildings on both sides of the road, giving the entire town a gray hue. In addition, most people have gone to sleep and turned off the lights, making the town look like a ghost town.

Aicheng Hualian looked at the things around her, feeling something was amiss. A faint sense of oppression gripped her heart.

"Evil God, may I borrow your vision?"

【Hungry…】

"Oh, I know you're hungry, but what I'm doing now is hunting evil spirits for you. Be good, open your vision so that I can find delicious food as quickly as possible~"

【good…】

The delicate black tentacles slowly moved up from Aicheng Hualian's chest, penetrated into her head, and connected with the optic nerves of her eyes.

The dark blue evil energy flowed into Aicheng Hualian's eyes through these tentacles. After a twist, the vision in front of her suddenly changed.

The buildings standing on both sides of the street, the stone slabs paving the road, the carts placed on the road, the peanuts spread on the road waiting to be exposed to the sun, all of these are shrouded in a layer of faint blue filter.

This is the evil god's foraging vision, specifically used to search for suitable food.

The closer an object is to black and blue, the stronger the evil energy it contains. Conversely, if something shines as brightly as the sun, it means it contains extremely high concentrations of spiritual energy.

It is just right for Aicheng Hualian's current needs.

She looked around, taking in everything in front of her, and discovered a shocking fact.

Everything in this mountain town is a dark or light shade of blue.

In other words, the town in front of us was shrouded in a faint evil energy.

"Whose hand is this? Enveloping the entire town in fel energy?"

Aicheng Hualian was secretly surprised.

If it were her, with the evil energy in her body, she could also cover the entire town in evil energy.

However, the evil energy covering the surface of everything in front of her was almost exactly the same, both in concentration and energy level.

"Why is the fel energy so evenly spread over everything? Is it the kidnapper who caused all this?"

What’s even more terrible is that since this town is covered by evil energy, doesn’t that mean the people living here are living under the siege of evil energy every day?

Evil energy is, to some extent, even more terrifying than nuclear radiation.

Thinking of this, a chill climbed up from her tailbone and spread throughout her back.

The villagers in Bangshan Town may have experienced some strange changes in their bodies.

At this moment, a clear and playful voice came from the roof of the building next to Aicheng Hualian.

"Oh, who is this? Isn't this our well-informed Investigator Chi Yan? I finally found you, hehe..."

Aicheng Hualian looked up and saw a girl who was also wearing a mask and a cloak, standing on the eaves of a tiled roof, looking down at her.

"Inspector Hanayagi?"

"It's me! I knew I'd meet you here." Leaping down from the eaves, the girl put her hands on her hips and said in an annoyed tone, "You actually threw the business card I gave you in the trash!"

"Oh, sorry." Aicheng Hualian said apologetically, "I just don't want to carry a tracker with me wherever I go."

The business card that Investigator Hua Liu gave her was imbued with the other party's psychic energy and could be used for tracking.

"Oh, you actually found out..." The exposed Investigator Hua Liu smiled sheepishly, but then he put his hands on his hips, his brows raised under the mask, "Isn't it because you rejected my invitation? You know, I am... um, the direct descendant of a very important person...!"

"Okay, I still have to complete this commission. I don't have time to play house games with a young lady."

Ignoring the strange guy in front of him, Aicheng Hualian turned his back on him and rushed straight to the place where the evil energy was most concentrated in the town.

"Hey! Are you really not considering working for me? I can offer you a very high salary!"

Behind her, Inspector Hua Liu followed closely in her footsteps.

"I'm not interested. You can't give me what I want."

Chapter 83: Hualiu Family Forest Ranger

"I say, why do you keep pestering me? I'm just a private investigator."

Glancing back, Aicheng Hualian covered the evil god's perspective on Inspector Hualiu. Suddenly, a pink light flashed out, forming a half-meter thick light shield on the surface of Inspector Hualiu.

It was actually a D-level intermediate? Aicheng Hualian was a little surprised.

This carefree, cynical fellow was actually on the same level as Mahiru? It really was true that appearances were not to be judged.

Of course, according to what the girl said, the other party is the descendant of a big shot, perhaps the kind of prodigal son who relied on the power behind him to become successful.

Aicheng Hualian made malicious guesses in her heart.

"Hehe, in the eyes of others, you are indeed ordinary, but I am different from them." Inspector Hua Liu said, secretly glancing at the instrument in his pocket. The psychic power test result of Inspector Chi Yan was still zero.

Sure enough, the Investigator Chi Yan in front of him had extremely good skills in hiding his psychic fluctuations.

This is the kind of person she wants!

Only psychics who can completely block their own psychic fluctuations are qualified to enter the subspace. After a certain amount of training, they can step into the willow garden in the subspace, cultivate the "willow trees" planted by the Hualiu Group in the subspace, and become the "forest ranger" of the Hualiu Group.

The reason she came out this time was to find a suitable forest ranger, and the instrument she carried was also to screen out those psychics who could hide their own psychic fluctuations.

Unfortunately, she searched the entire Nanling Province but did not find such a talent until she met Investigator Chi Yan in Donghua City.

However, this guy seemed to be a weirdo. He was not tempted at all by the various attractive treatments she offered. He just focused on completing his commission, which made her very anxious.

The mission assigned to her by the family group lasted three years. If she could find a qualified forest ranger beforehand, she could use the rest of the time as she pleased. This was a rare opportunity for her to have fun, having lived in the family group since she was a child.

Maybe I should reveal some information to prove my identity?

Thinking of this, Hua Liu Xiangzi said, "I won't keep you in suspense. I'm here to recruit talent. Do you know Hua Liu Group? It's a top-tier company! I'm a headhunter there, specializing in finding talent."

"If you agree to work for our group, not only will you be able to freely enter and exit the warp and have the opportunity to see new worlds, but even the salary alone will be enough to make those regional directors in the evil response department envious."

"Entering and exiting the subspace at will?" Aicheng Hualian turned to look at the other party, "What's going on?"

As far as she knew, humans didn't even know what the warp looked like, so how could they enter and exit the warp at will?

"Hehe." Investigator Hua Liu raised his head with some pride and said, "Of course, humans cannot even set foot in the subspace, but we are a psychic family with a heritage of more than a thousand years. It is not something that ordinary mortals can understand."

"Not to mention us, even the top brass of the Demonic Response Department have some understanding of the subspace and have even established their own base within it."

"Those arguments that 'humans cannot enter the Warp, the Warp is an absolute forbidden zone, and humans know nothing about the Warp' are all used to deceive fools."

This... Aicheng Hualian felt a little complicated.

It turns out that I am also a fool. I have been fooled by all kinds of opinions in society. I really thought that human society, which has been dealing with the subspace for more than two thousand years, knows nothing about the subspace.

However, since the top leaders of the Evil Response Department and those mysterious psychic family forces have been able to establish strongholds in the subspace, why do they deceive ordinary people and say that no human can enter the subspace?

Putting aside this doubt, Aicheng Hualian replied, "If that's the case, then I might consider it. But I have to complete the commission here first."

If the so-called Hualiu Group mentioned by the other party can provide Aicheng Hualian with an identity that allows her to enter and exit the subspace freely, then she would really be interested in finding out more.

After all, the place with the most evil spirits is the Warp. Although she can now enter and exit the Warp with the help of the evil spirit within her body, she can only use the Warp as a means of transportation and has no ability to hunt the evil spirits in the Warp.

If the other family can operate in the warp, then they must have a way to avoid evil spirits. Then, she can do the opposite and hunt evil spirits in the warp.

"You're quite a contract-abiding person. I'm going to pull myself together and help you complete this commission, so you can get out of this insignificant matter as quickly as possible."

……

"This place really makes me feel uncomfortable."

Glancing at the eerie buildings around them, Hua Liu Xiangzi felt, for some reason, as if something were staring at her from those dark corners. This feeling wasn't coming from just one place, but from all directions, as if the entire town itself were alive.

The two of them, one in front and one behind, came to the place where Aicheng Hualian observed the most concentrated evil energy using the perspective of the evil god.

To Aicheng Hualian's surprise, this place was not the ominous place like a cemetery or a haunted house as she had expected, but an abandoned mine.

Rusty equipment was scattered across the mine, covered with gray-green ivy. The slag piled on the ground had turned into something like black sand due to years of weathering. The mountain wind blew down from top to bottom with the cold air from high altitude, whimpering on the uneven black coal slag ground, causing the temperature to drop a few degrees.

Perhaps twenty-seven years ago, this place was bustling with activity, but now, only the creaking machinery and coughing sounds tell of the past.

But from Aicheng Hualian's perspective, it looks different.

The slag, the equipment, the lighthouse... every place was shrouded in an ominous black aura. If the fel energy elsewhere in Bangshan Town was already incredibly high, then the fel energy in this mine was like a subterranean tunnel to the Warp.

Is this the so-called gathering place of evil spirits? Or perhaps an intrusion point into the subspace?

It doesn't seem like it. If this place was a gathering place for evil spirits, then the citizens of this mountain town would have fled long ago.

"Why is it so eerie here?" Hua Liu Xiangzi looked at the mine, rubbing her shoulders with her hands, shrinking her neck. "Could the kidnapper be hiding in this mine?"

"Who knows? But a young lady like you should just stay outside and be careful that the coal slag doesn't stain your clothes." Aicheng Hualian suggested. With such a guy standing next to her, it was difficult for her to use the evil power in her body.

"Do...do...do"

Just as Hua Liu Xiangzi was about to open her mouth to refute, the sound of a crutch hitting the ground came from the left of the two of them.

Chapter 84: Strange Villages and Towns

"Oh... cough, I didn't expect that at this late hour, there would still be people coming here to mourn the deceased."