Gu Xicheng and Jian Ming walked in.

They exchanged a silent glance as they watched the blood flowing from the bedroom.

Then Gu Xicheng summoned the Nine Nether Lotus Fire, which surrounded Yu Hong and the evil energy.

Yu Hong immediately pressed the knife against her own neck:

"Let it go! Or I'll kill myself!"

Jian Ming quickly spoke up to stop her: "Yu Hong, don't be impulsive!"

Gu Xicheng was speechless. No wonder they say like mother, like daughter. Yu Linlin threatening them with her own life must have been learned from Yu Hong!

"I've already let you escape once, do you think there will be a second time!"

With a slight flick of Gu Xicheng's finger, the knife in Yu Hong's hand was instantly reduced to ashes by the Nine Nether Lotus Fire.

"Captain Jane, move! Grab it!"

Jianming immediately stepped forward and placed something resembling a thermometer on Yu Hong's forehead.

This is a magical artifact they developed to remove evil spirits.

Feeling the evil energy leaving her body, Yu Hong panicked:

"Let me go! If you kill it, I'll kill myself! Then you'll be the ones who killed me!"

Jianming scoffed lightly:

"I was initially quite sympathetic to you, but it's going too far for you to morally blackmail us like this."

“We have already avenged you. If we let the evil energy remain in your body, wouldn’t that be like raising a tiger to cause trouble?”

Yu Hong glared at Jian Ming and said:

“You call it evil, but to me, it’s a benefactor. It avenged my daughter!”

"As long as it exists, my daughter can come back to life. If you kill it, my daughter will never come back."

"What's the point of my life if I don't have Linlin!"

As soon as Yu Hong finished speaking, Lu Qing's voice came:

"Yu Hong, are you sure the one the evil spirit resurrected for you is really your daughter?"

"Of course it is!" Yu Hong said angrily.

"Really? Then take a look at this!"

Lu Qing released a video.

That was a situation recorded by surveillance cameras, and the person in the video is Yu Linlin.

It was past midnight when she walked down an empty street and spotted a passerby walking home alone.

She followed the man into the shadows, then pounced on him and drained his life force.

The person whose life force was drained collapsed instantly, turning into a dried-up corpse. Then, a black mist rose from Yu Linlin's palm and enveloped the corpse.

When the black mist disappeared, the corpse was gone too.

She wiped her mouth and then turned and left.

After watching the video, Yu Hong's eyes widened in disbelief:

"No! This isn't my daughter! This isn't her!"

Lu Qing: "Since the evil spirit resurrected your daughter, there have been more than a dozen missing persons cases here. Without exception, all the victims died in the same way. There are men and women among them, and even an eight-year-old child."

“You have to pay a price to buy a piece of candy at the supermarket, let alone something like this, where someone is brought back to life. The evil spirits have to plunder the life force of others in order to maintain Yu Linlin’s life.”

"You think your daughter is innocent, and you yourself are innocent, but what about them? Do they deserve to become nourishment for your daughter?"

Lu Qing's question left Yu Hong speechless.

She only wanted her daughter to live; she never intended to harm anyone else.

"Although I haven't experienced your pain, I still want to advise you to look forward. Your daughter hopes you will live well."

Lu Qing took a diary out of her bag and handed it to Yu Hong:

"You can read, right? This is your daughter's diary. I just passed by the school and found it in her desk. Take a look!"

Yu Hong trembled as she opened her diary.

She dropped out of school after junior high and has little education, but she can read her daughter's words.

The debt collectors came to our door again today. They took my tuition fees. Luckily, my aunt lent me some money. I saw my mother secretly crying. She didn't want me to see, afraid it would affect my studies, but I'm not a child anymore. I know everything.

The tutoring fees are too expensive, and I don't want to go, but my mom insists I go. She even sold the gold bracelet that my grandma left her—the last thing my grandma gave my mom. I want to earn money to help my mom redeem the bracelet, but I've been to so many shops, and they don't want students.

...

Today, Feng Lan told me she has a way to help me make money. I can earn over a thousand yuan in one night, and if I work for five days, I can buy my mother the gold bracelet.

Mom, I often think, if it weren't for me, would you have a better life...?

Mom, if I'm gone, I hope you live a good life!

My diary entry ends on this day.

After Yu Linlin was resurrected, she must have learned what Yu Hong had done for her and also knew that she might not live much longer, which is why she left behind those last words.

After reading the diary, Yu Hong couldn't help but burst into tears.

Yu Hong did not attempt suicide again, but because she had caused the deaths of many innocent people, she could not escape punishment.

Jianming stayed behind to handle the remaining matters, while Gu Xicheng and Lu Qing returned to the Investigation Bureau branch with the evil aura, attempting to find some clues about the source of the evil aura from it.

"This evil spirit is more intelligent, but I wonder if it can speak!"

"Why not give it a try!"

Gu Xicheng summoned the Nine Nether Lotus Flame and threatened:

"Tell me! Where did you come from? If you don't tell me, I'll burn you!"

The evil spirit was so frightened that it shrank into a ball, trembling like a human.

Lu Qing: "If you're so scared that you haven't said anything, then you probably won't open your mouth."

"But if it doesn't talk, there's no point in catching it! Let's just burn it quickly, so it doesn't take up a jar!"

Just as Gu Xicheng was about to make a move, the evil aura suddenly spoke:

"No...no...burn..."

Its voice was hoarse and not loud, but it was clear that it was speaking human language.

Lu Qing raised an eyebrow and smiled:

"Oh, so you can talk! If you can talk, then talk more."

Evil Qi: "Not... much."

Gu Xicheng: "You mean you don't talk much!"

Evil spirit: "Yes."

Lu Qing: "Then you must know where you came from!"

Evil spirit: "No."

Lu Qing: "Then we're still useless to you, let's burn you!"

The evil spirit understood, and hurriedly said, "Yes...yes."

Gu Xicheng and Lu Qing exchanged a glance; this evil spirit was far more intelligent than any they had encountered before.

Gu Xicheng: "Give me a reason not to burn you down."

The evil energy remained silent for a moment, then a small tentacle emerged from the dark mass of gas.

Gu Xicheng hesitated for a moment, then opened the jar and stuck his finger inside.

The moment he touched the tentacles, several images suddenly appeared in his mind.

It was a pitch-black place that instilled fear in anyone who saw it.

In the darkness, he saw two enormous eyes, like red lanterns, filled with tyranny, malice, and madness, like demons from the eighteenth level of hell staring at him, sending chills down his spine.

Gu Xicheng suddenly came to his senses, his face somewhat pale.

Lu Qing quickly sealed the jar, then helped Gu Xicheng sit down.