The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 30: Transforming Evil
"Isn't Luo Yin your boss?" Qi Fei asked.

"Haha, what else? I heard that the higher-ups sent people to question her. I don't know how they covered it up, and the family members have made a fuss several times. How else could Feng Yi, a country shrew from Sanwu Town, climb to this position? I think she must have climbed into that person's bed first!" Old Qian also became angry and spoke harshly.

The female secretary looked around nervously, afraid that someone nearby would spread the word.

What Qi Fei cared about were the words "Sanwu Town".

I couldn't help but ask, "Is Feng Yi from Sanwu Town?"

"Oh, yes. I heard that she is the youngest sister in the family. She is domineering and ignorant. I don't know when she followed Lao Luo. Didn't she bring him all the way to our Nancheng to invest? She made a mess of our place." Lao Qian said angrily.

The female secretary glanced at Lao Qian nervously several times, as if to say, "Don't talk about this anymore."

But Lao Qian already looked indifferent.

At this moment, the sweet floral scent wafted over. Qi Fei was now all too familiar with this scent. He should have known long ago that this person was still haunting him.

As expected, Zhong Kui had appeared in Qi Fei's sight. This time, he was not wearing an exaggerated fur coat. Instead, he was dressed in Western style, with a bow tie, shirt, and wool coat. He didn't even wear high heels. It was another style, as if he wanted to blend in with the workplace atmosphere here.

The moment Zhong Kui saw him, she deliberately acted surprised and asked, "Why are you here too?"

Qi Fei said unhappily, "Didn't you ask me to come? If I had known it was such a coincidence, wouldn't I have asked you to come with me?"

"I'm not here to help you investigate the case." Zhong Kui said arrogantly, then looked at Lao Qian and the female secretary beside him arrogantly, "Where is your General Manager Feng?"

"Are you Ms. Zhong? Mr. Feng has an urgent meeting, please wait a moment." The female secretary said respectfully.

Zhong Kui glanced at her and said nothing, just walking forward on his own.

Although both were arrogant, compared with Feng Yi, Qi Fei even felt that Zhong Kui's attitude was not bad. At least she had someone in her eyes.

Not long after, the sharp scolding voice rang out again in the corridor: "Didn't you even tell me that someone was coming?!"

"I miss you. You're in a meeting..."

"It's important to have a meeting and see guests, huh?"

Qi Fei listened from afar, feeling helpless. It was Feng Yi who had clearly said that the meeting was important. This secretary was really miserable. Everything he did was wrong.

Old Qian stood next to Qi Fei and winked at him: "See? We all came from the same training class. If Niu Yinzhu hadn't disappeared, he would have treated his subordinates in much the same way."

However, Qi Fei was more concerned about the relationship between Feng Yi and Zhong Kui at this time.

He waited patiently until Zhong Kui came out from Feng Yi's place.

Zhong Kui smiled when she saw him: "Do you want to see me so much?"

"I just want to know, how is it such a coincidence that we meet in the same place again." Qi Fei said with some hidden meaning.

Zhong Kui was very comfortable: "We are destined to be together. We are really destined to be together!"

Even though he knew she was teasing him, Qi Fei's ears still turned red. This uncontrollable emotion was really damnable. "Tsk, stop using the honey trap to confuse people." Qi Fei said with disdain, but his voice was trembling with guilt.

Zhong Kui saw this and couldn't help but smirk: "Do you still want to drink with me?"

"Can't we just have a good chat? Do we have to drink?"

"You have to pay something to get information from me. I didn't even ask you for money."

"Okay, I accept. You have the final say."

Zhong Kui smiled with satisfaction: "I have reserved a table at the tavern on Qingjiang Road, but your clothes don't suit me. Why don't you change into something more formal?"

Qi Fei frowned when he heard this: "Why would you reserve a seat if you didn't know I was here?"

"I am a great immortal. I can tell the answer just by counting on my fingers." Zhong Kui finally brought out her universal answer.

Qi Fei had no choice but to go to the pub with her.

"You know how much I can drink. That's all." Qi Fei admitted defeat. "Can we try some other ways of communicating?"

After hearing this, Zhong Kui smiled wickedly, lifted her hair across the small wine table, and asked in a low voice: "Then tell me how we should communicate?" As she spoke, her ethereal big eyes looked at him.

Qi Fei took an awkward sip of his cocktail and changed the subject: "Seriously, Feng Yi is from Sanwu Town. Did you know that all along, and that's why you reminded me to go to Niu Yinzhu's company to investigate?"

"Huh? Are you already suspicious of Feng Yi?"

"Oh, she's not the only suspect. So far, the people I've questioned all have motives for Niu Yinzhu to disappear. Yu Meiren, the head of the Human Resources Department, and Feng Yi are at odds. She deliberately revealed that Niu Yinzhu's project was related to Feng Yi's work because she hated Niu Yinzhu's attempts to curry favor with Feng Yi. Lao Qian is a senior member of the project department and was jealous of Niu Yinzhu for taking the position of head at such a young age. Of course, there's also Li Jian. He looks harmless, but he's a doctorate from a medical university, and his blood was processed, which makes me suspicious. As for Feng Yi, it goes without saying that he used Niu Yinzhu as his own black glove, so it's not impossible that he would kill her to silence her. Okay, I've told you my information, so what about you?"

"Me? Of course I'm here to do my old job, fortune-telling and exorcism. Am I supposed to be following you?"

"Fortune-telling?"

"The Feng family is a big client of mine. Her mother came to me as soon as the snow stopped in Sanwu Town. The New Year is coming soon, and they wanted to offer sacrifices to the gods for safety. I told her that her powerful little sister has been in trouble recently and she should be careful. Mother Feng was anxious, so she paid me to come and help her ward off evil spirits."

"Oh, so we're old acquaintances. No wonder she's so polite. She came to see you without even having a meeting." Qi Fei thought again, "Doesn't she mind people in the company saying she's superstitious?"

Zhong Kui raised an eyebrow. "Does she look like someone who cares about these things? In her opinion, she only takes people who are stronger than her seriously. Some people need to build their confidence by devaluing others' sense of superiority. Feng Yi is a typical example."

"Oh, I've experienced this today." Qi Fei thought about it, still unhappy, "But that's all she is. She doesn't even have the basic respect for her subordinates. What era is this? She makes herself look like the empress dowager." He finally poured out the words he had been holding back at Nancheng Investment. Then he said to Zhong Kui, "How did you exorcise the evil spirit for her in her office just now?"

"It was a blessed lucky bag. Her mother spent 10,000 yuan on it and asked me to deliver it personally. I charged her an extra 40,000 yuan," Zhong Kui said shamelessly. "Of course, she told me about the turnaround after I gave her some advice last time. She seemed very satisfied with the current situation."

"What turning point?" Qi Fei asked.

　Those who haven't seen enough can read old books haha

　　
　
(End of this chapter)