"Master Junior is indeed under investigation." Li Hongyu was silent for a moment, "The situation may not be optimistic."
This was an internal matter of the Special Investigation Department, and asking more would be overstepping the boundaries. Chen Ling did not ask any more questions, but patted Li Hongyu on the shoulder to comfort him and quietly followed him forward.
The place where Tianhun was imprisoned was guarded by someone. When they saw Li Hongyu, the four people guarding the room nodded and said, "Are you here to interrogate me, Deputy Team Leader?"
Li Hongyu: "Well, you guys go out first."
The four people looked at Chen Ling hesitantly: "Deputy Team Leader, according to the regulations, outsiders cannot be brought in here."
"He is related to the case." Li Hongyu's face darkened slightly. "Why, what I said doesn't work?"
The four people's faces changed and they dared not say any more nonsense.
Among all the members of the group, everyone is better than Li Hongyu in terms of age and qualifications, but there is nothing he can do. No matter how unwilling he is, he can do nothing about it because the other person is strong and is the direct disciple of the abbot of Qingxuan Temple.
"Okay, we'll be outside the door. Call us if you have any problems." One of them said, and he pulled the others out of the interrogation room, closing the door.
Chen Ling walked to the center of the room.
Qing Tanzi's soul was held by four chains, each of which was engraved with a talisman. The ground where he was standing was surrounded by yellow talismans for suppressing evil. The talismans contained strong spiritual power, and one could feel the evil energy coming towards him as soon as one approached.
—This shows how high the spiritual attainments of the person who drew the talisman were.
Chen Ling turned around and looked at Li Hongyu: "Did your junior master draw this?"
"Yes." Li Hongyu's eyes lit up when he talked about his junior master. "My junior master has been extremely talented since he was young, and he is also very hardworking. No evil spirit can resist the evil-suppressing talismans he draws."
After the discussion with the ancestor last night, Chen Ling had a very subtle feeling towards Li Daoxuan. When he heard Li Hongyu's praise at this time, he didn't know how to respond for a moment.
I could only nod, give a perfunctory affirmation, and then change the subject.
"Let's get down to business first."
"Okay." Li Hongyu walked to Chen Ling, bent down and took out a talisman to suppress evil. Tianhun, who was tortured unconscious by the iron chains and talisman paper, immediately opened his eyes.
His eyes were confused and unfocused, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
Chen Ling asked, "Why did you bring my senior sister to Fengling Mountain? Have you asked someone to investigate me?"
The Heavenly Soul opened his mouth, and a struggle was brewing between inner and outer space.
His conscience told him to tell the truth, but the memories carried by his heavenly soul ordered him to seal up everything he knew.
Chen Ling pulled out the telescopic stick on the spot and hit Tianhun hard.
Compared to the curse whip, the telescopic stick had much less magic power, but it still made the weak Tianhun tremble. He quickly explained: "The master asked me to find it! I don't know anything else!"
"Did he say anything else before asking you to do something?" Chen Ling asked.
"He said that everyone has weaknesses in their hearts..." As Tianhun was speaking, his soul suddenly disintegrated and then gathered again.
The light on the ceiling of the interrogation room was crackling. As soon as Chen Ling looked up, the light suddenly became as bright as it could be, and then exploded with a bang!
Small pieces of glass flew out. Li Hongyu pulled Chen Ling and squatted with his back to him, holding his head with both hands.
Although the glass shards were small, they were very sharp, hitting the backs of the two men like raindrops. The thin clothes could not completely block their lethality. When everything calmed down and the two men stood up again, they all felt a dense and itchy pain on their backs.
Chen Ling pushed Li Hongyu's back and saw some blood spots on his white shirt. Fortunately, there were not many, so the injury should not be serious.
He loosened his hand and was about to ask Li Hongyu to open the door and call for help when a strange voice suddenly rang out in the dark interrogation room.
"Cause and effect have their own rules. Why rush? I will collect all the debts that should be collected. We will meet sooner or later." The voice came from Qing Tanzi's heavenly soul, but it was completely different from the previous voice. It was as if someone was using his mouth to provoke him.
There was actually something that could sneak into the Special Investigation Department silently. Li Hongyu's face turned very ugly. He immediately picked up the copper coin sword and was ready for battle.
Chen Ling stood there motionless, "I don't feel any bad aura."
"Deputy Team Leader, what's going on in there?" The people outside heard the noise and started banging on the door.
Li Hongyu walked over to open the door and ordered sternly: "An evil spirit has sneaked in. Notify the team leader immediately."
"Impossible." The person outside the door frowned and said, "There is nothing in here except a wisp of heavenly soul. Where did the evil spirit come from?"
Li Hongyu had a gloomy face and raised his voice several degrees: "Go if I tell you to!"
Those people shrank back and then ran away quickly.
When Li Daoxuan arrived, there was chaos inside and outside the interrogation room, and many people were searching everywhere with talismans and magical tools.
Unfortunately, ten minutes passed and nothing was found.
Li Daoxuan walked up to Li Hongyu and asked, "What's going on?"
Li Hongyu immediately recounted what had happened before in detail. He showed a confused expression: "Little Master, what on earth is that thing? It has neither evil energy nor yin energy, and it comes and goes without a trace. And what does he mean by what he said?"
Li Daoxuan walked up to Tianhun, summoned the Seven Star Sword, and slashed with it.
Tianhun screamed, and a black wound was left where he was scratched, emitting a burnt smell.
Li Daoxuan: "Tell me, who is that?"
Before he arrived, Tianhun had already told him the whole story. Now that he had encountered such an evil god, he had to repeat it again: "Yes, sir. As for what he is, I have no idea. He is an omnipresent god."
Chen Ling's ears are callused from hearing this.
He stood in the corner, raised his eyes to glance at Li Daoxuan, lowered his eyelids, and continued to think about the words spoken by the strange voice.
It’s not that he was overthinking it, but he had been the one being targeted since the Fengling Mountain incident.
But in his memory, he had never wronged anyone. If he had done anything wrong, since the other party was so powerful, why didn't he show up before, especially before he learned magic, he had thousands of chances to kill him easily.
Chen Ling felt like he had walked into a dead end. There was a tall, solid wall in front of him, and thick fog behind him.
Li Daoxuan checked around and shook his head: "There is indeed no evil thing here."
Li Hongyu lowered his head, frowning. Just as Li Daoxuan was about to leave, he suddenly called out, "Junior Master."
Li Daoxuan stood at the door with his hands behind his back. The light from the corridor shone on his back, making his face blurry as he faced the dark interrogation room.
Li Hongyu: "There are magical instruments to suppress evil spirits inside and outside the Special Investigation Department, and there are so many sorcerers in charge, it is impossible for evil spirits to get in." He pursed his lips, his eyes emitting a sharp light in the darkness, "I don't want to doubt my own people, but this matter is too suspicious."
Li Daoxuan looked at him for a moment and said, "I will report it and work with other departments to conduct a thorough investigation."
"No way. We in the Special Investigation Department are honest people. How could there be a traitor?" Others in the interrogation room murmured.
"That's right. Even if there is, what is the other party's purpose? First, we have no competitors. Second, we are extremely poor and there is no profit."
"Perhaps it's for a personal vendetta?"
As soon as these words fell, everyone looked at Chen Ling and Li Hongyu.
When Li Hongyu reported to Li Daoxuan just now, he did not avoid the people who were busy inside and outside the interrogation room. Everyone heard something about the order of cause and effect.
Now that someone pointed it out so directly, all the previous discussions collapsed, and only the last sentence remained in everyone's mind.
This sentence changed from speculation to confirmation, and this confirmation fell on Li Hongyu and Chen Ling.
A tall and strong man came over and touched Li Hongyu's shoulder: "Deputy Team Leader, didn't you work with that little brother on two orders before? Did you make a grudge with him at that time?"
"Except for the evil ghosts that have been taken back, who can I make an enemy with?" Li Hongyu asked back bluntly.
Gao Dazhuang touched his nose awkwardly and walked away dejectedly.
This place was not suitable for talking, so Li Hongyu gestured to Chen Ling and took him to his office.
As soon as he sat down, he asked straight to the point: "Do you know something?"
Chen Ling raised his head, looked into Li Hongyu's eyes without hesitation and said, "I think that sentence was directed at me."
Li Hongyu was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Chen Ling picked out the senior and the nightmare from last night and said, "I feel like someone wants to kill me, but not now."
Qingxuan Temple is a grand temple in the north city, with countless pilgrims coming here every year. How could any evil spirits enter such a place full of incense and Taoist sounds
But Li Hongyu believed that Chen Ling would not lie: "Do you also suspect..."
The two did not point out what they suspected, but the appearance of evil within the righteous sect was not a glorious thing.
There was a sudden silence between the two, and the atmosphere became stiff.
Chen Ling sighed and stood up: "That's it for now, I have other things to do, so I won't stay any longer."
Li Hongyu: "I'll take you there."
Chen Ling did not refuse, and the two walked out together. When they reached the door, Li Hongyu suddenly said, "If there really is an evil spirit inside the Special Investigation Department, I will definitely not cover it up for personal reasons."
Chen Ling smiled at him and waved his hand: "Okay, I'll go first."
Since the other party was able to break in without anyone noticing, he could naturally hide himself perfectly. Regardless of whether the other party was an internal staff member of the Special Investigation Department or Qingxuan Temple, he did not expect to find out in a short time.
In comparison, he might as well start from another place. If that place is really part of the other party's plan, perhaps he can get more clues.
Chen Ling stood on the side of the road and waved to stop a taxi.
When the driver heard that we were going to Pingshan, his face darkened. “That place is in the wilderness. I can only take you there and come back empty-handed.”
Now that the autumn heat is at its peak, Chen Ling also knows that it is not easy to drive a car, so he said in a good-tempered manner: "Wait for me on the side of the road, and I will take your car back after I finish my business."
The driver immediately smiled and said, "Okay, sit tight."
The road to Pingshan was not easy to drive on. After passing through the city, it became a dirt road for about 60 kilometers. The taxi was shaking up and down violently, and Chen Ling felt that he was almost thrown out several times.
He had no choice but to fasten his seat belt while holding the handle on the roof with his right hand.
The driver glanced at him from the rearview mirror and said with a smile, "This stretch of road is almost over. Just bear with it."
Chen Ling looked up at the windshield in front of him. The dirt road was quite spacious, but there were always protruding rocks. "Master, have you been to Pingshan before?"
"How come I haven't been here before?" The driver said casually, "Didn't someone build a cemetery in Pingshan? I just sent someone here to see the cemetery a few days ago."
Chen Ling: "I came here to see the tombs, too. I heard that the tombs here are cheap and have good feng shui."
"What's so good about it?" the driver said disdainfully. "Although I don't understand Feng Shui, no matter if it's for the living or the dead, no one will like a secluded place. But that piece of land is surrounded on all sides. I don't know what the buyer was thinking."
"Is there such a saying?" Chen Ling pretended to be surprised. "But I have heard of it before. The best place to build a grave is a place with mountains and water."
"Of course. Look at those cemeteries with good environments. Those without water have to build their own artificial lakes."
The driver was so excited that he slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, isn't there a cemetery on Yuhe Mountain? It's just that bare mountain, and there's a stinking pool of water underneath."
Chen Ling was unhappy and tried to sell the product: "Who said Yuhe Mountain is bare? I went there a few days ago and the grass is growing well. The water in the pond at the foot of the mountain is clearer than before. And I heard that there will be a pilot project for breeding rare birds at the foot of the mountain."
"Really?" The driver was stunned. "If that's the case, why don't you go there to see the tomb? It's closer."
Chen Ling almost got himself into trouble. He cleared his throat and said, "I heard it's cheap here."
The driver shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, cheap goods are not good."