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Chapter 159 Entering the Rose Garden

As one of the most prestigious cities in the world, Jingdu is definitely the place where most people dream of settling down.

Because here not only has higher-quality education and medical resources than other cities.

More importantly, living in this city that is recognized as the safest in the world, as long as they don't kill themselves, generally speaking, no old believers would dare to do evil here.

The fundamental reason why all the old sects dare not do anything wrong here is that the headquarters of the world's largest organization against ominous evil spirits and believers of the old gods is located here.

The headquarters of the Jingdu Foreign Affairs Bureau is full of talents, and there are as many strong ones as a cow's hair.

In addition to the "pillars" like Long Zheng who frighten the old believers all over the world, there are more than a dozen other "pillars" with less outstanding records, and more than [-] "consummated demon hunters" who are expected to step into the "pillar" "Reserve.

The rest of the people are either "late-level demon hunters", or "intermediate-level demon hunters", and lastly they are also "beginner-level demon hunters".

It can be said that the ability to "hunt demons" is the most basic condition for investigators from other cities to transfer to Jingdu.

In addition, the basic skills and theoretical knowledge of the school must be tested. Only when all the standards are met, can they have the opportunity to be transferred to this most eye-catching city in the world.

Before Shen Xiu arrived in Jingdu, he had always obtained various information about Jingdu from others.

When he was "Shen Xiu", he dreamed of settling in Jingdu for a while.

But because of someone, he finally vowed that he would never leave Lausanne in his life.

This oath was only broken after he took his place.

In Shen Xiu's view, Jingdu has many powerful investigators and "pillars" who are comparable to "acting angels". The situation did not calm down.

But this kind of situation really happened.

When he called Zheng Qinghe in Lausanne last night to inquire about this matter, Zheng Qinghe was also shocked.

Zheng Qinghe had worked in Jingdu for a period of time, so he knew how the city's Bureau of Abnormalities handled abnormal situations.

Often when there is even the slightest hint, there will be at least one "lower-level demon hunter" investigator taking the lead, leading no fewer than ten investigators to investigate.

There was a mistake in killing, but I didn't let it go.

This is the code of conduct of the General Bureau of Jingdu Foreign Affairs Bureau.

It is precisely because of this that many old sects who wanted to make trouble in Jingdu, their evil plans were often strangled in the cradle just as they sprouted.

Normally, this kind of situation in Tong Duo's family is absolutely impossible.

After Zheng Qinghe was shocked, he asked Shen Xiu to wait a while, and he went to ask his former colleagues.

Not long after, Zheng Qinghe, who learned the details, called Shen Xiu back.

Even after a whole night, Shen Xiu still remembered the weird tone Zheng Qinghe showed when he called her back last night.

"What does it mean to have no abnormality? If there is no abnormality, what will happen to a manor if there is no abnormality? I think the people at the headquarters of the Bureau of Abnormalities are also a bunch of poor people."

On the street, Shen Xiu muttered something in a low voice, looked up at the scorching sun, took out the sunglasses she just bought, put them on, and led Alia, who was looking around, towards Tong Duo's manor.

Since the people from the Jingdu Bureau of Strange Affairs failed to find out the cause of the problems in Tong Duo's manor, he had to go there by himself.

"Father, didn't you say that you will do business from today?"

Along the way, Aliya followed behind Shen Xiu's buttocks, looking at the bustling streets of Jingdu and the endless stream of pedestrians, she always felt that it was more fun than visiting those scenic spots a few days ago.

She subconsciously thought that Shen Xiu had forgotten what she said yesterday and wanted to accompany her around, so she kindly "reminded" her.

Shen Xiu frowned and stood at the crossroads, saying in a deep voice:

"This is business"

As he spoke, his expression changed several times, and finally he sighed as if he had resigned himself to his fate, and waved to an oncoming taxi.

Before meeting Tong Duo, Shen Xiu's original plan was to start practicing "monster hunting".

But now knowing that something like this has happened, the cultivation naturally has to be put aside for the time being. After all, the cultivation method has not yet been determined to be useful. Even if it is useful, it will take a long time to be promoted from "Concentration" to "Demon Hunting".

It is very likely that during the period of his cultivation, the strange incident at Tong Duo's family turned into a tragedy.

It's okay if he doesn't know about this kind of thing, but now that he knows, it's not what he wants to see that "strange incident" turns into "tragedy".

With the help of a taxi, it took nearly an hour for Shen Xiu and Alia to arrive at the "Rose Manor" in the suburbs of Jingdu City.

That's right, the word "rose" was taken by Tong Duo.

According to what he said before, he planned to plant roses in this manor so that he could hook up with little girls in the future.

However, not to mention roses in this manor, there is not even a single wild flower in sight. I don't know if it was not planted in the first place, or it was deliberately eradicated after the incident.

Standing at the gate of the manor, Shen Xiu looked at the closed iron fence gate with a height of four to five meters, and at the guard box that was empty, and fell into deep thought.

"Could it be that the first time you come, you won't go through the main entrance?"

The wall of Rose Manor is not too high, no more than four meters. It may be difficult for ordinary people to climb over, but it is useless to Shen Xiu and Alia.

However, Shen Xiu didn't really want to jump over the wall and enter Tong Duo's house for the first time.

That seemed so impolite.

Just when Shen Xiu was thinking about how to enter the manor, a nanny car drove slowly from a distance.

The car stopped at the gate of the manor, and the co-pilot's window was lowered, revealing the face of a middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman looked closely at Shen Xiu and the two, and asked:
"Boy, what are you doing here?"

This "rose garden" has become a place where everyone changes color after the strange incident happened.

Others, let alone coming here on their own initiative, even if they draw lots to do hygiene here, they still try to avoid it.

I really couldn't shirk it, so I pretended to be sick.

Anyway, I tried my best to refuse to come here.

If it wasn't for the middle-aged woman and the others who couldn't shirk away and didn't want to give up this well-paid job, they wouldn't want to come to this hellish place no matter what.

She really didn't expect that besides these "unlucky bastards", there were actually two idiots who took the initiative to send them to the door today.

Don't these two people know what happened in this garden?
Seeing the middle-aged woman dressed as a servant, Shen Xiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said solemnly:
"Are you from Tong's family? Didn't anyone tell you that our Foreign Affairs Bureau will send someone to check today?"

"You said you are from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs?" The middle-aged woman was taken aback for a moment, and then beamed with joy.

The reason why they are afraid to work in this garden is not because of that strange incident, but if they are accompanied by people from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, the situation will be different.

The middle-aged woman looked at the two "professionals" in front of her, and was about to invite them to get in the car, when a male voice came from the driver's side:
"We have not received any notice that someone from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs will come to check today."

As soon as the man opened his mouth, the middle-aged woman's face froze, and the words that had reached her mouth could only be swallowed abruptly.

Compared with his status as a servant, the Tong family's driver undoubtedly has more status.

When I was in the car just now, this guy kept silent. She thought he was here to "make soy sauce". She didn't expect to find out at the end that this guy was also one of the "unlucky guys" who entered the "Rose Garden" today. one.

Now that this person has spoken, the middle-aged woman has to take a back seat.

Shen Xiu looked over the middle-aged woman and landed on the burly man driving the car, she couldn't help showing surprise.

Good guy, even if this person is sitting, Shen Xiu can still feel the explosive power contained in his muscles.

The shirt was bulging, and the arms were as thick as his thighs. Isn't this the real man in the legend, who can run a horse with his arms and stand up with his punches?
The already spacious cab is no more uncomfortable for this person than an adult sitting in a stroller.

When Shen Xiu was looking at this man, the man was also looking at Shen Xiu.

Seeing that Shen Xiu is a "fragile" young man, the girl with him is even worse, her two legs together are not as thick as his arm.

Just talking about the configuration, it fits well with the style of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs - missions are done in groups of two.

But when it comes to fighting power, the man feels that these two guys are not enough for him to slap him.

Comparing the "combat strength" of the two sides, the man felt that the two might be liars, a look of contempt flashed in his eyes, and he continued:

"Why don't you two wait, I'll make a call back and check with Butler Zhang to see if someone from the Foreign Affairs Bureau is here today?"

"casual."

The corners of Shen Xiu's mouth turned up slightly, she said noncommittally, and stood there with her hands in her pockets.

He was sure that this guy was just scamming them, and what about calling a housekeeper?
What could a housekeeper know!
When did someone from the Foreign Affairs Bureau come to investigate and have to talk to a housekeeper?
Seeing Shen Xiu's full confidence, the man immediately sat up.

Just as Shen Xiu thought, he was indeed defrauding Shen Xiu and the others.

Originally, what the man thought was that as long as he brought out the housekeeper Zhang, these two guys would automatically show their original shapes.

It never occurred to him that the two "liars" would not be fooled, but he himself did not have the phone number of Zhang Butler.

At this time, it’s not right for a man to pick up the phone, or not to pick up the phone. Just when he was riding a tiger, it was a middle-aged woman who smoothed things over:
"Both of you, if you say that you are members of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, then there must be some proof. You can't just say yes, so we will have an explanation when asked by the higher-ups."

The strong man immediately breathed a sigh of relief, took out his hand from his pocket, and echoed:

"That's right, butler Zhang is probably busy at the moment, so I don't feel comfortable disturbing him. As long as you can prove it, I will believe it and let you get in the car."

Shen Xiu curled her lips, and took out a bone dagger from her back with her backhand:
"Is this okay?"

When he was in Tiandu before, he just sent a message to Zheng Qinghe saying that he was resigning, but the investigators' belongings were not handed over and have been kept until today.

Didn't expect it to come in handy.

"this."

When the middle-aged woman saw that the young man who claimed to be the "Investigator of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs" just took out a strange-looking dagger, it was completely different from the steel-stamped certificate she had imagined. She couldn't tell the difference for a moment, so she had to turn around. He looked at the strong man.

After all, the burly man is the driver, and his status is much higher than that of middle-aged women. He can tell the origin of this dagger at a glance. It is indeed exactly the same as the daggers carried by the investigators of the Foreign Affairs Bureau. smile.

In fact, when he was echoing the middle-aged woman just now, he had a little thought in mind.

If these two people were really liars, when they were asked to produce proof, they would most likely produce some kind of certificate. At that time, he would be able to reveal the identity of the other party.

Because he once learned by chance that no one in the Foreign Affairs Bureau, from the director to the investigators, has any so-called "certificates".

Now that the young man just took out a dagger instead of a fake certificate, it was obvious that these two people were indeed from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs.

After confirming their identities, the burly man immediately opened the door with a smile and invited Shen Xiu and the others to get in the car.

After the two got into the car, the burly man opened the door slowly and drove the car into the "rose garden".

There was still some distance from the gate to the villa, Shen Xiu chatted with the burly man in the car, all her attention was focused on the outside of the car.

Driving all the way, he didn't find anything unusual, except that the manor was slightly depressed.

"By the way, let me ask you something, isn't this called the Rose Garden? Why didn't I see a single rose along the way, and there weren't any other flowers? What's going on?"

"this one"

The burly man didn't seem to know what was going on, he hesitated and couldn't answer.

Instead, the middle-aged woman sitting in the passenger seat explained:

"Actually, there were many flowers planted in the garden before, besides roses, begonias, peonies, etc., all of which were selected by the young master from all over the world, but since that incident, all these flowers have withered, and not only flowers, sir Look, don't those trees in the garden only have dead branches and no leaves?"

Shen Xiu raised her brows and turned her head to look, it was really like this.

Before, I just felt that the "Rose Garden" was depressed, but now I realized that the problem was here.

All the plants in the manor were dead, and the dust on the ground was like powder, and even a slight breeze could stir up a vast expanse of dust.

It is estimated that some people believe that this place has been abandoned for hundreds of years.

Shen Xiu frowned and pondered for a moment, then asked again:

"What did the investigators who came here say?"

This phenomenon is obviously abnormal, and it is impossible for people from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs to ignore it.

The middle-aged woman gave Shen Xiu a weird look through the rearview mirror, a little surprised why he would ask this question.

Shen Xiu immediately realized that this question was a bit inappropriate.

If he was really from the Foreign Affairs Bureau, how could he not know the conclusions of the previous investigators.

Just as Shen Xiu wanted to make amends, the middle-aged woman said:

"They said that the soil here looks normal on the surface, but there is a substance in the ground that is not suitable for vegetation growth, and it is that substance that causes the flowers and plants to die."

This logic sounded fine at first, but after a little thought, Shen Xiu felt something was wrong.

If some underground substance affected the growth of vegetation, why didn't the vegetation die before "that incident" happened? It can't be that this "substance" was formed recently, right?

"It seems that we have to find an opportunity to find out what the so-called 'substances that are not suitable for vegetation growth' are."

Shen Xiu thought secretly.

At this time, the car also stopped.

Shen Xiu turned her head to look out of the car, and a building similar to an old castle suddenly appeared in her field of vision.

(End of this chapter)