I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

As he spoke, he revealed three containers hanging from his waist. The containers were cylindrical in shape, and the black soil inside could be seen through the transparent material.

The reason why he went deep into this restricted area was to obtain soil samples here and bring them back to the research institute for analysis. The results of the analysis would help him determine the extent of the evil energy corruption in the Blackwater Depression.

"Ah...it turns out to be an expatriate specialist like that girl. Mr. Takahashi's professionalism is respectable." Thinking of the dark green-haired lady who had prevented her from entering the restricted area, Aishiro Karen looked at Takahashi Kenichi with a bit more pity.

In each of the three villages around the Yelan River, there is an external specialist sent by the Donghua City Evil Response Department to serve as a guardian.

However, since the Black Water Wetland was designated as a restricted area, the three villages of Shanghe, Zhonghe and Xiahe have been abandoned by the evil spirit response department. The three dispatched specialists who stayed here, like the villagers here, can only stay around the Yelan River for the rest of their lives and survive by drinking the sewage in the river.

Anyone who encountered such misfortune would be considered mentally strong if they didn't throw the blame and lash out at their superiors. But whether it was Yi Qing, who had previously stopped the two of them from entering the Black Water Depression, or Takahashi Kenichi, who had risked his life to go deep into the Black Water Depression to collect soil samples, their unwavering sense of responsibility was enough to make Aicheng Hualian sigh in admiration.

As expected of the evil response department that shoulders the important task of protecting humanity, the people working in it are all fearless warriors.

"Come to think of it... ahem, you private investigators are probably psychics who aren't officially registered, or what we call psychic criminals." Takahashi Kenichi looked at the two people in front of him with a bitter expression. "If I were to encounter psychic criminals like you out there, as a member of the Evil Response Department, I would be responsible for apprehending you and handing you over to the authorities."

"But..." Takahashi Kenichi looked past Aijo Karen and Kagura Hikaru at the darkness in the distance, his expression suddenly darkening, "I don't have the energy to think about those rules right now. If you still want to live, run with me!"

"Run?" Aicheng Hualian turned her head to look behind her. The dark mist rising from the Yelan River gradually began to roll. The sound of the wind was like the vicious roar of a ferocious beast, echoing in the dim space and making people sweat all over.

"That's right, run!" Takahashi Kenichi slung the shovel on his back and sprinted towards the place where he left the Black Water Swamp. As he ran, he explained, "You came in at an unfortunate time. We are about to enter the Black Water Swamp's active period! When that time comes, a large number of evil spirits will emerge from the black pool, and there will even be beings above the intermediate level of D-rank. While those evil spirits are still sleeping in the deep pool, run quickly!"

The active period of the Blackwater Depression?

Although he had doubts in his heart, Aicheng Hualian still followed the other party's pace and started running.

Moreover, she was mentally telling Kagura Hikaru not to take action, as she wanted to see what this so-called active period was all about.

"Trust me, I've been studying this blackwater depression for nearly ten years, and I know it better than you do."

As Takahashi Kenichi ran, clumps of black mud continuously fell from his oversized coat. This mud, collected from the Black Water Hole, was stuffed into the inside of his coat. Combined with his unique spiritual ability, it provided a good camouflage, confusing the evil spirits with him.

However, as the mud continued to fall, the camouflage effect became weaker and weaker. The black snake in the muddy water that was snarling beside him shook its head in confusion, and then turned its scarlet eyes to look at where he was.

Kenichi Takahashi's heart trembled, he was discovered by these evil spirits.

Looking around, he saw no fewer than seventy turbid water black snakes dancing wildly around him, each one around the E-rank level. If they all rushed forward, he, a mid-level E-rank psychic, would be dead without a burial place.

He had encountered this kind of danger before, but today, in order to dig up as many soil samples as possible, he had already used up a lot of spiritual energy to maintain his own camouflage skills. Now the spiritual energy in his body was stretched to the limit and could not support him in a high-intensity battle.

"Damn it!"

Kenichi Takahashi squeezed out the last bit of spiritual energy in his body and gathered it at his feet. Determined to overdraw his vitality, he wanted to break out of this evil encirclement.

But soon, he found something was wrong.

He was clearly exposed, and the surrounding black snakes were eyeing him covetously. But the strange thing was that these vicious and evil spirits that enjoyed eating people just looked at him with unwilling eyes. Even though the saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths had become a string, the black snakes had no intention of attacking him. They just hovered in the air impatiently, opening and closing their mouths in his direction, as if wanting to rush down and bite him.

They seemed to be afraid of something, and the thing that made them dare not move was right near him.

A flash of inspiration came to Kenichi Takahashi's mind, and he turned his head to look behind him. The two masked girls were following him. Their pace was steady and regular, without any sense of tension that would be shown in escape. It was more like they were doing an ordinary sprint practice.

Could it be that these evil spirits are afraid of these two private investigators?

A guess that struck Kenichi Takahashi as absurd emerged in his mind.

But how could that be possible? To intimidate this group of E-rank monsters, one must be at least a D-rank psychic.

But D-rank psychics are mostly only achieved by official investigators. How could so-called private investigators, those shady psychic criminals, possibly reach this level? With D-rank strength, why would they come to this dark place to cause trouble? Aren't they content with the good life outside?

All kinds of doubts swirled in Kenichi Takahashi's mind, but he could not find a glimmer of an answer.

There was no time for him to guess or speculate. Behind the three of them, a huge roar rose into the sky, causing the sand and gravel to roll and the clouds and mist to disperse.

"Roar!!"

Kenichi Takahashi stumbled and looked behind him in panic. In the black clouds, a black shadow rose from the ground, and a nearly 100-meter-long black python rushed into the sky from the invisible deep pool.

"Damn it, why did the big black bug wake up so quickly today!"

Chapter 118 He fainted? Great!

A hundred-meter-long black snake soared up like a black pillar piercing the sky, dispersing the dark clouds in the depression, but it did not make this restricted area brighter. Instead, it showed a doomsday scene.

That's because, since the appearance of this giant turbid water black snake, thick black clouds have emerged out of thin air in the space around it. These clouds continue to rotate, forming a howling black tornado with the turbid water black snake as the center, stirring up the wind and clouds in the entire restricted area.

The mere movement caused by the awakening had already turned the entire area upside down.

You know, as a gathering place for evil spirits, the dense evil energy here can make the atmospheric pressure more than three times that of the outside world. The fact that it can cause such a commotion shows the formidable strength of the muddy water black snake.

At the same time, the aura on his body was like a visible black curtain, pressing down on everything in the restricted area, covering the three people including Aicheng Hualian. They suddenly felt as if a wet cloth was pressing on their bodies, sticky and uncomfortable.

Under the suppression of the breath, Takahashi Kenichi's camouflage spiritual skills were destroyed within seconds. Clumps of soil shattered with a creaking scream and fell to the ground. The muddy water black snakes that had been wreaking havoc in the surrounding area were driven farther away by this breath, causing the area of ​​the black water depression to increase three times from a thousand meters in radius.

"It's over!" Kenichi Takahashi groaned in despair, but his legs did not stop moving. He tried his best to run forward with his master - even though the darkness that was rapidly chasing him from behind told him that the possibility of survival was very slim.

"This black snake in muddy water..." Following behind Kenichi Takahashi, Karen Aishiro felt the fluctuations of evil energy passing by.

Within these evil energies, she could feel the negative emotions contained within them.

It was the disgust for the evil act of polluting water sources, the jealousy of the lucky ones who could drink pure water, and the resentment towards the Yelan River for restraining oneself.

All kinds of resentment, accompanied by fluctuations of evil energy, swept across the entire black water depression. If an ordinary person were here, his mind would be immediately affected by these negative emotions, and he would become a foolish person whose soul was wiped out by hatred.

Even Kenichi Takahashi, an intermediate E-rank psychic who has been dealing with the Blackwater Swamp for nearly ten years, did not dare to stay here and could only run away.

But Karen Aishiro, who was running behind Kenichi Takahashi, had different thoughts in her mind.

"Could this be the core evil spirit of the Blackwater Swamp? It seems to be only at the intermediate level of D-rank, which is a bit of a shame."

She felt a little disappointed. If she could have provided the Evil God with food and clothing for the first year in this Blackwater Pond, that would have been perfect. But nine times out of ten, things in this world don't always go as one wishes.

Yes, if there really were C-level evil creatures lurking in the center of a D-level gathering place for evil spirits, then this gathering place for evil spirits would have already begun its own expansion. How could it still be so obedient and huddled in this small depression?

"Roar!"

A demonstrative roar came from behind the three people, and the sound waves stirred up clouds and blew the clothes of the three people.

Not only that, the huge snake head hanging a hundred meters in the air, with four eyes staring coldly at the three people below, its scarlet gaze enveloped the figures of the three people, as if it was looking at three small snacks.

One snack pulsed with E-rank psychic energy, a decent dessert. Another's psychic energy was obscure, barely enough to fill a gap in your teeth. The last snack, forget psychic energy, couldn't even sense its life force; it seemed like a mere humanoid stone. Eating it? It thought it was a waste of time.

"Huh...huh...huh!"

The overwhelming pressure from the evil gaze made Kenichi Takahashi feel like his heart was about to jump out. He ignored the stench in the air, opened his mouth wide and gasped frantically, trying to force more oxygen into his lungs and force his feet to move faster.

"Crench!"

The earth shattered with a sound like thunder. Takahashi Kenichi looked back, his eyes wide with fear. He saw the D-rank Turbid Water Black Snake, which he called the Big Black Worm, slamming its hundreds-meter-long body into the ground. The ground, unable to withstand the sudden pressure, shattered.

"hiss~"

The snake opened its mouth wide, spitting out its black and red tongue, making a terrifying hissing sound, and its huge body swam on the ground, chasing the three humans in front of it who dared to break into its nest.

At the very least, in its eyes, the three people in front of it were real humans, except that the two humans running behind looked a little strange.

Kagura narrowed her eyes and planned to turn around and teach the evil creature a lesson, letting it know the consequences of chasing an evil god, but was stopped by Aishiro Karen's gesture.

[Xiao Guang, don't reveal our strength yet. This evil gathering place will be our hunting ground for a while, so don't attract any unnecessary attention.]

Following Aijo Karen's advice, Kagura Mitsuru loosened her clenched index finger and thumb, dispersing the sinister evil energy contained between her fingers, thus saving the muddy water black snake nicknamed the big black bug behind her from death.

"Hoo~Hoo! Ahem... please hurry up, there are only 500 meters left to get out."

While running, Kenichi Takahashi squeezed out all his energy to encourage the two private investigators behind him.

The three of them had already covered over two thousand meters in their frantic run. However, due to the appearance of the giant black bug, the diameter of the restricted area had tripled, so they needed to run a little longer before they could truly escape this gathering place of evil spirits.

However, he was somewhat surprised to find that the two masked girls following behind him did not show any signs of fatigue, and they did not even sweat much.

These two private investigators have incredible physical strength, even stronger than me!

You know, as an expatriate specialist in charge of researching the Black Water Depression, Kenichi Takahashi has to go through a life-threatening long-distance run almost every day. His running skill has long been perfected through repeated training. Even without using psychic power, he can get an excellent ranking in international competitions just based on his running speed.

But the physical strength displayed by the two investigators behind him was actually much greater than his.

“There are always people better than you…”

Shaking off the distracting thoughts in his mind, Kenichi Takahashi looked at the air in front of him which was gradually becoming clearer, and a wave of joy swept through his heart.

"The boundary of the restricted area is just ahead!"

At this moment, a huge shadow fell over his head, and a strong wind blew overhead. Kenichi Takahashi rushed to the side.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, a huge rock with a diameter of more than ten meters fell straight from the air to the ground, creating a hole more than five meters deep.

Then, more huge rocks fell from the sky and piled up into a small mountain of rocks in front of the three people, blocking their way.

"hiss~"

Aicheng Hualian looked back and saw the D-level muddy water black snake sticking its huge head down from dozens of meters in the air, drooling from the corner of its mouth.

Just as she was thinking about how to deal with the current predicament, Kagura Hikaru's voice sounded in her consciousness.

He fainted.

Turning his head to look in Takahashi Kenichi's direction, he saw the exhausted man, unconscious on the ground from the shockwaves of the falling boulder. Although his life was not in danger, he would not wake up anytime soon.

"Great!" Red eyes flashed, and Aicheng Hualian stared at the big black bug in front of him with burning eyes, "Xiaoguang, what you just said was just an appetizer before the meal. This thing in front of me is the main course!"

Chapter 119 Leaving the Blackwater Depression

Why don’t the two humans in front of me run away?

Staring at Aishiro Karen and Kagura Hikaru, this nearly two-hundred-meter-long evil spirit nicknamed the Big Black Bug had a hint of doubt in its big eyes.

It was obvious that the human with the strongest energy fluctuation was already unconscious. According to its experience, these two weaker humans should have fled in panic. How could they be so arrogant as to stand in front of it and confront it?

It was already at D level and had rudimentary intelligence. Seeing the abnormal scene in front of it, it temporarily suspended its hunting action and carefully searched for the energy fluctuations around Kagura Hikaru and Aishiro Karen.

Unfortunately, how can a mere evil spirit possibly peek into the power of the evil god?

Even though Kagura Hikaru is now using the body created for her by Aishiro Karen, which is much inferior to her own body, the essence of her power as an evil god is still beyond the reach of the black worm in front of her.

Its stupid head gave up thinking. Since it couldn't sense the power of the human in front of it, couldn't it just eat him in one bite?

"hiss!"

The muddy water black snake opened its mouth wide, revealing several rows of densely packed teeth. The stench of sewage gushed out of its mouth, causing Aicheng Hualian to frown. She covered her nose in disgust and fanned her face with one hand.

"What a stinky breath!"

Using its foul breath attack as a test, the massive snake rushed towards the two men. Its immense weight shook the ground, shattering mud and rocks like a black river, devouring everything in its path. Countless black soil, lifted by its heavy scales, rushed towards the two men like a tsunami.

"Roar!"

The turbid water black snake roared angrily, but Kagura Hikari just looked coldly at this ferocious creature that was a thousand times larger than her own body. She stretched out her white, tender and soft arm and pointed directly at the other's head.

Then, the right arm began to change rapidly. Starting from the tips of the five fingers, deep black and dotted blue became the main colors of the skin, and quickly expanded to Kagura Hikaru's entire right arm.

"Pfft!"

A horrifying sound of flesh being torn was heard. After a violent deformation, Kagura Hikaru's right arm began to swell wildly, turning into a series of pitch-black tentacles covered with suction cups.

In just a few seconds, Kagura Hikaru's right hand, transformed into a tentacle, was already thicker than the ten-meter-wide head of the turbid water black snake before him. Where his arm met his shoulder, it was normal size. From the side, it resembled a giant, misshapen funnel, formed from hundreds of tentacles, emanating from the body of an evil god.

"Huchi~"

Dark, evil energy gushed out from Kagura Hikaru's right hand like silt rising from a ten-thousand-meter-deep ocean abyss. Compared to this evil energy, the breath of this menacing, muddy black snake seemed as harmless as fresh air.

Wherever the evil god's evil power passed, the already dark mud quickly withered and turned into a dead gray-black color, as if all life had been taken away.

Even pollutants that people shunned would suffer a tragic fate when exposed to the aura of the evil god, being completely stripped away. The evil god was a being that squeezed every possible possibility for energy.

"Roar!"

The large black bug immediately sensed something was wrong and spat out a large mouthful of black water. This was the filth it had accumulated over the past decade, oozing with poison and intense resentment. Even a single drop could render an adult seriously ill.

However, when this large mouthful of black water fell into the tentacle flesh ball that exploded from Kagura Hikaru's right hand, it disappeared like a ball of black mud falling into the ocean, without even causing a wave.

What kind of sewage is this? To the evil god, it is even more bland than boiled water.

At this moment, the big black bug finally understood how big the gap was between himself and this human.

No... can someone who can transform his body into this state, with dark evil energy surging from his body, be considered human? He's simply an even stronger evil!

Thinking of this, the desire to survive made the big black insect twist its snake body, trying to escape from the guy in front of it who was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but it was too late.

How could the evil god let the food in his mouth slip away?

Even if it was Aicheng Hualian, who was the container and breeder, when her greed came and she wanted to eat Hualian's internal organs, the other party had to obediently offer her own flesh and blood.

How could I possibly let this big black bug go?