Chapter 67 Do you believe all the nonsense?
After Li Yuanjie was taken away by ambulance, the guild's logistics staff rushed to the scene. This time, they were led by someone they knew well—Xu Qiang, the captain of Jiangyuan.
Xu Qiang saw Duan Anluo and exchanged a few pleasantries. His eyes fell curiously on Qi You who was standing beside him. "Who is this?"
Duan Anluo put his arm around Qi You's shoulders and proudly introduced him: "My beloved disciple, Qi You."
Qi You's face was already as red as a ripe tomato, and when he heard his master calling him like that, it became even redder, almost bleeding.
Xu Qiang praised: "The young man looks very talented. Congratulations to Master Duan for having a successor!"
Most people would be humble when hearing such polite words, but Duan Anluo was not like that. He proudly patted Qi You's shoulder and accepted it calmly: "My apprentice is indeed a handsome man."
Qi You thought to himself, Master can praise him like this, but he can't embarrass Master. He suppressed the heat on his face and thanked Xu Qiang: "Master, you say this because you love me. I still have a lot to learn."
Xu Qiang was a little surprised. The child was young, but his temperament was surprisingly calm. He was just too shy. How could his face be so red?
Xu Qiang said a few more polite words, then looked around the room. He didn't see Jiang Yuan, so he asked in confusion, "Didn't Jiang Yuan come with you?"
Duan Anluo answered frankly: "Yuan'er is not suitable for this line of work. Unless it is a mission that requires him, I will not let him go elsewhere."
Xu Qiang thought about it and nodded in agreement: "Jiang Yuan is indeed not suitable for this job."
Not only is the child slow to react, he is also too kind and has limited abilities.
I had brought him along on previous missions just to give him some living expenses. Now that he was being cared for by his elders who truly cared about him, there was really no need to put him at risk anymore.
He was really happy for Jiang Yuan, as the child would have someone to love him from now on.
Duan Anluo smiled and said, "If you are short of manpower, you can ask Qi You to go with you."
Xu Qiang smiled and waved his hands: "No, no, he's too young. Is he in junior high school yet?"
When Qi You heard that the other party thought he was too small, he immediately straightened his back and said seriously: "Get on it! Right away!"
In the past, Qi You lived in poverty and was thin, dark, and malnourished. After being raised by Duan Anluo for a summer vacation, he became much whiter, his face gained some flesh, and he looked refreshed.
It's just that height doesn't grow overnight, and compared to his peers, he's still a little shorter. He's already trying to eat, and he's convinced he'll soon catch up, or even surpass them.
Duan Anluo patted Qi You's head and said to Xu Qiang, "How about this, if there are tasks on weekends in the future, you can ask him to go with you to broaden his horizons. We don't need to pay him."
Having said that, Xu Qiang couldn't refuse any more: "Okay, I'll call him if you need help."
Then, they got down to business. This time, Xu Qiang's team's mission was to assist Duan Anluo in the investigation, and all actions were to follow Duan Anluo's command.
After getting in the car, Duan Anluo asked Qi You: "Xiao Qi, if Tian Lili used her husband as a container, do you think he is now in the basement of her home or the basement of Tian Lili's company?"
Qi You didn't have as many thoughts as his master's wife, and answered obediently: "At home, there are too many people in the company, she probably doesn't dare to bring him to the company."
Duan Anluo smiled and said, "I'll listen to you. Let's go look for it at home first. If you guess wrong, it's your fault."
Qi You pursed his lips helplessly, muttering to himself: How old are you, yet so childish?
Duan Anluo grabbed his ears and said, "Are you secretly teasing me, you little bastard?"
Qi You shrunk his neck, covered his ears, and said with a bitter face: "No! No!"
Duan Anluo let him go. "I'm lucky. Last time when I went to catch snakes with your mistress, I guessed it right at once."
Qi You blinked his eyes, and was forced to embark on the road of coaxing his father. He said admiringly: "Master is really amazing!"
Duan Anluo was satisfied, "You have good taste."
Qi You sighed quietly. Good, he saved his other ear.
Duan Anluo asked Xu Qiang: "How many of you are here?"
Xu Qiang replied: "Including me, six."
"You'll be in our group, and the other five will split into two groups," Duan Anluo arranged. "One group will investigate the other six people who signed contracts with Tian Lili. They should all have those copper coins, which may be contaminated with ghost energy. Have them purify them, and bring back the serious ones to me. The second group will go to her company, control her, and then check her basement. We'll be the third group, and we'll go to her house."
"good!"
According to information, Tian Lili runs a self-media studio under her name. In addition to food broadcasts, she has also signed two cooking broadcasters who mainly feature "pastoral style".
She saw the current urbanites' yearning for pastoral life, and worked hard to train these two people to go deep into the mountain villages, filming the process of using local ingredients and cooking home-cooked meals, creating a rural atmosphere and attracting a lot of traffic.
Now these people can make profits by selling goods. With the income from the studio, Tian Lili bought a new house near the company.
But Duan Anluo's destination was not the new house, but the house where Tian Lili, her husband, and her parents-in-law once lived.
The car stopped at the gate of the residential complex, and Xu Qiang showed his ID to the security guard: "Hello, do you know which building exactly Tian Lili lives in?"
The security guard carefully checked the documents and said enthusiastically, "Oh, are you looking for Tian Lili? She doesn't live here and rarely comes back."
Xu Qiang was a little surprised. "Is she so famous? Even the security guard knows her?"
The security guard sighed, "More than just knowing her! We all know each other. Alas, it's all because of her husband. He's such a jerk! He often beats his wife at home, making so much noise that the neighbors called the police when they heard. Our property management has even tried to mediate and stop the fights several times."
"Could you please take us to her door? We don't have to go in, we can just stay outside."
The security guard readily agreed and continued to complain as he walked: "I don't know where her husband has gone a long time ago. I heard that he found a mistress outside and even had an illegitimate child! It's outrageous! He dragged on with the divorce and left the paralyzed parents-in-law to Tian Lili to take care of alone. This family is simply..." He shook his head with a look of contempt.
Xu Qiang couldn't help but sympathize, "Don't they say you can file for divorce if you commit domestic violence?"
"Oh, how can it be that easy?" The security guard waved his hands helplessly. He didn't know the details.
Duan Anluo listened in silence, his eyes growing darker. An unfortunate marriage had forced a poor woman onto a path of no return.
The security guard took them to a small three-bedroom apartment on the west side of the third floor of Building 11. "This is her home. No one is home."
Xu Qiang asked: "Where are her parents-in-law?"
The security guard wasn't too sure either. "They've all been picked up, I guess. I haven't seen them for a long time."
Duan Anluo stood in front of the closed door, stretched out his palm and gently pressed it against the door panel, closing his eyes and concentrating on feeling the breath behind the door. Seeing this, Qi You also imitated his master, carefully placing his hand on it and holding his breath.
A cold breath mixed with ghostly energy, resentment, and yin energy blew in the face, and the magnetic field of the entire space seemed extremely dark and heavy, almost suffocating.
The security guard looked at the strange behavior of the two, one big and one small, and turned to Xu Qiang with a puzzled look: "Captain Xu, what are they doing?"
Xu Qiang smiled and waved his hand, signaling him to be quiet.
After a few breaths, Duan Anluo opened his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Where is her basement?"
"Basement?" The security guard was stunned for a moment, then quickly asked his colleague over the intercom. After checking the files, he confirmed, "I'll take you there."
The basement never sees sunlight, so it's normal for it to be filled with yin energy. But the yin energy here is significantly stronger than elsewhere, and I feel a chill the moment I approach.
Duan Anluo signaled the security guard: "Open the door."
The security guard looked embarrassed: "Open? This... Did Tian Lili commit a crime? We don't have the right to open the owner's basement without permission. Besides, the key has been changed a long time ago, and our property management doesn't have the key, so we can't open it."
Duan Anluo said to Xu Qiang, "Call the police and ask them to bring two body bags to help deal with it."
"B...body bag?!" The security guard's face turned pale upon hearing this, and his voice trembled. "No...you didn't really...really kill someone, did you?"
Duan Anluo nodded and said, "If you get scared later, just hide behind."
The security guard was about to cry and had already run away far away.
After receiving the alarm, the police rushed to the scene. After quickly checking the IDs of Duan Anluo and others, they cooperated to pry open the closed door of the basement.
The moment the door opened, two large freezers came into view.
When the freezer lid was opened, two frozen bodies were revealed: Tian Lili's elderly parents-in-law. Their bodies were twisted, their faces frozen with expressions of pain and terror.
Duan Anluo checked and said, "Their souls are gone."
At this time, Xu Qiang received a report from another team: Tian Lili had been controlled, and the body of her husband Zhong Tong was found in the basement of her company.
Duan Anluo poked Qi You on the forehead and said, "You guessed wrong, give me a chicken drumstick."
Qi You shrugged helplessly, "I'm definitely not as lucky as you."
Duan Anluo pulled Qi You's face in surprise. The little guy was becoming more and more shameless and started to flatter him?
This place wasn't far from Tian Lili's studio, and it only took about ten minutes to get there. Someone was already waiting at the studio entrance. As soon as their car pulled up, the person ran over and said, "Master Duan, go check the basement quickly. There's so much resentment going on."
Duan Anluo pushed the door open and got out of the car. His eyes passed through the transparent glass window of the studio and fell on the beautiful figure by the window.
Tian Lili was holding a cup of coffee, sipping it leisurely. Her pretty face showed no sign of panic, but rather a strange calm.
Xu Qiang frowned: "Something's wrong, she's too calm."
"Yes," the logistics person couldn't help but complain: "She was like this when we looked for her. She wasn't panicking at all, as if she was waiting for something."
Duan Anluo sighed. What could he wait for? Waiting to die. This silly girl, even after being cheated, helped him count the money.
“Let’s go to the basement first and come back to her later.
Zhong Tong's body, tied with several coils of rope, lay stretched out on the cold floor, like a stick. His face was hideous, his cheeks puffed out like a frog. His mouth was sewn shut with wire, now rusted and blackened with dried blood. It looked horrible.
Unlike his parents, Zhong Tong was particularly resentful, so the logistics staff did not dare to touch him.
Duan Anluo frowned, "Open his mouth."
The logistics staff took out pliers, endured the discomfort and cut the wire on the corpse's mouth, pried open the stiff mouth, and found that it was full of copper coins.
The logistics guy took out copper coins one by one from the terrifying mouth with trembling hands, and took out a total of forty-three coins!
As soon as he finished taking it out, he couldn't hold it in any longer and rushed to the corner, hugging the trash can and vomiting violently.
Duan Anluo picked up one of the filthy copper coins through the tissue and walked over to the young man. "Since you've already done it, can you help me clean it up?"
The logistics guy who just stopped vomiting: "...Ugh!"
Qi You nodded apologetically to the young man, pulled his master away, took the copper coin, wiped it clean with a tissue, wrapped it in clean paper, and put it in Duan Anluo's hand.
Duan Anluo said with emotion: "My Xiaoqi is so capable!"
Qi You blushed again after being praised, and asked others for a few alcohol wipes. His master loved cleanliness, so he asked them to wipe his hands with them later.
Duan Anluo said with satisfaction: "Let's go and chat with Tian Lili."
Seeing Duan Anluo coming back, Tian Lili subconsciously clenched the coffee cup in her hand, lowered her eyes, and did not dare to look Duan Anluo in the eye.
Duan Anluo sat directly opposite her, placed the copper coin on the table, took the alcohol wipes from his apprentice, and wiped his hands slowly.
Tian Lili's pupils shrank, then she remembered something and returned to her previous calm and composed look.
Duan Anluo's tone was relaxed, as if he was chatting with an old friend: "Who did you feed their souls to?"
Tian Lili took a sip of coffee and said, "I don't understand what you are saying."
"Do you think you can use supernatural powers to harm others without being discovered?"
"What did you say? I don't understand."
Duan Anluo's pupils darkened as he stared into Tian Lili's eyes and asked slowly, "Why are you still pretending at this time? We can't do anything to you anyway."
Tian Lili froze for a few seconds, then sneered sarcastically, "They all deserve it! He's having a mistress outside and raising a child with someone else, and I still have to serve his parents. Why? If he dares to hit me, I'll kill him! Those two old bastards made me serve them, and I'll let them die!"
Duan Anluo sighed, "Li Yuanjie and the others?"
Tian Lili said disdainfully, "It's just a tool to make money."
Duan Anluo told her seriously: "Li Yuanjie wants to marry you, he is serious."
Tian Lili paused, then said sarcastically, "I don't believe it, he doesn't deserve it." Then she changed the subject, "Is he dead?"
"No."
Tian Lili actually showed an expression of regret on her face.
Duan Anluo stretched out his hand, "Give me the joker."
Tian Lili became nervous again, "What joker?"
Duan Anluo asked slowly, "The people you signed aren't much better than others, so why do they have higher traffic than others? Didn't she eat the souls of Zhong Tong's family? Did you use Li Yuanjie's body to feed that starving ghost so that she could eat it?"
Duan Anluo was right about everything. Tian Lili nervously covered the joker card hanging around her neck.
Seeing that she was still stubborn, Duan Anluo reminded her: "If you raise ghosts with ghosts, you will be bitten back."
Seeing that Tian Lili still didn't believe him, Duan Anluo asked, "Has your back been getting more and more itchy these days?"
He directly opened Tian Lili's third eye and said to her: "Look at yourself in the mirror. Once that ghost face on your back takes shape, she will eat you."
Tian Lili's heartbeat was getting faster and faster. She had indeed raised a ghost, and had indeed fed her husband's family to the ghost. Even the ghost starved to death was right as Duan Anluo said. Even more terrifying was that she had indeed been itching on her back for the past two days, but when she looked in the mirror, she couldn't see anything.
At this moment, the voice in her heart told her: "Don't believe him! He is lying to you! After tonight, you can change your body! Change your identity! We can leave here together. Those people's deaths have nothing to do with you!"
Tian Lili swallowed her saliva. Yes, it had nothing to do with her. She couldn't admit it!
At this time, the logistics person sent a document to the group: Tian Lili transferred all her property to this person.
After reading it, Duan Anluo asked with a smile, "Who is Wang Yan?"
Tian Lili stood up suddenly, all her composure shattered. She took a step back, as if all her secrets had been discovered, her voice trembling, "My friend."
Duan Anluo shook his head, what a stubborn person he was.
He slowly revealed their plan: "Didn't the female ghost in the Joker card tell you to transfer all your property to this woman named Wang Yan first? When the time comes, your soul will be transferred to Wang Yan's body. She's beautiful and young, and she'll have your money. Even if your current body kills someone, it won't be Wang Yan's fault. Is that why you're waiting here so calmly?"
Tian Lili's face turned pale. She opened her mouth but couldn't say a word of rebuttal.
Duan Anluo didn't know what to say to her, "You believe all these nonsense? Haven't you heard of a particularly classic phrase? A series of nonsense!"
Tian Lili was about to retort when the joker around her neck was lifted up by a stream of spiritual energy and began to float. Duan Anluo raised his hand and yanked the joker away.
Tian Lili rushed over excitedly, trying to snatch it back, but a white light flashed beside Duan Anluo, and two snow-white little foxes stood on Duan Anluo's shoulders, one on the left and one on the right, and their two furry tails tacitly pushed Tian Lili back.
The left one's little paw landed on Duan Anluo's face, and the pink pad of flesh rubbed against Duan Anluo's face, "Boss, beating a woman will cost extra!"
Duan Anluo flicked his finger to remove the little claw that was taking advantage of him, "You two take her to look in the mirror and let her see what's growing on her back."
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My next book is going to be farming! Farming! Farming! I want to write something relaxing, ahhhhh~~~ I want to bray like a donkey!
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