This actor is full of tricks.

When Lin Jue returned to the real world, it was already night. The fog had just lifted, and there were hardly any pedestrians on the street.

The surrounding area was unfamiliar to him, and he had no idea where he came from. He immediately took out his phone to check his location.

The map shows him in Sanjiang, but in the western district, which he has never been before. It takes forty minutes to get back to Yangtao Street from here by car.

There was no one around, let alone a car, so Lin Jue had to find his own way back.

His gaze swept around, stopping at the shared bicycles parked by the roadside. He then turned to Fu Yu and asked, "Can you ride a bike?"

Fu Yu's expression was somewhat strange, as if he were to ask him to ride a bicycle.

"Forget it, let's walk. I can't scan two codes anyway." Lin Jue gave up on the idea of ​​riding a bike, turned on his phone's navigation, and set his destination to Xiaoming's grandfather's house. He had let Xiaoming out for so long, it was time to bring him back.

When the time comes, let Xiaoming meet his old neighbors; that will definitely be a huge surprise.

Fu Yu followed quietly behind him. His raincoat revealed a series of eerie faces, which were the residents of the Eternal Night Tower. They looked at the surrounding buildings with curiosity and sighed.

Many residents have been dead for a long time, remaining in the mist and enduring its chaos and bloodshed. Now that they have come to the slightly more peaceful present world, they have many feelings to share.

"I have no memory of the present world, it's a very novel experience." The small, bloody body laboriously climbed up Lin Jue's shoulder along his clothes, grabbing a hair to keep himself from falling. He looked around at everything, sniffed, and said, "It smells so good, the smell of living people is everywhere. What a pity."

Before he followed Lin Jue, he would have definitely enjoyed a feast if he had gone to the mortal world, but now that he's with Lin Jue, he can no longer harm living people.

Although this guy's strength has been greatly reduced, his rationality is still very low, so Lin Jue did not put him in the raincoat, but put him directly in the pocket of his clothes as a small pendant.

"You want to eat a living person? With your looks, you'd probably be flicked away like a little snipe." The old man sneered from inside his backpack, but quickly cried out, "No, why did you hit me, little girl? According to the ranking, I'm the boss! Don't you understand hierarchy?"

"I'm not going to stay in the raincoat forever. I'm just helping my residents find a place to stay." He Wen's emotionless voice rang out, simultaneously reminding Lin Jue not to try to control her through the raincoat, otherwise it would be a case of the raincoat breaking.

Lin Jue smiled and didn't take the little girl's threat to heart. As long as the other party got to Yangtao Street, it was only a matter of time before she had to go back to the raincoat business. He believed that his personal charm was enough to move any resentful and fierce ghost.

Along the way, ghostly wails and howls kept coming from his and Fu Yu's raincoats. The residents asked all sorts of questions like curious children. Luckily it was late at night, otherwise it would have scared a lot of innocent passersby.

Lin Jue walked very slowly, more like taking a leisurely stroll, giving himself space to think and organize all the clues.

Regarding the dean, regarding number 1, and regarding "Lin Jue".

About three hours later, he arrived at the street where Xiaoming's grandfather lived.

This street is even more dilapidated than when I last came here. At least some houses were still standing before, but now it's basically a pile of ruins.

He slowed his pace, looking at the pickup truck parked amidst the ruins. The pickup truck was very new, clearly recently purchased and not abandoned. This meant that other people had come to this street.

"Are they original residents?"

Lin Jue looked into the rubble, walked to the car, and placed his hand on the hood. The hood was still a little hot, which meant that the car had just been turned off not long ago.

“It doesn’t seem like a resident here. After all, it was a foggy day just now. Normal people would stay at home, and even if they were driving home, they wouldn’t choose to come when the fog has just cleared up…” Lin Jue withdrew his hand: “Who would come to this street that has already been demolished?”

Inspection Department!
The three words immediately popped into Lin Jue's mind: if anyone would be running around so soon after the fog had lifted, it would only be the investigators from the Investigation Department who were responsible for handling strange events.

"Did something happen to Xiaoming?"

In front of Fu Yu, Lin Jue switched to a strange state and led the other party toward Xiao Ming's house.

……

In the middle of the street filled with construction debris, only a lone bungalow stands. The whole bungalow is like an old man on his deathbed, full of gloom. Even though it has not been demolished, it feels like it will collapse soon.

At that moment, in the ruins not far from the bungalow, several figures were groping forward as a bald man made his way forward.

"Captain, what's your relationship with that construction company owner? Why are you here so late to help him with his business?" someone whispered.

The bald man had a lifelike scorpion tattoo on his bald head, almost as if it were about to come to life. When the man asked him a question, the bald man sneered: "What relationship do we have? He just paid me to do something. This guy wants to demolish this street, but there's always been one stubborn old man who won't die. Last time, he sent someone to drive that old man away, but they ran into a ghost, so he specifically asked me to take a look."

"But we are investigators from Jiuyuan, and this is Sanjiang's territory. Isn't this a bit inappropriate?" the man asked again after some hesitation.

The bald man slapped him across the face: "Stop talking nonsense. Most of those guys from Sanjiang are now at some lousy hospital under the leadership of headquarters. Headquarters specifically transferred people from Jiuyuan to help deal with the strange incidents in Sanjiang. This is Jiuyuan's territory now, what's wrong with that?"

“Those fools in Jiuyuan are all so stingy, they can’t get anything out of them. Now there are new grudges willing to pay, and you’re still standing here timidly. If you want to do it, then do it; if not, then get out of my team!”

“That’s right, that’s right, brother is right.” The man wasn’t angry at being slapped, and smiled ingratiatingly: “Those ordinary people want us investigators to work our lives out to solve strange incidents for them without contributing anything. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. We should set some rules for them now that we’ve come to Sanjiang these past few days.”

In Jiuyuan, it costs money to hire investigators from the Investigation Department to handle strange events. Each level of strange event has a clearly marked price, so they think the group of investigators from Sanjiang are very foolish.

The danger of dealing with bizarre events is well known. The meager salary and bonuses offered by the Investigation Department are not worth risking one's life for. What can one gain by sacrificing oneself for ordinary people?
A word of praise? A banner of appreciation? Who will remember that after a while? So making money while you're ahead is the only way to go.

(End of this chapter)