Wan Jiao was clearly a young and beautiful girl, but her words and the aura emanating from her made even Qi Mingyu, a sixth-level Xuan Master, feel a strong sense of pressure, let alone the other four.
The Special Security Bureau's employee handbook clearly states that anyone who disobeys orders will be dismissed. And any esoteric practitioner dismissed by the Special Security Bureau, whether at home or within the esoteric community, is destined to never be able to hold their head high again…
With just a few words, Wan Jiao had the lifeline of Qi Mingyu and the others in her grasp.
Yes, unless they want to quit, they have to obey her orders, the newly appointed captain of the Seventh Team, who is making a big splash in her new role.
At this moment, the faces of the group turned from green to purple to white, making for quite a spectacle.
Even so, Lu Heng didn't forget the task Captain Wan had given him. He took out three pairs of handcuffs, handcuffed the three of them, and put them in the car.
Apart from their eyes, the three of them were completely immobile, like mute people who had been frozen in place.
But they are living people! It seems there's no magic in the world of metaphysics that can freeze living people and prevent them from speaking, right?
Filled with various doubts, Lu Heng returned to Wan Jiao's side. "Captain, it's done."
Lu Heng appeared very respectful, but what he was really thinking was anyone's guess.
Wan Jiao gave a soft "hmm" and then turned and entered the barrier.
As soon as she entered the barrier, Qi Mingyu and the other four could no longer see her.
Lin Yi was the first to speak, exclaiming, "Where...where is she? She vanished into thin air???"
As soon as Wan Jiao entered the barrier, Lin Yi's exclamation nearly ruptured her eardrums. She frowned: "Can't even see the barrier? Is this the level of the Special Security Bureau's team?"
Qi Mingyu was much calmer than Lin Yi. He reached out and touched the barrier slightly, and immediately noticed its presence. He hurriedly said, "There's a barrier here. Lately... the captain must have gone inside the barrier."
Upon hearing about the barrier, Lu Heng was the first to step forward.
Sure enough, he went in immediately, almost bumping into Wan Jiao.
"Captain, I'm sorry."
Wan Jiao ignored him.
Qi Mingyu, Lin Yi, Cheng Ranzhi, and Ji Zitong also came in.
Upon seeing what was inside the barrier, the group was nearly speechless with astonishment.
In today's metaphysical world, there are very few sorcerers who can casually set up barriers, and this barrier...
"Captain, who set up this barrier?" Cheng Ranzhi, with his dark skin and mature demeanor, asked Wan Jiao in a low voice.
"Me." Wan Jiao wanted to see how capable these team members were, so she changed the subject, "The body is over there. How do you usually investigate cases? You can begin."
Wan Jiao had previously stated that she had set up the barrier, and then told them to investigate the case as they usually did, causing the group to completely disregard her words.
They all assumed that Wan Jiao was just trying to show off, so she mistook the barrier set up by the mysterious master for one she had set up.
However, the most important thing right now is to investigate the case, not to compete for temporary victory. The group were all professionals, and they immediately surrounded the disfigured corpse.
Their efficiency is really bad; it's been ten minutes and they're still staring at the corpse.
Wan Jiao was speechless for a moment, so she simply took out a small folding chair and a bag of sunflower seeds from her canvas bag, sat down casually, and started leisurely eating sunflower seeds.
Qi Mingyu and the others were examining the corpse; the surroundings were so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Wan Jiao's sound of cracking sunflower seeds seemed particularly jarring.
In an instant, five pairs of eyes fell on her.
"Stool, melon seeds... Are you here to investigate a case or to go on vacation?" Ji Zitong, who wore gold-rimmed glasses and looked very refined, questioned Wan Jiao rudely.
Ji Zitong spoke, and although the other four did not speak, the emotions in their eyes were exactly the same as those in Ji Zitong's eyes.
If it were someone else being misunderstood, they would definitely be anxious.
But she is Wan Jiao, a person of great character. It's not worth arguing with these unskilled people.
She blinked innocently, and her breathtakingly beautiful face, free of makeup, became even more charming.
After her gaze swept intently across the five faces, she asked, seemingly out of context, "You've been staring at that corpse for ten minutes. What have you figured out?"
No one spoke.
Because they didn't see anything.
Wan Jiao cracked two sunflower seeds, seemingly casually but actually intentionally saying, "Lin Yi, you go first."
"I...I..." Lin Yi stammered for a long time, unable to say anything.
Wan Jiao then called out Lu Heng, Cheng Ranzhi, and Ji Zitong's names in turn. Unsurprisingly, none of them noticed anything amiss, and they all kept quiet.
Qi Mingyu, the only one whose name Wan Jiao hadn't called, spoke up when her gaze fell on his face, "After a person dies, their soul should linger in the same place, but there's no trace of a soul around here, so there's only one possibility."
"Oh?" Wan Jiao raised an eyebrow. "Tell me about it."
Qi Mingyu: "This is not the primary crime scene."
"..." Wan Jiao's lips twitched. She had thought Qi Mingyu would say something to surprise her, but unexpectedly...
Alas, the capabilities of the Sheng Guo Special Security Bureau members are truly worrying!
Although Wan Jiao didn't speak, the emotions on her face did not escape the eyes of Qi Mingyu and the others.
Ji Zitong was already annoyed by Wan Jiao's nonchalant way of eating sunflower seeds, and seeing her expression now, she retorted irritably, "So what if you're the captain? You look down on us. If you're really that great, then tell me why this person died, and why..."
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