Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

The sound from the computer was sharp and piercing, and it was sometimes louder and sometimes softer. The evil spirit that was talking to him at the moment seemed to be in an extremely unstable state.

“What did you buy in 150 years?”

"The future! We bought the future together!"

"where did you buy it?"

"You want to know?"

The mouth smiled again, and the eyes on the chassis showed no concealment of malice.

This is an evil spirit that is very easy to understand. It will honestly write its desire to kill you on its face, and will deceive you with lies that will be exposed as soon as they are heard, "Come to me, I will lead the way for you, and when you find me, I will tell you!"

In this regard, Duan Mingyuan could only say that he couldn't refuse such a kind invitation.

The wriggling tentacles in the corridor guided them along the path that extended all the way to the parking lot of the building. At the end of the northwest corner of the parking lot was a dead end. The wall blocked the two's way, but the black tentacles drilled in.

Zheng Liu realized something and asked, "Do you want me to call the construction team?"

"Need not."

Duan Mingyuan shook his head and walked towards the blocked wall. A passage that did not exist originally opened up for him.

"I go!"

Zheng Liu screamed in surprise.

This is not a hunter, this is clearly a great magician!

Only a great magician can open a passage that does not exist.

The road ahead was getting darker and darker, and he hurriedly followed Duan Mingyuan's footsteps. The darkness was really unusual. The flashlight was clearly on, but they still couldn't see the road ahead clearly.

The two of them walked down the spiral staircase for an unknown amount of time, one in front of the other, and finally arrived at a relatively open space.

"This is……!"

Zheng Liu walked to the feet and saw the objects on the ground clearly. They were two skeletons, nailed to the floor in a very tragic way. One can imagine the tremendous pain the two victims went through before they died.

He once heard from his master that Siyang City used to be very chaotic and many buildings were filled with hidden secrets.

When many buildings were demolished and rebuilt, human bodies were dug out from inside.

However, what Duan Mingyuan saw was a completely different scene. In this space, the human body's facial features and internal organs were arranged everywhere in a disorderly manner.

He met one of the eyes and said, "I found you. It's your turn to answer my questions."

"I told you that life is the universal currency. If you want to buy it, buy it from me!"

"Then, how do I buy it?"

"75 years, everyone! That adds up to 150 years!"

The ribs of the human body blocked the way back, and Zheng Liu suddenly felt tense all over. He felt as if the bones on the ground seemed to move.

"Old Duan, what happened?"

"He wants to exchange the truth for 150 years of our lives. I think it's not worth it."

"Of course not!"

Zheng Liu was startled. It was unknown whether he could live for another 75 years. "Just tell us we won't sell it."

"Let me see if I can bargain."

Duan Mingyuan nodded and asked, "150 years of life is too expensive. Can we change the transaction method?"

"140 years, no less."

"It's not about the numbers, I mean changing the way of doing business."

"In what way?"

"If you have any last wishes, please tell me. I will try my best to help you realize them after I get out."

"150 years, not a single year less!"

This sentence seemed to anger the mouth, and it roared in a sharp voice, "If you don't sell it to me, I will take it myself!"

Thanks to Erillsenwian for the reward of 500 Qidian coins!

Thanks to 5d Savage Shotgun Sun for the reward of 100 Starting Coins!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 207 The Mysterious Merchant

Duan Mingyuan does not support forced buying and selling.

The advantage of traveling with Zheng Liu is that he can let a police officer prove his innocence. They came here for investigation, but encountered unscrupulous businessmen in the company who wanted to force them to buy 150 years of life through a truth. This is even more deceptive than the melons in the greenhouse. In order to prevent them from being harmed by the unscrupulous businessmen, he could only resist helplessly.

This is what just happened.

As for the clues related to the 13 missing persons and the truth that had been hidden for many years as told by the unscrupulous businessmen, they were all unexpectedly obtained when we were fighting against the unscrupulous businessmen and defending their legitimate rights and interests.

Duan Mingyuan found this easy to understand.

In game terms, the profiteer will drop the mission items after his death.

This important "mission prop" reveals why these 13 people suddenly turned around when their company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and why they rose rapidly all the way to become the most successful investment company in Siyang City and even the entire Blue Star.

"There were originally 15 founders of the company, not 13. The other two were the ones whose bodies we found under the company building. When the company was about to go bankrupt, they met a businessman and made a deal."

"merchant?"

Zheng Liu sat in the police car with his hands on the steering wheel, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Just now, there was a moment in the basement of the company when he seemed to see something unusual - the entire space there was made up of human facial features and internal organs, and those disgusting black tentacles pounced on them at the same time.

When he came to his senses, he had already followed Duan Mingyuan back to the surface in a daze.

Everything he had just seen seemed like an illusion. Even the underground road disappeared and the walls of the parking lot closed. This made Zheng Liu unable to figure out for a moment whether everything they experienced underground was a real danger or just his personal imagination.

But if that were all true...

How did they survive the crisis?

After returning to the police car, Zheng Liu was terrified. His hands and feet were cold. If Duan Mingyuan had not accompanied him on this trip, and he had returned to the company alone to investigate the case, he might have been the next person to go missing.

Zheng Liu did have the idea of ​​returning to the company. If the expert invited by the bureau had not arrived in time, he would probably have returned to the company alone to investigate the case tonight.

"We will use 10 years of everyone's life to revive the company and create a better future."

Duan Mingyuan said.

There are 15 founders of the company, so its lifespan is 150 years. He guessed that the evil spirits in the company forced sales in order to "redeem themselves". If they met two other unlucky guys who redeemed them, the evil spirits would be able to leave the building and go outside the company.

This 150 years seemed to be a shocking group buying price at the time. The mysterious businessman had just opened for business and prepared a big opening gift package for them.

On average for each person, it means exchanging ten years of life for a better future.

The future is uncertain. Duan Mingyuan feels that many people today would be willing to exchange 10 years of their life for wealth and glory if they could get a clear promise.

This was originally a deal that both parties were satisfied with, but during the payment process, the remaining 13 people came up with an amazing idea.

They can each pay with 10 years of their lifespan, or two of them can pay with 75 years of their lifespan each.

As the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, the relationship within the original core team became extremely tense. They took advantage of this opportunity and nominated two of the "least popular people in the team" on the trading day.

A young couple, also former classmates.

When the company was about to go bankrupt, he kept trying to extricate himself from it.

"So the company's core team was reduced from 15 to 13 people. They got a bright future for free without paying any price. For the mysterious businessman, all he wanted was 150 years of life. He didn't care whether the deal was paid by 15 people or just two people."

"I immediately asked my colleagues in the bureau to help check it out. If it's an unsolved missing person case, there should be a record of it."

Zheng Liu said.

He always felt uncomfortable when he thought that the people who attacked them in the underground space were victims of another case, or that they were buried under the company building for decades for no apparent reason due to the limited capabilities of the Siyang City police.

He linked together his time, location and other key information, edited it into a text message and sent it to his colleagues in the data room. He then asked, "In this case, are the two missing persons resentful and turned into evil spirits to claim the lives of the other 13 people?"

"I've read in a book that the obsession of a person who died with hatred may remain and become an evil spirit, but this case is a little strange."

"What's weird?"

"Normally the bodies would be under the company building. If the two were filled with resentment, they would have killed the 13 people one after another long ago. They wouldn't have waited so many years to do it. The businessman who traded with them at the beginning might have suppressed their resentment by some means. It's also possible that something happened in the company recently that reactivated the resentment."

The truth of this case seems to have come to light, and the 13 missing persons have paid the price for their actions that year, but in fact it involves a deeper conspiracy.

The remaining memories of the two were confused. It was not known whether it was because they had been dead for too long or the merchant had tampered with their memories, but the specific image of the merchant did not appear in their memories.

But what is foreseeable is that the merchants still existed and, in the many years that followed, they made business with more people.

Life is the universal currency, and at the merchants, you can seemingly buy anything with it.

The person who caused the two people's resentment to explode and transformed them into evil spirits was most likely the member of Wangxu mentioned by the Siyang City liaison officer.

The evil spirit formed by the two of them grew very fast. In terms of the growth of the barrier, Duan Mingyuan could give it an A rating. Within just a few days after the incident, it obtained the assessment of an intermediate professional title and completed the process of building a nest in the company building.

But considering that there was an ordinary person like Zheng Liu around him, Duan Mingyuan did not give the evil spirit a chance to show his talents.

"If we don't find the merchant and the person who turned the hatred between the two into evil, there will be more cases."

"I understand."

Zheng Liu nodded solemnly, "I will go back to the bureau now to report the seriousness of the matter to my superiors. I hope we can make it to the next case..."

The vibration of his cell phone interrupted him.

He quickly unlocked the screen, but the person who sent the text message was not his colleague in the data room, but his master.

When he saw the content of the text message, he angrily slammed the steering wheel and swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"Others have been killed."

Zheng Liu said sullenly, "It's very close to us. My master asked me to go there right now and also asked me to take you with me... He said that the person who was killed this time seemed to be one of your people."

(End of this chapter)

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Chapter 208 I'm Not a Combatant

The crime scene is located in a remote alley in the southeast corner of Siyang City. In Zheng Liu's words, this place is close to the port, and it is the off-season in the past few months, so there are few people at night. The body was only discovered early this morning.

The estimated time of death was around 1 a.m. He would come to a place like this alone at a.m., probably to be investigating something.

"Maybe we were ambushed by an evil spirit."

Zheng Liu parked his car in front of the alley entrance. The police who arrived after receiving the alarm had already put up a cordon at the alley entrance. He said, "I'm so sorry."

"It's not an evil spirit. People harmed by evil spirits won't leave behind corpses."

Duan Mingyuan explained to the young police officer the most basic knowledge of the profession. If it was the work of evil spirits, the deceased would disappear without a trace just like the old hunter before, and it would take several days for the contact station to confirm.

Zheng Liu immediately wrote down what Duan Mingyuan had said in the memo on his phone.

He thinks this knowledge will be useful in the future.

After the two got off the car, they met an old police officer from the Port District who was standing at the entrance of the alley smoking. This behavior obviously violated the regulations, but under great mental pressure, others turned a blind eye.

Zheng Liu looked into the alley and saw that the body had been covered with a white cloth. From the blood seeping from the head of the cloth, one could imagine that the crime scene must have been quite tragic.

"I know her. She came to our station frequently some time ago and asked us to give her a search warrant."

The old police officer glanced at the two of them and looked at the sky which was particularly gloomy today. "She said that her master disappeared in the hotel, and she is going to the hotel to investigate."

The young girl revealed her identity as a hunter to them, but this was obviously against department regulations.

Even if the two departments want to search a hotel, the action will ultimately be led by them. Moreover, the bureau also consulted the association's opinion at the first time, and the Siyang City Association gave a negative response.

It was obvious that the young girl and the association had a disagreement on whether to investigate the hotel, so she skipped the department and went directly to their bureau.

Although the bureau rejected her request, as a veteran police officer with more than 20 years of law enforcement experience, he gave the girl a few words of encouragement before she left.

The truth doesn't come easy, and sometimes it takes people like them to persevere.