A dating guide turned into being surrounded by female ghosts?

Chapter 117 An Amazing Discovery

Lin Yue was speechless with shock.

He couldn't understand what this Humphrey company was trying to do.

make money?

But it's also written in this document.

After acquiring Tianxi Textile Factory, they did not rebuild it, quickly resume production, or simply raise prices and resell it. Instead, they quietly left the factory there.

In other words, they actually lost money on this case.

Of course, besides this textile factory.

The other two cases were similar.

The treatment in the fishing village was similar to that at Tianxi Textile Factory; after receiving the money, it wasn't touched at all.

Ping An Road withdrew from the deal before the acquisition was completed.

This behavior doesn't seem like it was done for money at all.

It's more like... deliberately causing paranormal events.

Lin Yue thought of this and then suddenly shook her head.

At this moment, he thought of a new possibility.

Could this so-called Humphrey Company be the front man for the above?

Using this shell, they acquired those supernatural places and then took control of them.

In other words, they are not creating a haunted place.

Instead, they go wherever the paranormal event occurs.

These two conjectures have reversed cause and effect, and the results are completely different.

Lin Yue couldn't figure out which one was the truth either.

He could only calm himself down again and continue studying the rest of the document.

The documents rustled as I moved them through my fingers.

The brand-new text then appeared before Lin Yue's eyes.

To his disappointment, the case was not marked in red, meaning it was just a normal business transaction.

With a hint of urgency.

Lin Yue went straight to the next acquisition case highlighted in red.

The course of this case was exactly the same as the previous three bizarre cases. The process was almost entirely the same: Humphrey Company appeared, paranormal events occurred, and the area was subsequently either silenced by Humphrey Company or they simply abandoned the acquisition.

He even found two or three more cases marked in red, and the details were all very similar.

This document summarizes a considerable number of cases.

Each page represents a case, large or small. A large case might encompass an entire city block, while a small case might be just a small house.

The entire document is actually seventy or eighty pages long.

Of these, only about one-tenth are marked in red.

As she read on, Lin Yue even began to suspect that the nine out of ten normal cases were simply a cover-up for the supernatural cases marked in red.

If you want to hide a leaf so that no one can find it, how would you do it?

Throw it into the woods.

And that's exactly what Humphreys did.

Lin Yue looked back with a serious expression as she searched for new cases marked in red.

The next case, marked with a red pen, was completely different from the previous ones.

It's just a compilation of information pieced together from a few news articles, with key passages cut out.

However, Lin Yue felt that strong sense of familiarity again.

"Shocking! On the evening of August 17th, an unidentified corpse was suddenly found on the riverbank in Nancheng City... The perpetrator hollowed out the body, the reason for which is unknown..."

"The 817 serial murder case has been solved... The killer is a famous antique dealer named Qin..."

"Before being apprehended by the police, Qin committed suicide at home out of fear of punishment."

The 817 murder case?

Isn't this the mission from the Qin family mansion?

Is this matter also related to Humphrey Company?

Lin Yue quickly looked at the page carefully, but didn't see any acquisitions or renovation plans by Humphrey Company.

Even the clippings from the newspapers didn't contain the word "Humphrey".

However, the shredded newspaper pieces were not found on the reverse side of this page.

Instead, he wrote a passage in red pen, densely packed with words.

Lin Yue glanced at it and saw that the words were clearly Guan Ziming's handwriting. There was even a hastily drawn sketch of a knife.

My eyelids twitched slightly.

What did he discover?

Lin Yue quickly read on and extracted a few key pieces of information.

"This incident is not related to Humphrey Company."

"However, there are rumors that the president of Humphrey Company presented Mr. Qin with an antique dagger at a private banquet a few years ago..."

And on that simple line drawing.

The overall lines are simple and clean. The handle is a long rectangle with uniform thickness. Two short horizontal lines are drawn on one side of the blade to simulate anti-slip texture. The blade is narrow and long with an acute angle triangle. The tip is sharp and the back of the blade is straight. The entire drawing is outlined with a single black line without any coloring. The shape is simple and the outline is clean and neat.

Lin Yue remained silent for a moment.

He took out the "heart-slicing knife" that he never parted with.

I compared the painting with the knife that cut out the heart.

The results immediately revealed that the two were almost identical, with no difference whatsoever.

This knife, this strange relic, is actually from the Humphrey Company in some way?

But why didn't the police find this out back then?

Uh, that's not right either.

Perhaps they have already found it.

On the surface, it seems that he was just giving someone an antique a few years ago because of a personal relationship. It was just a gift, a "knife". Could it really make someone mentally unstable and turn them into a psychopathic killer?

Aren't those iron foundries and knife foundries the source of evil, wholesaling perverts all over the world?

In short, if supernatural forces are not involved.

This incident only proves to be a low-probability event, and there is no causal relationship between them.

The police even contacted the person involved, but he only knew the general outline of the case and was not clear about the details, so he did not know whether he had been investigated.

"People with weak willpower, if exposed to the mental pollution produced by evil spirits for a long time, will suffer serious damage to their mental health, and may even experience irreversible physical deformities and distortions..."

This is a sentence that was once written in the "Hunter's Handbook".

The eerie relics possess similar powers to evil spirits.

The same is likely true in this respect as well.

The fact that Lin Yue felt her hair stand on end when she first touched the "heart-splitting knife" is proof of this.

So, the Qin family was driven mad by this knife?

Touching the bright red handle of the heart-splitting knife, Lin Yue felt a chill run down her spine. After glancing at the object a few more times with apprehension, she threw it into the bottom of the drawer, keeping it far away from her.

Humphrey Company, there's a big problem here.

After witnessing the Qin family's ordeal, Lin Yue became certain that this company was definitely not a front for those in power.

As for its purpose...

Further investigation is needed.

Lin Yue turned to the next page with mixed feelings.

This time, it was also highlighted in red and covered with markings.

But I just saw the first few words above.

Lin Yue had thought she was already used to Humphrey Company's behavior and would no longer be surprised by anything they did.

My heart skipped a beat.

He ran his cold fingers over the unbelievable words on the paper, muttering to himself.

"The acquisition of Fulinmen Department Store..."