Chapter 690 Modern Ghost World 24
Shen Que was a little worried.
"I'd better take you home. You look like you're feeling very uncomfortable. I'll take you upstairs and see you take your medicine before you leave."
Unexpectedly, Minister Yu refused outright and kept backing away, not wanting Shen Que to send him off.
He walked quickly towards the headquarters, looking like he was in a hurry.
Shen Que didn't think much about it and continued walking towards the back alley.
But just as he reached the corner, a gloomy aura hit him in the face. This gloomy aura seemed to be lingering, and was mixed with a sweet and bloody smell.
This yin energy and smell are not obvious under normal circumstances.
But it is pitch black here, so dark that you can't see your hand in front of you, and your five senses will be unconsciously amplified.
In addition, I had just passed by Minister Yu, and the smell and the yin energy I had just felt were still fresh in my memory. There was no way I could have remembered it wrong.
This is exactly the same as what happened to Minister Yu just now.
Shen Que was so frightened by his own guess that he stood there in a daze. He suddenly realized that the smell of blood on Minister Yu's body just now was definitely not the cause of the injury.
Because human blood definitely doesn't taste like this.
Moreover, there are no signs of fighting here, so where does this evil energy come from?
He didn't dare to think too deeply about it, because if his guess was true, it would be too terrible.
But he was also unwilling to doubt an old comrade who had contributed most of his life based on just guesswork.
He carefully looked at the spot for a long time, but could not find any place where Minister Yu, who was quite strong, could fall.
Even if you don't want to believe it, the facts are right in front of you.
It's obvious that Minister Yu is lying.
The next day, Shen Que went to the Yuling Division again on purpose.
He walked around in front of Section Chief Yu twice, and took the opportunity to chat with Minister Yu for a while on the pretext that some worn equipment needed maintenance.
This time, he observed carefully and found that Minister Yu always exuded a very faint sweet and fishy smell, and there was a faint evil aura lingering around him.
If you don't look carefully, it's hard to detect.
After all, the Yuling Division deals with ghosts and monsters all day long, so it is normal for some evil spirits to remain on the repaired weapons.
Therefore, no one has ever doubted that these negative energies originated from the minister himself.
At this point, Xiao Tang couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Are you saying that Minister Yu might be a traitor planted within our ranks by the Goblins?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone else’s eyes turned to Shen Que.
Shen Que shook his head slowly and said solemnly:
"No, I suspect that Minister Yu, like me, is being controlled by a ghost.
I just don’t know how much of Minister Yu’s original mental state he still has.
It would be fine if he could still control the ghosts in his body.
If he has been completely possessed by a ghost, then... that would be truly dangerous."
After hearing Shen Que's words, everyone felt their hair stand on end, and an invisible fear filled the air.
This situation is really terrible.
What if Minister Yu was really possessed by a ghost and no one noticed?
So how many people in the entire Yuling Division are completely normal?
Moreover, the Yuling Division is already equipped with equipment to detect ghosts and monsters. Why has no one noticed that the equipment is not working?
Suddenly, everyone understood.
Minister Yu is the person in charge of equipment. If he wants to tamper with the equipment, it would be easy.
Thinking of this, everyone felt a chill running up their spine and their whole body felt cold.
However, Shen Que had not finished speaking.
"Minister Yu's matter isn't the most critical issue. What I really suspect is that something might be wrong with the top management of the Imperial Spirit Division."
Everyone's eyes focused on him, and Shen Que nodded solemnly.
"While I was investigating Minister Yu's unusual behavior, I could clearly sense a force obstructing me from further investigation.
I followed the clues left by this force and finally found a hidden line.
When I was about to get to know the real core figure behind this blocking force, I unexpectedly ran into Xie Tianlin, one of the three leaders of the Imperial Spirit Division.
When everyone heard this, they all found it unbelievable.
Only Chu Hongyou looked calm. All this was not surprising to her, because her master's notes had already revealed that the real problem lay with the top management of the Yuling Division.
Old Chen couldn't believe that there would be a problem with the Yuling Division, which he had always dreamed of entering. He couldn't help but ask, "Could it be a mistake? Is it possible that this is all just a coincidence?"
Shen Que was not displeased by Lao Chen's suspicion. After all, anyone who encountered such a thing would have doubts.
He patiently explained, "As for Xie Tianlin's appearance, I initially thought it was a coincidence, or maybe he, like me, had discovered some clues and was investigating secretly.
But then, my actions were frequently interrupted. The first two times, I just thought it was accidental.
But when my ID card was frozen for the third time, preventing me from taking out the equipment I had planned to bring, I began to become suspicious.
The reason given was that the new intern was not familiar with the operation, which led to such a mistake."
Lin Xiao fell into deep thought. It seemed difficult to explain all these things by coincidence.
What's more, freezing a captain's authority card is not something an intern can do. He can't even get the authentication code. The only possibility is that the superior has given authorization, or the superior has done it personally.
Shen Que continued, “It was on this day that the Night Wanderer team received the mission to go to Xiaohe Village.
From that moment on, I began to truly doubt Xie Tianlin."
At this time, Xiao Tang said: "That mission was indeed very unusual.
The mission briefing said it was an ordinary tide, but after going there, I found that it was not the case at all. It was weird everywhere, as if someone had deliberately set up a trap to catch a turtle in a jar.
The broken end of the old locust tree at the entrance of the village exudes a fresh wood fragrance. The smell is definitely not like that left by a broken end from many years ago. Instead, it seems as if someone deliberately made it look old.
The villagers all had some degree of resentment, and they simply said that it was caused by ghosts in the village during this period.
Even after we killed all the ghosts and wanted to help them remove the negative energy from their bodies, they refused.
He just said that the village chief’s youngest son could draw talismans, and he had just gone to the provincial capital to buy something. He would be back tomorrow, so we just had to wait for him to come back and deal with it.
What's even more bizarre is that the ghosts this time are very different from the previous ones.
In the past, ghosts would pounce on people, but this time the ghosts were running around in the alley.
We can only split up and defeat them one by one to resolve the matter."
Shen Que nodded heavily and said seriously, “That’s right, the ghosts we encountered that time were extremely difficult to deal with. They kept running away and hiding, and it took us a lot of effort to eliminate all of them.
But judging by the concentration of Yin energy at that time, it is impossible that there were only a few little ghosts.
On the way back from the village, our superiors asked each of us to undergo a "routine blood test".
However, until now, there has been no follow-up on the blood test report.
These past few days, I've been feeling something isn't right with my body, an indescribable weird feeling.
It wasn't until today, while I was showering, that I suddenly noticed ghost lines on my back. I realized the seriousness of the matter, so I quickly called you in to discuss it."
As he spoke, Shen Que wanted to get up and unbutton his clothes so that everyone could see the lines on his back.
But he really had no strength now, and it was only with the help of Lin Xiao that everyone could see the strange lines on his back.
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