I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

Hoshimi Junna fell into deep thought.

……

Once again entering the subspace, Aicheng Hualian walked in front, acting as a guide.

Generally speaking, one meter in the subspace is equivalent to one hundred meters in the real world. Teleportation through the subspace also takes advantage of this spatial difference.

Now, the destination that Aicheng Hualian and Kagura Guang are heading to is the Yelan River, located in the southeast of Donghua City. According to the map information provided by Qingzhu Min, there is a gathering place of D-level evil spirits near the Yelan River.

As the evil god, Kagura Hikari, who had just come out of Aishiro Karen's body, naturally had no idea where Yelan River was.

The task of being a guide fell on Aicheng Hualian's shoulders.

Walking ahead, Aicheng Hualian looked at the surrounding scenery.

The warp is still as silent and vast as ever.

It was a space completely different from reality. Black was the foundation of the space, endless and enveloping. Purple was the cloud of ink, interwoven like a spider web and drifting like smoke.

This place is like those purple nebulae in the universe that have not yet condensed into stars. They are formed by the gathering of mysterious energy. Each one stretches endlessly and contains enough energy to destroy the planet. It is also the source of energy for all psykers, evil spirits and other subspace life.

"Just another two hundred meters and you'll be there."

Aicheng Hualian walked forward, and gradually she found that her vision was becoming dim.

She quickly looked to her side and realized that there was nothing wrong with her eyes, but the space around her was covered by a layer of black light film.

Aicheng Hualian could only describe it as a black light, which defied common sense. The film of light enveloped her in a hemispherical shape. She did not hide, because the source of this film of light was Kagura Light.

The other person looked at her and blinked, as if curious about why she stopped.

"This..." Aicheng Hualian watched the black sphere formed by the light film continue to expand and occupy the space in the universe. However, after five seconds, Aicheng Hualian could no longer estimate the size of the sphere.

But she could feel that all the energy fluctuations within this black sphere turned into absolute "nothingness".

In other words, all the energy within this black light ball was swallowed up by the evil god.

But Kagura Hikaru just stood there.

Chapter 104: Breath of the Evil God

As the black sphere continued to expand, Aicheng Hualian found that his vision was becoming darker and darker.

If what she saw at the moment the black sphere just covered her was as dim as the early morning under the mist, then now she had to use all her strength to see everything clearly, just like the incomparable darkness at the transition between day and night after the sun sets.

She watched in wonder as the clouds of the warp vanished before her, swallowed by the black.

"As expected of the Evil God, Xiaoguang."

You know, when Aicheng Hualian was walking in the warp before, she also tried to use her psychic energy to influence this empty area, but most of those attempts ended in failure. Let alone squeezing out a huge sphere in the warp like the evil god, she couldn't even release her psychic energy.

The energy density of this subspace is so high that the psychic energy in her body is tightly suppressed in her body, just like a submarine diving into the deep sea, where the air in the submarine can only tremble under the terrifying water pressure.

But the evil god could create such a spectacular sight just by walking slowly behind her, which was something she could never do.

As a psychic, she deeply understood that the gap between the two was immeasurable.

But the world is so wonderful. She is just a human being, but she can perfectly bear the weight of the evil god's body.

Although she faced the crisis of physical collapse several times, such crises seemed natural in the face of the huge gap between her and the evil god. It could even be called a miracle, like a dam made of paper that could block the entire ocean behind her.

Obviously, the gap between the two is as small as that between an inch of wood and a censel, but she has managed to survive for five years and will continue to survive as the other's feeder and container.

Stretching out his hand and sliding it in front of his face, Aicheng Hualian was like a child, full of curiosity about the black space beside him.

"Are you marking your territory? Or is this a natural phenomenon that occurs when you enter the hunting state?" As he walked forward, Aicheng Hualian spoke to the evil god behind him.

"This is just a simple breath leakage." A pleasant sound like the ringing of silver bells answered her question, making the girl turn around in surprise and look at the evil god behind her.

"Xiao Guang!" she exclaimed happily, the smile on her face like a flower watered by the sun, "You have actually learned to speak!?"

Yes, the evil god just now did not communicate with her through thoughts, but used real human language.

But just a few minutes ago, the other party had only learned the two words "Hua Lian". When did he become able to speak so fluently?

"Human language is simple, there's no need to be surprised." The evil god looked at Hua Lian's smiling face expressionlessly. "The way gods communicate is a million times more complex than that. Knowing the pronunciation of two words will naturally enable you to understand the entire language."

"I see..." For some reason, after the joy for the other's progress faded, a small sense of loss tickled Hua Lian's heart. "I thought I could also serve as a teacher and teach you about human language, but now it seems that's no longer necessary."

"..."

"Then again." Continuing to move towards their destination, Aicheng Hualian looked ahead. The edge of the black sphere had already spread beyond her field of vision, with no end in sight. "This sphere is leaking your aura. Will it attract the attention of other subspace creatures?"

According to current human understanding of the subspace, countless creatures inhabit this mysterious space. Kagura's presence is so conspicuous that it might attract some strange creatures. If a super-sized creature, also a god, noticed this place, it would be a disaster.

The black-haired girl pondered for a while, then shook her head and said, "I don't know."

"Eh? As a god, are there things you don't understand?"

"Well... if calculated in human years, I'm only sixteen years old now, so I'm still relatively inexperienced. Furthermore, this is my first time in the Warp, so I don't know much more about this space than you do."

The other gods were born into the Warp, and while their understanding of this universe might not be complete, they at least possessed some common sense. After all, even a baby would have a memory of the cradle they were born in.

But Kagura Hikaru is an alien. Since she developed self-awareness, she has been living in the body of Aishiro Karen and has never stepped out of Karen's body.

"It's okay, let's get to know this space from the beginning together." Not wanting to see Kagura Mitsuru depressed, Aishiro Karen quickly acted like a kindergarten teacher, but she was met with nothing but frustration.

"To be precise, I am the one who understands. You are too weak now. You can only do the most basic movement. You are completely unable to understand this space."

The cold words shattered the smile on Aicheng Hualian's face, and her face immediately fell.

"Looks like I need to teach Xiaoguang something about emotional intelligence... Talking like that is so hurtful!"

However, when it comes to emotional intelligence, Aicheng Hualian asks herself honestly and feels that she doesn't seem to have much.

Emotional intelligence is something that needs to be cultivated through interaction with others. She had lived in an orphanage since childhood, and at the age of thirteen, she suffered a catastrophic event and was thrown into the response department's academy. After "failing to awaken her psychic powers," she was ostracized by her peers, and almost no one was willing to communicate with her.

The only people Karen Aijo could truly communicate with were her neighbor, Mahiru Tsuzaki, and her former teachers at the academy. The ghosts in the orphanage also counted, but their consciousness was pure and kind, and when they were with Karen, they would simply indulge her.

"Oh, I don't think I know much about how to communicate with people~"

Even during her time as a private investigator, she had little interaction with her colleagues, and her communication with clients was limited to the commission itself.

"Perhaps, emotional intelligence is like kindergarten teachers, treating people with a gentle smile? Holding children's hands and moving forward together?"

Thinking of this, Aicheng Karen extended her hand to Kagura Hikaru, "Let's go together, the Yelan River is not far away."

"Roar!"

At this moment, a deafening roar came from the far left, shaking the space.

The violent wave swept across everything, impacting Aicheng Hualian's body. Her internal organs shook left and right like waves in a storm, and were directly dislocated!

"puff!"

A mouthful of blood kept spitting out of her mouth, her eyes turned black, and she fell directly to the ground.

What she worried about finally happened. The aura emanating from the evil god had indeed attracted the attention of the subspace creatures. That roar was clearly a declaration of war against Kagura Hikaru.

"court death!"

Looking at the unconscious Hua Lian, a cold light flashed in Kagura's eyes.

Her figure flashed, leaving behind a shadow. Then, a deafening explosion echoed in the distance, scattering the black ball of light, which was hundreds of kilometers in diameter.

A few seconds later, she returned to her original spot, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.

It was not her blood, but that of the unfortunate creature of the Warp.

She ate the guy.

Chapter 105: To Yelan River

Kagura wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at the girl in front of him. She was lying on the ground, groaning in pain, her internal organs tossed and turned by the shockwave, as if she had been stuck in a roller coaster for nine days and ten nights.

Seeing her pain, Kagura Hikaru couldn't help but take two steps forward, wanting to help his breeder up, but realized that in this subspace, direct physical contact might cause unnecessary danger, so he stopped his action.

After just a few steps, the aura within him couldn't help but leak out, attracting a fat, reckless spirit whale, causing his caretaker to collapse in agony. If he tried to help the whale at this point, the evil energy and body, which had long been craving food, might do something extreme to the caretaker.

She knew her greedy nature as an evil god.

Fortunately, the girl's vitality was strong enough. After just a few minutes, the helpless groans gradually subsided, leaving only the sound of heavy gasps for air, indicating that the girl's body was rapidly repairing itself.

"Ouch, that hurts so much."

Two minutes later, the huge damage caused by the dislocation of internal organs had disappeared. Aicheng Hualian stood up with a grin, rubbing her back - her lumbar vertebrae were also broken into two sections by the shock wave just now. Fortunately, she was the container of the evil god, and she recovered after lying there for a while.

"What level was that guy just now? How could he be so strong?"

To be able to travel hundreds of kilometers and severely injure her, it must be at least B-level or above.

"According to the human energy level classification, that big fat whale is at the intermediate C level."

Aijo Karen's eyes widened in surprise.

"Huh? Only C-rank? But I'm also C-rank. Even though it's just a low level, I shouldn't be bullied by a mid-level guy like this, right?"

"The energy density in the subspace is extremely high, and it's completely different from the lower-energy universe. If a real-world creature entered here, its energy fluctuations would be suppressed to one-tenth of the original universe. This is just a best estimate."

"So that's how it is..." Aicheng Hualian nodded.

What the other party said was indeed true. When walking in the subspace, she did feel more than once that the energy density of this universe was far beyond reality.

But soon, new doubts arose in her mind.

"By the way, Xiaoguang, didn't you just say that this was your first time entering the subspace? Then how did you know the one-tenth figure?"

Looking away slightly, Kagura Hikaru said slowly: "Because of you."

Having spent so much time with Aishiro Karen (albeit only for a day), Kagura Hikaru naturally knew the strength of Karen's psychic fluctuations. By comparing her psychic fluctuations with Aishiro Karen's while in the subspace, she could understand the true extent of this space's suppression of real-world creatures.

However, she also knew that as the vessel of the evil god, the subspace had greatly relaxed its suppression of Aicheng Hualian. If other creatures from the real world came here, even walking would be a luxury.

"Eh! What? So you're using me as a comparison?"

……

The circular space channel tore through the air, and two girls walked out one after the other.

"This one in front of us is the Yelan River... Eh!? It stinks!"

Before she could observe the scene in front of her, a pungent odor attacked Aicheng Hualian's nostrils, as if someone had stuffed rotten eggs into her nostrils, almost making her vomit out the digestive juices in her stomach.

Although this level of stench was not enough to make her cover her mouth and nose, after all, there were more disgusting smells than this in previous commissioned tasks, but it still scared Aishiro Karen.

"What's that smell? Is it a sign of a gathering place for evil spirits? I don't want to hunt evil spirits in a place with a smell like that."

Eating in the midst of a foul smell? Aicheng Hualian doesn't have this habit.

Kagura Hikaru, who was following behind her, didn't feel anything. As an evil god, her endurance was naturally unmatched by humans.

The two followed the smell and came to a river.

"I heard that the reason why the Yelan River is called the Yelan River is because at night, the clear river water reflects the starry sky, isolating the darkness outside the river, just like the night disappears in this river, hence the name Yelan River."

"But this..."

The river that appeared before the two was a world away from the original meaning of the name Yelan River.

The dark, oily mess covered the river's surface like a thick blanket. Dead fish could be vaguely seen bobbing on the surface. The banks were stripped of their verdant greenery, leaving only blackness and death. This river was the source of the stench; it was a stinking sewer.

"Ah, this river is seriously polluted. Let me see..."

Taking out the map, Aicheng Hualian found the location of Yelan River. Looking up along the river, he suddenly discovered no less than seven factories.

It suddenly became clear why this river had become such a culprit.

"Strange, is there still anyone living in a river like this?"

There are three towns around the Yelan River, each with a population of thousands. God knows how they survive next to this "stinking ditch".

"I smell food."

Kagura Hikaru's voice came from behind Aijo Karen. She was looking at a valley in the east, her dark blue eyes shining slightly.

Aicheng Hualian glanced at the map and discovered that the unknown depression was located right in the center of the three villages. Furthermore, on the map, the depression was circled in red, with the annotation "D-rank evil gathering place".

"You have a very keen sense of smell, Hikaru. But I smelled it too."

After years of living with the evil god, Aicheng Hualian's body structure has also undergone some changes. How should I put it? Not only has her diet become more similar to the evil god's preferences, but even her five senses have become extremely sensitive to the presence of evil spirits. She can hear the evil spirits' movements, smell the evil spirits' scent, and see through the evil spirits' disguises.

For her, these abilities are almost essential for survival, just like a hyena on the grassland chasing food.

"However, going there directly is too risky. We need to find a more covert method."