Passing through the high cement wall on the outermost layer of the housing area, what caught Chen Xian's eyes was a deep alley.

In addition to the natural cracks that can be seen everywhere on the dark and old walls, there are also various small advertisements that are common in the streets and alleys. Those mottled traces that can only be left over time are enough to set off the oldness of this residential area. Perhaps the construction here is older than Old Gong and Drum Lane is even longer...

"Boss, what do you smell?"

Lu Yisheng followed behind Chen Xian, seeing that he was sniffing something with his nose wrinkled, he couldn't help but asked curiously.

"There are many flavors."

Chen Xian said, looked left and right with a calm face, took a flashlight to illuminate the alley in front, and continued to walk with Lu Yisheng, as if talking to himself, he said to Lu Yisheng, "The smell of mold here is very moldy. Heavy...like some kind of meat that's heavily spoiled...like people...and rust..."

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

It's quiet here, eerily quiet.

From the time Chen Xian and the others entered the housing area until now, there has not been any known danger in the middle, but the more Lu Yisheng felt, the more uneasy he felt, and he always felt that there was something strange lurking in the shadows nearby.

"Boss...Are you sure about this case..." Lu Yisheng followed behind Chen Xian, tightly tugging at the straps of his backpack, and said in a very low voice, "I feel It's a tricky case...we're afraid we won't be able to handle it..."

"It's alright, let's take a look." Chen Xian said softly.

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

"It's hard to say." Chen Xian turned his head to look at him with an uncertain tone, "Anyway, no matter what's behind this unusual case, if you want to solve the case, you have to wipe out these abnormal lives."

"Those paper figurines?" Lu Yisheng's heart tightened, and fine beads of sweat ooze out from his forehead, "I just heard from Section Chief Tu that the number of paper figurines here is terrifying, and we can't kill them all, just the two of us. ...will it not work out?"

"Try it." Chen Xian turned his face away and continued to lead him deeper into the alley, "If you don't try, how will you know it won't work."

Lu Yisheng grinned, his smile a little unnatural.

Although Chen Xian spoke in a calm tone, without any sense of nervousness or uncertainty, this kind of remark does not seem to convince Lu Yisheng, because in Lu Yisheng's view, such a risky attempt now is Totally unnecessary.

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

"No one dares to say that they are 100% sure about this strange case, not even the people at the headquarters." Chen Xian seemed to know what Lu Yisheng was thinking, because he had seen many people who were similar to Lu Yisheng. Such young people, "Even if we don't come in now, they will come in after the headquarters support arrives. They have to try to find clues. If you want to solve a case, you have to start with an attempt."

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

"Everything is done by the headquarters, what do we want our branch to do?" Chen Xian asked suddenly.

Hearing this, Lu Yisheng frowned and said nothing.

"I don't want to be in my position, I don't know what to do, I don't understand so many twists and turns, but I feel... some things can't be handled by the headquarters." Chen Xian said without looking back, "If We have tried everything 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 Section Chief Tu?" Lu Yisheng asked in a low voice.

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

Lu Yisheng hurriedly shook his head and said no.

"Don't worry, you won't die." Chen Xian said in a calm tone, as if describing a matter of course, "As long as you stay close to me, I should be able to keep you."

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

"I'm not talking so close."

"Oh, then I'll be farther away!"

Being interrupted by Chen Xian, Lu Yisheng's mood seemed to have calmed down a lot, at least not as nervous as before, and the expression on his face relaxed.

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

Although Chen Xian likes to handle cases by himself, it is undeniable that under the premise of the rigid requirements of the General Administration, he has also been forcibly blocked by his teammates several times, but it is only a few times, and the rest of the cases are handled by him alone. When Lu Yisheng asked about this, he answered truthfully.

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

"Oh, so..." Lu Yisheng was a little curious, with undisguised admiration in his eyes, "What do you do when you handle a case by yourself? I heard that there are several cases where the investigation department has been involved. I can't figure out any clues, but in the end, it was broken by you!"

"I?"

Chen Xian paused and looked up at the gray sky, as if recalling.

"Actually, I won't solve the case."

"You won't solve the case??"

"No." Chen Xian said, and continued to move forward with Lu Yisheng, "A lot of times I don't know what the goal is, and I don't know how to target it, because my basic knowledge is too lacking, maybe all than you."

Lu Yisheng listened quietly, and the curious look in his eyes became stronger and 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. He talked more and chatted with Lu Yisheng, "Criminal investigation, forensic science, religious studies... 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 Treat me like a normal person."

"Then how did you deal with those strange cases?" Lu Yisheng couldn't help but asked, the gossip in his eyes became more and more obvious, "Boss, I heard that you are a congenital abnormal person, and you have cultivated with our religious system. Acquired aliens are different...you have innate supernatural powers, right?"

Supernatural powers?

Hearing the name of this metaphysics, Chen Xian couldn't help but be stunned for a second, then nodded and said, "That's right."

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

"Almost." Chen Xian thought for a while, then said truthfully, "But I think intuition is more important than special abilities, maybe because my way of solving cases is not the same as those of the members of the detection department... I feel intuition. It's better than the supernatural powers you said."

"How?" Lu Yisheng asked hurriedly.

"My general knowledge is less than yours, so I often don't study the origin of the mission target, and I don't have the ability to analyze the opponent's weaknesses from the beginning..." Chen Xian shrugged, "I solved the case. It's enough to think about one thing."

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Yisheng asked, starting to make notes in his heart.

"How to find out the mission target." Chen Xian smiled, his tone was very frank, "The cases I am most afraid to encounter are the cases with vague mission objectives. 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 little arrogant.

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

Of course, Chen Xian is not an immortal, but judging from the strange cases he has solved so far... He is indeed no different from an immortal, because he has never lost.

As long as you find the quest target, you can hit it if you can, and eat it if you can't. Anyway, whether it's killing or eating, as long as the quest target disappears from this world, won't the case be solved?

As for why the target appeared at the crime scene, and what kind of purpose... These are not factors that Chen Xian considered.

Therefore, compared with those members of the investigation department, Chen Xian seemed to be a bit unprofessional, not like a temporary worker in the traditional sense at all, but more like a killer.

To put it simply, he just kills or burys it. Except for solving the mission target, he does not interfere with all the trivial matters related to the case, nor does he have the ability to interfere.

Compared with those detectives who lost a lot of hair, Chen Xian's mental work in each case is limited, and he often pays "physical work".

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

"Me?" Lu Yisheng was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly responded, "I am best at Luban Zuoshu, followed by Qimen Dunjia and..."

"Keep it simple." Chen Xian said in a low voice, as if he was a little embarrassed, "I'm not a gentleman in your line of work. It's a bit of a headache for me to talk about so many technical terms."

"Is that so..."

Lu Yisheng thought about it and said as simply as possible: "Generally speaking, I am good at dealing with spiritual bodies, but the Luban Zuo technique I practice is mainly to create strange objects, so it is more auxiliary."

"A strange thing?" Chen Xian became interested and glanced at him curiously, "What kind of strange thing?"

"Hey, speaking of this, I have to tell you well." Lu Yisheng smiled mysteriously, and reached into his pocket to take out a wooden figure full of talismans.

The height of this wooden man is about fifteen centimeters, and the proportion of the body structure is very harmonious, similar to that of a normal human, but its face has no facial features, it looks like a crude egg face, and three fine talismans are carved on its face. could vaguely smell the strange fragrance emanating from those rune grooves.

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

Chen Xian looked away from the wooden man and looked at Lu Yisheng without saying a word, with a complicated expression.

"What's the matter, boss? Do you think this name is bad?" Lu Yisheng scratched his head, not understanding why Chen Xian looked at himself like this, but he was a humble young man who liked to listen to other people's opinions, so he asked Chen Xian again, "Why don't I rename it? What do you think of the first machine?"

"..."

"Oh, don't look at me like this!" Lu Yisheng said with a smile on his face, "Don't look at how amazing it looks, this is my natal magic weapon. It took me seven years to refine it. I know how much effort I put into it...but I can tell you more about it!"

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

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