He had thought of contacting the psychics and asking them to take him away, even if it meant paying a heavy price. However, he discovered that the psychics simply rushed into the collapsed mine, seemingly searching for something, while the villagers in the town simply stood at the edge of the mine, watching coldly.

Without exception, everyone who entered the mine came out madly, as if possessed by evil spirits. This made Lin Ye Fusi even more determined to escape from here.

He lay on the windowsill of his house, staring outside until his eyes were bloodshot, and he never closed his eyes to rest for a moment.

Finally, he waited for Aishiro Karen and Hanayu Xiangzi. These two investigators were different from the previous ones. They did not rush into the ominous mine recklessly, but chose to stay in the hotel.

This gave him the opportunity to meet alone with the investigator.

After his observation, he found that the investigator in front of him wearing a black and red mask seemed more reliable than the impatient investigator.

He decided to take a gamble and pin his hopes of escaping from his misery on the private investigator in front of him.

As a result, he did not pay attention to the passage of time, causing the long-dormant evil energy in his body to erupt, instantly causing him to collapse to the ground, struggling in pain.

The pain that had plagued him for three full years came particularly violently tonight, engulfing his consciousness like a hurricane or tsunami.

It’s over… I’m afraid I’m going to die here this time.

"What? It turns out to be a possessed E-rank evil spirit, the Heart Stealer."

Aicheng Hualian, who had originally been reluctant to expose her demonic powers, sighed when she saw Linye Fusi about to die. She stretched out her left hand, and a faint blue light, like a soul-catching rope stretched out from hell, pierced directly into Linye Fusi's heart, pulling out a worm with four heads raised.

"Squeak!"

The four-headed worm pinched by the light screamed loudly, revealing the dense serrations inside. Its ten-centimeter-long body twitched violently, trying to escape from the light of death.

It's not angry, it's afraid.

"This is…"

"Don't move, you have more than one on your body."

With another wave of his hand, Aicheng Hualian spread out a blue light.

She used her body to filter the evil energy of the evil god, making it appear a more beautiful blue - at least not the weird black and blue that looked very bad.

The blue light enveloped Lin Ye Fu Si's body. The poor expatriate specialist was surprised to find that his pain shrank as quickly as a bug under the sun until it disappeared.

Thumb-length black insect carcasses squeezed out from under his skin and fell to the ground, deader than dead.

Until Aicheng Hualian retracted the light, he looked at his body in disbelief.

There was no pain, no strangeness. The torture that had been bothering him seemed to be kicked away by Aicheng Hualian, making him unable to believe it for a moment.

"Am I healed?"

"I'm not saying you're cured." Aicheng Hualian shook her head gently. "You're still very weak right now. You've been parasitized by the Heart-Stealing Bug for such a long time. You'll need at least half a year to recover."

[Insects... so disgusting...]

Don't feed me this kind of stuff...

The thought that came to her mind made Aicheng Hualian stunned. She looked at the palm of her hand, but found that the four-headed insect in her hand had turned into a shriveled corpse, and the flesh and blood inside were gone. It seemed that it was swallowed by the evil god.

"I'm sorry, but you can choose not to eat it." Aicheng Hualian said helplessly. She had never intended to treat this four-headed worm as food for the evil god. It was the evil god who ate the worm on his own initiative.

It wasn't her fault that it tasted bad.

【…】

Then I'll eat you.

"what!"

A tearing pain burst out in the upper right part of her abdomen, and Aicheng Hualian knew that half of her liver had been eaten away.

"It hurts so much, can you be a little gentler?"

[Okay, from now on I will secrete some mucus, so that when you are eaten you will only feel pleasure.]

"Sorry, I'm serious this time. Next time you encounter something unpalatable, I will remind you not to eat it." For the sake of his remaining organs, Aicheng Hualian quickly raised his hands in surrender.

"Um..." Looking at the investigator who was suddenly stunned in front of him, Lin Ye Fu Si's words of gratitude were stuck in his throat.

At the same time, doubts were swirling in his heart.

What on earth was that blue energy? How could it so easily dispel the evil spirit within him?

Is it psionic energy? It doesn't look like it... but it can't be fel energy either. Such a gentle light, it definitely can't be fel energy.

This is a wonderful misunderstanding.

The evil energy of the evil god was filtered through Aicheng Hualian's body, removing most of its aggressiveness and corrosiveness, so that in Linye Fusi's eyes, he could not associate the soft blue light with the evil energy at all.

As for why the filtered evil energy was able to force out the evil spirits that were parasitic in Lin Ye Fu Si's body, it was purely because the evil energy of the evil god was of such a high level that the evil spirits were so frightened that they fled desperately the moment they were illuminated by the light.

"Don't thank me, this is just necessary to complete the commission."

"You have plenty of time now. Tell me about the situation in this village."

"I…okay."

Lin Ye Fusi was not a pretentious person. He quickly calmed himself down and told the whole story about the strangeness of the village.

Time passed slowly, and a hint of paleness appeared in the east.

"It's actually like this..."

"The air, water, and food in this village are all filled with fel energy. Yet, the villagers here manage to survive just fine... Logically speaking, living in an environment filled with fel energy would significantly shorten human lifespans."

"The entire village has signed a contract with the evil spirit? Although this is very strange, it is the only speculation we can make in this situation."

"boom!!!"

At this moment, a horrific explosion shattered the tranquility of the village.

Aicheng Hualian looked in the direction where the sound came from and saw a pink mushroom cloud slowly rising in the direction of the mine.

Chapter 87: A Village of Weirdos

A pink mushroom cloud shot up from the direction of the mine, and dazzling light gushed out like a tide, enveloping the entire Bangshan Town. Everything was coated with a layer of pink crystal-like color.

"What is that?" Lin Yefu Si, who was sitting on the ground, looked at the mushroom cloud and was stunned for a moment.

"You really are good at looking for trouble, Miss Hualiu." Aicheng Hualian felt a headache. She had planned to hide in this village for a while and follow the clues to find the kidnapper, but now this plan was shattered by the commotion caused by Inspector Hualiu.

"Just stay in this room for now. I'll go check out the situation."

"Wait! You'd better leave here! This village is not a good place!"

"It's okay." Aicheng Hualian kicked off the windowsill and flew out of the window, "I'm very strong."

……

The wind was howling, and pink spiritual energy floated in the air, extending from the mushroom cloud as the starting point and gathering into one pink cloud belt after another in the sky.

The whole town was awakened by the huge explosion. Many villagers ran out of the houses one after another and looked in the direction of the mushroom cloud. For a moment, they thought there was a pink sun in the sky.

Aicheng Hualian flew forward, rushing towards the mushroom cloud, and took a look at the condition of the villagers.

As she expected, all the villagers in this town were shrouded in some degree of evil energy, and the older they were, the more evil energy they had.

Everyone's spirit seemed to be covered by a layer of dark air. Regardless of gender, age or status, everyone had some strange black spots on their faces and two thick dark circles under their eyes, as if they had not received enough sleep for a long time.

"According to Master Linye, many strange things have been happening in this village since before he arrived. But according to common sense, with so much evil energy, the evil spirit response department should have discovered the anomaly long ago. How could they just leave this village alone?"

Could it be that the evil energy here is different from that in other places, and the detection equipment of the response department cannot detect it?

Thinking of this, Aicheng Hualian shouted to the villagers, "Hey! Everyone, hurry back to your homes and don't come out! There are psychics trying to eliminate the evil spirits. It's very dangerous outside!"

This sentence is a temptation.

If these villagers were normal people, after hearing her advice and seeing her "superhuman" performance of flying in the air, a considerable number of them would have given up the idea of ​​joining in the fun and would have obediently returned to their homes and hidden themselves.

But the villagers on the ground not only did not hide back in their homes, on the contrary, their necks were like a programmed program, stiffly and synchronously looking at Aicheng Hualian, staring at her moving forward figure.

Moreover, her dissuasion had the opposite effect. Some villagers walked towards the mine with stern faces, and some even started running.

"It's really weird."

……

"You evil creature, how dare you sneak attack me! You must be tired of living!"

When Aicheng Hualian arrived at the mine, everything there was already in a mess.

The mask on Inspector Hualiu's face had been shattered in half, revealing her beautiful face underneath. However, that charming face was twisted with anger as she attacked the evil spirit before her.

"Is that... another vengeful ghost puppet?"

Aicheng Hualian looked at the evil spirit that was fighting with Inspector Hualiu. It was a vengeful ghost puppet that was more than three meters tall. Its dark skin was like a sticky gel, and a highly corrosive liquid was constantly dripping down. On its huge head, there were dozens of faces with unclear appearances stuck. Those faces were wide open because of the vengeful ghost puppet's screams, and it spit out mouthfuls of black water at Inspector Hualiu.

If you get hit by this black water, not only will you suffer physical pain, but you will definitely lose the clothes on your body.

But how could Inspector Hua Liu be hit by such an attack?

She dodged and spun through the air, a trail of cherry-pink flames trailing behind her, like a brilliant meteor made of cherry blossoms, toying with the vengeful spirit puppet. From time to time, she flung out balls of psychic energy, causing the vengeful spirit puppet to tremble and scream.

The fact that a D-rank Flower and Willow Investigator could suppress the vengeful spirit puppet wasn't surprising to Aicheng Hualian. What did strike her as amiss was that the vengeful spirit puppet's rank was a bit too high.

"Is there actually an E-rank advanced ghost puppet here?"

As a resentful type of evil spirit, the evolution and growth of the vengeful spirit puppet requires a lot of resentment. But where in this remote town can there be so much resentment that a vengeful spirit puppet can grow to the advanced level of E-level?

Just then, some villagers walked to the vicinity of the mine.

Suddenly, they knelt down on the ground, kowtowed towards the mine, and muttered something as if they were praying.

As time passed, more and more villagers came to the edge of the mine. They looked at the battle in front of them. The flashing swords and shadows that mortals could not intervene in did not make them show the slightest fear.

They just knelt down, kowtowed towards the front, and prayed continuously, including some children as young as five or six years old.

Almost all the villagers in the town left their homes, came here, knelt down and prayed, and formed a circle outside the mine.

At this time, Aicheng Hualian saw an elderly man surrounded by several people. He was an old man in his seventies, wearing simple clothes, with a business card hanging on his chest with the words "Mayor" on it.

The old man did not kneel down. Instead, he stretched out his arms and shouted, "Sir Holy Spirit! Please defeat these invading enemies!"

As soon as these words were spoken, it was as if a button was pressed, and the villagers kneeling around the mine shouted loudly.

"Lord Holy Spirit! You will definitely win!"

"My Lord Holy Spirit, I am willing to give you my heart!"

Holy Spirit?

Could it be that these villagers mistook that vengeful spirit for a holy spirit? They were kneeling there not to pray for Inspector Hua Liu, but to cheer that evil creature on?

Thinking of this, Aicheng Hualian felt it was ridiculous. Things were far more serious than she had imagined.

She thought these villagers were just bewitched by evil energy, but unexpectedly, they even worshipped the evil spirits.

But the way these villagers are dressed doesn't look like they are some kind of cult members.

She glanced at the situation on the battlefield. With the villagers' prayers, the evil energy fluctuations of the vengeful ghost puppet were indeed slowly increasing.

Although the ghost puppet's strengthening speed was very slow and it was always suppressed by Inspector Hua Liu, this also showed that the villagers' calls and prayers were effective.

"That old man must be the mayor. We don't have much time to waste, so let's go find him and ask about the situation."

With absolute confidence in his own strength, Aicheng Hualian ignored the surrounding villagers and walked directly towards the old man.

The villagers around her did not stop her, but just kept praying for the vengeful ghost puppet, ignoring her as a sudden outsider.

They are also very confident in the ability of their mayor.

Without any obstruction, Aicheng Hualian walked in front of the mayor of Bangshan Town.

Reaching out his hand and waving it in front of the other person's eyes, Aicheng Hualian smiled and said, "You must be the mayor of Bangshan Town, right? I am a private investigator from Donghua City. I have a few questions for you. Do you have time?"

As she spoke, her eyes were covered with a layer of dark blue. From the evil god's perspective, the black and purple flames on the mayor in front of him rose almost a meter high.

It's simply a humanoid E-level evil spirit.

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