I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

What Yunrao didn't expect was that Aicheng Hualian dodged sideways at a faster speed, causing her palm to miss and she to grab a handful of air in vain.

"Eh? Pretty good reaction speed. For an E-level psychic, it's pretty good." Due to Aicheng Hualian's intentional exposure, Yunrao determined Aicheng Hualian's psychic level to be E through the psychic fluctuations. This was a world of difference compared to her intermediate D-level strength.

Why was an E-rank psychic so mysterious and wearing a mask? This killer always appeared openly in front of passersby.

How can you allow others to be more impressive than you?

Because of this strange reason, Yun Rao took action, but she didn't expect that Aicheng Hualian actually avoided her sneak attack.

Just as Yunrao was about to step forward and take off Aicheng Hualian's mask, she suddenly stood still like a nailed sculpture.

"This is!"

Her eyes widened, and she mustered all her strength, but she couldn't even move a finger. The weight of the transparent air around her seemed to have suddenly increased a thousandfold, exerting immense pressure on her body from all directions.

As if trapped in a solid iron box, she couldn't move, only her eyeballs could move with difficulty.

Who is attacking her?

Yun Rao glared at the orange-haired masked girl, but found that after dodging her sneak attack, she just stood there with her hands on her hips, looking at her with dissatisfaction.

It wasn't her, it was...

Her black eyeballs creaked and turned to the left, and a black-haired masked girl came into her sight. At that moment, it was as if a stream of ice directly pierced through her heart, making Yunrao tremble all over.

"is her?"

Today's update and situation explanation

I feel ashamed that I have opened a separate chapter to inform my readers about a minor illness, and have made it seem like a big deal. However, in order to explain the hiatus in the past few days, I feel it is necessary to explain to my readers the troubles I have suffered in the past few days.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, or maybe life was playing a trick on me, but just two days after I confidently declared, "I've solved my OCD and can update faster," I was plagued by physical pain. First, I caught a severe coughing cold, and then last weekend, I started to suffer excruciating pain on the left side of my neck.

Not to mention the muscle soreness, every time I stretched the muscles on the left side of my neck, a strong dizziness spread from the back of my neck to the back of my head like a tide, as if a tendon was pulled. I was so scared that I quickly adjusted my posture and dared not move again.

I thought I would be able to recover after a few days, but the pain became more and more severe. The pain on the left side of my neck began to spread downwards, involving my left shoulder and even my left upper arm. I went to see a doctor this afternoon, and found out that it was cervical spondylosis.

Fortunately, I didn't need surgery. The doctor prescribed some medicine and told me to develop good living habits, not to always look down, and to do more exercises that require me to look up, such as badminton.

I can only say that I'm thankful it's cervical spondylosis, and not something more serious. At least there's no problem with blood flow to the brain; it's just slight nerve compression, causing some dizziness and soreness. In other words, I can resume updating from today.

I just feel bad that my physical pain has prevented me from fully devoting myself to my writing. I'm sorry that these ailments, which are simply the fault of my bad lifestyle, have affected your reading experience.

The case list is as follows:

Chapter 125 They had contact with the target

"I can't move my body... This power... What kind of spiritual skill is this?"

Without sensing any psychic fluctuations, Yun Rao simply felt that the air suddenly became a million times heavier. Not to mention breaking free from the restraints, even her outstretched left hand seemed to be fixed in the thick rock, unable to move at all.

Yunrao's fighting instinct as a killer over the years made him try to use his spiritual skills immediately, wanting to use his spiritual power to transform himself into a cloud and escape this sudden restraint.

But she was horrified to discover that the spiritual energy in her body was as hard as a rock, tightly curled up inside her body and unable to move, like a mouse seeing a cat, and would not obey her commands.

"Damn it! Let me go!"

Yun Rao wanted to scold, but found that he couldn't even open his mouth to speak.

A huge sense of crisis permeated her heart. Now she was like a fish at the mercy of anyone. Even a child with a knife could kill her.

As a killer, he should be in control of the life and death of others from the shadows, but now he has fallen into such a passive situation, which is simply a humiliation!

But something even stranger happened.

Her nasal cavity and mouth seemed to be blocked by gel, and she was horrified to find that she couldn't breathe!

The feeling of suffocation was accompanied by an icy bondage. Although it looked like nothing was there, she felt like she had been thrown into an icy cave deep underground.

For a moment, she felt like she was back in her childhood, the Shadow Assassin Organization throwing her, trained as a killer, into a dark, cold prison, leaving her to find her own way out of the lightless cage. For days, the puddle of cold water on the ground was her only recourse. Loneliness, the deathly silence, and the fear of the dark constantly plagued her, carving an indelible fear into her nine-year-old heart.

Now, trapped by an inexplicable force, she seemed to have returned to that time.

Snowblind behind him narrowed his eyes and realized something was wrong.

She took a few steps forward, silver surged in her palms, and the temperature of the surrounding air dropped drastically, as if entering the cold winter ahead of time. Snowflakes fluttered down, and cold currents turned into cold knives, slashing towards the two mysterious masked investigators, and then they were smashed into powder by the invisible barrier.

"You two, my sister is impatient and acted impulsively. Please show mercy, Inspector." Xuemang said. She looked at Aicheng Hualian, with white light flashing under her black pupils, and the real color of her eyes was about to break through the disguise of cosmetic contact lenses.

Yunrao could not sense the other party's psychic fluctuations, but she could feel that the space around her seemed to be trapped by wall after wall. Everything in it was locked into a ball by a faint blue psychic energy that seemed to come from the depths of the sea. Yunrao was in the center of this gel-like air, like a bug caught in amber.

That kind of dark blue spiritual energy was even colder than her own spiritual energy that used the power of freezing snow. Just by looking at it, a dark and cold chill flowed through her sight into her mind like quietly flowing water in the middle of the night, making her shiver.

Suppressing this show of weakness, Xuemang looked at the black-masked investigator who caused all this, secretly judging his own strength and that of the other party, and based on this, decided what attitude he should use to communicate.

The result of the judgment is that the current situation is very unfavorable to her and Yunrao.

Although Xuemang speculated that the truly powerful of the two opponents was the private investigator wearing the black mask, the red-masked investigator standing beside them, responsible for communicating with them, was able to avoid Yunrao's sudden attacks, but judging by the strength of his psychic energy fluctuations, the red-masked investigator was not very powerful.

Just as a team needs a division of labor, each person excels in different areas. In Xuemang's opinion, Kagura Hikaru is responsible for force and combat among the two private investigators, while Aishiro Karen is more like the decision-maker in this small two-person team.

Therefore, Xuemang, the elite code-name killer in Shadow Assassin, who had at least hundreds of lives on his hands, lowered his posture and negotiated with Aicheng Hualian in a friendly tone, disguised himself as a wandering businessman.

There is no way. As an assassin in the dark, if you are exposed to the sun and confront the enemy head-on, you will naturally be at a disadvantage.

The most urgent task is to get Yunrao out of trouble. As for revenge and the like, as killers, they have plenty of opportunities and there is no need to rush.

"I can see. This lady really gave me a fright! She's so impatient! She doesn't look like a businesswoman at all."

Aicheng Hualian looked at Yunrao, who was trapped in the air. Seeing the mixture of shock and anger on his face, she smiled slightly under her mask. On the surface, she took three steps back and patted her chest with a lingering fear. "That was a close call. My true face almost got exposed to those two wandering merchants. If anyone offered a price then, I don't want to become one of your commodities."

"How could that be, haha. Then my sister..."

"Your sister is very restless, so my teammates have temporarily restrained her." Using her mind to communicate with Kagura Hikaru, she tried to stop him. Aicheng Karen looked at Yunrao, who was struggling in vain, and said, "It's not impossible to let her go, but you have to promise not to retaliate against me afterwards."

"No!" Xuemang hastily assured, "We were in the wrong first, so how could we possibly retaliate against you two? Rather, I should be the one making the compensation. Do you think you need some..."

"No need for that. I wouldn't dare take anything from a wandering merchant."

Waving his hand, Kagura Hikaru shifted his gaze away from Yunrao, only to see the killer, who looked like he had been holding his breath for five minutes, fall to the ground with a thud, gasping for breath with a grim face, as if he had one foot in the gates of hell.

The feeling of suffocation gradually subsided with the movement of breathing. Yunrao supported himself on the ground with his hands, quickly stood up, and stared at Kagura Hikaru fiercely.

"Damn it...if you hadn't attacked me by surprise!"

"Shut up, you troublemaker."

After a scolding, Xuemang apologized repeatedly to Aicheng Hualian and Yunrao, grabbed the back of Yunrao's clothes, and forcibly took him away.

To others, it would look like a mature older sister dragging her reckless younger sister along.

"Why not kill her?"

Watching the two "wandering merchants" leave, Kagura Hikaru asked Aijo Karen, "Are you afraid of provoking retaliation from the organization behind them?"

"Yes and no," Aicheng Hualian said, "Our strength naturally doesn't faze the wrath of a killer organization. However, if we were to confront the organization behind them head-on, then your identity, Xiaoguang, would be exposed. Then, the two of us would be enemies of the entire planet. It's terrifying just to think about it."

"The less you make enemies, the better."

……

"Yunnrao, why did you suddenly attack?" In a deserted grove, Xuemang and Yunrao were standing opposite each other.

"It's simple. I detected the target's psychic energy fluctuations in that person." Yun Rao stretched out her hand, and a small cloud swirled in the center of her palm. If you looked closely, you could see a faint purple hue in the center of the cloud.

"This is the psychic power of Hanayu Kaori. Those two private investigators have had contact with Hanayu Kaori."

Chapter 126: Road to Car Accident

"So, you launched a sudden attack just now because you wanted to get the scent of Hua Liu Xiangzi from the opponent?" In the deserted woods, Xuemang looked at the cloud floating in Yunrao's hand. The purple spiritual energy fluctuation was almost completely consistent with the spiritual energy fluctuation of the target Hua Liu Xiangzi.

"Of course. I'm not a reckless fool." Feeling a little proud that she had concealed her actions from even her sister, Yun Rao pushed the ball of mist in her hand upwards so that the two of them could better observe her trophy, which was also a small show-off.

Yunrao, a killer capable of psychic manipulation of clouds and mist, could naturally manipulate the fine mist in the air, using it to capture the scent of living things. Earlier, she had seemingly attempted to remove Aishiro Karen's mask, but her true purpose was to steal a scent from Aishiro Karen through her own means, observing whether she had come into contact with Hanayu Kaori.

The results showed that there was, and judging by the aura, the investigator wearing the crimson mask had come into contact with Hanagi Kaori not long ago.

"Hua Liu Xiangzi is really hiding in this restricted area. So what do you think? Should we control the two masked girls?" Xuemang asked her sister. Her hair and eyebrows began to turn white rapidly, showing the color of snow. The black dye gradually faded under the erosion of spiritual energy, revealing her true skin color.

Hearing her sister's question, the usually straightforward Yun Rao revealed a rare lack of confidence. The feeling of being trapped in mid-air by the strange spiritual technique unleashed by the black-masked investigator still weighed on her heart. Recalling that experience, she felt suffocated, as if a breath was stuck in her chest, as if the air around her was against her.

"I'm worried... there might be accidents if we attack them." She whispered, with a hint of hesitation in her tone. Not to mention her sister Xuemang, if it were her, in a one-on-one fight, she really didn't have the confidence to take down the black-masked girl. She might even be the loser.

"Indeed, the two masked investigators have probably returned to Donghua City. It won't be easy to take action in Donghua City. Since we know our target is in a nearby village, we will turn this place upside down and will definitely be able to find Hua Liu Xiangzi."

……

On Highway 912, Aishiro Karen and Kagura Hikaru stopped dead in their tracks. Before them lay a vast stretch of shattered road. Nearly a hundred meters wide, the road had been severed in half, revealing a jagged, broken surface, as if ripped by a vicious beast. Beneath the broken surface lay a crater nearly ten meters deep. Several cars and a bus were emitting black smoke, apparently having recently crashed.

Judging by the stream of crimson blood flowing from under the vehicle, the chances of survival for those inside were practically zero. If Aicheng Hualian weren't a psychic, she might have dismissed the situation as a serious car accident, as most people would. But she didn't. Rather, it was the evil god beside her who detected the fluctuations of fel energy in the air.

The evil energy lingered on the damaged vehicle, a pitch-black mass, like a lost ghost, and was swallowed into Kagura's body with a single wave of his hand.

Although this amount of evil energy is not even enough to fill the gaps between teeth, it is enough for Kagura Hikaru to sense something strange from it.

For example, this car accident was caused by several panicked evil spirits that happened to hit the drivers of these cars while passing through this section of road, causing them to suffer splitting headaches and resulting in the tragedy.

"A panicked evil spirit? Not an evil spirit?"

"It's an evil spirit." Kagura smacked his lips, savoring the taste that was different from the evil spirit's flesh and blood.

Haunted creatures are native to the Warp, harnessing fel energy to wreak havoc. Meanwhile, spirits are the ethereal remains of deceased creatures in the real world, corrupted by the fel energy of the Warp. While most of the spirits discovered so far are of low rank, they often possess a far greater intelligence than ordinary haunted creatures, and some even possess the ability to communicate.

Regarding souls, sightings have been reported since the Warp first intruded upon reality over a thousand years ago. Since then, the question of whether living things possess souls has been settled. However, until now, no one has ever witnessed the soul of a living being. The souls, or spirits, that people have seen have always been produced by dead creatures.

"For a spirit to be infected and transformed into an evil spirit, a certain amount of evil energy is required. Could it be that there's a subspace invasion node nearby? Did a few unlucky spirits just happen to pass by there and were invaded by the evil energy, becoming evil spirits?"

The previous Investigator Chi Yan had also accepted commissions related to evil spirits, but most of those missions were similar to exorcism, and he had never seen an evil spirit that caused a murder.

Looking around, Aicheng Hualian wanted to find the invasion node that she had guessed existed, but her spiritual energy was exhausted again, and her detection range was only a pitiful few dozen meters, which was not as wide as the range seen by the naked eye.

Kagura Hikaru beside him shook his head slightly, "There are no subspace invasion nodes nearby."

"Is that so? Then, my second question is, why are those evil spirits so panicked? Are there investigators chasing them?"

Kagura Hikaru, who now served as Aijo Karen's eyes and ears, once again gave a negative answer, "No, I don't sense any psychic fluctuations around here."

"That's strange. Who is hunting them?"

With a click, Aicheng Hualian jumped to the bottom of the pit. The steel that had been deformed beyond recognition squeezed the life inside into unbearable wreckage. Aicheng Hualian mourned in his heart for a few times, reached into the car, rummaged through it, but found that the driving recorder was also scrapped.

"That's good now. We can't find anything we want to check. Let's go first."

In a dozen minutes or so, this place will be surrounded by police, and all kinds of media will fly over like mosquitoes smelling blood. These two masked men don't want to be exposed to the sight of too many people.

But soon, as the two continued on their journey, Aicheng Hualian realized that he had worried too much.

Starting from the initial accident scene, a horrific car accident occurred every few hundred meters along Highway 912. The wrecked vehicles were on fire, and the smoke billowed out, making the entire highway look like a Great Wall with beacon fires.

The closer to Donghua City, the more frequent the accidents became. In the end, there were vehicles colliding every few dozen meters. A rough estimate of the number of casualties was in the thousands.

What's even more strange is that in every car accident, Kagura Hikari can absorb some scattered evil energy from the crashed vehicles.

Some of these evil energies belonged to demons, and some to evil spirits. It was as if these guys were being hunted by a common entity and driven onto this road by some existence. They were panicked and desperately fled, so much so that they collided with drivers on the road, causing accidents.

Aicheng Hualian frowned deeply. Even she had never encountered such a situation before.

The sound of sirens could be heard faintly in the distance. Aicheng Karen and Kagura Hikaru immediately climbed over the guardrail of the highway, dived into the woods beside the road, and continued to rush back to Donghua City.

"It seems something is wrong."

Chapter 127 The Future and the Present

"A major traffic accident occurred on National Highway 912 today, resulting in vehicles and casualties. Police are currently investigating the accident, as it was caused by a sudden onset of hail and fog, significantly reducing visibility. The exact number of casualties is still under investigation. We have invited Captain Wang, who is currently investigating the cause of the accident..."

The host on TV read out a prepared speech, using plain and straightforward reasons to fool office workers who returned home tired after a hard day.

On the second floor of her apartment, Aicheng Hualian sat on a worn sofa, her legs bent together and her arms wrapped around her knees. The room was dark, with only the light from the TV flickering on her face.

Beside her was the evil god who had "melted" into a large black jellyfish, like a slippery ball of jelly.

The evil god was lying on the other end of the sofa, with dozens of sticky tentacles sticking out from under the black umbrella. Some of the tentacles intentionally or unintentionally rested on Aicheng Hualian's thighs and embedded in the groove formed by the roots of her legs and waist.

After discovering the car accidents, the man and the god entered the woods, opened a passage through the subspace, and returned directly to the basement of their home. They took off their clothes and hid them in the closet, creating the illusion that they had never left home.

Fortunately, no one knocked on the door to visit while they were away.

Indeed, with Aijo Karen's previous aloof behavior, the only friends she could consider were her neighbor, Mahiru Tsuzaki, and a few classmates she met on campus. Mahiru Tsuzaki was currently preoccupied with the launch of the Chongling Cult, and those classmates had found work in the department after graduation and were now fully committed to their work, so naturally, their contact had ended.