I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

Thinking of this, she leaned towards Hua Lian's position, gently sniffing the familiar faint fragrance to relieve the impatience that was already rising in her heart.

Hopefully this so-called mission will be over soon.

"Dear trustees, the chairman is waiting for you on the top floor of the building. You can place your luggage in the arranged room before meeting with the chairman." A man who looked like a manager walked up and said with a smile.

"No need, we'll go up now."

Just as Aicheng Hualian and his group were taking the exclusive VIP elevator with their bags of equipment, a neatly dressed man standing in the corner took out the communicator from his pocket and sent a message.

"Another troublemaker has arrived. Let's inform the adults. This time, it's someone from Donghua City."

"Lei Shaowu hasn't learned his lesson at all. It seems the pain he's suffered before wasn't enough!"

Chapter 152: Lin Family Brothers and Sisters

crunch~

The door of the room on the top floor of Lei Yu Security Company was pushed open, and Dong Lan walked in first, followed by Huo An carrying large and small bags and Emily holding a curse detector beside her, and behind them were Ai Cheng Hua Lian and Kagura Guang who was standing close to her. Talina sat at the back and had started chatting with the staff who brought them in at some point.

What appeared before the three people was a simply furnished room.

The walls are a plain light yellow, and the four sides of the ceiling are inlaid with slender light tubes. In the center sits a round table with several simple office chairs placed here and there.

At the front of the room, a large floor-to-ceiling window replaced an entire wall, overlooking the city from a height of more than 300 meters, taking in the hustle and bustle of traffic.

The square-faced man sat in an office chair, facing the direction Aicheng Hualian and his group had walked in. He wasn't wearing a suit or tie, but rather a black and green combat uniform, with a pistol faintly visible in his pocket.

"Welcome everyone from Donghua City!"

He stood up with a hearty laugh. Aicheng Hualian knew the other person's identity: Lei Shaowu, the chairman of the Luoxi City branch of Lei Yu Security Company.

Captain Donglan also walked forward with a smile, exchanged a few words with the other party, and then got down to the main task.

"Before that, does Captain Donglan need to replace the exoskeleton on her legs with a better one? Our company can provide it." Lei Shaowu pointed at Captain Donglan's legs with a smile.

It was clearly a pair of trousers, but he noticed something was wrong with them at first glance. He was obviously very familiar with devices like exoskeletons, and he noticed the abnormality in Donglan's legs through the pattern of her walking movements.

"Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Lei. However, the exoskeleton for my legs is the most suitable for me. After all, it is a specially configured device in the department."

"Ahaha, then let's hope this captain from the Demonic Response Department doesn't let his leg problem delay his mission. After all, the waters of Luoxi City are getting increasingly muddy."

A soft but unceremonious voice sounded from the left.

Aicheng Hualian looked back and found a man and a woman sitting at a corner of the conference table. They looked very similar, both with high noses, brown eyes, and black eyebrows like a stroke of thick ink. The woman was slightly shorter, so they seemed to be brother and sister.

The girl who spoke was herself, about seventeen or eighteen years old, not much younger than Aicheng Hualian. The young man beside her had a slightly changed expression and turned to whisper something in the girl's ear.

"Who are these two?" Captain Donglan turned her head. She could hear the provocation in the words.

"Lin family, Lin Zhengqi." The young man nodded to Donglan, while the girl next to him was less polite. "We are from the Lin family. We are different from you guys who get preferential treatment everywhere."

"Jiarong, you can't talk to others like that!"

Lin.

Hua Lian knew a thing or two about this name.

A large family that also fights against evil forces, and almost all of its members are psychics. Because its founder's surname is Lin, the Lin family is named after him.

Speaking of families, they were essentially the same thing as tribes in the wilderness. In today's human society, psychics were respected, and their talents were passed down through their bloodlines.

The powerful psychic bloodlines branched out and formed families, which were connected together by blood and looked down upon all directions.

This is the case with the Hualiu family, one of the founding families of the Evil Response Department, and also with the Lin family, a family that originated in the southern hills and whose main business is to help others eliminate evil spirits.

However, Aicheng Hualian was puzzled as to why the girl from the Lin family was so rude and spoke in sarcastic terms.

Could it be that the Lin family’s business scope overlaps with the evil spirit response department, as the saying goes, competitors are enemies?

Thinking of this, Aicheng Hualian looked at the two of them intently, and the evil god's vision quietly unfolded in his eyes.

In her eyes, the girl named Lin Jiarong was easy to deal with, but her brother wasn't so good. The young man looked pale and his breath was weak, as if he had suffered a major blow. Most importantly, black energy was surging from his left arm, gradually approaching his heart.

"So it's everyone from the Lin family." Donglan nodded, but she was thinking about something else in her mind.

The information given by Minister Clo did not mention any competition from other teams.

Has the situation become more serious?

"It won't affect the mission. After all, my team members are more than capable of handling this task. I'm just here to mediate."

"Haha, just... Brother, let me go and let me speak! These people come here just to pick the fruits! We have finally..." The girl wanted to mock him, but her brother covered her mouth.

"Picking fruit?"

Aicheng Hualian suddenly chuckled, attracting the attention of everyone in the room. She walked to the front of the group and looked at Lin Zhengqi's left arm. "You can't pick fruit with just one hand, let alone a corpse."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the Lin brothers and sisters changed, while Lei Shaowu, who was sitting on the chair, smiled with interest.

He looked at Aicheng Hualian and thought to himself: It seems that this is the talented person with special qualities that Minister Clo mentioned.

"How did you know that!" Lin Jiarong exclaimed in surprise and stood up to protect his brother.

"It's simple. I saw it with my eyes."

"Your name is Lin Zhengqi, right? The curse is mainly entrenched in your left arm, spreading along the blood vessels and meridians towards your heart. You can only paralyze your left hand now, but after three days, it won't just be an arm problem."

"You're absolutely right." The young man coughed twice. "Four days ago, I was commissioned by Mr. Lei to come here to investigate the strange phenomenon. I finally achieved some results, but I didn't expect it to go wrong. I'm afraid my family will laugh at me if I tell anyone about it."

"It was a human who did this, right?" Aicheng Hualian observed the black curse power and roughly calculated the time when the other party was cursed. "The injury you suffered yesterday afternoon has spread to your left shoulder today. It's moving very fast."

Hiss!

Lin Zhengqi didn't waste any more words. He simply tore off the long sleeve of his left arm, revealing a shocking wound.

It was a black centipede-like scar that extended from the elbow to the upper arm. The fine and dense black scars spread and crawled on his left hand like a prisoner who was executed by slow slicing. Some black liquid was faintly oozing out, which was disgusting like a rotten corpse.

"It's just as I imagined." Aicheng Hualian nodded. "It's dangerous, but not fatal, because I'm here."

No one could doubt the confidence that emanated from her words.

"Okay, it seems I have met a professional." Lin Zhengqi laughed, not knowing whether he was happy that he was saved, or a bitter smile because he had to rely on outsiders for help as a member of the Lin family.

"I can't say I'm professional," Aicheng Hualian said modestly, "After all, this is my first day on the job."

"what?"

Chapter 153: Mutated Fish

The guy on his first day at work?

A strong suspicion appeared on Lin Jiarong's face, and this suspicion became more obvious when he saw Aicheng Hualian walking towards his brother.

"Hey, are you sure? New guy on first day at work?"

"Heal your brother? I'm sure it won't be a big problem."

"But you don't have anything with you?" Lin Jiarong stared at Aicheng Hualian with empty hands, and for a moment he couldn't guess what this newcomer from Donghua City wanted to do.

You know, curses are very troublesome things. Once you are infected with them, it is difficult to get rid of them.

Even the respected elders in the family need to use psychic arrays and various props to remove the curse from a person's body.

Wanting to remove the curse with bare hands? This went against everything she had been taught.

Somehow, in addition to hoping that the girl in front of him could heal his brother's injuries, Lin Jiarong actually felt a desire for her to fail.

This emotion is more of fear than jealousy.

If this orange-haired girl really cleared the curse from her brother's arm, wouldn't it make the family heritage and the knowledge she recited day and night just a joke?

The development of the situation told her that this was more than just a joke.

Aicheng Hualian even just placed her hands above the scar on Lin Zhengqi's left arm, slightly closed her eyes, and muttered something. Then she saw that her brother's wound began to fade from black and gradually returned to flesh color.

"What kind of power is this!? A magical spell?"

There is no magic spell, it's just Aicheng Hualian acting.

She simply placed a portion of the evil energy she had carefully cultivated on Lin Zhengqi's left arm, allowing the evil energy to eliminate the curse power attached to the wound, just like the tiger corpse before.

This time, Aicheng Hualian did not absorb the power of the curse because she was worried that the other party would find out something was wrong, so she just eliminated the curse.

Then Lin Zhengqi felt that the previously lost consciousness was gradually returning to his left arm, and the pain spread, which made him feel relieved.

The pain is not scary, the numbness is the worst.

Until finally, the bright red blood, symbolizing that the curse had been completely lifted, flowed out from his wounds.

The curse that had troubled him for more than a day and made him consider whether to return to his family to heal his wounds just disappeared like mist blown away by the wind.

"Thank you so much, young lady." He stood up, not caring that his left arm was still bleeding, and bowed to Aicheng Hualian. "As expected, you are the most powerful department in the world today. There are always people who are better than you..."

Listening to Lin Zhengqi's compliments, which also included praising the Evil Response Department, everyone had different expressions.

Captain Donglan was smiling, Huo An had a stern face, Talina and Emily were a little uncomfortable, and as for Kagura Hikaru, her expression became even colder.

There is always someone stronger than the strongest in any department. This rare ability in the world is purely the result of the joint efforts of her and Hua Lian, but it has benefited this so-called department.

If only the breeders hadn't thought it would be beneficial to join the department...

The young man from the Lin family was recovering on track, but the other girl had a strange look on her face and kept mumbling something. She would glance at Aicheng Hualian secretly from time to time, as if her worldview had suffered a great blow.

The group finally sat down on the chairs around the round table. Aishiro Karen sat on Captain Donglan's left, and next to her was Kagura Hikaru. On the other side of the captain were Talina and the other two, and the Lin siblings sat further to the right of the round table.

"I'm sorry, the information I sent you earlier is outdated."

The square-faced man said so, and Captain Donglan nodded. "We've also read the commission you sent. Since four days ago, large numbers of stranded dead fish have appeared on the beaches of Luoxi City every night, seriously affecting the city's tourism and fishing industries."

"Ah, yes," Lei Shaowu sighed bitterly. The unexplained deaths of so many fish had practically turned his hair gray overnight for the man in charge of Luoxi City's security. "We've invited experts from various fields to test the composition of the seawater and have also dispatched patrols to patrol the sea 24 hours a day, but to no avail."

"Large numbers of fish still gather at the beach around 11:30 at night, throwing themselves onto the sand as if possessed, and eventually becoming stranded and dead. Some have already died in the sea and are washed ashore by the waves."

Midsummer should be the peak tourist season. In this era, most people who have spare money to travel are rich people or even psychics. They spend money lavishly, making tourism a considerable industry in Luoxi City. However, in recent days, due to this strange phenomenon, no one dares to come, and every day is a heartbreaking loss.

"What about now? Has the situation changed again?"

"Yes. This Mr. Lin is the son of a good friend of mine. He has learned the skill of exorcising evil spirits from his family and is also an E-rank psychic. Yesterday, he was exploring the nearby seabed in a submersible when he was attacked by a strange fish."

"Strange fish?"

Lei Shaowu clicked the button on the table, and a black curtain slid down from the floor-to-ceiling window, revealing an image. It was a video recording of the submarine that Lin Zhengqi was riding when it was attacked.

The dark sea water, which was originally empty except for the white light spots, suddenly began to churn at a certain moment.

In the darkness, the submersible suddenly shook violently. Then there was a sharp creaking sound. The submersible was suddenly struck by a violent external force, and the alloy chamber cracked dozens of times like torn cardboard.

High-pressure water columns poured in from the outside. Fortunately, there was only Lin Zhengqi in the submersible, otherwise, who knows how many people would have died at the bottom of the sea.

Lin Zhengqi in the camera quickly picked up the last intact camera, then opened the hatch of the submarine and dived into the deep blue water.

The physique of an E-level psychic allowed him to swim upwards despite the water pressure of more than 500 meters. The submersible exploded beneath him, and a flash of fire passed by.

But at this moment, five scarlet lights emerged from the darkness, and a black shadow rushed towards Lin Zhengqi at a high speed. Something hit his left arm fiercely, and blood gushed out.

The videotape began to play in slow motion, and now everyone could see clearly that what was hitting Lin Zhengqi's left arm was a dark brown flesh whip with barbs, like a chainsaw connected by a rope.

Then, a bloody mouth, as big as a truck, came towards Lin Zhengqi and bit him. The camera only had time to clearly capture the four rows of uneven sharp teeth in the fish's mouth, and then nothing could be seen.

The recording ends here.

"I've never seen such strange fish in the deep sea. Is it some kind of mutant creature?" Aicheng Hualian lowered her head in thought. She went over the recent news in her mind and found that there was nothing unusual worth noting in the waters near Luoxi City recently.

There is no nuclear radiation leak and no evil spirits.

Kagura Hikaru, who was sitting on the left of Aishiro Karen, was thinking about another problem.

I don't know what that fish tastes like.

Chapter 154: Control is in your hands

"So, the problem in the ocean isn't just the inexplicable die-offs of fish, but also changes happening to the fish in the deep sea?"

Just one attack was enough to break the defense of an E-level psychic and leave such a vicious curse on the injured person. That strange fish must be at least an E-level creature.

Then things become troublesome.

If the other party is a demonic beast capable of wielding cursed power, then there is a source of pollution in the ocean. If we assume the worst, then there is a rift in the seabed that has invaded the subspace.

If this is true, sealing the crack in the deep sea would be more than ten times more difficult than on land.

"Love City team, what should we do next?"