I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

Although Lei Shaowu was furious after learning that the third team and the Lin brothers and sisters were assassinated, and issued an order to wipe out the Black Tide Gang, some of his men were simply taking advantage of the situation.

Some middle-level leaders who accepted "offerings" from the Black Tide Gang even tipped off the Black Tide Gang, asking them to quickly transfer their assets to avoid Lei Shaowu's wrath.

"A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake? That's simply because the dragon is not strong enough." A cold light flashed in Hua Lian's eyes, which frightened Dong Lan. She wondered where this child got such a strong murderous aura from.

"The Black Tide Gang must be wiped out. With Sister Guang, a D-rank psychic, here, I believe the Black Tide Gang won't survive more than a week."

"Team Aicheng, from the moment we accepted this mission, I've said that you'll be in charge of planning our future operations. I'll naturally follow your lead." Donglan returned Aicheng Hualian's stern gaze, displaying the captain's authority. "But I must remind you that clashing with local forces like the Black Tide Gang will take up a great deal of time and energy."

"Not to mention delaying the mission, we might even get hurt. If we alert the enemy and scare away the mastermind behind the abnormal phenomena in Luoxi City, wouldn't that lead to disaster?"

"Captain, there's no need to worry about that." Hua Lian smiled slightly. She had never changed her course of action halfway through.

Those who dare to assassinate her and Xiaoguang must pay a heavy price.

"With Sister Guang and I working together, I won't back down even if we have to make enemies with all the gangs! Besides, this is also a warning to others. I want to see who dares to pull these little tricks after we wipe out the Black Tide Gang!"

"Well... since that's the case, then do what you want." Donglan sighed in her heart.

The most important thing is not hindering the progress of the mission. The most troublesome thing would be if Hua Lian got injured.

By then, she won't be able to explain to Minister Clo.

However, seeing Aicheng Hualian's determined eyes, she had no choice but to agree.

It’s not a bad thing for young people to experience some setbacks, as it can make them more mature.

"But please remember, your own safety comes first. Team member Aicheng, your life is important to the entire department!"

"Thank you Captain Donglan for your concern. Sister Guang is responsible for my safety. Don't you agree?" Hua Lian reached out and tapped Kagura Guang's shoulder.

"Yeah, I protect Karen."

Chapter 170: The Tide is Receding

At a street corner somewhere in Luoxi City, where the morning light cannot reach.

This is the management area of ​​the Black Tide Gang.

Several men and women in gray clothes were moving some boxes out of a house and transporting them to a van.

Sweat was dripping from their foreheads and their backs were soaked with sweat. A dark sweat stain connected with the black wave pattern on their vests, like a tide surging onto the shore.

"Wow! They have to move all this stuff so early in the morning. I really don't know what the higher-ups are thinking. I heard that these things need to be transported to the warehouse in the suburbs. I don't want to deal with the guards there. They are simply a bunch of walking dead."

The fat Xiong Goro put the box in his hand on the ground, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and complained loudly, causing several wrinkles on his face. His voice buzzed in the narrow alley.

As usual, he is still snoring at home, and his snoring can keep the gang members next door awake. After getting up, he eats some fish for breakfast, and then goes out to the streets to stroll around the streets under the control of the gang. Sometimes he can even collect some tributes from the vendors. His life is very comfortable.

But early this morning, the leader asked him and other gang members to move things, carrying the bulky boxes from the house to the car.

"Hey, just listen to the boss's orders. She has her reasons for asking us to do this."

"I think the boss of Lei Yu Company has gone crazy recently and said he wants to cause trouble for our Black Tide Gang. Those lackeys of Lei Yu Company are patrolling the streets and are not happy with us. The boss thinks this area is not safe, so he asked us to withdraw temporarily."

The tall man with one blind eye said, his name is Lu Yi. The blind eye is a scar left from a fight with the police, but it has become a symbol of bravery in the gang.

"Lei Yu Company? Don't they have any conflicts with us? Why are they suddenly looking at us with displeasure lately?"

"Who knows?" Lu Yi curled his lips in disdain. "But I think this matter will only last a few days. Apart from anything else, who among these companies hasn't had dealings with our Black Tide Gang? Even though Boss Lei is so aggressive, I wonder how many of his subordinates are regulars at our Black Tide Gang clubhouse."

The two smiled at each other and did not take the evacuation seriously.

In the past, Luoxi City police had made harsh promises to "clean up the Black Tide Gang," but in the end, nothing came of it. It could even be said that those slogans about cleaning up the gang were simply a show for the lower classes of Luoxi City.

As for why you have to pretend...

"Boss Chen, the protection fee for the old man from the Zhang family has not been paid. The old guy has a very stubborn temper and can't stand us throwing manure at his doorstep. What do you think we should do?" Xiong Wulang asked the strong man standing on the steps at the door while carrying things.

Chen Ye's thick eyebrows moved, and his narrowed eyes slightly opened. His deep voice revealed a sinister plan, "How else are we going to do it? Doesn't he have a granddaughter in school? Tie her up, and he won't turn her over."

"Just like before? Break the ticket holder's legs if he doesn't hand it over?"

The so-called "piaozi" is another name for hostages.

"Yeah. I'll interrupt one every other day and send the photos to that old guy."

"I understand." A sinister light flashed in Lu Yi's only remaining eye, and his right hand trembled slightly with excitement. It was obviously not the first time he had done such a thing.

As a gang member, who doesn’t have blood on his hands?

In their eyes, there is no distinction between men and women in this world, only between the living and the dead; there is no distinction between rich and poor, only between fat sheep and thin sheep.

Not to mention little girls who are in school, even if it is a baby in swaddling clothes, as long as it can be used as a bargaining chip to gain benefits, these people will act without any hesitation.

In Luoxi City, where private enterprises are dominant, you can't live a comfortable life without being ruthless.

"Where are the other money? I remember there are a group of people imprisoned under the street. When we leave, should we take these guys with us?" Xiong Goro pointed underground. The basement of this house was turned into a prison by the Black Tide Gang. There were more than a dozen hostages tied up inside, all waiting for ransom.

"We don't have time to take care of them. Let's wait until we hide for a while and come back to take a look. If they starve to death, it's just bad luck for them."

Chen Ye took out a cigarette from his pocket, held it between his lips, and the lighter flickered. Light smoke rose and slowly dissipated in the air, just like the lives of those people, which were blown away by the wind and were insignificant.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this is really what the mafia does. It's really disgusting."

A sharp comment came down from the air. Chen Ye was stunned and turned to look up and in front of him.

The two girls were standing on the roof, looking down at him.

They were all wearing black work clothes, with neat long-sleeved windbreakers on the upper body and black trousers with white edges on the lower body. They were standing one in front and one behind, wearing black sneakers on the roof tiles.

In front of me was a black-haired girl. The morning light shone on her, but she looked as white as ice, and there was a coldness all over her body.

The orange-haired girl at the back, the one who had just made the comment, looked at the three Black Tide Gang members lying on the ground with a forced smile, her eyes gleaming with anger.

"You two are so arrogant and rude. Are you trying to make enemies with my Black Tide Gang?"

Chen Ye spat the cigarette in his mouth aside and shouted in a low voice. This was the first time he had encountered someone who was so arrogant and provocative, and these two women appeared out of nowhere.

"Are you standing on the roof and pretending? Get down here!" Xiong Goro was even more impatient. He bent down and stuck his hand into the floor tiles. He pulled up with force and pulled out a palm-sized brick and threw it directly at Aicheng Hualian's face.

"Look, I'm going to smash your face into pieces!"

The brick whizzed through the air and in the blink of an eye it was beside Kagura Hikaru, flying towards Aijo Karen.

"Oh my, you're actually a G-rank psychic! Instead of joining an organization to fight evil spirits, you're committing crimes in a gang. You deserve to be punished!"

Clap!

There was a crisp sound.

The stone brick shattered in mid-air in a way that Kumagoro completely couldn't understand, and fell to the ground in a pool of powder.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yi, who was about to curse, stopped talking for a moment and slowly moved backwards.

His many years of experience as a gang member gave him a bad feeling.

"Are you two psychics? Can you tell me which faction you belong to?" Chen Ye asked seriously, "If we know each other in the Black Tide Gang, then there might be some misunderstanding between us."

"Misunderstanding? Power?" Aicheng Hualian smiled. Her smile was sweet, but it was cold in Chen Ye's eyes.

That laughter seemed like their death knell.

"There's no misunderstanding between us. To be precise, your leader provoked someone he shouldn't have."

"It's time for the tide to recede in Luoxi City."

Chapter 171: Evil in Human Skin

The battle happened almost in an instant.

No, that cannot be called a battle, but a crushing, a crushing in the literal sense.

Kagura Hikaru simply released his spiritual energy, and after a burst of faint blue waves, the three members of the Kuroshio Gang fell directly to the ground.

Every part of their bodies was bearing the weight of the psychic wave, like countless heavy hammers constantly hammering at their joints, or like an entire ocean crushing them. Forget struggling, even breathing was a luxury.

This is how a D-level psychic crushes a low-level psychic, just like an elephant stepping on an ant.

Kagura Hikaru didn't need to do anything herself. She didn't even move a finger, and the three gang members lost all their fighting ability and lay on the ground groaning.

The blue lines swirled in the alley, suppressing the three gang members in a targeted manner without damaging the walls, the ground or anything else.

"Alas, you people, you boss the weaker people around like that, you don't care about their lives at all, you just want money. But when you're in front of someone stronger, you can't even struggle."

"I wonder if those of you who flaunt your power in front of ordinary people ever imagined that this day would come to you?"

Aicheng Hualian landed, walked to the front of the van, and looked at the boxes inside.

She reached out and tore off the packaging of the box, revealing what was inside.

They were bundled with ropes, each of the largest denominations of New Hui Federation currency, stacked together to form cubes. A rough look suggested each box contained at least 10 million Federation coins. There were also some other items like bill terms.

"Sure enough, this is one of your Black Tide Gang's vaults. There should be quite a few things in that room. This trip wasn't in vain."

Seeing Aicheng Hualian tearing open the packaging of the box, Xiong Wulang and the other two who were lying on the ground were furious. They tried hard to open their heavy eyelids and stared at Aicheng Hualian in horror and resentment.

Their lips trembled and they wanted to say something, but as soon as they opened their mouths, the spiritual energy from the outside world rushed into their mouths like a cold storm, almost suffocating them to death, so they had to close their mouths again.

They could only watch Aicheng Hualian walk into the inconspicuous house, the house that was piled with the blood and sweat of the people that the Black Tide Gang had plundered in the nearby streets by various means over the past decade.

"Tsk."

Aijo Karen walked into the room, looked at the things around her, and shook her head.

The room was dim, and everything seemed covered in a veil.

A dusty cabinet leaned against the wall, and on the wall above were photos of what the Black Tide Gang called "fat sheep." Some had a small tick under them, while others had a scarlet cross over the face, with "Resolved" written in small red letters below.

In the center of the room stood a pool table with a neighborhood map on it and several billiard balls pressing against the corners.

The area circled with red circles on the map is the "territory" of the Black Tide Gang.

"The territory is quite large." Aicheng Hualian took the map in his hand and looked at the gang's controlled area of ​​more than 70 square kilometers. He sneered, folded the map into a small piece and stuffed it into his pocket.

Going further in, she found an alloy door leading to the underground. She reached out and pinched the door lock, and with a little force, the entire lock came off.

When the door was opened, foul-smelling air mixed with the smell of filthy excrement rushed up from the stairwell behind the door. Aicheng Hualian immediately used her psychic power to block the gas from leaving her body.

Walking down the stairs, what appeared before his eyes was an underground prison, and Aicheng Hualian frowned.

She just felt that she seemed to have an inextricable connection with prisons. She had just discovered a prison in the underground drainage system yesterday, and now she found another prison under the Black Tide Gang's small treasury.

"Cough cough..."

"Hey…"

Weak groans echoed from every dark corner of the prison. If it weren't for the faces of these poor people, just these wails would probably make people mistakenly think that they had entered some underworld and heard the unwilling echoes of wronged souls.

After taking a look at the "prisoner list" on the wall, Aicheng Hualian knew who were imprisoned in this prison.

Most of the prisoners are those who are unwilling to succumb to the coercion of the Black Tide Gang and refuse to pay "protection fees".

A small number of prisoners were members of rival gangs of the Black Tide Gang. However, most of these prisoners from rival gangs died under torture and abuse, and the rest were ordinary people suffering from hunger and cold, victims who were unwilling to pay protection money.

The prison they were in was made entirely of hard alloy, and there was nothing usable inside the prison, only a dry, cold, and rough cement floor.

The detained victims had no place to sit or sleep, and they had to eat and drink from the prison's own troughs, being forced to eat on the ground like dogs.

Every prisoner had handcuffs on their necks and ankles, and chains as thick as their arms prevented any possibility of escape. Their eyes were cloudy and lifeless, and they were emaciated.

A strong negative emotion enveloped the place, and even traces of black evil energy appeared in some corners.

"I haven't seen this person before. Is he a new gang member?" Someone saw Aicheng Hualian coming in. The unfamiliar face caused the prisoners to talk.

"Damn it! I didn't expect a girl like this to be part of a gang! If we were outside, I wouldn't be able to tell! These gang scum, the more beautiful they are, the scarier they are!"

"What on earth do you, the Black Tide Gang, want to do to us?"

Some people yelled at Aijo Karen, thinking she was a member of the Black Tide Gang.

"Please, sir, all my money has been used to treat my only child. You know how much leukemia treatment costs. I really don't have any money to hand over right now. Wait until next month...next month I will definitely have money to give to you!"

Some people also pleaded with Aicheng Hualian, hoping that the new "Black Tide Gang Leader" would do them some good.

"Everyone, don't panic. I'm not one of those Black Tide Gang scum. I'm here to rescue you." Aicheng Hualian walked to the first cell and, with a wave of her hand, tore off the steel pillars, which were as thick as her neck. "From now on, you don't have to worry about the Black Tide Gang anymore."

Action speaks louder than words.

Aicheng Hualian did not explain anything further. She walked through one cell after another, broke the steel pillars of the cells with brute force, and helped the prisoners inside remove the handcuffs.

Ai Cheng Hua Lian destroyed cell after cell and rescued the victims inside. Every time she passed a cell, she could feel the prisoners' strong desire to survive.

Her qualities as a psychic automatically allowed her to take on these emotions as her own, enhancing her psychic powers, but she wasn't happy at all.