The most shocking thing is that the victims of these hundreds of cases have died without cause.

They are either people working in the corners of a factory, guests watching a movie in a movie theater, men and women on a private date in the streets, or players playing against each other indoors......

There is no pattern to the occupation, gender, age, or place of death involved.

If I have to say, perhaps the "way of death" that died suddenly for no reason and the "time of the crime" concentrated today can be regarded as the only common denominator that can be found at present.

Hou Shu quickly flipped through the information, and a beautiful lady in her early twenties beside him was communicating with her superiors.

This beautiful lady's surname is "Yin" and her name is "Xiangling", and she is the owner of this Yin's private investigation office.

When Hou Shu met her, it was the time when her father was killed, and the girl had to reopen the office with the pain of losing her father.

And the reason why Hou Shu resolutely quit the wasteland team during the rising period of his career was also because of his acquaintance with her.

Today's Yin's polling institute is only two of them, which is similar to a small private detective agency in terms of structure, but the cases they face are all mysterious events.

Yin Xiangling is a third-order war pet master who owns a third-order ghost-based war pet [Hell Black Cat].

This strength is already very good among ordinary people, but it is obviously not enough to support her to become the main investigator of the civil investigation office.

Therefore, there is only one main investigator of the Yin Poll Bureau, and that is Hou Shu, and Yin Xiangling is only acting as an auxiliary and backup.

A few minutes later, Yin Xiangling hung up the phone, and there was gloom in her eyes that could not be concealed.

Hou Shu said with concern: "What do you say?"

Yin Xiangling sighed: "It's the horse guard, this incident has been included in the emergency file, according to the regulations, our office has been recruited, and we have to be busy!"

Hou Shu nodded and said, "In this case, I will reply to those who ask for help in the form of an official document." I didn't expect that just a few days after the city defense battle, a major event of this magnitude happened. ”

Yin Xiangling pondered: "Hou Shu, did you say that this incident is related to the defense war? Hasn't something similar happened in the past? Some monsters took advantage of the gap during the defense war and caused a lot of damage to the city. ”

Hou Shu: "It's possible ......"

......

It took less than half a day for the news to be conveyed from the people to the Ministry of Guards, and then to the higher levels.

and then conveyed it from the superiors to Yu Zang's ears, and it only took a cup of tea.

At this time, Yu Zang was thinking about how to lure Zhou Yin to participate in the Planet Cup, and the news he got from the head of the security department immediately woke him up from his imagination of the future.

"Send me the details. ”

He did not judge because of a few words from the head of the head of the guard, but chose to analyze it himself.

Soon, all the information collected all day today was in his hands.

It took him just five minutes to go through all the information and quickly analyze the available information.

The traces of the victim's murder are not entirely absent.

Professor Yu picked out the only useful information from all the sources.

One of them was a photo taken by a passer-by by chance.

One is a video of the death of a victim under a surveillance camera.

One is an eyewitness statement about a certain victim.

One is an environmental analysis report of a certain crime site.

......

Finally, Professor Yu looked at a map of Kaifang City, which marked all the locations of the crime, and suddenly noticed that the distribution of these marked points had very inconspicuous characteristics.

From the outside to the inside, with a location as the center, the labeling points become slightly denser.

Because the intensity is so low that it is not even enough to be used as a basis, it has not been noticed.

If it weren't for the fact that Yuzo had been paying more than one attention to this location for a long time, he would not have been able to ignore it.

"Although the probability of chance is higher, it is really better to inform him and take precautions. ”

So Yuzo dialed the owner of the place.

"Professor Yu, has the affairs of the association been completed?"

"That's not it. ”

Yu Zang weighed his words for a moment and said, "There may be danger recently, you try to be careful and don't walk at night." ”

Zhou Yin was stunned, but he didn't regard it as alarmist.

Thinking of the nightmare mission of the cemetery inheritance, he immediately whispered, "Professor, is there something tricky?"

Yu Zang didn't expect his tone to change so quickly, and he couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart.

But this trace of doubt quickly dissipated, and he said to Zhou Yin: "It's not tricky, it is most likely a ghost monster, although it is very fatal to ordinary people, but it is not difficult to deal with it." In this case, I will summarize a summary and send it to you, remember to protect yourself first. ”

"Ghost monsters?"

Zhou Yin couldn't help squinting his eyes, and he had an idea in his heart.

The reason why the system released the Nightmare Quest in the Cemetery seems to have been found?

Is it really a ghost-related event?

I just don't know, is it a ghost monster, or a real ghost?

On the way to receive the information, Zhou Yin told Inoue Orihime not to leave the pet store easily during this time, and then immediately thought about it.

Although this event happened today, the monster or ghost that caused the event should have appeared yesterday, or even before yesterday, and was wandering around the pet store before it would be detected by the system.

It is the system itself that seems to have to follow some kind of rules to act, so it does not directly remind him, but uses this roundabout form to inform and empower him.

The pet store has a built-in security system, so there is no need to worry about being hacked.

But Zhou Yin is not a long-lived pet store.

"Ding!"

Delivery of Materials.

Zhou Yin asked Inoue Orihime to temporarily close the door, and then took a closer look.

The information that came from Yuzang was all condensed, and there was even a summary report.

He first opened the report, and then exclaimed: "In one day, there were 108 cases! More than 100 victims! Has the news media been banned? There has been no news until now? Or ......?"

Sure enough, these hundreds of victims were scattered throughout the city, and they did not break out in a concentrated manner, so they did not cause a sensation. ”

"Moreover, the victims did not bleed to death on the spot, but fell unconscious to the ground in a near-comatose state, and most of them were not confirmed dead until they were taken to the hospital. ”

"Routine autopsy report...... There were no internal or external injuries, and the cause of death is unknown. ”

After quickly understanding the seriousness of the situation, Zhou Yin turned out the useful information selected by Professor Yu.

The first is the photo taken by chance by a passerby.

I don't know if it's due to the light or the magnetic field or other reasons, but there is something faintly floating behind the victim's head in this photo.

In fact, things like this are very common online – so-called ghost photos.

At the moment when the existence of the soul is confirmed, in fact, as long as the ghost is observed, it can be confirmed whether the perpetrator is a ghost or a ghost.

But none of the reports contain anything like that.

It can be seen that either it is not a ghost, or the perpetrator has specifically avoided the ghost war pet.

This is actually not difficult, because ghost war pets are relatively rare in the first place, and they usually do not like to be active during the day.

The death footage also captured a similar image, with a white mist-like object floating out of the back of the victim's head and then swaying out of the surveillance range.

This is the so-called "soul out of body" manifestation.

With the observation of human eyes and even modern instruments, the "soul" cannot be seen under normal circumstances, but sometimes the soul will be revealed due to special factors such as magnetic field changes, and then captured by the human eye or instruments, which has some supernatural legends in the past.

In fact, until now, the world has not developed a device that can directly "see" the soul, all that can be done is to make the soul "manifest" and then be seen.

There are also some people who are born with "spiritual vision" and may have the corresponding talent to learn the corresponding spiritual skills, and such people are generally engaged in the profession of onmyoji, witch, exorcist and Taoist.

An investigator like Hou Shu has relatively low requirements for "spiritual vision", and only needs to have a ghost-based war pet to serve.

For example, the witness who witnessed the victim's soul being dragged away was a person who was born with a talent for "spiritual vision", and she was able to see spirits and ghosts by chance.

There is also an environmental report at a certain crime site, which is that a laboratory team happened to have done a detailed environmental test at that location, and detected the corresponding magnetic field fluctuations, believing that there were traces of ghosts or ghosts as war pets.

With so much evidence pointing to the same fact, it is basically possible to attribute this incident to a supernatural homicide, and it is on the scale of a hundred people!

After analyzing the results, the security department immediately dispatched its subordinates to have a ghost department...... At the very least, there must be a guard with super combat pets to investigate the attendance, and the relevant civilian investigation offices have been recruited in an attempt to end the case in the shortest possible time!

When Zhou Yin received the report, Hou Shu and Yin Xiangling had already started to act and were on their way to the nearest crime site.

The case itself is not complicated.

The difficult thing is how to trace the roots, find the root cause of the appearance of so many powerful ghosts, and eradicate them!

As for the victims......

When a man is killed, he dies.

......

Zhou Yin, who learned the details, did not act impulsively, he confirmed the time first, and found that it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already very close to half past five.

In fact, there is no business during this time period, and occasionally one or two orders will be made, which is harmless.

At present, there have been no related incidents in the Pioneer War Pet Academy and the three streets outside, but there are three or four in the farther surrounding area, and there are quite a few of them.

"Take the initiative!"

Since it is speculated that there should be danger hidden near the pet store, Zhou Yin will not sit idly by.

He thought about it, and then changed the title of [Super Lucky Star] that he wore every day to [Grave Keeper].

After wearing the title of [Tomb Keeper], it is easier to find souls, ghosts, zombies, ghost war pets, etc.

Combined with the perception and detection of the power of the waveguide, most of the ghosts can be hidden!

With your eyes closed, focus your mind to a point.

The power of the waveguide gradually spreads, and the blue light rushes away like ripples, and after a few meters beyond itself, the color is so faint that it is impossible to see, and the perceptual tentacles are getting longer and longer.

1 meter, 2 meters, 3 meters, 4 meters......

Piercing through the walls, it spreads all the way outward, gradually covering half of the street.

"How's that?" Inoue asked with concern.

Zhou Yin opened his eyes and frowned slightly: "I'll go out for a walk." ”

The sensing range of the waveguide is very wide, and its range is linked to its intensity and mental power, that is, the more light it is, the less clear the perception is, which can easily lead to omission.

The maximum range that Zhou Yin can maintain accurate perception at present is nearly thirty meters!

If perceived in a circle, it has a radius of fifteen meters.

He had to keep moving the entire street to check all the dead spots around him.

Walking out of the store, Zhou Yin released the small large needle bee and ordered it to go first [Initiation] and fuse with the slashing knife.

The big needle bee fused with the soul slashing knife can already look directly at the soul, and the awakened phoenix fire can also restrain ghosts.

At this time, the sky was already a little dark, and some shops even lit up the lights in advance.

Zhou Yin put on a red and white hat and pulled the brim down to cover his eyes.

Closing your eyes allows you to use the power of the waveguide more effectively for perception and detection.

But it was the first time he had walked down the street with his eyes closed, and he was a little rusty.

Familiarization is short-lived, though.

After only a few minutes, he was able to walk naturally without detecting anything unusual.

He walked through Rotten Orange Street from beginning to end, and after making sure there was nothing out of the ordinary, he went down the alley and walked through the alley between it and College Street No. 2.

According to common sense, ghost creatures may not all be afraid of sunlight, but they have a common habit of liking dark places.

So Zhou Yin raised his vigilance when he entered the alley.

As a result, he walked around the alley, still not sensing the ghost.

Even continued to walk through the two college streets, but there was still no gain.

It took an hour before and after, and Zhou Yin's spirit was already a little tired.

He returned to the pet store and let the big needle bee also retreat [Shi Jie] and rest for half an hour.

In between, he contacted Professor Yu and confirmed that the police department's investigation had made initial progress - one of the teams had found a vicious ghost at a crime scene!

This discovery completely corroborates their speculation, and also completely characterizes this group case!

Professor Yu also immediately transferred the "Ghost Class", "Super Class" and "Evil Class" from the city guards to assist in solving the case.

Needless to say, the "ghost class" is of course the one who can deal with ghosts.

And the "super class" can perceive intangible things with superpowers and can act as an assistant.

The "evil class" is based on the principle of the evil system to restrain the ghost system, as a combat force!

Everything is ready to go.

The military department and the police department of the city cooperated to quietly radiate personnel to all parts of the city, trying to find and uproot all the ghosts as quickly as possible!

Then.

Zhou Yin, who did not relax his vigilance because of the dispatch of the city guards, embarked on the journey home.

Dusk falls, and night hangs.

A hint of yin wind blows on the back of the neck, bringing a hint of pain.

Zhou Yin deliberately chose a road that he had not traveled before, entering the ruins of the community and the factory that had been leveled by the blasting in the afternoon.

The rest of the construction work will be carried out tomorrow, and there is not a single light in the 20,000-square-meter ruined land, only the moon gradually overhead, tilting the moonlight down, bringing a glimmer of light.

The sound of stepping on the rubble is very crisp, and there is a different artistic conception.

Zhou Yin put his hands on his sleeves, walked to the center of the ruins little by little, and then stood still.

The rubble piled up around it was like a mountain, and it combined into a mouth that swallowed everything.

"It's time to come out, right?"

Zhou Yin took his hands out of his sleeves, then raised his right hand, grabbed the brim of his hat and raised it, his eyes opened with it, and he looked at the void in front of him.

Half a second later.

There was a sound of soos all around, one, two, three...... A dozen or so men and women, all dressed in ostentatious clothes, emerged from behind the rubble.

"It's been discovered. ”

A tall, lanky man with the head of a tricolor hedgehog, which is already extremely rare in this century, chuckled.

He wears rings on his ears, nose and lips, as if to highlight his personality and position.

The people around him who are slightly inferior to him are obviously inferior to him in terms of position.

Maybe that's the law of the ruffians.

"You're the big boss who hired the renovation team to tear down our lair?

The three-color hedgehog head laughed and slammed the steel bar in his hand down, and a black jackal war pet dripping with saliva crawled out of his footsteps and barked viciously twice in the direction of Zhou Yin.

And then the rest of the riffraff also released their war pets.

Most of them are one or two, and most of them are evil, and they all show their fierce appearances!

But Zhou Yin didn't look at them.