I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

As the two walked down, other sounds gradually appeared in the background.

At first, there were only the sounds of two people's footsteps, and then, in the dark and lightless place, the sound of water was heard.

The deeper you go, the louder the sound of water becomes. The sound resonates back and forth in the circular channel, giving people the illusion of facing a mighty river.

Only at the end of the stairs did a small, weak yellow light provide illumination. Drops of water splashed around the tube, as if they would extinguish this sole source of light in the next moment.

The source of the water droplets is a 20-meter-wide drainage canal. The water in the canal is treated urban water, with a daily discharge volume of more than one million tons, enough to rival some medium-sized rivers.

Under the dim light, the river water appears deep orange, flowing from north to south, carrying the responsibility of draining 7% of the entire Luoxi City.

Because of the perfect filtering measures, the water in the drain does not emit any strange smell.

Aicheng Hualian looked at the upstream and downstream of the drainage ditch, then walked towards the sea.

"I want to see if there is any problem with the water discharged from Luoxi City."

After walking a few dozen steps, Aicheng Hualian found footprints on the ground.

The footprints were quite regular at first, but later on, the arrangement of the footprints became chaotic, and dark red dried bloodstains appeared on the ground next to the footprints.

"Someone was being chased by an unknown entity and was running in panic. He was also injured."

"Clang!"

Just ahead, the sound of metal falling to the ground suddenly rang out, seeming so discordant amid the sound of water.

"Right ahead!"

Chapter 160: Meatball in the Cave

The sound of falling metal came from the front, and the sound echoed layer by layer in the circular passage. It was difficult to judge the distance. If we explored forward step by step, it would be too slow.

So Kagura Hikaru decided to adopt a simpler and faster way of exercise.

She hugged Aicheng Hualian around the waist with her right hand, supported Hualian's calves with her left arm, and then lifted her up so that Hualian's armpits were just resting on her arms. She picked Hualian up like a princess, then stomped her feet on the ground, and two blue psychic fireworks burst out from the soles of her feet, and shot forward like a rocket.

Aicheng Hualian was slightly startled by this sudden action, and the slight blush on her cheeks flashed away like a shooting star.

Xiaoguang may just be doing it for convenience, but she knows that the princess hug is an act that only occurs between people who have a close relationship.

But then again, the relationship between her and the evil god can be considered "close" on another level.

How can a relationship that is interdependent and shares life and death not be called "intimate"?

boom!

The speed of over 100 meters per second stirred up a sound like an airplane engine in the underground passage, and the instantaneous acceleration pressed Aishiro Karen's cheek against Kagura Hikaru's chest.

Unlike her, Guang's chest only rose and fell slightly, which was difficult to notice if they were not pressed tightly together. It was also very cold, making Hua Lian feel like she was sticking to a piece of jade washed by mountain spring water, with some subtle curves.

But now is not the time to experience physical differences.

Aicheng Hualian looked around. The things that were constantly receding almost became a piece of afterimages, but for her, it was no problem to distinguish these things clearly.

She saw that although the walls around her were not clean, there was nothing foreign to her. Occasionally there was some moss and grass growing between the cracks of the stones, but it was nothing noteworthy.

As we continued forward, the downward angle of the passage became steeper and steeper, the water flow became more turbulent, and unexpected things appeared on the walls on both sides.

They were dark green tubes, growing from thin to thick. The surface of the tubes was very rough, and their growth paths were completely irregular. They looked like the blood vessels of some strange creature, or like tree roots embedded in the ground.

But this place is dozens of meters away from the ground, and these lines are arranged horizontally, parallel to the direction of the canal, so they cannot be plant roots.

"These things are pulsating, like they're alive."

Some tubes hang from the wall and penetrate into the canal, absorbing the water inside, pulsating like blood vessels, and transporting the water to unknown places.

As we continued forward, the tubes became denser and denser, and some even began to stack up, covering the gray of the wall itself with a rough, wriggling dark green, like some organ expanding wildly after being stimulated by growth hormone.

"What on earth could possibly be causing this to grow in the drainage system?"

They don't look like the product of evil spirits, nor do they look like things that can appear in nature.

What's even more strange is that these living tissues certainly didn't grow in an instant; there must have been a growth process. But during the time they expanded, didn't anyone notice the abnormality and report it to the government?

You should know that important places like drainage facilities must be equipped with special maintenance personnel and inspection teams. They need to patrol the entire drainage pipe every day and report abnormalities. They are directly under the jurisdiction of the local water conservancy bureau.

Although most of Luoxi City's government has been hollowed out by private enterprises, it is not necessary to reduce costs and increase efficiency for even the maintenance team. This is related to the operation of the entire city and is an expense that cannot be saved.

But it doesn't seem impossible...

But what’s even more outrageous is yet to come.

After traveling more than two kilometers, the dark green tubes were no longer content to grow only on the walls.

They broke free from the walls and began to expand wantonly throughout the passage, interweaving and entangled in the air to form nets that blocked anything that wanted to pass through. Only the water in the canal could escape from the constraints of these nets.

Of course, they cannot stop Kagura Hikaru, but they can show the seriousness of the situation.

Not only were there tubes on the walls, but slippery mucus and some strange tissues also began to appear on the ground.

Severed human fingers, torn fish fins, and bloody organs were scattered on the ground, emitting a rotten egg smell that made people nauseous.

The hurried footprints became clear here, turning straight into a hole in the wall.

A five-meter-high hole carved out of reinforced concrete.

The cave extended deep into the earth, forming a channel independent of the drainage ditch.

boom!

puff~

Kagura Hikaru's speed brought with it a gust of wind that traveled a hundred meters per second. When she stopped, the wind continued to rush forward, seemingly smashing something. Neither of them paid it any attention, their gazes fixed on the cave to their left.

The stone walls around the cave have obvious signs of excavation, but they are very rough and uneven, and do not seem to have been dug out by special tools. It seems more like they were bitten out by some creature with its own teeth.

The footprints came in from the corner of the cave entrance. In addition, the blood vessel-like structures on the wall also flowed into the cave.

No, it should be said that something in the cave was sticking out these tubes.

"Can I come down now, Xiaoguang?" Aishiro Karen said to Kagura Hikaru. She was still being carried in the other party's princess arms, making it a little inconvenient for her to move.

"Um…"

Guang loosened his arms and Hua Lian jumped to the ground, but felt his shoes step on something soft.

At first glance, it was a black tentacle sticking out from the leg of Kagura's trousers, acting as a carpet under her feet.

"The ground is dirty." Kagura Hikaru pointed to the ground. There was a pool of green gelatinous substance where Aishiro Karen landed, but it was now pushed to another place by the tentacles.

"Thank you."

Hua Lian looked at the tentacle, which was mainly black with some dark blue patterns, with some concern. It was exactly the same as the evil god's body.

Aicheng Hualian didn't expect that the evil god in human form could control his body to grow tentacles.

The two continued to move forward. This cave, which was forcibly dug out of the ground, was cold and damp. The air was full of moisture, and the sticky gelatinous substances on the ground and walls made this place look like the nest of some creature.

This conjecture was soon confirmed.

A few hundred meters away from the cave entrance, Aicheng Hualian discovered some hemispherical meat balls adhered to the stone wall.

The meat ball is brown in color, and there seems to be something wriggling inside, pushing up bumps on the surface of the meat ball.

Aicheng Hualian took a closer look.

"Yeah~!"

A strange sound like a baby crying came from the flesh ball closest to Aicheng Hualian, and then an extremely ugly face tore open the flesh ball and poked out from inside.

What a face it was! It had the head structure of a fish, with a huge fish mouth that almost occupied half of the entire face, squeezing the eyes onto the head, but there was a pair of human ears near the neck.

The monster opened its mouth, revealing a row of sharp teeth that had not yet fully opened, and bit directly at Aicheng Hualian's head!

Chapter 161 This time, I’ll do it!

"This discovery is really unexpected."

Aicheng Hualian looked at the corpse on the ground, cold anger flashing in his eyes.

It was the head of a fish-man, but its thick neck was connected to the body of a child.

Hua Lian thought about it for a moment and knew what tragedy had happened here.

Someone had grafted this bizarre mermaid head onto a child's body and placed the deformed monster inside a fleshy cyst. Tubes drew nutrients from the drainage canal and transported them into the fleshy cyst, nurturing the monster like a plant.

Even though Aicheng Hualian has more than two years of work experience, he couldn't help but be angered by the cruel behavior of using human children as grafting roots.

"Who would do such a disgusting thing? It's disgusting."

Let’s not talk about where the fish-man’s heads came from, but the bodies of those children are alive and look no more than eight years old.

Aicheng Hualian looked towards other parts of the cave. There were dozens of fleshy sacs stuffed into the gaps in the stone wall, wriggling slightly.

Each ball of flesh represents the life of a child. Just a cursory glance reveals that this cave is the grave of nearly seventy children.

God knows how many families have been broken up because of this, and how many parents are still looking for their children, not realizing that they have become the infancy of monsters.

After compiling everything he discovered into an electronic message and sending it to Emily in an encrypted manner, Aicheng Hualian then walked inside, his footsteps echoing heavily on the stone walls here.

Her eyes were filled with suppressed anger.

Kagura Hikaru followed beside her silently, still with that sculpture-like expression.

But her heart was not as calm as she appeared.

This was the first time she felt the breeder so angry.

This anger was not hysterical, but like lava slowly flowing under tens of millions of tons of rocks. Although it did not make any terrifying sound, it was even more terrifying.

Because you know it could explode at any moment.

As someone with a desire to survive, Aicheng Hualian has experienced the pain of death, so she can empathize more with these poor little guys who have only lived in this world for seven or eight years.

So she was angry and thought of her past self, that night five years ago.

The further you go into the cave, the creepier the things on the stone walls become.

The pitch-black darkness was filled with broken limbs and disgusting half-grown monsters.

Aicheng Hualian saw a bloody arm bitten by the fishman's open mouth, and the fishman's lower body had long disappeared, with white intestines dragging from his exposed waist, flowing on the stone wall.

Aicheng Hualian saw a desperate face, a woman's face. Her black pupils had already dilated, her mouth was abnormally twisted due to extreme fear, and her upper and lower jaws were abnormally broken, squeezing her nostrils into an oval shape.

This face is one of thirteen on the head of a giant octopus. The thirteen faces are of men, women, and children, and someone has sewn them onto the octopus's head as decorations.

This octopus's head has four more of its kind, with a total of 52 lives. Together with the children mentioned above, more than 100 victims have been buried in this cave.

"Thousands of people go missing in Luoxi City every year, and the way they disappear is difficult to trace, so it is difficult to find the murderer in this way." Emily sent a reply. As soon as she received the information about Aicheng Hualian, she began to search for missing cases in Luoxi City, but unfortunately she didn't get much results.

Now she is hiding in an oversized bulletproof safe to avoid possible assassination, and Captain Donglan is sitting outside the safe.

"Plus, the victims you saw might be from other cities, so this clue is unlikely to yield valuable targets. Sorry."

"It doesn't matter. We haven't finished exploring here yet." His voice was a little hoarse, and Hua Lian unconsciously clenched his fists.

hum!

A violent wave of evil energy surged on the side, and Aicheng Karen was startled. She turned around and found that black and blue light patterns were rising from Kagura Hikaru's skin. The evil energy was roaring, clamoring to tear up this space.

not good,

Her anger made her neglect to suppress Kagura Hikaru, allowing her to leak out a trace of evil god's aura, causing the surrounding space to tremble and collapse.

She quickly adjusted her mood.

You can't be angry, absolutely not at this time.

Being angry is a small matter, but the evil god exploding and destroying the entire city is a big matter.

Suppressing her anger, she continued walking into the cave. Faintly, she and Kagura Hikaru heard subtle but regular collision sounds.

"There are still living creatures here!"

As if finding light in the darkness, Aicheng Hualian ran forward, heading towards the source of the sound.

After turning a corner, a faint green light burst out from the front. Aicheng Hualian squinted her eyes and found that a room carved out of the rock appeared in front of her.

In the center of the room were three jar-like vessels, each about one person tall. One of them was broken, and a brown, sticky liquid was leaking out.

The other two containers were filled with liquid. Through the brown partitions, one could vaguely see some twisted organs arranged vertically.

There were some tubes connected to the bottom of the vessel, and bright red blood was flowing in the tubes.