When Yue Jiuling rushed to the hospital, Ya Zi was already waiting for her at the hospital entrance.
"W-what's going on? What kind of bizarre case is this this time?"
Because of the urgency, Yue Jiuling didn't know what kind of case it was over the phone, so she hurriedly asked Ya Zi as soon as she saw him.
When Ya Zi saw Yue Jiuling arrive, he pulled her upstairs in the hospital. As they walked, he said, "The case is a bit troublesome. The victim is a child who is only a few years old. He is terrified and can't explain anything clearly. He can only stay unconscious and talk in his sleep..."
"Oh? It's a child. What do the parents say?"
Yue Jiuling was speechless when she heard about the case, after all, it was indeed possible that a child could not tell them some accurate information.
Ya Zi shook her head: "There are no parents. I heard from the police that the child was found and brought to the hospital, but they couldn't find the parents and he was in a coma, so the hospital called the police."
"Oh, I see. Okay then, let's go check out the situation."
After entering a ward, Yue Jiuling saw her other colleagues. She saw Ye Dongfeng and Mu Xiaoyi waving talismans and performing rituals in front of the bed, while the person lying on the bed was a five or six-year-old child.
"Monster! Monster! Ah! Don't eat me! Don't eat me!"
Suddenly, the child, who was unconscious, started struggling on the bed with his eyes closed. He moved his arms and legs wildly and talked in his sleep.
"This child's soul is gone, and there's still some demonic energy around him. He probably encountered a monster and was so frightened that he lost his soul?"
Mu Xiaoyi frowned, lowered her head, and held down the struggling child, saying...
Ye Dongfeng also said, "It's possible, but we don't know where the child lost their soul, and we don't know their birth date and time, so we can't summon their soul."
When Yue Jiuling arrived, Ye Dongfeng and Mu Xiaoyi tried to summon the child's soul randomly near the hospital, hoping to find it by chance. However, this method was useless because the child's lost soul was not near the hospital.
After hearing what the two were saying, Yinni said, "The police just gave me the address where I found the child. They said they've ruled out the child being from a family near that address. Dongfeng, you and Xiaoyi go to that address and look for the ghost."
"Okay, we understand."
Ye Dongfeng glanced at the child, who had temporarily stopped talking in his sleep, and then left with Mu Xiaoyi.
After Bai Xinyu saw that they had all left, she said to Ya Zi and Yue Jiuling, "What should we do? This child keeps saying there's a monster, and he also has demonic energy about him. Should we go find that monster?"
"Alright, let's investigate the source of this demonic aura first."
Hidden said to Ya Zi and Yue Jiuling, "The police are already searching for the child's parents all over the internet. Why don't you two go and find the source of that demonic aura?"
Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi had already memorized the demonic energy on the child and had even collected some of it, so they left the hospital.
Bai Xinyu noticed that there weren't many people left in the ward, so she sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "Sigh, what an unlucky holiday, what an unlucky kid~"
Yinni knew that Bai Xinyu meant that their holiday was ruined because of this case, so he looked at Bai Xinyu and said, "Alright, stop complaining. I'll go back and find out more from the police. You stay here and watch over him, in case he gets eaten by a monster."
"Alright, I understand. You can go now."
Because some evil monsters do eat people, the child still needs human protection if the type of monster they encountered is unknown.
After leaving the hospital, Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi began to search for the source of the demonic aura. Since each demon had a different scent, it was difficult to find a demon with the same aura. Therefore, Ya Zi and Yue Jiuling started to search in places where demons often appeared.
They first went to some monster markets or monster gathering places in the city to look for monsters. Although humans and monsters can coexist now, they are still different species. So, humans have their own gathering places, and monsters also have their own gathering places.
The first place they went to was a quirky bar called "Back to Yourself." It was located in an ordinary alley, and the bar was small and rarely frequented.
However, those in the know will realize that there's more to this bar than meets the eye, because every time the door opens, many strange things enter the bar, and everyone inside doesn't need to pretend; they can just be themselves.
As for why Yue Jiuling and the others knew about this existence, it's because they frequently went inside to investigate.
"Hey boss, are you open for business yet?"
When Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi arrived at the bar, the door was open, but the lights inside were off, and it was pitch black. There was also a dark shadow standing on the bar counter.
Upon hearing Yue Jiuling's call, the dark figure emerged. He was a monster with a human body but a long crocodile head. As soon as he saw Yue Jiuling, he grinned and said, "Oh, it's the management office. What brings you here today? Are you here to check something? But didn't we just conduct a census of the demon population a while ago?"
"Uh, no, we're not here to verify anything today, we're here to ask you something."
Yue Jiuling gestured to Ya Zi to take out a small bottle and said, "Here, boss, people come to this place every day. Do you recognize this demonic aura?"
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