The Ninth Secret Bureau

Passing through the high concrete wall of the outermost layer of the housing complex, what caught Chen Xian's eyes was a deep roadway.

In addition to the natural cracks that can be seen everywhere on the dark and old walls, there are also various small advertisements commonly seen in the streets and lanes. Those mottled traces that can only be left over the years are enough to bring out the age of this area. Perhaps the construction here is older than Old Luogu Lane is even more ancient...

"Boss, what do you smell?"

Lu Yisheng followed Chen Xian and couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw that he had been wrinkling his nose and sniffing something.

"There are many flavors."

As Chen Xian said, he looked at left and right with a calm face, holding a flashlight to illuminate the alleyway in front, and carrying Lu Yisheng on the way, as if talking to himself, he said to Lu Yisheng, "The smell of musty here is very Heavy...It seems that there is still some kind of severely rotten taste of meat...like people...and the smell of rust..."

Hearing Chen Xian's intermittent words, although Lu Yisheng was a little unclear, he still shrank his neck instinctively, because he could feel that something was wrong.

It's very quiet here, weirdly quiet.

From the time when Chen Xian and the others entered the room until now, there hasn't been any known danger in the middle of the way, but the more this is, the more disturbed Lu Yisheng's heart is, and he always feels that something strange is hidden in the shadows nearby.

"Boss... are you sure of this case..." Lu Yisheng followed Chen Xian, tightly tugging on the strap of his backpack, and said in a very low voice, "I feel This case is very tricky...we're afraid we won't be able to handle it..."

"It's okay, take a look and talk about it." Chen Xian said softly.

"How are you going to solve this case? Do you have a clue?" Lu Yisheng asked cautiously.

"It's hard to tell." Chen Xian turned his head to look at him, and the tone of his speech had an indeterminate tone, "Anyway, no matter what is behind this unusual case, you must eliminate these abnormal lives if you want to solve the case."

"Those paper people?" Lu Yisheng's heart tightened, and fine beads of sweat ooze from his forehead. "Just now I heard from Chief Tu that there are so many paper people here that they can't be killed, just the two of us. ..... Will it be uncertain?"

"Try it." Chen Xian turned his face and continued to walk him deep in the lane.

Lu Yisheng grinned, his smile a little unnatural.

Although Chen Xian’s tone of speech was very calm and did not have the slightest sense of tension or uncertainty, this kind of remarks did not seem to convince Lu Yisheng, because in Lu Yisheng’s view, this kind of risky attempt now is It's not necessary at all.

Since the failure rate is so high, why risk it?

"No one dares to say that he is 100% sure about this different case, even if it is from the headquarters." Chen Xian seems to know what Lu Yisheng is thinking, because he has seen many similar to Lu Yisheng Such young people, "Even if we don't come in now, they will come in after the headquarters support. They have to try to find clues. If you want to solve the case, you have to start with trying."

"Then let them come in. The Detection Department of the General Bureau is no better than our branch. They are so crowded. It is easy to send dozens of members in at a time... It must be better than the two of us. "Lu Yisheng muttered.

"The headquarters is doing everything, so what do we want our branch to do?" Chen Xian asked suddenly.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yisheng frowned and said nothing.

"I don’t know what to do if I’m not in my position. I don’t understand so many twists and turns, but I feel...some things can’t be transferred to the headquarters." Chen Xian said without looking back, "If We have tried all the methods and still can't handle this unusual case, so it should be handed over to the headquarters for support, but haven't we tried it yet?"

"Didn't they try, Chief Tu?" Lu Yisheng asked in a low voice.

"I don't care if they tried it. Anyway, I haven't tried it yet, so I want to try it." Chen Xian said, slowing down a bit, and asked Lu Yisheng nonchalantly, "Do you think I'm carrying Are you going to die?"

Lu Yisheng hurriedly shook his head and said no.

"Don't worry, you can't die." Chen Xian said, with a calm tone, as if describing a matter of course, "As long as you get closer to me, I should be able to keep you."

Lu Yisheng hurriedly moved forward without saying a word, and almost his entire body was attached to Chen Xian's back like a spirit behind him.

"I'm not talking so close."

"Oh, then I'll stay further!"

Being interrupted by Chen Xian in this way, Lu Yisheng's mood seemed to calm down a lot, at least not as nervous as before, and the expression on his face became more relaxed.

"Boss, I heard that you are a lone wolf, you are dealing with different cases by yourself?"

Although Chen Xian likes to handle cases alone, it is undeniable that under the premise of the mandatory requirements of the General Administration, he has been forcibly forced into his teammates several times, but that is just a few times. The rest of the cases are handled by him alone, so he When Lu Yisheng asked about this, he answered truthfully.

"No, I have worked with people from the General Administration several times."

"Oh, oh like this..." Lu Yisheng was a little curious, with undisguised admiration in his eyes, "What did you do when you handled the case by yourself? I heard that there were several cases involving the investigation department. I couldn't figure out the clue, but in the end it was broken by you!"

"I?"

Chen Xian paused and looked up at the gray sky, as if he was reminiscing.

"Actually I won't solve the case."

"You won't solve the case?"

"No." Chen Xian said, leading Lu Yisheng to move forward, "Many times I don't know what the goal is, and I don't know how to deal with it, because my basic knowledge is too scarce. Not better than you."

Lu Yisheng listened quietly, the curious expression in his eyes growing stronger.

"Before I became a temporary worker, I was an ordinary student, my major was also literature, and my family was also an ordinary family, so I didn't have the opportunity to learn those special knowledge." Chen Xian suddenly showed a self-deprecating smile, which is rare. Talking a lot, chatting with Lu Yisheng, "Forensic investigation, forensic science, religious science...I have never touched any of the things that members of the investigation department should study, and no one has taught me. You are completely You can treat me as an ordinary person."

"Then how did you deal with those unusual cases?" Lu Yisheng couldn't help but ask, the look of gossip in his eyes became more and more obvious, "Boss, I heard that you are a congenital stranger, who cultivated with our religious systems. The day after tomorrow is different...You have natural magical powers, don't you?"

Supernatural powers?

Hearing this metaphysical name, Chen Xian couldn't help being stunned for a second, then nodded and said, "That's it."

"Do you rely on magical powers to handle those cases?" Lu Yisheng asked.

"Almost." Chen Xian thought for a while, and then said truthfully, "but I think intuition is more important than special abilities, maybe because my method of solving crimes is different from those of the members of the detection department... I feel instinct. Better to use than the magical powers you said."

"How do you say?" Lu Yisheng asked hurriedly.

"My general knowledge is less than yours, so I often don't study the origins of mission goals, and I don't have the ability to analyze the opponent's weakness from the beginning..." Chen Xian shrugged, "I solve the case. Just think about one thing."

"What do you want?" Lu Yisheng asked, taking notes in his heart.

"How to find out the mission goals?" Chen Xian smiled, and his tone was very candid. "The cases I am most afraid of encountering are those with ambiguous mission goals. It is really troublesome to find them, but as long as I find them, This case can basically be solved."

Perhaps to some people, what Chen Xian said was a bit arrogant.

Finding the target is even solving the case? What goals can you achieve? Do you really think you are a god?

Of course, Chen Xian is not a god, but judging from the strange cases he has detected so far...he is indeed no different from a god, because he has never lost.

As long as you find the mission target, you can fight it if you can fight it, and you can eat it if you can't fight it. Anyway, whether it is killed or eaten, as long as the mission target disappears from this world completely, won't the abnormal case be solved?

As for why the target appeared in the place where the crime occurred, and what purpose... these were not factors that Chen Xian considered.

Therefore, compared with the members of the Investigation Department, Chen Xian seemed a little unsuccessful, not like a casual worker in the traditional sense, but more like a killer.

To put it simply, he just kills and doesn't bury it. In addition to solving the task goal, he doesn't mix with all the trivial things related to the case, and he doesn't have the ability to mix it.

Compared with the detectives who lost a lot of hair, Chen Xian's mental work in each case is limited, and he spends more time in "manual work."

"What are you good at?" Chen Xian asked suddenly.

"Me?" Lu Yisheng was taken aback, and hurriedly responded, "I am best at Luban Zuoshu, followed by Qimen Dunjia and..."

"Simply put it." Chen Xian whispered, seemingly embarrassed, "I am not a gentleman in your profession. I have a headache to talk about so many professional terms."

"That's it..."

Lu Yisheng thought for a while, and said as simply as possible: "In general, I am better at dealing with spirit bodies, but the Luban Zuo technique I practice is mainly to make strange things, so it is more auxiliary."

"Wonderful things?" Chen Xian got interested and glanced at him curiously, "What kind of strange things?"

"Hey, I have to talk to you about this." Lu Yisheng smiled mysteriously, put his hand in his pocket and took out a wooden figure full of talisman.

The height of this wooden man is about fifteen centimeters, and the proportions of the body structure are very coordinated, similar to those of normal humans. However, there is no outline of the facial features on its face. It looks like a crude egg face, with three delicate talisman carved on its face. I could vaguely smell the strange fragrance from the grooves of those runes.

"This is one of the strange things at the bottom of my box. I named it Luban No. 8."

Chen Xian looked away from the wooden man and looked at Lu Yisheng silently, with a somewhat complicated expression.

"What's wrong, boss? Do you think this name is not good?" Lu Yisheng scratched his head, wondering why Chen Xian looked at himself with this look, but he was a modest teenager who liked to listen to others' opinions, so he asked Chen Xian again. "Should I change its name? What do you think of the first machine?"

"..."

"Oh, don't look at me with this kind of eyes!" Lu Yisheng said with a smile on his face, "Don't look at it as amazing. This is my natal magic weapon. It took seven years to cultivate it. Can you? I know how much effort I spent...but I can tell you more about it!"

Seeing that Lu Yisheng was about to show off, Chen Xian shook his head hurriedly and put on an expression that you want to say that I don’t want to hear, then pointed to the wooden man in his hand, and asked him in as gentle a tone as possible, for fear. It hurt his young self-esteem.

"You have cultivated for seven years..... You have made such a thing?"