Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 14 The Mystery of the Ogre

After Fuling and the company's security department left, the atmosphere in the living room did not return to a relaxed state. Jiu Yue and Duan Mingyuan sat at the dining table staring at each other.

The arrival of the company people brought some shocking information. For example, after the evil spirit was exorcised, the spirits of the sanitation worker and the drummer were also severely damaged and fell into a vegetative state. However, due to the atmosphere just now, Jiu Yue kept these questions in his heart and did not ask them out loud.

And now, the opportunity to ask questions has arrived.

"Mr. Mingyuan, if the price of exorcising evil spirits is to turn people into vegetables, then wouldn't that mean you have already... killed countless people?"

She thought about it for a long time, but couldn't find a more tactful way of saying it.

Duan Mingyuan's notebook was filled with densely packed descriptions of evil spirits. For a moment, she found it difficult to imagine how many vegetative people Duan Mingyuan had created.

Moreover, this is the record after he changed his career midway, gave up this profession and returned to reality to study and work!

Jiu Yue thought of some of the universe's most wanted criminals who were offered bounties by the company, but she doubted that those notorious wanted criminals had committed as many deaths as Duan Mingyuan.

The topic was very heavy, but for some unknown reason, Duan Mingyuan always felt that the corners of Jiu Yue's mouth were slightly raised, as if she might laugh out loud at any time.

Isn't this little fox a simple girl with a strong sense of justice? Why does she suddenly become so excited when talking about killing people?

"Don't make decisions about other people's life or death lightly. Medical journals have mentioned that a vegetative patient may wake up one day."

Having said that, it's an issue he has to face if he wants to keep the job.

He is not one of those office workers who is burdened with the instinct that he cannot survive without killing people.

Duan Mingyuan sighed. Before this, he had never talked about these topics with anyone, which was also related to the fact that he had never met like-minded people.

In fact, he had come up with the natural energy hypothesis of Poria cocos several years ago and put it into practice.

"I support you, Mr. Mingyuan. It was those people who first turned into evil spirits and committed evil. They deserved this fate."

Jiu Yue immediately stood on the same front with Duan Mingyuan, and also discovered Duan Mingyuan's kind side through this shocking and heavy performance, "But even so, you didn't kill them, giving them hope to wake up from their vegetative state!"

"No need to compliment me."

"Mr. Mingyuan is so difficult!"

Jiu Yue puffed up her cheeks and complained in dissatisfaction. She had finally found the humanistic perspective of Duan Mingyuan in this matter.

"My first encounter with the evil spirits made me have some questions. Why do the evil spirits feed on humans? Where did the missing people go?"

He had to bring the topic up a bit.

He has always had a clear definition of himself. He does not have the lofty ideal of caring about the world and saving people from dire straits. At best, he is just a person who can see more than others and has seriously thought about how to support himself with this. He shows some kindness within this limit, just like countless ordinary people living in Yunlong City.

Jiu Yue did not respond, but waited earnestly for Duan Mingyuan's answer. She knew that Mr. Mingyuan had once again entered a workaholic state.

"This is their way of absorbing energy. It is also the instinct of evil spirits. Once the energy absorbed reaches a certain level, the evil spirits will move towards the next step of evolution, giving birth to wisdom and some difficult abilities."

The arrival of Fuling helped him advance his past theory one step further. If evil spirits were a wild dream, then the weavers of dreams were gradually evolving to the point where they could control dreams through constant eating.

"So I thought, if evil spirits can feed on humans, why can't humans feed on them in return?"

When it comes to eating, no animal has ever been more omnivorous than humans.

Duan Mingyuan paused, as if he had just returned to the time when he had come into contact with the evil spirit, "Or in other words, what will happen to those who eat the evil spirit?" "Mr. Mingyuan, you——"

Jiu Yue's eyes widened with disbelief, but then came the admiration from the bottom of her heart.

The powerful secret of Mr. Mingyuan finally surfaced, but in contrast... in her cognition, evil spirits are almost all hideous creatures, with rotten tumors, nauseating tentacles, and a foul odor all over their bodies. They don't look like they are edible at all.

"Don't look at me like I'm an ogre. I certainly can't eat them like that."

“You braised them!”

Jiu Yue blurted out, and her admiration for Mr. Mingyuan increased a little more.

Duan Mingyuan's eyelids twitched violently a few times. This little fox had a very strange way of thinking. How did she figure out from the conversation just now that he had braised the evil spirit?
Duan Mingyuan looked very dignified with a stern face. The little fox shrank his neck and timidly changed the topic, "...Is it boiled in clear soup?"

"Watch it, I'm only going to show you once."

Duan Mingyuan picked up the disposable paper cup on the table and threw the whole cup of brewed tea to Jiuyue who was sitting across the table.

The most important thing for an adult is excellent emotional management, but this little fox always makes his blood pressure tend to rise.

Faced with the sudden change, Jiu Yue screamed, closed her eyes tightly, and instinctively protected her forehead with both hands. However, the expected scalding heat did not come. The paper cup filled with tea flew in the air for a long time before lightly touching the back of her hand.

Jiu Yue subconsciously caught the falling object, and when she opened her eyes again, the paper cup was gone. What fell into her palm was a bulging packaging bag with the logo of charcoal grilled chicken flavor on it.

An unopened bag of charcoal-grilled chicken-flavored potato chips.

She tore open the bag in a daze, revealing the potato chips covered with seasoning powder inside and put them into her mouth. The taste was exactly the same as the ones she bought in the supermarket.

“I neither ate them nor erased their existence, but let them continue to exist in another form.”

Energy and ability themselves are neither good nor evil.

At least that's what he thought when he was in high school.

To some extent, the evil spirits are the students who secretly play with their mobile phones and disrupt classroom discipline. As a strict teacher, all he can do is to confiscate the mobile phones and keep them for safekeeping, and then return them to these "students" when they grow up.

But unfortunately, until now no "student" who has turned over a new leaf has ever returned to him.

He can only let them continue to exist in the form of energy, living forever in the heart of him, the "teacher".

"I see. I totally understand."

Jiu Yue held the bag of potato chips in her hand, making a "crunching" sound. "Mr. Ming Yuan, your ability is to turn those things that don't look delicious into snacks!"

"September!"

"To!"

"You have to stand during this class."

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