This actor is full of tricks.

Xiao Lin's words were somewhat beyond Lin Jue's expectations. He did not expect that the Inspection Department would show such sincerity, not forcing him to join the Inspection Department, but giving him the authority of a minister. In other words, if he wanted to access information in the future, he would not need to go through Chen Fu and Bai Yao; he could access it himself by entering the Inspection Department.

This access isn't huge, but it's not insignificant either. A lot of information is kept confidential, such as the mental hospital that Lin Jue asked Chen to investigate last time. Chen only saw it after applying to Bai Yao, but he can access it freely in the future.

"What level of information can a minister access at most?" Lin Jue asked.

Bai Lin replied, "You can freely access the top-secret files of a province, but you need to apply to me for access to national-level top-secret files."

“Okay, then we’re friends now.” Lin Jue reached out and shook hands with the other person.

He chatted with Xiao Lin for a few more minutes, then took his leave, as he planned to visit the Wisteria Community.

After seeing Lin Jue out of the Inspection Department, Bai Yao looked back and patted his chest: "I was really worried that the two of you would fight, but I didn't expect Director Xiao's attitude to suddenly soften."

“This might not be her original intention. Her ideas conflict with ours. Didn’t you hear her say that this is an order from some king at headquarters? She’s just following orders.” Lin Jue shrugged, but his impression of Xiao Lin had changed somewhat and wasn’t as bad as it had been at the beginning.

"What does 'king' mean?" This was the first time Lin Jue had ever heard this word.

After Bai Yao explained, Lin Jue's eyes widened dramatically: "So you mean I've been noticed by an extremely vicious beast?"

"Be careful what you say!" Bai Yao hurriedly covered Lin Jue's mouth: "That is a king, a war king, representing the pinnacle of human combat power. An extremely vicious beast is an extremely vicious beast, and a war king is a war king."

"How many kings are there?" Lin Jue removed Bai Yao's hand.

“We’ve released information about five, but since you have the authority to know, I’ll tell you the truth: there are seven in total. Two are at headquarters, and the other five are stationed in the areas where the strange events are most severe,” Bai Yao stated truthfully.

Seven kings? That's equivalent to seven extremely vicious beasts. That's a considerable number. Lin Jue has only seen one extremely vicious beast so far, and to be precise, that's only a part of the extremely vicious beasts.

With seven kings in command, the world is becoming increasingly chaotic, and headquarters has been unable to spare any resources. This suggests that the forces on the other side of the mist are far more powerful, and the number of those who escaped from the loopholes is definitely not just one or two, but their strength is also quite formidable.

"By the way, are you free tomorrow night? Come over to my place for a couple of drinks with Chen Fu." As he spoke, Bai Yao shook his head helplessly: "We should have gotten together a long time ago, but as you can see from my current situation, I simply don't have that much free time."

Lin Jue thought for a moment and still declined, saying, "Maybe next time. I have some personal matters to take care of right now. I'll treat you and the captain when I'm done."

"Alright, be careful." Bai Yao didn't insist, just gave a word of advice. He also roughly understood that Lin Jue's so-called private business was just wandering around in those strange events, he was even more enthusiastic than the people in the Investigation Department.

After leaving the Inspection Department, Lin Jue headed straight for the Wisteria Community. The Wisteria Community wasn't exactly an old and dilapidated place, but it had been around for quite some time. However, the area was already cordoned off, and several police cars were parked outside the community. The entire community had been completely sealed off, and all residents had been evacuated.

"Hey, you can't come in here." A policeman noticed Lin Jue approaching and hurriedly told him to leave. "Hello, I'm Zhou Yue, the Minister of the Inspection Department. I've come here specifically to check on the situation." Lin Jue immediately started identifying himself. He had the authority of a minister, so calling himself a minister shouldn't be a big problem, right?

The policeman was taken aback for a moment, then immediately replied, "Wait a moment, I'll go report it."

He said he was going to report, but in reality, he was probably going to his superior to verify Lin Jue's identity.

Not long after, an older policeman arrived. As soon as he saw Lin Jue, he smiled and extended his hand: "Hello, Minister Zhou, I am Hu Rui, who is in charge of the Wisteria case. Minister Bai just called me and asked us to fully cooperate with your investigation."

As he spoke, he curiously looked at Lin Jue. He had just dialed the hotline to contact Bai Yao and confirmed that the person in front of him was indeed the Minister of the Inspection Department. This made him very curious about when Sanjiang had such a young minister.

While he was curious, he was also a little nervous. This incident had been classified as a bizarre event this morning. The Inspection Department said they would send someone over. He had thought it would be an investigation team, but instead, a minister came directly. This meant that the matter in the Wisteria Community was probably very tricky and dangerous.

Lin Jue hadn't expected this identity to be so useful. After thinking for a moment, he said, "There's no need for you to cooperate with my investigation. Please give me all the information on the deceased this time, Brother Hu. Then you just need to seal off the area outside the community. I will investigate the specific information myself inside the community."

“Okay, no problem.” Hu Rui called over the young policeman from before and asked him to retrieve the deceased’s information.

After standing there for a while, the policeman brought over a thick stack of documents, which Lin Jue immediately began to look through. The number of the deceased on the documents was the same as the post on the forum, four.

They are a young couple, a bachelor living in an illegally constructed house on the rooftop, and a mental patient wearing a hospital gown.

wait
Lin Jue looked at the mental patient's file. The photo on it was of the patient at the time of his death. The photo showed a gray-white male face with his brows furrowed and his mouth drooping, looking extremely sad.

His nose had disappeared, as if it had been torn off by an external force, along with a large piece of skin around his nose.

Lin Jue stared at the photo. This patient should be the guy who brought the shrine to this community. He never expected that the guy would actually be dead.

He flipped through the pages, and the information there showed that this guy had once stayed at Yongning Mental Hospital.

The remaining three victims were all residents of the community, and all the information on the records was normal; they were just ordinary people. However, according to the neighbors, the young couple became very nervous in the period before their deaths, and kept saying that they smelled a very, very bad odor.

“These guys not only lost their noses, but their bodies are also covered with dense scratches.” Hu Rui helped Lin Jue turn to the back pages of the file, which were full of photos of corpses. Each victim in the photos had scratches that had already scabbed over all over their body.

(End of this chapter)