Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 380 Demon
"It seems that you have a lot of complaints about the company."

Duan Mingyuan said.

"This is not a personal grudge, but someone has to speak up for the truth, right?"

Heya thought she could distinguish between public and private matters clearly. When it came to personal grudges, she only hated the Semites. It just so happened that the company and the Shanqi Chamber of Commerce were filled with a large number of Semites.

But the Embers Church has nothing to do with the Semites, so she is absolutely fair and objective on this issue.

She just recounted what Universal Company had done at that time.

Of course, for some people, stating the facts itself is considered a smear.

"I have lived long enough to see what happened, so you can be right if you trust me."

"I believe you."

"That's right. Although the wizards' home planet was destroyed in the bombardment, many wizards had already escaped. After hundreds of years of dormancy, they had already integrated into many civilizations. Some of them married and had children on other planets, put aside their past grudges, and gradually gave up their identities as wizards. But there are also a small number of people who are more fanatical in their pursuit of power.

"The Universal Company and their accusations indirectly inspired them. These wizards began to think carefully about where their power came from. The church believed that their power came from the devil, which was a synonym for evil, but it had never defined what a true devil was like.

"The closest theory is the 'Void Demon' theory proposed by the ancestors of the Embers Church. The Embers believe in the sun god. They believe that the eternal sun gave birth to life and power. Conversely, places that cannot be illuminated by the sun are where the demons live. To this day, there are still quite a few Embers who are unwilling to believe in science and believe that 'cocooning' is a disaster caused by the void demon."

As she spoke, Heya took out an ancient parchment with some obscure words written in bright red on it. There were also patterns next to the words, like some kind of ancient magic ritual.

"I have to admit that wizards are a group of geniuses. They really found a way to communicate with the 'Void Demon'. I spent a lot of effort to exchange this parchment from them."

"You should have played an indispensable role in this."

Duan Mingyuan said.

It now seems that the "Void Demon" should refer to the "black mud" that lives deep in the black hole. The place where the light cannot reach as mentioned by the Embers Cultists is the black hole.

These are areas that science can currently reach, but in the wizards' language system, they are more mystical.

Given Duan Mingyuan's relationship with Heya, he felt that the latter must have made a "huge contribution".

It is very likely that she was the one who told the wizards about the "Void Demon".

"You are indeed a famous detective. It seems that nothing can escape your eyes."

Heya openly admitted what she had done in the past, which she said was "helping the disadvantaged groups."

She witnessed how the company destroyed the wizards' hometown and launched a witch hunt to kill them all, so as an upright and good person, she stood up at this critical moment.

"A good and upright person would not allow the 'black mud' to parasitize on a wizard."

Duan Mingyuan finally understood why Heya knew so much about wizards and "black mud". He now even suspected that the rituals created by wizards to communicate with demons were also created by Heya.

"That part has nothing to do with good people with integrity. That's the business part."

“My customers have needs, and I will find ways to meet them,” Heya said.

Allowing the "black mud" to parasitize wizards is equivalent to helping them build a bridge of communication with the devil.

"Although most wizards were driven crazy by the 'black mud' that parasitized their bodies like the shipwrecked crew members, there was one man who survived and formed a symbiotic relationship with the devil. There are many benefits to this, one of which is the eternal life that Saint Field VI had always dreamed of." More than a hundred years have passed since the parasitism, and even the witch hunt has long since stopped, but the wizard still maintains the appearance of his youth, and his power is always at its peak.

Duan Mingyuan could already guess a little about what would happen next.

Judging from the time, the witch-hunting movement was in full swing during this period, and Saintfield VI was in his prime, so he must have been familiar with many of the abilities of wizards.

Later, he found the wizard through his family's intelligence network and learned the soul exchange ceremony from him.

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be a little boy's body in Saintfield VI's basement. That was the original version of the soul exchange ritual. The object of the soul exchange must have a blood relationship with the person. Therefore, Saintfield VI's plan was to cultivate a spare container, but it failed in the end. The container did not thrive as he expected and died early."

"How come you know everything?"

Duan Mingyuan frowned.

"Because I was on board the Saintfield for some time."

"You also trained that boy?"

"If you insist, I am just a handyman in the team... Let me tell you a secret. The doctor hired by Saintfield VI at a high price had no intention of letting the boy grow up healthily from the beginning."

This is Heya’s favorite part.

The Semites were all harboring ulterior motives, and if a boy died, Saintfield VI would have to look for other blood relatives, which would give the doctor room to maneuver.

Finally, the doctor chose the great-grandson of Saintfield VI.

A young man who is full of ambition but has extremely limited wisdom and ability.

“Boom boom, boom boom, boom—!”

A hasty knock on the door interrupted their conversation. Before Duan Mingyuan could speak, the person pushed the door open and walked in. The scene was like law enforcement officers unexpectedly breaking into a criminal gang's lair.

Unfortunately, he and Heya became criminals.

Fuling at the door winked at him and said, "This is the assistant to the executive officer of the Embers Consortium."

Eventually, someone leaked Heya's outrageous remarks in public, and the news immediately reached the ears of the Embers Group.

The dignified assistant looked at Duan Mingyuan and Heya with his sharp eyes, and asked after a moment, "What are you hiding here and plotting?"

He expected Duan Mingyuan to evade the question like those who were sent to the guillotine, and he had considerable experience in this regard.

No matter what excuses the two made, he would refute them one by one.

"We were talking about wizards."

"Huh, what a joke... huh? What are you talking about?"

"wizard."

Duan Mingyuan said truthfully, "We are talking about how the wizard led the Saintfield family step by step into the abyss."

(End of this chapter)