After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

"There's only a corpse and this inside, nothing else. The murderer tricked us again."

After seeing that Zhang Ye was pregnant, Su Changqing and Dongfang Li were prepared for someone to stir up trouble. When Dongfang Shuo sent a message to the WeChat group, the two hidden agents used modern technology to locate the culprit who sent the message.

It's an abandoned factory outside the city.

But the murderer was nowhere to be found in the abandoned factory; only a mummified corpse remained.

"Discipline Director Han Yun asked in confusion."

"Could it really be a ghost?"

Dongfang Li and Su Changqing looked at Han Yun, who nodded towards Zhou Yan with his chin.

"Didn't our child say that Xiao Yan suspects that some awakened ghosts killed Dongfang Shuo? Since they are awakened ghosts, it shouldn't be a problem for them to control a corpse, right?"

"So this mummified corpse holding the phone might be the medium through which the murderer controlled the text messages."

Han Yun pointed to Su Changqing's phone, which was in a plastic bag.

"There's probably nothing on this phone except for the fingerprints of that mummified corpse."

Su Changqing and Dongfang Li both had solemn expressions.

Zhou Yan closed his eyes again, used his vision to control his future, and walked in, arriving at the mummified corpse in an abandoned factory.

Zhou Yan opened the attributes panel of the mummified corpse.

He was a Ghost-level Awakened One. His attributes weren't important; what mattered was that the corpse seemed to be named Yuan Dongli.

After examining the corpse, Zhou Yan looked around the factory where the corpse was located. It seemed that, as Han Yun had said, the corpse was controlled by a ghost. Apart from Yuan Dongli's footprints, there were no other footprints on the ground (except for Su Changqing's).

"Beep beep..."

The sound of police sirens interrupted Zhou Yan's intense gaze, and he opened his eyes to look behind him.

Three police cars drove up from a distance and then approached Zhou Yan and the others.

The police car stopped, and ten police officers got out. Su Changqing walked up to the officers with his phone in hand. Two officers stayed behind to talk to Su Changqing, while the others went into the abandoned factory to look for clues.

Of course, there shouldn't be any more clues.

Zhou Yan's omniscience can only find these remaining footprints of Yuan Dongli so far.

A few minutes later, the police officers who had finished chatting with Su Changqing came over. Both of them were top-notch criminal investigators from the Second Security Bureau of Zhongzhou City, specializing in handling various cases involving awakened individuals. Zhou Yan glanced at them and realized that they were both demigods.

The leader was a bald man with golden eyes and a short beard. Lightning flickered in his golden eyes, and judging from his bloodline, he was a thunder roc who controlled lightning, possessing extremely powerful speed and attack power.

"Gentlemen."

Police officer Lei Peng clapped his hands and smiled faintly.

"The sketch of the murderer from the love hotel case has been completed."

Beside Lei Peng, a demigod policeman whose bloodline was the E's Beast, a pretty young girl opened her briefcase and took out a sketch.

Han Yun, who was closest to him, took the drawing. Zhou Yan and Dongfang Li walked to Han Yun's side, and the three of them looked at the sketch together.

The sketch depicts a pure-hearted girl with delicate features, possessing an angelic purity yet a captivatingly alluring figure.

Lei Peng continued.

“Based on this sketch, we compared it to the citizen database, and then…”

Lei Peng began to shake his head.

The female police officer added, "It's like a beast."

"We did not find any individuals matching this suspect in our database. This murderer may not be a resident of our city."

Zhou Yan added a sentence.

"What about the dead? Have they been investigated?"

This suspect may be a ghost-type awakened being similar to Lu Wanqing's summoned beast, Yan Gui. These awakened beings can be transformed from the dead; Xiao Yanjun's original zombie bloodline was transformed after death.

Lei Peng smiled wryly.

“We checked, but there was no record. Later, we asked a few retired seniors if they had ever seen a demon-type awakened being who could drain a person dry.”

Lei Peng shrugged.

"They've never seen it before, nor have they ever heard of it."

As he spoke, Lei Peng looked meaningfully at Su Changqing and Dongfang Li.

"So I suggest that instead of using our Central City resident database, you two should check the Indiana resident database. Maybe you'll find the target or something."

This inexplicable ghost that can drain people dry, if nothing unexpected happens, is not an Awakener from Zhongzhou City. Judging from the fact that this Awakener specifically targets these Indian Celestial Families, it is probably the trouble caused by these Celestial Families in the past, and now this enemy has come knocking on their door.

If Xuanwu didn't want to cooperate with these Indian Celestial God families, Lei Peng would have driven them out.

You have a pile of shit in your own ass, and now you expect us, the police from Zhongzhou City, to clean it up? Where do you get the nerve?

Dongfang Li praised.

“That makes sense. I’ll go find our state government now.”

Dongfang Li walked to a corner, took out his phone, and prepared to communicate with his state government.

Police officer Lei Peng took off his hat, ran his fingers through his hair, and walked toward the abandoned factory. He was also planning to see if there were any clues in the factory, although the forensic department would come over later to conduct tests with the most professional equipment.

Another female police officer replaced Lei Peng and began talking to Su Changqing, mainly about Su Changqing's enemies and past mistakes.

This is a rather troublesome matter. The trouble isn't that there aren't many enemies, but rather that there are too many. Su Changqing thought about it and realized that too many people had a reason to kill him. If the police went to Indiana, they probably wouldn't be able to finish investigating for several years.

the other side.

Dongfang Li took a sketch of the murderer and sent it to the Indiana state government, hoping they would find him, but the chances of finding him were extremely slim.

If the relationship between the different states of the Eastern Union is like that of neighbors—you might go to check on your neighbor if they're in trouble, but you wouldn't help them—then Indiana was a complete mess.

Indiana is the largest state in the entire Eastern United States, with a total population of 700 million. Among these 700 million people are more than 100 ethnic groups, hundreds of official languages, and countless customs and religions. These mutually exclusive elements have been intertwined and opposed for thousands of years. The historical legacy is so deep that it can be said that if one ethnic group in Indiana sees another ethnic group suffering from disaster, they will be overjoyed and go over to add fuel to the fire and provide ammunition in a time of need.

I'm willing to lose money to make you suffer the most.

In this situation of various factions clashing, the state government is often just a figurehead. Government personnel probably can't even go down to the grassroots level where the conflicts are most intense, so finding information about the murderer is even more impossible.

Thinking of this, Dongfang Li couldn't help but sigh.

"Mr. Dongfang".

Zhou Yan's voice made Dongfang Li, who was holding a phone, turn his head in Zhou Yan's direction.

Zhou Yan saw Dongfang Li turn his head and asked.

"Mr. Dongfang, are you able to contact the Zhao family in Xiluozhou now?"

Dongfang Li nodded.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

During this trip to Zhongzhou City, the Heavenly Gods of Indiana and the remnants of the Western Rocs banded together, and Dongfang Li naturally had the contact information of the Zhao family of the Western Rocs.

"I want to talk to them about something."

Zhou Yan's expression was serious.

"It's related to that murderer."

Dongfang Li was puzzled.

Would the killer target the Zhao family in Xiluo Prefecture?

Indiana and West Roosevelt are quite far apart and hadn't cooperated much before. Before coming to Central City, the two factions were basically just nodding acquaintances.

If the murderer hates the Celestial caste in Indiana, he should only seek revenge against the Celestial caste. What does he have to do with the Zhao family in Western Australia?

"I don't know, I just have some questions I'd like to ask, Mr. Dongfang, could you do me a favor?"

Zhou Yan tapped his chin on Dongfang Li's phone.

Dongfang Li remained silent for a moment.

"Ok."

Dongfang Li dialed Zhao Jianguo's phone number.

Now is not the time to dwell on Zhou Yan's identity or the fact that he offended our group before. Zhou Yan is indeed a special kid; he was the one who found Dongfang Shuo's body.

The phone rang, and after a few seconds, it stopped ringing. Zhao Jianguo's voice, which had been beaten into a pig's head by Zhou Yan, came through.

"Uncle Dongfang, what brings you here?"

Dongfang Li handed the phone to Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan took the phone, coughed a few times, and then a girlish voice, even colder than Su Bijun's and almost frigid, came out of Zhou Yan's mouth.

"Mr. Zhao, hello, I am Dongfang Ming from the Dongfang family."

He took a deep breath, and then Zhao Jianguo said excitedly.

"Hello, I am Zhao Jianguo from the Zhao family of Xiluozhou. Miss Dongfang, I don't think I've seen you before."

The more Zhao Jianguo listened to the cool, aloof voice, the more he found it pleasant; he figured the person on the other end of the phone must be an icy, aloof young lady.

Zhou Yan said coldly.

"Let's not talk about these trivial matters, Mr. Zhao. I've come to you with something I want to ask. Among the people from Xiluozhou, have any gone missing in the last two weeks, or whose cell phones are unreachable?"

"Hey? What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Seemingly sensing something was wrong, Zhao Jianguo's voice changed, becoming serious.

“Something has happened, Mr. Zhao. Could you investigate whether there are any members of your team who are missing from your trip to Zhongzhou City?”

"Okay, Miss Dongfang, please wait a moment."

Then came a series of footsteps. After about five minutes, another series of footsteps approached, followed by Zhao Jianguo's somewhat flustered voice.

"Yes, yes, yes, I checked. Two of my three uncles have been missing for more than seven days, and two of my cousins ​​have been out of contact for more than five days."

Zhou Yan frowned.

"Let me guess, are these people of low bloodline level?"

"Yes, my three uncles, well, two are demon-level awakeners, and one is just an ordinary person. My cousins ​​are two ghost-level awakeners, not even as good as my family's bodyguards. They came to Zhongzhou City to broaden their horizons."

Zhou Yan countered with a question.

"This person has been missing for so long, and you didn't even notice before I asked?"

“My uncles are all over thirty years old. When they go out to play, we still have to ask them why they haven’t come home yet. My cousins ​​are also adults. Their parents didn’t come, so no one mentioned it. We didn’t even notice that someone was missing before.”

"Okay, I know."

Zhou Yan hung up the phone and then handed it to Dongfang Li.

Dongfang Li said in astonishment.

"Someone from the Zhao family in Xiluo Prefecture has also gone missing?"

Zhou Yan nodded.

"This should be the second plan to sow discord. The Taisho clan in Xiluo Prefecture should have no connection with that murderer, but the murderer still killed the Taisho clan's descendants. This is to make the Taisho clan blame you."

Dongfang Li said angrily.

"You scoundrel! I hope this murderer doesn't fall into my hands, or I'll make her regret ever being born!"

Zhou Yan returned Dongfang Li's phone to Dongfang Li, then returned to his discipline director Han Yun, who asked him a question.

"What did you find?"

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"Nothing was found."

Han Yun stopped asking.

Zhou Yan walked into the luxury car driven by Su Changqing, sat down, and took out his phone.

Zhou Yan just said he didn't find anything that was a lie, but he still needs to confirm.

Zhou Yan dialed Guo Chenghuang's number.

The call was connected shortly afterward.

"Guo Chenghuang, I hope you can help me investigate something."

Zhou Yan told Guo Chenghuang what he wanted to know.