I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

"Just call me Kagura Hikaru."

Chapter 130: Future Responsibilities

The process of joining the Intelligence Department was much easier than Aicheng Hualian had imagined.

She was fine with it, but to the department, Kagura Hikaru, who was beside her, was a complete outsider. The Intelligence Department would have to do some scrutiny of a stranger joining them, and that was exactly what she was worried about.

To her surprise, not to mention the security guard disguised as a vagrant at the entrance of the intelligence department, even the inspector who looked pale and dazzling under the incandescent light after entering the department seemed not to see the sudden appearance of the black-haired girl, and let Talina lead the two of them into the room belonging to the third team.

There was no inspection, let alone interrogation. It seemed as if someone had arranged everything so that the evil god transformed into a girl could easily join the intelligence department, just like an old employee here, which also made Aicheng Hualian feel relieved.

Entering the room, Hua Lian saw a desk and three chairs.

Sitting on one of the chairs was a pale-skinned woman who looked to be in her early twenties. Her left arm was wrapped in a bandage and her right hand was supporting the table. She was wearing the standard work uniform of the Intelligence Department. Her shoulder-length hair and eyebrows were both snow-white. Her eyes were slightly closed, as if she was taking a nap.

Aicheng Hualian had seen each other before, but it was in the hospital ward.

The other party was none other than Donglan, the captain of the third team of the Intelligence Department. She was nearly killed by a curse and barely survived thanks to Aicheng Hualian's manipulations. The doctor who treated her was also demoted to the grassroots level.

Judging from the situation, this E-rank peak team leader has not yet recovered from his injury, and he looks malnourished and mentally hurt.

"Captain, Hua Lian is here."

Talina walked to Donglan and patted the woman's thin shoulders twice. The team leader opened her eyelids with some difficulty, revealing a pair of gray eyes.

She looked at the orange-haired girl standing in front of her and wanted to stand up, but the numbness and weakness in her legs made her give up the idea.

The erosion of the curse is not limited to a certain place. She was ambushed by the cultists of the Spiritual Worship Cult. Although she was injured in the left shoulder, the rest of her torso was also more or less affected. It will take at least two weeks for her legs to support her body.

"I'm sorry, I saw my savior, but I couldn't even stand up and thank him." Dong Lan said helplessly, her voice hoarse, probably because her throat had also been corroded by the curse. She looked at Aishiro Karen, her gray eyes glowing with brilliance for the first time in a long time. "I didn't expect that our third team would have such luck, to have someone who can reveal the power of the curse. This is the first good news I've heard since waking up... As for this person, it must be Miss Kagura Hikaru."

"I wouldn't dare call you my savior," Aicheng Hualian said with a smile. "I was just lucky. The captain's injury happened to be caused by a curse. If it weren't for the medicine available here, I wouldn't be able to overcome that curse."

"As for this one, it's Sister Guang. She's a very powerful psychic." The lively girl introduced herself on behalf of the evil god who was not good at speaking.

Of course, this was also an agreement between the two in advance. Aishiro Karen reminded Kagura Hikaru to be cautious in what he said and did in the department, and all external contacts could be handled by Aishiro Karen to avoid revealing any flaws.

The evil god was naturally happy, and he was unwilling to waste words on lower creatures.

"Welcome, since you are Aicheng's friend, you are also my friend." Donglan smiled at Kagura Hikaru, but her goodwill did not receive any response from the evil god, so she gave up.

He seems to be a rather introverted person.

Talina, who was standing by, looked at Aicheng Hualian and the other two, then glanced at the only two chairs in front of the table, and asked Huo An, who was waiting outside, to bring in another chair to avoid the embarrassment of having to stand for everyone present.

Donglan looked at it and waved her hand, saying, "Talina, call everyone in. The members of the Aicheng team are here, and I want to explain our team's future course of action to everyone."

A few minutes later, Huo An, carrying two chairs in each hand, and the blonde girl Emily, who was peeking behind him, walked into the room from outside. The members of the third team gathered here.

Everyone greeted Aijo Karen warmly. Emily glanced at Kamile Hikaru curiously, wanting to say hello, but was deterred by his cold expression.

Huo An looked at Aicheng Hualian with complicated eyes. The various changes in the situation in the past few days made him feel like he was dreaming.

"Since everyone is here, I'll be brief."

Donglan took out a file bag from under the table and handed it to each person. The sound of flipping papers echoed in the room.

"Three days ago, after the detailed information about the abilities of the Aicheng team members was delivered to the capital, Luban City, the authorities there issued an order. Effective today, our Third Squad will no longer serve the Donghua City Intelligence Department. Instead, we will become a special operations unit independent of the Intelligence Department, specifically responsible for resolving various curse issues."

This concise explanation caused a 180-degree turn in the work direction of this team, which had been established for several years.

"Of course, the specific issues to be resolved will have to wait until the Aicheng team members undergo some ability tests later, and then we'll determine them based on the test results. This is also what the higher-ups mean."

"Until then, we will still be nominally members of the Donghua City Intelligence Department, but this is just a disguise. Our true responsibility is to use the abilities of the Aicheng team members as a core to eliminate all curses and evil spirits."

"When the time comes, we'll be traveling to various cities, and possibly even across provinces, so please be prepared. However, we'll also need to hear the opinions of the Aicheng team members. If they're unwilling, the department won't force them to do so."

After reading the documents in his hand, Aicheng Hualian felt something was wrong.

If the information about his abilities was sent to the Shikasaka City department by Mahiru-san, then based on Mahiru-san's protective attitude towards him, he should have wished that he could stay in the rear of the department for the rest of his life and live out the rest of his life in peace under heavy protection.

But now seeing what the captain said, in the future, I will be on the front line fighting against the cursed evil spirits with this team?

Although she herself was willing to do so - dangers and opportunities coexist, and while fighting against curses and evil spirits, she could gain a foothold in the evil spirit response department more quickly, obtain more abundant information channels, broaden the path to search for evil spirits, and provide full guarantees for the task of raising evil gods - but this approach was completely contrary to Tsuzaki Mahiru's wishes.

Could it be that someone else had told the Luban City authorities about his abilities? Who was that person?

"Of course I do." Putting these doubts aside, Aicheng Hualian quickly agreed.

Although working with the evil god in the department is tantamount to maximizing the risk of exposing the evil god, the latter is more important than the threat of death brought about by not being able to feed the evil god.

Even though there is a D-level evil gathering place on the evil god's dining table, and Aicheng Hualian has the "Complete Map of Evil Gathering Places in Donghua City" given by Qingzhumin, these are just a drop in the bucket.

If he stayed in this small border town for the rest of his life, the evil god in Aicheng Hualian's body would sooner or later starve to death.

"Great... cough cough!" After coughing violently a few times, Donglan said to Talina, "Talina, take the Aicheng team members for the test. Our team's future operations will rely on Aicheng's capabilities."

Chapter 131 I Go My Own Way

Watching the backs of Talina and Aicheng Hualian leaving, Donglan's gaze shifted to the black-haired girl standing in the room, looking a little out of place.

Although her superiors told her not to delve into the girl's background (this order mainly came from the head of the operations department, Investigator Cixin), as the captain of the third team, she still had to do the minimum background investigation, as it was related to the safety of the entire team.

But the result was unexpected. Kagura Hikaru seemed to appear suddenly through quantum fluctuations, without any past.

Date of birth, past experiences, range of activities, family profile, these are things that ordinary people would leave clues about, but this girl had none of them.

Like a ghost, it suddenly appeared in this world, and happened to be next to Aicheng Hualian.

The moment she got this result, Donglan had only one feeling in her heart: it was too weird.

Based on my years of experience in intelligence work, there are only two possibilities for someone whose origins cannot be traced.

They were either refugees fleeing war-torn lands or the apocalypse devastated by the warp invasion, where survival was a challenge and there was no energy to preserve everyone's identity. Or they were second-rate spies who thought they could avoid suspicion by erasing their pasts, but they didn't realize that a completely blank resume was the most suspicious.

Compared to the latter, Donglan would rather believe that this black-haired girl is a poor person who escaped from those doomsday places. However, according to Aicheng Hualian, she and the Aicheng team members were good friends when they were young...

Two different sources of information brought two different pieces of information. Donglan intuitively felt that Aicheng Hualian was lying, but she didn't want to delve into it.

Everyone has their own secrets, and having worked in the intelligence department for many years, she knew this truth well. Furthermore, the other party had saved her life three days ago. If she turned around and dug up Aicheng Hualian's secrets, it would be more than just ungrateful.

It's okay to ask, though. The real person, whose identity is shrouded in mystery, is right before my eyes, so a few words don't seem to be a big deal. According to my boss, this girl, who looks like a sculpture of ice, will be the new member of Team 3.

But she was wrong.

"Um, it's Miss Kagura Hikaru, right? I..." Donglan opened her mouth to speak, but found that the black-haired girl had been looking outside the door since the beginning.

That was the direction that Aicheng Hualian and Talina left. They were heading to the testing department of the Intelligence Department to explore the limits of Aicheng Hualian's abilities.

Not only that, a few seconds later, Kagura Hikaru seemed to be unaware that there were three other future teammates in the room. He walked straight out and followed the direction where Aishiro Karen left, leaving Donglan's prepared words stuck in her throat.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense, and the remaining three people looked at each other.

"Wow, I really do what I want..." Emily, the petite blonde girl and computer expert, marveled inwardly. The tall, thin Huo An curled his lips, thinking there was another freak on the team.

"What are you standing there for? Let's go check out the test results for the Aicheng team members." Captain Donglan adjusted her expression and gave the order. Emily pulled out a folding wheelchair from behind her and sat her captain in it. She slowly pushed the wheelchair from behind. Huo An, following at the back, was like a silent statue, not saying a word from the beginning.

"How is it? What's the result?" Donglan lowered her voice and asked Emily behind her.

The logistics manager of the third team always carries various small props with him, and the psychic detector is one of them, which never leaves Emily's side.

Emily twitched her lips with a strange expression, reached into her pocket with her left hand, and took out a device the size of her index finger.

The screen above the device was pitch black, with pale sparks flashing from time to time, like an old TV with no signal. It was obvious that it was broken.

"The psychic detector broke? When did it happen?"

"I don't know. I just discovered it when I wanted to detect the psychic fluctuations of that Kagura Hikaru. The last time I used the psychic detector was when Team Member Karen just joined our team. It's been a few days now."

Just now, the moment Emily entered the room, she asked the psychic detector in her pocket to scan Kagura Hikaru, but as soon as the scan began, the detector shook strangely, the screen flashed, and then it died suddenly. Its several-year life was abruptly ended.

"Did the instrument break down in the past few days?" Donglan took the detector from Emily's hand and fiddled with the index finger-sized thing in her hand. This little gadget should be very durable.

"That's probably the case. After all, it's been used for nearly four years and it's second-hand. It's normal for it to break down at any time."

The two did not connect the damage to the detector with Kagura Hikaru. After all, to deliberately destroy such an instrument, one would need to be at least at the level of Minister Cixin.

A D-level psychic can break a building hundreds of meters high like a toothpick if he exerts his full strength. There are only two such people in the entire Donghua City, so none of them will be in their team.

……

In the closed testing room, Aicheng Hualian sat on a chair. In front of her, there were ten display-stand-like containers, each of which contained strange objects.

A corpse emitting black smoke, a blood-stained brush, an eyeball with three pupils, a magazine flashing purple light...

The tester's voice came from the loudspeaker on the ceiling of the room, telling Aicheng Karen what she had to do next.

"Members of the City of Love, all of these objects before you have been infected by unholy forces. Some are cursed, some are infused with fel energy. Your test is simple: you simply need to identify the type of erosion each object has endured. Simply identify all objects infected by cursed forces."

Curses and fel energy, while sharing the same origin, belong to different systems. Generally speaking, curses are a form of human manipulation of fel energy, a system of fel energy developed over centuries by cultists who worship the Warp.

Curse is a derogatory term used by the evil response department to refer to this method of use. As for those cultists, they call this method of use a spell.

When Donglan and the other two arrived in front of the test room, they found Talina apologizing to the security guards guarding outside the test room. The security guards had painful expressions on their faces and kept looking at the figure standing in front of the test room window with fear in their eyes.

Donglan went forward and asked, and then she found out that Kagura Hikaru had broken into the testing room in order to see Aishiro Karen. The security personnel here wanted to stop him, but they were knocked down in a few moves and lay on the ground groaning. Fortunately, Talina stepped in to prevent the situation from escalating further.

"This guy is too arrogant!" Huo An on the side couldn't help it any longer. He was so angry that he was about to go up and settle the score with this guy who had a sour face, acted on his own and had no manners from the beginning.

"Hey, stop! We're being quiet." Talina stepped forward to stop her lover and pointed at Kagura Hikaru who was leaning against the window.

The black-haired girl was leaning against the wall, the light from the test room shining through the window onto her face, as white as snow. The two deep blue pools in the snow stared at the pale room, reflecting the orange-haired girl's figure.

The scene would be peaceful and harmonious...if there weren't three security guards curled up on the ground.

Chapter 132: The Boss from the West

Without any reaction to the approach of Donglan and her group, and without any guilt on her face, Kagura Hikaru just stood by the window of the testing room, watching Aishiro Karen looking at the things in front of her seriously.

Of all the people present, she was the only one who knew that Aicheng Hualian was just pretending.

The ability to see through curses is something that can only be achieved by borrowing the unique vision of her, the evil god.

She wasn't complaining in her heart. To put it in human terms, she was rather pleased, the pride of an evil god.

After all, she is the mother goddess of future offspring. Even an evil god (who still has self-awareness) would feel gratified to see her use her abilities in this way.

As for the humans she knocked down... Kagura Hikaru glanced at Karen in the testing room again... If it weren't for the sake of the breeders, these guys who stood in her way would have been dead long ago.

She is not afraid of trouble, but she also does not want to cause trouble for her breeder.

But she had already caused trouble. Although she did not use any harsh measures on those unconscious humans, they would have to stay in bed for three or two days.

However, compared with including Hua Lian in his own observation field of view, this trouble is not a trouble.

There is a difference between trouble and trouble.

Now that a suitable bloodline carrier has been identified, all possible threats must be eliminated, especially humans of the same race as the breeder.

The evil god who has been living in the body of Aicheng Hualian for five years knows that there is a relationship called love between humans. In terms of inheritance and reproduction alone, humans pose the greatest threat.

It was the breeder's decision to enter a crowded and crowded place like the Intelligence Department and work for the department, and Kagura Hikaru would not object.

However, on the other hand, it is also her right to use her own actions to build a high wall around Aicheng Hualian to isolate others.

Keeping Hua Lian within her sight at all times is the most basic requirement and also her plan.

……

In the testing room, Aicheng Hualian walked to the ninth object, which was a bluish-black bracelet with a gap in the middle.

Without knowing what was happening outside, she had already described in full and detail the types of damage suffered by six of the eight items mentioned above.

In order to avoid being too shocking, she deliberately omitted two items, saying that she couldn't tell them apart, so as to avoid answering all the questions correctly.

It is necessary to attract the attention of the higher-ups in the department, but not to be too dazzling. Too much is as bad as too little.

However, starting from the seventh item, she sensed that from outside the one-way window, there was a pair of eyes looking at her openly.

[Xiao Guang, are you outside? How did you get in?]

【Well, I just came in casually.】

[Okay, wait a moment, this will be over soon.]

With a bad premonition in her heart, Aicheng Hualian accurately pointed out that the bracelet in front of her had been taken into the treasure house of the evil spirit named "Collector" in the subspace, and was therefore contaminated by the evil energy of this evil spirit and polluted by the energy of the subspace, and had nothing to do with the curse.

Ai Cheng Hua Lian's ability to see through the characteristics of cursed evil energy can be explained as her self-awakening ability after the orphanage tragedy, and her ability to accurately distinguish the source of the evil energy or curse carried by an object can be explained as "attentive in class and thoroughly familiar with the knowledge taught in the department academy."

For example, the evil spirit codenamed "Collector" is described in textbooks as having a dark blue evil energy, with a distorted pattern of wronged souls faintly visible inside, rotating around a point of white phosphorescence in the center.

In the academy, Aicheng Hualian's grades are among the best, ranking eighth among thousands of students. His knowledge reserves are abundant. Since he can see through curses and evil energy, it is not difficult for him to distinguish the source of energy.