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

"Understood, I will investigate."

Guo Chenghuang hung up the phone.

Zhou Yan put his phone back in his pocket and was about to leave when Dongfang Li walked up to the car door. Dongfang Li opened the car door next to Zhou Yan's seat and said with a serious expression.

“Young man, Zhao Jianguo called me. He said that his son Wang Sitong has not been in contact for two days and he can’t get through to him on the phone.”

Wang Sitong is a demigod of the Taisho clan and one of the participants in the Four Schools Competition. He is considered the most precious young man of the Taisho clan.

Zhou Yan asked in surprise.

"It's one thing for those marginalized people to have disappeared for a few days without anyone noticing, but Wang Sitong is a core figure of the Taisho clan, isn't he? How could someone like that be lost?"

Dongfang Li shrugged.

"That's what I asked too. Zhao Jianguo told me that two days ago, Wang Sitong made an appointment with a pretty girl on the Tea Cup app, saying that he was going to take a trip of the mind and the body. Because of this, no one has called Wang Sitong to ask about it for the past two days, for fear of disturbing his enjoyment."

Zhou Yan chuckled.

“Okay, we still have two days, right? Take me to the hotel where the Zhao family is staying. I’ll help look for this kid. Just so you know, I think there’s at least an 80% chance that this kid is already a dried-up corpse.”

Dongfang Li walked to the driver's seat and sat down.

"Let's go take a look anyway."

Han Yun sat down in the passenger seat, while Dongfang Li left Su Changqing, who was still chatting with the police, and drove onto the suburban road.

Three minutes later.

Dongfang Li, who was driving to the hotel where the Zhang family was staying, received a call from Zhao Jianguo, who was filled with grief and indignation.

"Uncle Dongfang, I... I've found Sitong."

Dongfang Li, who was driving, was taken aback.

"Found it, where is it?"

"Yes, in room 213 of the Daqing Love Hotel, Sitong, Sitong, he..."

The sound of Zhao Jianguo sniffling came through the phone.

Dongfang Li looked at Zhou Yan through the rearview mirror inside the car, and Zhou Yan said indifferently.

"Go to the Daqing Love Hotel, I want to see the corpse."

An idea was taking shape in Zhou Yan's mind.

It took Dongfang Li fifteen minutes to drive from the suburbs to the Daqing Love Hotel.

Before getting out of the car, Zhou Yan took out a mask from his small universe and put it on. Then they got out of the car together, and the three of them hurriedly entered the hotel and went up to room 213.

Outside room 213, more than a dozen men, women, and children of the Taisho descendants stood, their faces filled with indescribable grief and indignation.

Dongfang Li walked over with a stern face. A middle-aged man from the Zhao family with half-gray hair asked Dongfang Li a question.

What happened here?

"Why, why did this happen to us?"

It wouldn't matter if it were anyone else who died, but Wang Sitong was one of the most outstanding young people among the Taisho descendants in Xiluo Prefecture. His death is a major blow to the future development of the Taisho descendants.

Dongfang Li was a little embarrassed to talk about how these things might have been caused by his own family, so he lowered his head and walked with Zhou Yan to the door of room 213.

Room 213 had the same layout as the hotel suite Dongfang Shuo had stayed in before. Zhou Yan entered the suite and walked through the initial corridor to the bedroom. There weren't many people in the bedroom, just Zhao Jianguo kneeling on the floor, his face showing suppressed emotions, and Wang Sitong lying on the bed, already a dried-up corpse.

Zhou Yan glanced at Wang Sitong's attribute panel, but this time he didn't even look at the status bar; he just looked at the time of the mummified corpse's death.

The time of death was one day prior.

In other words, this mummified corpse was lured out two days ago and turned into a mummified corpse in less than a day.

As for Dongfang Shuo, that poor fellow who was also drained into a dried-up corpse, Zhou Yan remembered that he died a day earlier, meaning it took two days for Dongfang Shuo to be drained to death.

Putting aside all the eating, talking and other activities, Zhou Yan felt that he could drain Wang Sitong dry faster than he could drain Dongfang Shuo.

If the murderer was not part of a team, then Zhou Yan estimated that the murderer's ability to absorb essence had been continuously upgraded during this period.

Chapter Six Proficiency

10 PM.

A white Omar-branded car drove out of Zhongzhou City, passed through the disaster-stricken area, and arrived at an abandoned factory on the outskirts of the city.

Omar's car stopped in front of the factory gate, where it was covered with weeds.

Dongfang Li, Su Changqing, Zhou Yan, and Han Yun got out of the car one after another.

Han Yun, who got off the car, gave Zhou Yan a look. Zhou Yan was about to use his eyesight to test the safety of the abandoned factory when Su Changqing, who got off the car after Zhou Yan, didn't say anything. He wrapped his body in his willpower and rushed into the abandoned factory with light.

Han Yun said with some surprise.

"So confident?"

What exactly are Su Changqing's trump cards? He went in without even letting us probe the way.

Aren't you afraid there might be a trap inside?

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"It's not confidence, it's anxiety."

Han Yun didn't understand.

"Shouldn't you be calmer the more anxious you are?"

Zhou Yan closed his eyes and used his Extreme Vision to simulate rushing into the abandoned factory. He opened his eyes a few seconds later.

Seeing this, Han Yun asked curiously.

"What did you hear?"

Zhou Yan smiled wryly.

"We're still a step too late."

There was a mummified corpse inside the abandoned factory, holding a cell phone in its hand. Zhou Yan used his omniscient ability to look at it.

The cell phone belonged to Dongfang Shuo, the first mummy discovered. It was also the WeChat account that sent photos and information about Zhang Ye's pregnancy in the Zhang family group chat.

Ten seconds later, Su Changqing, his ethereal and otherworldly demeanor gone, emerged with a cold expression, clutching a cell phone in a plastic bag.

Dongfang Li, who was waiting, stepped forward and asked.

"Uncle Su, inside..."

Su Changqing sighed.

"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.