A secret room.

Three bookcases are on top, and one screen is obscure.

Lin Lingling sat on a mountain of books, using a wireless keyboard and mouse to control a desktop computer that was much smaller than the screen.

An electronic report was displayed on the screen, about the shell-shaped scales that Lin Lingling had found, and a bald male in the lower right corner was splashing droplets.

"You mean, this scale belongs to a certain ancient species?" Lin Lingling frowned.

"The earliest can be deduced more than 4,000 years ago. The bald man, in spite of his excitement, spoke in a muffled voice, and he seemed to feel that the words were hot. However, Lin Lingling has become accustomed to it, and most of the researchers in the Monster Research Institute are not good at words, so whenever they argue, they will always be vague.

"But I found it in a school that was less than 100 years old. ”

"It's not that the scale is from more than 4,000 years ago, but that its DNA is ancient. ”

"You mean, its owner, whose bloodline comes from a certain ancient species more than 4,000 years ago?" Lin Lingling asked tentatively.

"Yes. ”

"Interesting. Lin Lingling jumped down from the mountain of books, flipped through a large tome and spread it on his lap, and quickly checked it.

"Also," the bald man continued, "its DNA is something I've never seen before, and I need to study it further." ”

"How long will it take?" Lin Lingling raised his head.

"I can't say for sure, it's as short as a month, as long as half a year, you know, this is a new species, and it's very difficult to study. The bald man said in embarrassment.

"If more biological samples are found, can the speed of research be accelerated?"

"Of course you can, you've already caught it?"

"Not yet, but soon. The corners of Lin Lingling's mouth lifted a smile, originally she thought that this unknown task was just like this, it was because of that stunned young man who participated in the nature of playing tickets, who would have thought that it would involve the descendants of a certain ancient species, then it would be interesting, discovering a new species that has not yet been discovered in the academic world will be of great help to her promotion to the level of demon hunter.

This can be regarded as an unintentional insertion of willows.

"Try to catch them alive. The bald man advised, "The value of the descendants of the dead ancient species will drop a lot." More than 20 years ago, the Pingjiang Monster Research Institute surpassed our Demon Capital Monster Research Institute because it caught a living ancient species. If you can be captured alive, you will be our friend forever. ”

"You said you tried your best. ”

Lin Lingling waved his hand, "Of course I will choose to capture it alive, but if I accidentally kill it, can it be that you can still refuse to accept it? The dead ancient species are also of great value to you, don't think I don't know!"

The bald man sneered, the avatar frame disappeared from the bottom right corner of the screen, and he interrupted the video exchange with Lin Lingling.

Lin Lingling lowered her head, her fingertips swept over the pages of the ancient book, she needed to know which ancient species had appeared more than four thousand years ago. As an experienced demon hunter, coupled with her family history and her own requirements, she has a deeper understanding of the origin of monsters than some professional scholars.

"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"

She knows

, monsters, or demon clans, originated in another world, and for the time being, they are simply called the demon world.

The demon world and the main world have been in contact since ancient times, and the so-called ancient species refer to the monsters that came to the main world from the demon world during that period, and they took root in the main world and gave birth to offspring. However, due to the existence of human power at that time, they had to hide in the mountains and forests, and this has been the case for thousands of years since.

It wasn't until forty years ago that the number of passages between the demon world and the main world increased, and the entire land of Huangming simply became a sieve, and the demon clan poured out from all directions, catching Huangming off guard, and gave up most of the land in an instant, at this time, the demon clan really stood on the stage of the times.

Some experts and scholars believe that the psionic world and the demon world are both sub-worlds attached to the main world, and they call them "satellite worlds", as the name suggests, they refer to the world "like satellites hovering on planets", which do not belong to the main world, but cannot exist independently from the realm of the main world.

To use an analogy, a small bubble floats on top of a big bubble.

Originally, the two were peaceful, and occasionally there were some small holes in the middle, which was harmless. Those ancient species came to the Overworld by mistake through these tiny holes.

However, in recent years, the number and frequency of these tiny holes have increased, as evidenced by the fact that humans can communicate with the psionic realm through meditation. Figuratively speaking, the big bubble and the small bubble are slowly merging on a macro scale, but in fact at a rapid rate.

In other words, the psionic realm and the demon realm, and even other undiscovered satellite worlds, are gradually merging with the main world.

How to face this unprecedented change is an issue that Huangming and all countries must consider.

However, for Lin Lingling, these things are too far away from her, the sky has fallen with His Majesty the "Emperor" and those first sequence tops, what she has to do now is to find out which type of ancient species this scale belongs to.

More than 4,000 years ago, it was the "honeymoon period" of the demon world and the main world, and according to ancient records at that time, demon spirits were not uncommon.

For example, there is a record in "Hanshu Xun Follower Biography Gong Sui": "For a long time, there were several monsters in the palace, and the king asked Sui, so he thought that there was a big worry, and the palace would be empty." ”

Volume 7 of "Gui Qianzhi" also recorded: "After the southern crossing, although Nanjing prospered and increased, there were many monsters in recent years. In the Yuan Guang room, the white tiger entered the Zheng Gate. In addition, there were foxes in the officials' departments, and there were foxes and wolves in the palace. ”

It can be seen that yokai have been in contact with humans since ancient times.

To explain here, youkai is actually a compound word.

A demon is a creature that is cultivated by animals, has a human form or is close to a human form, has a certain amount of mana, and can be active during the day and at night. It is worth mentioning that many ancient classics have pointed out that if animals are dedicated to good and enlightenment in the process of cultivation, it is possible to cultivate into immortals, and if they fail to cultivate immortals or do not meet the guidance of famous teachers or develop in the direction of evil on their own, they will become demons.

There are different opinions about this matter, because the so-called "immortals" have never been seen, and modern scholars only believe that this statement was made by people at that time to make a judgment ignorantly.

As for the monster, it's actually a demon, but it's just that the demon looks strange

of the kind.

In today's words, what looks good is a demon, and what is not good-looking is weird. The Appearance Association was already reflected at that time.

Over time, youkai youkai was called so.

But in fact, there was no word monster in the earlier antiquity, this word appeared in the Han Dynasty, when under the influence of Taoist thought, a new religion appeared - Taoism. The Taoist priests tried to construct a mythological system of their own, and from then on, a large number of yokai culture began to appear. Many legendary mythological characters have also appeared around them, such as blue birds, demon foxes and other images.

Truth be told, before the old feudal era, yokai had always been a legend that everyone knew but few people actually saw.

No one would have thought that in the past forty years, monsters would be so flooded, which simply subverted the perception of the world of the Huangming people.

Lin Lingling was flipping through the tome at this time, the full name was "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which was an important ancient book of the Huangming Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty, and it was also the oldest strange book rich in myths and legends. In the past, it was regarded as a book of witches and scholars, and the literature value was very high, involving many disciplines, and it recorded a large number of natural geographical elements and human geography content of Huangming at that time.

However, the myths and legends in it have always been regarded as simple "myths and legends".

This seems to be a sick sentence.

Not really.

Because many ancient species recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" have now been confirmed to exist.

This proves that this book has a high reference value for the study of yokai.

Those so-called myths and legends are things that have really happened, and those monsters that can easily bring droughts and floods have indeed come to this world, and it remains to be verified whether they really have the terrifying ability in the records.

Trying to find its owner based on a scale is a complete needle in a haystack.

What Lin Lingling did at this time was actually just narrowing down a range, she first screened out the monsters that did not have scales in the records, and then memorized the remaining monsters in her mind after screening, and waited until she got more information, and continued the next round of screening, as more and more information was obtained, then the image in her mind became more and more specific, until the true identity of the target was finally confirmed.

As the woman said, gathering intelligence, tracking, and identifying targets are what she does best.

The five words "chief investigator" written on the business card she handed to Guo Qiqi were not groundless, and it was precisely because of this that she became a six-star demon hunter.

She was the weakest of the demon hunters, almost equal to zero, but the most comprehensive in all aspects other than combat.