Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 207 The Mysterious Merchant
Duan Mingyuan does not support forced buying and selling.

The advantage of traveling with Zheng Liu is that he can let a police officer prove his innocence. They came here for investigation, but encountered unscrupulous businessmen in the company who wanted to force them to buy 150 years of life through a truth. This is even more deceptive than the melons in the greenhouse. In order to prevent them from being harmed by the unscrupulous businessmen, he could only resist helplessly.

This is what just happened.

As for the clues related to the 13 missing persons and the truth that had been hidden for many years as told by the unscrupulous businessmen, they were all unexpectedly obtained when we were fighting against the unscrupulous businessmen and defending their legitimate rights and interests.

Duan Mingyuan found this easy to understand.

In game terms, the profiteer will drop the mission items after his death.

This important "mission prop" reveals why these 13 people suddenly turned around when their company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and why they rose rapidly all the way to become the most successful investment company in Siyang City and even the entire Blue Star.

"There were originally 15 founders of the company, not 13. The other two were the ones whose bodies we found under the company building. When the company was about to go bankrupt, they met a businessman and made a deal."

"merchant?"

Zheng Liu sat in the police car with his hands on the steering wheel, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Just now, there was a moment in the basement of the company when he seemed to see something unusual - the entire space there was made up of human facial features and internal organs, and those disgusting black tentacles pounced on them at the same time.

When he came to his senses, he had already followed Duan Mingyuan back to the surface in a daze.

Everything he had just seen seemed like an illusion. Even the underground road disappeared and the walls of the parking lot closed. This made Zheng Liu unable to figure out for a moment whether everything they experienced underground was a real danger or just his personal imagination.

But if that were all true...

How did they survive the crisis?
After returning to the police car, Zheng Liu was terrified. His hands and feet were cold. If Duan Mingyuan had not accompanied him on this trip, and he had returned to the company alone to investigate the case, he might have been the next person to go missing.

Zheng Liu did have the idea of ​​returning to the company. If the expert invited by the bureau had not arrived in time, he would probably have returned to the company alone to investigate the case tonight.

"We will use 10 years of everyone's life to revive the company and create a better future."

Duan Mingyuan said.

There are 15 founders of the company, so its lifespan is 150 years. He guessed that the evil spirits in the company forced sales in order to "redeem themselves". If they met two other unlucky guys who redeemed them, the evil spirits would be able to leave the building and go outside the company.

This 150 years seemed to be a shocking group buying price at the time. The mysterious businessman had just opened for business and prepared a big opening gift package for them.

On average for each person, it means exchanging ten years of life for a better future.

The future is uncertain. Duan Mingyuan feels that many people today would be willing to exchange 10 years of their life for wealth and glory if they could get a clear promise.

This was originally a deal that both parties were satisfied with, but during the payment process, the remaining 13 people came up with an amazing idea.

They can each pay with 10 years of their lifespan, or two of them can pay with 75 years of their lifespan each.

As the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, the relationship within the original core team became extremely tense. They took advantage of this opportunity and nominated two of the "least popular people in the team" on the trading day.

A young couple, also former classmates.

When the company was about to go bankrupt, he kept trying to get out of it. "So the core team of the company was reduced from 15 to 13 people. They got a bright future for free without paying any price. For the mysterious businessman, all he wanted was 150 years of life. He didn't care whether the deal was paid by 15 people or two people."

"I immediately asked my colleagues in the bureau to help check it out. If it's an unsolved missing person case, there should be a record of it."

Zheng Liu said.

He always felt uncomfortable when he thought that the people who attacked them in the underground space were victims of another case, or that they were buried under the company building for decades for no apparent reason due to the limited capabilities of the Siyang City police.

He linked together his time, location and other key information, edited it into a text message and sent it to his colleagues in the data room. He then asked, "In this case, are the two missing persons resentful and turned into evil spirits to claim the lives of the other 13 people?"

"I've read in a book that the obsession of a person who died with hatred may remain and become an evil spirit, but this case is a little strange."

"What's weird?"

"Normally the bodies would be under the company building. If the two were filled with resentment, they would have killed the 13 people one after another long ago. They wouldn't have waited so many years to do it. The businessman who traded with them at the beginning might have suppressed their resentment by some means. It's also possible that something happened in the company recently that reactivated the resentment."

The truth of this case seems to have come to light, and the 13 missing persons have paid the price for their actions that year, but in fact it involves a deeper conspiracy.

The remaining memories of the two were confused. It was not known whether it was because they had been dead for too long or the merchant had tampered with their memories, but the specific image of the merchant did not appear in their memories.

But what is foreseeable is that the merchants still existed and, in the many years that followed, they made business with more people.

Life is the universal currency, and at the merchants, you can seemingly buy anything with it.

The person who caused the two people's resentment to explode and transformed them into evil spirits was most likely the member of Wangxu mentioned by the Siyang City liaison officer.

The evil spirit formed by the two of them grew very fast. In terms of the growth of the barrier, Duan Mingyuan could give it an A rating. Within just a few days after the incident, it obtained the assessment of an intermediate professional title and completed the process of building a nest in the company building.

But considering that there was an ordinary person like Zheng Liu around him, Duan Mingyuan did not give the evil spirit a chance to show his talents.

"If we don't find the merchant and the person who turned the hatred between the two into evil, there will be more cases."

"I understand."

Zheng Liu nodded solemnly, "I will go back to the bureau now to report the seriousness of the matter to my superiors. I hope we can make it to the next case..."

The vibration of his cell phone interrupted him.

He quickly unlocked the screen, but the person who sent the text message was not his colleague in the data room, but his master.

When he saw the content of the text message, he angrily slammed the steering wheel and swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"Others have been killed."

Zheng Liu said sullenly, "It's very close to us. My master asked me to go there right now and also asked me to take you with me... He said that the person who was killed this time seemed to be one of your people."

(End of this chapter)