I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

Aicheng Hualian and Inspector Hualiu looked in the direction of the voice and found that the person coming was an old man who looked to be nearly seventy years old. He was leaning on a cane, wearing patched old clothes, his face was covered with wrinkles, and a pair of black corneas were buried in cloudy eyes.

"Hello, who are you?"

"I'm the night watchman at the mine. I've been watching over it for over forty years. Just call me Old Man Lin. But you two ladies, are you here to mourn your loved ones?"

It’s been more than forty years. It seems that these workers have been working here since before the mine collapsed.

As for the relatives they mentioned mourning, they probably mistook them for the descendants of the victims of the mining accident.

Hua Liu Xiangzi, who was standing by, wanted to deny it, but Aicheng Hua Lian raised his hand to stop her.

"Yes, her father and I both died in that accident more than 20 years ago. She and I were only five years old at the time."

She was not worried that her voice would give her away. After all, when she was disguised as Investigator Chi Yan, she would deliberately lower her voice so that others would think she was in her twenties.

As for the strange attire they both wore, one could only hope that the old man wasn't so perceptive.

"After my father passed away, my mother and we went to live in another place. I wanted to come back and visit today."

"Alas, my condolences."

"Thank you, grandpa. It's been so many years, and we have long since gotten over those sad days." The voice beneath the mask carried a hint of melancholy, but more of a sense of relief, perfectly reflecting the tone that a child who had lost their father for many years should have, causing Hua Liu Xiangzi to look at her in surprise.

I didn’t expect this guy to have a talent for acting?

What she hadn't expected was that Aicheng Hualian had already gathered evil energy in his body, ready to attack at any time.

Because in her vision, the old man in front of her had evil energy surging in his body.

Although that black and purple evil energy was far inferior to the evil energy of the evil god in her body in terms of status, it was still the same kind of thing after all, which made Aicheng Hualian alert.

A human being possessed by an evil spirit? Or a spiritualist colluding with the evil spirits?

It doesn't feel like either. If it's the former, the other party should have lost his mind. If it's the latter, the evil energy fluctuations in this old man should be even more intense.

Just as Aicheng Hualian was trying to guess the other person's identity, the old man spoke up, "Girls, it's already late at night. It's not good to stay in this place with such a strong gloomy atmosphere for too long. It's late now, why don't you stay in a hotel in our town for the night and then visit the public cemetery later?"

"Thank you for the reminder, grandpa. I was so focused on looking for traces of my father here that I didn't realize it was so late." Aicheng Hualian glanced at his watch. It was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

He gently tugged at Inspector Hualiu's clothes, signaling him to follow him.

Following the old man's footsteps, the two came to a hotel called "Ximei".

This is a hotel with only three stories high. It is also built with stones collected from Tianyu Peak. The whole body is grayish white. It looks a bit shabby from the outside. Only after walking in did you find that it is really shabby.

The front desk was covered in dust, there were even cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling, the wine glasses on the counter were covered in black mold, and the air was filled with the smell of age.

The night watchman pressed the bell at the front desk three or four times in a row, and two dissatisfied hums were heard from the small room carved out of the wall on the first floor.

"Who are you? You're here ringing the bell so late at night. Be careful or I'll settle the score with you during the day!"

"Who? A customer has arrived! Are you still going to open this restaurant, Mr. Yun?"

"Hey, why didn't you say so earlier!" The wooden door creaked, and a tall and thin man in pajamas walked out of the room. He was stunned when he saw the two women wearing masks and combat uniforms.

"These two girls are dressed really strangely, like the characters in those cartoons my son watches."

Pointing at Aicheng Hualian and the other two, the night watchman smiled and said, "They came from other places to visit their deceased relatives."

"Tsk, that damn accident." Shaking his head, the hotel owner did not ask for the two's ID cards or anything like that. He just asked them to pay a small amount of money as a deposit and let them check in.

"There are still plenty of empty rooms in the hotel. I'd rather say that you are my first guests this week. This damn place is in the middle of nowhere, and there are hardly any tourists coming here." Yawning, the hotel owner gave the two of them the key to Room 207 on the second floor, shook his head, and went back to his room to sleep.

Aicheng Hualian's eyes were fixed on the other person's back.

In her vision, the purple-black evil energy glowed darkly on the boss's body. He was even more powerful than the night watchman! He could be considered a humanoid G-level evil spirit.

The dark purple evil energy flames even condensed into a ferocious smiling face in the air, snarling at Inspector Hua Liu who was standing beside Aicheng Hua Lian.

As for Aicheng Hualian herself? That smiling face didn't even dare to look at her.

"Speaking of which, grandpa, have you ever seen a guy with a rough look? He looks like this..." As he spoke, Aicheng Hualian described the appearance of the Dark Mine Investigator to the night watchman.

"Oh, you're talking about him. I have an impression of him, an impression of him!" After hearing Aicheng Hualian's description, the night watchman showed sadness. His wrinkled face was squeezed together, making the ravines deeper, like black canyons spreading across the yellow-brown land.

"That guy... oh my! He refused to listen! He insisted on entering the mine, saying there were some escaped criminals or kidnappers hiding in there. How could that be possible?"

"But within a few minutes, the man came running out of the coal pit, screaming, his face covered in blood. It was terrifying."

"Why, you two know him?" The night watchman looked at the two with cloudy eyes.

"I guess so. He was in the same tour group as us. We'd lived away from home for so long that we didn't quite recognize the way back home, so we signed up for a tour group and came here. Along the way, the guy was kind enough to tell us not to come here. He also told us there were some fugitives hiding here."

"But we didn't believe him."

"Yeah, there aren't any fugitives here. There are only a few thousand people living here, so everyone would know any unfamiliar faces." Stroking his cane, the night watchman walked out of the hotel step by step. "Okay, I have to go back and keep an eye on the mine to make sure no one else accidentally escapes."

"Girls, I'm sorry to both of you stay here. If you want to find your father's grave, you'd better wait until daybreak."

crunch...

The door of the hotel was closed from the outside.

For a moment, the only sound in this dark place was the faint snoring coming from the room belonging to the hotel owner.

Going up to the second floor, the two opened the room in silence and looked at the room in front of them which was only 30 square meters in size and had only one bed.

"I'm going to wash my face first. The air here is so dirty and smells like coal."

To Aishiro Karen's surprise, Inspector Hualiu did not ask her why she stayed there, but went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Then, a scream was heard from the bathroom.

"Oh my god! Come and see!"

Aicheng Hualian walked to the other person's side, followed his gaze, and looked into the sink.

What flowed out of the faucet was not water at all, but pools of black gel.

Chapter 85: The Pathetic Expatriate

The black gel slid down from the faucet and fell into the basin on the sink, shaking slightly like a ball of mud.

"Is this water?" Investigator Hua Liu shouted in surprise. She waved her hand, and a pink spiritual energy crashed into the black gel in the basin, immediately making a sizzling corrosion sound, and perished along with the black gel.

"These are clearly high-concentration evil energy aggregates!"

"The villagers here grew up drinking this stuff? You must be kidding me."

Aicheng Hualian turned on the faucet, but this time what came out was normal clear water.

She turned on the shower in the bathroom again, and the water that came out was still clear, as if the black gel that had flowed out of the faucet before was just an illusion.

"No, this town is too weird! Let's just rush into the mine and pull the kidnapper out. If I stay here any longer, I'm worried I'll get mold spots on my body."

Hua Liu Xiangzi bounced restlessly on the spot, like a restless little monkey. With her intermediate D-rank psychic skills, she certainly had the capital to sweep away most common evil spirits.

"Okay, let's split up. You go search the mine, and I'll stay here and rest for a while. We'll set off again tomorrow morning."

"Huh? You call this splitting up?" Inspector Hua Liu was furious, her pretty face behind the mask raised a brow. "It's already this late, and you're still thinking about sleeping?"

As the direct descendant of the family, Hua Liu Xiangzi had always been the one enjoying the service of the servants. How could she have ever been busy while others were resting? This was simply the opposite of Tian Gang.

"Miss Hua Liu, you have no idea how much energy I put into finding the kidnappers' hideout. I'm exhausted now, so a break wouldn't be too much of a stretch."

Having said that, Aicheng Hualian ignored the other party's eyes that were about to spit fire, and fell directly on the bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

"Tsk, I thought he was a talent, but he turned out to be a lazy bum!"

After cursing angrily, Hua Liu Xiangzi stepped onto the windowsill, looked at the dark town that looked like a ghost cave, and swallowed.

It was so dark! A chill ran down the back of Hua Liu Xiangzi's neck. Her family was always brightly lit; even the bathroom had ten lights. How could she have ever seen such a shabby place this dark?

What are you afraid of? I'm a D-rank Psychic!

Encouraging herself in this way, she leaped out of the hotel and headed towards the mine.

Aicheng Hualian was the only one left in the room.

A faint snoring sound was heard, but it stopped immediately after a few minutes.

Aicheng Hualian, who was lying on the bed, sat up and said to the closet in the room, "Come out, didn't you want to wait for Inspector Hualiu to leave before showing up? I'm the only one here now."

crunch...

The old brown wardrobe door was pushed open from the inside.

A thin man with only one right hand slowly crawled out of the closet.

The man looked haggard, and his pair of brown eyes looked around cautiously, as if he was avoiding someone.

After confirming that Aicheng Hualian was the only one in the room, the man's expression relaxed and he quietly climbed out of the cupboard without making any noise, like a middle-aged cat missing a leg.

Is it necessary to be so cautious? Sneaky...

Aicheng Hualian was puzzled by the other party's behavior. If the other party's psychic energy fluctuations were not so weak, she would have thought that the guy in front of her was the kidnapper she was looking for.

"I say... you two aren't here to mourn your loved ones, but rather private investigators from Donghua City," the man said, sitting on the hotel floor, rubbing his hands together tremblingly. His body was shaking for some reason, and he lowered his voice. "Just like those people who came here this afternoon."

"you are?"

"I'm Lin Yefusi, a psychic assigned here by the Demonic Response Department."

Raising an eyebrow, Aicheng Hualian looked at the malnourished, sallow-faced psychic in front of him, who was hard to associate with an external specialist from the evil response department.

As the main force in resisting evil and the subspace, the Evil Response Department is often short-staffed. The number of official investigators under it is small, and most of them are deployed in cities with a population of over one million.

As for small towns like Bangshan Town with a population of several thousand, departments often send some expatriates below rank D to garrison there.

Although the treatment of dispatched specialists is very different from that of official investigators and their status is relatively low, they are still the face of the evil spirit response department in a region. Master Lin Ye also has the strength of an intermediate E-level, so why did he end up like this?

"Yes, the girl and I are indeed private investigators. We're here because we're tracking down a kidnapper. You must have heard about the recent kidnapping case."

"Kidnapping! Is it that lunatic who even spared the son of the Tianyi City Public Security Bureau Chief?"

"Yes, we suspected that the kidnapper was also a psychic, so we tracked him all the way here. Think carefully, have you seen anyone suspicious recently?"

"Oh my god!" Linye Fusi's body trembled violently, his eyes looking forward in fear, his mouth trembling, "I do remember! Three days ago, several large trucks drove into this town from other places, and the leader of the convoy was even received by the mayor. I didn't expect that guy to actually come here. This is the end! This damn town deserves to go to hell, and now there's a kidnapper hiding here!?"

"Go to hell? What's going on?"

"Right...right! Sorry, now that you mention it, I almost forgot what I came here for." Linye Fusi didn't answer Aicheng Hualian's question. Instead, he pulled out a small note from his pocket and handed it to Aicheng Hualian with his remaining right hand. "Please do me a favor and give this note to the evil spirit response department. Tell them to send someone to rescue me and help me get out of this damn place."

His tone was humble and his head was lowered, just like a beggar begging for mercy from Aicheng Hualian.

"Huh? You want me, a private investigator, to deal with the Haunted Response Department? Are you hoping I'll go to jail?"

"Please, the villagers here are all monsters, I can't believe it!... Cough cough! Ah!" Right in front of Aicheng Hualian, Lin Ye Fu Si suddenly started coughing violently. He quickly covered his mouth with his hands, fearing that the sound of coughing would attract other people.

[Evil God, give me your vision.]

A faint blue filter instantly covered Aicheng Hualian's eyes.

In her vision, the Lin Ye Fu Si in front of her, although his psychic power was very weak, at least he was not contaminated by the black and purple evil energy.

wrong!

"Cough cough!"

Lin Ye Fusi's cough became more and more violent, and a few drops of black blood were coughed out of his mouth.

In Aicheng Hualian's vision, the blood was clearly emitting purple evil flames.

The Lin Ye Fu Si in front of him was also infected by the evil energy, and all the evil energy was hidden in his body, invading his internal organs.

He is already terminally ill!

Chapter 86: Bugs are so unpalatable

"Oh no... I've been away from home for too long, and the curse in my body is about to break out."

Lin Ye Fusi's face showed extreme pain, and it felt like ants were crawling all over his body. He fell to the ground and twitched violently. His facial features were twisted in pain, making his already thin face even more creepy.

Something ominous was gnawing at everything inside him, crushing his body.

If he leaves his residence for more than a certain period of time, he will suffer the most severe punishment in the world.

He had no one to talk to, as the villagers living in this town were a bunch of scoundrels. He also thought about using the communicator to send a distress message, but found that the communicator, which had always been very reliable, was scrapped due to the corrosion of the evil energy.

Perhaps it was from the time he drank the first glass of water at the mayor's invitation to dinner three years ago that he, Lin Ye Fusi, was trapped here.

The expatriates of the evil spirit response department are generally rotated every ten years, but it is a question whether he can last until the fifth year.

Until today, several strange psychics came here and allowed him to see the light in the darkness.