I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

……

"crunch..."

On a dry country road, three skeletons were walking forward step by step.

"Chi Yan..."

It murmured the name of its target, and a premonition of evil drove it towards the east.

In front of it, the skyline of Donghua City appeared vaguely. The morning sun was rising from below the city. Strands of golden light penetrated the steel jungle and sprinkled on the path it was walking on like alms.

"Inspector Chi Yan! Humph!"

At this moment, an angry voice sounded from beside it, and the familiar words in the other party's words caught its attention.

A man walking down another path, dressed in a dark blue combat uniform, was none other than Inspector Anlei, the Dark Thunder Investigator who had invited Aijo Karen to join his team, only to be flatly rejected. Having been so slighted, he was filled with anger towards Inspector Chiyan.

Thus, a man and a demon, both targeting Investigator Chiyan, met on this country road.

Chapter 28: I can’t beat him!

The Dark Mine Investigator, whose real name is Ye Xingwu, joined the Extermination Platform seven years ago and became a private investigator.

According to the platform's data analysis, the Dark Mine Investigator's personal strength is around the mid-level E-rank, with solid basic abilities such as combat and spearmanship, making him a mainstay in Donghua City. (Beginning at E-rank, due to the large gap in strength between each rank, each rank is divided into five levels: beginner, low, intermediate, advanced, and peak.)

Unbeknownst to the others, Ye Xingwu himself was actually a psychic trained by Qing Zhumin, the CEO of Xijian Company. He chose to join the platform because he accepted Qing Zhumin's instructions to infiltrate the platform and obtain information about other psychics.

After seven years of hard work, he lived up to Qing Zhumin's expectations and gained a certain reputation with his E-level intermediate strength. In Donghua City, almost all private investigators knew his name.

This time, Qing Zhumin's baby daughter was missing, and he was ordered to take charge of the task. He immediately accepted the commission to find Qing Zhulan, and maneuvered around in it, successfully gathering some investigators who had also accepted the commission under his command.

In his original plan, the investigators who were attracted by his reputation and chose to join his group were nothing more than cannon fodder, pawns that could be sacrificed at any time, and the number of them did not matter.

However, after the teleportation map was discovered by Aicheng Hualian, the name Chi Yan came into his sight.

Being able to discover a teleportation array that even he hadn't noticed, this Investigator Chi Yan must have some extraordinary abilities. If he could recruit her into his team, he would definitely be able to complete the commission faster.

For this purpose, his senior did not hesitate to lower himself and personally sent a letter to invite Investigator Chi Yan to join his team. He even hinted in it that if the other party completed this commission, he could become Qing Zhumin's subordinate like him and live a life of luxury.

Years of professional experience have taught him that private investigators like them, who work in the dark, most desire to appear in the sunlight and become psychics protected by the law.

According to his idea, with the bargaining chip of "being able to serve as the bodyguard of the CEO of Xijian Company", the Chiyan Investigator must be ecstatic and would be eager to accept his invitation immediately.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this private message was sent, it was immediately rejected by the other party.

This rejection was not a big deal. When he wanted to continue sending messages, he found that he had been blocked by Investigator Chi Yan.

This really pissed him off. If he didn't want to accept it, then so be it. What did it mean to block him? Did he think he was annoying?

Holding his anger, he received Qing Zhumin's urging again, so he had to wander around Donghua City based on the known information to see if he could find anything.

As a result, on his way home, he ran into a hideous-looking evil spirit head-on.

It was a skeleton, its bones as black as ink, with three skulls on top. In its left hand, it held a dark red rag, and in its right, a rusty sickle. Its pale feet trod on the path, leaving behind a trail of dark footprints.

The three-headed skeleton is an evil spirit of the [Resentment] type. It can extract evil energy from human hatred and increase its own strength.

"How could such evil spirits appear in broad daylight?"

The mine investigator was surprised.

Generally speaking, evil spirits of this type prefer to appear at night and rarely walk directly under the sun.

He looked at the black smoke rising from the skeleton and knew that it was suffering from continuous burns due to the direct sunlight.

What kind of will drives this skeleton in front of us to move forward against the sunlight?

The man and the evil spirit started fighting without saying a word.

"Walk the mines!"

Sharp lightning shot out from under his feet, leaving black marks on the ground, and rushed straight towards the body of the three-headed skeleton at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

Crack!

A sharp explosion rang out on the skeleton's body, and a dazzling white light flashed on its body like a snake, wrapping up its two-meter-tall body. Wisps of black smoke rose up, as if it had caused great damage to it.

However, Ye Xingwu frowned.

"There's not even a trace left?"

The lightning disappeared, revealing the skeleton's hideous body without a single scar.

"Gah..."

The three skull heads swung toward him, their bony jaws opening and closing as if mocking his weakness.

Peak of E-level!

Ye Xingwu's rich combat experience allowed him to immediately determine the level of the evil creature in front of him, and he immediately broke out in a few drops of cold sweat.

Although they were both at E-level, the gap between intermediate and peak was as obvious as that between an ordinary person and a professional boxer. Even though he was a human with a more intelligent mind, he could not overcome the numerical suppression brought by the level.

And the situation took a turn for the worse just as he expected.

"Oh!"

The three-headed skeleton waved its left hand, and the dark red rag in its hand danced in the air, instantly throwing out a black cloud of wronged souls. Those wronged souls screamed and roared as they flew towards Ye Xingwu.

"Shit, it's the Imperius Curse."

Those wronged souls are the specialty of the three-headed skeleton. If you are touched by them, the best outcome is to pass out on the spot and become a fish at the mercy of others.

Ye Xingwu's face was solemn. He dodged left and right, trying his best to avoid the wronged souls flying towards him.

He injected spiritual energy into his limbs and transformed into a "reptile" in an instant, crawling around on the ground like a lightning gecko, his speed increasing by more than three times.

"Qiang!"

A sharp metallic collision sounded behind him.

He looked back and was so frightened that his face turned pale and his limbs crawled faster.

The three-headed skeleton raised its right hand high, and the black sickle leaped out and cut towards his neck, making a violent sound of breaking through the air.

In a hurry, Ye Xingwu had to use his most powerful spiritual skill.

Gathering all the spiritual energy in his body into his hands, his hands flashed with a dazzling electric light, turning into a double-edged blade formed by thunder, and grabbed the sickle in the air fiercely.

He wanted to snatch the sword with his bare hands!

The sickle and the hands crossed each other.

"Pfft!"

There was a slight sound and blood splattered.

“Ugh…Ahhh!”

Ye Xingwu fell to the ground in a panic, screaming as he looked at his palm. The index and middle fingers on it were gone, leaving only the bloody broken end still dripping with blood.

I can’t beat him! I can’t beat him at all!

The opponent's normal attack is stronger than the spiritual skills he can perform by using all his strength.

Run for your life! Run!

The desire to survive drove him to flee in another direction.

"What's that? A run-down orphanage?"

A long-abandoned orphanage appeared before him, and Ye Xingwu was overjoyed. With the help of the old building, he was confident that he could shake off the evil spirit behind him.

At this moment, in the orphanage, Aicheng Hualian, who was laughing with her brothers, sisters and teachers, suddenly felt something in her heart and looked to the west.

"Just at this moment, two annoying flies appeared."

Chapter 29: Get Out

"Teacher, brothers and sisters, I have something to do and need to leave first. Sorry."

In the orphanage, Ai Chenghua reluctantly said goodbye to the thirty-nine ghosts in front of him.

The ghosts floated beside her, saying that everything was fine, but the figures following behind her revealed their true concerns.

Three slightly larger ghosts who were teachers in their lifetime stretched out their illusory oval palms and placed them on Aicheng Hualian's head and touched it.

The ghost's palm was icy cold, like a popsicle that had been frozen in the refrigerator for a long time. The chill touched Hua Lian's head through her hair, causing her body to tremble slightly.

"The teachers' hands are as warm as before." Aicheng Hualian smiled shyly.

"Oh, your little mouth is as sweet as before. Go quickly and don't let us dead people slow you down." Qian Yanji, the oldest teacher and the former director of the orphanage, said with a smile.

"Sister Hua Lian, please bring some delicious food next time."

"Fatty, you're greedy again. Don't you think about whether we can eat anything in our current state?"

"Hey, if you can't eat, it's nice to just watch. Besides, five years have passed. Aren't you curious about what new delicacies there are in the outside world?"

"Sorry, not curious."

"? Don't talk to people who don't have taste cells."

The ghosts' chatter gradually faded as Aicheng Hualian walked out of the orphanage and carefully closed the door of the old building. She took a key from her pocket and carefully locked the door.

"It's 7:39 in the morning now. We only have less than an hour to be with them."

When she came here, she had already prepared all kinds of novel things from the outside world, as well as many interesting stories, enough to turn the two hours of time together into an interesting corridor for the ghosts who had lived here for a long time to feast their eyes.

For ghosts, Aicheng Hualian is their eyes and ears to observe the outside world.

Unfortunately, after staying for only an hour, she had to hurriedly say goodbye to these ghosts.

The reason for interrupting this meeting is three thousand meters away from here.

"No one is allowed to disturb this orphanage."

"Evil spirits are even worse!"

He did not wear his own crimson mask, nor did he put on the robes of Inspector Chi Yan.

She just slightly loosened the restraint on the evil god in her body.

Countless black tentacles and sticky jelly cheered and gushed out from her chest, wrapping around her body in seconds and dressing her in a dark and hideous battle suit.

Dark Helmet

This is the name given to this skill by Aicheng Hualian.

As the evil god's feeder, he cut off a tiny piece of the evil god's body and covered his own body with it, turning it into a black, ominous armor.

Dark and murky, sticky and changeable, just the sight of this armor can cause damage to the mental will of an organism.

This armor can completely conceal Aicheng Hualian's breath and life fluctuations. Nothing can penetrate this layer of armor and detect her true body.

"Next, let's deal with those two flies."

……

Ye Xingwu felt like his limbs were about to break.

The pain from the broken fingers on both hands almost drove him crazy, and his knees and toes were covered with scars from crawling on the ground for a long time.

Dozens of meters behind him, three skeletons followed a specific pace, biting his back and chasing him step by step, but maintaining a constant speed, slowly torturing him like a shepherd driving sheep.

Ye Xingwu knew that the other party was planning to wear down his physical strength. Once he lost all his strength, the evil spirit would be able to cut off his head like a hot knife through butter.

He was furious that as a private investigator, he was being chased by evil spirits and was forced to flee in panic.

But he could only run. The difference in strength made him not even have the courage to look back.

Stopping means death, and running forward aimlessly also means death.

However, as long as he could enter the orphanage and use the buildings inside to move around, he still had a chance of survival.

“Snap…”

"Ahhh!"

A sharp pain came from his left foot, and Ye Xingwu knew that his left ankle and sole had said goodbye to him forever.

"quack!"

The three-headed skeleton looked at the weak human in front of it with interest. It waved the sickle in its hand, thinking about which part to aim at in the next attack.