Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 12: The Bird of Death

Universal Life Sciences Division.

Duan Mingyuan had never heard of this department, but the title of director was enough to prove that the other party was of great importance.

Someone else came to visit. He signaled Jiuyue with his eyes to open the door, and then he started to get busy.

Peanuts, melon seeds, senbei and the most expensive dragon fruit. After thinking it over again and again, he took out the tea from the corner of the room that he had originally intended to use as a gift to maintain the relationship. Since he had resigned, the gift that he had originally prepared was no longer useful.

Although the director can be considered an uninvited guest, making every guest feel at home has always been the family's goal.

Fuling looked at Duan Mingyuan who was busy running around and suddenly felt that the scene was a little strange.

Based on her understanding of Duan Mingyuan, he was an expert who had solved two unusual cases in succession. His eccentric personality was her stereotype of this group of people, but the first impression Duan Mingyuan gave her was that he was a little... too normal.

It was clearly just an ordinary office worker preparing refreshments for a sudden guest.

She signaled the captain of the security department to stay outside the door with her eyes, and then Duan Mingyuan's voice came from the living room, "Jiuyue, the slippers are in the second drawer of the shoe cabinet, please get them."

"okay!"

Jiu Yue welcomed her into the house with a big smile on her face, "Welcome, big sister who drives the hover car."

The leisurely swaying big red tail distracted Fuling's sight. She bit her lip lightly and tightened her arms around a big black bird. The overly large crow made a quack sound.

It's so furry, I really want to pinch it and feel it.

"You're welcome too, big black bird."

"It's the mourning bird. We've met before."

The mourning bird seemed to be very afraid of September. It shrank its neck while emphasizing, "I have a name. You should call me Mr. Black Feather."

"I remember now." Jiu Yue suddenly realized, her eyes lit up, "Black-feathered chicken!"

She wiped the corner of her mouth without any concealment.

With such a big size, the meat should be very plump, right?

"Ms. Fuling!"

The mourning bird curled up in panic, which was enough to show how much of an indelible psychological trauma September had left on him.

Duan Mingyuan understood in his mind that it seemed that the fox's restraint should be expanded to the entire bird system.

This also explains why the director of Universal Life Sciences would come to visit at this time - Jiu Yue and the mourning bird that Fuling held in her arms as a pillow seemed to be old acquaintances. Based on this relationship, wouldn't the company's director be his future colleague?
If a high school history teacher knew about this relationship, he would probably introduce his deeds to his students every now and then.

After arranging the tea and snack sets, he took the initiative to ask, "Do you know each other?" in the spirit of building a good relationship with future colleagues.

"Ah."

Jiu Yue opened the photo album on her phone, which contained all the photos she had treasured for a long time. Jiu Yue in the photo looked a few years younger than she is now. The background was a dilapidated temple located on the top of a mountain. The mahogany pillars were covered with yellow talismans, which looked gloomy.

An unusually large tabby cat was nestled in Jiu Yue's arm. Duan Mingyuan searched for a long time before he found the mourning bird in the photo with only half of its wings left.

"This is me, and this is Lihua. She is also in Yunlong City now."

Then, Jiu Yue pointed to the half wing in the photo, and said with regret, "This is the black-feathered chicken we found in the mountains. It's a pity that it escaped." "It's a classmate! How can we discuss whether to braise or stew the chicken after saying hello to the monster?"

It seemed that because Fuling was holding it in her arms, the bird of mourning had some confidence. After criticizing Jiu Yue's atrocities, it turned to Duan Mingyuan and said, "You are her match, and you seem to be reasonable. You should take care of her more. Eating everything will only harm her!"

Hearing this, Jiu Yue became alert, "But I remember that the person you are destined to be with is not her."

Companion monsters can only have one bond partner, and their duty is to stay with that bond partner and grow together with them.

This contract will only terminate if one party dies or the other party personally terminates the relationship.

"Let me explain."

Fuling had expected Jiu Yue to ask this question, and explained, "Last night, this seriously injured child happened to fly into my residence. After I took it to the company's medical department for treatment, the child told me about his experience. He and his karmic partner were attacked while handling an unusual case, and he was the only one who escaped."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy.

September mentioned that two colleagues whom she had not met yet died last night.

"This kid mentioned that the person who exorcised the evil spirit lives nearby. I came here specially to express my gratitude. By the way, I also want to meet the expert he mentioned in person...that is, you, Mr. Duan Mingyuan."

Without waiting for Duan Mingyuan to say a few polite words, Jiu Yue proudly boasted about Duan Mingyuan's glorious deeds, "Mr. Mingyuan is the most powerful human I have ever seen. He slapped away those evil spirits with one slap. Everyone in the company knows how powerful he is and affectionately calls him the Ogre Boxer!"

What an awe-inspiring nickname.

September was very satisfied.

You don’t have to speak if you can’t speak.

All the thoughts in Duan Mingyuan's mind stopped at this moment, and only this desperate thought remained in his mind.

He didn't understand the social structure of monsters, but Ogre Boxer was definitely not a good word in human society. What puzzled him even more was why he was associated with such a title?
The frozen expression of the mourning bird deeply hurt his eyes. He clearly saw the poor child trembling with fear. After a long while, he warned Fuling who was hugging him intermittently, "Be careful, we have broken into the ogre's lair!"

On this day, it once again recalled the fear of being chased all over the mountain by Jiu Yue and the tabby cat.

"Don't be nervous, they won't eat you."

Fuling gently stroked the bird's head and said, "According to this kid, the most important thing in this business is to exchange information. I can also take this opportunity to learn more about evil things. Of course, I won't come empty-handed."

As she spoke, she placed two stacks of reports organized in folders on the table.

One of them was a sanitation worker near the community. Duan Mingyuan recognized the words on the cover of the folder. The other was the drummer of an underground rock band, a band he had never heard of.

"I took them over from the hospital through the company and transferred them to the company's medical center. The medical report mentioned that their body functions were normal, but they had completely lost consciousness. The surveillance video and witnesses proved that they suddenly fell into a coma."

"Were they attacked, too?"

Duan Mingyuan carefully read the report about the sanitation workers. He felt that the whole thing was a little unusual. The strangest thing was not the incident itself, but the fact that the director of the life science department of Huanyu would personally care about the evil attack and use company resources to transfer the two people to the medical department.

Anyone knows these two jobs are not even comparable.

“You could think so.”

She paused for a moment and said, "But the attackers might not have been evil spirits. After the company's investigation, the time they lost consciousness was exactly the same as the time you exorcised the two evil spirits."

Currently the total number of days on the shelf: 20
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(End of this chapter)