"Chief, they're here!"
Upon hearing this, Li Hui turned to look at Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng, and smiled:
"You've arrived! Weren't you scared on the way here?"
Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng exchanged a glance, then smiled and said:
"Those things aren't so much scary, they're just really disgusting!"
Li Hui couldn't help but burst into laughter:
"I almost forgot, you're all used to seeing those filthy things!"
"Uncle Li, what is that red dot on the screen?" Lu Qing asked, looking up at the screen.
Li Hui's smile gradually faded, and he sighed, saying:
"It's a kind of evil energy."
"An evil aura?" Lu Qing's brows furrowed slightly.
"Heretical cultivators? How can there be so many?"
Li Hui shook his head and said, "It's not an evil cultivator, but a kind of evil energy. We judge that it should be released by an evil spirit. It will parasitize people, arouse their desires, and turn them into monsters."
Gu Xicheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he exclaimed in surprise:
"So Huang Zeyu was also possessed by evil energy?"
Li Hui tapped the large screen, and Huang Zeyu's information was displayed.
"He is one of the people we have identified as being possessed by evil spirits."
Lu Qing: "One of them! So that means there are others?"
Li Hui nodded: "That's right. According to the information we have, there are currently three in the capital, but there may be more than three."
"This evil aura is very well hidden. With the combination of mystical arts and technology, only three people can be identified, and Huang Zeyu is one of them."
Lu Qing's brows were so furrowed they could almost trap a fly.
This matter seems to be far more serious than she imagined.
"What is this evil spirit?" Lu Qing asked hurriedly.
Li Hui shook his head helplessly: "I don't know."
“We first discovered it about twenty years ago, but at that time the parasitic power of the evil energy was very weak. We sent a few people over, and they quickly subdued it.”
"But over the past twenty years, it seems to have grown stronger with each appearance, until just two weeks ago when we found traces of it all over the country."
"So an investigation was launched, but the results so far are not very good."
Gu Xicheng: "Where is the evil energy that was subdued now?"
Li Hui: "It will be stored here."
Gu Xicheng: "Can I take a look?"
After thinking for a moment, Li Hui nodded, then opened the mechanism on the wall and took out a glass jar that was sealed by an array.
Lu Qing suddenly felt that the array diagram was somewhat familiar.
"Uncle Li, what is this formation...?"
Li Hui nodded slightly: "It was drawn by your master. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be able to suppress even this little bit of evil energy."
"Master also knows about evil spirits, so what did he say?" Lu Qing asked.
Li Hui: "At that time, your master only sighed and said that everything is in the hands of fate, and that I don't need to worry too much."
Gu Xicheng took the glass jar over and examined it carefully.
Through the transparent glass, people could see a cloud of gray smoke floating inside.
Gu Xicheng remained silent for a moment, then suddenly a thought struck him, and the Nine Nether Lotus Flame appeared at his fingertips.
Upon sensing the aura of the Nine Nether Lotus Fire, the evil energy seemed to be frightened and began to scurry around inside the glass jar.
Li Hui's eyes widened in surprise:
"What kind of fire is this? The evil spirits are actually afraid of it!"
Gu Xicheng: "It is the Nine Nether Lotus Fire."
Wang Yanjun stared at Gu Xicheng in shock, scrutinizing him:
"Are you still the same old Gu I know? How come you've become so amazing?"
Gu Xicheng turned his head and smiled helplessly:
"Maybe it's just... good luck!"
Lu Qing suddenly suggested, "Gu Xicheng, why don't you put this fire inside and see if you can burn it to death?"
Gu Xicheng nodded slightly and sent the Nine Nether Lotus Fire into the jar.
The evil energy darted about, leaping and thrashing in the flames, but it just wouldn't dissipate.
"That's strange!" Lu Qing was genuinely puzzled.
"Logically, since it's so afraid, the fire should pose a great threat to it, so why is it completely unharmed?"
After looking at it for a while, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Lu Qing's mind, and then, as if possessed, he made a fire spell and threw it into the jar.
The next second, the small flame merged with the Nine Nether Lotus Fire, burning away the evil energy with lightning speed.
Everyone was stunned, including Lu Qing.
The Nine Nether Lotus Fire alone cannot burn away evil energy, but when combined with Lu Qing's fire technique, it becomes the nemesis of evil energy.
Wang Yanjun: "Is this the legendary combination of two swords that makes one invincible?"
Li Hui looked at Lu Qing excitedly:
"Girl, how do you know how to eliminate evil spirits?"
Lu Qing replied, bewildered:
"Actually... I don't know either. I just inexplicably thought of throwing a fire in to burn it, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this."
Gu Xicheng frowned slightly; he heard the voice of that deity again.
"How could the lotus heart of the Nine Nether Lotus Flame be on her?"
Gu Xicheng asked himself:
"What lotus seed?"
The deity said, "I lost the lotus heart of the Nine Nether Lotus Fire somewhere a long, long time ago. This does not affect its power, but without the lotus heart, the Nine Nether Lotus Fire cannot eliminate the evil spirits."
"I had planned to use you to find Lianxin again after some time, but I never expected it to be with her."
Gu Xicheng keenly picked up on the other information in his words.
"You know about evil spirits? You said before that my task of saving the world was related to evil spirits?"
The gods fell silent.
Gu Xicheng sensed that he wasn't asleep, but rather didn't want to answer his questions.
After asking him for a long time, Gu Xicheng gave up when he realized that he wouldn't tell him.
“Now that we’ve found a way to deal with the evil spirit, things are much easier. We just need to find the person who is being infested by the evil spirit, extract it, and destroy it,” Wang Yanjun said.
Li Hui waved his hand:
"Things are not that simple. Eliminating the evil spirits only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. The key lies in the source of the evil spirits."
Wang Yanjun: "Director, I know we need to find the source, but you've been searching for it for twenty years and haven't found it. We need to solve the immediate problem first!"
Li Hui rolled his eyes at him, then nodded helplessly:
"That's the only way!"
“Lu Qing, Mr. Gu, we will try to expel the evil energy from those people’s bodies first, and then you can eliminate it. It may be hard for you to work hard afterward.”
Lu Qing: "Uncle Li, you don't need to be so polite. I am, after all, an advisor to the Investigation Bureau. This is what I should do."
"As for Gu Xicheng..." Lu Qing looked at him and smiled.
"I'll work for free, I won't charge you any money!" Gu Xicheng said with a doting smile.
Lu Qing: "Even if you want to take it, I don't have any. I'm destined to be broke, I can't keep a single penny on me."
"It's alright, what's mine is yours," Gu Xicheng said with a smile.
Wang Yanjun couldn't help but get goosebumps watching the two of them show affection.
"You two have gone too far! I'm so busy every day that I barely have enough to eat, and now I have to eat your dog food? How can anyone live like this?!"
Gu Xicheng and Lu Qing exchanged a smile.
In Gu Xicheng's mind, the god suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Lu Qing through them, and suddenly felt a strange sense of familiarity.
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