Daring! She cheated in the thriller game

"It's okay. I'm not a child who needs a guardian to accompany me." Yu Lan curled her eyes in amusement. "I suspect that the missing children are the ones you mentioned who were imprisoned in the basement, so I plan to go and take a look today."

"Of course I can, but..." Mi Ji hesitated. Some of the people imprisoned in the basement did look young. It was okay for Yu Lan to take the commission, but there were still many magicians of unknown strength and moving corpses there. Was it really okay to just rush in like that?

Gu Yan sighed and patted Mi Ji's shoulder: "Don't worry about it, let's go together. You have to get used to Yu Lan doing whatever she wants. After all, she is still a child."

However, Gu Yan trusts Yu Lan very much. Although she is very free-spirited, she will never do anything without confidence. She must have been prepared when she suddenly proposed to take care of Master Iris today.

"Hehe." Yu Lan did not give any further explanation and just smiled playfully.

After breakfast, several people put on robes and walked on the street with swagger.

Compared to yesterday, there are more pedestrians on the road today. I guess it’s because there is an auction tomorrow.

"Are we going to find Master Iris now?" Mi Ji asked.

"No, the earliest will be the evening." Yu Lan shook her head, holding a note in her hand. On it was something written by the bank manager to her, which contained the home addresses of the victims he knew.

"I want to go to the homes of the missing persons and ask their family members to see if there are any clues." Although the bank manager said that he suspected that Master Iris did it, it would be better to investigate further. It would be embarrassing if he found the wrong person when he went to seek revenge.

"Leave the questioning to me." Mi Ji glanced at the note and nodded slightly. He was the best at questioning.

After passing through the busy main street, they finally came to a small alley. The surrounding buildings were visibly dilapidated, so this must be the civilian area of ​​the town.

"Except for a few people like the bank manager who come from well-off families, most of the victims of missing persons live in this neighborhood." Looking at the nearby buildings, Yu Lan frowned thoughtfully.

"No. 16... No. 16..." Mi Ji paid attention to the house numbers on the roadside and soon found his target. He walked up quickly and knocked on the wooden door in front of him, but received no response.

"Not at home?" Mi Ji knocked on the door again in confusion, but was stopped by Gu Yan.

Mi Ji looked at Gu Yan in confusion, not understanding why he was stopping him. Gu Yan shrugged and pointed to a potted plant on the windowsill next to the wooden door. The plant on it had died.

Besides that, there was a thin layer of dust on it.

Mi Ji frowned: "This family has moved away."

As if to confirm what he said, a family next to No. 16 opened the door slightly and poked their heads out. Gu Yan was sensitive enough to notice this and quickly stopped them: "Wait!"

The family seemed to be startled and quickly closed the door. Gu Yan touched his nose to hide his embarrassment: "There is something wrong with this family."

"Do you know where I've seen this scene before?" Yu Lan glanced at Gu Yan dimly. "Before, there was a gambler who used ghosts to cheat. When I accepted the task and went to investigate, his neighbor looked at me like this. He said he thought I was a debt collector."

Judging from the current situation, it is almost certain that they are bad guys or something.

As she spoke, Yu Lan patted Gu Yan and Mi Ji on the shoulders, indicating that she should go ahead: "Let me do it. Ordinary people will be less wary when they see a little girl. Mi Ji will follow her and ask her questions."

As for Gu Yan and Erwin...not to mention Erwin, who always wears a black cloak and looks like a bad guy, Gu Yan's eyes are very alert when he doesn't speak, and he looks fierce, and he doesn't look like a good guy either. It would be better to let her, a girl, and the baby-faced Mi Ji go up and ask some questions, so that ordinary people will let down their guard at a glance.

Yu Lan went up and knocked on the door, then called out, "Hello, is anyone there?"

Hearing that the person speaking was a girl, the people inside the door started to move. After a long while, a boy poked his head out and asked nervously, "Hello... What can I do for you?"

Yu Lan took off her hood to reveal her face, smiled shyly at the boy, and slipped him a silver coin without leaving any trace: "Can we go in and talk?"

The boy's eyes widened when he saw the silver coin in his hand, then he looked at Yu Lan's lovely smile and nodded vigorously: "Okay! Come in!"

Gu Yan was shocked. Did Yu Lan cast a spell on the boy? He looked at them with great vigilance just now!

Mi Ji who saw Yu Lan's action and Er Wen who gave Yu Lan money: ...

Sure enough, money is omnipotent.

The boy led Yulan into the house and hesitated when he saw the men behind her. At this time, Yulan stuffed another silver coin into his pocket to attract his attention: "We have something to ask you."

Adhering to the principle of "giving back what you have received", the boy no longer bothered about who those men were. He nodded and said, "Are you here to look for the family next door? They have moved away."

Sure enough. Mi Ji then asked: "Why did they move away?"

The boy opened his mouth, and at this moment, there was suddenly some noise in the room.

"John, is anyone here?"

A somewhat weak female voice came from the room. Several people looked at each other and saw a trace of panic in the boy's eyes.

“Mom, it’s okay!”

"Ahem..." John's mother was obviously worried about her child's words. She walked out and looked at the people in the room warily: "Who are you?"

Yu Lan and Mi Ji looked at each other, and she stepped forward to support John's mother, who was obviously seriously ill, with a well-behaved smile.

She held John's mother's wrist inconspicuously and lowered her eyes slightly: "We are here to look for the family next door, but they seem to have moved, so we wanted to ask your children if they know where they went."

After saying that, John excitedly ran to his mother and raised his hands: "Look, Mom, they paid us! I can buy you medicine to treat your illness!"

"Nonsense!" John's mother scolded. John put down his hands feeling a little aggrieved, as if he didn't understand why his mother would be so angry with him because of this.

After feeling John's mother's pulse, Yu Lan came to a conclusion. She touched John's head and comforted him, "It's okay, your mother just has a cold, and she's a little weak, so she'll be fine after taking some medicine."

"Really?" John looked at Yu Lan excitedly. Yu Lan smiled and nodded: "Well, it's okay. Go here and ask the uncle to get the medicine. The money I give you is enough."

As she spoke, Yu Lan took out a small paper man holding a note and handed it to John. John excitedly agreed and ran out the door quickly.

"Wait, John, come back!" John's mother called John anxiously, but the child was immersed in the excited thought of "Mom is saved" and could not hear his mother's shouting.

"Ma'am, don't worry. I know the owner of that store, and I have sent people to protect him." Yu Lan had a smile on her face, but her hands were very firm as she pulled John's mother to sit down.

She waved her hand, and Gu Yan stood guard at the door, while she and Mi Ji surrounded John's mother on the left and right.

Gu Yan looked at Yu Lan's actions and felt speechless.

No, they really are like some kind of indifferent gangsters now.

Yu Lan patted John's mother on the shoulder, ignoring her somewhat frightened expression, and asked calmly: "Madam, you don't want anything to happen to your child, do you?"

Gu Yan was shocked. He looked suddenly at Erwin who was standing beside him like an air, and saw a trace of helplessness in Erwin's action of silently taking a step back.

No, Xiaoyu, Yulan, Sister Yu, we really look like gangsters, or the gangsters in those 18X movies!

John's mother was frightened by Yu Lan's temperament and what she said. She trembled with her hands and stared at Yu Lan: "What do you want to do?"

Yu Lan held John's mother's trembling hand, and to prevent her from fainting from excitement, she also considerately placed her hand on John's mother's back and stroked it gently to help her calm down, not realizing that she was actually scaring John's mother even more.

"Nothing else, we just want to ask what happened to the family next door at No. 16. I heard that his child was taken away, but I don't think it's that simple. I'm worried that what you're going to say might scare the child, so I sent him away."

Yu Lan looked at John's mother with a smile: "Can you tell us what you know? If there is any useful information, I will reward you."

John's mother raised her head and met Yu Lan's eyes. Her smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes, which were as cold as if she was looking at a dead person. John's mother regarded everything she said before as a threat, as if she would kill her and John if she did not tell the truth.

Thinking of this, John's mother collapsed and yelled, "I say! I say! Don't do anything to my child."

"Of course!" Seeing that John's mother was willing to speak, Yu Lan happily walked aside and left the questioning to Mi Ji.

She walked to the door and stood next to it with Gu Yan. She asked with some doubt: "Although I am very happy that she is willing to speak, isn't her attitude a little strange?"

"You mean she's too scared?" Gu Yan glanced at Yu Lan, his eyes speechless.

"Yeah." Yu Lan propped her head up with one hand, very confused: "I always feel that this missing case is not that simple."

Gu Yan was silent for a long time, but he couldn't help but speak: "Xiao Yu, there is something I have been curious about for a long time."

"You said."

"You said before that you accepted the mission. Did you accept it as a Heavenly Master?"

"Yeah." Yu Lan nodded and mentioned a little about her past: "My family is one of the people in charge of the Tianshi Association. They said that they put me in because I was too idle. They asked me to take on some tasks when I was free to accumulate merits..."

As she spoke, Yu Lan noticed that Gu Yan's eyes were getting more and more strange: "What's wrong with you?"

"Is your Tianshi Society serious?"

"Huh?" Yu Lan frowned in confusion.

“That Tianshihui…” Gu Yan gestured, his face twisted a little: “Isn’t it written in the criminal law?”

Yu Lan suddenly understood the implication of Gu Yan's words. He was asking in disguise whether the Tianshi Society was a cult that violated the law and committed crimes.

This made her laugh and cry: "No! The Tianshi Association was originally founded by a group of old men in various metaphysical fields. The purpose was to allow younger generations in their own fields to join in and communicate with people in other fields, so that they would not become homebodies who think they are invincible and then be beaten up by their peers after going down the mountain."

Don't mention it, this kind of thing really happened, and Yu Lan happened to encounter it. At that time, she received a task saying that someone wanted to open the ghost gate outside the suburbs, so she rushed over and beat the man up. Later, when she interrogated him, she found out that this person was taken to the mountains by his master when he was a child. After he became a master, he heard that the ghost gate could not be opened now, and he relied on what he learned to have some connection with ghosts, so he had the idea of ​​opening the ghost gate himself and leaving a name in history to look down on the heroes.

Yu Lan was so angry that she laughed. If that person had asked a few more questions, he might have known why the ghost gate couldn't be opened. Even those old men couldn't handle it, so how could he, a new apprentice, dare to do it?

"Later, more and more people joined in, and the old men wanted the children to communicate with the outside world, so this non-governmental organization was later taken over by the official organization. Although the people in power are still the old men in various fields, the official side will occasionally ask us to assist the police in dealing with some inhumane things, and we are all half police officers."

"As for the name of the Tianshi Society... it's not called that now. After all, not all the people in the organization are Tianshi. Tianshi is just a general term." At this point, Yu Lan felt a little speechless. The name of the Tianshi Society does sound quite... cult-like.

"Is that so? Haha." Gu Yan laughed dryly twice, still a little confused about where Yu Lan learned this villain behavior.

And she herself didn't seem to realize it. Forget it, I'd better not tell her about this.

The two of them did not bring up this topic at the same time and listened to Mi Ji's questions silently.

On the other side, Hill was speechless as he looked at the little brat in front of him. He turned his head to look at the little paper man who was smiling happily, and asked in a deep voice: "What's going on?"

The little paper man smiled and waved his short hands: "Hey, my Xiaoyu wants to help this child~ Do you have the medicinal herbs written on the note? Of course you have them, after all, you are the owner of a grocery store, you sell everything~"

Yes, there is...but for some reason, he just doesn't want to do this business!

Hill packed the herbs written on the note with a serious face and took the silver coins handed to him by John.

John carefully wrapped the paper bag in his arms and thanked Hill solemnly: "Thank you, boss!"

The little paper man also smiled and imitated John and said, "Thank you, boss!"

"...Get out of here!"

After seeing the guests off, Hill sat behind the counter, tapping the table with his hands.

"Did Yu Lan find out something? Never mind, Lily, go and take a look."

The black cat nearby meowed softly, jumped lightly to the ground, ran into the shadows and disappeared.