At this moment.

Lu Zheng was still talking to the eight selected demon slayers to understand the situation, not far from the school field, Qin Yourong was waiting with a faint expression, while Xiao Poyu beside her looked at this scene but frowned.

"Captain Qin, what is the origin of this person?"

Xiao Poyu retracted his gaze and lowered his voice:

"This person doesn't look like a person in the Demon Slayer system at all, how could he be directly appointed as an lieutenant? Even if he is a great master of breaking the power barrier, he should have to go through a lot of review and consideration, why didn't we hear anything about it before this?"

"It's not just you, I just found out today. ”

Qin Yourong sighed lightly:

"This Lu Zheng didn't know where Yue Shan found the recommendation to Du Tong, he summoned all our lieutenants, announced in person that he would be appointed as lieutenants, and he also directly entered the supervision team. ”

Xiao Poyu had a calm face:

"Captain, how important is the responsibility of our supervision team? This Lu Zheng has just arrived, and no one knows what his ability and experience are, how can he hand over people to him so easily?"

"Do you think I don't know such a simple truth?"

Qin Yourong said expressionlessly:

"I've made suggestions, but unfortunately to no avail. The attitude of the metropolitan commander is very resolute, and it seems that he is very optimistic about this person, and has the intention of vigorously cultivating him. If he guessed correctly, Du Tong probably wanted this Lu Zheng to accumulate some meritorious qualifications as soon as possible, so that he could participate in the secret selection of the ascending dragon in two years!"

Thang Long Secret ......

Xiao Poyu suddenly looked at Lu Zheng who was asking not far away, and then his heart instantly became mixed, and jealousy welled up in his heart.

The secret selection of the ascending dragon is naturally not a secret among the middle and high-level within the Demon Eradication Division.

Although he is not yet at the rank of lieutenant, as a demon slayer who can cultivate to the perfection of the Inner Zhuang Realm at the age of twenty-four or five, and is only one foot away from the Qi Pass Realm, he is definitely a talented and handsome man in the Demon Elimination Division of the entire Western Xinjiang Dasai, and it is not surprising that he will definitely be able to break the power barrier before the age of thirty and have the qualifications to participate in the secret selection of the ascending dragon.

However, although this kind of talent resume is excellent and outstanding enough, compared with Lu Zheng, it is completely dwarfed and directly compared.

After all, the barrier is a huge threshold, and the difference between breaking and not breaking is huge, Lu Zheng is the same age as him, but he has already crossed this step and made a judgment.

"What about breaking the power barrier? Cultivation does not fully represent a person's strength and ability, especially for those of us in the inspection team. ”

Xiao Poyu's heroic face was implied with unwillingness, and he said:

"Captain, is this how he ......?"

"I know you have an opinion, but this is a personal appointment, and we can't change it. ”

Qin Yourong's eyes flashed:

"But it's true that as you said, the vice-captain who leads the team has a lot of responsibility, and not everyone can be the one, and there is a question mark over whether he can do it. ”

Hearing Qin Yourong's voiceover, Xiao Poyu's eyes moved slightly:

"Captain, what do you mean ......?"

"I remember the informant report two days ago, saying that someone in the slum on the outskirts of Dongcheng recently heard the sound of women crying from time to time at night, in addition to this, there are also people who have disappeared inexplicably, after preliminary investigation, it is suspected that it is a special incident at the spirit level?"

Qin Yourong said lightly:

"We haven't had time to investigate this matter in detail, so leave it to him. If he can handle such a low-risk and unusual incident, he can barely get the approval of the monitoring team, and if he can't even solve this matter, what kind of face will he have to lead the team? At that time, I will also admonish him no matter what, and let the capital transfer him out of our monitoring team. ”

Xiao Poyu's eyes flickered, and he nodded after a moment's silence:

"That's what the captain said. ”

At this time, between the two of them talking, Lu Zheng on the school field also briefly questioned the eight people who were selected, and learned the basic information such as the names, ages and skills of these people.

The eight people selected by him are called Kong Wei, Yang Zilin, Fan Ke, Lu Dongsheng, Chen Bing, Zhao Lai, Bai Ziyu, and Li Xue.

Among them, Kong Wei and Yang Zilin are senior demon slayers who have served for seven or eight years, and they are also the two people with the highest martial arts cultivation in this team.

The other four men and two women are all reserve demon slayers who have joined the Demon Eradication Division for no more than five years, although their martial arts cultivation is average, but they have their own strengths in intelligence gathering, reconnaissance and other aspects, and they still belong to the elite ranks outside.

Men and women match, work is not tired, especially Bai Ziyu and Li Xue, the two demon slayers, although their posture is not very beautiful, but they are also very heroic and heroic.

After understanding the basic information, seeing that Qin Yourong at the edge of the school field seemed to be waiting for him, Lu Zheng walked over and said with a smile:

"Deputy Lieutenant Qin, now that the personnel have been assigned, I don't know what matters and tasks are arranged?"

"Speaking of which, there is indeed a task. ”

Qin Yourong said calmly:

According to the report, in the slum area of Dongcheng in the suburbs, there have been several incidents of missing people during this time, and more than one person said that he faintly heard the cry of a woman outside in the house at night, which caused a lot of panic.

However, two days ago, our people made a preliminary investigation, and did not find the root cause for the time being, and hoped that Deputy Lieutenant Lu could lead the team to investigate, find out as soon as possible, and calm down the panic. ”

Oh?

Sounds a bit evil......

Many horror movie scenes suddenly appeared in his mind, Lu Zheng's heart moved slightly, and asked:

"Do you have any specific information?"

Qin Yourong nodded and said lightly:

"Yes. You can ask someone to retrieve the Patrol Unit's file file, which contains detailed information and preliminary investigation information to help you understand the details. ”

"Good. ”

Lu Zheng said neatly:

"After I finished studying the dossier, I took people there myself. ”

Knowing that he would have to be responsible for a special event as soon as he came up was equivalent to some kind of test, he didn't care at all, but was eager to try.

Because he thought that after the special situation of Ah Qing's sister-in-law happened, after she was killed, she left behind such special high-quality recycled items as the evil spirit, so would this so-called special event be the same?

Although he had obtained an extraordinary-level copy of the Breath Sensing Method, he could only learn it quickly with the enhanced cheats, so that the gap he faced with the enhancement essence became even greater, and any opportunity to recover the essence was very important to him.

"Deputy Lieutenant Lu should be careful when investigating. ”

At this time, Xiao Poyu said on the side:

"Most of the special events are weird and inexplicable, the eight people you picked are all experienced elites, it is not easy to cultivate, if you encounter danger in the investigation, you can temporarily avoid the edge and ask for help from the division, so as not to cause unnecessary damage and death. ”

"Huh?"

As soon as Xiao Poyu's words were heard, he was a yin and yang person, and he understood that the other party was implicitly hostile to him, Lu Zheng suddenly slanted his gaze, and said slowly:

"You're teaching me to do things?"

Xiao Poyu's expression was suffocated, and he just wanted to open his mouth to say something, but Qin Yourong frowned and waved his hand to interrupt:

"Okay! Deputy Lieutenant Lu, Xiao Poyu is also kind, and the investigation task will be handed over to you, I hope you will get a result as soon as possible. ”

Looking away from Xiao Poyu, who was unconvinced, Lu Zheng smiled:

"No problem. ”

......

A moment later.

In a quiet room on the first floor of the Ministry of Supervision, sandalwood was curling, and Lu Zheng sat on the first seat with a golden knife, looking through the files obtained by Kong Wei and Yang Zilin, two senior demon slayers.

It is said that it is a dossier, but in fact, it is a few pages of transcript, probably in the slum area on the outskirts of Dongcheng District, during this time, every late at night, occasionally someone was awakened in his sleep, and then inexplicably heard the cry of a woman.

Of course, in the middle of the night, the woman cried, these factors together were by no means a good sign, and even if the people in the house heard it, none of them dared to go out of the house to investigate, so no one knew what the source of this crying was.

In addition to the crying, in this slum, there are also people who have disappeared from their homes in the middle of the night one after another, and in just half a month, more than ten cases have been reported missing.

It has developed to such a point that the county government finally realized that something was wrong and reported it to the Demon Eradication Division the day before yesterday.

After getting the news, the intelligence collectors of the Demon Eradication Division went to investigate as soon as possible, and after two days of visiting, although they have not yet figured out what is going on, but based on all aspects of the anomaly, the investigators unanimously suspect that the disappearance is related to the crying of the woman in the middle of the night, and it is tentatively classified as a spirit-level special event.

What made Lu Zheng even more concerned was that the more than ten people who reported missing had no relationship with each other in terms of age, identity, and residence, but the only thing they had in common was that they were all young men.

Because there was no thorough investigation, there was only these contents on the file, Lu Zheng casually pushed the file in his hand to the middle of the table, and looked at the eight team members who he had just selected and were waiting silently:

"Look at it, too. ”

The eight team members glanced at each other, then picked up the file on the table and circulated it.

"How?"

After a while, the eight team members had finished circulating the file, and Lu Zheng asked:

"You are all experienced old men, and I won't do anything like a layman leading an insider, what do you think about this?"

Kong Wei and Yang Zilin, the two senior formal demon slayers, glanced at each other, and they said in a deep voice:

"Lieutenant, there is a bit of useful information in this file, but there is one thing worth noting, and that is that all the missing men are single males, and they are not very old, which is very strange. ”

"And, in terms of where the missing people live, they are all concentrated in the same area, and we can first investigate the situation of each missing person and see if we can find any more common ground and find the root cause. ”

With limited information, the two men said everything they had to say, and the other six team members also echoed it.

After all, he was an experienced senior demon slayer, and his thoughts coincided with his own, Lu Zheng stood up directly and said:

"Okay, in that case, let's go to the place where the incident happened first!"

When the words fell, although he was skeptical about the ability of Lu Zheng, a newcomer lieutenant, the eight team members who had been ordered did not slack off, and immediately pulled out a tall horse from the stable of the Demon Slayer Division.

The horses raised by the Demon Eradicator were tall, strong, and handsome, and Lu Zheng chose one that he liked very much, and immediately got on the horse and took everyone away towards the suburbs of Dongcheng District.

At this moment, the sun is three poles, the sun is scorching, and the suburbs are more than ten miles away from the location of the Demon Eradication Division, and a group of people waited for half an hour to pass through the bustling urban areas and neighborhoods, and came to the suburbs.

In the suburbs, both the streets and residential buildings have become dilapidated to the naked eye. The avenues here are rugged dirt roads, and all the dwellings are low, messy and dilapidated, with sewage and filth everywhere.

In addition, Lu Zheng rode on a tall horse, and with a casual sweep of his eyes, he could see many men, women, and children with vegetables, unkempt, and ragged clothes, and even a thin figure lying motionless in the corner, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Especially when Lu Zheng led the eight demon slayers to pass by in fresh clothes and angry horses, the poor people looked at each other in panic, like frightened mice, forming a stark contrast.

Such a scene is like a refugee in a famine year, and even worse than the villagers in Bailongshan Walled City.

In the prosperous western frontier, there are not only warriors and merchants who come and go, but also more obscure coolies, peasant households, and even poor people who have no money and no power to live in the slums.

There are definitely a lot of such areas, and if they are carefully divided, the huge outer city, I am afraid that half of the areas will be classified into this ranks.

The way of the world is like this, Lu Zheng sighed silently in his heart and withdrew his gaze.

"Lieutenant, this is it!"

At this moment, the city walls not far away were already in sight, and not long after, in the midst of Kong Wei's shouts, everyone had already ridden to a fairly secluded neighborhood and stopped.

On this street, occasionally you can see unkempt paupers, or open-minded idlers, and when they see the pitch-black robes and high-headed horses worn by Lu Zheng and others, they all hide aside in awe.

This is the address of the first person to report the disappearance of the sufferer, Lu Zheng led everyone to search for a brief, and then came to a small courtyard surrounded by a low earthen wall.

There was no need to command at all, Yang Zilin was the first to step forward and slammed the door:

"The Demon Exterminator is investigating the case, there are people inside!"

In a burst of chickens and dogs, the door of the house inside immediately opened, and I saw a peasant couple in their forties walking out and quickly opening the courtyard door, with two rough and simple faces full of panic:

"See, I've seen all the masters! I don't know how many adults are ......?"

Demon slayers, in the hearts of any ordinary people, are synonymous with mystery and power, and their status is extraordinary. Kong Wei on the side was obviously used to such a gaze, and took a step forward and said:

"Half a month ago, it was your couple who reported the case, and your son Niu Li disappeared at night, right? This is Deputy Lieutenant Lu Zheng of our monitoring team next to me, and this time I came here to personally investigate the disappearance of your son and other people in the neighborhood, and you still haven't told him the details of the situation?"