North American wizards, starting as cooks, roam freely and without fear.

"squeak..."

Jerry the mouse emerged from under the hem of the trench coat and quickly climbed onto his owner's shoulder. Standing on the shoulder, he looked around.

"quack..."

The raven, Dahei, which had shrunk and crawled into its owner's trench coat, immediately returned to its normal size upon emerging. It then flew to the spacious villa hall, circled in mid-air, and finally flew back, landing on its owner's other shoulder, cawing, "Nobody... nobody..."

"Of course I know there's no one there, it's something else..."

Li Heng smiled and reached out to pat the big black head, then continued walking slowly up the stairs.

Because it is a row of townhouses along the street, the houses on both sides of the villa are basically close together, so the lighting is much worse than other villas. Once the gate is closed, the villa is basically dark.

Li Heng didn't turn on the lights; night vision was easy for him these days. He simply walked upstairs step by step.

The dim lighting and the empty villa, with clothes and documents scattered on the ground, showed that the homeowner had left in a hurry.

At this time.

Li Heng stepped down and immediately felt something sticky under his feet.

He looked down and saw a pool of dark brown, solidified liquid under his feet. The black liquid had flowed down from the steps above and had already solidified, but it hadn't dried completely yet.

He lifted his foot and looked at the sticky, dark red liquid on the sole of his shoe, as well as the strong, distinct fishy smell emanating from it. This was clearly the blood of the ordinary priest who had died in this villa, as Harvey had mentioned outside the gate.

He looked up carefully and found that the bloodstains started from the handrail of the stairs and flowed down. He guessed that the priest must have hit his head directly on the marble handrail and then died.

"He was killed by that evil spirit as soon as he reached the handrail, before he even got to the second floor?"

"Looks like that thing in this house is pretty irritable..."

He thought to himself, then noticed a crucifix and a small glass bottle with the lid off next to the bloodstained handrail. The bottle even contained a little water. A crucifix, a holy water bottle...

"Could this be the priest's exorcism tools...?"

Despite his inner complaints, Li Heng was fully prepared. From the moment he stepped into the house, he had been on high alert.

We walked up to the steps where the priest was believed to have been murdered.

He raised his hand and used a "wizard's hand" to grab the small glass bottle on the stairs from a distance. He brought it to his nose and smelled it. It was just ordinary water, without a trace of elemental energy. It would be a miracle if this could exorcise demons.

Evil spirit: Based on Li Heng's understanding from his previous life, it is a collection of elemental energy and spiritual will, and ordinary physical attacks are ineffective against it.

Therefore, for dealing with evil spirits, wizards are the most effective supernatural beings in North America.

While werewolves and vampires can be dealt with, their methods are more physical and therefore less effective.

Although evil spirits can be considered supernatural beings to some extent, the vast majority of them lack intelligence and are simply a collection of negative and malevolent thoughts. They are incapable of communication and kill indiscriminately, so they can only become prey.

As for the few evil spirits that possess intelligence... no, they can't be called evil spirits, they should be called spirits.

"Bang...bang..."

At this moment, Li Heng casually tossed a small glass bottle behind him. The bottle traced an arc in the air and landed on the floor of the hall below. It didn't break, but bounced a few times, making a series of crisp sounds that were particularly loud and jarring in the deathly silent and dark villa!

This moment.

On Li Heng's two shoulders, Jerry the mouse and Black the raven immediately perked up and kept looking around.

The entire villa remained deathly quiet, without a sound.

Li Heng continued forward, slowly climbing the last step and standing on the second floor. There was still no movement around him.

"We've gotten this far and there's still no sign of them..."

"Didn't they hear? Or were they scared? Or... did they run away?"

Li Heng was surprised but didn't bother to think about it further. Although the flow of dark elemental energy in the air on the second floor was more active and denser than on the first floor, it was generally evenly distributed, making it impossible to pinpoint the exact location of the evil spirit. So, he instructed, "Jerry, Big Black, that evil spirit won't come out. Let's split up and search. Let me know when you find it. Be careful..."

"squeak!"

Upon hearing this, Jerry the mouse immediately let out an excited squeal, leaped off the shoulder, flew several meters, and then quickly ran towards the left corridor, disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

"quack!"

The raven, Big Black, immediately cried out excitedly and flapped its wings to take flight, but instead of going to the room in the right-hand corridor, it flew straight to the third floor.

Watching the two little ones quickly disappear from sight.

Li Heng wasn't worried. With the two little ones' strength, as long as they didn't encounter a formal wizard-level expert, which was equivalent to an S-class superhuman in this world, they wouldn't be afraid of anything below S-class, like an A-class superhuman. They could easily exchange a few blows with the opponent, and if they couldn't win, they could run away!

Besides, he's right here. If he really encounters an A-level evil spirit, he has a good chance of taking down both of his witch pets.

The mouse went to the left, and the big black dog went to the third floor, so he can only go to the room in the long corridor on the right to look for it.

Li Heng strode toward the room on the right and reached out to push open the first half-open door.

"squeak!"

A sharp scream immediately came from the end of the left corridor; it was Jerry's voice!

There's something going on over there!

Li Heng reacted instantly, immediately turned around and ran towards the room at the far left.

at the same time.

In the pitch-black room on the third floor, Big Black the raven immediately reacted to the sound of its little brother, Mouse, squeaking. It cawed and stopped searching, turning around and flying out of the room towards the ground floor.

"squeak!"

Inside the tightly closed, pitch-black tail room, Jerry the mouse had grown into a giant black mouse half a meter in size. Its fur stood on end, it bared its sharp teeth, and its eyes glowed green. Standing in the center of the room, it stared at the ever-changing black shadow in the corner of the room, baring its teeth and screeching sharply!

Just then, loud footsteps approached rapidly outside the room.

"squeak!"

Jerry the mouse immediately let out a sharp cry and leaped towards the dark figure in the corner, opening its mouth to bite!

next moment!

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the tightly closed door was kicked open.

Li Heng looked into the pitch-black room and saw his pet Jerry locked in a fierce battle with a dark, malevolent spirit in the corner. A thought struck him, and he immediately shouted, "Get out of the way!"

The words fell.

A tiny spark instantly swelled into a blazing, orange-yellow fireball the size of a basketball!

"squeak!"

The mouse, already prepared, immediately let out a loud cry, decisively abandoned the evil spirit, and turned to run away.

next second.

"what!"

A sharp, hollow scream suddenly rang out!

The moment Jerry dashed out of the room, he saw that the intense light behind him had turned the surroundings into daylight.