I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

But she knew that this was the only way for her to go, otherwise she would die.

She couldn't extract psychic energy by absorbing the positive emotions of other lives like other psychics did, as that progress would be too slow.

That C-rank intermediate psychic who lives deep in the center of Donghua City has been stuck for years and unable to make any further progress, let alone her?

Under the influence of the evil spirit, Aicheng Hualian's body is extremely gluttonous. The amount of energy she needs to advance is hundreds of times greater than that of others! The threshold that others take months to cross will take Aicheng Hualian decades if she follows the same path!

Of course, everything has its pros and cons.

Ordinary psykers, hoping to reach the next level, must proceed gradually. After their psychic energy reaches its limit, they must communicate with the Warp, forcibly extracting sufficient energy from it with their will, cleansing themselves with it and opening the door to the next realm. Communication with the Warp is time-consuming and laborious, and carries the risk of degenerating into a Warp creature.

But Aicheng Hualian was different. Under the influence of the evil god, her method of advancement was even more ruthless: she used her brute force to create miracles! If the threshold were a dam, only by breaking it could more capacity be created to accommodate psychic energy. While ordinary people would use "explosives" drawn from the subspace to blow up the dam, Aicheng Hualian needed to increase her psychic energy dozens of times, allowing it to actively break down the dam.

In other words, as long as there is enough spiritual energy in the body, Aicheng Hualian will not have any bottleneck in promotion.

Just like that, two circles, one large and one small, appeared in this dark water depression. Every second, hundreds of evil spirits were swallowed up by these two circles and disappeared.

……

Nearly a thousand meters away from the Black Water Depression, Hanagi Kaori and Ishidome Futaba hid behind a hill, holding binoculars in their hands, observing the situation in the Black Water Depression.

They didn't dare to go directly into the black water pool to look for the two mysterious investigators, nor did they want to leave, so they just waited here for nearly two hours.

At this moment, Hanayu Kaori patted Ishido Futaba's shoulder and said, "Futaba, do you feel that the area of ​​the black water depression is slowly shrinking?"

Chapter 115 Promotion

"The forbidden area is shrinking!?"

Upon hearing this, Ishido Futaba quickly raised his telescope and looked at the black water puddle in front of him.

Spiritual energy flowed into her eyes, and in front of her, a black hemispherical cover appeared above the depression. The cover had a radius of more than one thousand meters. Inside, the dark air kept rolling like gray ink, and inside were countless black snake-like things, which were the evil black snakes in the muddy water.

She focused her eyes on the edge of the black cover, holding her breath and concentrating not to miss any details.

This observation revealed that the black hood representing the boundary of the evil gathering place was shrinking. The rate of shrinkage was very slow. If it weren't for the high-precision special telescope and her intermediate D-rank strength, others would not have been able to detect this subtle change.

"This... is really unbelievable."

As a gathering place for evil spirits caused by the stimulation of a large amount of negative emotions, the number of evil spirits within it can be said to be counted in tens of thousands. It is almost impossible to erase a gathering place for evil spirits.

Due to the continuous invasion of huge numbers of evil spirits, some channels directly connecting to the subspace have already appeared in the center of the evil spirit gathering place.

Those passages are the core of every gathering place for evil spirits. If the passages are not removed, the evil spirits will continue to exist.

If we rely solely on manpower to eliminate evil spirits, it may not be as fast as the speed at which the evil spirits are replenished through the channels, let alone clearing out the places where the evil spirits gather.

To eliminate the evil gathering place from the root, it is necessary to destroy its core, which is the channel connecting to the subspace.

This requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and may even cost the lives of official investigators. In the eyes of the evil spirit response department, it is a completely unprofitable business.

Instead of focusing energy on the evil gathering place and causing insufficient manpower in other places, it is better to send an appropriate number of psychics to suppress the expansion of the evil gathering place and keep it as it is.

This also means that whenever a gathering place of evil spirits appears, it means that the surrounding area is no longer suitable for human habitation, because the evil spirit response department has no intention of eliminating it.

To put it bluntly, those areas near the gathering places of evil spirits have been abandoned by humans and handed over to the evil spirits in the subspace.

This approach has been the consensus reached since the establishment of the evil spirit response department.

According to historical records, fewer than seventy evil gathering places have been completely wiped out, and the highest such area was a Class B restricted area.

But everything that was happening before them was telling Ishido Futaba and Hanayu Kaori that the scope of the evil spirit in the Black Water Margin was really shrinking.

The two private investigators, who did not reveal their true identities, were constantly reducing the area where the evil spirits gathered.

"This is truly remarkable." Hua Liu Xiangzi sighed to herself, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed such a thing."

Even a psychic family like the Hualiu family, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, was filled with worry when faced with a gathering place of evil spirits. They didn't know what to do and could only watch as the family business was taken over by the evil spirits.

Now, the idea of ​​recruiting Inspector Chiyan once again arose in Hua Liu Xiangzi's mind.

The other party has such means. If she can be recruited and those evil gathering places in the family territory are wiped out, then she will have made a contribution to the family worthy of being recorded in the family tree!

"Xiangzi, you're so bold." Ishido Futaba shook her head, bluntly criticizing the young lady she hadn't seen in years. "Those two private investigators are capable of such means, yet we've never heard of them. Just think about it, they're not after fame or fortune; they have their own pursuits."

"I don't think your material means of winning people over will have much hope on them. It's already good enough that we can use them to survive this hunt."

"Hmph!" Hua Liu Xiangzi pouted with some dissatisfaction, raised the telescope, and no longer paid attention to the guy next to her.

……

In the gathering place of evil spirits.

Aijo Karen and Kagura Hikaru had already slain nearly two thousand muddy water black snakes. Most of these two thousand evil spirits were F-rank, with over three hundred E-rank giant black snakes also present.

Four-fifths of the evil spirits died after being devoured by the evil god, and the remaining one-fifth were burned into barbecue by Aicheng Hualian's purifying evil flame and then eaten.

Such resolute killing made the air around the two men become a little fresher. Even those evil spirits with low IQs were hovering in the air in fear, not daring to rush down to die.

They are really afraid of being killed.

And the killing of one man and one god ended here.

Because Aicheng Hualian really couldn't eat anymore.

"Oh... My stomach is so bloated..." She covered her bulging belly with difficulty, and her whole body was bent like a big steamed red shrimp.

Because the speed of her "meal" exceeded the speed of her body's absorption, the amount of evil barbecue accumulated in her abdomen became more and more, and her stomach had burst several times.

Moreover, the feeling of fullness in her body made Aicheng Hualian realize that she had reached her limit, and if she ate any more, she would burst.

The flesh and blood in her abdomen were constantly being digested and transformed into high-purity spiritual energy, which flowed into her already swollen blood vessels. This caused the total amount of spiritual energy in Aicheng Hualian to soar like a rocket, and also caused her body to swell slightly.

"Pfft!"

At this moment, cracks appeared on her skin all over her body. These cracks spread all over her skin, even the soles of her feet.

Then, she seemed to have turned into a human-shaped volcano, with red magma continuously overflowing from the cracks, flowing all over her body and staining her clothes with blood.

"boom!"

It was like an invisible barrier was blown up, and a circle of red glow spread out with Aicheng Hualian as the center. Wherever the red glow passed, the air temperature soared, and it actually churned into the shape of flames, and finally formed a golden-red circle thirty meters away from Aicheng Hualian.

The ring slowly dissipated, and Aicheng Hualian's psychic level officially moved from the lower level of C to the middle level of C.

For a moment, she felt her body lighten, and the pressure from the evil god dissipated a lot.

At the same time, a new way to use psychic energy flashed in her mind like a flash of inspiration. She wanted to grasp it, but she came up empty-handed.

She knew that this was a precursor to constructing her own territory.

Every psychic who enters the C-rank will naturally possess their own domain as their realm and level rise. It does not require special learning, as it is like something engraved in the psychic's soul, and the C-rank is the key to unlock it.

Now, Aicheng Hualian, who has entered the intermediate level of C-level, is also qualified to knock on the door of the domain.

Looking back at the evil god, Kagura Hikaru stood silently in place, looking at her with a hint of appreciation.

Apart from that, the other party still had that indifferent look. After swallowing more than a thousand evil Kagura Lights, it seemed as if he had swallowed a breath of air, without any change at all.

"Xiaoguang's hunger has decreased a lot." Aicheng Hualian carefully felt the connection between their consciousness. Now, the hunger from the evil god was not as strong as before.

"Let's stop hunting here this time." Aicheng Hualian rolled her eyes and looked at other places in this evil gathering place. "Xiaoguang, are you interested in continuing to explore here?"

"It doesn't matter." The black-haired girl's lips moved slightly, her tone was as cold as ice, and she raised her chin slightly, "You can go wherever you want."

Chapter 116: People Digging in the Forbidden Zone

A man and a god walked forward, Aishiro Karen was half a body length ahead of Kagura Hikaru, determining the direction of the two's advance and "inspecting" everywhere in this black water depression.

Before hunting, a wise hunter needs to understand the physical condition of their prey and identify its weaknesses so they can kill it with a single strike. This is true for hunting evil spirits, and even more so when hunting places where evil spirits gather, thorough preparation is essential.

"According to the book, the centers of most evil gathering places have passages connecting to the subspace. From these passages, evil spirits attracted by negative emotions continuously emerge. At the same time, the strongest evil spirits in the entire gathering place also linger around these passages."

Evil spirits can gain promotion by devouring their own kind. The more densely packed the evil spirits are, the more brutal the battle will be.

The evil spirit that can reign supreme in the center of a gathering place for evil spirits must be the strongest being in the entire restricted area. They are the core of the restricted area, guarding the subspace channel.

According to experience, the level of the core evil spirits is often two levels higher than the evil spirits in the marginal areas.

In other words, the core evil spirit in the Black Water Depression is very likely to be C-level, which just meets the goal of the evil god's hunting state in the first year.

It is worth mentioning that the evil god, as an existence that is intolerant of all things, will be rejected by the local space no matter where he goes.

For example, if Kagura Hikari were to descend in her true form, it would cause a violent resistance from the planet, which would at best expel Kagura Hikari, and at worst trigger a war.

Fortunately, Aicheng Hualian helped her cover.

As a native of Aicheng, Hualian was accepted into this space. The evil spirit was hiding within Hualian, so as long as he didn't cause too much noise, he wouldn't cause rejection from the space.

The stronger Aicheng Hualian became, the more trust this space had in her, and the greater the power the evil god could unleash. If the evil god was a cancer cell, then Aicheng Hualian was the healthy cell membrane covering the cancer cell's surface, hindering the space's will from probing.

Currently, with Aishiro Karen's mid-level C-rank strength, the maximum space she could provide the Heretic God with was peak C-rank. If Kagura Hikari accidentally used a strength beyond peak C-rank, then Aishiro Karen and Kagura Hikari would be kicked into the boundless universe by the planet's spatial consciousness.

Of course, if the evil god's power grows to the point where he can destroy the world with a wave of his hand in the future, then what is the point of the so-called spatial consciousness?

"I just don't know what level of C-rank the core evil in this restricted area is at."

As they continued to advance, the turbid water black snakes that raged in the air grew thicker and stronger, their auras becoming stronger and stronger, and even D-level beginners appeared. If these creatures appeared in Donghua City, they could only be dealt with by official investigators.

The more powerful the turbid water black snake is, the more angular, solid and thick the scales on its body are, the fewer eyes it has on its head, and there are two strange bulges on the top of its head, as if something is about to come out of it.

"No wonder the evil response department is reluctant to clear this blackwater pond. If we get caught here, even Sister Mahiru would probably suffer the consequences."

"Not necessarily." Kagura objected with a stern face. "That person has the support of the Warp creatures. Although he can't enter the ranks of gods, it's enough for him to travel freely around here."

After being reminded by Kagura Hikaru, Aishiro Karen immediately remembered the mysterious emerald green tree behind Tsuzaki Mahiru.

"I don't know whether that tree is good or bad. We must find that tree in the subspace when we have time to prevent Mahiru-sama from being deceived."

She knew that, despite being a kindhearted person, Tsuzaki Mahiru had some minor flaws. For example, she was easily convinced by others and often showed excessive love. It would be disastrous if she was exploited by a bad guy.

"That tree is good and will not harm that person." The evil god's expression became even more gloomy, and she seemed not to want to talk too much about this topic. She grabbed a muddy black water snake and crushed it into powder.

"Batt..."

Continuing to walk deeper, the soil under their feet had turned into something like a swamp, so dark that it seemed to be able to swallow all the light. If they were not careful, they would be trapped in it.

They have officially entered the core area of ​​the Black Water Depression.

"Wow..."

A black stream flowed on the ground, and a cold ghostly wind whistled in my ears.

Aicheng Hualian looked ahead, but ten meters away, it was pitch dark, with not a single ray of light. If she moved forward rashly, what awaited her might be a sheer rock wall or a bottomless abyss.

Pulling out the detection instrument, she looked at the topographic map displayed on it. Hundreds of black streams flowed down from various parts of the mountain wall, converging into a deep black pool nearly a hundred meters in diameter ahead. Beyond that, the instrument could not detect any other information.

"Wait, there's a guy there?"

Amidst the dark blue, rugged terrain, an orange-red humanoid figure suddenly entered the instrument's detection range. The orange-red color indicated that the object's body temperature was normal, and it was not a corpse or some evil puppet.

The orange-red figure was squatting on the ground, its body bent like a bridge. It seemed to be holding something in its hands and was digging the ground in front of it.

There are actually people digging the soil here besides them?

You should know that this is already the core area of ​​the restricted area. Most of the evil spirits wandering around are peak E-level or even D-level monsters. Anyone who dares to carry out activities here is either a lunatic or very confident in his own strength.

"Let's go and take a look?" Aicheng Hualian asked the evil god for his opinion, and the other party nodded in agreement.

"Just make the decision." After a full meal, Kagura Hikaru temporarily put aside his hunger worries and followed Karen to get more familiar with the hunting ground.

Following the direction indicated by the detection instrument, Aicheng Hualian walked forward. A few minutes later, a middle-aged man kneeling on the ground appeared in front of her ten meters away.

The man was wearing gray clothes covered in dust. He looked haggard, with dozens of wrinkles on his forehead. There was a dark blue scar on his tall nose bridge. His brown eyes were fixed on the small pit in front of him, as if he was looking at some treasure.

He held a shovel in both hands and kept digging the black soil in front of him.

Strangely, the surrounding black snakes seemed to have mistaken the man for a stone and ignored his intentions.

The whistling wind covered Aicheng Hualian's footsteps, so that the man only noticed her arrival when she came in front of him.

His body trembled violently, and he lifted the shovel and pushed it against the ground, then fell to the ground behind him. He shouted hoarsely as if he had swallowed a mouthful of stones, "Who are you! Why are you here?!"

Chapter 117: Expatriate Specialist - Kenichi Takahashi

Seeing the panic on the middle-aged man's face, Aicheng Hualian knew that she had to calm him down, so she stepped forward to comfort him, "Don't be afraid, uncle. We are private investigators. We entered the Blackwater Swamp to investigate the situation in this restricted area. You look like a psychic as well, right? Perhaps we are in the same industry."

The man looked at the two people in front of him with some suspicion, and only after confirming that Aishiro Karen and Kagura Hikaru had no ill intentions did his tense body relax.

Come to think of it, if the other party wanted to do something bad to him, they should have killed him before he noticed it, instead of walking up to him and talking to him.

"I'm not a private investigator." He propped himself up with a shovel in hand, his eyes warily watching the two masked girls' every move. "I'm Kenichi Takahashi, an outposted specialist here. I'm here simply to understand the extent of the Blackwater Slough's development."